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Can't make your car payment?
Burn it.
No, not the loan statement…..the car.
I read an interesting piece in the wall street journal today about the rise of Insurance Fraud as more and more police are finding burned or abandoned cars in Las Vegas.
This is bad. Very bad. If you can't afford your car anymore…you don't deserve the car. Work out a payment plan with car maker…most companies really, really, don't want to repossess your car. It's costly for them, sometimes a legal liability, and they don't want your car. So, get on the phone and work something out.
Don't go all felon and start burning stuff up. That really can't be good on mother nature either.
Look, your credit score is important. But it's not worth committing a crime to keep intact. If you lose the car and it gets repossessed your credit is going to take a hit.
Big deal, you should probably be paying cash for stuff anyway.

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Jaime Jorge
Jaime Jorge immigrated to the United States at the age of ten and studied with the eminent violinist Cyrus Forough. In 1994, Jaime was accepted into the medical program by the University of Illinois School of Medicine, taking steps toward pursuing his dream of becoming a missionary doctor. In 1996, he left medical school to devote himself to full-time music ministry.
Jaime has traveled more than six million air miles, playing in more than forty countries and six continents, including North and South America, Europe, Australia, Asia, and Africa. He has recorded and released seventeen albums and has given more than three thousand concerts. Jaime sees each concert as a brand new opportunity to share the love of Jesus with others. It is his greatest passion to encourage and challenge each person to dedicate and use their talents for God's honor and glory!
Jaime is married to Rachelle Pecovsky, and they live in Tennessee.


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Burqin Dining
At Burqin, except the beautiful sceneries, there are many popular unique and delicious local foods to enjoy. Food at Burqin is mainly Kazak and Uyghur diet, meat, flour-made and dairy products.
At Burqin, there is the night fare street where you can eat a lot of local flavors, among which the most famous one is the grilled pike and Kvass.
Grilled pike take pikes from the Irtysh River as the material to be roasted in the grilled. The grilled pike is quite fragrant with fresh and soft flesh. At this time, you can order the unique wine called Kvass to drink with the delicious grilled pike. Kvass is a kind of local-made beer from Kanas. It resembles the beer we usually drink, but has a uniquely different taste. Kvass is finely made of corn and barley with hops and nectar. It has the same transparent color with amber, but it is a little sour and sweet. It tastes refreshing and cool, and people usually drink the beer with grilled pike. Kvass has become a hot local specialty for people travel there.
Here are some recommendations for dinning at Burqin.
Burqin Night Fare
Address: alongside Kanas River.
This is the place most people go for local flavors.
Dahongyu Hotel(大红鱼酒店)
Address: Shengli Road, Burqin County
Xiao Bai Lu Family Inn(小白鹿家庭客栈)
Address: No.67, Shenxianwan Road, Burqin County.


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Do not let your emotions take over, and try to over-power the ball when hitting a tennis overhead. Stay calm and focus on the ball.
Keep the tennis ball always in front to hit a successful tennis overhead.
Timing is everything, so have your racquet in the ready-position and follow the ball with your opposite hand while you perform a tennis overhead.
For a successful tennis overhead, follow-through every time.
Before beginning to practice tennis overhead shots, you must loosen up your shoulder. Perform a free overhead motion without actually hitting any balls for about 5-10 minutes continuously. Do not use extreme force but a light motion to loosen up your shoulder tendons and muscles.
With a partner, have them hit you lobs while standing at the baseline, then move towards the ball, and strike the tennis overhead without focus on power or direction.
Focus on timing only. 99% of every successful tennis overhead will come from hitting the ball at the right time.


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Kaleidoscope of Bands
Kaleidoscope of Bands
Friday, December 8, 2017 . 8 PM
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Spirit and spectacle combine in an extravaganza that features the finest wind repertoire performed by UMD Bands, including the ever-popular Mighty Sound of Maryland Marching Band. This annual event has a loyal following!


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A Prayer for My Family: Dear Lord, thank you for making us family. Please ingrain in me Your Love Language and Fruits on a daily basis. Fill me with Patience, Kindness, Purity and so on. I commit my husband's work to You, Lord, and may Your plans be established throughout his life. (Proverbs 16:3) May we both trust You with our whole hearts, and lean not on our own understanding. Make our paths straight, Lord Jesus. And Lord, I pray that our greatest joy be to hear that all of our children walk in Your Truth!! (3 John 4)
When I've had a full-plate day complete with joy, laughter, accomplishment, but also disgusting tasks, disappointments and weariness, I realize these are the normal days of life. I'm thankful for full days that keep coming. I find triumph and failure daily. I walk with the Lord, but can easily go skipping down side-trails before returning to the path. At night, when it all finally calms down and the pace halts, I quiet myself and finish the day with prayer. I reflect on the day with all its ups and downs. I am never perfect in a day, but its okay; I don't climb that pedestal anymore. I just try to please my Heavenly Father's heart. He tells me, "You will never fail." Oh, but I feel so inadequate so often! So I pray…
This is what Prayer is for me:
A safe harbor, an instant hot-line, a lasting legacy, a quiet to the restless.
This is my Prayer layer:
I start my day with a "hello" to the Lord and His Holy Spirit. Sometimes that's called Quiet Time. I relish those moments, but they are hard in a busy household. They most often are a quick glance at a scripture off of my phone, but that is an opening prayer-layer to my day.
After watching the movie, War Room, I wrote out some "prayer strategies" that I taped in my closet to remind me to pray. They are simple in nature, but have turned out to be very powerful tools for my days.
I add another layer on the drive to school with my boys, we pray the Armor of God over our family before we separate for the day. We rotate and all take turns praying this prayer out loud over our family as we drive down the road.
–Do not let a day pass that you don't put on the custom-designed armor the Lord has fashioned just for you.
I send up snippets of prayer interwoven throughout my day for whoever the Lord places on my heart. Nothing is happenstance; if a person comes to mind, then pray for them. God loves detailing. And the layers continue…
On days that open to it, I pray for future events in my children's lives; like new friendships formed, pressures and stressors that may arise; prayers of future layers of God-infused living. I pray for eternal things for my family.


