The UK government has published last rescue project to help the stability of the banks, in order to push lending. The new financial bailout has an insurance scheme to protect the financial system from potential new toxic debts. The UK banks have to pay for the cover, with money, no shares allowed. However all this denotes the price of living will plunge, deflation will push saving which could reduce the UK’s financial situation.
House values continued to fall drastically last year, and the market leader, Halifax, stating, a 16.2 percent year per year decline in the last three months of 2008. House prices have fallen 20 percent from two thousand and seven and further declines are possible as approvals for new home mortgages have hit a record low, according to bank data. Currencies all have different values - learn how to exploit this and you could be well on your way to significant profit.
The number of people claiming jobless benefit increased up to 1 million in in the last months of 2008. climbing super fast since the recession of the early 1990s. The recession has forced lots of job cuts in many different markets, with some forecasts of 3 million unemployed by the end of 2010. Lots of High Street stores have gone bankrupt in the last few weeks. Shops have also been reducing retail prices to to make sure they paid last year loans.
The pecuniary policy plans of the Prime Minister are mainly focused on helping the economy recession but not the currency. As a consequence GB sterling will likely continue to get weaker and weaker. We may be seeing the raise of the pound however forecasts for Sterling is not very rosy.
Recent polls amongst financial analysts showed an 80% chance the Bank of England will reduce borrowing costs to 1.25 percent from the current 2 %, putting the central bank rate to its lowest since the 17 century.
This means less profits for city investors who then invest in other currencies, because of the decline of the pound.
Policymakers have said the central bank will have to cut bank interest rates to 0 and resort for easy solutions, by printing more money to push the economy. This would seem to tie in nicely with Gordon Brown’s plans of trying their way out of the credit crunch crisis, which is the opposite of most European governments approach, which is a possible explanation for the big decline in Sterling against to the and American Dollar.
If you are serious about your writing, in fact even if you aren’t, you need a web site. Let me repeat that — every writer needs a web site!
If you don’t believe me then here are five very good reasons why:
1. Your web site can serve as your showcase and portfolio. It can include your biography, experience, and writing credits as well as copies of your work or better yet–links to your published work. So many queries today are done electronically and it much easier to simply include an url for editors or prospective clients to visit than to try to attach copies and/or a long list of urls on various locations.
2. Your web site can be your creative outlet. Perhaps your bread-and-butter writing is in the financial field but you really enjoy writing poetry or about fly fishing. Then you can publish those pieces on your web site to receive exposure or simply to reward yourself for a job well done. Who knows, you might even find yourself with some new paying assignments in these fields!
3. You can demonstrate your expertise in your particular field or fields by demonstrating the number of articles you have written in that area as well as any experience and/or education you may offer in this field. Listing your articles or putting a selection on your site will get your name linked with various key words surrounding that topic in the search engines.
4. For writers, your name is your brand and you need to continually have your name out there and furthermore you need to have it connected with your areas of expertise. The more articles and essays you have published on the web then the more times your name gets out there for readers, clients, and editors. Owning your own web site (deannamascle.com for example) is like owning your own billboard on the internet superhighway.
5. You can earn money with your own web site and your writing even without getting paid by publications. Place Pay-Per-Click ads on your site or sign up for some affiliate programs to advertise on your site. Depending on the size of your site and the traffic you attract this may become a major new source of income for you!
I hope I’ve convinced you that a web site can be an asset to your writing career, but I must warn you that web mastering can be very addictive to us creative types. Don’t let it overtake your writing time. Start out simple and build over time so you can work out a good balance between your writing and your webmaster chores.
Deanna Mascle is the publisher of the writing newsletter Word Craft Online. You can submit your writing to her Article Directory. She is also happy to share tips and advice for Writing On the Internet.
Copyright is the writer’s security blanket. It just makes you feel better to know your words are protected. I once knew a writer who was so scared his work would be stolen, he never sent it anywhere. Talk about counterproductive! But if you can understand these four simple copyright keys, you can rest easy and submit at will.
1. Create!
That’s all you have to do to copyright something: write it. You don’t have to publish it and you don’t have to register it with the United States Copyright Office, although there are certain advantages to registration (see below). The moment a piece is written down, it automatically gains copyright and that copyright is owned by the author.
