Don’t Let Your Website Drive Customers Away

By Jeff Haden

Some of my web pages have high bounce rates.  I have made a number of changes but nothing makes a difference.  Any ideas?  

Quick background:  Bounce rate is a metric that measures the number of visitors who leave your site after having looked at only one page or only staying for a few seconds.  Think of bounce rate as the, “Oops, not what I wanted — next!” metric.

Life Keeps Moving and So Should You

By Odette Worrel

Life is ever changing and keeping up with it is stressful. By the time we have figured out what our world looks like and what we can count on, something happens to change the dynamics of what we know. This applies to everything...cell phones, jobs, family. Nothing stays the same. Change is life's built in mechanism to force us to step outside our comfort zones. How will we respond? Will we respond? Who are we as we navigate our way through the change?

How To Build Good Character

By Greg S. Baker

Building good character is all about addition, not subtraction. What I mean is this: when it comes to change, our focus is usually on the aspects of our lives that are bad. We try to cut out or cut off these negative or bad qualities. We try to improve by subtraction. That is not how you build good character.

It is the process of addition in your life that brings the character. In so doing, you automatically take care of the other negative aspects. As both a father and a pastor of a Church, I look for ways to continually add to the character of those I am responsible for. The Bible teaches us this concept in 2 Peter 1:5-9. We are to add things like virtue, patience, love, kindness, faith, and so on. It is the process of adding these things to our lives that we gain the character to be fruitful in life.

Egypt's Future Rests with the Military

By: Alon Ben-Meir

By now it has become increasingly clear that the future of Egypt's stability, political reforms and progress rest almost entirely in the hands of its military. Unlike other militaries in Arab states, Egypt's military is one of the most respected institutions that have earned the admiration and respect of the people. It is, to some extent, similar to the Israeli military. Service in the Egyptian Armed Forces is compulsory, and thus composed of young soldiers from all walks of life with a unique affinity and commitment to the welfare and well-being of their nation.

Ramadan: indications of debtors

Some of their vision beyond the street that a physical entity debit found for the movement, so they are clearly away from the valuable material on the classic route to the value of community outreach They see on the street continues to be a social and find a place to meet and interact who are building community Urbanite interdependent, and if not Street failed to function this turns into a mere component of industrial dead debtors have no real value of only one movement. 

Dr. Norman Finkelstein at the University of Waterloo

very nice video, thank you Dr

See The Link 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgzVE-PzCaY

Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

Og Mandino Quotes

Act now. For now is all you have.

Action is the food and drink which will nourish my success.

Action will destroy your procrastination.

All men must stumble often to reach the truth.

some words

“Just because something is easy to measure doesn't mean it's important.”

Seth Godin

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, It is the only thing that ever has.”

Margaret Mead

“People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.”

E. B. White

“Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don't.”

Seth Godin

“Take away my people, but leave my factories, and soon grass will grow on the factory floors. Take away my factories, but leave my people, and soon we will have a new and better factory.”

Andrew Carnegie

phobia Fear

Achluophobia Fear of darkness

Acousticophobia Fear of noise

Acrophobia Fear of heights

Agoraphobia Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded places

Ailurophobia Fear of cats

Keep the Change

GCC countries are on the right track to achieve a balanced level of economic diversification. Investment in quality education and physical infrastructure might not lead the region to be the next world’s warehouse but are contributing to bring a breath of dynamism to these countries’ economies.

No clear picture yet in Dubai family suicide

Dubai:

Neighbours of the Indian family who allegedly committed suicide in Al Karama described them as non-interfering.

The incident took place on Wednesday evening and Dubai Police are investigating the case.

US, China hold key to climate deal

Copenhagen: World leaders tried to rescue a global climate agreement yesterday but the failure of leading greenhouse gas emitters China and the US to come up with new proposals blocked chances of an ambitious deal.

Nuclear Neighbours

Nuclear Neighbours

Pakistan and India may be neighbours geographically, but in the nuclear world they are anything but neighbourly. Historical enmity and mistrust play a major part in their decisions not to join the NPT – neither party will sign up to it unless the other also agrees to do so, adding to the international community’s growing concern over the monitoring of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal.