Is it becoming increasingly difficult to turn your key when you insert it into the lock? Do you have trouble sliding the key in and out of the keyhole then the lock most likely requires lubrication. Skilled locksmiths test this theory by trying to turn the key while the door is ajar. If turning the key is still a challenge, this indicates a problem with the lock itself. As time goes by, door locks become congested with dust and dirt particles, which can cause more friction and causing that troublesome, sticky lock. Repairing a sticky lock is a relatively easy job that requires about 10 to 15 minutes of your time.

Locksmith Recommended Tools

Before you start to fix your door lock that is stuck, be sure to compile notes on the things you’ll need. Gather all of the items prior to starting the job in order to expedite the process. Our locksmith recommends a Phillips head screwdriver, and alcohol, Q-tips and a can of WD-40. Once you are armed with the proper tools, follow the instructions below and you will find the tricks to repair that lock quickly.

Locksmith Steps to Remedy the Sticky Lock

First; use the Phillips head screwdriver to unscrew the entire lock-set and remove it from the door. Two longer length screws usually hold a lock-set in place so it may take multiple turns to remove them. Once the lock-set is free, place the screws to the side and extract the lock-set from the door. Next, our locksmith recommends that you utilize a Q-tip and dip it in the alcohol to sanitize all visible parts of the lock.

Do this as often as needed until the Q-tips are free of residue when you swab them against the lock. Place a minimal amount of rubbing alcohol in the keyhole and allow it to do its job for a moment. Slide your key into the lock and then remove it. Repeat this process about 3 or 4 times to remove any lingering residue from the internal mechanism.

Now it’s time to spray the internal parts of the lock with a fine layer of WD-40. This step provides lubrication for the lock and ensures proper function. Locksmiths use the can straw attachment to spray a small layer of WD-40 in the key hole. Finally, reconnect the lock-set to the door and make sure that screws are tight. Our locksmith tips have helped you effectively repair that stuck lock!

A good Magician should be able to do a trick with any object that is available. Here is a marvelous trick with dominoes, that will leave your friends and family amazed.

How It Looks To The Audience

The Magician writes a prediction on a piece of paper, then folds it up so nobody can see it and places it in full view on the table. The Magician then asks a spectator to open a box of dominoes and lay them out in a line by matching the numbers, as in normal play. After the spectator has laid the dominoes in a line, the Magician asks the spectator to note the numbers at each end of the line.

The Magician then asks the spectator to open the piece of paper and read out his prediction. To the amazement of everyone, the numbers on the piece of paper and the numbers on the dominoes at each end of the line match exactly! The Magician then makes another prediction and offers to repeat the trick.

Yet again, the numbers on the Magician’s prediction and at numbers on the end dominoes are exactly the same!

How The Trick Is Done

The secret to this baffling trick is simple. The standard set of dominoes consists of twenty-eight dominoes. When these are matched number to number and laid out in a line, then the numbers at either end will always match e.g. two twos, two fours, two ones etc.

However, if you remove one domino from the set, which has different numbers on it (not a double),  then the numbers at either end of the line will be the same as the numbers on the domino you have removed.

So, what you must do before you begin the trick is to secretly remove one domino from the set and remember it’s two numbers. You then write these two numbers on a piece of paper, fold the paper up, and call it your prediction.

If you then have the spectator lay out the dominoes in a line, so that the numbers are matching, then the numbers at either end of the line will match your prediction.

To repeat the trick, all you have to do is replace the domino you have removed and secretly steal another domino. You then use the numbers on that domino for your new prediction.

Replacing and stealing the dominoes can be done easily under cover of mixing the dominoes on the table before your repeat the trick.

Final Notes And Advice

Remember, the domino you remove from the set must have different numbers for the trick to work e.g. 2:1, 3:2, 5:3 etc.

If you remove a double (1:1, 2:2, 3:3, 4:4 etc.), then the trick will not work.

Using Fibonacci retracements and extensions to foreshadow resistance and support lines of a particular security is a very effective and accurate trading technique.

However, as with any indicator, the Fibonacci retracements and extensions can be used on their own but the best results are often gleaned from using the indicator in conjunction with another indicator or by understanding how to use the indicator through a number of established tricks.

By utilizing a few well-known crafty tricks, a trader can confidently use Fibonacci retracements and extensions to enter and exit the market at times when the price is very likely to behave in a particular manner.

Fibonacci retracements and extensions are known throughout the trading world to be excellent predictors of a security’s resistance and support lines.

On countless occasions these retracements and extensions have proven themselves to be accurate and consistent and this is why they are amongst the most highly valued tools available to the modern trader.

However using the Fibonacci retracements and extensions purely for these means can be considered limited in terms of broader potential.

The Fibonacci sequence can be used in a number of creative ways to help predict other movements within the market and these are also equally reliable in providing the trader with detailed information on where to enter and exit the market.

One particularly useful strategy when using Fibonacci retracements and extensions is the congestion strategy.

In order for this to work effectively a trader must accurately choose high and low price points and they must correctly lay a Fibonacci retracement pattern over the top of a candlestick chart. Once this is successfully achieved the congestion strategy can be put in to place.

This strategy works on the basis that on a number of occasions there is often a congestion of price movement between the 38% and 62% ratios.

When this congestion builds up the price of a security will often rebound back and forth between these two ratios and when this is witnessed a trader can accurately predict that a major breakout is about to take place.

By using the appropriate strategies and by taking advantage of evidence from other indicators a trader can take advantage of this price breakout and potentially make a large profit when it occurs.

Another useful trick when applying Fibonacci retracements and extensions concerns how to accurately place the indicator.

