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How to Start an Ecommerce Business
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Cool on eCommerce Websites
In the prior two editions of this book, I was hot on ecommerce websites. Today I am not for three reasons. eBay has taken away the direct link from an auction ad to one's ecommerce website. Indeed, it appears from a current reading of the eBay rules that even publishing your ecommerce website URL in your auction ad (not as a link) is a violation of the rules. Although you can still link to your About Me webpage from your auction ad and from there to your ecommerce website, it's not the same. It's too indirect and much less effective. Operating an ecommerce website is the easy part of Web retailing. Getting significant traffic to your website, however, will take at least half your time and resources. Yes, half. With the weakening of the website-eBay link, as discussed above, the idea of an ecommerce website doesn't seem quite as compelling and is likely to be much less profitable. The great feature of eBay is that the marketing is built in. You can have an eBay retail business without...
ECommerce Website Database
In order to stock your ecommerce website catalog efficiently, keep your inventory in a desktop database such as Access. Make your daily inventory adjustments change your prices delete sold inventory and do it all offline with an interface that's easy, quick, and convenient to use. (Online interfaces for Web ecommerce software are notoriously slow to use.) Then in one quick gesture, upload the data you need to your website commerce catalog. The result is an entire new catalog with up-to-date information, that is, up-to-date inventory and prices. Some corporate ecommerce websites have catalogs connected directly to database servers, but you have to have tens of thousands of unique items in your inventory before you need such a system or can justify the cost of it.
So, ecommerce websites are no longer difficult to create or expensive. What does this mean to eBay retailers who run auctions on eBay It means that auctions on eBay and an ecommerce website can work together to increase business. For instance, Dutch auctions are a good way to sell inventory in quantity on eBay. It's almost like selling inventory out of a catalog. Likewise, the Buy It Now feature of eBay enables you to turn eBay into an online fixed-price catalog, in effect. Turbo Lister enables you to upload auctions in bulk quickly and efficiently. And, of course, eBay Stores are ecommerce websites themselves. If you do conduct a retail operation on eBay, you might ask yourself, How can I get customers from my auction ads to my ecommerce website without violating eBay rules As you will recall from Chapters 4 and 20, eBay does permit a link to your About Me webpage from your auction ad and a link from your About Me webpage to your ecommerce website. However, eBay policies state that...
ECommerce Software
If you operate an independent website, you will need ecommerce software to sell anything on the website. eCommerce software consists of a product catalog, a shopping cart, and a checkout procedure. Also important is the capability to be able to use a credit-card charging service that dovetails with the checkout procedure. eCommerce software varies in quality but is readily available from most host ISPs. In fact, host ISPs usually provide such software for a small fee or free as part of your website hosting service. Third-party software is also available. One of the leading vendors is Miva, which provides Miva Merchant, an ecommerce software package. What's interesting and unique about Miva Merchant is that it accepts plug-in modules created by third-parties. The plug-in modules are simply additional software that extends what Miva Merchant can do. There a number of third-party vendors that create and sell Miva Merchant modules. Miva Merchant by itself is a pretty capable ecommerce...
Get the Hardware and Software You Need
Before you can step up to the auction block, you need to connect to the Internet, and in order to do that, you need some basic computer hardware and software. Buying and selling through auctions, like other types of electronic commerce, don't require a super-fast connection to the Internet. Nor do you have to spend thousands for a computer with the latest multimedia bells and whistles. A detailed description of hardware and software you do need is presented in Chapter 2, but here is an overview of the kinds of things you need to get started.
Cost Effectiveness Review
I suppose if you have a large ecommerce website and your operations on eBay and eBay Stores are minor by comparison, that ecommerce software is important to make your business work efficiently. That's your most cost-effective approach. Be sure that you're using ecommerce software that provides the capability to handle eBay auctions, Stores, and datafeeds to other marketplaces. If you are not already operating an online retailing business, I recommend that you use an eBay Store as a substitute for an independent website. An auction management service, whether provided by eBay or a third-party vendor, will provide all of the ecommerce functionality you will need to conduct your business professionally anywhere on the Web. Therefore, the message of this chapter is to use robust software to operate your business. But if you're an established eBay business thinking of expanding sales, don't worry about ecommerce software. You will be able to do almost everything just fine with an auction...
Auction Management Services
If you use an auction management service for your eBay auctions, you may be able to use the checkout mechanism on your ecommerce website too. For instance, Andale enables this. Your auction management service may even provide a catalog you can use on your website. Check out the features of your auction management service, if you use one, to see what's available that you can use on your website as well as for auctions. ecommerce software from an auction management service might be easier to install on your website but perhaps not as flexible as the ecommerce software provided by your ISP One compelling reason to use the catalog and checkout from your auction management service on your website is that you don't have to learn more than one ecommerce program. Finally, let's mention that it's a two-way street. There is a plug-in for Miva Merchant that handles eBay auctions. Eureka If you use Merchant, you can use your ecommerce software to manage your eBay auctions too. Check out Veeo...
Profiting from eBay in creative ways
EBay is becoming the Microsoft of online commerce and is poised to easily dominate the world of ecommerce for the next decade. You can profit from this fact in many ways. As of this writing over 40,000 people are signing up every day on eBay. Just as Microsoft established its Windows platform as the operating system of choice for 95 of all personal computers, eBay is establishing itself as the gateway of ecommerce for the next century.
Quality of Protection
A verification merely helps ascertain that a person is who he says he is. But John Larkspur (a name I made up) can be who he says he is and still be a Web ecommerce criminal. Therefore, all a verification does is identify a person. I suppose if you start chasing a Web ecommerce criminal for recovery of stolen funds, it's best to know who he is. Presumably without the verification it might be difficult to know the true identity of the person you want to chase. But knowing the true identity of someone is no guarantee that you will catch him or recover stolen funds. In the final analysis, you have to rely on other indices of trust to do business with a person on the Web.
Data the Key to Business Success
Skills but it's not necessary for success in ecommerce. What is essential is that you understand a few database concepts. I have using computers for business since 1981, and I found a database important in the first year. In 1994, I put up my first ecommerce website. I did the catalog portion with a database. In 1995, I wrote a book entitled Creating Cool Web Databases (still in print) in which I explored how to create dynamic webpages with databases. (And I'm not a programmer.) In 1999, I wrote my first eBay book and devoted a considerable portion to using a database for eBay ecommerce management. Good software for managing eBay businesses had not yet emerged. Fortunately, the auction management services eventually relieved me of the necessity for that task and relieved you of wrestling with database programming too. Yet understanding databases is a recurring theme in the application of digital technology to business including retail business.
