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School Heaven Or Hell
April 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment
School life has always been a scary tunnel for me, never ending, monotonous and bizarre. Why? Not because I was lazy or someone running away from studies but due to the reason that I felt inferior from others. And this feeling was given to me by the class fellows supported by the honorable teachers. I suffered this because my father wasn’t a doctor, engineer or any influential authority. Now most of the honorable readers might think: what can they gain from my experience? Well I am not here to blame my teachers or school or discuss my past life. I just want to help many students like me who loose their confidence and trust in the teachers and other humans. School is a place to spend a happy life, learning, experiencing and gaining. When we send our children: how many of us actually see what our children are going through? What are they being taught? Are they being treated equally or not? A lot of teachers like to favor children coming from the “higher status” and or influential backgrounds. Now everybody knows that it’s natural to gain more watching than by reading. What double standards are there? We are taught to treat humans equally but practically we don’t. How is a child supposed to respect a book which teaches it very different from what the child sees in reality? What type of moral are we teaching our innocent children? A student has to suffer the terrifying procedures of tests and interviews before getting admission. But what about the school to which we are handing over our future. How many of us parents ask and interrogate these schools to know what their actual intentions are? How serious they are to build a sensible loving and caring society. Has the school administration ever thought how much discrimination they are feeding an innocent mind. After all, school is a noble cause rather than just a business.
About the Author
Mammuna Fatima born in Lahore, Pakistan on August 30, 1986. Currently completing higher studies.
Apr
6
Discover Nature
April 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment
A lovely day for outdoor activity. If you are camping or staying in a cabin, you can explore the wild in a safe environment.
There is always, an interesting time for outdoors, or a camping trip. Be organised, have a well-lit torch, so you can see wild life at night. The owls, hooting, bats catching their prey by the light which attracts the insects, so that the cycle can move on. The wolf, fox, hedgehogs, or rodents, are mostly out at night and all this allows you to discover nature.
A moon lit sky, and to listen to night life is an intriguing moment. Make sure you don’t get bitten by rodents or any other animal at night, it could be rabid.
When you are out in the wild to discover nature, wear boots to knee high, what if a snake tries to bite you, or you step on a scorpion, a centipede, or even spider.
By protecting yourself, from being attacked you will enjoy the beauty of all nature around you, at night or in day light.
Discover nature in the day if you like, listen to birds singing, you will notice colours of birds, see the lovely butterflies, different beetles, dragon-flies too. A world of nature at your doorstep, you are free-minded when around nature.
Published: 2009-10-31
Author: Devika Primic
Apr
6
1 in 20 Americans Not Literate
April 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment
1 in 20 Americans Not Literate
Just as I’ve suspected, the U.S. Commissioner of education statistics stated that the results of a national survey showed that 1 in 20 Americans are illiterate, that 29% of Americans have only BASIC reading skills.
This is a disaster in a country that depends on the intelligence of its populace to elect the people that govern us and control every aspect of our daily life. I would venture to say that of these 29%, every single one of them knows the scores of last Sunday’s football games or the latest headlines in People magazine.
If you don’t possess the basic reading and math skill, like being able to add numbers on a bank slip, read a map or read the directions for taking medication, what the hell do you know? There was a time in this country that knowledge was respected and was something sought after. Now, all that stuff is phooey.
A free democratic society cannot function or endure with the mentality of a fourth grader. Citizens must be able to make informed judgments and sound decisions, especially in regard to the future of our government. When Jay Leno can stop a stranger on the street and ask for the name of the Vice President and get a blank stare, that is pathetic. Forget Arab terrorists, this country will be done in by stupid people. The solution is very simple though, just learn ONE thing a day. Really, it does NOT HURT. No pain, I promise. Soon you will have gained thousands of pieces of knowledge and you’d be surprised how much fuller your lives will be.Published: 2009-02-15
Author: Gary L. Hammontree
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Gary L. Hammontree
Apr
6
Internet is all about keywords, we all use keywords on search engines to found what we are looking for. The role of the search engines is to show the best web sites which match with our request. Many factors help search engines to decide to show your web site or your article like the Page rank, how many back links, how long your article is online, does your website or article respect the W3C standard… and the most important are the quality of the content and the density of your keywords.
With which keywords my article will be found?
Let say that you have a high quality content article. Main search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN are very smart search engines and they get smarter every year. Few years ago search engines read the keywords you had in the Meta Keywords in your web page, but it was easy to cheat. You could include the word “sex” in your Meta keywords because you knew it was a keyword in the top 10 search queries and make your web page appear with this keyword even though your web page is about a recipe to loss weight.
Today main search engines like Google don’t read the Meta Keywords, but read the content of the page then they calculate the density of the words in your web page. Example if you have an article of 100 words and the word “golf” is find 10 times the word “golf” as a density of 10%. Search engines will use the words with the higher density to show your article with. This way Google is sure to show to the user websites with match with the user’s request.
