It’s “back to school” time again!

September 3rd, 2010


Are you ready?

Remember, the key to a successful school year is having effective classroom management skills.

Well…my friend and colleague, Rob Plevin in the UK, has an amazing resource that will give you ALL the tools and resources you could ever need for effective classroom management?

Rob has been classed as an “Outstanding Teacher” by The Office For Standards In Education (Ofsted) and has been running training courses and lectures on effective classroom management for the last 3 years.

His main philosophy is that many of the classroom management problems we encounter as teachers can be PREVENTED by adopting a specific approach he calls “needs-focused”. He has been delivering this course all over the UK and as far away as Singapore and is now making it available in a Home Study Format.

I’ve had a look at it and can only tell you that there is a STACK of material in there that will help you prevent and deal with classroom management problems and effectively support your more challenging students.

There are so many classroom management techniques in this course that I can’t get into all of them here, but some of my favorites have do with developing positive relationships with your most challenging students, how to de-escalate tough situations, and really easy ways to bring humor into your lessons…he even provides some simple scripts you can use (or edit and make your own) that will get your noisy classes to settle down a start working right away!

Googles Top 5 Ranking Factors

September 1st, 2010

USING YOUR KEYWORDS AS THE ANCHOR TEXT FROM EXTERNAL LINKS 73%

73% of the poll results showed this to have the most importance. I always knew that using your keywords as the anchor text is important but didnt realize that so many other SEO agents felt this to be the most important factor.

Please note that in order for any SEO strategy to work then it must look natural. If you will be using the same anchor text over and over again then that looks spammy. Vary your anchor text and use a LSI structure in the same way that is needed for onsite optimisation.

EXTERNAL LINK POPULARITY 71%

This was voted to be the 2nd most important ranking factor. Your link popularity refers to the quantity and quality of the backlinks. I would say that link quality plays a bigger role then quantity but its no good having just 2 or 3 good quality backlinks you will need loads.

THE DIVERSITY OF LINK SOURCES 67%

This was voted as the 3rd most important ranking factor. This is a very important area to focus on. Its no good just getting backlinks from directory sites or blog comments – you really need to diversify your backlinking methods.Use the many web 2.0 sites – article sites – high profile sites – rss promotions – blog comments and the many more areas in which you can get backlinks from.

If tomorrow Google turned round and devalued certain backlinks then this could harm your rankings if you relied on this method of backlinking only. Dont hold all your eggs in one basket!!

THE USAGE OF YOUR KEYWORD IN THE TITLE TAG 66%

This was voted 4th most important ranking factor.  The title tag is a very important area for your onsite optimisation. It will be shown in the SERPS and it also helps the robots understand what your page is about. If you dont spend much time on onsite optimisation then this is one area I would advise to concentrate on.

TRUSTWORTHINESS OF THE DOMAIN 66%

This was the 5th most important ranking factor. Its not very clear as to what makes a trustworthy domain however its important that Google trust your domain in order to get higher rankings.

There are many areas which will help towards making your domain trustworthy – such as the age of the domain. The older it is the more chance its not going to be a spam site. Getting backlinks from already trustworthy sites with high page rank. These websites have already earned their trust and if they link back to you then Google will pass trust to your site in the same way that authority will also be filtered down to your site.

There are many more ranking factors. I have only named the top 5 in order of importance. I have not built the order that they are in but they have been voted in this order of importance.

Please note that concentrating on the above factors alone will not guarantee you a high rank as many more factors are also considered. As mentioned about 200 in total. These ranking factors are split between onsite and offsite factors.

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This is a set of many more articles to come. The next will be the top 5 negative ranking factors and then we will split the onsite and offsite details and look at them in more detail.

Does Marijuana Smoke Have Effects?

