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Call it a bad case of senioritis.
Close to 100 seniors who frequent the Narrows Senior Center at the recently sold Angel Guardian home in Dyker Heights need to find a new community by next month because the Sisters of Mercy are kicking the center out earlier than expected, according to some of the center's loyal seniors, who are heartbroken and furious that the Sisters cut its lease short after they sold the storied property to a mystery developer.
One crestfallen Bath Beach resident said she's in disbelief that the Sisters will cut the center's close community ties by forcing the seniors out, and that she wishes the historic property wouldn't be bulldozed away.
"It's like a family. I've never been to a center as warm as this," said Rosemary DeCillis. "You don't know how upset I am that this is all going to be broken down. That property means a lot to me. We were all almost crying when we found out that we had to close."
The lease for the Narrows Senior Center, which is operated by the Catholic Charities Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens — one of the failed bidders for the property — isn't up until this June, but the Sisters issued the center written notice on Dec. 4 that it had to vacate the property within 60 days — by Feb. 2 — according to Catholic Charities spokeswoman Lucy Garrido-Mota,
The lease contains a clause allowing the Sisters terminate it at any time, provided they gave 60 days notice, said Garrido-Mota, adding that Catholic Charities is seeking an extension on the move-out date, which she said the nuns were considering.
One senior who lives across the street from the historic home said that those who frequent the Narrows are particularly close, and face an uncertain future if they are literally tossed out in the cold next month.
"They're all like family, I would say. We're all very close, we all care about each other. I call out the bingo, we have meetings, we talk about what's going on in the world today, they have painting, all kinds of things. It's very sad that this is going to break up," said Pauline Castagna. "We don't know where we're going to go, we don't know the next step."
There are other senior centers in the area — including the ones at Bensonhurst and Fort Hamilton and three in Borough Park — but one Narrows stalwart said she's not interested in finding a new center.
"It's cozy — I feel like it's my home," said Bensonhurst resident Stella Varriale, who has gone to the Narrows center every day for more than two years. "I tried other places, but not for very long."
In addition to a remarkably close community, the Narrows center provides many practical amenities to local seniors. The center has two vans to take seniors on day trips and outings, Garrido-Mota said, and volunteers use the center's kitchen to cater meals for the Catholic Charities Lodge Senior Center on 18th Avenue in Bensonhurst, between 77th and 78th streets.
The center is currently hoping to relocate to the nearby St. Philips Episcopal Church, at 80th Street and 11th Avenue, and is working with the city Department for the Aging — which funds it — to ensure the relocation can happen by the kick-out date, Garrido-Mota said.
But the seniors who have come to see the Narrows center as their second home are even more worried that the Sisters have sold the sprawling property to a heartless developer who will tear down the buildings — along with all the memories inside — to put in luxury condos. DeCillis said she believes the Sisters and the buyer are only concerned with maximizing the property's monetary value.
"I don't feel that the building in the front, which I've known for all my life, should be broken down," DeCillis said. "I think they're going to build the most expensive place that they possibly could, and I think they're going to make a very big profit on other peoples' misery. Nothing matters — money is the object."
Varriale agreed that it looks like the Sisters and the new developer have chosen to serve mammon, come what may.
"To lose [the center], it's gonna hurt me, it's gonna hurt others. And I'm not very happy about that," Varriale said. "It's sad. I guess they want their money."
The Sisters of Mercy did not respond to a request for comment.
There had been loud calls from the community for the Sisters to sell to a developer promising to create much-needed affordable senior housing but the pleas fell on deaf ears.
"There were other bidders that would've done the right thing for the community. They would've put senior housing, kept the green space," said Castagna.
In fact, one of those bidders was Catholic Charities, the group that operates the Narrows Senior Center.
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RSI Signals
The Bollinger bands indicator is one of the few indicators that represent both the volatility and the price trend of the analysed security. As a result, Bollinger bands eliminate the need for other indicators, such as trend indicators.
The best way to practice the Bollinger bands strategy is to start with a demo account.
Volatility and trend are two main components used to trade effectively. While there is money to be made within ranging markets or sideways markets, traders can expect big returns during a strong trend.
Volatility is just a measure of the trend's speed. When volatility picks up, you can expect to see a trend following later. As a result, the Bollinger bands can signal volatility followed by a trend formed in price.
Another widely used oscillator is the RSI (relative strength index) indicator, which moves within fixed values and depicts overbought and oversold conditions. While this indicator is typically used within ranging markets, it is also effective during trends.
When the markets are oversold or overbought during a bearish or a bullish trend, respectively, we can anticipate a correction to the price. While the RSI does not signal a trend change, at the very least, the RSI oscillator can signal when price is likely to change direction.
Trading strategy using Bollinger bands and RSI
The main principle of combining Bollinger bands and the RSI indicator is to pick turning points in price. "Turning points" does not mean anticipating trend changes but merely trading both the correction in price trends as well as trend continuations.
The best way to understand it, is to know how the Bollinger bands work as this is the indicator that does most of the work when trading based on this strategy.
The Bollinger bands come with a default setting of 20 and 2. The 20 value is the look back period of the simple moving average. The value of 2 refers to the two standard deviations from the 20-period moving average.
Thus, when price is volatile, you can expect the upper or lower bands to be breached, especially when volatility picks up. You can typically see price breaching the upper or the lower bands.
As we know, volatility precedes trends. Therefore, we simply look for volatility to start expanding near the tops or at bottoms. Prior to this expansion, we can see volatility dropping. This results in the Bollinger bands contracting. Thus, we know the two main components to watch out for on the Bollinger bands.
Look for volatility to contract after a strong rally or a decline, and then look for the Bollinger bands to widen near the top or the bottom.
Bollinger Bands + RSI strategy rules
The trading rules are very simple and should be obvious by now. First, add the Bollinger bands with the standard settings of 20, 2 on the price chart. Then, add a 14 period RSI, which is the standard setting for the oscillator as well. Once you have both these indicators applied to the chart, look for potential trading opportunities when the following rules are met.
Long position
For long positions, first look at the chart and identify a price that has fallen sharply. Then, wait until price enters into a sideways trend. Sometimes, price can consolidate into the range for a long period of time. Therefore, patience is an essential aspect for this strategy.
Once the range has been established at the bottom, look for the RSI indicator to post a divergence. A divergence at the low, or bottom, of a trend is when price makes a new low but the RSI indicator posts a higher low. This is also known as the bullish divergence.
At this point, the Bollinger bands should contract, representing the sideways range. Then, simply plot the range high and wait for the price to breakout from it. With the bullish divergence identified on the RSI indicator, take long positions with stops at the previous low.
Take profit can be set at 1:2 at the very least, and after the price moves 50% toward the target, move your stop losses to breakeven or even a few pips higher from your entry price level.
The above chart shows the price declined and then entered into a range. Within this sideways range, we then identified the bullish divergence formed by the RSI. After this signal was formed, we waited for the price to breakout from the range high.
Stops were set at the range low, and then the target was set to 1:2. When price rallied to 50% of the objective, we moved the stops to break even. This resulted in no risk being left on the table. Eventually, the price reached the 1:2 target level.
Short position
The trading rules for the short position are the opposite of the long positions. In this case, we first look for a bullish trend. Following this, near the top of the rally, we look for consolidation.
When the price enters into the sideways range near the top, we look to the RSI indicator to signal a bearish divergence. The bearish divergence on the RSI is where price makes a new high but the RSI makes a lower high. This discrepancy in the RSI signals prices could be ready to correct the trend.
At the same time, we look to the Bollinger bands. Here, the bands need to start contracting and thus representing slower volatility. We then plot the high and low of the range formed near the top. Short positions are taken near the lower end of the range with stops at the upper range.
The risk reward set up will be 1:2, and as with the example in the long position, you can cover your stop losses to break even when the price reaches 50% of the target level.
The above short position example shows how price initially rose steadily. After this rally in price, we noticed volatility was relatively weaker as the bands briefly contracted. At the same time, price made a higher high but the RSI posted a lower high.
This bearish divergence signal within the ranging markets gives us the indication to go short on a break down below the lower end of the range. Based on the stops and the entry level, we then set the target and the 50% level as well.
Note that, in the above example, we did not set the stop loss to the extreme high. There is some subjectivity involved as we chose the more reasonable high that was formed because, when the range is too wide, you can expect the trade to become riskier.