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We're all guilty of it: We get too busy to tidy up our homes so we put it off until it's a huge undertaking. Soon small tasks like wiping down the counters or sweeping the floor turn into an all-day endeavour — who wants to spend their free time catching up on chores?
Instead of procrastinating and saving all the cleaning for a time when it may be inconvenient, try this 30-day strategy where you can tackle all of your tasks in just 20 minutes a day! Say goodbye to clean-a-thons that last all weekend by committing to this simple cleaning schedule.
Before we share our schedule with you, there are some basic rules to follow to help you keep up.
Rule #1: Don't Delay the Dishes
Cleaning up after a meal can be a repetitive and even tedious task, especially when you have to do it day after day, meal after meal. That also means you can be certain more dishes are inevitable and you might as well chip away at it when you can. This also means wiping down the counter and kitchen table after every meal.
Rule #2: Have a Place for Everything
It's hard to stay organised when your things are scattered about. Make sure that all your belongings have their own spot. You'll always know where they are so you can locate them faster! Just think of how much time you would have saved every time you've misplaced your keys! Consider things like a basket to put the post in, a hook to hang your keys and more.
Rule #3: Keep up With the Laundry
Just like the dishes, laundry is a necessary evil that we tend to let pile up because we are burnt out from the monotony of it. Once your laundry basket hits the height where you know you'll make a full load, get to it! While it washes, treat yourself to some ice cream or your favourite show to help connect doing laundry to a positive reward. It's the little things that can really help your attitude.
Rule #4: Make It Fun
There's no reason you should make cleaning more of a chore than it has to be. Turn on some music or listen to an audiobook while you get the work done. If you have kids, encourage them to clean their room like it's a game. Make it into a race by timing them or give them an incentive like a small candy or 30 minutes of their favourite show on the telly.
Get Cleaning!
Now that we've laid the ground rules, it's time to get cleaning! The idea behind this method is to tackle tasks in a small window of time, making it possible to integrate them into your everyday life. The time it will take you to accomplish these tasks may not even take 20 minutes, depending on the size of your home. The strategy here is simply to break down the major overarching goal into small, digestible goals.
Tip: If you're struggling to find the time to squeeze in a cleaning session, set up a 20-minute window every day and treat it like an appointment that cannot be modified or cancelled. Whether that means waking up 20 minutes earlier, taking a shorter break at lunch or squeezing it in between two other appointments, you can do it! If it helps, set a timer so you're not tempted to watch the clock or take a break to check your phone.
What You'll Need to Start a Cleaner Lifestyle
- A list of your typical chores, broken out into 30 tasks. If you're unsure where to start, we have an example list below. You'll notice in our example schedule that some tasks will duplicate — high traffic areas like the bathroom typically require more than one cleaning a month. However, feel free to customise it to your home.
- A calendar to fill in with those tasks. You can print out a calendar and hang it if crossing off each task helps. If you prefer to keep track of tasks digitally, you can upload each task to the calendar on your phone. Take it a step further by having them repeat every month so you don't have to re-upload the tasks every month. You can even schedule the tasks at a specific time with a reminder to help motivate you!
- A timer (kitchen timer, alarm on your mobile, whatever method works best for you!).
Your 20-Minute Cleaning Plan
Day 1: Clean bathroom counters, toilets and mirrors.
Day 2: Scrub showers and/or tubs.
Day 3: Sweep and mop bathroom floors.
Day 4: Dust surfaces in living room and bedrooms.
Day 5: Vacuum/sweep floors in living room and bedrooms.
Day 6: Organise bedroom closets.
Day 7: Dust and vacuum/sweep entryway.
Day 8: Deep clean kitchen (e.g. scrub sink, wipe down appliances, etc.).
Day 9: Sweep and wash kitchen floor.
Day 10: Clean surfaces of extra rooms (e.g. office, play room, laundry room, etc.).
Day 11: Dust blinds and windowsills.
Day 12: Clean kitchen food pantry.
Day 13: Clean storage closet or junk drawer.
Day 14: Deep clean one item (e.g. stove, microwave, light fixtures, etc.).
Day 15: Sweep and mop any floor you may have missed (like the extra rooms).
Day 16: Clean bathroom counters, toilets and mirrors.
Day 17: Scrub showers and/or tubs.
Day 18: Sweep and mop bathroom floors.
Day 19: Bonus day — clean whatever area needs the most attention!
Day 20: Wipe down any outdoor furniture.
Day 21: Dust and vacuum/sweep entryway.
Day 22: Clean surfaces of extra rooms (e.g. office, play room, laundry room, etc.).
Day 23: Deep clean kitchen (e.g. scrub sink, wipe down appliances, etc.).
Day 24: Sweep and wash kitchen floor.
Day 25: Clean interior of windows.
Day 26: Deep clean living room (e.g. baseboards, scuffs on floor and wall, etc.).
Day 27: Clean refrigerator.
Day 28: Deep clean one item (e.g. stove, microwave, light fixtures, etc.).
Day 29: Clean entryway closet (e.g. organise hats, gloves, shoes, hangers, etc.).
Day 30: Remove trash, dust and vacuum the interior of your car.


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Statement from Steele on U.S. Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality
STATE CAPITOL, PHOENIX – Today Rep. Victoria Steele, D-Tucson (District 9), released the following statement regarding the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which affirmed the constitutionality of marriage equality:
"I am elated with the Supreme Court decision today and believe it brings us much closer to achieving true equality. This victory builds on the momentum of the equality movement, as community members and allies work to ensure that LGBTQ people receive equal protection across the board.
"While this is a momentous accomplishment, our work is not done. Next we must turn our attention to employment and housing issues. In many places in our state, it is still legal to fire someone for being gay. It is still legal to discriminate against people based on who they are and whom they love. And that needs to change. Our fight is not over until we have full, legal equality for all Americans."


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Discover premium cool-climate wines in the Yarra Valley, Mornington Peninsula and Geelong wine regions, just a short drive from Melbourne. In north-east Victoria, seek out the King Valley's acclaimed Italian varietals and Rutherglen's fortifieds, and in central Victoria, try the famous full-bodied reds of Bendigo and Heathcote, and Macedon Ranges' sparkling.
