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Top 10 SEO tips
The purpose of having a website, I am sure you'll agree is so that people can actually find you on the internet. Search engine optimization (SEO) is the way you help search engines find your site and serve it in the results to people entering keywords for whatever your site is about. With these Top 10 SEO tips your website's ranking on search engines should improve with certain keywords which are crucial for driving more traffic to your site.
In this article we will cover the basic Top 10 SEO tips that will help your site do better when it comes to SEO as far as content and traffic are concerned. I have written this article in plain English so it can help as many people as possible without going into the small details that wouldn't be of any good for somebody who is just trying to run a business and needs their site to do better.
1. Website Content
Have you ever heard the phrase 'Content is king' when you are searching for any information about SEO on the net? It just happens that it's an important strategy when it comes to any site that's trying to do better in the search engine results. With the continuing trend in Google's algorithms to look for original, original quality content, this should never be underestimated or ignored. Quality content does not mean good spelling or grammar either, it means content which is as informative to the visitor as possible.
The basic rule about writing high quality content is to always think of what the page you are creating is about and stay focused on the topic. Let's say you are a hotelier and you are writing a page about one of your new services which your hotel will offer for example, a new online booking service. In this case you should stay as close to the topic of 'online booking service' as possible and concentrating your content on just that. Staying focused on the topic means, you do not start talking about how wonderful your hotel is and how it has wonderful views from the rooms in a thousand words and only mention the 'online hotel booking service' once or twice in content.
You can write about how this new online booking service to explain how it works, the benefits of using it to stay at your hotel and so on. You can of course briefly talk about what the guests will enjoy at your hotel when they book online and provide hyperlinks to pages which specifically talk about the hotel itself.
The above example and content writing tips can be applied to almost any other type of business or topic that your site is focusing on. Writing original quality content is not hard to do if you start with the right frame of mind which targets people not search engines. Always compile your content with a human reader in mind and never write to manipulate Google's algorithms or signals because it simply doesn't work any more, even when it did it didn't work very well in your favour
Just think if your site contains low-quality content and just so happens to have made it to the 1st position in the Google search results. Visitors find it, click on the link in the results to visit it, they arrive to find nothing informative enough on your site or content that grabs them . The chances are, they will simply hit the back button and surf away from your site, never to return. What's happened back there? for one thing you've lost a potential sale and will add another bounce to your site's bounce rate.
In brief, always write good quality content that is written for a human to read and when writing, ask yourself, would you bookmark the page? does it contain what you were looking for? would you need to hit the back button to look for a better result. It's hard work but once you start getting more sales or traffic, you will be glad you've spent the extra time on content writing.
2. Keywords & Keyphrases
Keywords For Seo When choosing the keywords for a particular page on your site, always do your research first. This means finding out what your competitors are appearing in the search results with and not what you think is the 'magic' keyword. The easy way to do this without spending money on software or using any online services is to run a search on Google itself. Once you have found the keyword/keyphrase that is mostly used, focus on it and include it in the content at least 3-4 times. You need to also include it in your page's Meta title, Meta description and Meta keywords if you still want to use them.
3. Website Design
Web Design SeoAny website design is crucial to SEO as it will determine how visitors will behave and feel like once they land on your site. A badly designed site that is cluttered, has a bad colour scheme and hard to navigate around is more likely to make the visitor hit the back button to get out of there as soon as possible. Good quality website design is also important when it comes to SEO as far as the size of the pages. Filling your site with none-optimized images and an excessive number of them will only make your site bring up red flags for the Google bot. As a rule, heavy and slow loading sites are considered to be a bad user experience when it comes to how Google views your website. With much of the emphasis being based on user experience when it comes to the Google's algorithms, a badly designed site will do less better in the results.
Here is a good free online tool called Pingdom which will help you analyze your site's loading time and content.
Always think how a user would feel when they are made to wait a whole minute or close for your site to load and only to find they've been waiting for a cluttered site. Make your site's navigation as simple and clear as possible. Avoid forcing the visitor to make an excessive amount of clicks to reach the information they were looking for in the first place. It's fair to say that if you frustrate your visitors with navigation that's intentionally designed to force them to pass by content they were not looking for, they will leave your site.
4. Text & Styling
Website Text SEOInclude the important keywords and keyphrases you are targeting as close as possible to the beginning of your articles and make them bold maybe two or three times. The use of heading tags is also important because they are a way that a search engine spider checks to see if your keyword is included in a page's heading for example. This is how a search engine will verify the relevancy of what your title is about and if your keyword is included in the page's Meta title, Meta description and in the h1 tag, it would consider your page as being a successful match and yield it in the results.
There are of course other h tags which go down to h6 with the h1 being the most important and h6 the least important. It's worth mentioning that when using the tags, use them on your content in the same order they come without skipping any. So if you have a heading and you've wrapped it in the h1 tag, your next use of the tags should be the h2 and so on. This is a sign that your page's content is well structured and organized for the visitor.
Keep your site nice and uncluttered avoiding the use of too many colours and the point for this is that once the visitor comes to your site, you want them to feel like staying. The last thing you want is for a larger percentage of your visitors to hit the back button, this is bad news for your SEO. Sites with a high bounce rate will be considered as a bad result served in the search and will suffer when they are served less in the results. A badly designed site will basically loose you traffic.
5. Hyperlinks
Anchor Text SEOThe importance of good linking methods will prove invaluable when it comes to SEO and this means traffic. A site that has good hyperlinks that points its visitors to the correct page in the least number of links will keep the visitor for longer. Anchor links as they are also known as are great for SEO when you include your keyword in them too for example, 'Book Limousine Online' as the hyperlink which will take the visitor to your 'Book Limousine Online' page. Include hyper links of your most important pages somewhere on the frontpage of your site and preferably with the exact keyword as it appears elsewhere for example in the Meta title, Meta description and of course the content of that page you are linking to.