2. Give Notice.
That’s when you put that little encircled “c” on the work. You can also use the word “Copyright”, then your name and the year of first publication. For instance, this newsletter is “Copyright 2005 Sophfronia Scott”. It tells the world that the work is protected so someone can’t show up in court and claim they didn’t know it was. Speaking of court…
3. Register Your Copyright.
Again, registering with the United States Copyright Office is really just a legality. You don’t have to do it. But you do get a few benefits for the $30 fee that are worth considering.
Registration makes your copyright a matter of public record and–get this–if you register and someone later infringes on your copyright and you take them to court, you will be able to sue for “statutory damages and attorney’s fees”. With an unregistered work you can only get an award of actual damages and profit. To learn more on how to register your literary work go to http:// www.copyright.gov/register/literary.html.
4. Send Copies to the Library of Congress.
Once your book is published, you’re required to send two copies to the Library of Congress. It’s called a “mandatory deposit of published works”. If your book is produced by a traditional publisher, the people there will do this for you, but if you are self publishing, keep in mind that you have to do this yourself. You have three months after publication. It doesn’t hurt your copyright if you don’t do it but, according to the Copyright Office, “failure to make the deposit can result in fines and other penalties.”
That’s it! Pretty simple, really, but all the more reason why it should not become an artificial roadblock to your continuing and submitting your work. One last note: you can’t copyright an idea. I have heard writers say they submitted a story or book proposal and someone else came out with a book just like it, so the agent/editor/writer must have stolen their idea. Well, not quite. It is highly likely that someone else just had the same idea. It does happen. And yes, it is possible for someone to steal your idea–just make REALLY sure that they have done so before you make the accusation.
© 2005 Sophfronia Scott
Author and Writing Coach Sophfronia Scott is “The Book Sistah” TM. Get her FREE REPORT, “The 5 Big Mistakes Most Writers Make When Trying to Get Published” and her FREE online writing and publishing tips at www.TheBookSistah.com
Owning a glass truck and glass rack is not the same as owning any other unit of glass handling equipment. As the glass manufacturing industry matures, the equipment that surrounds it, has as well.
The safe and efficient transport of flat glass and its related applications, created the numerous types of glass truck rack configurations to make glass transportation easier.
Due to the tremendous volume of routes possible, a thorough evaluation of your situations individual requirements is a must to purchasing a glass truck. However anyone can get a generic glass rack from most manufacturers, for no additional surcharge you can create a custom glass rack built to meet your exact needs.
Coming up with a few requirements in several areas should be helpful as you select the chassis and body combination that will optimize your money.
Remember that bodies can normally hold up for at least two or three chassis. Thinking this far ahead requires a lot of thought since the rack body must be remounted to a certain chassis type design. The chassis design will also dictate major features of the body design such as ledge width, payload, and rack size.
Most glass racks are now available in 3 base materials: carbon steel, aluminum and stainless steel. They all has pluses and flaws.
Carbon Steel is the most affordable rack material, even though it can eventually demand high maintenance expense to keep it shiny and in good shape, most especially in corrosiveweather conditions.
Aluminum glass racks are often used due to its lightweight characteristics. if painted or anodized, an aluminum glass rack will keep its shine for years without minimum maintenance. The material are a bit pricier than steel, and more difficult to repair.
Stainless Steel is the best choice for buyers concerned with corrosion resistance and endurance. When designed to the right specs, a steel glass rack should provide many years of light maintenance and extended lifetime. Because stainless steels corrosion proof quality, etching the faade for painting is difficult, and therefore the bodies are not painted. A brushed exterior appearance is its best look. Steel is great and its only negative so far is its expensive purchase price.
Robert Burns, a poor man, an educated man, and a ladies’ man, is representative of Scotland, much like whisky, haggis, bagpipes, and kilts. He lived a life shortened by rheumatic heart disease, 1759-1796, but his life journey through poverty, informal education, disappointed love, nationalism, and literary and financial success can be identified by all Scots and common men the world over. He has become almost a national symbol of all things Scottish. His life is like a love story with a happy ending.
The Poet, Robert Burns
Robert Burns’s family raised seven children on sparse, rented farmland on the west coast of Scotland. The family cottage still stands as a proud tourist attraction. The family farm was not successful and the family moved from farm to farm. Life on the farm in western Scotland was harsh and Robert worked long hours with his father.