August 31st, 2010


The burning of this material into smoke and as we inhale this in our lungs is innately harmful. Donald Tashkin of UCLA and his associates’ study has been made on the effects of marijuana smoke our lungs.
The study dilemma was explained in 1987. This research recognized marijuana and tobacco smokers had the same indication of respiratory problems. Frequent shortness of breath was reported by tobacco smokers were told by tobacco smokers than what the marijuana smokers experience.
The writer’s theory is that both marijuana smoke and tobacco smoke is dangerous to the lungs and such exposure of the lungs to both tobacco and marijuana is even bad. On the other hand, if the people persevere on smoking tobacco as a situation, the research conducted by Tashkin, reveals that relating marijuana smoke in reference to smoking tobacco is intricate.
Too much marijuana smoke and tobacco smoking may result to chronic bronchitis and a raising incidence of acute bronchitis incidents.
If the lungs are exposed to harmful substances, possibly it will correspond to the health problems because of marijuana use. Another probable danger is if or if not marijuana smoke affect the lung’s capacity to protect itself from harmful bacteria and cleanse itself of the dangerous substances produced by the smoke.
Marijuana smoke aggravates macrophages but not as tobacco smoke. Plenty of substances promote macrophage construction. Macrophage cell division is a usual physiological reaction to foreign matters.
Marijuana smoke is much destructive than tobacco smoke. In this case, marijuana smoke lessens against several of the damage of tobacco smoke.
It proves that the substances in marijuana smoke may be less motivating than the substances in tobacco smoke. Our records imply that marijuana smoke may reduce tobacco proliferation.
Tashkin’s associate has examined the effect of smoking marijuana on lung macrophage oxidant discharge, a process that contributes to emphysema. Significant differences were found between marijuana smoke and tobacco smoke in this review.
The truth that several research specify that marijuana smoke is not as dangerous as tobacco smoke does not alter the legality of Tashkin’s unique statement that marijuana smoke is dangerous to the lungs and that it also harm others who smoke tobacco.
Tashkin openly takes note that supporters of the justification of marijuana are incorrect when they challenge that no proof exists connecting smoking marijuana to severe health conditions. Several illnesses take a long period of time to progress, though some respiratory problems don’t.
The study conducted by Tashkin and his associates on the marijuana smoke’s effect on the lung adds a share to accepting and distinguish the pharmacology of smoke marijuana. Marijuana smoke is the means of transport that brings up active components from marijuana into the body. The main path of how it gets in, in our body is through smoking. It is essential in studying and understanding the pharmacology of marijuana to know the effects of the smoke and the active components called cannabinoids. In addition, knowing the combination of the components from smoke is vital to be informed by the effects of the basic elements, the cannabinoids on our body.

Mail Men Should Make Commissions On Check Deliveries

August 28th, 2010

Door Ten - Mail ManI was thinking random thoughts on the way to pick up the mail from the mailbox yesterday.

Affiliates make money for delivering money to their merchants. Why shouldn’t the mail man make money for delivering money to his/her customers?

What if all the mail man took 1% of all the checks they delivered? They would be very well off and would make sure the checks got delivered on time.

Of course, then shouldn’t they pay 1% of all the bills they delivered?

Okay, this post makes no sense cause it is not like the mail man got you a sale or anything.

Corian Countertops

August 27th, 2010

A Corian countertop is a registered trademark for a specific solid surface countertop made by DuPont. It’s one of the premium countertops of its kind, made from an acrylic-alumina trihydrate composite. Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, Corian has been around for a long time, has consistently been a leader in the solid surface countertop market, and remains the standard for cost-effectiveness and solid surface performance. Many homeowners, who are looking for a solid surface countertop, end up purchasing Corian.

Solid Surface Countertops
Before you can understand the benefits of Corian countertops, you should first introduce yourself to solid surface countertops, in general. It’s not difficult to understand what solid surface means, a seamless slab for your countertop is created by welding some form of plastic into the desired shape. (Metal is sometimes also considered a solid surface countertop.) This welding process creates a durable, dent-resistant, stain-resistant, easily repaired countertop that should last for many years. Welded plastic also offers an almost endless array of color and texture options for your countertop.

Corian Countertops: Installation
Corian countertop installation is a job for a countertop professional, licensed, insured, and experienced. From support cleats to sink cut-outs, from scribing counter sections to navigating corner seams, Corian countertop installation is a project that demands you do your research when choosing a contractor. According to data from ServiceMagic, the average solid-surface countertop takes 12 days to install, although working around a kitchen remodel, delays associated with product delivery, means this time may not represent 12 full days of paid labor.

From the perspective of application, Corian countertops are simply the most common use for this solid surface material, but its use can also be extended to include your kitchen or bath sinks and any backsplashes you may have in mind for kitchen remodel. The same advantages of Corian hold true in these areas, where dirt, moisture, and bacteria tend to collect the seams of other materials. Corian countertops should always be installed by a professional to ensure proper installation and warranty guarantees.

The Corian Countertop Warranty
Corian boasts a 96% customer satisfaction rating and for good reason. DuPont allows you to inspect their countertops before installation begins and throughout the entire process. They offer a competitive warranty with their countertops (usually ten years), and they’re not going anywhere, which means should something does go wrong with your countertop, you’re not going to find they’ve suddenly gone out of business. That said, the Corian countertop warranty isn’t a license to abuse your countertop, and it doesn’t cover everything. In particular, you must be careful about setting hot plates, burners, and other heated materials on the counter, especially for more than a moment or two. Solid-surface countertops are not impervious to heat, and the Corian countertop warranty don’t cover this type of damage.