6. Tools & Analytics
Website Analytics ToolsInstall Google Analytics to track how your site's traffic is performing in the search results. This will help you optimize your site further if you are seeing keywords you had hoped to achieve better results with aren't doing as well as you had hoped they would. Google Analytics will also help you find out a lot of information about how well your site's keywords are being found and it will also give you some idea about what keywords people are finding you under.
Get yourself an account with Google Webmaster Tools which will help assess how your site is doing and help you to be informed of any trouble areas on the site. Having a Google Webmaster Tools account is also important for submitting sitemaps as you can analyze how Google is seeing your sitemap and you can also resubmit a sitemap for faster indexing after changes. Another great thing about having this account with Google is that let's say your site is focused on serving the UK, you can actually tell Google that your site is mainly for people in the UK. The next time you run a search on google.uk for a keyword on your site, you will see the results are better than if you had searched for the same on google.com.
For more control over your SEO, I recommend you install the WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin which is one of the best tools for helping you improve your SEO. The Yoast plugin will also allow you to test how your page will be assessed by Google and point you in the right direction of how to fix wrong things.
7. Social media
Social Media And SEOAs social media sites are widely used by a huge number of people around the world, it's crucial your business website has a profile on as many of them as possible. It's not a must to have an account with every social media site out there but you could of course focus your efforts on the top 3 main players which are Facebook, Twitter and Google plus. By actively using these sites, not only will you be getting more traffic to your site through your online presence, you will also achieve better SEO results when it comes to the social signals.
8. Meta Tags
Social Media And SEOMeta Tags are important because they tell Google and other search engines what your site is about in a few short words or sentences. You have the Title and Description Meta tags which are the two important ones you should concentrate on. Try to place your keyword/phrase in both of those Meta tags as this will help your pages being found in the results. Be careful not to put the keyword in those tags when it's not also included in your content, it will not work and may actually be harmful to your site's ranking. The keywords Meta Tag is not considered to hold any value when it comes to Google but some search engines still use it and it wouldn't do your site any harm if you do.
9. Video content
Video content and SEOTry to produce short, good quality and informative videos about your business products or services which would help drive you traffic back to your site. As you may have noticed, you will sometimes see some videos from Youtube in the Google search results. This will improve your SEO for sure as more people visit your site.
10. Engaging visitors
Engage Site Visitors SEOOnce you have done all the SEO in the world to be found in the search results, what happens when a visitors comes to your site? When a person makes it to your site, is your content good enough to keep them engaged? Is your site offering them something they were looking for? Would they come back to your site?
The above may not sound much to do with SEO but it has a lot to do with it because good content is where we started at the top of this article. So once you get a visitor, do your best to offer them content that would engage them and make them stay longer on your site. Provide good quality content which can include, videos, a blog, a forum, competitions, surveys or basically anything that they would find interesting and informative or entertaining.
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7mesh uses Omega knit to create a jersey that fits close to the body and whisks moisture away during even the hardest of efforts. This fabric also features a high amount of mechanical stretch, so it moves with you as you ride without overstretching and losing its shape.
For the little details, 7mesh includes a full-length zipper for extra ventilation options on the fly. Three open rear pockets provide ample space to carry a spare tube and your favorite snacks along for the ride, and two zippered security pockets to hold your phone, wallet, or other small valuables.
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- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
- Fit: True to size
- Height: 5'4"
- Weight: 120lbs
After many months of ordering (and returning) jerseys, I've found the one for me. I love the 2 zip pockets, which easily fit my phone and small wallet on either side. I love the color, which is "unnatural" green, so higher visibility. As for fit, it is looser in the middle, and I like that. I bought a medium, though probably could wear the small. On the first riding day that I had to decide whether to try this or a light purple Giordana trade scatto, my husband, who generally thinks all jerseys should be form fit, said the Zmesh looked like it fit me, and that the Giordana purple color did not look the same and also would blend in with sun-setting evenings. I've ridden the zmesh now on 2 rides in lower 80s temps, and it felt great. I hope for them to make a bright red or yellow as a second jersey.
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- Fit: True to size
- Size Bought: XS
- Height: 5'0"
- Weight: 105lbs
I have this jersey in the dark purple color, which is even richer and more beautiful in person than the photo shows. I liked the jersey fine for the first few rides I took it out on, but it wasn't until I wore it mountain biking that I really appreciated it. I skidded into a tree and got scratches on my arms and torso, but the jersey was completely fine--no rips, snags, or pulls in the fabric at all. I have a pretty decent sized scrape across my stomach, but the jersey doesn't show a mark at all, which I'm pretty impressed with. The fabric is soft and cool, and it has structure to it without being so heavy that I'll need to put away when I start riding in hotter weather. My one complaint would just be fit--I wish 7mesh went with a slightly more tailored midsection for the jersey. It fits beautifully through the arms and has a shorter body that adapts to a riding position really well, plus wide, high-quality grippers on the waist hem to hold it in place. Aside from a boxy cut around the waist, the jersey feels high-end and is tough to find fault with. I didn't know much about 7mesh before, but I'll definitely be paying attention to more of their kit from now on.

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I washed plastic bugs and placed them in the chip dip. I made ants on a log by spreading peanut butter on celery sticks and then topping them with raisins.
I made lady bug strawberries. I cut strawberries in half and then dipped the tips into melted chocolate. Then I spooned some of the melted chocolate into a zip loc bag and cut a small hole in one corner. I piped the chocolate out to make a line down the middle and the spots. These were quick and easy and the kids loved them!
I made a simple bug juice label on my computer and filled water bottles with Hawaiian punch packets to make bug juice.
I made worm hot dogs. These are easy to make. You just need to bring some water to a boil. Cut 4-6 slits along one half of each hot dog. Make the cuts about 1/4" apart and 1/2" deep. turn each hot dog over and make 4-6 cuts on the opposite side. Cook the hot dogs in the boiling water for about 5 minutes or until they become curvy. Remove from the water, and drain on paper towels. Place the hot dogs on open buns. I put a small amount of mustard in a zip loc bag, cut a small hole in the corner of the bag and piped eyes and a smile on the worms.