However, with enough practice, you will soon be able to pick the right high and low range. We can then see that price eventually declines and reaches our 1:2 target level.
Comments by traders
The Bollinger bands and RSI strategy can be used as a simple way to enter a trade right before volatility expands. The simplicity of this trading strategy is that it can be used on time frames of H1 and H4. This makes the strategy easy to follow up, especially for day traders.
Forex traders can combine the information from these two indicators to build a simple yet effective trading strategy. Because both indicators are available on almost all trading platforms, it also makes the system convenient. You can share your strategy in the comments below.

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Eight ounces of clean water. One pinch of salt. One teaspoon of sugar. Mix well. Give it to your child who has diarrhea. Save her life. It doesn't cure diarrhea, but it'll prevent fatal dehydration until the illness passes.
It's not a perfect solution. Not everyone has access to clean water. You need to have a clean container, too, and you need to be able to measure. And it's not the best possible fluid for rehydration; it's merely very good.
But it's cheap and finding the water, the container, the sugar, and the salt is something almost everyone can do. It is something a mother or a father can do at home to heal their child. You don't need a doctor, a hospital, an expert of any kind. Oral rehydration salts will not hurt a healthy child, and they won't make a sick child sicker, even if they don't heal. No one goes broke providing them, or ends up dependent on an expensive foreign-made drug.
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Put the water in the glass first. Add the salt. Stir well. It should be no saltier than tears. Add the sugar. At least a teaspoon; more is okay. Help your little girl drink it.
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Most sites & trails are managed through service contracts.
RSTBC manages most of its sites and trails through service contracts. Some 373 sites and 200 trails are managed and maintained under partnership agreements — on a cost-recovery, non-profit basis — with local recreation groups, forest companies, First Nations, regional districts, private contractors and a range of other parties.
Requests for Proposal (RFP) to manage sites and trails under partnership agreements are often advertised in local newspapers. Interested parties are invited to respond by submitting proposals. After evaluating these bids, RSTBC awards partnership agreements to successful proponents.
Agreement holders are responsible for managing sites and trails to specified standards. RSTBC supervises and monitors them to ensure they carry out the responsibilities defined in their agreements. In addition, RSTBC may be responsible for replacing infrastructure, pumping toilets and removing hazardous trees.
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As a volunteer you can learn new skills & meet new people.
Individual volunteers and service groups are essential in making many outdoor recreation opportunities available to the public. Trails and recreation facilities managed by RSTBC require regular maintenance, and it is largely due to volunteers' hard work that they continue to exist.
As a volunteer you can learn new skills, meet new people and learn more about the Recreation Sites & Trails program. The following handbook provides guidelines for volunteering and may answer many of your questions. It addresses the general responsibilities and objectives of volunteering and will supplement the orientation and training you will receive from your coordinator. Use it as a reference during your volunteer placement and to record additional information as needed.


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Village chief and head of the SSC Mr. Touch Chreang advises students
on crop cultivation at Chongra Primary School in Ratanakiri province.©UNICEF/2017/Lim Sokchanlina
June 2017, Ratnakiri Cambodia: Inspired initiatives such as meals sourced from the school's organic vegetable garden and new sanitation facilities are helping to raise the enrolment rate of indigenous students at a school in north eastern Ratanakiri province.
Touch Chreang – Chongra village chief and head of the School Support Committee (SSC) at Chongra Primary School – said the improvements had been achieved because of proactive intervention activities implemented by the SSC.
The committee has been working hard to improve school conditions and raise awareness about the importance of education within the Tumpuon ethnic community.
"Our SSC is strong and ensures there is a good breakfast for the students so they like coming to school," Mr. Chreang said.
"We put an emphasis on hygiene, school environment and nutrition, so the number of students enrolled significantly increases year by year."
Mr. Chreang has seen a lot of changes in his community since the first school was built in the area in 2005.
"Before 2005, my village had no school because the area was so remote and it wasn't developed. Now it is completely different than before," he said.
Mr. Chreang started his career as a volunteer tutor.
The SSC has eight members made up of representatives of local authorities and teaching staff. It works closely with the community's elderly representatives.
Mr. Chreang said he explains the value of education to parents so they gradually understand and follow his advice to send their children to school.
Before the school year begins, he also reminds villagers through the community loud speaker system to enrol their children.
"Before, the community didn't understand, but now they know the importance of education and they send their children to study at school," he said.
However, obstacles still remain. A lack of transportation, a general poor standard of living and the widespread practice of families migrating to find work are some of the main drivers of school absenteeism and dropout rates.
The SSC said that some students have to travel as far as 10 km to get to school. To address this major inconvenience, the SSC donates bicycles to students resident in remote locations. It also supports students who lack financial resources with study materials.
In addition, the SSC monitors both teacher and student attendance rates and informs the school principal when work performance declines.
The SSC also phones and makes home visits to students who frequently miss school to determine the difficulties they are facing and to offer support and assistance.
"We motivate students who live far away to come to school," said Mr. Chreang.
"I teach them about education and encourage them to enjoy studying and overcome their study obstacles. This is what we are doing."
Mr. Chreang was invited by international development organization Care Cambodia to attend a two-day workshop in Kampot province in early 2016.
This event gave him a valuable opportunity to exchange experiences with other teachers and education officers across the country; to learn how to effectively manage the SSC; and how to work with the community to improve education services within their locality.
The workshop was supported by the Capacity Development Partnership Fund (CDPF) – a multi-donor fund implemented by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS), with support from the European Union (EU), the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) and UNICEF.
Mr. Chreang has applied his new found knowledge to improving the overall learning experience at Chongra Primary School.
New varieties of vegetables have been added to the school garden and these are cooked daily for students' to improve their nutrition – and with an improved diet the students are in a better mental and physical condition to learn.
In addition, the school's standard of hygiene has improved with new toilets and a hand-washing facility, as well as improvements to the school's general environment.
These developments have enhanced the school's reputation, resulting in the increase in student numbers, said Mr. Chreang.
School director Mr. Kun Sambath confirmed that the institution has witnessed its largest ever increase in student enrolment – from 353 students to 403 over the 2015/2016 academic year.
"Mr. Chreang and the SSC play a very important role in promoting students to go to school and raising money from the community and donors to develop the school," Mr. Kun said.
"They encourage the wealthier individuals in the community to make donations for the common good."
In early 2016, Mr. Kun attended a 20-day-training course supported by the CDPF in Kampong Cham province. This event focused mainly on teaching, administrative skills and community communication.
Mr. Kun's capacity to manage the school has now been improved and he has shared his knowledge with colleagues so they can collectively raise teaching standards and improve the school's physical site.
He said: "Now the community understands that they need knowledge. They push their children to pursue study. If the children are uneducated, they are vulnerable to being cheated," he added.
For Mr. Chreang, improved education brings a great sense of pride to his school and the wider community, especially within the Tumpuon indigenous population.
"I do the work because I want the indigenous community to be as well educated as other Khmer citizens. This will bring development and improve our livelihoods," he added.


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This guide covers tax issues for limited companies. For tax issues for self-employment please see: Taxation - Employment Taxation for Expats in Australia.
The Australian Tax Authority is the Australian Tax Office (ATO), their website is here.
For expats, the most common form of business structure in Australia is a proprietary limited company (company). Such a company requires a minimum of one director. Forming a company means that your liabilities are limited to the assets of the company, and any unpaid share capital. The business income is taxed at the corporate tax rate. Another possible choice is a sole proprietorship, however with these your liability extends to your own personal assets, and the business income is taxed at your individual marginal rate; which may be higher than the corporate tax rate.
There are some rules regarding what the company can be called. The rules can be checked out here. All Australian companies must be registered with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). This is done by completing a Form 201 (there are three versions). The forms are available here. Once you have registered, you will receive a certificate of registration, and an eight digit Australian Company Number (ACN). In addition you will also need an Australian Business Number (ABN) in order to be able obtain a Tax File Number (TFN). The TFN allows you to register for GST (if applicable) and the Pay As You Go (PAYG) system. This can all be done online at the same time here.