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Easter, GNO Clinic/
Just had an uplifting Easter service with Grace United Methodist Church Choir and a guest Instrumental Ensemble, in Ravena, NY.
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EXO concert heats up Malaysia
|EXO performs at a Malaysia concert held Saturday in Kuala Lumpur. (S.M. Entertainment)
"EXO Planet #3 - The EXO'rdium - in Kuala Lumpur," held at Stadium Merdeka in Kuala Lumpur, marked the group's first concert in the Malaysian capital in about a year.
Among the hit songs performed were "Wolf," "Love Me Right," "Growl" and "Overdose," along with "Monster" and "Lucky One" from its studio album last summer.
The boy band also showed off various aspects of their talents, such as an acoustic session with Chanyeol playing the guitar and a dynamic dance performance to the electronic dance music song "EXO Keep on Dancing."
Absent from the stage was Lay, who was unable to participate in the tour due to complications involving his schedule.
EXO will continue its tour with a concert in Singapore on April 2.
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In the winter of 2008, after being diagnosed with a hemorrhaging polyp on her vocal chords, Land of Talk bandleader Elizabeth Powell isolated herself—she lived alone, rested her voice and communicated for a couple of weeks by scribbling messages on a notepad She kept writing songs, though, even as she battled the fear that her voice might never heal enough to sing them. Many of the songs drafted during that lonely winter make up Land of Talk's new album, Cloak and Cipher (out Aug. 23 on Saddle Creek), the follow-up to the band's 2008 full-length debut Some Are Lakes and last year's Fun and Laughter EP. The record finds Powell's voice back at full strength and as potent as ever, springing between a trusting purr and a betrayed howl. Featuring contributions from members of neighboring Montreal bands—including Arcade Fire, Stars and Besnard Lakes—it is Land of Talk's most lush album yet, tempering Powell's dire guitar riffs with strings, brass and piano. Powell recently spoke to Paste about her love of strained singers, writing the new album, the beauty of "rotating sonic scenery" and more.
Paste: Did you ever weigh giving up music after you were diagnosed with your vocal polyp? Elizabeth Powell: I did. It's the same as when my friend who is an upright bass player got carpal tunnel. Once what you're doing—the main thing in your life—creates a chronic discomfort or pain, the first thing you think of is how long you can last. You realize your career and livelihood is being threatened, and you consider alternatives. But when I thought it over, I realized that I had nothing else I really wanted to do in life expect for music. That terrified me—the thought that if I lost my voice I was losing my one true shot at being happy. So it definitely changed my life. Not to overplay it, because I know a lot of people have been through worse, but there was despair there. The first thing my vocal coach said, though, is, "You've got to repeat positive affirmations." I realized that in my mind I was dwelling on the possibility that this could be the end of my career, and that sort of thinking wasn't going to help me. I was told to just believe I'd feel [better] and not to even consider the negative possibilities. And I also had to stop listening to vocalists who sang in strange voices, I had to listen to vocalists who have a calming voice, which actually disqualified a lot of my record collection. I couldn't listen to Fugazi, or even Wilco, because of the way Jeff Tweedy sings—I think he even had to have vocal surgery, too. In trying to avoid strained singers, I also realized that they are pretty much all I listen to.
Paste: Did the diagnosis change the way you sang? Powell: It more changed the way I speak. I have a speech pathologist and they measure your range, to figure out where your voice is breaking. She said the most detrimental thing I was doing is speaking too low in my range, making my voice really raspy. She said in my singing voice, everything was pretty much fine, save a lot of technical slip-ups, which was expected since I'm not technically trained. So I'm not sure if it changed the way I sing, but my voice feels better, so maybe that comes across a bit more through the singing.
Paste: What are the songs on Cloak and Cipher about? Powell: Considering the state I was in when I wrote them, at the time I was spending a lot of time with books, because I couldn't speak. I was obsessed with old books and taking them apart from their binding. I had all these pages scattered across the floor, and I would see a page from a book taken out of contest, and I would just isolate passages that sounded nice or images that looked nice, images and then put them on a studio wall. Then I would just play the music I laid down a year before and sing the words that came to me, because the lyrics are the last thing I do. It's a lot of stream-of-consciousness. I guess some of the stuff I sing can sound like nonsense. I'm not as linear as a folk singer-songwriter. I'm not as wacky as Beck was when I was a teenager, but I do like to be a little bit cryptic—the album is called Cloak and Cipher.
Paste: Is that what the album title is a reference to, disguising your thoughts? Powell: Cloak and Cipher was actually the title of one of the books I found at the Salvation Army. It was a book on cryptograms from World War II, and I found it just a month before the album was finished. I had already picked out another title that I thought would best represent the album, but my friend kept telling me Cloak and Cipher was really perfect. It really was a very serendipitous title. It really fit, especially with the artwork, which had already been decided on months before, and with my writing style being more stream of conscious and cryptic. That's just the way I like to write. I think it makes it more interesting for the listener, but mostly I can't hold a focused thought for that long.
Paste: Even the way you sing is very cryptic. There are some lyrics that come through very clearly, but a lot that are almost indecipherable, leaving the listener to project their own words onto them. Powell: Exactly. And when I think back to the bands I used to listen to the most—Pixies, Pavement, Sonic Youth, Sebadoh, Nirvana—I realize I've barely paid attention to lyrics that I must have heard a thousand times. It was always just like (sings the opening bars of Pavement's "Trigger Cut" with mostly made up words). There were a few lines I would grab onto, but I realized it was more the melodies and the way the instruments interact and the overall sound being generated by the band that I was interested in. Sometimes I see the singer as just another instrument. If you're trying to stick to words on paper it can be a little bit confining. But I find a lot of things confining, I guess. (Laughs)
Paste: A lot of your songs teeter on the edge between "pretty" and "aggressive," like you could play them either way. Do you plan out which way you'll approach them before you record them, or is it more spontaneous? Powell: How they turn out has to do a lot with the conditions we're recording them in. I find the most aggressive song on the album to be "The Hate I Won't Commit," but in the beginning that song was supposed to be mostly acoustic, with piano. But then we got to the studio where there's all this gear, and we just started jamming the song out. That's how the songs are built, just by adding actual humans into the mix and adding their respective instruments, and playing off the sound of the room. I had this piano solo in mind for the song that I couldn't quite get right. Then Patrick Watson, a great Montreal musician, came in and ended up asking if he could take a stab at it. He came up with this gorgeous, distorted piano solo that just completely changed the vibe of the song, but really made it work.