Burn’s father recognized the value of education and he managed to hire a local teacher to tutor Robert. He was an extremely bright student, mastering Shakespeare, current poets, French, Latin, philosophy, politics, geography, theology, and mathematics. His father read the Bible during the evenings around the cottage fireplace and Robert became an expert on the Bible and a devout Church member.
Robert Burns wrote his first poem at age 15. The poem was called “Handsome Nell” and was about his first love for a girl named Nellie Blair. Throughout his life, Burns was a charming and witty man, attracting the attention of numerous women. A dozen or more women can be identified as the inspiration for various poems. Burns wrote many famous love poems, including “A Red, Red Rose” and “One Fond Kiss.”
Here’s an excerpt from “Handsome Nell.”
“O once I loved a bonnie lass,
Aye, and I love her still;
And whilst that virtue warms my breast,
I’ll love my handsome Nell.”
Burns, in a later comment on this poem, stated that he had “never had the least thought or inclination of turning poet till I got once heartily in love, and then rhyme and song were, in a manner, the spontaneous language of my heart.”
The Turning Point
In 1786, at age 27, Robert Burns went through a major turning point in his life. He suffered a disappointing love affair with Jean Armour, who was pregnant with his twin sons. The local community and Armour’s father were outraged by the affair and her father rejected Burns’s offer of marriage.
Dejected and depressed, Burns made plans to leave Scotland and sail to Jamaica in the West Indies. To finance the trip, Burns submitted a volume of his poetry for publication.
The publication of 612 copies in a simple, unbound volume was called “Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect,” also sometimes known as “The Kilmarnock Edition.” The poems were well received in Edinburgh by socialites who were enchanted by the poems and amazed that a poor farmer could write so well.
So, instead of planning his escape to a new world, Burns planned a trip to Edinburgh. His confident manner, ingratiating style, and his obvious wit and intelligence brought Burns popularity and admiration. Soon, a second publication of his work was executed in Edinburgh.
The Growing Popularity
During his stay in Edinburgh, Robert Burns met printer James Johnson, who planned a project to print all of the folk songs in Scotland. This project enthralled Burns and embarked upon a journey throughout Scotland to collect as many folk songs as possible. Burns collected over 300 songs and wrote a few himself, including “A Red, Red Rose.”
One of the results of his travels throughout Scotland was that Robert Burns ingratiated himself to everyone he met and he rose to national prominence and popularity.
The collected songs were published by Johnson in six volumes and by George Thomson in a five volume set.
Another happy outcome of this turning point in Robert Burns’s life is that he was able to return home and marry his beloved Jean Armour, now with the blessing of her family.
Robert Burns continued to collect and write songs for The Scots Musical Museum, an anthology of traditional Scottish lyrical poems, until his untimely death from rheumatic heart disease in 1796.
Within a few years of his death groups of Robert Burns’s friends and fans gathered to promote his memory and to celebrate his life. By 1801, five years after his death, groups met on the anniversary of his death, but later they began to meet on the anniversary of his birth, January 25. Now there are many Burns clubs and societies who celebrate his memory with dinners, including haggis, and readings of his works.
The Poem, “A Red, Red Rose”
One of the most famous songs that Robert Burns wrote for this project and first published in 1794 was “A Red, Red Rose.” Burns wrote it as a traditional ballad, four verses of four lines each.
“A Red, Red Rose” begins with a quatrain containing two similes. Burns compares his love with a springtime blooming rose and then with a sweet melody. These are popular poetic images and this is the stanza most commonly quoted from the poem.
The second and third stanzas become increasingly complex, ending with the metaphor of the “sands of life,” or hourglass. One the one hand we are given the image of his love lasting until the seas run dry and the rocks melt with the sun, wonderfully poetic images. On the other hand Burns reminds us of the passage of time and the changes that result. That recalls the first stanza and its image of a red rose, newly sprung in June, which we know from experience will change and decay with time. These are complex and competing images, typical of the more mature Robert Burns.
The final stanza wraps up the poem’s complexity with a farewell and a promise of return.
“A Red, Red Rose” is written as a ballad with four stanzas of four lines each. Each stanza has alternating lines of four beats, or iambs, and three beats. The first and third lines have four iambs, consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, as in da-dah, da-dah, da-dah, da-dah. The second and fourth lines consist of three iambs. This form of verse is well adapted for singing or recitation and originated in the days when poetry existed in verbal rather than written form.