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The Australian tax year for companies runs from 1 July to 31 June. Companies may apply to the ATO to have a different business year for accounting purposes. Australian resident companies are liable for corporate income tax on their worldwide income and capital gains. Non-resident companies are generally only liable for corporate income tax on their Australian source income and gains.
The corporate tax rate in Australia is 30% for 2013/14.
In Australia, capital gains (after adjustment for inflation) are treated as ordinary income and taxed as such. However capital losses cannot be offset against ordinary income, and vice versa.
Companies must file their Australian corporate income tax returns by 15 December for the previous tax year. Returns may be filed online via the Electronic Lodgement Service (ELS).
Corporate tax is collected under a self-assessment system. Companies are required to calculate and pay their own tax in instalments, generally either quarterly or monthly. The amount they pay is calculated by a formula based on the previous periods. There is also a final balancing tax payment (if applicable), which must be made once the actual amount due is calculated. The final payment must be paid on or before the first day of the sixth month after the end of the relevant tax year. Penalties apply for late payment of tax.
As a director and shareholder of your new company, you might find it useful to understand the difference between franked and unfranked dividends.
Franked dividends are paid out of company income that has already been taxed. It comes to the resident shareholder with a franking credit (the tax already paid by the company) which can be used against personal income tax. Franked dividends are paid to non-residents free of withholding tax. The company can adjust the amount of franking it decides to apply to the dividends.
Unfranked dividends paid to residents are taxable as personal income. Unfranked dividends paid to non-residents are liable to withholding tax of 30%, but if a tax treaty exists with the payee country, this is generally reduced to 15%.
Companies can not only carry losses forward, but they can carry them backwards as well, though only for two years. This can alter the amount of tax payable at the company level.
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Get ready for some fun! The Pet Professional Guild's International Day of Force Free Training and Pet Care is coming right up.
Register for this virtual event, and you can…
- support the only completely force free pet professional organization (registration is $25 and goes directly into PPG's advocacy fund);
- spread the word about force free training; and
- have fun with your animals, all at the same time. You don't even have to leave your own home.
Oh wait! You also need to know that you will:
- get a cool medal for your animal;
- get a competitor's bib and certificate of participation; and
- become eligible for incredible prizes and a certain amount of fame as well. Because it is also a CONTEST.
I'm serious about the prizes. Hundreds of dollars worth of very cool stuff. I'm not even listing them here, since the list seems to grow every day! So it's time to sign up!
Click on the graphic to go straight to register for the event, or read on for some ideas about possible activities.
The Pet Professional Guild is the only professional organization for animal trainers that requires that members pledge not to use aversives in training. That means:
No shock, no pain, no choke, no fear, no physical force, no physical molding, no compulsion based methods are employed to train or care for a pet.
Isn't that how you want your beloved pet to be treated?
What To Do for the Event
The sky is the limit. The guidelines are:
To participate in this event you simply have to take a walk, jog, run, train or spend 30 minutes of force free fun time with your pet, anywhere you want. (Within the two month time period of January 17 – March 15.)
The "training" and "spending 30 minutes of force free fun" pretty much allow for anything you can think up to do with your animal. Public, private, educational, you get to choose, as long as you and your pet have fun together.
Your registration fee will help the Pet Professional Guild (PPG) continue to enable, publicize, and popularize force free training. And it's not just for dogs! Take a look at these pictures from some members of PPG.
Here are some of the many things that people have in the works:
- Leslie is giving a free "Ask the Pet Expert" session at a local pet store, and will passing out information on force free training and the Pet Professional Guild and will have two of her dogs with her.
- Maria has gotten some new toys and enrichment items for her pet rats. She'll let her rats interact for the first time with their new things, and record it for her film on rat enrichment.
- Fern, whose dog has a trick title, has arranged to give an informal demo in front of a pet supply store.
- Jim will take his well socialized green iguana Athena to do a short demonstration for a scout troop. The children will learn about what foods and activities Athena likes, and get to watch her play "climb all over Jim," a favorite game. They'll also be learning respect for animals, as Athena will not be "passed around" or treated as a toy. Athena will also get fresh raspberries, a big treat for her, on the outing.
- Ron, a pet owner who has trained his dog George to settle nicely on a mat, will take George to an outdoor cafe that permits well behaved dogs, where they will both enjoy a mid afternoon snack!
About PPG
Even though the Pet Professional Guild has "professional" in its name, it has many offerings for pet owners too, and a pet owner membership category. Here are comments from several members, both professionals and pet owners, about why they joined and what they get out of the organization.
Nathalie, pet owner: I joined because as just a dog owner it was possible and I was so interested in dog training. Having access to webinars and tons of informations on dogs with differents speakers, being part of the guild FB group of people sharing the same values. Proud also to be associate to force free training, for me it is a way of making a statement about what I believe in. it is also a growing business and i'm sure will offer more and more interesting ressources and support to their members. Voilà! I would like to add that I think PPG is already offering a lot but can see it's growing ( school-formation…) and like the fact that it takes a stand regarding some training that are not force free.
Karen, professional trainer: I joined because some of the other organizations were still not opposed to older methods and though they used to teach against, they seem to have lost their way and focus. I was encouraged to join PPG by Ada Simms and it is nice to be in a place where they do try harder to practice what they preach and did not slip back for reasons unknown.
Debbie, pet owner: I joined PPG because the people on here train using positive methods, are always helpful,and you don't get shot down in flames for asking a question. A good, supportive group.
Patricia, professional trainer: I am a CPDT-KA and a TTouch Practitioner for companion animals. When PPG started its mission aligned with my own! I had to join to support this group. I like the fact that PPG gives evidence based education and educational resources to both trainers and to the public. The communications from PPG are clear about where the organization stands but they are also judgment free. It is a fact – prong collars are harmful. PPG doesn't say 'you are an idiot for using a prong collar' instead they say "these are the reasons why every dog should use a harness. Do you need help training your dog? If so, contact one of our professional trainers." What a nice way to get a message across.
Hope to see your competition photos in the winner's circle!
Photo Credits
Thanks to all you splendid trainers and animal lovers for the great photos.


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Qurban Appeal 2017 Delivered
Qurban Appeal Delivered
Australian Relief Organisation completed its fifth Qurban Appeal in September 2017.
What is Qurban?
Literally meaning sacrifice, qurban refers to an Islamic tradition of sacrificing a livestock animal (including sheep, ram, cow, ox, camel or goat) during the annual Eid al Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice) festive season. To seek God's pleasure and reward, believers distribute the processed meat worldwide and reach out to poor and needy each year.
For believers, this tradition commemorates Prophet Abraham's (pbuh) willingness to sacrifice his son in obedience of a command from God and salvation of Prophet Ishmael (pbuh) with a ram sent from Paradise. This yearly ritual also marks the completion of the Hajj pilgrimage. In a deeper sense, it also symbolises that believers can sacrifice anything in order to worship God, comply with His orders and gain His consent.
Our Qurban Campaigns
Australian Relief Organisation has been running qurban campaigns since 2013.
Carrying out distribution on behalf of our donors, we deliver qurban meat to needy locals across the globe. Thanks to your support, we distributed meat across Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, South Africa, Senegal, Gambia, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia to date.
Delivered in poverty stricken regions, your qurban meat caused great joy and happiness among locals. To witness the distribution process of your qurban meat, our volunteer delegations travelled to remote corners of the world. There, they shared the happiness of thousands as a result of your donations.
For highlights of our previous qurban campaigns, visit
2017 Qurban Campaign
In 2017, the qurban period was between 01-03 September 2017.
Thanks to your generous donations towards our humanitarian relief program, we were able to feed thousands of locals in Philippines and Sri Lanka this year.
In early September, a student delegation from Sirius College Meadow Fair Campus, Melbourne arrived in Sri Lanka to monitor the qurban distribution process to the poor and the needy across the island. During the course of the project, Intercultural Dialogue Foundation of Sri Lanka has provided their assistance as our partner organisation. They also hosted the Year 10 students from Sirius College and coordinated their travelling during their stay in the Country. For highlights of Sirius College delegation, visit here
Visiting Sri Lanka for the occasion, there were also two other volunteer teams from Sydney and Adelaide as well. They were warmly welcomed by locals when distributing thousands of meat bags. For highlights of our Sydney and Adelaide volunteer groups, visit this link
On another location, our volunteers team from Brisbane travelled to Philippines to monitor the distribution process. ICAD Foundation of Philippines was our country partner for the humanitarian program. They also hosted our volunteer team during their stay. For highlights of our Brisbane volunteer group's visit to Philippines, visit here
We thank those who supported this meaningful humanitarian program with their donations. Our special thanks go to all four volunteer teams for their travelling to targeted countries and their engagement in our charitable activities.