For dessert I served the kids worms in dirt. I filled the cups with chocolate pudding, topped them with Oreo crumbs and placed some gummy worms inside.
While I was getting dinner ready I let the kids create their own bugs. I put out different colored papers, glue, scissors, crayons, pipe cleaners, googly eyes, pom poms, and a few other craft supplies.
Here are their finished bugs! I thought they all did a great job. I printed off award ribbons from www.billybear4kids.com and attached them to Hershey candy bars. To get the template for the award ribbon click HERE.
The awards were for the most colorful bug, the most creative bug, the best named bug, the cutest bug, and the creepiest bug.
After dinner we went on a walk to a nearby park to look for bugs. Then we came home and watched The Ant Bully. We were going to watch A Bugs Life but we couldn't find it. The kids all had a lot of fun.


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Magallanes named this region because of the natives that where found when he arrived. They were called "Patagones" (which means "big foot"). It's one of the biggest natural reserves in the world which lodges penguins, marine elephants, whales, thousands of birds and a great variety of autochthonous species. The eternal Glaciers called "Ventisqueros" are very famous and amazing. This huge area has 800 square kilometres with a density of 1 inhabitant per 2 skm.
The region can be divided in two: Atlantic and Andean Patagonia. We find in the first one, Peninsula Valdes; meanwhile among Andean Patagonia we can find the mountain cities of Bariloche, San Martin de los Andes and Villa La Angostura, all located in the lakes area, going south there are Lago Argentino and the glaciers area, and finally the southernmost Tierra del Fuego.


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Day ten of my personal challenges, and I'm still going strong! Earrings du jour:
|This teacup has become my new best friend...
This beautiful pair is a personal favorite of mine~ lapis lazuli centers, flanked by golden freshwater pearls (shaped like doughnuts, yum yum!) and small black onyx beads. They were designed to coordinate with a necklace that I had in mind for a while, and finally finished up today as well.
|The lapis lazuli is a little out of focus here, but it gives you an idea of the colors against a darker surface~
Now, I absolutely LOVE this set. I love the way it looks, I love the stones, and I love the colors. But I have to admit that when I saw them on the neck form... no matter how I tried... no matter what angle I took the photo... no matter how I moved the earrings around, and the necklace up or down... it looked like the face of a deranged cookie monster.
|"C" is for "color" AND "cookies"!
Fortunately, it does not have this same effect while on a person. I speak from experience on this.
However, I will have to be EXCEPTIONALLY careful when I put them on display these for sale. No need to scare the customers away from the booth...


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Going home
is a series of discarded photos.
A movie, a montage of moving faces
crammed into different phases,
blurred on the fogged up window spaces,
all stoplight swirls of people on autopilot
in the horror of passing through half-alive.
The wage slaves with blinders
spray over the myriad details.
Perhaps the only way to avoid this fate,
the only true discipline
is to stop for a moment the spinning carousel,
and apprehend the tiny miracle
shot through with words and coming out the other side
where faceless entities reside,
to read and comment and connect this ritual
of fleeting interpretation
to the actual substance of our connection.
When transcripts from the underground
is this beautiful mist landing on the sound
of my fingers pressed between pages.
The film merges with the car alarm,
connected to the wind that moves the curtain
to charm the leaves into heightened heaves of breath
from hidden recesses.
Awake again, as if Lazarus from out of sickness,
I can finally smell the tangerine peels from Chinatown markets,
I feel the bliss of one man's lit cigarette
as it hangs out of an open window
to bear witness to the street scenes
packed into the periphery of dreams.
There's the teary airport discovery
that no one knows when the next time they'll share company,
that time together is a slippery slope,
a shifting season in woodsmoke,
a chalk drawing the rain would soak
and wash away
with the sound of TV static.
Under many years of cover,
certain circumstances bring these memories to light.
Surfacing at last behind the blast of an engine,
an explosion, a flag at half mast
for the unknown victims of your exploration.
A textured recollection, a fragment thrown
into the haphazard puzzle of going home.
A scent, a street, a body of water,
all that you've ever known,
pieced together, a form returning
to the puzzle of going home.


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In the last of my posts on the fascinating McLaughlin poll, I'll look at the cross-tabs examining partisan differences on Obama, Israel, and foreign policy and consider what the drop in Democratic support for Israel means for American Jewish leaders.
As a general matter, Obama has a problem with independents. Sixty-seven percent of them would consider voting for someone else. Overall, voters disapprove of Obama's performance by a 50 to 48 percent margin; among independents, however, 60 percent disapprove.
More specifically, only 13 percent of Republicans and 40 percent of independents approve of Obama's handling of foreign policy. Eighty-three percent of Democrats approve, high marks, but they reflect his base's unease with the war in Afghanistan. The contrast grows stronger when the issue is narrowed to Israel. Among Republicans, only 13 percent approve of Obama's handling of U.S.-Israel relations, and only 30 percent of independents do. Seventy-six percent of Democrats, by far his most enthusiastic base of support on this issue but much lower than on broader policy issues, approve of the job Obama is doing. Asked whether Obama is harming or improving Israel's security, only 51 percent of Democrats say he is improving; they can't, however, bring themselves to admit that he is harming Israel's security, so 35 percent go with "undecided." And again, independents (50 percent) are much closer to Republicans (75 percent) in thinking Obama is harming the security of the Jewish state. (Interestingly, a plurality of Democrats is willing to confess that Obama is less friendly toward Israel than past presidents.)