Paste: Land of Talk's lineup has turned over repeatedly. Do you think you'll ever settle on a consistent lineup, or will it always be rotating? Powell: I guess it would be easier to settle on a consistent lineup if I could actually afford to pay people enough so they didn't have to be juggling other projects. Land of Talk has always been the passion project, so I guess I'm at the mercy of what people can give. That's the problem, really—I play with all these amazing musicians who have things going in their own right. In the beginning, I think I always expected to have more of a family, like a band like Sonic Youth, which has always been essentially the same lineup. I always wished for something that would last forever. But the reality is I do all the writing and composing. Early on we discovered when members weren't going to be able to tour, and once I saw that band members weren't sticking around, I got a lot more—maybe not protective, but I took a lot more ownership over the compositions and songs. My attitude became, "If you're going to leave in a year, I want to make sure that I'm not carrying a part of your song in the band," for both legal and creative reasons. It's hard, because it's not realistic for me to expect people to stay on as hired guns. Luckily I've been in a place where everybody's fine, especially since I know to plan around it. I'm way more comfortable with it now than I was when our first EP came out then we discovered our drummer couldn't be on the road.
Paste: How has that realization that you'll probably never have a stable band changed the way you record? Powell: If you look at the lineup on this record, just at all the guest performers, that's something I never would have been open to, even on the last record. Before I was always very private about the recording process, in part because since I'm not technically trained I always wasn't very articulate about explaining what I wanted from these songs. Working with other players has helped me change that, though. There are 100% more musicians on this record, and yet in a way I feel it's more intimate, and there's more of myself in it. I felt like I was making a lot more compromises when I wasn't just assuming the role of bandleader, settling on parts that I would have changed. It sounds silly, since I was the last person to know, but it just took me a while to realize that I'm Land of Talk.
Paste: What's your relationship with Broken Social Scene like these days? Powell: Pretty nonexistent. I did those shows with them [in the fall of 2008]. Then they got busy and I got busy. The last time we saw each other, I was coming back from Ireland last week with my boyfriend, and the plane ride back was canceled and we were all stuck in the airport together. We mostly run into each other by chance like that. That was a whirlwind, short-lived, exciting time playing with them, though. Brendan Canning and I have been friends since I was 17, and it just so happened that our tour dates overlapped. So I asked him if our band could piggyback on his, and he said yeah, so long as I would sing all of Broken Social Scene's female parts for that tour. It was a lot of fun. That's a band that goes by feeling, and thank God they do, because there's not a lot of artists that do that these days.
Paste: It seems Cloak and Cipher was recorded a bit like a Broken Social Scene record, with the door open for guests and incidental contributions. Do you think your time with that band influenced you? Powell: Maybe, yeah. Working with Broken Social Scene definitely helped me come to terms with that whole idea of a rotating sonic scenery, where the only thing that remains the same is myself. It's not as daunting, and it doesn't feel as lonely. I actually feel more a part of the community now, because I have all these tentacles touching out into the Toronto scene and the Montreal scene. Sometimes, especially when you're in a three-piece band, you feel like you're cheating on your band when you play with someone else, but I guess I'm a free agent now.
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When people ask me where I'm from, I tell them I'm from a highway, smack dab in the middle of nowhere. Like a lot of people where I'm from, my family doesn't live in the city or even in the suburbs.
We live on a highway. I'm not kidding. The closest big town in the area, Poplar Bluff, has a population of around 15,000 people; it's hardly metropolitan. It's a place where people like my mom drive 40 kilometers to the grocery store and 40 kilometers back, where people get excited when a new fast food restaurant comes to town, where gravel roads stretch for miles, and people give directions based on landmarks rather than street names.
This is small town America, this is my home, and from my personal experience, the situation here looks grim.
A lot of people, including many economists, will tell you that factories moving overseas in search of cheap labor are good for America as consumers enjoy lower prices, and they may be right. But try telling that to my uncle and his son, or my aunt for that matter. They all worked in factories in this area, and all of them lost their jobs when their factories shut down.
Although the old jobs were replaced, the new ones were almost all in low paying service work – jobs like working at McDonald's or Wal-mart, jobs that typically pay minimum wage or slightly more. Not only do they pay less, but they're also generally unskilled labor, which means you can be replaced by anybody. The factory jobs, protected by union contracts, were much more secure and paid twice as much. My aunt now has to hold down two jobs, because she can only find part-time work. They don't want to hire her full-time because they'd have to pay for benefits like healthcare. One of her jobs is at Wal-mart, and even with both, she still can't afford a place of her own. It's a common story there.
Protecting workers from job loss isn't a priority in my home state or many other states in the U.S. One measure of this is the "at-will" employment legislation. These laws, pushed through by corporate bullying, give any employer the right to fire any employee for any reason (or none at all) with little to no work compensation. This is how my father and my cousin lost their jobs. People can defend themselves in some cases if discrimination is involved, whether it's based on race, sex, religion, handicap, or other criteria. But often, as in my dad's case, even that isn't effective.
My father worked for a telephone company for 27 years. He climbed telephone poles all day long. He earned a decent wage, but when he had to have his hip replaced, due at least in part to the physical stress of his job, he was fired. Because of his handicap, he could no longer perform the tasks necessary to do his job. They didn't even offer him a desk job when one became available. Although he wanted to sue for discrimination due to his handicap, lawyers advised him not to bother, as he would very likely have lost.
Now my dad has been jobless for over a year. He's 50 years old, and no one will hire him. Except McDonald's of course. My family now relies primarily on my mother's income.
Until now, both of my parents had worked my whole life, and our lifestyle was based on both of my parents working fulltime. Now my parents are trying to maintain that lifestyle with less than half the money. They're also trying to pay for my sister's college education, as well as mine, costs they didn't have when we were young. With the cost of secondary education in the US, this is nearly impossible.