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- Bedrooms: 2
- Type: Residential
- Year built: 1938
- High School: McLain
- Grade School: Sequoyah
- Garage Capacity: 1
- Baths Full: 1
- Subdivision: UNIVERSITY PARK
- Number of Living Areas: 1
- Stories: 1
- Last 7 Days: No
- Pool: NONE
- City: TULSA
- Sq Ft Total: 940
- Short Sale: No
- Corporate Owned: No
- Next Open House: No
- Open House Upcoming: None
- Bath Total: 1
- School District: Tulsa
Must see this well-kept bungalow. Newly remodeled 2 bedrooms with 1 car garage. The second bedroom has been converted into a recording studio with a sound booth but can be used as a bedroom as well. Over looking downtown Tulsa. Only 1.3 miles from TU and 6.5 miles from the Gathering place. Close to shopping, dining, and the ballpark. Built in surround sound throughout house.
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Unreal Eats is Healthy Living's original video series, where we go behind calorie counts and health claims to examine what's really in the processed foods that scream loudest in our food environment.
It's cold out and you want a treat. And while that holiday latte seems so tempting and festive -- a small treat, in the scheme of things, really -- you'd be surprised by just how much sugar is in one of these cups. Take, for example the Dunkin' Donuts Peppermint Mocha Latte, which has 73 grams of sugar per large cup. The latte isn't even the most sugary drink we found and yet it has more sugar than eight christmas cookies or two cans of Coke.
The American Heart Association recommends that women eat no more than six teaspoons of added sugar a day and men eat no more than nine. That amounts to 24 grams for women and 36 grams for men for an entire day.
We don't mean to vilify Dunkin' Donuts -- Starbucks, Jamba Juice and Argo Tea, among others -- are just as sugary in their holiday offerings. Brace yourself for the details above.
Video by Amber Genuske, Meredith Melnick & Laura Schocker


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Sunnyvale School District Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP)
The Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) is a critical part of the new Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) for California Schools.
The LCAP must focus on eight areas identified as state priorities:
- Student Achievement
- Student Engagement
- School Climate
- Course Access
- Parental Involvement
- Implementation of Common Core State Standards
- Basic Services
- Other Student Outcomes
Sunnyvale LCAP Goals for 2015-18
As a result of various meetings and conversations with parents, principals, coaches, teacher leaders and district administrators, the Sunnyvale School District arrived at the decision to completely align our LCAP goals with the district leadership goals that are in sync with the eight LCAP priority areas.
The feedback received from our various stakeholder groups was very helpful in not only the development of our goals but were key in determining increased and improved services for our students. We specifically outlined programs and services that were identified as important by our stakeholders in order for our students to be successful.
|Sunnyvale LCAP Goals for 2015-18
|1. Deepen student learning through engaging, standards-aligned instruction using meaningful oral and written communication, and the infusion of technology across all content areas.
|2. Ensure school and classroom environments provide social-emotional well-being.
|3. We will place an increased emphasis on literacy instruction for all students, and specifically for English learners, to further develop student skills in reading, writing, speaking and listening that are the foundation for any creative and purposeful expression in language.
|4. Provide research based professional development in English language Arts, Math and Next Generation Science Standards to focus on the instructional shift, depth of knowledge and differentiated instruction required by the Common Core.
|5. Promote collaboration, transparency and communication with students, parents, staff and the broader community.
|6. Expanded learning opportunities will continue to expand to meet the needs of students at all levels.
|7. Increase and deepen parent and community engagement.


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(Official Newsletter of Donna's Glorious Giveaways)
Hey, peeps!
I am so swamped, yet so excited because my 40th birthday bash is this Fri! However, you can still look out for another DGG edition because I will post it early.
In the meantime, I encourage you to take full advantage of the upcoming Member Rewards competition, relaunching on June 30th.
Remember - every reply, share, forward, retweet, 'like', general message or 'follow' counts towards your tally, so get busy peeps! I'm soooo looking forward to congratulating the winner(s).
So until the next couple of days keep well, stay engaged with DGG and wish me luck as my family and I put the finishing touches on my big birthday celebration.
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A teacher took a pouch of gems and asked, "Class, how heavy do you think this pouch of gems is"? The class was clueless to guess its weight. After a while, the teacher broke the silence, "It actually depends on how long you are holding it."
"If I hold it for a minute, it is bearable."
"If I hold it for an hour, I will start to feel the trembling of my arm."
"If I still hold it for another day, my arm will break!"
"It is the exact same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes."
We love to carry "baggage" don't we? As the days passed, the longer we piggyback this "baggage", irrespective whether we pick up any thing along the way, the heavier it gets, till we are bent over from carrying it. With feeble arms and wobbling knees lugging this "baggage", we will reach a point when we can barely move. Yet, we do not want to let go……
Wouldn't you be doing yourself a disfavour to be incapacitated by such a "baggage"? Your "baggage" can be unforgiveness, bitterness, hurt, memories of the past, anger, even past relationship, and the-whatnots.
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. – Galatians 5:1
"Why not try giving away your "baggage" to Someone who can help you unload and deal with your "baggage"?" Look for Jesus.
"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." (Matthew 11:28-30) I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint." (Jeremiah 31:25)
…… let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. – Hebrews 12:1B-3
It is time to let go, and let God. It is more liberating in doing so.


text: The Blot was excited to learn that Kidrobot was revisiting their previously released The Simpsons vinyl figure, Homer Buddha, from way back in 2012! For this release, KR has teamed up with I Am Retro to release this beautiful Jade Edition Homer Buddha. This 3" figure was inspired by the Simpsons "Goo Goo Gai Pan" episode (Season 16, Episode 12) in which Homer Simpson poses as Buddha to gain entry into an orphanage in China. Each figure includes two removable accessories – a pretzel and a loop of beads – and comes packaged in a full color window box perfect for display. Collectors can purchase this limited edition retailer exclusive now at IAmRetro.com for $19.95.


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The Biggest Benefits Of Dog Training
There are some really big benefits to training your dogs, especially if you don't have a lot of experience handling pets. For starters, your dogs become a lot easier to handle if they have been taught to adhere to a strict structure by you or a professional trainer. You might want to go for the latter, as well, since you want someone with the right expertise to get this done. After all, the wax statues over at Madame Tussaud would not look as good as they do if they were made by amateurs.
If you are still unsure as to whether or not you should have your dogs trained, perhaps reading through a list of benefits of dog training would convince you. For that, go ahead and keep reading.
Happier Relationship
The biggest benefit to having your dog trained would have to be the happier relationship that you end up with. Basically, if your dog is trained, there is less stress, and if there is less stress, you don't yell at your dog as often. There are fewer instances where your patience is tested since your dog already knows how to respond to the things that you want.
For those who have never really owned a dog for a significant amount of time, the novelty might make them believe that it's an easy setup. Without training, however, it can quickly become a nightmare. It's like going to Amsterdam without an I Amsterdam Card.
Healthier Dog
A trained dog is a healthier dog simply because they are less likely to be resistant to commands. If you need to give them supplements, protect them from the environment, or to bring them to the vet, a trained dog will pose less of a problem.
This then makes maintaining their health significantly less of an issue than if you were to handle an untrained dog. In such cases, the difference is almost alarming.
Better Environment
Finally, training your dog simply results in a better environment in raising a pet. There is less chaos, which is good for the overall atmosphere of dog ownership.


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It was a Tuesday afternoon up at my radio station, and the United States' 2-1 loss to Belgium in extra time had just ended, eliminating the American men's soccer team from the 2014 World Cup.
Depressed, I stood there staring at the television, slowly calculating how old I would be the next time I would get to watch a World Cup game, in 2018, when I heard a voice grumble behind me.
"Wondo, man."
I turned around, and it was my co-host, normally a self-proclaimed and proud "non-soccer watcher."
Quizzically, as if I were staring at an alien, I said, "Huh?"