Two System Marketplace
Search engine by a substantial margin, a huge number of people find their way to merchandise via Google, and many more via Google than through the other search engines. Indeed, the number one Web marketing technique is to get your website found by Google. Many ecommerce business owners spend a lot of money to do so. As this book goes to press, Froogle is still in beta, and you can try it at http froogle.com. It works amazingly well. What does it do It simply filters out all the non-commercial websites of a Google search. With Froogle, you get only the vendors. It's a powerful purchasing mechanism, a new ecommerce phenomenon. If you operate an independent website and use ecommerce software for a catalog, shopping cart, and checkout, your software vendor should include a feature in the future to make a Froogle data feed. For instance, FASTFEED is a Miva Merchant plug-in for Froogle. For more information on this exciting new breakthrough in ecommerce, try some of the following resources
Sure Beats the Alternative
If you do link to your current specific auctions from your ecommerce website, it's almost the same as running auctions on your website. The eBay auctions will be much more effective you won't have to buy and operate any special expensive website auctioning software you won't have to run a marketing campaign to get traffic to your auctions and you won't have any of the headaches of running your own auction marketplace. Indeed, keeping your eBay auctions current on your website (via links) sure beats the alternative of running your own auctions.
Creating Ads for Other Marketplaces
There are dozens of other datafeed marketplaces on the Web other than Froogle and Yahoo Shopping. On one hand, you can expect a big consolidation among the existing datafeed marketplaces. On the other hand, you can expect new datafeed marketplaces to pop up all over the place. Datafeed marketplaces are the latest killer ap in ecommerce.
The Occasional Seller
Perhaps the best, but most common, customer service you can provide is accepting credit cards. There are dozens more ways to get merchant accounts for Web ecommerce in 2004 than there were a few years ago. Get yourself a merchant account, and start accepting credit cards.
An eBay Store as Your Website
Be a cost-effective way of doing business on the Web. At least, not as long as they can have an eBay Store instead. An eBay Store gives you most of the good characteristics of a viable ecommerce storefront. It gives you a place, and more importantly, a place where there's traffic. It gives you a storefront look. It gives you a catalog of products. And it gives you a checkout mechanism. The checkout mechanism, of course, includes payment choices. You've got it all on with an eBay Store. Or do you
Buying and selling on eBay, like other types of electronic commerce, doesn't require a machine with the latest super-fast processor and multimedia bells and whistles. Nevertheless, the speed and quality of your computer, monitor, and other hardware can affect your auction experience. If your machine is slow and your modem a crawler, it could take an inordinate amount of time to get multiple sales items online. If you can't inspect a detailed screen image of your image as it appears on eBay, you might not be able to correct or retake it if you need to. Make sure you have, at the very least
The Checkout
A reason to have had your own website in the past was to provide a checkout procedure for your eBay customers. There was a time when the eBay checkout procedure was weak. Ineffective really. Nonetheless, most ecommerce websites had capable checkout procedures. If you could steer your eBay auction winners to your ecommerce website checkout, you could handle them more efficiently, and they would see your website too. Today eBay offers a much improved checkout procedure, although it's only capable if the seller sets it up properly. The auction management service checkouts work well, and you can even use some of them on your ecommerce website in place of traditional ecommerce software. Consequently, today it's not important to have a website just to provide a capable checkout procedure.
With a Website
If you sell at retail full-time on eBay as a business or if you are a retailer who sells a fair amount on eBay but who has a physical location too, you might seriously consider operating an ecommerce website. The question is, What is an ecommerce website The following are some characteristics Perhaps the best ecommerce website of all is Amazon.com. The story of Amazon is one of pure customer service. The Amazon website may not win any awards for aesthetics or for technical flamboyance. But it sure creates an easy, interesting, and convenient experience to buy a book online (or other consumer items). If you do have an ecommerce website that functions intelligently, you can weave it into your eBay business. Here are some things you can do Include a link to your About Me webpage in your eBay auction ads. In About Me you can include a link to your ecommerce website to generate extra business. Link to your eBay auctions from your ecommerce website to generate extra business. Extend your...
Building a Website
An ecommerce website can be a profitable operation in conjunction with running multiple auctions on eBay. What is an ecommerce website Typically, it's a website that sells products. It has a catalog a shopping basket for customers to accumulate products a checkout procedure including automated shipping and sales tax calculations, credit card processing, and warehouse shipping notification and order accounting. Not too long ago, a system as just described was a major Web construction project and was expensive to create and operate. Today such capabilities are offered by dozens of Web commerce soft- ware packages for websites, and operating expenses can be quite low. Indeed, almost every host ISP offers free Web ecommerce software to its customers.
Many Web ecommerce programs provide a record of all the orders. If you do not have a separate accounting system to handle orders, this can be very handy. Even if you have a separate accounting system to handle orders, you can use the accounting capabilities of your Web ecommerce software for interim accounting. Some ecommerce programs will plug nicely into popular accounting software, and you will be able to handle orders seamlessly. For instance, modStop (http modstop.com) sells a module for Miva Merchant that enables it to pass order information to QuickBooks (http www.quicken.com).
Database Overview
Put all the data you need for everything in the ecommerce catalog into one database table by creating as many columns as you need. 4. Export the data to your ecommerce software catalog database. 5. The data will add to or revise the catalog entries in your ecommerce webpage catalog.
The Magic Link
It used to be that eBay allowed a link from your auction description to your ecommerce website. This enabled you to promote (advertise) your website on eBay. In the spring of 2002 eBay disallowed this useful link, severely restricting your capability of promoting your ecommerce website on eBay. Today eBay still allows a link to your ecommerce website from your About Me webpage. But it's not the same. It's too indirect. Apparently, if I read the rule correctly, eBay doesn't even allow the URL for your ecommerce website to be published in your auction description. eBay characterizes it as a static link, whatever that is You will do well to review the rules about this if you have questions about it. Go Services, eBay Policies, Rules for Sellers, Listing Policies for Sellers, Link Policy.
Offline Advertising
Advertising offline works fine for ecommerce on the Web, if you can find an advertising medium that fits your products. It costs money and is usually expensive, but that doesn't mean it can't be cost-effective. What many ecommerce businesses have found when advertising offline is that many orders come in by telephone. Yes, there are still people who aren't connected to the Internet or who don't find shopping online convenient. If you advertise offline, you'd better have some order-takers ready by your phones.
Your Website
You can't include a link to your ecommerce website in your auction ad. But can you include your website URL not as a link It's unclear. eBay seems to consider a URL as a static link, whatever that is Thus publishing the URL of your ecommerce website is apparently not permitted. Perhaps it will become more clear in the future. If permitted, you should include the URL of your website in every ad. If you have an ecommerce website, it's your chance to market your other merchandise. A person may not bid on your item being auctioned but If you're more than an occasional seller, link to your About Me page on eBay. Your About Me page needs to present full information about you and your eBay business. It will enhance your credibility as a seller. And eBay permits you to put a link to your ecommerce website from your About Me page.