Then there's the problem of transportation. Their vehicles, now roughly 10 years old, are continually breaking down, and will have to be replaced, as without a car my mom can't get to work, since there's no public transportation in the area. Or in most of the country for that matter. The saddest part of all is that we're actually relatively well off compared to most families around where they live. We have a house, where many of my relatives live in trailers.
The three biggest towns in this area are Poplar Bluff, Naylor, and Doniphan. Together they have a population of around 20,000 people. The median household income in these three cities is between $20,000 and $22,000 per year. This is less than half the national average. The US, as a whole, has a median household income of nearly $50,000. In comparison, Austria had roughly $41,000 per household in 2004.
However, the big difference is the life that that money can buy. An Austrian with $41,000 still has health care, can still got to university, and can still get to work.
When I read the national statistics I wondered if they'd even looked at our area and the working poor who live here. The poverty threshold is defined as the minimum level of income required to have a decent standard of living, not great, just decent. In 2004 Austria had a poverty rate of around 13%. In my three towns, 25% of the population is below this threshold, nearly two thirds of which are families raising children. Compared to the national average of around 12%, this area is considered impoverished, a fancy word for poor.
Poverty is also spread unevenly throughout the country, a much bigger problem in the South than in the North-East. The 2005 Census showed that 42.9% of poor Americans live in the South, although they are only one third of the population. In the poorest states, like Mississippi and Louisiana, the rates are even higher.
Being poor doesn't just mean missing out on the luxuries, it means not being able to pay for the basics, like education and healthcare. In communities like mine the schools suffer and only a handful of kids will go on to college. At my own high school, between 5% and 10% of each class went on to secondary education.
Healthcare is a real problem in poor areas as well. With the rising cost of healthcare in the US, fewer and fewer people can afford it. Even though we spend more on healthcare than any other country in the world, we have lower life-expectancies than most Western nations. According to economist Paul Krugman, in the New York Times, a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that even the richest Americans are still in worse health than the poor in England. Krugman sees several possible explanations, highlighting the differences in the approach to healthcare. Where England focuses more on preventative care, US insurance companies rarely cover this kind of treatment. Instead, they pay only for those already dangerously ill. Not only is this bad for the patients, but it's also more expensive.
Those of us without it, those of us who work 46 hours a week and have little or no vacation, are too busy working two jobs to be sick. And when I turn 25, I'll probably join them, because that's when I'll no longer be covered under my mother's insurance.
A lot of young men and women from our area choose a different option, one which provides healthcare, room and board, requires only a high school education, and even pays decently. This is the US military.
The United States has over 1,000,000 men and women active in the armed forces, and many of them come from areas like mine. According to a 2004 article in the Washington Post, over two thirds of US Army recruits came from areas with incomes below the national average, and 40% from the South and many from rural areas, where they can't find work. They leave their homes and families and head off to the front lines.
My cousin and my two best friends from high school all serve in the US armed forces. My cousin's in Iraq right now, and his wife and kids are waiting for him, hoping he'll make it back all right. He's 21 years old, has a high school education, and this is his first time outside of the country.
My family's better off than most. I don't know if things will get better there before they get worse. Places like this are slow to change. My grandpa's family were poor farmers; so accustomed to poverty they hardly noticed the Great Depression.
Many people around there still don't realize how poor they are. They don't know it's different anywhere else. As the limits on their lives close in on them, they just keep adjusting, slowly but surely shrinking back into a smaller and smaller space.
But there is hope. Some people here are ready for change. My family is conservative, very patriotic and very Republican; but in the recent congressional elections my dad voted Democrat for the first time in his life. I guess desperate times call for desperate measures.


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also i just found this information.
looks like if we know the keystroks EASEL listens for we can program a USB numberpad to do what ever we want. just have to know the list of keybindings EX, Left Arrow = X+ Right Arrow X- etc etc. so @paulkaplan if you would like to give us a list of the keystorkes for easel that would be super awesome. i'll see if i can make up a tutorial and give it a test out on my x-carve over the next few days
this isn't exactly the same, but similar if someone in here enjoys coding - I made a linux interface between the shuttle Xpress jog dial / shuttle wheel that sends the keypress and shuttle information over to a websocket (the SPJS for Chilipeppr). But the code could just as easily be adapted to send other commands to other things, like Easel. If folks are interested, all of my code is here and a video showing it working is here and another video showing the enclosure I made for it here
Anyhow, thought I would share in case someone came across this thread and might find this motivating to update the code. I find these jog dials or shuttle wheels are way better than a keypad.
That's intriguing, but I like my idea of a cheap $10 keypad plus $1 worth of stickers. I want to see just how much I can do with Easel and not have to use other control software, if at all possible.
If Easel can eventually add support for importing 3D files (.STL, .OBJ, etc.) and allow some sort of remote pendant, then there wouldn't be a need for me to ever use anything else...
AutoHotkey is some good free software to re-map keys. Knowing how to program is helpful, but not necessary, there is a lot of examples out there. One problem is that it will re-map the keys on your regular keyboard as well, but you could have it so the re-mapping only happens while holding a modifier or combination of modifiers!
Sorry kind of jumped the gun and posted my previous response before I read this one of yours! Looks like you have it figured out!
haha no problem. and yes HIDMacros does remap both keyboards but when you close the program all is back to normal
Well we do not have keyboard shortcuts for pause, stop, etc. But we do have keyboard shortcuts for moving your machine while the "carve" walkthrough is open:
I actually think keyboard shortcuts kind of fall under the "accessibility" category, so I'm gonna open a request there for some keyboard shortcuts.
Would it be possible to remap the Z up/dn to page up/page dn? Then a numeric keypad could be used.
I have an old Griffin USB PowerMate Jog controller. I might be able to write a driver that generates Z up and Z down command as it spins.
I used to have one of those! So cool looking / feeling, but I could never find a use for it. This would have been perfect!
Funny story about page up/down... I do not own a computer that as those keys and would have to look up the keycodes!
pg up/down is what UGS uses for its Z movement btw. not sure if that helps
I just ran out and bought a USB numpad, but, also had another idea...
Will be testing shortly.
Edit: That app does not have a numpad.
Edit 2: I can't get HID macros to send a shift-up or down. According to the docs, it seems like it should be +{up} and +{down}.
