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May12012

Four Different Types of Scaffolding

Builders are not the only ones to need a temporary work platform to construct or maintain a project. There are many different types of scaffolding structures to do the job, but four major types. In addition, within each type there can be the classification of light, medium or heavy duty scaffolding, depending on the job to be done. Light scaffolding holds just a few workers and hand tools; medium supports workers, hand tools and materials, while heavy duty is used for workers, hand tools and stored materials, which means it is strong enough to support sustained weight.

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How to Get the Kind of Outdoor Furniture You Admired in Bali

If you’ve recently returned from an enjoyable holiday to Bali, there are sure to be many memories about what you did and saw during your time in that popular tourist destination. Many people enjoy the varied shopping opportunities and the cheaper prices. They stock up on clothes and many other things. But what if you’ve seen outdoor furniture to die for and had no idea how to get it home?

In fact, it is difficult to import furniture from such a place when you have no experience and no importer’s license. But that doesn’t mean you have to go without. If you are planning on having a beautiful outdoor area complete with comfortable furniture that you can use for rest and relaxation after a hard day’s work, then Bali or Indonesian alfresco furniture would be ideal for it.

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Home & GardenBy Slinky Life

Apr82012

Feb162012

Professional Carpet Cleaning vs DIY

If your carpet is looking a bit grubby, or you are moving house and the removalists have just left, you might decide to shampoo it properly. You can lease a machine and go ahead, or you could hire professional carpet cleaners in Perth, but which is the best option? Here are some pros and cons to help you decide.

DIY carpet cleaning

Firstly, if you go ahead with DIY carpet cleaning you will need to lease or purchase the carpet shampoo machine. Add to this the cost of the cleaning product to go in it and the time it will take for you to do the job. Do you have a spare day or two? Because once you have the machine in the house and have cleaned one room, all the others will look grubby in comparison and you will want to clean every room with carpet.

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Home & GardenBy Slinky Life

How To Get Subscribers In 5 Easy Steps

Getting email subscribers for your mailing list can provide a huge boost to your business. The costs for running a blog can add up when you factor in advertising, hosting, image purchasing, graphics, SEO experts, writer’s fees, and other miscellaneous purchases. If you aren’t doing your best to maximize your return on investment, running a blog or website can become more costly than beneficial. For many websites that sell products and services, the subscriber list is crucial.

Here are a few tips on getting more subscribers:

1) Sell your email list. Simply putting a form on your website that allows visitors to sign up will not do the trick—especially when you’re looking for long term results. Your landing page should discuss the benefits of becoming a subscriber and the value you offer. Use social media and guest posts to further propel this.

2) Offer free thing. Offering your site visitors incentives to subscribe works very well for your email list. This can include a free e-book or course that offers insightful information and will keep the subscriber coming back. A service like Aweber hosts your email list and sends out free materials upon subscribing.

3) Advertise. To get your name out there, it could be very useful to advertise via Google and social media platforms with strong advertising models, like Facebook. Set your budget and only pay what you can afford to advertise. With so many different options for placing advertisements, there’s no reason not to give it a try.

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Getting OnlineBy Slinky Life

Feb92012

Jan162012

4 Steps To Hiring the Right People

The hiring process can be expensive, time consuming, and draining. It’s no surprise that the right team can make or break your company. Hiring the right people, especially in your business’s early stages, is imperative. One mistake, particularly for smaller companies, can prove to be a huge hindrance to growth. Remember: Great companies, services, and products are driven by people.

1.) Create A Marketing Plan
If you create a marketing plan for your business, why not create one for your recruitment process? The goal is to increase the volume of applicants and attract the right people. This plan should include a clear definition of who the ideal candidate is and what you’ll need to do to achieve your goals and bring in those types of candidates. You should also prepare a list of things you’ll need to do to achieve those goals. This list might include creating targeted ads on LinkedIn, a thorough jobs page on your website, or promoting the position via social media and AngelList.

2.) Maintain Culture Fit
Culture fit is something you do not want to compromise. This doesn’t mean that you should hire people that you could see yourself being best friends with; rather, you’re hiring people whose values and interests mirror that of the company’s. By having the same values, it becomes easier to cultivate organic friendships and working relationships. Keep in mind that company culture fit comes first, and social fit comes second. These new hires will also shape the culture fit of the future, as they will eventually have to hire candidates themselves.

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Business AdviceBy Slinky Life

How to Pack Your Clothing When You Move

All Perth removalists will tell you that packing your clothing efficiently will enable you to unpack with ease at the other end. Rather than becoming frustrated because you can’t find the outfit you want to wear the next day, consider packing like this: –

Pack all your off-season clothes in bags or boxes with highly visible labels or better still, coding so no one else knows what is in them.
- You can also use items like older jumpers or tracksuits to provide a soft base for your breakables. This saves on bubble wrap.