"Wondo, man!" he frustratedly groused. "He missed that goal. If he makes that, we go to the quarterfinals!"
The "goal" my previously soccer-eschewing co-host was referring to was an open-net, possible game-winning opportunity late in regulation that America's Chris Wondolowski skied over the crossbar, and I'm virtually certain my neophyte soccer fan of a co-host was referring to him as "Wondo" because he had no idea how to pronounce "Wondolowski" (nor any idea 30 minutes earlier that "Wondo" even existed).
"Man," he frustratedly grumbled. "Making the quarterfinals would've been awesome...and the game would've been on a Saturday morning; we could've started drinking early!"
God bless America!
Indeed, beer and nationalism are a potent combination, and every four years, a profound love of country, competition and day drinking brings millions of Americans -together under the one-month umbrella of World Cup soccer.
The love is palpable, the numbers are undeniable.
The United States' June 22 opening-round game against Portugal was viewed by 24.7 million people in the United States (18.2 million on ESPN, 6.5 million on Univisión), a total that at the time trailed only the Super Bowl, the AFC and NFC conference title games, and the BCS title game in viewership.
That game was soon surpassed by the 2014 World Cup finals between Germany and Argentina, which drew 26.5 million viewers in the United States.
The World Cup boom is real.
However, as a soccer-watching nation, we've sat on the peak of these quadrennial soccer-interest spikes before, and when the confetti is all swept up and we've figuratively been given "last call," the question always remains the same:
Can America's obvious love for World Cup soccer translate into a mainstream love of MLS soccer?
For all the fits and starts soccer has historically had here in the United States, one thing is certain -- the sport has never been better equipped to compete on the American landscape than it is right now.
Its most potent weapon? An eight-year, $720 million contract that MLS and U.S. Soccer agreed to back in May with networks ESPN, FOX and Univisión that will provide unprecedented financial and scheduling -benefits that American soccer has never before seen.
Rob Stone covered the MLS for nearly two decades with ESPN, and he is now with FOX, and he says the biggest key to this new media rights deal is scheduling consistency.
"One of the biggest problems that the MLS has had is that the start times for the telecasts were different every week. There was no appointment viewing; we made fans work to find us," Stone says. "You absolutely can't do that when you're trying to grow a sport."
The "appointment" Stone refers to is now the crown jewel of the new television contract -- a Sunday evening doubleheader, which will be collaboratively promoted by ESPN and FOX with an early-evening game on ESPN2 followed by a night game on FOX Sports One.
How committed are all the parties -- ESPN, FOX and MLS -- to the success of this weekly destination night of soccer viewing? Stone says the networks have agreed to a level of cooperation never before seen in covering a professional sports league.
"There are a lot of leagues with multiple network partners, but none that have agreed to cross-promote the games the way ESPN and FOX will for the MLS," Stone says. "And I'm talking right down to the transition between games -- you'll have ESPN broadcasters directing viewers to switch directly to the FOX telecast for the second game. It's going to be really cool."
Having worked for both companies, Stone can speak better than anybody else to the -tele-vision landmark this represents, let alone soccer landmark.
"It's a massive level of commitment and -investment and displays a great belief in the -product of American soccer."
The bedrock of any sports league (or entertainment genre, for that matter) is the development of new stars, and certainly continued investment in that area will be another key to the future of MLS.
New, young American blood is needed, and $720 million should come in handy in that area.
Glenn Davis, former professional soccer player and current ESPN and Houston Dynamo broadcaster, says that player development in the United States has to be the foundation.
"The MLS television contract is certainly a lot of money, and I think you'll see teams using it to further invest in player development," Davis says. "The diversity of the league is a good thing, players from many nationalities, but the league always needs to be based on the development of the American player."
Player development is an area in which this country has made rapid strides, but there is much work to be done. The academies that MLS teams have set up to train young players and serve as a feeder system have been a fantastic start. The Houston Dynamo have an extensive list of homegrown talent, including current Dynamo goalkeeper Tyler Deric and forward Bryan Salazar.
Salazar is viewed by many experts as a player who can follow in the footsteps of current and former players like Brian Ching, Stuart Holden, Geoff Cameron and most recently Brad Davis as Houston Dynamo players on our country's national team.
From a business standpoint, MLS soccer continues to grow. A dozen teams are playing in new soccer-specific venues, including the Dynamo's BBVA Compass Stadium in downtown Houston. The league has plans to add at least three more teams in the next three years, taking the total number of teams to 22 overall.
Television ratings on English-speaking stations are up 80 percent year over year, and this is prior to the new television deal and before all its promotional horsepower kicks in.
The league and American soccer as a whole sit on the cusp of a perfect storm -- an era in which advertisers and networks see sports as a lucrative last bastion of live, DVR-proof programming fueled by the immediacy and global reach of social media and the Internet.
"Every four years with the World Cup, there's a bump in interest, but maybe this is the time it really takes hold," Davis acknowledges. "You know, with social media and the sport's popularity in the 18-to-35 crowd."
The numbers back up Davis's contention -- the two most tweeted sporting events in the social media platform's history are the Brazil-Germany World Cup quarterfinal (a 7-1 German rout) with 35.6 million tweets and the German victory over Argentina in the finals with 32.1 million tweets.
Third place? This year's Super Bowl with 24.9 million tweets.
According to Davis, in order to capitalize, soccer just needs to focus on doing soccer, so to speak.
"For so long, with soccer on television, we've been focused on trying to navigate around competing sports. We need to get over competition; there will always be competition," Davis says. "We need to have belief in our product and put forth a quality production." "And we need to 'star build.' It's got to be about the players."
If the American sports landscape were Seinfeld and our mainstream sports were Jerry, Elaine, Kramer and George, then for most Americans, soccer has been kind of their "Newman," the enjoyable character who lives downstairs, who livens things up every so often.
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Online Marketing For Small Business – Organic Search Engine Optimisation Versus Pay-Per Click
The main internet marketing methods that you will encounter are Organicsearch engine optimisation and pay-per-click advertising such as Google Adwords when you are first deciding on online marketing in order to build up your business on the internet.
Organic search engine optimisation and Pay pr click advertising Web Design St Albans would be the two main types of online marketing. Both these types of online marketing are geared toward getting highly targeted people to your web site by making your site rank on search engine results for the key words which you are targeting.
Ideally a business has to utilise both in order to get the most exposure because of their business online. Nonetheless budget and price factors often result in a business having to produce a choice between the two.
The search results that appear in the main center section of the search results are referred to by organic search engine optimisation. Position within organic search engine results can't be bought and position is due to organic non-biased steps taken over an amount of time. It really is dependent on the total popularity of your internet site on the internet in general among other on site factors. Organic listings would be when we search for something, the results that appear in the main section of an internet search engine including Google. Pay-per-click advertisements on the other hand identifies sponsored results that show up on the right of the search results page and never in primary middle section of the page or the paid listing.
Pay-per-click outcome is paid for and results are almost immediate to achieve. Nonetheless there are many drawbacks. The recent years have seen an exponential rise in competition and a steep rise in pay per click costs. Click fraud is just another growing concern where an advertiser could possibly be billed for clicks that aren't by actual customers.
Rising cost of pay per click. As competition is improving pay per click campaigns are becoming more and expensive day by day. It's common now a days to be pay as much as £1 or £2 per click like Google ad words for an op 5 position in pay per click campaigns.
In pay per click the results cease almost immediately at the conclusion of the campaign whereas in organic listings the ranking remains.
1) Many surveys and search engine marketing studies have pointed than users are more inclined to click on organic search results that show up on the main section of the page instead of the paid listings that appear as advertising on the right.
Organic listings are non-biased and can't be bought. As such users trust the results more than the paid listings that really are a result of paid advertising. The conversion rate for organic listings is significantly higher than.
Pay-per-click advertisements also offers its edges and is a much quicker method to get results. This is helpful to advertise events along with other marketing campaigns that cannot be planned months ahead of time.
In the long term investing an organic search engine optimisationis advantageous. It supplies a high return on investment and has lower costs. It's more long-term once a favourable position continues to be achieved. When the payment has quit in pay per click the results will cease immediately and also the campaign comes to a finish. Organic search engine optimisation (SEO) campaign also offers a wider coverage and creates maximum exposure for your own business.