What about a usb video game controller non techy guy here....
I use a Shuttle-Xpress on my current CNC. It would be nice to use it on the XCarve too!
Are the Inventables any closer to making Easel "Pendant Friendly"? I love my X carve and like the convenience of using easel....especially as a gcode import software. I don't enjoy struggling to get my head around different software just to have the ability to easily jog the machine using a pendant. I'm sure their are alot of other users with my concerns to make life as easy as possible in order to get the most out of the machine.
I've just purchased a cheap usb numeric keypad for the xcarve. I want to use HIDmacros (or any easy alt program) to save number 9 (pgup) which is shift + arrow up, and number 3 (pgdn) shift arrow down to my keypad. the script code for shift on HIDmacros is + and trying to put in ++ sure a heck don't work.I've been trying most of the day to program this sucker with no luck. Is there anyone out here (what a silly question) that might give a detailed explanation in simple terms so that I can achieve this? Thanks in advance.
Here is a great program for programming macros. It is 100% free too! A lot of examples and a lot help on the forums.https://autohotkey.com/
would be nice to have macro support, so i could click a button to g28 my machine isntead of constantly going through the machine inspector.
Yep....been looking at the tutorials on autohotkey as well. I still can't find a simple script line for Shift & Arrow Down (and Up) equals 3 on my numeric keypad. This is so every time I want the z axis to go up or down I can press a 3 or 9. If someone can just jot down that line it would be most appreciated.
Finally got it to work using Autohotkey.The script I was after is NumpadPgDn::+Down and NumpadPgUp::+UpI feel so proud of myself lol. (accidents do happen sometimes)
Next Question which has been kicking arouns the forum for a long time....is there any progress or movement in providing keyboard shortcuts for pause and resume? As well increments for jogging shortcuts.


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Our Top Five this week is 40 year old movies because Sean just turned 40. Some of the movies turning 40 include Rocky, Taxi Driver, Network, All the President's Men, Carrie, Marathon Man, Bad News Bears, The Outlaw Josey Wales and more.
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Smart Antenna Technologies (SAT) is opening a research facility in the Taiwanese capital of Taipei.
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SAT currently employs 19 engineers and researchers at its Birmingham HQ and at a separate office in Bath. The Taiwanese facility will be managed from the Edgbaston headquarters.
Currently smartphones and laptops have up to five separate antennas for Bluetooth, WiFi and 4G connections. SAT's technology enables a device's multiple antennae to be sited in one unit.
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Dr Sampson Hu, SAT's Chief Executive Officer, said the company's expansion will meet customer demand for its antenna technology.
Dr Hu, 33, said: "It is an exciting time for the company and our expansion to the Far East underlines our ambitions. Our technology has the potential to be placed in every device with an antenna. This includes smart phones, laptops and connected devices at home. By establishing a presence in Taipei we will be on the front foot to work with our customers in the region. The market for connected devices in China and the Far East is huge and growing every year. With our new office we are well placed to meet that demand."
Dr James Wilkie, Director of Enterprise & Innovation at the University of Birmingham commented: "Smart Antenna Technologies was formed as a spinout from the University of Birmingham, who supported the technology when it was at the invention stage. We are enormously pleased that the company has developed as an exemplar of how inventions from Birmingham are being commercialised internationally."


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He was a contributing editor for Entertainment Industry Contracts, published by Matthew Bender in 1996 and co-editor of Law and the Television of the '80s, published by Oceana in 1982. He has taught courses on entertainment law at the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma City University, and has lectured on entertainment industry legal matters at UCLA, USC and the American Film Institute (AFI) in Los Angeles and New York, and for the Producers Guild of America, and the American Bar Association as well as for other leading continuing legal education forums on entertainment law topics. Mr. Shanker has served on the advisory committee of the AFI's Third Decade Council and was a founding board member of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences. His achievements have earned him repeated inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America (Entertainment Law – Motion Pictures and Television; Entertainment Law – Music). He is admitted to practice in California, Oklahoma and the District of Columbia. For more information about Jay Shanker and his firm please visit www.crowedunlevy.com Paul Supnik, based in Beverly Hills, California, practices trademark, copyright, and entertainment law . He advises businesses in the selection and use of brand identities, protects trademarks through registration strategies, enhances value through licensing, and litigates trademark and copyright disputes. Mr. Supnik has spoken on these subjects in the United States and internationally. Industries he has represented include: Internet, apparel, cosmetic, restaurant, advertising, sporting goods, software, financial, arts, and media. As a bar association leader, Paul Supnik has served as president of the Los Angeles Copyright Society, chair of both the Entertainment/IP Law and International Law Sections of the Los Angeles County Bar, and chair of the Los Angeles Lawyer magazine editorial board. Mr. Supnik has a Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating of "AV" and has been selected by SuperLawyers® in the field of Intellectual Property for the years 2010 through 2013. He served as an adjunct associate professor at Southwestern Law School from 2008-2011. Jonathan D. Reichman is a partner in the New York office of Andrews Kurth Kenyon LLP. He has over 30 years' experience in litigation, licensing and counseling matters in copyright, trademark, unfair competition and right of publicity law, particularly for clients in the entertainment industry. World Trademark Review 1000 recognizes him as a leader in trademark matters and notes that he has "specific expertise in protecting rights related to fictional characters" (2016). He is ranked in New York by Chambers & Partners USA in the area of "Intellectual Property: Trademark & Copyright" (2014, 2016-2017). In addition, he has been recognized as a leading intellectual property lawyer by New York Super Lawyers (2016-2017). He is also recognized in the area of copyright law by The US Legal 500 (2016-2017) and U.S. News and World Report/Best Lawyers (2015).A major aspect of his practice involves the protection, defense, enforcement, licensing and exploitation of rights vested in fictional characters. He has handled complex issues concerning such characters and properties as Spider-Man, X-Men, Superman, Batman, Barbie, Peanuts, Strawberry Shortcake, Babar the Elephant, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teletubbies, The Berenstain Bears, Inspector Gadget, Franklin The Turtle, Raggedy Ann and Andy, Mr. Bill and The Woodstock Festivals.Mr. Reichman also represents the estates of well-known entertainers, authors and artists. He has handled copyright, right of publicity, and trademark matters for such estates as Joseph Campbell, Mary McCarthy, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Rube Goldberg, W.C. Fields and Abbott & Costello.In 2014, he served as an advisor to the New Jersey State Senate in connection with Senate Bill No. S2212 ("The Commercial Identity Protect Act").For many years, he has served as a member of the Advisory Board of Bloomberg BNA's Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal. He is currently on the Advisory Board of The Licensing Journal. He has written on copyright, trademark and publicity law topics, and lectured for such organizations as The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Columbia University School of Law, Columbia University School of Fine Arts, New York Film Academy, The New School for Social Research, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and the Institute for International Research. He has taught entertainment licensing as an adjunct professor at New York Law School, and been interviewed by such prominent media outlets as The New York Times, Dateline NBC and New York Newsday. 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Choosing the amount of daily or monthly benefit is the first step in selecting a long term care insurance policy. Some companies offer both options, while others only offer one or the other. Generally, the options will be expressed something like this:
Daily benefit: $50-500 per day
Monthly benefit: $1,200 - $12,000 per month
So which is better? The monthly benefit. Since long term care insurance generally reimburses for covered expenses up to the policy limits, you want to capture the maximum amount of dollars as you can. Let's use an example:
Jim has a long term care policy and uses his home healthcare benefit to have a licensed aide come in twice a week for assistance. Each visit costs $300. If Jim has a daily benefit of $150, Jim would recoup 8 days per month in costs at $150 each for a total of $1,200. With a monthly benefit of $4500, Jim would recoup the full $2,400 in costs. That's because the total cost of $2,400 is lower than his monthly benefit amount of $4500, but higher than his daily benefit amount of $150 per day. Even though the total maximum benefits are the same, the monthly benefit pays him back more money.