Without a Website
Having said all that, the fault in the plan to operate an ecommerce website is that you will have to market extensively to draw any traffic to the website. If you're thinking of starting an ecommerce website, however, you might consider a more cost-effective alternative. You are better off, in my opinion, to forego establishing an ecommerce website and focus your attention on other eBay-related sales mechanisms such as eBay Stores which do not require a huge amount of marketing. If you do not operate an ecommerce website, you have to ask yourself how you can provide comparable services. The first reaction you might have is that you can communicate by telephone, snail mail, and email. Another way to provide customer services without a website is to use auction management services (see Chapter 17 for more details). Not only do these relatively new services provide you with enhanced customer communications and other services, but they also provide you with many of the ecommerce services...
Your ecommerce website will not sell anything without an aggressive Web marketing campaign. People have to know about you, be motivated to visit you, and find you. Marketing is just as difficult and expensive on the Web as it is in real life. The difference is that offline, virtually everything costs money. Time magazine is not going to do a tradeout with you (e.g., a half-page ad for sweeping out the Chicago bureau for three months). On the Web, however, you can substitute time for money. You can carry out an aggressive Web marketing campaign if you want to spend the time to learn to do it and then the time to do it. It's clear that without a serious marketing effort no one will come to your ecommerce website.
The Website
Why have an ecommerce website in the first place It gives you a chance to put up an online catalog with fixed prices. It gives you If you already have a profitable website, great Don't give it up as long as it's worthwhile for you to operate it. But many eBay businesses discover that having an ecommerce website is more trouble than it's worth. Before jumping into creating your own website, you need to give careful consideration to the alternative eBay Stores.
Use the Stores
What the eBay Stores do today is present to you a grand opportunity to run an ecommerce website, in effect, without all the headaches, hard work, and expense. For most eBay businesses, an eBay Store will bring them more business immediately than an ecommerce website. And the best is yet to come.
Different Catalogs
EBay Stores will require a certain subset of your data. Froogle will require a different subset of your data. Yahoo Shopping will require yet another subset of your data. And if you're operating an ecommerce website, the catalog program or service you use on your website will require still another subset of data.
Transaction Services
One of the most important elements of good Web ecommerce software is the transaction services it provides. A customer goes to the checkout where the shopping basket shows up with the products that have been ordered. The prices of the products are totaled, sales tax (if applicable) is calculated and added to the total, shipping is calculated and added to the total, and a choice of payment methods is provided. Then the information for a particular payment method is received. All this information passes back and forth in a secure digital environment. This is all done by the Web ecommerce software. It provides an easy-to-use and convenient way for a website visitor to make purchases. If it works for website visitors, why not for eBay bidders If you have an ecommerce website, you can direct the high bidders at your eBay auctions to your website to make payments. It's convenient for the bidders, and it's convenient for you. Auction management services also provide checkout mechanisms...
Independent Websites
ECommerce software is only important to you if you run an independent website where you sell products. Since this book does not advocate that you do that, I will not dwell upon the use of ecommerce software. However, what you should know is that the auction management services can provide many of the same features for independent websites. For instance, many auction management services provide catalogs, shopping carts, and checkout procedures that are essential to conducting business on the Web, and they are not necessarily confined just to handling eBay auctions and eBay Stores. They may also be used for independent websites. agement services and the ecommerce programs are each coming from a different direction and meeting in a middle point somewhere where they start to look like one another.
EBay Link Policy
Regardless of what this book says, you need to occasionally consult the eBay link policies in the Sellers Guide on eBay. eBay used to allow you to link to your website from your auction ad. That's no longer permitted. And the link rules are getting so complicated that you almost need a lawyer to decipher them. eBay evolves, and as it does, so does its policies. The thrust of the link policies is that eBay doesn't want you to link to your ecommerce website if it sells the same merchandise that you sell on eBay at the same or lower prices than you sell on eBay.
Pay Pal Shops
Join PayPal Shops where 27 million PayPal members might stop in. Don't believe it. Nonetheless, if you have an ecommerce website, it can't hurt. To join PayPal Shops you have to sign up for PayPal's money market arrangement (another financial function), which pays a return on any funds in your account. Then your shop and checkout are free. Or, if you have an eBay Store, your PayPal Shop is free. Don't get me wrong. I don't think PayPal Shops are a major retail force on the Internet today, but you never know what tomorrow might bring.
Affitliate Programs
For many products, affiliate marketing works well. For many years it was an inviting means of marketing on the Web. Today with the advent of eBay, eBay Stores, Google, and Froogle, and their capture of a large market share in ecommerce, affiliate programs are not as important to most online retailers as they once were. That will get you started. Affiliate software is commonly available. For instance, a third-party makes an affiliate plug-in program for Miva Merchant, thus converting that very capable ecommerce program into an affiliate manager.
Marketing Realities
The reality of operating your own ecommerce website is facing the great marketing problem. Marketing your website will take at least half the time, effort, and money you put into your business. Without being able to piggyback on eBay, you have the same marketing problem as any ecommerce website on the Web. The piggyback was the direct link from your eBay auction ads that eBay no longer allows.
The Ups Api
UPS has several tools available for integration. TheUPS OnLine Tools available at ups.ec.com are for use by an end user. An end user incorporates the tools into their business's e-commerce-enabled applications that are not available for commercial sale. Third-party developers such as web developers, system integrators, or IT consultants that integrate UPS OnLine Tools for end users must register as a third party. The same holds true for an independent software vendor or application service provider that integrates the tools into their software application(s) for direct or indirect sale to the public. UPS requires a separate third party developer license agreement and product certification by an outside test lab for those applications for sale to the public. If you are interested in licensing UPS OnLine(r) Tools as an Third Party, you need to submit your request to UPS using the Third Party Product Provider License Request
Yahoo also provides storefronts (websites) for ecommerce, Yahoo Merchant Solutions This is a popular hosting service. If you use a Yahoo storefront, you get a modest discount on Yahoo Shopping click-through fees. Although Yahoo Merchant is a significant marketplace, it doesn't seem to me to be a strong competitor to eBay. You are most likely better off with an eBay Store, particularly if you use eBay auctions to promote your eBay Store. It's certainly possible to have both an eBay Store and a Yahoo
I hope that you have found plenty of information in this book that will help you generate greater sales in your eBay retail business. If you are aware of some important idea that I haven't covered in this book, I would be happy to hear from you at the following email address jt sinclair.com. I also operate a website, Bayside Business for eBay retail sellers, at http baysidebusiness.com. You can visit that website for additional information on operating your eBay and ecommerce retail business. In addition, you can sign up for
You use ecommerce software (with a database core) for your ecommerce website, and you want to integrate that data with your auction management. Comment This is a good strategy. However, you might want to consider the auction management services. You can use some of them on your website in place of your current ecommerce software thus serving a dual purpose.