Remarkably, only 39 percent of Democrats agree that Israel's enemies are our enemies, while 70 percent of Republicans and 48 percent of independents do. A plurality (42 percent) of Democrats do let on that Obama's approach in criticizing Israel but not the Palestinians is objectionable, but that figure once again is far lower than it is for Republicans (68 percent) and independents (57 percent). Should Jerusalem remain Israel's undivided capital? Sixty-three percent of Republicans agree, but only a plurality of Democrats (42 percent) do. Who's responsible for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Seventy-three percent of Republicans and 57 percent of independents say it is the Palestinians fault; only 46 percent of Democrats agree. Would they be more likely to vote for a pro-Israel candidate? A measly 38 percent of Democrats say yes; sixty-nine percent of Republicans would be.
On question after question, Republicans remain the most forceful defenders of Israel, with independents more divided but positive as well. Put differently, if Israel had to rely on Democrats alone, it would not enjoy a majority of American support on key issues.
That's even clearer when it comes to Iran. Only 24 percent of Republicans say they are "strongly opposed" to Israel's or the U.S.'s attacking Iran; nearly double that — 45 percent — of Democrats are. In a conflict with Israel's enemies, only 21 percent of Republicans and 26 percent of independents want to pressure Israel into a ceasefire; a large plurality of Democrats, 47 percent, do. Do they think Obama's sanction will succeed in stopping Iran from going nuclear? Less than 20 percent of Republicans and independents do; a substantial plurality of Democrats (46 percent) does. If sanctions don't work, huge majorities of Republicans (75 percent) and independents (62 percent) favor military action against Iran; a bare plurality of Democrats (46 percent) do. And finally, if Israel is forced to attack Iran, 79 percent of Republicans and 66 percent of independents would consider that "defensive"; only 50 percent of Democrats do.
To sum up, once again, the GOP is the political party most alarmed by the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran, most supportive of our using military force to disarm the mullahs, and most willing to support Israel in the event of a military conflict. Democrats are the least supportive of Israel and military action with regard to Iran, while independents fall somewhere in the middle but closer to the GOP on these issues.
There are three lessons to be learned here.
First, the Democratic Party, once a bastion of support for the Jewish state, no longer is. Those who bemoan that Israel is becoming a divisive political issue ignore the reason for this development: Democrats aren't as supportive of Israel as Republicans, and that view is at odds with the electorate.
Second, Jewish groups, which remain primarily Democratic and have, as we've seen, been reluctant to criticize a Democratic president hostile to Israel, have a fundamental problem: the strongest supporters of their mission to support the Jewish state come from the ranks of those who are normally political opponents, and, conversely, their biggest problem is Democrats. That is a political and intellectual challenge that Jewish leaders need to face. Will their membership take on Democratic policy and candidates if they threaten to undermine support for the Jewish state?
And finally, there is no upside, none at all, for American politicians to bash Israel, to attempt to restrain the Jewish state in the event of a military action, or to show timidity on Iran. These are losing propositions with the American electorate. So a caution for the president: even if he has convinced himself that his current policies are the correct ones, his approach is wildly out of sync with voters. Or put differently, if not for the right reasons, at least for political reasons, he'd be well advised to rethink his reticence toward the use of force against Iran and his policy of distancing the U.S. from Israel.


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This is an exercise in prose poetry followed by the original {much shorter version} and a version that is not at all prose.
I wasn't in a hurry when I left; it was a rather methodical expedition through our collected memories which were tucked carefully into seven boxes and driven over three rivers to where I gently landed in a cottage that had room enough for a single bed, two windows, and a dark oak phone booth that engulfed the multi-purpose living room. That phone booth became my nemesis as it hovered over, reminding me that I was alone in every sense of the word; so I turned it into my craft haven where I stored all my projects, ribbons and paper in yellow, violet, green, red and blue took the place of the dark wood exterior. There were no quick changes happening here, so I slipped into the welcoming quiet, and looked out the window as I watched the cows out for their daily stroll along the fence line. The phone in that booth never rang and Superman never came to save me.
I wasn't in a hurry when I left; it was a methodical expedition through our collected memories which were tucked carefully into seven boxes. My journey took me to a cottage that had a single bed, two windows and a dark oak phone booth that engulfed the living room. I slipped into the welcoming quiet. Superman never saved me.
{Non prose version}
I wasn't in a hurry
so, no I did not leave in a scurry
it was a slow exploration
a mental cleansing if you will
The memories were separated
fought over and then packed
Seven boxes were driven
over mountains and rivers
There laid a little house
and things were quite as a mouse
And there was the phone booth
the one that held the truth
Huge in the living space
it towered over me
Side note: I love the show The Big Bang Theory and got the idea for this prose piece from an episode where Sheldon was lamenting over the thought of having to move and how he would have to go the grocery store to get boxes for packing and was in a tizzy because my "books will smell like melons".


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Celebrate fall
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Lovely Fall painting darling...enjoy the weekend....mucg love from me...x !ReplyDelete
Am so pleased your father is well again and all is just fine!! Wonderful, I hope he continues to feel better. Such a gorgeous painting, I do love the fall :)) Have a beautiful weekend xxReplyDelete
What a riot of colors. And beautiful fall is already around the corner. How wonderful.ReplyDelete
My dear, dear friend! I would have missed this post if I had not gone through each and every blog I follow on my sidebar. My sidebar is not working properly, and many of the new posts don't jump up correctly! Your art is a refreshing look at all the seasons! ENJOY the warmth of friendships as the months get chilly my sweet friend! AnitaReplyDelete
Glad to hear your father is on the road to good health. Happy autumn weekend, dear!ReplyDelete
Love this piece! the colors are fabulous. You always wow us with your creativity Martina!!ReplyDelete
Blessings, Edie Marie
glad to hear your father's doing better!ReplyDelete
your painting is so pretty-great colors :)
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Sorry about your Father, but so glad to hear that he is doing better. May he make a full recovery...sounds like he's on the right road.
Have a great weekend!
Such beautiful and inspirational painting, Martina!ReplyDelete
It is so wonderful that your father is recovering...may he become stronger every day...
Much love,
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I am submitting this post to Aspiring Bakers #9 – Swiss Rolling Good Times (July 2011) hosted by Obsessedly Involved with Food.