For companies that offer both options, they will charge a slightly higher premium for a monthly benefit. Your daily or monthly benefit is usually combined with an inflation protection benefit, such as 3% or 5% compounded to keep up with the increasing cost of care as you get older.
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Drinking water and weight loss
Drinking water and weight loss go hand in hand. The magic potion for losing that excessive body fat is all around you. It covers two thirds of the planet. If you and exercise and eat right at the correct intensity, frequency and duration for you, but still can't get rid of a little paunch here and there, you're probably just not drinking enough water.
Drinking water and weight loss
There are plenty of good reasons why you will need to stay hydrated, particularly if you are sticking to your diet:
Water and weight loss go hand in hand
- Initial weight reduction is basically as a result of loss of water, and also you have to consume an ample amount of water to prevent dehydration.The whole process of burning up energy demands a sufficient supply of water to be able to function effectively; dehydration reduces the actual fat-burning process.
- Burning up calories produces harmful toxins (picture the exhaust coming from your vehicle), and h2o performs a crucial role in eliminating these out of your system. Lack of fluids leads to a reduction in blood volume; a reduction in blood volume leads to a decline in the availability of oxygen to all your muscles; along with a reduction in the availability of oxygen to all your muscles will make you really feel depleted.
- Water assists in maintaining tone of muscle by aiding muscle groups in their capability to contract, also it lubricates your joints. Correct hydration will help reduce muscle group as well as joint soreness when you exercise.
- A healthy (weight reduction) diet incorporates a great deal of dietary fiber. However whilst dietary fibre is generally beneficial to ones digestive system, without having sufficient liquids it may cause bowel irregularity rather than assisting to eliminate it.
- Drinking water accompanied by a meal could make you feel full quicker and for that reason satisfied eating less. Be aware, nevertheless, that drinking water on it's own might not have this particular effect. To be able to feel satiated (not hungry), the entire body need bulk, calories and nutrients.
How much Water Should I Drink?
- You might have heard that you ought to consume 8 cups of water a day. Just how much water you actually need depends upon your weight, level of activity, the actual temperature as well as humidity of your natural environment, as well as your diet.
- Not only is drinking water and weight so important, your diet plan is important too, because if you consume an abundance of water-dense foods such as vegetables and fruit your need to stay hydrated is going to be diminished. You can apply some research and make use of a calculator and measuring cup if you want, but nature's very good at telling you the right amount to drink. When you drink enough water, your urine will most likely be pale yellow, though nutritional vitamin supplements and antibiotics can discolor it. However, you shouldn't need to run to the bathroom too often. When in doubt, drink a tad bit more.
- Do not worry that drinking water will give your body a bloated look. There are numerous causes of water retention, including consuming an excessive amount of salt. But drinking water is not one of them. It is possible to harm yourself by drinking too much water, but it takes quite an effort. Either through obsessive-compulsive behavior or extended athletic activity, drinking huge amounts of water can dilute the electrolytes (sodium and potassium) in your blood to the point that it interferes with brain, heart and muscle function. Athletes compound the issue with all the loss of sodium (salt) through sweating, but can drink electrolyte replacement drinks like Gatorade Endurance Formula to keep things in balance.
Tips on Drinking Water
- Drinking other liquids also provides your body with a source of water, but note that diuretics cause your system to expel water. Diuretics include caffeinated drinks (coffee, tea and soda) and alcohol. When drinking diuretics, drink more water to make up. When drinking alcohol, drinking water along with it as well as before and afterward may eliminate a hangover headache and feeling of tiredness. The water is optional; driving is not.
- When you feel thirsty, you are usually already dehydrated. Try to avoid this situation by drinking in advance. Be especially careful when participating in activities where you won't be able to stop to get caught up.You've heard countless advertisements telling you what product to start your day with. I recommend a couple of glasses of water to rehydrate your body. This advice is free and on the house!


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Among the 10 states with the largest enrollment of black male students, Florida has one of the lowest graduation rates, according to the Black Boys Report which analyzes state data and the National Center of Education Statistics.
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Well I have to say that I love when God's word is like a breath of fresh air. Especially when you are just feeling overwhelmed.
I will finish updating you on the previous blog as Daniel and I did find a new car. I always find it how God seems to work out all of these little details for His glory.
The day of the accident we went and took a look at a $1000.00 car. We got there and it wouldn't start (not a great sign), got it started and took it for a short drive and Daniel says nope this isn't it. We really were not in any kind of state of mind to make a decision on a car anyway. So we decided we needed to wait for the car God was going to provide.