Other Marketplaces
They each take different subsets of data and charge different fees. Most are comparison websites. Some may be affiliates of others that is, a datafeed to one may result in a presence on others. This is a fast changing ecommerce environment, and you will want to ivestigate each possibility to determine what it can do for you. Google remains an important online shopping gateway and will probably outperform (in retail sales) its new invention Froogle for a few years. However, Google has to find your website it doesn't take a datafeed requiring a serious commitment of your time,
For keyword advertising on eBay, Google, Froogle, or other major ecommerce gateways, you pay for click-throughs. This is know as pay per click or PPC advertising. You can buy as many or as few click-throughs as you want. Each portal has its own payment scheme. But advertising is not limited to only affluent businesses. Any business can buy some advertising, that is, some number of click-throughs. Moreover, you can buy advertising in small enough quantities to experiment before you commit yourself to larger expenditures. Keyword advertising (PPC advertising) works well, and the payment schemes for keyword advertising make its use flexible.
The Plan
People must be able to see your entire collection. That's the way to sell art. You need to have a website gallery. Setting up and operating a website is easier and less expensive than operating a real art gallery. It's also perhaps easier than running 120 auctions four times a month on eBay. If you already have a website, I don't have to sell you on this idea. Unfortunately, eBay no longer permits a link from your auction ad to your ecommerce website. One alternative is to have a link to About Me where you can have a link to your ecommerce website. But that extra step is a killer that defeats an effective marketing program. Another alternative is to have Once you have talked bidders into going to your eBay Store, you have to make it easy for them. A link in your auction ad in the appropriate place accomplishes this nicely. For an ecommerce website, this is necessary (i.e., link to About Me and then to your website). For an eBay Store, you can argue that the link already exists....
Once, while I looked for a camcorder to purchase, I ran across an ecommerce website (video retailer) that had a complete tutorial on shooting video with a consumer camcorder. It was quite valuable (and free), and I gave that particular website a more thorough visit than other video retail websites I visited. But, most interesting, I found that particular video retailer by searching (using a search engine) to see what information was available on the Web about shooting video. (Note that I eventually bought the camcorder at an eBay auction.)
Naming Case Study
I needed to build a website that supported eBay retailers so as to promote my six books about eBay. I didn't want to brand it The Smart Way, like the books, because I wanted it to be about more than just the books. Still, the website needed to be eBay-centric rather than about something generic such as ecommerce. But I couldn't use the eBay name, because it's a trademark. Also, the name to be picked would be central to the branding effort. It had to be short, make sense, and relate to eBay.
A new breed of retailers has appeared that sells only on eBay. These retailers don't necessarily even have the expense of an ecommerce website and certainly not the expense of a store or warehouse. These people seek inventory at wholesale, distress, closeout, or otherwise low prices and then sell it on eBay at discount prices. In some cases, their overhead is so low that they can afford to sell at deep discounts even while purchasing their inventory through normal wholesale channels. Don't look at these sales efforts as fly-by-night retail operations. Many are serious businesses making big profits in this new marketplace. What is a fly-by-night retail operation Is it one where a one-person retailer purchases a huge inventory of a closeout item for a low price, spends two months selling it on eBay, goes on vacation for a month in Bermuda, and then returns to start the cycle over again If so, I want to be a fly-by-night retailer. Indeed, eBay makes such special retail sales projects...
You can put anything you want to in your auction ad. There's no limitation. Naturally, you will want to describe the item you offer for auction. But you can also advertise your business (in effect), include a picture of the item for sale, and even include a link to your About Me webpage on eBay, which can include a link to your ecommerce website. Chapter 12 will show you how to use HTML templates for attractive ads without having to learn HTML.
EBay Plus
Today, however, there is another transformation going on. eBay is becoming the cornerstone of ecommerce. Rather than just another market locale in a vast metropolis of online commerce, eBay has become the gateway to consumer ecommerce itself. Probably 70 percent of the retail online consumer commerce is initiated on either eBay, Google, or Froogle. Tomorrow maybe 80 percent. Because you can use the same product data for eBay auctions, eBay Stores, Froogle, and other online marketplaces, I call this new phenomenon the datafeed marketplace.
EBay Stores
In the prior editions of this book I advocated creating an ecommerce website and using it in conjunction with your eBay auctions. I no longer recommend such a strategy. Three factors have changed the First, eBay no longer permits a link from your auction ad to your ecommerce website. Second, eBay now provides you with a storefront (eBay Store) and does your marketing for you. Three, auction management sevices now provide you with a checkout device for your eBay customers, and the eBay checkout is much improved.
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After another thunder storm last night we decided today was the day for some construction work à la Kevin McCloud. And just like Kevin's "Man Made Home", this involved reclaiming some of the timber from the old cabins the previous owner had for geese and duck and converting that timber into a shelter for the chickens in inclement weather.
Before we give the impression that up to now the poor things have been left without any shelter, let me stress that they already have two perfectly sound weather-proof structures, a smaller one divided up as nest boxes and a larger one for roosting.
Despite this they insist on sleeping on the roof of the larger pod even in the rain. And during the day when it is wet, they make a sorry sight!
We have spent most of the day on this shelter on the basis that if a job is worth doing, etc, etc... and by mid afternoon we were ready to let the hens have a nosey around..
What is the one thing likely to entice a hen to overcome it's timidity???
Yes; food did the trick! They were soon in under the shelter and tucking into a dish of cornflake crumbs soaked in water. It would be nice to thing that they have admired our handiwork and that, more importantly, they will use the shelter when the weather isn't good.
However, that remains to be seen. Girls will be girls! And for once it is the Sussex who seems to have taken charge of the shelter...
Let's hope she remembers this place when the rain next starts to fall!

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A few days ago, Ross Baechle, who's involved in "Marketing / Athlete Services" e-mailed me to spread the word about Dusty & Crusty, a Cheese and Barley Wine Pairing being held at Rogue Ale house November 16. I'm afraid he didn't respond to my question about how "Athlete Services" fits into Rogue's plans, so this may forever remain a mystery. But you can never go wrong with beer and cheese, and the event looks pretty yummy.
Hosted by Sheana Davis of the Epicurean Connection, 7 years of Rogue Old Crustacean Barleywine will be paired with artisan cheeses from Delice de la Vallee, Rogue Creamery, Widmer Cellars, Carr Valley Cheese Company, Bohemian Creamery and Mato St. George.
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Situated at the edge of New Orleans' French Quarter, WWL-TV's campus is comprised of a cluster of historic residences, warehouse buildings, and a highly unique, mid-century modern structure facing Rampart Street.
Serving the studio broadcast and administrative operations for the TV station, the Rampart Street building had long been outdated. The client initially considered building a new facility and relocating its operations outside of the French Quarter before exploring the possible benefits of a complete renovation of the studio. When the latter proved more cost-effective, EskewDumezRipple was hired to design and implement a substantial interior renovation that would not only modernize the building but generate a new appreciation for one of the few modernist structures contained within the historic French Quarter.
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In a recent article in the New York Post, author John Podhoretz posed an interesting hypothesis. His hypothesis is the Democrats' best hope for 2020 might be Oprah. In the age of the celebrity politician, Podhoretz might be on to something. Oprah is a trusted household name and adored by millions; especially women that have been loyal Oprah customers for years.