75 gr Sugar
90 gr Plain four
10 gr Custard flour
40 gr Milk
40 gr Oil
1/2 tsp Mango paste
A drop of yellow colour (optional)
100 gr Whipped Cream
Mango, diced
- Preheat oven 200 degree.
- Whisk eggs and sugar until stiff.
- Add combined flour, stir well, then milk + oil + mango paste + colour mixed well until batter is shiny.
- Pour into tray (12"x12"x1") and bake for 10-15 mins
- Leave to cool on a wire rack
- Spread cake once it cool with whipped cream and diced mango, then roll it with the help of the greaseproof paper.
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Hello everyone!
How is weekend? Are you having a good rest?
I'm feeling exhausted and a little depressed so I won't talk too much here. Hope you enjoy this mini set of banana split in the making. Thank you all for dropping by and a bigger thank you to the usual people who always leave me kind and encouraging comments. I don't always say it but I really appreciate them!
I didn't forget about the giveaway to celebrate my 500th sale on Etsy but my table is in a mess and I need to get organised. Please be patient with me... :D


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Walking home from the City Centre tonight, we saw some bright orange lights hanging almost motionless in the sky. At first they seemed to be two points of light. As we got closer and got a better view, it became clear that they were chinese lanterns. It was difficult to get a sense of scale but they seemed quite large - possibly several feet across.
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Dress - Ola Vintage // Lips - Rimmel Apocalips in Luna
The sun has been shining down on us this week, on me especially, I'm not one to boast but I have had an incredible week so far. Apart from the mountains of uni work I had to submit I PASSES MY FREAKING DRIVING TEST! Unfortunately I haven't got a car yet, which is most annoying as I want to take my best friend to castles and whiz around wherever I like whenever I like. I feel I have independence but I'm still unable to be free. I passed with only five minors, this is definitely the biggest achievement of my life to date. A few other exciting things have been going on but it's early days to be blurting that out, but there have been developments and I'm excited.
Today I haven't been feeling so great, so I had a pretty lazy day, this mint green dress is comfy and it brightened up my day lot. I got it from my friend Anna, who has been doing the vintage fairs for year up in the North West, she's great and her items are genuine and affordable, so exited to see what she has next time I go to visit, check out her Facebook page to see where she will be next.
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Since I've started I'm always adding new products, you have to in this market in order to keep up with the competition. But I don't always have an age appropirate model to showcase my items. And frankly taking a picture of it out in the grass or against a wall just doesn't do it justice in my opinion.
So that's why I've decided to have TMB's first ever Spring/Summer Model Search.
And I want to invite you to enter your little monkey. I'm having it over at my facebook page and below are all the details. You will need to become a fan in order to enter but I'm really excited about it!
Our first ever model search is on! (You can also find the details HERE)
Texas Monkey Boutique has some great things planned for late Spring and Summer and I am looking for some fresh faces to model my products! And I want you to enter your monkey!
Send 3 recent, clear quality photos (no phone pics please) of your model to firstname.lastname@example.com and I will choose one photo per submission to enter in the contest. Or simply send the one you want me to use. Please include the name and age of your little monkey.
I will post all contest entries in a contest album for each age group where you may vote for your favorite submission. Each "like" a picture receives counts as one vote. You must "like" Texas Monkey Boutique before you can like your favorite photo. The photo with the most" likes" wins! Comments are welcome but will not count towards the vote. So you'll want to send all of your family and friends to vote.
The winners of each age group will receive a selection of Texas Monkey Boutique products and will be featured on my website and facebook pate as an official TMB model!
Please note: If you are the winner it will be expected that you take pictures of your monkey in their winning products and emailed to me to use on the site. And as new items are introduced your winner will continue to receive the free products.
Entries will be accepted through 3/4, contest will start 3/5 and run through 3/19. Winners announced 3/20!
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Will need at least 3 entries per age group, if for some reason there are not 3 entries, that age group will be grouped together with the closest age.
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Financial Landscape Forcing Shift in Retirement Planning
Barrett, Larry, American Banker
Byline: Larry Barrett
The stunning decline in property values across most of the country, a prolonged recession and plain-old negligence and shortsightedness on the part of American workers have combined to make retirement more a fantasy than a reality for tens of millions of baby boomers.
In fact, the number of people 65 and older will increase 79% between now and 2030, meaning another 75 million new retirees - or people who would love to be retired - will be looking for help with retirement income and investing. Faced also with the likelihood of more expensive health care just when they need it, many are terrified they'll run out of money long before they die.
Financial advisers charged with getting all these boomers headed toward a comfortable retirement need to open their minds to new investment strategies that defy conventional wisdom, said Dave Paulsen, Transamerica Capital Management's chief sales officer.
"The retirement landscape is unlike anything we've ever seen before, with new challenges that are changing the way retirees receive retirement income," he said.
Paulsen said financial professionals need to appreciate that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to an individual's retirement plan and traditional methods that advisers have relied on for years - including the so-called 4% rule or the "bucket" approach to retirement planning - need to be augmented with diverse and more creative tools and investment products.
"This is especially important if you consider the state of the equity markets over the past decade," he said. "Most clients can't afford another market downturn."
Health care is a huge issue for retiring boomers. …


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Uflex Engineering Division, a unit of Uflex Limited, designs and manufactures printing, packaging and converting machines (for cutting and packaging large production materials, usually roll stock, into smaller, more usable sizes and shapes). Founded in 1984, Uflex has 415 employees working at facilities spread over 11 acres near the Indian capital of New Delhi.
Uflex's machines are used around the world to package everything from shampoos and cosmetics to pillows and mattresses. The company has introduced breakthroughs in packaging technology, such as the use of holograms. It has also received numerous international awards, including the WorldStar Award for Packaging Excellence and another for Design Innovation of the Year from Unilever.
