April 25th, 2012
{Anywhere on Earth~Wherever you live in the world}, whether it is a {State, Local Council or Presidential~Federal, State, Presidential or Local Council~Federal, Local Council, State or Presidential~Federal, Local Council, Presidential or State~Federal, Presidential, State or Local Council~Federal, Presidential, Local Council or State~State, Federal, Local Council or Presidential~State, Federal, Presidential or Local Council~State, Local Council, Federal or Presidential~State, Local Council, Presidential or Federal~State, Presidential, Federal or Local Council~State, Presidential, Local Council or Federal~Local Council, Federal, State or Presidential~Local Council, Federal, Presidential or State~Local Council, State, Federal or Presidential~Local Council, State, Presidential or Federal~Local Council, Presidential, State or Federal~Local Council, Presidential, Federal or State~Presidential, Federal, State or Local Council~Presidential, Federal, Local Council or State~Presidential, State, Federal or Local Council~Presidential, State, Local Council or Federal~Presidential, Local Council, Federal or State~Presidential, Local Council, State or Federal} election, your mailbox will groan {under~with} the weight of materials aimed at {winning~getting} your vote. It {might~may} be the {digital age~electronic era~digital era~electronic age}, but it seems that a {pamphlet~letter~piece of paper} in your letterbox is still considered the most {efficient~effective} way of getting a message across.
While an informed electorate is {important for~essential to~crucial to} the democratic process, there appears to be {a glut of~huge} over-sending of junk mail for political purposes – and no clear way on how to {solve this~fix this~stop this}. What’s worse, the content of most of the political flyers is simply mudslinging about their opponents with {little to no~no} {substance~intellectual substance}. Is anyone else reminded of children in the playground?
How can you help stop this {frivolous~unnecessary} waste of {paper~resources}? Imagine the strain on our environment and the large volume of greenhouse gases generated from all the trees cut down, {electricity~printing~printing, electricity} and transport of the materials. Grab a cup of tea or your water bottle and let’s get down to it.
We know in Australia that material {that is deemed~deemed} to be political, educational, religious and charitable is exempt from “No Junk Mail” signed letterboxes according to standards {conducted~developed} by the Australian Catalogue Association. So there is no way to stop it being {dumped~posted~deposited} in your {postbox~letterbox} along with the other junk mail catalogues enticing you to buy all sorts of {stuff~things} you don’t really need. It is {likely~probably} the same in other countries.
Step 1. Incorrectly addressed political mail
{A lot of~Much} of your mail may be addressed to {former~past} occupants of the house. You need to “return this to sender” with the note “no longer at this address”.
Step 2. Contact {every~each} political party or politician that is mailing you
There is no central database so you will need to call the office of each individual sender and ask to be removed from their mailing list. Remember to be {polite~nice}! You catch more bees with honey than vinegar.
Step 3. National Standard to stop political junk mail
Write a letter to the Electoral Commission asking them to implement a National Standard to {curb~limit} the {volume~number} of pieces each political party is allowed to put in each household’s letterbox.
Step 4. Polling day
Don’t forget to recycle any materials you are given on the day – often the Greens Party has a box at the booths for such materials on polling day!
Written by Tracey Bailey, Director of Biome Eco Stores in Brisbane, specialists in water bottles and eco friendly, reusable choices for your home, body and lifestyle.
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November 14th, 2008
Achievement situations in which players have an opportunity to display physical prowess (i.e., in training or competition) activate their task or ego centered goals. They might be either highly task involved or ego involved in that situation, or they might even switch between the two, because their perception of what they need to feel could change from second to second.
For example, imagine yourself as a young soccer player in a knockout match. You’ve felt great during the game because you’ve worked hard, made some great tackles and accurate passes, and your work on your concentration skills has paid off by allowing you to refocus quickly. You’ve spent most of the game in a highly task-involved state of mind and have received praise from your teammates.
The game is tied and goes to a penalty shoot-out. You are the last player of five selected, and the score is 4-4. As you make that long walk to the penalty spot, how does the situation and its potential consequences affect your view of success and skill? Will your feelings of competence depend entirely on scoring or missing? And, if you do become ego involved, how might it affect your chances of scoring?
All athletes have an innate preference for task or ego involved goals in sport. These predispositions, referred to as task and ego goal orientations, are believed to develop throughout childhood largely due to the types of people the athletes come in contact with and the situations they are placed in.
If children consistently receive parental praise that’s contingent on their degree of input and recognition for personal improvement from their coaches, and are encouraged to learn from their mistakes, then they are likely to engender a task orientation. It becomes natural for them to believe that success is associated with mastery, effort, understanding, and personal responsibility.
The behavior of their role models in sport also affects this development. Such an environment is far different from one where children are shaped by rewards for winning (alone), praise for the best marks, criticism or non-selection despite making their best effort, or coaches whose style is to hand out unequal recognition. This kind of environment helps an ego orientation to develop, along with the belief that ability and talent, not effort and personal endeavor, earn success.
Goal orientations are believed to be somewhat stable and enduring characteristics that are largely formed by mid to late adolescence. Therefore, coaches and parents should attempt to shape a child’s development as early as possible during the 6- to 14-year-old phase.