Now, I'm no fan of Oprah. Obviously, I'm not her demographic. But there is one thing that I do know, is that I grew up watching Oprah because my stay-at-home mother watched Oprah every day. Many people my age and younger grew up watching Oprah. This multi-generation appeal that Oprah has could, if she decides to run, be a deadly combination for President Trump.
I believe that if Oprah does run she will be the Democratic nominee, and she will have an excellent chance to win. The reason she could win is not based upon her popularity but her message.
Democrats' best hope for 2020: Oprah | New York Post
If any figure in the United States bears watching over the next couple of years as our political culture continues the radical transformation that led to the election of Donald Trump, it's Oprah. I believe she's uniquely positioned, should she wish to commit herself, to seek the Democratic nomination for president and challenge Trump in 2020.
Oprah just teased a run for president in 2020 — again – The Washington Post
On Thursday night, Winfrey on her Twitter account promoted a column from the New York Post's John Podhoretz that called her the Democrats' best hope for 2020.
"Thanks for your VOTE of confidence!" she told Podhoretz, whose column effusively praised her performance while interviewing Michigan voters on "60 Minutes" last weekend.
Is Oprah Running for President in 2020? Media Mogul Prompts Speculation She'll Take on Trump
"And that's where Oprah Winfrey comes in. She is the mirror image of Trump, but more so. Of course, she's female and he's male; she's America's generous aunt and he's America's crazy uncle."
Podhoretz rightly pointed out:
"in 1993 she dropped the bleak stuff and turned her show into a parade of the positive, with happy celebrity interactions and relentless guidance toward self-actualization ("be your best self").
You see, this is key to her possible political success. Her "be your best self" message is a successful message. So successful that some of the largest churches and most famous pastors today are spreading this exact message. Take, for example, Joel Osteen and his bestselling book, "Your Best Life Now." He has sold millions of copies of this book, including having written six other New York Times Best Sellers. He is seen by over seven million viewers weekly in over 100 counties as well as a 24 hour a day Sirius XM Satellite Radio channel.
Be like Trump
Oprah's message and that of so-called Christian pastors like Joel Osteen have influenced millions of people. People don't want the actual biblical message of suffering for righteousness sake. Putting the needs of others above themselves. They want to live their best life now and be their best self. They want to be like Donald Trump.
Donald Trump is the male version of Oprah. He's a billionaire, lives the good life, has buildings with his name on them, and marries the most beautiful women in the world. He is a man's man. His message of Make America Great Again is part of his shtick. The "You're Fired" act of being strong and powerful makes you want to believe in him. He makes you feel like you could be just like him. If only he were president he would make your life, your best life now. He did it for himself, why couldn't he do it for you and America?
Hope and Change
People are desperate for hope and change. People believed Obama could deliver on that message. When he couldn't deliver after eight years, people want a new hope and change. They went with Donald Trump. People long for true hope and stability and are so eager to have it they will lie to themselves and convince themselves that the next inspirational leader that comes along will be the Messiah they have been hoping for.
I don't know what 2020 has in store. What I do know is that Oprah and her message has and is resonating with millions of Americans and she could be the next celebrity politician to deceive the American people. We shall see.


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Fight for pride restoration is a new task for Tanzanian envoys in CAF Confederation Cup, Young Africans after a 1-3 defeat to Medeama in Secondi-Takoradi, Ghana on Tuesday.
With only one point from four games, Yanga are almost out of the running for the last four in their Group A pool. Yanga head coach, Hans Van der Pluijm said he expected his team to post better results in their remaining two games to restore the team's pride.
However, the Dutchman admitted they faced tough opponents in Ghana in the match. "It was a difficult match looking at the way we started and conceded that early goal. But we managed to get the team together to play like we planned, that is why even after we conceded the second goal, we did not defend but fought to get a goal," he said in the post match meeting.
The head coach also rued wasted chances, especially in the second half. "I believe that we could have got something out of this game especially in the second half when we played better and created more chances.
The Dutch tactician conceded the defeat but was quick to say that not all was lost for his charges. "It is not a lost cause for my team because the players have gained some experience and we believe that the remaining two matches will be much positive," he concluded.
The team's midfielder Haruna Niyonzima, admitted to have lost to the team that was psychologically better prepared, and added their failure to claim three points at the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam some two weeks ago, where they were forced to a 1-1 draw, played part in the away results.
"We lost the game in Tanzania as we failed to beat them in the first leg. This is a competition that most of the teams are stronger at home and we failed to get all the points at home.
We played better, especially in the second half, and I feel we should have scored a second and even gone ahead to pick a point, but that is football and we will go back and prepare for our next game," he said.
But Medeama head coach, Prince Yaw Owusu took the match as his team's turning point. "Like I said before the game, we have our destiny in our own hands if indeed we want to move to the next stage of the competition, and we showed it, right from the blast of the whistle. We got two early goals that unsettled them, but I feel we could have gotten more," he said.
However, he admitted that the second half was very difficult for his team after Yanga regained composure. "The second half was much difficult for my boys because our opponents corrected their mistakes from the first half and managed to hold us in the second," he added.
But Daniel Adjei, Medeama's goalkeeper said they knew before that if Medeama didn't win that match, then the rest would just be formalities. "It was a tough match but we managed to hold on to pick all three points.
This is a competition and for us, all hope is not lost," he said. Yanga, however, earned applause from the Ghanaian fans for their display. The staring defeat did not stop them to show that at least they were domestic league champions in Tanzania.
Abbas Mohammed bagged a brace as Medeama overcame the Tanzanian envoys 3-1 in a Group A clash played on a cutup pitch in Sekondi. Daniel Amoah also scored for the Ghanaians, whose winning margin would have been wider had Malik Akowuah not had an early penalty kick blocked by goalkeeper, Deogratius Munishi.
Simon Msuva converted a penalty for Yanga, who are virtually out of running in the second-tier competition with just one point from four matches. Medeama stayed third, behind Mouloudia Bejaia on goal difference.
They both have five points but the Algerian side was due to face Congolese side TP Mazembe in Lubumbashi yesterday.
Source: Tanzania Daily News


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Posted by: Jobbing Doctor12 March 2013
Looking at my work patterns over the last few years, it is becoming clear that the model of general practice as we have experienced it since the inception of the NHS is changing irreparably.
There are some commentators who believe that a GP is an obsolete role. How can one doctor know what there is to know about all the various medical subspecialties and all the diagnoses? In an era of empowerment of patients, if the patients has a heart problem for example they should be managed by a cardiologist, or if the patients has diabetes they should see a diabetologist. I can see some validity in this argument, as I cannot hope to know as much about cardiology and diabetes as the aforementioned specialists.
But over the last few years I have seen a salami-slicing of tasks that we used to be responsible for - maternity care has been taken away from general practitioners and handed to midwives, management of breast disease has been moved to breast clinics, and we now have MS nurses, Parkinson's nurses, heart failure nurses and the rest.
Some of my patients now have a multiplicity of people providing medical attention. Advice is clearly contradictory at times and the patients face an endless streams of appointments with a series of different people whose skills vary in both quality and ability. Each one focuses on their own microcosm of activity, and rarely contributes anything of much use to the patient's health.