Uflex's goal is to be a one-stop packaging solution, providing cost-effective and innovative equipment that ensures the safe delivery of products to consumers. The company is also working to become a world leader in the field of packaging machinery. "The way to being a world-class player is paved with state-of-the-art facilities blended with world-class practices, and it shall be our endeavor to soon be placed among the top ten international players," says Ravi Sharma, senior vice president at Uflex.
Leveraging 3D
To meet these goals, Uflex needed to accelerate the development of its machines, while maintaining high levels of product quality. A key part of this was an upgrade from a 2D computer-aided design (CAD) system to an advanced 3D solution, specifically Solid Edge® software from Siemens PLM Software.
70 percent reduction of development time for new machines
Fewer design errors
Less rework
More accurate cost estimates
Lower prices for new machines
Solid Edge was chosen over other 3D CAD solutions for a number of reasons. "Solid Edge has better technology, and we could see that it would be easy to learn and easy to deploy," says Sharma. "In addition, the support from Siemens PLM Software's channel partner, Avantha Technologies Limited, was better than what we would have received if we had gone with other programs." Uflex implemented Solid Edge in its design and research and development (R&D) departments. The company received training in Solid Edge from Avantha Technologies Limited and also has on-site support from Avantha when necessary.
Faster machine design, fewer errors
Since implementing Solid Edge, Uflex has seen significant gains in efficiency and productivity. "We are now able to manufacture and deliver more machines," says Sharma. One of the ways Solid Edge does this is by greatly reducing the number of design errors, which has reduced rework on parts and assemblies.
Sharma credits the superior visualization capabilities of Solid Edge. "When we create a digital assembly of a machine in Solid Edge, we can find problems, such as interferences, that we would have missed when we were using 2D drawings," notes Sharma. This improved level of visualization is having a positive effect on sales and marketing too. He explains, "We show virtual machines created in Solid Edge at demonstrations for customers and at trade shows. Solid Edge helps us get the order."
In addition, using Solid Edge, Uflex quickly generates bills of materials (BOMs) from the information in the 3D assembly models.
70 percent faster product development, significant financial benefits
Uflex has reduced the development cycle for new machines by 70 percent since the upgrade to Solid Edge. This not only helps ensure on-time delivery of its machines, it also allows the company to differentiate itself from the competition, an important part of its strategy for becoming a world leader in its industry.
The effect of Solid Edge on the company's bottom line has been a reduction in costs enabled by a dramatic drop-off in rework. Solid Edge has a financial benefit for Uflex's customers as well. Since installing Solid Edge, Uflex has been able to lower the prices of new machines. Other important benefits of Solid Edge include more accurate cost estimates, increased product quality and higher levels of innovation. With Solid Edge, Uflex is delivering packaging equipment that preserves, protects and displays products, as well as packaging lines that operate at among the highest production rates compared to its worldwide competition.
Apr 30, 2011
Solid Edge reduces development time for packaging machines by 70 percent at Uflex
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By Tony Dutra
Sept. 15 — There's no question the America Invents Act of 2011 drastically changed patent litigation practice by creating an administrative path for challenging patents, but whether those changes are for better or worse remain a matter of perspective on law's fifth anniversary.
One criticism has been that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board has turned into a "patent death squad" with a bias against patent owners that results in many patents being declared invalid. Teresa Stanek Rea, who headed the Patent and Trademark Office when the PTAB made its first decision, sharply rejected that criticism, saying it is not supported by the numbers.
"The early complaints of pro-petitioner bias are not justified, especially in light of recent statistics," Rea told Bloomberg BNA in an email. So why the perception of bias?
Robert A. Armitage, who helped draft the AIA, told Bloomberg BNA in an email that the PTO made choices about the board's review process—such as picking the standard for judging patents' validity—that created a misconception that the PTAB was anti-patent owner. But even if statistics now show greater balance between petitioner and patent owner success, it's difficult for parties considering litigation, licensing or investment to determine a patent's value without speculating on its chances for surviving a PTAB proceeding, he said.
"The AIA was a seminal start at needed reforms," said Armitage, who sees a need for more changes to patent law that would help the system function better. "Congress still needs to act to secure a patent system optimally able to spur investment in innovation."
Others, though see little need for anything more than minor adjustments as Congress begins to contemplate what further changes to court or PTAB proceedings to undertake in 2017. Rea and Ropes & Gray intellectual property litigation partner J. Steven Baughman, who has compiled a perfect 35-0 record in PTAB trials, for instance, see little need for anything more than "tweaks" to current law.
Kevin Jakel, founder and CEO of the Unified Patents Inc., an organization that advocates for companies accused of patent infringement, especially by the non-practicing entities known derisively as "patent trolls," said the PTAB has succeeded in its mission of serving as a cheaper alternative to challenging patents in court.
"The PTAB has been a game-changer and, as the legislative intent suggested, it has worked as a less expensive alternative to litigation," Jakel told Bloomberg BNA in an email. "The use of the PTAB in litigation has reduced the cost of settlement and often removed invalid patents that should not have been asserted in the first place."
When President Barack Obama signed the legislation that became the AIA in 2011, though, the PTAB was not everyone's choice as the most significant change to come (181 PTD, 9/19/11). The board already had final say on infrequently requested reexaminations of granted patents, and the 500-pound gorilla now known as IPR—inter partes review—was supposed to be only a replacement of the parallel two-party reexamination option.
But IPRs took on a life all their own. Challengers have filed over 5,000 IPR petitions in less than four years. That compares to 1,919 inter partes reexaminations over the program's 13-year life from 1999-2012, when inter partes review took over.
The AIA set up a two-stage challenge scheme: A post-grant review (PGR) petition could challenge a patent on any grounds at all within the first nine months of its issuance, while IPRs—for older patents—could only put new prior art before the PTAB and claim invalidity for lack of novelty or obviousness in light of the new references.
Baughman remembers "finger wagging" by colleagues when he filed some of the first petitions on Sept. 16, 2012 (180 PTD, 9/18/12).