A Red, Red Rose
by Robert Burns
O my luve’s like a red, red rose.
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my luve’s like a melodie
That’s sweetly play’d in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will love thee still, my Dear,
Till a’the seas gang dry.
Till a’ the seas gang dry, my Dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun:
I will luve thee still, my Dear,
While the sands o’life shall run.
And fare thee weel my only Luve!
And fare thee weel a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho’ it were ten thousand mile!
About the author:
Garry Gamber is a public school teacher and entrepreneur. He writes articles about real estate, health and nutrition, and internet dating services. He is the owner of http://www.Anchorage-Homes.comand http://www.TheDatingAdvisor.com
Achieving publication for your extra income ideas is removed from the improbable dream category and becomes instead a calculated certainty when you follow the strategies contained in my ‘Writing for Profit’ tutorial. That’s the beauty of niche non-fiction: it lends itself to formula writing techniques where commercial nuances are seamlessly interwoven into practical expression without disturbing the flow of the creative dynamic. You do it all the time without perhaps realizing it; you do it automatically when you compose a letter, a thesis, a report and such like. Why not then convert your innate skills into a vehicle to make money writing by developing extra income ideas that become in time residual income streams.
As reported elsewhere I did not set out to write a niche non-fiction bestseller: it just happened fortuitously because subconsciously I had somehow managed to string all the essential ingredients together in the correct order in my first work. You won’t have to trust to luck though. Intrigued by the runaway success of the initial title and the two that followed in the break-though to bestseller status I set about deconstructing each in turn to determine what I had done right and where I had gone astray on occasion. The results not only provided me with benchmarks for revising future editions but also made available the raw material for my creative writing course ‘Writing for Profit’. Combining my own findings with those of other successful non-fiction authors provides you in turn with a series of tried and tested strategies to ensure flawless progression of your own extra income ideas into residual income streams.
And residuals are what writing for profit is all about. ‘Starting Your Own Business’ first saw the light of day back in 1994, doubles in turnover every year, and (according to my publisher) should still be around in another ten years time. ‘Starting an Internet Business at Home’ falls into much the category in that sales consistently increase year on year. Both of these titles have something in common: they were designed to last because they are both injected with the essential ingredient to guarantee multiple editions and consequently, bestseller status: longevity.
You will learn in ‘Writing for Profit’ how to inject your own work with longevity and how that will galvanize commissioning editors into offering you a contract for publication. To provide you with an example of the power of this little-known ingredient: I have written 50 full length works of niche non-fiction of which 37 have been accepted and published.
You’d settle for two out of three as a batting average wouldn’t you?
Footnote: Do not leave your rejections to gather dust in a desk drawer. Put them to work. I downsized the 13 that failed to cut the mustard into mini-volumes and 7 of these went on to be accepted and published as ‘Thrifty Books’ titles…
About the Author
Jim Green is a bestselling author with a string of niche non-fiction titles to his credit including ‘Starting Your Own Business’ (How To Books ISBN 1-85703-859-2) and ‘Starting an Internet Business at Home’ (Kogan Page ISBN 0-7494-3484-8). His tutorial is available at
http://www.writing-for-profit.com
“What does profit a plagiarist if he gains the Word
but loses the command of his own Pen?”Rain Paggao
……..You can plagiarize me,
But you can’t steal my immortality.
……..You can plagiarize me,
But don’t talk about morality.
……..You can plagiarize me,
But you can’t take away my dignity.
……..You can plagiarize me,
But you can never claim originality.
……..You can plagiarize me,
But you can never experience literary ecstasy.
The plagiarist, like cheap paper, crumbles in the end;
The authorthe true child of knowledgelike breeze, lingers on….
About the Author: aLfie vera mella, otherwise eLf, is a nurse in profession and a literatus in avocation. Read more about him on http://www.elf-ideas.blogspot.com.
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So,m you’ve had your book published or you’ve gone the self-published route, but what do you do now?
You contact a newspaper, radio or television station requesting an interview and they ask you to send them a press kit.
First of all, don’t panic. A press kit is not some magical entity that only those published by the big houses can have. You can create an affordable and great looking press kit on your own.