Going Savvy With Storage Shed Plans

July 28th, 2010

Tasks that you did on your own are rewarding mainly if you have made a genuinely functional and stunning result. Now if you are a natural crafty individual and want to begin off to a rousing challenge, then a backyard garden shed with a porch will be an ambitious start. Certainly it will be more complex than the typical project you could opt to but surely you will savor every bit achievement from your effort.

In case you are an individual whose yard is a source of delight for the whole vicinity, as you make a decision exactly where to set up that innovative storage shed you are desiring, ponder regarding putting in a porch to it. That will dress up your upcoming construction to put a feeling of style rather of building it bothersome for the other folks who live in close proximity. Because of this you can have a number of additional shelves to accommodate plants and pots for gardening. Inroder to boost the elegance, you may additionally spruce up the front with hanging plants and flowers.

Your own new storage building plans will have better features considering it won’t solely function being a structure for storage, but it can also function as a potting area right from your very garden. For the period of the sizzling summer times, the roof over the porch will add some shade additionally it can also protect from bad climate.

It is an essential reminder and one must be aware of that an overhanging roof adds difficulty to the project so it is wise idea to safekeep the blueprints, that’ll be accessible quickly making use of an web lookup for storage shed plans. It is far less difficult to acquire specialised blueprints much like this online as opposed to driving a car from one shop to another and seeking for a long time only to get home empty handed.

Before venturing on building a home DIY project, it is necessary to consult it with your own local building department or perhaps your home owner’s association. You have to do that to spare yourself from shocking moments when the time the code inspector comes in.

Finally, with all the storage shed plans cautiously adopted, with all regulations abided by, you can now chill out under your new porch and get pleasure from the praises of your family as well as folks in the area.

restaurants and all

July 27th, 2010

Thursday, I was invited for lunch at L’Envers du Décor. The restaurant was full and had to refuse people. Coordinating personnel on the floor and in the kitchen as well as customers… is not an easy task.
We had a good meal with Chateau d’Aiguille 2000, always good, 60 Euros on the list, and as always, I saw many colleagues and brokers friends sitting at tables near ours. It is hard not to be noticed, but that’s not the objective when eating at L’Envers du Décor.

I don’t often go to restaurants in Saint Emilion except from time to time to friends’ restaurants (and customers of my wines ): Le Tertre, Le Clocher, La Cadène and of course l’Envers du Décor.

Most of my professional meals are done at my home, as long as Murielle doesn’t find it too inconvenient: the reason being to eat products we like, cooked to our liking and the opportunity to drink our wines to promote them, as well as to drink expensive wines such as Pingus, Harlan, Cheval Blanc, and even Petrus.

Adaptation to Workplace Drug Testing Policies

July 27th, 2010

“The ubiquity of workplace drug testing is nothing new for my generation. Reflecting on my own work history, there were several times in which I was confronted with illicit drug screening and all but two employers required my signature on company drug-free policy agreements. In fact, the owner/proprietor of one of these latter companies was a daily drug user himself while the other business was a restaurant, which the food-service industry is notoriously known for their lack of formal or rigid drug-free policies.

Looking back, a particular moment stands out in my mind that speaks volumes on the effects of workplace drug-free policies. While taking a break with one of my managers on an uneventful workday, our conversation about the usual monotonous workings of the business slipped into some of our own personal problems – things that were bugging us at the moment. My manager had been seemingly upset for the entire morning and I finally figured out why. On the previous day, she went home from work to find her husband shaved bald – with not only the top of his head glowing from the handiwork of a razorblade – but bald from head to toe. After the dirty looks and shock subsided, she soon learned that her husband, an illicit drug habitué (namely marijuana), had made an attempt to escape the drug-free policies of the company that was buying out his current employer.

He and several of his coworkers in his department had all purchased “detox” products to flush out the recreational “toxins” in their bodies to prevent testing positive for illicit drugs via urinalysis as well as shaved themselves and purchased specialty products to remove “toxins” from hair (for the areas in the hard-to-reach nether-regions and eyebrows) to avoid testing positive via hair analysis. While raising the eyebrows of their employers, the “Mr. Clean” shave-therapy seemed to have worked as none of the bald-brothers-in-arms were terminated for initially breaking the new company’s drug-free policy. Much to the dismay of my manager, who hoped the ordeal would bring her husband – a father of two – to limit his drug use or quit, the new policy only served to change the length of his hair, which he now kept cut very short, and also made him stock up on “detox” products such that they are readily available when he needs to pee clean or appear drug free when one examines his hair using toxicological measures.”