Complex elderly patients now spend much of their time being ferried around from department to department, with minor changes in therapy recommended as that is what they do. Many clinicians spend time in their departments arranging investigations that have little or no value, and merely is inconvenient to patients.
Much in hospital follow-up care is ill-thought-through and can sometimes cause more problems than it is worth. Follow-up is often pointless, sometimes counter-productive. So could we GPs do it better? There's the rub, as Hamlet said. Can a generalist look after complex cases better than a collection of specialists?
The specialists will have greater knowledge of a smaller area, and more experience in terms of caseload. They will also have specific skills (procedures, and so on) which I cannot offer. They have colleagues that can cover other areas in the patient's care. So on the face of it, there is little role for the GP in 21st century medicine.
And yet, I see my role as changed and unchanging.
The 'changed' bit is medical progress is and can do. The 'unchanging' bit is when I sit down with my patient, take a history and do a clinical examination. That bit is just as difficult and rewarding as it always has been.
Other roles continue. The advocacy role, for instance, is important, and so is your role as co-ordinator. I will sometimes directly disagree with colleagues when managing cases - either recommending that certain procedures are, in my view, not needed or futile. That is another vital part of my job.
The modern GP is like a orchestra conductor - all the specialists have their roles but who directs it all? This is the role I feel that I play.
So yes: I believe there is still a place for us.
The Jobbing Doctor is a GP in a deprived urban area of England. You can follow him on Twitter @jobbingdoctor.
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It came to an end immediately after GPs agreed to a change of contract that allowed HMG to change it at will.
Good stuff. In the old days hospital care did not offer the level of service of today. GP was crucial deliverer and 'gatekeeper of care'. The era of specialism has changed that but look at US and Affordable Care Act debate. The cycle is changing - they and we cannot afford unfocussed specialist services which is not 'managed' by GPs. GP contract lost sight of that.
So many of my patients refuse to go anywhere near secondary care that I am quite sure that my job is safe for the next few years.
General surgeons died about a decade ago. One of my old boss was the last of the breed. Old fashioned he was, and difficult to work with at times. But when it came to complicated matters which required a bit more knowledge outside of his speciality to make sense of the management, he was second to none.
I fear we will go down the same route. Yet when we are gone, NHS will miss us. Our clinical skills and knowledge may not be missed but the combination of our broad general understanding of medicine and our community will be missed.
I write this having written yet another letter to the cardiologists and nephrologists to stop fighting over the furosemide and agree on a sensible dose, rather than yo-yoing my patient between heart failure and renal failure
I could not agree more with all of your experiences and conclusions. We GPs are what I call the Consultants of Common Sense. I feel that many of our hospital colleagues are over- specialised and have lost the ability to look beyond their ever narrowing field of specialisation.
I cannot count the number of elderly patients with hypotension, bradycardia and renal failure due to ' NICE guideline' treatment provides by our Heart Failure Team I've seen.
I feel that in particular the Elderly are served poorly by the increasing fragmentation of services and unsurprisingly it is only us who see the physical and psychological fallout from this in our surgeries.
However I cannot see the NHS being able to survive financially without General Practice, but we might struggle to attract enough young doctors into our profession giving the 'box ticking' , QOF chasing machines we have turned into since introduction of the current contract.
Will the NHS miss GPs? Probably only once it has gone.
Will patients miss GPs? Definitely the ones that need us most and they are the ones that keep me going (just).
The real question in the near future might be though - ARE THERE ANY GPs LEFT.
How are patients to know whether or not they need to see a surgeon, heart specialist, etc and how would they access them anyway without a GP to filter, assess and reassure? GP's are the accessible and acceptable face of the medical establishment.
I dont think the role of the GP will disappear, as in dealing with what is essentially an initial assesment and a decion to treat or refer.
I do think that how this is done will change.
I agree, the patients are treated in piecemeal, not as a whole person by the specialist, and it some time many investigations are duplicated. Its only the us GP who give some care to patient as a person, not an organ.I feel general practice will stay some form or other


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Stone house set in the COUNTRYSIDE dating from the 18th Century in a privileged environment and OPEN RURAL VIEWS including:
Ground floor: a dining room with fireplace, a spacious living room, kitchen, shower room with wc
1st floor: 20 m2 bedroom and convertible attic offering a nice view over the valley.
Sanitation with control OK
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The whole on 826 m2.
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Surface habitable : 82 m2
Living area: 26 m2
Land: 826 m2
Foncieres tax: 348 Euros a year
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My name is luuk schuilwerve, 21 years old.
I'm a amateur adventurer, a real nature lover and adrenaline junkie from the netherlands.
this summer i want to travel by bike from the Netherlands all the way to the Vosges mountains in France. I wanna go very low budget with wildcamping and eating cheap food. My plans are to go hiking, climbing and cycling. I wanna sleep under the stars for months. Its gonna be one week of cycling to reach the Voges so im gonna set up camp for a day in the Ardennes forest as well.
When i reached the Vosges mountains, I'M gonna hide my bike and travel further by feet.
For the next few weeks I will hike across the mountains and climb the 1200m highest summit: the Grand Ballon.
After 2 or 3 weeks I might cycle further to the Alps but i'm tot sure yet.
Places where I will be:
the Netherlands - Maastricht
Belgium. -Luik, Ciney, Dinant, Croix Scaille
-Givet, Revin, Charleville-Méziéres,
Sedan, mouzon, Verdun, Metz, Nancy, Lunéville, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, Épinal, Grand Ballon.
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By Kevin Koczwara
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Revolution barely had a chance to get warmed up before S.L. Benfica opened up the score sheet en route to a decisive 4-0 win for the Portuguese Champions. Benfica took control of the game from the first minute of play and never let the Revolution feel comfortable or get into a rhythm.
Benfica started the scoring in the 15th minute when Filipe Menezes took advantage of a Revolution turnover in their own end. He dribbled into the box, unmarked, and slotted his shot past Revs goalkeeper, Preston Burpo, into the bottom right corner of the net. Benfica's off the ball movement opened a hole in the defense for Menezes, Revolution defenders were forced away from the ball by Benfica players making positive runs into and through the box, opening a slot for Menezes to slot into and shoot from.
Benfica's ability to move with and without the ball created options, opened up passing lanes and dribbling lanes.
"They're not necessarily quicker, [but] there are more options, more guys moving off the ball," said Revolution midfielder Nico Colaluca of Benfica's ability to hold onto possession and create scoring chances. "There are two or three options every time, they are moving faster and that makes their game easier."
The Revolution were barely even able to regroup before Benfica struck again. The Portuguese club executed a short-corner to perfection. Defender Cesar Peixoto opened himself up on the edge of the 18-yard box, received the pass and then sent a stinging cross into the box that Benfica defender, Sidnei headed into towards the back post in the 18th minute. Sidnei's goal doubled the Portuguese club's lead, but they weren't done yet.