The next day while at the lake a friend says other friends of ours have a car just up the road from you guys. So we decided we would keep it in mind.
I really knew that God had a plan and that we just had to wait and be patient and it would work itself out.
Last spring Daniel had driven over a hitch that had fell off the truck ahead of him and damaged the transmission of his car. At that time they didn't want to give us very much for his car, he managed to convince them to let him fix the car. This year after his accident they gave us $1000.00 more than they were going to give us last year for the car.
Earlier in the week we went to see the car that friends of ours up the road had for sale. We took it for a drive and really liked this car. There was a rejection sticker on it, however it seemed to be an easy fix. They wanted $1000.00 for it. We didn't want to make any decisions until we knew if we could afford it as we were still waiting on the insurance company.
When the insurance company called Daniel to let him know what they were going to give us he quickly realized that with the little bit of extra money, we could pay off his student loan.
So all in all God has still amazed me in this whole situation, I really didn't expect to get very much for his car let alone enough extra to pay off a loan. Praise the Lord!! God is Good all the time!!
Today I was reminded yet again of my life verse, as I looked at a website that I had just been given to look at. At the top of the page I was viewing I found Phil 4:19 "And my God will meet all of your needs according to his riches in Christ Jesus." (NIV)
It was a breath of fresh air for me. Sometimes it's easy to get discouraged over something simple like the unexpected cost of another fee. However knowing that we are in God's will, and that he will provide I am able to recall James 1:2 "consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance." (NIV)
Just like God has provided more than I could have imagined through this I wait to see what He has in store for us next.


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Experience has shown that those who miss weekly lessons do not progress as quickly, and often fall behind, particularly during the 6 week summer holidays. My aim is to help you avoid that, and continue to grow into the best musician you can be!
Therefore lessons will continue through the school holidays at your usual time. If your family is going away during the holidays, please let me know which lesson/s you will miss and we can organise a make-up.
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Missouri state senator blasts Trump again after censure
A Missouri state senator who was censured by her colleagues for a Facebook post in which she hoped for President Trump's assassination posted a new message on Twitter Thursday comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler.
State Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal posted a meme that shows Trump taking off a shirt. By the time the shirt is off, Hitler's face is revealed in place of Trump's.
The meme parodies a much-criticized Dove body wash ad that shows a black woman removing her brown shirt to reveal a white woman underneath in a light-colored shirt. Dove apologized for the ad, which many social media users called racist.
Chappelle-Nadal told The Associated Press that she shared the meme because she was upset by Trump's tweets early Thursday suggesting Puerto Rico must take on more responsibility for its recovery from Hurricane Maria. The senator, who is black and whose mother is from Puerto Rico, said she still has not heard from some of her other relatives on the island.
"So this is very personal to me," she said.
She insisted that she is "not repeating the mistake I made two months ago" when she wrote on her personal Facebook page, "I hope Trump is assassinated!"
"I still have a First Amendment right, and I still have a family I need to fight for," Chappelle-Nadal told the AP.
It wasn't immediately clear Thursday if her tweet of the Trump meme will cause backlash similar to the kind sparked by her August assassination post, which she deleted and apologized for amid calls for her to resign.
The state Senate formally reprimanded her in September in a bipartisan 28-2 vote that also renewed a call for her to resign.
Chappelle-Nadal said she posted her Facebook comment out of frustration over Trump's response to a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August. The senator from University City was a frequent protester in Ferguson after the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, in 2014.
Two Republican state representatives from suburban St. Louis criticized Chappelle-Nadal's latest social media post in tweets of their own Thursday. Rep. Phil Christofanelli of St. Peters called her post "shameful" and Rep. Jean Evans of Manchester wrote that Chappelle-Nadal "continues her disgusting attacks on our President."
Gov. Eric Greitens and Lt. Gov. Mike Parson, also Republicans, didn't immediately respond to messages seeking comment. Parson was among the most vocal critics of Chappelle-Nadal after the assassination post.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Top 5 SEO Mistakes you should avoid doingPosted by kranthi on Sunday, December 28, 2008
Do you own a blog,website,forum,etc..? then, you are probably looking to get some good amount of traffic to your site.The best way to get some traffic is from search engines like Google,Yahoo and msn.So, if you do a little bit of SEO, you can get massive traffic from these Search Engines. There are lots of guides out there which will help you improve your SEO skills, but,they also help you understand what you should avoid doing. Here, in this article, we will find out some of the top search engine optimization mistakes.
1.Ignoring the Keywords:
This is one of the most common mistakes most people do when building a website/blog. What this will do is..to end you up creating a site with keywords that nobody searches on the web or you could create a site with most searched (competitive) keywords on the net which will make you wait forever to see any results.
So, you should do a quick research on the keywords that most people search...You can use the Google Adwords tool to check whether the keywords you choose have a good amount of searches per month.Also, type your keywords in google search and make sure that you feel confident reaching the first page.
2. Spamming the Keywords:
Some people create web pages just repeating the keywords hundreds of times or blending the font text color with the background color (hidden text)..but, this won't help you increase your search engine rankings.
Also, remember that you are making the content for your visitors, not just for the search engines. Don't repeat the keyword too many times in the article...it doesn't sound right when you read it back.
3. Javascript Menus:
Now a days, lot of people are using Javascript menus for navigation,but search engines can't read javascript.So, you have to build your site accordingly and make sure that the search engines and visitors to your site can quickly navigate the pages. You should consider building an xml/html sitemap, so that all your links are easily crawlable by the search engines.
4. Bad Linking:
You have to be careful on the outgoing links. Linking to irrelevant sites (bad neighborhoods),and sites that have been penalized by Google can seriously effect your own rankings. Also, make sure that you don't have too many outgoing links on a single page. According to Google Webmaster tools, you shouldn't have more than 100 outgoing links on a single web page.
5.Forgetting about Off site optimization:
Lot of people optimize their site well, but they forget about off site optimization...ie, building good and quality backlinks from relevant sites. It is a good way to increase your search engine rankings quickly... Get links from strong sites with your main keywords in the anchor text. Build backlinks by submitting articles, participating in related forums,etc.
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