Don’t try to cheat, as I mentioned, search engines are smart. If you repeat a keyword too many times like 50 times the word “golf” in a 100 words article the search engines will know you try to cheat and they will ignore your article. They can even add your article in their black list and never show your article in their results with the keyword “golf”. Try to have a density between 8% and 15% is good. More you have word in your article better the density work. A density of 10% with a 1000 words article will work better than a 500 words article. The content is the key, more content you have in your article better it is.
How to know the keyword’s density of my article?
You can found many free tools online, the one I recommend is Google Ranking at www.googlerankings.com/kdindex.php. Enter your article’s URL and click on Analyze it, then concentrate yourself on the 2 and 3 Word Phrases column. Your article has better chance to be find with keywords in the top than those in the bottom. So if you were expected that your article would be find with the keyword “weight lost at home” and it’s not in the top list that mean your article is not optimized for this keyword. If you don’t have a particular keyword which you would like your article been find, with this tool you will know which keywords have the higher density and with which keywords your article will be find on search engines. So you can use those keywords to insert in your Title, description and in your Keywords field (Meta Keywords) when you submit an article.
What is the easy way to write keyword rich article?
The easy way is to write an article is using the Questions / Answers form because you can insert your keyword in the question and in the answer. Example with the keyword “domain name”.
What is a domain name ?
A domain name is…
Where I can buy my domain name ?
You can buy your domain name…
This questions / answers form is not just the easier way to write a rich keyword article, but its also easier and faster for the reader to read the article. The reader can read only the question and if he knows the answer or he is not interested to know the answer he can go right away to the next question.
The questions / answers form is also a pretty fast way to write an article if the subject allow you to do it. You can do a quick research on 2 or 3 of your favorite search engines about your subject or keyword, copy and paste all different and interesting information find from different sources in a word document then create questions and answers with all information you find. You can write a rich keywords article in less than hour.
* Wikipedia.org should be one of your first places to look for information about any topics. http://en.wikipedia.org
Published: 2006-04-05
Author: Eric Raymond
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Eric Raymond has been Web Developer since 1999. His expertise and know-how, combined with his eloquent professionalism allows him to offer a wide range of high-end services such as: WebSite Design, Web Ranking, Web site optimization, WebSite Hosting, Domain name registration, Online marketing, e-Business, customized Web-based applications and more.
Apr
6
Digital publishing
April 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Times are changing. Readers now behave differently than ever. They read different things and in different new ways. And now, they no longer want simply to read – they want to write too. They want to be publishers of their own thoughts and own ideas. Each one of these wannabe individual Publishers (somewhere deep in their heart) want to be bigger than the New York Times (and probably Wall Street Journal put together).
There is no debate. Print publishing is under fire. Dramatic changes in reading habits have hit print readership badly. This has pushed print circulation and ad revenues down. Increasing competition from new media channels for eyeballs and the ad budgets have made life difficult for the circulation and ad sales departments in the publisher’s office. Increasing production and distribution costs have further squeezed the margins in print.
This is no epitaph. It’s a simple idea for print publishers. Stop thinking in terms of ‘print’. Print is simply a tool. A tool that has worked wonderfully for over past 400 years. It has given us our familiar ‘front-page’ that we have grown up having breakfast with or the ‘page 3’ that we have spent several leisurely moments with. A tool that has taught many things to the online news portals. A tool that will continue to play its role for the next several years. But, this tool WILL eventually phase out as it gives way to new tools that are more interactive, rich and ‘now’. There is no competition between these different tools. And, one must not make the mistake of thinking so. Unfortunately, the inertia with which Newspapers and Magazines have pushed change within their organizations is a proof that this mistake has been made for last several years now.
Just like an investment portfolio, one should never marry a stock. One’s exposure to a stock should be proportional to the returns one expects from it. If new stocks provide the same or more returns, one should make ‘changes’ in the portfolio. Just because one doesn’t understand a new business is no reason to get territorial about existing business. After all, change is the single-most consistent factor in business and how you adapt to change the single-biggest determiner of success.
Publishers are in the business of providing information to subscribers and a marketplace to advertisers. Media is all about that. ePublishing is helping publishers to increase the add revenue.
In today’s media, mobile is hot. Social networking is booming. And users are addicted to rich media. And, not for no reason. All these are interactive, rich and ‘now’.
New media channels have changed the rules of the media game forever. What took a newspaper or magazine decades to build is being done by new media companies in a matter of months and years. Adoption of new media by publishers is no longer “whether” but “when” and “how best”.
A newspaper today can be printed in Paris but delivered in Tokyo – that same very moment. Publishers can sell more copies, without ever printing them. A newspaper can be published in print, web, mobile and iPods – in the same go. Digital publishing companies like Pressmart are helping print Publishers in distributing their content on multiple delivery channels including web, mobile, RSS, podcast, social media and search engines over a seamless 360-degree full-service platform.
Times are changing. Newspapers have a brilliant new court to play in. They need to remember to show up.
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