In this developmental period, children’s cognitive abilities start working overtime as they begin to understand that effort isn’t the sole reason for success at a skill. At about 11 or 12 years of age, they begin to realise that regardless of effort, some children simply have more skills than others. That’s when the fantasy of being the next sports star comes under obvious pressure for some children.
The strength of a goal orientation influences whether a sportsperson will adopt a task or ego involved goal in a specific sport situation. It is also perfectly feasible for growing athletes to develop both high task and ego orientations if they have been exposed to an assortment of task and ego oriented situations and people. However, never underestimate the power of a particular moment.
The young athlete might be quite high in task orientation, but in a competition with a high degree of public evaluation, judgment, criticism, or comparison based on who’s best, with rewards and benefits for winners and negative consequences for losers, he or she might become ego involved. Competitions accompanied by high perceived expectations and consequences arguably form the natural basis of competitive sport.
Factors such as the stage of the event (e.g., final or qualifying match), whether selection is at stake, previous head-to-heads, financial rewards, age of the opponent (e.g., playing a talented younger player), representing the team or country for the first time, and the hostility of the audience can make a match a natural ego-involving laboratory.
Nevertheless, not all sport is like that; in fact, some sport situations offset the natural importance of superiority by emphasising participation and publicly reinforcing or rewarding personal effort, improvement, and problem solving rather than focusing on comparisons.
An example is a swimming club that encourages all standards of swimmer, with a coach who gives recognition solely based on individual improvements in time or technique. These scenarios increase the importance and number of task-involving cues. The key message here is that the availability of task-involving cues in sports that are naturally ego involving allows the athlete to develop a more task-involved approach to competition.
If you’re looking for FIFA Players Agents, a Australian Football Academy or Australian Football Tours, contact the Football Management Group.
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November 14th, 2008
This is the second part of an article series in which you’ll find many tools that you can use to monitor your site’s search engine position and see how your do-it-yourself search engine optimization efforts are coming along.
The following tools are for monitoring your search results in the three major search engines. It isn’t an all-inclusive list, but rather a highlight of some of the tools you can use. (I’ll point you to one of the master lists when we get into more general tools in part three.)
Using Your Google Site Information Page
I’ve covered this in an earlier article, but just in case you missed it, we’ll go over it again briefly here. (If you need more help following along, you can listen to one of my recent podcasts for a convenient audio walkthrough.)
Open up your browser and go to Google’s home page. Type in info:yoursitenameandsuffix. So if your site was ExactSeek.com you’d type info:exactseek.com. You can also use site:yoursitenameandsuffix to find out which pages have been indexed by Google’s search engine spider.
This search will tell you pages that Google considers similar to yours. It will also show sites that it considered linked to you, and show sites that carry your full url, hyperlinked or not. It’s not 100% accurate as far as telling you all the sites that are linked back to yours, but what you can learn from this is which backlinks matter.
From here you can also see the last day Google spidered your home page.
To see this in action, click on the first group of information links, “Show Google’s cache of yoursitename.com” If you look next to the word “cached” one the first line, the date is expressed also.
Sometimes it seems that the cached time for yoursitename.com and www.yoursitename.com are different, so be sure and check both.
Finding Information About Your Site In Yahoo
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/tips/tips-08.html
This document will tell you how to find out what sites are linking to you, give you the results for how many pages of your site are in Yahoo, and more. Once you get to the results page, you’ll be able to view your cached pages, etc.
Discovering Your Site’s Status on MSN
http://search.msn.com/docs/siteowner.aspx
As the page in the help section states, you can use site:www.yoursitehere.com to find out if a document at your site has been indexed. The results page will also give you the date of last caching.
Google Rankings
http://www.googlerankings.com
You’ll need a free Google API key for this one, and the site has the direct link telling you where to get one. You’ll have to enter this key in order to query the site for information on Google.
With Google Rankings, you’ll be able to see where you rank within the top 40-1000 results in Google for a given keyword. I recently noticed that it also displays results for MSN and Yahoo, with links to each search engine.
They also have some other tools that will track your keywords over time, as well as one they call the “Ultimate SEO Tool” that will measure your site’s keyword density.
Google Backlinks Checker
http://lilengine.com/tools/backlinks-tool.php
LilEngine.com’s Backlink Checker will measure the number of links you have pointing back to your site against competing sites. Handy if you just want a quick comparison of how many links you have versus others, though how much getting more links back will help varies, depending on other factors.
Yahoo Search Rankings
http://www.yahoosearchrankings.com/
From the same folks who brought you Google Rankings, using Yahoo Search Rankings, you’ll be able to see where you rank within the top 1000 results in Yahoo for a given keyword. If you just want to see your Yahoo rankings, it’s quite helpful.
You can find more Yahoo tools that use the Yahoo Web API at their developer’s site : http://developer.yahoo.net/wiki/index.cgi?ApplicationList .
In the next part of the article, we’ll take a closer look at other tools that give you more specific information about the links pointing back to your site, keyword research, and more.
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