"As we started winning, their tune changed," Baughman told Bloomberg BNA. "In just four years, the proceedings led to a tectonic shift in how litigation is viewed. It's hard to overstate how important the PTAB has come."
But like Rea, he bristled at the complaint that the PTAB favors challengers.
"The power and complexity of these trials really rewards a sophisticated approach from either side," Baughman said. "What initially was considered a death squad become a place where both sides can prevail if they approach it in a thoughtful way."
And Jakel, whose organization—able to contest patents because Congress didn't limit the challenge to those involved in litigation—has filed 53 IPR petitions in the last 1.5 years, added, "The suggestion that the board is pro-petitioner just doesn't hold water, unless honestly and efficiently assessing patent validity is somehow anti-patent."
The statistics, particularly recently, back his claim with respect to IPRs at least (137 PTD, 7/18/16). Unified Patents' figures show under 40 percent of patent claims being canceled.
That is a few percentage points better than challenger success rates in district court, but it's not surprising when the PTAB is using the "broadest reasonable interpretation" (BRI) of patents challenged in these proceedings, according to Armitage. BRI allows more prior art to be considered than the "plain and ordinary meaning" standard used in district courts, and the chance of a patent being found invalid is higher with BRI—because more prior material is taken into account when considering if an invention is truly novel or not obvious.
But even if actual bias is hard to prove, the perception remains, Armitage said. "Just as bad as actual pro-petitioner bias in IPR proceedings is the mere appearance of pro-petitioner bias."
The PTO made rules changes in response to patent owner complaints this spring (63 PTD, 4/1/16). But, Armitage said, "While the USPTO has addressed some of these appearance-of-unfairness issues, it has yet to recant on its most serious such issue—its implementation decision on BRI."
Rea, now a partner at Crowell & Moring, disagreed, citing rulings on appeals by disappointed PTAB litigants to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that have, for the most part, upheld the board's judgments.
"The Federal Circuit is familiar with the early reports of pro-petitioner bias, and their decisions do not support any bias in the PTAB proceedings," she said.
The AIA-created post grant review option has yet to play out fully, since a challenge could only be made to a patent applied for after March 16, 2013. The first cases reaching a final decision have favored the petitioner and it's possible that, like IPRs, practitioners are waiting to see successes first. But Armitage believes otherwise, referencing what some members of Congress now call a "scrivener's error" in the AIA's estoppel text—leaving a PGR loser at the PTAB with limits on what it can challenge later in court.
Congress' failure to correct that "legislative error" has colored petitioners' view of the PGR option, said Armitage. "The inability to pass corrective legislation to limit the PGR judicial estoppel to issues actually raised has made this cornerstone provision of the AIA unattractive to large numbers of potential petitioners," he said.
But the AIA also created a PGR cousin—a temporary "covered business method" (CBM) challenge option set to expire in 2020. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) was single-handedly responsible for its inclusion in the AIA (175 PTD, 9/9/11), decrying "thousands" of patents creating a "plague" on Wall Street.
But the PTO's early predictions downplayed the concern significantly, and stakeholders are generally not surprised that only 475 CBM petitions have been filed. Rep. Robert W. Goodlatte (R-Va.) said in a hearing on Capitol Hill Sept. 13, "Based upon the statistics and cases being reviewed through the business method transitional program, it continues to be a success and is operating quite well. It will be important for this program to remain strong in the future."
The future of CBMs is likely to become a controversial issue. Petitions for U.S. Supreme Court review have questioned how broadly the PTAB is interpreting "business method," while Schumer repeatedly tries to insert language that would expand the program—both in breadth and length of time—into legislation that Goodlatte is spearheading, the Innovation Act.
Baughman, who is counsel of record in more CBM proceedings than any other attorney, said he would welcome an expansion, because CBMs allow the PTAB to consider more issues than novelty and obviousness.
"CBMs have become a really important and powerful tool for some companies, other than in the financial industry," he said.
When Obama signed the AIA, stakeholders were concerned about changing from a first-to-invent to a first-inventor-to-file (FITF) system. That may still constitute a big change, but there has been too little experience with first–inventor-to-file—the first patents granted under the system were issued in 2014—to make a significant impact yet.
Meanwhile, two other issues have already generated controversy. And Armitage, whose treatise Understanding the America Invents Act and Its Implications for Patenting, 40 AIPLA Q.J. 1, 10-14 (2012), is widely cited, is concerned about both.
First, the PTO made rules surrounding the so-called "grace period"— the 12 months preceding an inventor's patent application filing date—that allows some public disclosures, written or spoken, about an invention to defeat the inventor's priority claim during that time.
Armitage refused to blame the PTO, saying it was the only reasonable interpretation of "complicated and much criticized AIA provisions" that tried to keep an expansive pre-FITF grace period "that never existed." He called for Congress to "rationalize" the provisions, and reject a legislative fix proposed by four congressmen that aims for an "outrageously expansive new grace period" (73 PTD, 4/16/15).
Second, a controversial case before the Federal Circuit asks whether the AIA changed the law on "secret" use prior to the grace period. Under current Federal Circuit law, such use can sometimes trigger the requirement for the inventor to file an application. The AIA unequivocally changed the law, Armitage said, by using the terms "public use" and "available to the public."
Rea's request of Congress was on a very different AIA aspect. The Judiciary Committees in both houses fought to let the PTO control its own revenues and budget without congressional oversight. They lost (181 PTD, 9/19/11).
But parallel Appropriations Committees accepted a funding procedure that, they vowed, would always give the PTO what it collected, ending the "diversion" of about $1 billion that intellectual property stakeholders paid but which the office wasn't allowed to spend.
That promise was broken within a year. Another $140 million was diverted in fiscal year 2013, with sequestration used as the excuse (96 PTD, 5/17/13).
"The PTO needs legislation that explicitly requires it to keep all of its fee income," Rea said. "The PTO should be allowed to manage its budget and maintain a sufficient reserve. The uncertainty of the budget process adds unnecessary complexity."