Benfica scored from a set-piece in the 32nd minute after a poor foul by New England just outside their own box. Peixoto stood over the kick and drove it low and hard into the slick turf of Gillette, hoping for a deflection or a funny bounce, and he got the latter as the ball skipped past Burpo and into the net, putting Benfica up, 3-0.
Benfica threatened the Revolution net time and time again. Benfica's suffocating play forced plenty of Revolution mistakes, and New England payed the price.
The Revolution had only one shot on goal, and it came in the first half from trialist Jean-Baptiste Fritzon from a distance out. Fritzon's shot never troubled Julio Cesar, Benfica's goalkeeper. Cesar wouldn't see any other shots for the 90 minute period as Benfica directed play.
As expected, the Revolution made some major changes at half-time. Nico Colaluca, Kenny Mansally, Zak Boggs, Joseph Niouky, and goalkeeper Bobby Shuttleworth all entered the game for the Revs at the start of the second half along with trial player Jason Griffiths.All of the half-time chanegs forced New England to put some players into new positions. The defensive backline did not have a single true defender in it for the start of the second half. It consisted of Khano Smith and Chris Tierney, who started the game in the midfield, Niouky, a midfielder by trade, and rookie forward Zak Boggs.
Benfica didn't miss a beat after the halftime interval, picking up where they left off. They continued to control play and would add another goal in the 53rd minute. Alan Kardec bent a free kick from just outside the Revolution box around New England's wall of players and into the bottom corner of the net. Shuttleworth had no chance to make a save.
A 4-0 defeat isn't anything to be proud of, but the Revolution will have to look at the game and take something positive out of it going into this weekend's league game against Toronto FC. Manager Steve Nicol saw the chance to play a big club from Europe as an opportunity to see how to play the game of soccer well and learn from that experience.
"One of the positive things we should take out of it is that the players should look at them and see what they do well," said Nicol. "It's not all tricks and stuff like that. It's real football [soccer] stuff: it's real nice touch, good passing and good movement. Those three things combined together, it's fantastic."
The Revolution will have to work quickly on those things because again they have a short turnaround between games. New England travels to Toronto on Saturday, still searching for their first win in May.
Kevin Koczwara is a contributing writer and editor for The Soccer Guys. HE can be reached at email@example.com.


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Alexandria and its Library
 Category: Classical Mediterranean and Europe
|Alexander the Great hoped that Alexandria, the city at the mouth of the Nile that he founded and helped plan, would become a center of trade and culture for the Mediterranean basin. Less than fifty years after its founding in 331 BC, the booming metropolis had become a sophisticated hub of commerce, due in large part to its famed Great Library.
Soon after Alexander's unexpectedly early death in 323 BC, his expansive empire dissolved into three major regions. One of his closest friends and ablest generals, Ptolemy, was at the time de facto governor of Egypt. He took control of the reins of that ancient land, eventually becoming pharaoh ( as Ptolemy I Soter) and, thus, continuing the Greek presence in Egypt began by Alexander. It was Ptolemy that intercepted Alexander's funerary procession, bound for Macedonia, and brought his mortal remains to Alexandria for internment. Besides personal glory and luxurious living, however, the early Ptolemaic rulers were, to their credit, also interested in improving the culture of their city and its land. Alexandria, Egypt's new capital, was already the center of commerce for the known world: they wanted it to become the intellectual capital as well. To this end Alexandria's Great Library was conceived and built.
The Great Library was mankinds' first center of scholastic learning and research. The brilliant minds of antiquity here laid the foundations for the systematic study of astronomy, geography, literature, mathematics, medicine, and physics. It was here that Euclid first defined geometry and Eratosthenes accurately measured the circumference of the earth, arguing that India could be reached by sailing westward from Spain. The Ptolemaist devoted much of their time and energy, and a small portion of their wealth, to obtaining copies of every important manuscript know to man. To this end a law was passed proclaiming that every caravan and ship entering Alexandria was to be searched - not for contraband, but for articles of learning. Any map or scroll found was turned in to the library so that scribes could copy it as pictured below.
Thus, Alexandria's scholarly haven eventually cataloged papyri scrolls, including many now-lost masterpieces of art, literature and science, such as classics by Homer, Aristotle, Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides. But all was not letters of learning. The legendary library's ground also boasted botanical gardens and a museum, as well a temple to the nine muses (Greek gods and goddesses of the arts and science). A short stroll along a garden-lined palisade would take one to a zoo no doubt containing many exotic animals Many were the ancient scholars that walked its colonnaded passages.
What led to the Great Library's demise is not completely clear. A good portion of its priceless works was evidently destroyed in a fire that occurred when Julius Caesar torched the ships of Cleopatra VII's brother. By the fourth century AD, as Christianity influence was spreading, most of the remaining manuscripts of the Library were, apparently, destroyed in an effort to stamp out all relics of paganism and heresy. Later, in 640 AD, Arabs that swept through the almost abandoned city probably burned for fuel whatever scrolls had survived. Of the 123 plays of Sophocles that were known to be in the Great Library, only seven remain today.
Even though Alexandria's location was ideal for a commercial port, with lots of coastline and a large natural harbor, its points of egress were rife with dangerous sandbars. It was, therefore, conceived that a tall lighthouse on Pharos Island, near the mouth of the harbor, would not only be of benefit to mariners, but (at least if magnificent enough) would also be a wondrous new attraction to boost Alexandria's renown.
The Pharos Lighthouse, as it came to be known, was partially constructed largely of Proconnesian white marble, much of it imported from Princes' Island off the Coast of present-day Turkey. It was built in three large tiers: the base, or lower tier, was quadrangular: the middle tier was octagonal: the top-most tier was cylindrical. A mammoth spiral stairway leading to the top even allowed pack animals to haul wood to the top to feed the bright fire that burned there. Topping the spectacular structure was (by some accounts) a statue of Poseidon; another account contends it was an image of Zeus - or, perhaps, a statue of both of them.
The construction of Alexandria's Pharos Lighthouse was begun by the first Ptolemy (Auletes), but wasn't finished until 283 BC during the reign of his son, Ptolemy Philadelphus. By all accounts, it was an incredible sight, more than worthy of being one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
This monument's ultimate demise was brought about not by the hand of man, but by a series of earthquakes that rocked the region. Its top-most tier tumbled down during a severe quake in 303 AD. However, it was not until a massive trembler, on August 8th, 1303, that most of the remaining structure came down to be swallowed up by the surrounding waters. Today, a fort built by the Mamluk sultan Oait Bey can be seen on Pharos Island, where the wondrous lighthouse once stood.


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If you have a pet dog in Malta there is nothing more natural than the desire to take them swimming with you during the summer to help keep them fit and help cool them off. But it can be incredibly hard to find dog-friendly beaches in Malta. Take your pet to the wrong one and you could be faced with a monetary fine, which is enough to ruin anyone's happy beach day.
