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The Lovers of Valdaro. Believed to be no older than twenty years of age when death occurred. Over 5,000 years old. Locked in an eternal embrace. Tragically, their story is unknown. Ironically, they were found in the city of Mantua. In Italy. The city Shakespeare chose to set the story of Romeo & Juliet.
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Museum of Broken Relationships
there is something wonderful and sad about this.
it reminded me of Broken Bicycles by Tom Waits (maybe i’ll post that later).
From their site:
“The Museum of Broken Relationships grew from a traveling exhibition revolving around the concept of failed relationships and their ruins. Unlike ‘destructive’ self-help instructions for recovery from failed loves, the Museum offers a chance to overcome an emotional collapse through creation: by contributing to the Museum’s collection. (…)”
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Jim Oak Home Improvement: Terms You May Come Across When Shopping For Solid Oak Furniture →
When you are choosing oak furniture you may come across a few terms that you’re not sure about. The purpose of this article is to explain some of them so that you can make an informed choice on the best oak furniture for your purposes.
Some of the terms are specific to oak, others to certain…
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Make Sure SEO Is A Part Of Your Web Design
Good web design is important to create a site that is attractive to visitors yet still works properly.
Whilst designers are good at looking at the navigation and aesthetics of a site, not every web designer will know about SEO or how to apply it to their design.
It is important for every website to be ranked well in the search engines because it is the search engines that send the largest percentage of visitors to most sites. Also, when most people are looking for products or services online they turn to a search engine to find them the sites that best match their query.
To do well in a search engine your site needs to be optimised. This is what you will be paying for if you hire a company to do search engine optimisation (SEO). Whilst you can do SEO on a site that has already been built, it helps if the SEO considerations are taken into account at the design stage.
There are many ways to optimise a site and a few are mentioned below.
It is important to effectively use meta tags for a page. The meta tags are the title tag, description tag and alt tags. The title tag is the one that shows as the tab name at the top of the web page. It should be succinct, unique and describe the page - not the entire website. The description tag is important for the click through rate. Again it needs to be succinct, unique and descriptive of the page. The alt tag is the alternative words for an image. They should describe the image e.g. ‘solid oak wardrobe’ rather than leaving the name the camera gave it e.g. IMG001.
Designers also sometimes overlook content in the form of text. The text informs the search engines what the page is about and gives it some substance. Content must be unique and ideally a few hundred words long.
Search engines look for an XML sitemap to tell them what URLs belong to the site. It is like the sitemap for humans except it is in web code. Usually they can be found if you type in /sitemap.xml at the end of the domain name.
Often, designers will simply put your site live and hand it over to you. However, once the site goes live, you will need all other versions of your site pointing to the one you want as your main one. This means that if you have a .com and .co.uk version of your site, you should choose the best one and use a 301 redirect from the other one. A 301 redirect will tell a search engine that the page it was looking for has permanently moved to a new location and any humans that land on the page will be redirected to the new page. Any links that were pointing to the old page will pass on their value to the new page.
If you are using a web designer, make sure that they have a basic understanding of SEO and make sure you know who is going to be responsible for filling in meta tags etc and who will perform the required redirects.
The sooner you get your site optimised the quicker it can start to work for you in the search engines.
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Pink's Food and Drink: The Health Benefits of Coffee →
Coffee is one of the most popular drinks on the planet and the bonus is that there are studies showing it good for you too. We have it in cafe’s, at home and on the go from vending machines - we love the stuff and it’s great news that it might be good for us too.
Coffee contains active…
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Residential conveyancing checks that you need to have carried out when buying a property.
Having just gone through the whole residential conveyancing process in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, I thought it would be useful to write an article that could answer some of the questions that I had when going through this daunting process.
Residential conveyancing is legal speak for the process involved when legally transferring ownership of a property from a seller to a buyer.
The process itself involves a number of checks to ensure you are aware of the local environment, what negative things the land may have been used for and exactly what you are being sold.
Lets go through the process in stages:
You have seen the perfect property, you have been to see the mortgage adviser and have been told that they can provide the money that you need so you make an offer on the house and the seller accepts. Gazumping apart the process starts in earnest.
You should first go to a local solicitor that you either know or have heard are good (I was lucky enough to have a recommendation). If you have none of this to go on ring up three solicitors in your local area and ask them to give you a quote for conveyancing the property you want to buy. You can go on price but I would recommend going with the person that you connect with most as you will be dealing with them for the entirety of the process.
What will then happen is that the sellers solicitor will start writing up a contract on what you are actually getting for the money.
The contract details will include selling price, the boundaries, what fixtures and fittings are included (for example wood burning stove, cooker etc if you are buying land you may have agreed a tractor as part of the sale!), legal restrictions or rights on the property, planning restrictions, a description of the services to the property (septic tank or electricity), and finally completion date for the purchase.
While all of this is going on your solicitor will be making a number of checks to see if there is anything that might effect your decision on purchasing the property.
The checks can be broken down into environmental search, local authority search, chancel repair search,and if in a mining area, a mining search.
The environmental search lets you know if the ground is prone to flooding, has issues with Radon Gas, has had mining in the area, is listed as contaminated land (landfill nearby, fuel stations or waste treatment sites)
The Local Authority search will let you know if there are any pending planning applications that might effect the land that you are looking to buy. You can go into the local planning office yourself to have a look at plans in the local area.
The chancel repair search is to find out whether you have to pay the local church a set amount of money towards the repair of their chancel. This will soon be easier to check as churches have to register their chancel charge in the next few years or lose the right to claim the fee. Their is chancel insurance that you can take out to cover the eventuality of this but a good solicitor should sort this out for you.
If the environmental search, flags that their is mining in the area a further mining search can be carried out to see if the mines would have an effect on the property that you own.
What then comes if the buyer and seller are happy with the contract that both solicitors have prepared is an exchange of contracts which then makes the exchange legally binding. At this point both parties have legal recourse should the other person pull out of the contract.
What then happens is that the solicitors will then make sure everything is ready for the completion of the conveyancing process. This will include them ensuring that their are enough funds, check of the mortgage documents (if any), do a final land registry check, ensure that all things that have been agreed in the contract are carried out,ensure that all legal documents are completed to transfer ownership. This is then followed by the final transfer of the total funds and receipt of the legal documents that prove ownership. You then need to pay the solicitors fees and register the ownership of the land with the land registry.
The final cost that you will have to pay is the stamp duty on the property which when this article was written was 0% for properties purchased below the price of £125,000, 1% for properties between £125,001 and £250,000 unless you are a first time buyer when you don’t have to pay any stamp duty. This price then increases by 1% every time you double the purchase amount.
You may come across other elements that are different within the purchase of your property, for us the lady that we bought the property off said that she would take the property of the market if we could show her solicitor that we had the funding for the purchase. In our case this was the benefit of using a solicitor because they could also offer notarial services (legally confirm that a particular document is as stated).
There are a number of Government sites that clearly take you through this process and our solicitor in Salisbury was very supportive all of the way through the process.
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Hot Food Vending Machines →
Vending machines have evolved over the years from selling food items such as chocolate bars to being able to sell you a hot meal.The advantage of hot food vending machines is convenience both for the machine owner and the consumer. The buyer can quickly and easily get some food and the vendor can quickly and easily sell with no need for staff to be present (which would add cost). The only man hours required are those to re-stock the machine and empty the money. Latest Cooking Amazon productsMcCann, Irish oatmeal, quick cooking oatmeal, 16-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 6) The best-selling…
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Animal regulation series, Di Liu
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