This is an excerpt of a recent research proposal aimed at identifying the incidence and prevalence of dodging drug testing via the utilization of countermeasure products available from local stores or on the Internet. According to the Drug Testing Index, a comprehensive ongoing assessment from the nation’s largest workplace drug testing firm Quest Diagnostics, the amount of affirmed samples utilizing such countermeasures are quite minimal. This contradicts the widespread use of these products as revealed in ethnographies by social science researchers – including Kenneth Tunnell (see “Pissing on Demand“) – and the information available via the National Household Survey of Drug Use and Health. The question remains: How have people adapted to workplace drug testing policies? If they have, how often are they successful?

I would like to open up this topic for debate and guidance for this line of research. At what point in the chain of custody is there a breakdown that allows tainted samples not to appear such official statistics? Is it just that the common result is an “invalid” test that must be repeated at the behest of employers?

« laptop data recovery: Dell Vostro 1400 laptop data recovery: If You Don’t Do A Backup Then You Have Never Experienced A System Crash

July 26th, 2010

One day when I can drive crashed, I need to reformat and reinstall Windows and reinstall all the programs and copy all files from a backup disk, I was missing some data on your desktop computer before the accident, so I decided to restore the file , try the utility. It was not hard to find a free tool that has worked for 15 minutes analyzing the hard drive partition. After the analysis was done, showed me the files that were available for reconstruction and forecast a return to quality. Well, the names of the files were destroyed when I reformat the hard drive full of new and even the size of the partitions, but the actual content recovering.

The recovery software, I was very powerful and offers a specific text box research available to remote files. I did, and found the files on your desktop. Had two files created with the editor that I could read them completely. With regard to files created with MS Word, it was hard to find these files, and it was difficult to restore them, but finally too.After this happened to me, I have three conclusions. The first secret files – he had to replace my hard drive with more reliable, and make the backup frequency, the second – and most important and top in normal text format so it would be easier to restore in case of accident, the third – a file or use File Shredder or File shreader “or File Wiper eraser.

There a number of names to this type of software, but I needed a tool for me an easy way to get rid of deleted files provided. Actually, I do not worry if one of my colleagues will be able to retrieve data, are something else that I fear will happen if I lost my laptop, or if I have spyware. I want a simple idea – if I delete a file in Windows, I must be deleted. This is not paranoia or something else. I want to make Windows just what to do. It ‘clear that the shreader files on backup software?

I use one, which was distributed as an OEM with my laptop . This is a good idea to think about risk and risk management. So the most important principles: if you do something – of the contingency change. If you have minor changes – making the selection to copy a flash drive, if you have major changes – the decline of rewritable DVD copy. I followed these simple ideas about 5 years, and it worked for me. As soon as my laptop was stolen and gentlemen and there was no problem because all data on hard disks encrypted, and he followed my advice and use shreader file.

Personally, I lived two or three accidents, and I have not lost back-right politics. So do not wait for the hard disk, you receive a warning message, just do the backups on a regular basis.

Poker Training – Self Study Through Hand History Review Sessions

July 26th, 2010

All the top players study poker away from the game. That is how they continuously beat the games that they are playing. Self study will ensure that your game does not stagnate, will help spot leaks, and will help you spot leaks in your opponent’s games. It is by far the best work you can do away from the table.

So before you can start doing hand history reviews it is essential to buy a piece of software called Holdem Manager (before you mutter to yourself, here’s some promotional waffle about Holdem Manager, please let it be known I am in no way affiliated with this product. I wish I was because I love it!).

Holdem Manager is a poker tracking software which keeps track of every hand you play on line. It allows you to then analyse all those hands and replay them using a hand replayer and give statistical breakdowns of equity and pot odds in those hands. It allows you to study your opponents as well as your own play. It has revolutionised on line poker. It costs between $50-$80 depending on whether you buy the professional or beginner package, but it is well worth the money.

To begin your hand history review, you can filter on a reports tab in Holdem Manager and input all hands played after a certain time period, say over a 2 month period. You can then filter all your hands from biggest pots lost to won.

Then start a spreadsheet or just use a refill pad and note how you lost every big pot over 30 big blinds. I guarantee you even with limited knowledge of poker, once you go back over a hand in a replayer you will spot the blatant mistakes easily. Note what the mistake was and move on to the next big pot you lost and rinse and repeat.

Once you have done this you can start to group the mistakes. You will start to see a pattern of where you are making the same mistakes over and over again. In my last big hand history review after a downswing I had 9 mistakes I saw happening way too frequently for my liking. I then put this on a word document and printed it out and read this sheet before I sat down to play a session over the next month. At the end of the month I reviewed my hands played that month and put a line through the mistakes I had removed from my game and highlighted the ones that still remained. I had the list reduced to one and since then I have cut out that mistake from my game and I am currently on a upswing and very happy with my game.

I do believe that once a month you should review all your hand histories of all big pots over 30 big blinds which you either won or lost to keep away those pesky downswings and your game fresh.

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