Even when you find a dog-friendly beach in Malta, there are some rules and restrictions.
- Keep dogs on a leash
- Clean up after your dog
Officially, you have to keep the dog on a leash whenever they aren't swimming, but really you just need to make sure that your dog is calm and under control. So long as they're sitting with you when you're sunbathing and not running around bothering people then you should be OK. Then I think it goes without saying that you have to clean up after your dog and any dog-friendly beaches will have dog poop bins for disposal so do not forget your poop bags!
Full List of Dog-Friendly Beaches in Malta 2018
North of Malta
- Torri l-Abjad Bay: Mellieħa
- l-Aħrax: Mellieħa
- Imġiebaħ Bay: Selmun *sandy!
South of Malta
- Zonqor Point Marsascala
- Il-Maghluq: Marsaxlokk
- Xatt is-Sajjieda: Marsaxlokk
Central Malta
- Old Chalet: Sliema
- Tigne Point: Sliema
- Rinella Bay: Kalkara *sandy!
- Baħar iċ-Ċagħaq
- Marsalforn
- Triq il-Barrerija
- Mgarr ix-Xini
- Xwejni Bay
Unfortunately, any beach that is not on this list is not a beach you can take your dog to in Malta. Many people do still risk it, so if you're looking for a dog-free beach then I couldn't guarantee you'll find one, and if you're looking to risk it, you won't be the only one, but I'd not recommend it. Apart from the fine you could be issued with, you're likely to get some flack from people looking for a dog free zone and no one wants that confrontation.
Why Can't I Take My Dog To All Beaches in Malta?
I think it's a real shame that there aren't more dog-friendly beaches in Malta and so long as people keep their pets under control and don't become a nuisance to others, I don't see why there should be any restrictions. I think there is nothing cuter than a dog, big or small, diving gleefully into the sea and paddling around. They seem to enjoy it so much and when the day comes where I finally get my own dog, I will be taking them to the beach as soon as they're old enough!
However, I've had a few experiences where dogs were zooming around the place spraying sand and water in everyone's face and even for me, a dog lover, it was incredibly annoying. There is also a big problem with dog shit in Malta, or rather, a big problem with people not cleaning up their dog shit. It's all too common for pet owners to stand by whilst their dog defecates on the street or beach and happily walk on as soon as they are done. It really ruins the area for everyone else and is such a small thing to fix!
Swim With Your Dog in Malta
But if you're a dog owner in Malta who loves to take their pet for a swim, luckily, the list above contains a good number of beaches in Malta you can take your dog to, so you won't be stuck for places to go and wherever you live in Malta, there will be one nearby.


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"Marquez is ruined," said Murad Muhammad, Pacquiao's promoter. "Yes, we want a rematch, but the other guy won't want to get in the ring with Manny Pacquiao again." after Pacquiao-Marquez I in 2004.
"Won't You Come Home Dear Cassius?" Ernie Terrell. The taunts had an undesired effect though. The fight between Ali and Terrell resulted in a uniquely brutal display from Ali. Ali shouted, "What's my name?" between crushing blows to Terrell's increasingly worn face.
"No Mas." Roberto Duran. The Hands of Stone's most notorious outing was covered in Sports Illustrated back in 1980 as such, "If Duran arrived in New Orleans with a reputation as unassailable as Simón Bolívar's—he had a career record of 72-1, after all, including his victory over Leonard last June 20 in Montreal—he left with it somewhere in the neighborhood of Papa Doc's. It was bizarre to witness so swift and devastating a collapse of a man's name. And what a name it was. Here was a man whose whole professional life had been built upon the precepts of Latin American machismo."
The New York Times noted, "Durán's stature in his home country, Panama, took a dramatic dive after the fight. The immediate reaction was shock, followed by anger. Within hours, commercials featuring Durán (in both Panama and the United States) were ordered off the air."
"Superman don't need no seat belt." Muhammad Ali. And yes, neither did he need a…
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The Association of European Journalists – Bulgaria, AEJ, has launched a campaign to grant symbolic press badges to 95 jailed Turkish reporters in time for the planned EU-Turkey summit in Varna on 26 March.
"Our message to politicians is clear: journalists are not terrorists and cannot be treated as such because of their work. Even if you put critical reporters behind bars, you won't stop hearing them – others will speak with their voice," it said.
"They should have been there to do their job – asking politicians questions and keeping them responsible for the duties they have before society," the AEJ added, showcasing the badges to reporters in their Sofia office.
The organization said all of their colleagues under arrest for their work in Turkey should be released immediately.
In addition, they say the European Union ought not stay silent on the matter and should put the question of the jailed reporters on the agenda at Varna.
Turkey has become the country with the most jailed journalists in the world, ahead of authoritarian China and Egypt, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
According to different organizations, there are between 135 and 245 arrested and jailed reporters in Turkey.
AEJ – Bulgaria clarified that it had made press badges for the 95 reporters who are listed in four lists compiled by the Swedish-based Stockholm Center for Freedom, the Turkish Platform for Solidarity with the Journalists in Custody, the Union of Turkish Journalists and the Association of Progressive Journalists.
Since the failed coup d'état of July 2016, the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan has cracked down on media freedom, accusing reporters of espionage and of other activities that undermine the national security of Turkey.
On 16 February, a Turkish court sentenced six people, including the columnist and author of a book describing the Armenian genocide, Ahmet Altan, to life in prison for sending "subliminal messages" over the media, encouraging the coup planners.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights published a report on Tuesday condemning the emergency decrees introduced in post-coup Turkey.
The report says they "foster impunity and lack accountability" and notes "continued allegations… confirming patterns of human rights violations" in Turkey between July 2015 and March 2017.
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Welcome to 1709 Broderick Street in San Francisco, CA
Rare opportunity to own an 1883 Charles Hinkel Lewis home that has been impeccably renovated to please even the most discerning tastes, with a touch of iconic flair. This Richard Landry designed home is sleek with soaring ceilings, skylights and a masterful floor plan that allows for exceptional light and movement throughout. Sophistication and luxury combine to give you an ethereal residence that offers comfort, class and opulent finishes.
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A bold kitchen strikes a pose against a backdrop of gracious open living spaces.
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- Guest bath with dual sinks and stunning marble complete this level.
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I was walking along the bay in San Francisco last weekend when I came across a small bookstore. The first book to catch my eye was a collection of poetry by Nikki Giovanni. I remembered that my friend photographer Josh Armstrong had taken her portrait not too long ago, but I had never really read her work until that day by the bay. Her words truly resonated with me.
I'd like to share one of her poems, titled Habits :
i haven't written a poem in so long
i may have forgotten how
unless writing a poem
is like riding a bike
or swimming upstream
or loving you
it may be a habit that once aquired
is never lost
but you say i'm foolish
of course you love me
but being loved of course
is not the same as being loved because
or being loved despite
or being loved
if you love me why
do i feel so lonely
and why do i always wake up alone
and why am i practicing
not having you to love
i never loved you that way


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