Any organic campaign as a way to achieve first page rank in Google will concentrate on a variety of techniques not only submission to search engines like google, e.g. directory entries, press releases, article marketing and social media marketing. All this is important in order to generate quality back links to your internet website and will most definitely be covered in any organic search engine campaign that's run on behalf of your web site.
Organic search engine optimisation has a much wider coverage and is consequently a better rounded approach to marketing that is internet. It'll be an exceptionally useful advertising investment for any business although the result may not be seen by you inside the very first couple of months. The advantages of an organic search engine optimisation far outweigh any risks involved with investing organic search engine optimisation campaign.
Review of Digital Dashboards
Summary of Digital Dashboards
Digital dashboards are not only being included included in standard gear they can also be installed on older cars by proficient auto-electricians. The digital dashboard is a cost effective method of performing many crucial tasks in one centralized place instead of having several memory chips and locations inside a vehicle that should be repaired if something isn't operating correctly.
The dashboard stores memory on a Electronically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory Chip (EEPROM). This memory could be erased in many manners and has to take their automobile to your professional who has the appropriate equipment and expertise to correct the problem, when this occurs one.
There can be a noise in the electrical transmissions to the memory of the EEPROM, in case the vehicle is in a collision. When this occurs the digital dashboards can go totally clean or reveal info that is wrong. All of the information contained in the chip has been erased, when they're fully blank. When information that was erroneous is showing the processor has been damaged and the info was corrupted.
Another way the digital dashboard is damaged is through acts of vandalism. When someone tries to break into a vehicle and steal a stereo or some equipment that's made to the dash the chip could be destroyed. While one may not take note of an attempted break in Auto Electricians the digital dashboard WOn't operate properly and a visit to some professional must be made.
Replacing the speedo or instrument cluster on digital dashboards may also cause serious injury to the memory chip. Any imbalance of the electric current to the digital dashboard can cause it to lose or corrupt the memory of the processor.
Continuous and smooth electrical current is vital to the dash.
A digital dashboard contains a multitude of info and data that is essential in both keeping the car running and identifying the vehicle if it's stolen.
The VIN or chassis number of the car is saved in the memory of the dashboard along with other important information that identifies the vehicle. If your vehicle is stolen while this advice is not observable to the driver of the car the cops have crucial gear to recover the info in the digital dashboard.
Digital dashboards have several mechanisms which alert drivers to conditions that they need to be aware of. In case the car is running low on petrol a warning indicator light will come on. Another indicator light flashes when regular care is needed by the vehicle. This light will flash intermittently and then, if left unattended, luminescence steadily until it is reset by a specialist tech.
An indicator light will also alert the driver when the vehicle's battery is running low or they have temperature issues that really must be addressed in their radiator.
Digital dashboards indicate the speed of a vehicle using an LCD screen and a needle. On some versions this display reveals on the windscreen of the automobile in order that a driver can inform with looking down in the dashboard, the speed they are going. So an individual knows how much they need to drive to reach a destination, it will reveal trip distances. The trip meter can also be an excellent advantage as they can keep track of their mileage and petrol use much easier for people who must drive for their job.
The digital dashboard also keeps the reading on the odometer. When an electric malfunction happens this reading selling a car using a faulty odometer reading and may be entirely lost could cause issues for both seller along with the buyer of the automobile.
There are some cases when digital dashboards will malfunction for no apparent reason. Or, when there has been a short electric disruption but the dash continues to exhibit readings. When this occurs that an automobile electrician be contacted promptly to make sure that the dash is exact and has not yet been damaged it is important.
Digital dashboards can be checked by a car electrician in a very brief time and make needed adjustments or calibrations to assure that the readings on the dash are precise.
Fundamentals of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Basics of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
The world of SEO is complicated and there are lots of variables which contribute to your own site appearing on the very first page of search results. The truth is, Google considers over 200 factors when ranking websites in its search results! The first step would be to undertake the basics – Onpage Optimisation.
Onpage optimisation will help your site rank well in search engine results and done correctly, is among the very first steps of Search Engine Optimization. Google loves fresh content that will be great news in case your website has a content management systems (CMS). With full control of your website content by means of a CMS, you can manipulate webpages to improve your website's search engine ranking. Just, use these techniques to be implemented by your website CMS:
1) Meta Title Tag
The meta name tag is appears on top of search result listings and the web browser. The title tag of a webpage ought to be a concise and exact description of the webpage.
• The meta name tag must comprise 50 -70 characters including spaces
• Place chief keyword within the meta title tag
• The content of the meta name tag must be unique for every web page
2) Meta Description Label
The meta description tag is a snippet of a webpage commonly displayed on search result listings. The meta description provides a great chance create a description that is compelling to support the consumer to click through to your own internet site and to include key words.
• The meta description tag must contain 150 – 160 characters including spaces
• Put chief keyword inside the meta description tag
The H1 should be included on all webpages and feature your main keyword.
• Put primary key word within the H1
• Your H1 mustn't be identical to the meta title tag
• Create a unique and applicable H1 tag for each web page
4) Content
Search engines like google are attracted to unique content that provides useful advice to the user. Prevent duplicate content , nor copy and paste content seo watford from a different webpage.
• Contain your primary keyword inside the initial paragraph of content
If key words to be inserted by an effort Never compromise on grammar
5) Picture Alt Tag
Images are read by search engines cannot therefore it is vital that you characterize the image or graphic in text format inside the image alt tag.
• Fit main key word in the image alt tag
• Make sure you makes sense to the web site visitor and image alt tag is related to the picture
6) URL Slug
The slug is the ending part of a URL which identifies a page using human -readable keywords.
• Use your main keyword together with your URL
7) Anchor Text
Anchor text is the keywords inside your content that link to internal or external webpages.
• 30% of anchor text should be key words
Investing in Search Engine Optimization is more important now than in the past and your company must really have a SEO strategy set up to succeed online.
The Best Way To Find The Right Website Design Firm For Your Own Business
The Way To Locate The Right Website Design Firm For Your Own Business
You will probably be wondering where to begin, in case you're thinking of hiring a website designer to assist showcase your business 's services and products. And with many businesses claiming to be the finest in the company, it's understandably just a little perplexing.
So if you understand where to search, you are prone to find somebody that will understand your company from the horns and make a success of your website advertising campaign – so boosting your visibility.
With more and more businesses needing to stand out online to compete with new startups, skilled web designers come in great demand – but that doesn't mean there's a deficit of ability.
The most effective spot to start your hunt to get a talented internet specialist is, of course, online.
Primarily, you will need to determine whether you're happy for them to finish your project online, or whether you want your own designer to be a physical presence. Both have many benefits and pitfalls, and the correct selection for you will definitely be determined by the character of your organization.
Many web specialists will invite a collaborative approach, encouraging you work out the very best strategy for your own brand and to take a seat with them. You will want to locate somebody who's flexible and understanding of your demands.
As an example, in the event you travel a lot, you'll likely be more fortunate with somebody who can work remotely and keep you current via e-mail or telephone. Usually you need to have the ability to be as demanded (or uninvolved) as you would like.
You will also have to consider whether youwant to engage an individual designer for the project, or whether to opt for a promotion team that is full. There are benefits and drawbacks to both choices, each of which are explored below:
Plus, while many freelance designers come with great portfolios and qualifications that are notable, you can never be absolutely confident of their credibility.
A promotion team, although, will usually come with years of expertise and knowhow under their belt. Not only are you going to be able to look at their whole portfolio of past works online to get a sense of what they Website Design do, but you may also have the ability to check out testimonials and reviews to back this up.
More established firms may additionally be accredited by other reputable sources, which means you will understand you're in good hands. They may also provide a policy until you see an increase in your bottom line, such as working with you – which will ensure results that are great.
Another advantage of hiring an internet advertising business and never an individual designer is that you will possess the opportunity to make use of their other services.
Not only are you going to end up getting a visually exciting and user friendly site, you may even benefit from their other tried and tested marketing strategies, like social media management, search engine optimisation, e-mail marketing and much more.
A slick, well thought-out web site is a good way to showcase yourself – particularly if you are just starting out – so it's worth investing some time plus cash into. Plus, once it is been designed effectively, you will end up capable of using it for years to come as you build on your reputation and client base.