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Home & GardenBy Slinky Life

Dec222011

Nov142008

5 Ways Commercial Fencing Can Protect

We are used to seeing commercial fencing surrounding a construction or work site or a commercial enterprise of some kind. There are several different types of fencing suitable for commercial use; chain mesh fencing, welded mesh, palisade, which is embedded into a concrete footing and garrison, which is similar to palisade but does not reach the ground, so no footing is required.

In addition, each type of fence can have a different kind of top for extra security. This is a top panel or extension of razor wire or electrified wires angled towards the outer side that prevents anyone from climbing over. Such fencing can protect a commercial enterprise, plant or construction site in many ways. Here are some of them.

It protects the environment both inside and out by keeping out wildlife or straying pets that could not only become injured or die, but cause significant damage to the site and equipment.
It protects the site and equipment from intentional damage by vandals, thus saving the enterprise from financial loss and the delay in replacing or repairing equipment.
It protects the actual site from damage that can be caused either accidentally or intentionally.
It keeps out members of the public that may wander in and cause an accident if they are on a busy site without permission or a hard hat.
It can save the company from the cost and delay of going to court due to litigation as the person could easily sue the company for damages, even though they were not supposed to be there.

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Applying the Character – Sheet Model to Online Dating

For those of you who aren’t heavy video gamers, we’re talking about a genre of video games called ‘RPG’s. RPGs, or Role-Playing Games, are where you take a character picked from a set of classes and races and build them through adventure and treasure-hording until you develop the character into an almost godly figure. ‘Winning’ isn’t so much a matter of finishing the goals of the game, as it is in building the strongest character, with bonus satisfaction coming from using your own unique approach.

Famous examples: Blizzard’s ‘World of Warcraft’ and ‘Diablo’ series, Everquest, Earthbound, and Angband and Nethack for a couple of very old games that started out as text. Further, we have ‘Dungeons and Dragons’, in all of it’s many computer-based and table-top based incarnations.

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Nov72007

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Feb192004

Ear Infections

The inflammation of the middle ear (behind the eardrum), known as otitis media, is a veritable epidemic among our children, although adults can also get it. This condition is commonly treated with antibiotics, even though when these problems are treated with drugs they recur time and again.

A review study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in September ’93 found no significant difference between placebo and antibiotics in at least eight studies of long term outcome, and concludes that antibiotics are of “limited” short-term usefulness in treating acute middle ear infections, and that the data do not show them to confer any long-term benefits for draining middle ear infections. If we add the known data about the damaging adverse effects of antibiotic use, we find that, in the case of ear infections, antibiotics may do little good and much harm. The agency for Health Care Policy and Research recommends “watchful waiting” instead of antibiotics as the first step in treatment of non-acute otitis media.

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Health & FitnessBy Slinky Life

Protein and the Bones

Thanks to excellent marketing, most people know they should take care of their bones to prevent fractures. A lot of the attention has gone to “getting enough calcium,” through food and preferably supplements. Interestingly, I heard an exercise specialist talk about doing a dissection on an 85-year old woman. “There were calcium deposits everywhere,” she said, “in the muscles, in the joints, in the shoulders — everywhere.” Perhaps, it would seem to me, too much calcium has its drawbacks too.

There is a fallacy in focusing on calcium alone to prevent fractures. Bones are composed of a latticed protein grounding or collagen matrix, which comprises about 35% of the bone and which gives it its flexibility. This matrix is laid down first, and then traps the mineral salt calcium phosphate, also known as hydroxyapatite, which occupies about 65% of the bone mass and which gives the bone its strength. In addition to the calcium salts, the bones are also the depositories of other minerals needed by the body, including magnesium, sodium, potassium, and others. The main component, then, to prevent fractures, is the bone’s flexibility, given by the collagen matrix, rather than the calcium.

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Food & Wine, Health & FitnessBy Slinky Life

Oct261997

Jun21997

High Fat Healing

Our scientific dogma says that the latest research is the closest to the truth; yet as soon as new research comes out, it will be obsolete. This paradigm always ignores context. For example, for the past 15 years it has become assumed truth that a low fat diet is a healthy diet. The same people who thirty years ago used to urge us to eat plenty of meat and cheese, shifted to encourage us towards vegetables and low fat salad dressings. And the tide is turning once again: there is a great deal of emphasis on the importance of good fats and essential fatty acids, most notably the Omega 3 kind. My point here is that it is foolish to establish absolute and narrow rules, especially about single ingredients in diets. Context counts.

A low fat diet is good for people who have eaten lots of meat and cheese and fat during their lives; it will help them re-balance and return to a more healthful equilibrium. On the other hand, a low fat diet is bad for people who have been eating raw food, fruit and vegetables for most of their lives. Not only that, a high fat diet is good for people with neurological disorders, particularly seizures. Seizures are not uncommon among young children, especially those who have been vaccinated.

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