Here are some things that you can include in your press kit to send to interested reviewers and interviewers.
- An author’s bio detailing all your professional writing credits, contest wins, short stories, articles etc. A little bit about what you enjoy in your spare time, but most of it should be about your writing life.
- Include the clippings (or photocopies of them) from newspapers or magazines where your articles have appeared. If you’ve only ever written for the web, print out a copy of the article and mention the website where it was selected to appear. Don’t include your own website as a writing credit.
- An author photograph, as professional as possible. A head and shoulders shot is usal. Don’t send your latest holiday snaps.
- A picture of your book’s cover, or postcard or poster of it.
- Any previous good reviews you have had for your book.
- Any speaking engagements or booksigning events that you have coming up. Or the details of previous ones and how successful they were.
- You could also inlcude a previous interview, it might save them some time and at least you know what sort of questions might be asked of you.
If you can afford it, a nice presentation folder for your press kit goes down well, but it isn’t a necessity. On your website, you can also list the things above as a virtual press kit, but if a newspaper etc. ask for a press kit, don’t just send them to the website. They would probably prefer everything in hard copy, but it doesn’t hurt to ask if they would accept an electronic copy.
Annette Gisby is a novelist and freelance writer. Her articles have appeared both in print and online, and to date she has three fiction books published, Silent Screams, Drowning Rapunzel and Shadows of the Rose. Her non-fiction book, Writing the Dream has lots more hints and tips for writers. Please visit Annette’s website for more information on her books: www.annettegisby.n3.net
The UK PM has announced a recent recovery package to reinforce the stability of the banking system, to save the banking system. The plan contains an insurance cover to protect the financial system from potential new crisis. The UK banks is going to pay for the insurance, in cash. While all that signifies the daily cost of life would go down, deflation pushes saving and may reduce Great Britain’s financial recovery.
UK property values continued to fall last year, with the country’s largest mortgage lender, Halifax, stating, a 16.2 % annual decline in the last three months of 2008. Property prices have fallen 0.2 since their 2007 peak and further declines are to be expected as authorizations for new home mortgages have hit a record low, according to data.
The number of job seekers increased past 1 million in in 2008, climbing at a fast rate since last recession. The economic crisis has created lots of occupations losses in several different market segments, with some forecasts of more than 3 million unemployed by the end of 2010. Several shops have gone bankrupt last year. Shops have also been cutting retail prices to be able to pay the total amount of bills. Money exchange can make you a significant amount of money if you know what you’re doing - talk to Foreign Currency Direct.
The economy policy decisions of the UK government are based on fixing the economy recession but do nothing for the pound. As a consequence GB sterling is most likely continue to suffer. Markets will see the pound fluctuate up and down however short term forecasts for the GB pound is not that good.
Recent figures amongst analysts confirm the idea that the Monetary Committee will cut borrowing costs to 1.25 % from 2 percent, putting the Bank rate to the lowest since founded.
This means less profits for brokers who then invest abroad, because of the decline of the pound.
Policymakers have announced the Bank of England may eventually have to cut interest rates to nearly zero and opt the last solution, essentially printing more sterling to encourage the economy. This appears to go well with Gordon Brown’s plans of spending their way out of the recession problem, not exactly what majority of European countries decisions, which is a possible cause for the big fall in Sterling compared to the Euro and United States Dollar.
Lake trout are a large, beautiful fish that inhabit deep coldwater lakes. If you are wanting to catch a lake trout, the first thing you must know is where to find them. These fish live deep. You likely will not catch lake trout fishing from shore or close to the water’s surface. You need to get your bait down to where the fish are to have any chance at catching them. Another characteristic of lake trout is that they do not fight very hard; they are rather sluggish fighters compared to other popular game fish.
The easiest way to catch lake trout is by slowly trolling deep diving lures. Experiment fishing at different depths to try to find the fish, but don’t be afraid to let out quite a bit of line and go deep. You may get your lure stuck on the bottom occasionally and that is okay.
Lake trout are some of the prettiest fish that you will find in the United States. In areas where lake trout are not native (if you are fishing Yellowstone Lake for example) do not hesitate to keep the fish you catch for some good eating, which will help the native fish populations to compete. There are many fishing guides and charter boats that are willing to help you out with catching lake trout as well.