The best way to Keep the Radiance on Your Car Paint Job – Automobile Bodywork Tips
How to Take Care Of the Glow on Your Vehicle Paint Job – Car Bodywork Tips
When purchasing an automobile among the greatest choices you have is the color! Black is a big seller yet silver can occasionally have more design. Crimson is hot and white can be conservative, it's all your decision.
The components though can play havoc on keeping that first shine and luster for this significant investment. Once a car loses its colour, the value is reduced and it really never seems exactly the same. All these are a few hints and tricks on how best to maintain that shade and keep the environment from doing damage to your own paint job in addition to restoring any Alloy Wheel Repair Essex damage already done!
To greatly help shield it consistently utilize a preventive care program.
The lone way to deal with this is by using protective sealants and coatings.
Air pollutants are your next difficulty since they eat the paint up and transform into sulfuric and nitric acids that deposit onto your vehicle. To battle this, keep your automobile clean by washing it on a regular basis. This can be extremely important because in the winter with salt and dirt, rusting and pitting can occur. The undercarriage ought to be treated with a protective coating to greatly help eliminate this problem.
Wetness can't build up in the filthy areas and cause corrosion, when your own car is clean. I inform occasionally and a car wash at least once to two times monthly possess a light power wash to dislodge soil that is embedded in tough to reach areas like under the bumpers, the wheel wells and behind the moldings to identify a few.
By pressure washing after or during winter you are able to dislodge the surplus salt and dirt from the body of your car and in exactly the same time give it a glossy and clean appearance and decrease the chances of rust issues.
Another big hint would be to keep you car or truck waxed on a regular basis. Give a fantastic shine to your own vehicle and minimize the damage that substances can do for your paint job and also this will assist in a big way to maintain the color from fading. Its should just take about thirty minutes to wax even a sizable vehicle and should continue for 3-4 months.
Most times you can purchase fitting spray paint from the manufacturer and purchase utilizing a toothpick as a guide you can repair most prominent scrapes and processors. By investing, the time and using these hints your vehicles paint job has a much better chance of staying in condition that is like that is new!
Auto Body Repairs and also the Modern Day Techniques
Car Body Repairs as well as the Modern Day Techniques
Even a fuel-efficient automobile, which remains in good condition for most of the time, might need some essential repairs as time improvement. The paint might fade out and also the car may develop dings, minor scratches and scores. Such damages are difficult to mend using waxing. This is technicians are constantly seeking for successful ways of an auto body repair.
Entirely Fitting Vehicle Paint
No matter the car demands an entire body painting or an area shrewd painting for repair dents or dings, the new paint must completely match with all the initial paint. Bodywork professionals these days, use a photo-spectrometer to Alloy wheel refurb Wakefield find the precise colour tone out. This computerized paint matching system finds out the exact colour tone to that of the automobile.
Paint-free Dent Restoration Technique
Scores or dings normally show up on the vehicle when it collides with a different vehicle (on the road) or using a hard surface. Scores typically develop in the angular or curved automobile surfaces. While such issues are easily noticeable, they may be very hard to correct. Till they get back to the standard state Bodywork professionals possess the required tools to shove at the scores. The technicians mend the incapacity without doing any harm to the vehicle paint. The auto mechanics generally use spray-filling technique for repair the dents that are inaccessible.
Body Frame Restoration
When cars collide with a different vehicle or heavy block on the road, it succumb important structural harm to the frame. In these instances, one must utilize a framework straightening method. They work with a computerized gear (featuring an ultrasound technology), to compute the frame alignment error. Then a laser beam aligns the frame accurately to its original state.
Bright Repair Technique
This technique is extremely powerful for fixing small dings or chipped paints. It really is a lot harder as when compared with the other techniques. The affected area is only repaired or covers by this technique. It largely suits the brand new vehicles as they've minor damages on the body while the big body part stays fresh and shiny. Some garages also give a service that is cellular telephone, and may carry out the repairs at your house itself. With such garages, you really do not need to attend too long, before you can make use of the vehicle again.
With recent progress in automobile body repair, obtaining a quality injury repair service isn't any longer hard.
Making Dog Training Fun Together With the Sit & Stay Game
How to Produce Dog Training Pleasure Together With the Stay & Sit Game
How rewarding it's for your puppy treat, or to sit down and remain evenly before you enable him to get some good food or a toy. And for your puppy, this is an excellent experience until one to give the command to attend. Your dog needs to interact with you, because that is how. You're responsible for his space and he can obey and reward you when you make training fun.
The Stay & Sit Game makes training your pet to sit down and stay an enjoyable and rewarding experience for both of you.
Rules of the Game
Select a high-benefit food and be sure that the pet is prepared and hungry to consume.
Choose the "Command" word. Ensure that it stays consistent, something like "Sit (or Stay or Wait)" functions nicely.
Choose the "No Wages" marker word, something dog training ware like "Nope (or Too Awful or Opps)" functions well.
See your puppy 's language. The way a dog says "please" would be to go into the "sit" position.
Be patient. You dog will sit to say "please" (eventually).
He looks for a command from your pack leader, when a dog needs a toy, food, to play, or simply going out the door. So here's a brilliant way to train your dog which is rewarding and interesting. In precisely the same time, you might be giving your dog the belief that you are the pack leader:
Ask your dog to "Sit" while you hold the food bowl out of reach out of your pet, about 2 feet away. Stand sideways with one shoulder facing him. Hold the bowl on the side that is contrary.
Start to reduce the bowl directly down to the floor. As you lower the bowl, in case your pet moves or gets up, just say quite matter-of-factly "Nope" (your command word) AND at the exact same time move the bowl away and out of reach. Then ask your dog to sit down again. (You may really must step from position so you could face your dog sidewise or put him back into place if he has scooted forward). The key is always to begin fresh from exactly the same spot again.
When your dog keeps the SIT POSITION, start lowering the bowl to the floor–while he's still in location. Pull the bowl, in case your puppy starts to get up to come to the bowl. The key is that until you can set it on a floor while your pet is HOLDING THE SIT POSTURE you are bending down with all the bowl and pulling back with the bowl.
While he's in the sit position, make eye contact by means of your dog. You would like your dog to remain in the sit position AND make eye contact, before you give it to him and move the bowl to your dog.
Whenever you have set the bowl on the ground, say "Stay" (or your command word), wait a number of seconds, then move the bowl towards your dog and allow him to eat. Don't expect too much from your dog. Just a few seconds of HOLDING THE STAY SPOT "wait" time is good in the beginning.
When your pet has maintained the SIT & STAY for a few seconds, then transfer the bowl toward your pet and let him to eat his food. You're developing your own dog's behaviour so that you can get the reward to sit down and await your command.
Recall both you and your dog needs to comprehend the rules: In order to get food your dog must hold the Sit & Stay position and look at you (not the food) to win the match!
You can attempt this with a ball a treat or toy also. Keep it fun, laugh at your dog when he attempts to cheat, when he gets it right, and provide your pet praise.
The Sit & Stay Game is not only about training your pet to sit down and stay for food. It's about the praise you give–and also the enjoyment you get when your dog politely sits and remains for you personally.
Findability and Search Engine Optimisation
Findability suggests how easy it's for the info that can be found on a website to be found. Placing valuable info on a webpage that cannot be easily found by those looking for that info means it isn't going to be seen. Findability should be a part of internet marketing. It's a theory regarding the website that is whole as opposed to ro individual web pages or placing for keywords that are individual of the site's pages. There is, consequently, no means although changes in visitor numbers signal success or failure to measure it.
Search Engine Optimization aims to increase targeted visitor numbers . Improvements to the search engine placement algorithms, including Google's Panda updates, are confusing the two terms to some amount.
Findability covers issues including quality of on search facilities and site navigation. It could be argued that any kind of website marketing increases findability. There tend to be more than a hundred forms of marketing which range from advertisements in papers that are local to the telly. Pay per click search engine advertisements, and also the social media like YouTube and Facebook supply on-line means of raising findability.
If two webpages were competing to get a keyword, their relative positions, until lately, depended on on-page factors (content and coding) and off-page factors (total quantity of incoming link value and keywords in the anchor text). If these variables were not changed their relative locations would not change. This really is no longer the situation. Google Panda, as an example, measures user signals for example bounce rate and time on website so that the relative positions of the two webpages may transform.