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Are you thinking that, How to Improve Immune System? The colostrums will give us a strong immune system. But what is Colostrums? And from where do we get it? Then your question is answered in this article. Just have a quick read.
Colostrum is not the milk which transmits resistance, but only an extraordinary form of mother`s milk, called the `Colostrum`. Initially it was discovered by the scientist that only the first few days of a mother's milk have the ability of transmitting the immune system to the baby. This transfer factor was only available in the regular mother's milk.
Bovine Colostrum is a milk made by mammals prior to and post pregnancy, and is full of nutrients and antibodies to make newborns healthy. This keeps human beings fit and strong too, and is the foundation of an exciting new variety of supplements. It's the nature's gift to a human being as a great immune system booster. As colostrums are totally a natural food, it doesn't have any side effects. It contains natural minerals, vitamins, antibodies and other factors which increase our immune system. It also provides the same effects throughout our life. Hardly anyone has reported side effects of this. Usually it is related to the individual's unique health condition.
Since, colostrums have almost everything the body needs. It provides great benefits for sportsperson. Almost every day sportspeople destroy their energy so that they can work harder and do the same practice again the next day. If they include colostrums in their food then it will be a very beneficial for them as it contains anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, various proteins and other growth factor that support growth of muscle fibers and all tissues. It is organically designed to support and maintain life, strengthen and help the immune system to grow and optimize the human body's normal functions. So in return it makes logic that there should be nothing but constructive effects associated with it.
There are several deceases which occur because of low immune system. As we are aware, Cancer is related to lack of immune power. When our cells become damaged they continue to grow and multiply out of control. The Spread or growth of damaged cells is itself a Cancer. This however, can occur only when the immune system is not working the way it should work and the damaged cells take an advantage of that and they starts spreading all over the body. If the cells are damaged or not working properly then colostrums increases the immune systems and keep them checking. If we have a strengthened immune system our body can avoid cancer from even occurring. Colostrums help our body to get the tissues in natural & normal state and naturally we are saved from all those deceases which are chronic & dangerous.
Cow colostrums are a thick lemon yellow colored discharge produced by cows for around 72 hours after the birth of a calf. Now it is available in capsule form. Many scientists are working on colostrums and trying to find the solution on all the deceases but the basic cure i.e. boosting immune system can be done with colostrums. After lot of research was done with milk produced by a human being and human colostrums, but there was also research done to find out whether a cow milk or a buffalo milk (Cow Colostrums & Buffalo Colostrums could convey the transfer factor and increase the immune system.


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We support the sat nav industry by making our detailed mapping data available to all sat nav manufacturers and suppliers. We do not develop or manufacture sat nav systems or software ourselves, nor do we create the travel instructions that are displayed on your device.
Instead, we supply a range of products, both premium, such as the OS MasterMap Integrated Transport Network Layer, and free, via our OS OpenData portfolio, to satnav manufacturers and suppliers. Our data is fully maintained and current and as roads are built or changed, we map these changes and make them available in our data.
Third-party system and software customers may use our data as just one component of their products, which might also feature information, such as, known congestion blackspots and safety camera locations – this information comes from other sources. It is this portfolio of data, overlaid with your device or service provider's own inferences from it, that is used to generate the suggested routes and prompts which your device provides during your journey.
Some devices or services do not contain our mapping information at all. Their developers either conduct their own surveying work or license map data from other suppliers.
If you would like more information on how Ordnance Survey works with navigational technology, GPS and the national positioning infrastructure, please visit the OS Net pages for more details.
Data capture
We aim to capture significant change to the landscape within six months of completion to maintain the currency of our national geographic database (NGD). From this we can produce a range of products, including OS MasterMap Integrated Transport Network Layer with over 340 000 miles of network lines depicting all road carriageways and some 980 000 associated Road Routing Information (RRI) features.
We only capture physical features within our data. For example, if there is a motorway in the landscape, we will call it a motorway – but we do not record how busy it is at different times of day. Sat nav manufacturers add any extra information to make their routing applications work or to attribute routes with a weighting of importance that determines the order in which the navigation software will route the user.
Update cycles for all our datasets are published and known by the satnav industry.
Who recommends the route you should take
We supply both free and premium, paid for, data on road networks to a range of users associated with routing and navigation, including some satnav system manufacturers and component suppliers.
However, these businesses then decide how to use this information in their systems – and how often they update the mapping data. Users can then choose the equipment that suits their needs – whether commercial, fleet or for private use – and decide how often they update their system and the level of detail they want.
Some sat nav suppliers use their own revisions of routing data and do not take any updates from us.
We do not recommend particular routes or say any particular route is faster or slower than another, since we do not create the routing software.
It is important to note that the definition as to whether a road is public or private is defined by the local authority, not by us.
We would encourage customers with a satellite navigation query relating to the above to contact their manufacturer/supplier.
Satnav accuracy
Satnavs use the Global Positioning System (GPS), positions have an accuracy of around 5-10 metres on the ground and 10-20 metres in height. There are many factors that can lead to the distortion of GPS signals, such as orbital errors, physical obstructions (tall buildings, trees and so on) and bad reception.
Satnav devices for walking
Although most in-car satellite navigation systems are designed specifically for navigation whilst driving, hand-held GPS systems are also available that are designed for walking and some systems are a combination of the two. You can buy a range of hand-held GPS systems by our partners from us.
SatNav error reporting
How to report errors in satnav maps
Please report all errors to the private mapping companies direct; these are HERE, formerly Navteq and TomTom, formerly Tele Atlas. Both companies provide reporting systems on their websites, which allow you to report problems.
Postcodes in your satnav
Postcodes often include several different addresses and a satnav may only direct you to the centre of the postcode area, rather than an individual property within it. We can verify if a postcode is contained within our products and if it is correctly located.
However, if a postcode is missing from your device, please contact your device manufacturer. It may be that you need to buy an update for the device.