Now, more than ever before, ensuring intuitive navigation and superb webpage demo are crucial to maximising positioning on the SERPs. Web standards should be complied with by the coding of webpages. Poor coding and broken links anywhere on a site may have a detrimental total effect on placement for other webpages.
The author has a medical website with many webpages themed on key words with keyword difficulties that are out of range for top page placement on the SERPs. This can be figured out by understanding the competitive strength of the site by its own HomePage PageRank (HPR) and HomePage PageRank keyword difficulty (HPR-KD). The web site provides a search site facility as well as a definite navigation system. From Google analytics and newsletter sign up notifications, it's clear that many people to the website are reaching webpages once they have reached the web site and not directly in the various search engines found. Though the key word difficulty for short-tail key words like 'infertility' or 'menopause' are nicely from range for my web site with conventional SEO, the information provided on these themes are findable once visitors have reached my site.
Latent semantic SEO Company Cornwall indexing has been incorporated by the search engines into placement algorithms. There is value in including synonyms to enhance findability and Search Engine Optimization.


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text: Dear Brandon, Ozgur, et al, Thanks very much for you explanation. This seems to be a perfectly reasonable explanation; the wrapper-types I used probably explicitly invoke typeOf with undefined. The problem here, however, is that in my actual program, I don't use ADTs, but I use GADTs, so as to carry the context (Monad, Typeable1) with the constructor. To get to this context, I must pattern-match with the constructor. It seems hiding contexts (which I really like about GADTs) isn't "available" consistently. Oh well ;) Regards, Philip On 29 Aug 2011, at 01:20, Brandon Allbery wrote: On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 18:44, Philip Holzenspies <pkfh at st-andrews.ac.uk<mailto:pkfh at st-andrews.ac.uk>> wrote: instance (Typeable1 m, Monad m) => Typeable (MyADT m) where typeOf t@(MyADT _) typeOf is usually invoked with an undefined parameter; it should use types, never values. Here you've defined it to deconstruct what it's passed, which means that anything that uses it in the usual way (`typeOf (undefined :: someType)') will immediately throw undefined. You don't need a deconstructor there; you (correctly) throw away the value, and it doesn't provide any type information not already available from the instance declaration. `typeOf t' should be good enough. -- brandon s allbery allbery.b at gmail.com<mailto:allbery.b at gmail.com> wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/attachments/20110829/6fef23e4/attachment.htm>


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Hypothetically asking, when was the last
time you woke up one morning and what you thought you had was gone? Was
it a person, possession, position, an aspect of your health, family or
financial resources? How did you react, and how quickly did you ask yourself
questions and attempt to make sense of what just happened, and what you just
lost? Understand what is personally and professionally good in your life
should never be taken for granted nor neglected, but continually reflected upon
with a level of respect and appreciation. Why? Because you can never prepare
for life's unexpected twists and turns, and you never know exactly what
tomorrow may bring.
To neglect is to "fail to care for properly: not pay
proper attention to; disregard". To take for granted is to neglect what may be
truly important in your life and career. As each day passes, do you outwardly
demonstrate less appreciation and respect for those who may be most important
to you, because they are always around you? What you perceive daily to be
mundane and average in your life may become desired and exceptional when it is
no longer there. A primary reason we all fall into this trap is because our
focus tends to be more about us, rather then taking the time to be more
selfless and thoughtful toward others, and the environment around us.
It is
what we are used to that invites neglect, because it is the same old thing.
However, to neglect the same old thing is a choice and a mindset, and not an
excuse to be apathetic and miserable. There is nothing to celebrate when you
accept an invitation to attend your own life's personal pity party. Attending
only results in more excuses and less personal accountability. An attitude of
gratitude is the primary key that unlocks greater appreciation and respect for
what you have, what you have accomplished, and those you love. The more
appreciative you are the less likely you will be to take things or the people
around you for granted. Perspective also contributes positively to being more
grateful. In this context perspective is defined as, "a particular attitude
toward or way of regarding something; a point of view: true understanding of
the relative importance of things; a sense of proportion".
Perspective is the
preventative medicine that restricts the onset of the "takeforgranted"
disease. To be empathetic and compassionate to what others may be suffering or
struggling with provides a greater understanding that the world does not
revolve around the one, but rather one another. It is always neglect of life's
little things that manifest into the most challenging of life's big things. The
number of examples that illustrate this are countless, and pertains to all
aspects of your life including emotional, physical, financial, familial,
spiritual, professional and environmental to list a few. To neglect the little
thing of eating healthy will result in a bigger thing namely sickness and
disease. To neglect the little thing of balancing your checkbook will result in
a bigger thing namely being overdrawn. To neglect the little thing of listening
to your children will result in a bigger thing namely a child's impression that
Mom and Dad do not care. To neglect the little thing of demonstrating respect
for the person you love will result in a bigger thing namely a miserable and
unloving relationship. To neglect the little thing of being mindful of waste
will result in the bigger thing of an unsafe environment.
The major point, do not take for granted that the little things just happen, ensure that the little things always happen. To accomplish this takes discipline, perseverance, thoughtfulness and most importantly a willingness and desire to live a full life. Your personal core values and the application of them will provide you the strength to be disciplined and resilient when the unexpected happens, and when the little things appear to be meaningless. It is never easy to put others first, but it is a common thread that when sewed together brings forth the beauty of humanity and what it means to be truly human. As the Golden Rule so simply states, treat others as you wish to be treated.
brings a smile to your face? Is it a smile from another, a kind gesture from
your child, a hug from those you love, a playful moment with your pet, a warm
fire, a good book, or just the recognition that with each day you can find joy
in the simplest of things? Life is not meant to be easy. If it was, there would
be little to be thankful for. It is through overcoming the trials, tribulations
and anxieties of life that provides the many reasons to be thankful. Without
struggle how do you know when you succeed?
A positive attitude is key to being
thankful, for without an optimistic belief in the future of your life, your
family, and humanity you cannot recognize the goodness that surrounds you. As a
result, you will find little to be thankful for. As the French novelist
Alphonse Karr stated, "Some people are always grumbling because roses have
thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses."
Humility is another component to
becoming more thankful. To acknowledge and engage in the positive qualities of
others, will add to the quality of your own life. Your greatest experiences of
joy and sadness are usually shared with and involve others. The birth of a
child, the death of a loved one, the misery of failure, and the fulfillment of
success are just small pieces of the sphere of life experiences that involve
those you care for and love. To be grateful for others is the foundation for a
grateful life. As Charles Dickens said, "No one is useless in this world who
lightens the burden of another." There is no perfectly functional person,
family or life, and if you believe there are you are naïve and denying reality.
We all have our dysfunctions, issues, emotional anxieties and personality
abnormalities; and that is what makes each and every one of us wonderful. Celebrate
and be thankful for the uniqueness in you that may be different than others,
and embrace the uniqueness in others that may be different than you.
One of the
questions I ask my seminar participants during the course of a presentation is,
"How do you motivate others?" The answer is, "You make people feel valued."
Subsequently I select a person from the group and ask the attendees who may
know this person to share a characteristic of their leadership style or their
personality that inspires others to look up to them and respect them? Without
hesitation I receive responses from the audience directed toward the person I
randomly selected that describe many of the wonderful characteristics that
person possesses. More than not, there are grateful emotions and even tears
displayed by the recipient in appreciation for the kind comments and feedback
shared. What the participants did was to make that person feel valued. It is a
wonderful and heartwarming exercise.
Take the time around the dinner table to make those you love feel
valued. Let each family member share a beautiful and genuine characteristic of
a fellow family member, in-law, friend or significant other that they believe
inspires others to look up to them and respect them. The characteristics and
attributes shared will be forever appreciated and remembered by those who are
on the receiving end of those comments. The things that bring happiness are not
complicated, but rather simple in nature. They are the kind behaviors, thoughts
and words displayed in appreciation for those you care about that bring about
the greatest sense of fulfillment and joy to others.
Tecumseh, a Native American leader of the Shawnee, orator, and respected by ally and enemy alike said, "When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself." There will always be problems for it is the reality of living, so give thanks for the little blessings you do have and be grateful for those who love you and those you love. Make your life a grateful pleasure party not an unappreciated pity party.


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