Often traders face problems when correctly choosing the appropriate high and low points of a trading range and if these are incorrect all the evidence laid out by the indicator will inevitably also be wrong.

In order to avoid this fundamental mistake, traders must use a handy trick that helps ensure that the correct highs and lows are chosen to guarantee the retracements and extensions work accurately.

Often the absolute high or low of a trend is not the best place to start and a more accurate position would be where the price of a security has hit a high or low on more than one occasion in a congested area. This ensures the whole retracement and extension will be more reliable.

There is a definite art to Fibonacci trading that can be had with a very samll learning curve and the reudced risk is an absolute must if you plan on trading for the long haul.

So you’ve just got your amazing new website designed. What now? How do you get your target market/audience to explore your new online business home? The answer? Online Marketing.

Online Marketing, also known as internet marketing, is the art of using various techniques and methods to advertise and sell products or services via the internet. These techniques and methods can be categorized into the follow: E-mail marketing, YouTube Marketing, Blogging, Social Media Marketing, Affiliate Marketing and more.

However, today I would like to focus on one main category of online marketing, Search Engine Results. Search Engine Results is divided into two sub groups – SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and Pay Per Click (paid advertising). More specifically, I would like to focus on Google AdWords.

SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

SEO is a natural/organic way of getting your website to display within the top results on search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo. This type of online marketing needs upkeep and will need to be maintained over time to ensure that the results are consistent. SEO provides organic search results.

SEO is a great way to build brand awareness and a lasting company image on the internet.

The concept of SEO is simple – optimize your website to be “search-engine-friendly”, however executing this is a difficult and time consuming task. SEO is not a once-off online marketing tool that you can use to promote your business, it is a long-term investment. The ROI of SEO is great and cannot be compared to any other marketing as it all depends on how competitive your niche market is regarding SEO and of course how good your team of SEO experts are.

Hiring the right SEO company is essential. Do not rush this step, if you do, you can either get your website banned and blacklisted on search engines or you could get the best online marketing out there. As mentioned above, SEO is a long-term investment, this means that every SEO/Website Design company out there that promise 1st Page Google results for X amount of money is wasting your money on cheap / illegal tricks. These tricks usually work for about a week or two, but once Google, Bing or Yahoo notices these tricks (and they will), your website and domain name will be blacklisted and removed from their search results. SEO isn’t a cheap service, it takes hours of tricky work. Quality online marketing companies know what their SEO is worth.

Google AdWords (Pay Per Click advertising)

Pay Per Click advertising, also known as PPC, is a method of getting 1st Page / Top search engine results by paying X amount of money for that 1st Page / Top position. Google AdWords has a system that allows users to bid on a certain keyword to rank within the top results. For example if your business sells used cars, you would bid on keywords like “used cars”, “second-hand cars” etc, and when someone types in “used cars” in Google, your website will appear all the way at the top of the search results. This form of online marketing can be very effective if used right and the ROI can be measured very accurately.

Even though Google AdWords sounds like a simple and easy to use online marketing tool, it has to be done by an expert. Countless people have blown thousands of Rands by adding an extra 0 to a few keywords or wasted their money by targeting the wrong search groups. Running a successful Google AdWords campaign is also a very tricky and time consuming process, however unlike SEO, Google AdWords will give you an immediate result. Getting a professional online marketing company to run your Google AdWords campaign will optimize your ROI and ensure that your search engine ads are correct and professional.

Online Marketing Conclusion

Both SEO and Google AdWords have their advantages and disadvantages. Choosing one over the other is completely up to the circumstances of the business. However, choosing both will always be a good decision. Running an Google AdWords campaign while doing SEO on your website is the ultimate online marketing solution. This will ensure that you are getting real-time results and traffic to your website from Google AdWords but you will also increase your SEO quality as search engines want to feature websites that are getting a lot of traffic.

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The term interfaith weddings mean having a legally married status between two people of different religions. In the world there are different types of people and have different beliefs but there are many countries in which people of all religions live together and many fall in love with people having a different religious belief. This doesn’t prevent people from marrying each other. In fact these marriages last longer as both accept each other for what they are and that is what makes a marriage last long.

There are some pros and cons of the interfaith weddings as it is the merging of two different religions. Although the wedding ceremony is the charm to every one but if there was an interfaith wedding then it depends on partners to whether to accept each others religion or not.

There many different issues which should be figured out before having the thoughts of interfaith marriages. However if you are in a relationship then you should not dispute on religion. There are some cases where parents do not allow their children to get married to any person who does not hold the same religious faiths which you have. Thus it is one of the main disadvantages of such marriage.

As we all know that the couples for marriages are made in heaven so we do not have to think about the religion. However before the wedding ceremony the elders can make decision that which religion the women or men have to follow after marriage. The interfaith weddings taught us about the different religions and their belief and how different people of different religion can live in single house as well. In some interfaith weddings, the disputes are started among husband wife that which religion is followed by their kids and it is added in the disadvantages of interfaith marriages.

The wise thing is that the husband and wife should follow their respective religion and let their kids decide which religion to select. The interfaith weddings are much entertaining as in such wedding you can come across many different types of cultures as varied religions have different terms of wedding. The house decoration also varies from religion to religion, so this difference is also something to face in such type of weddings. But in short, your marriage gets sustained on the love relationship apart from religious terms and conditions. Thus these are few pros and cons of interfaith weddings which can be mitigated if you follow the correct path.

Do you feel impressed and stunned upon watching a magic trick? Are you hoping to become a magician someday? You have always been enchanted with magic tricks. Every flip of the magicians’ card, each coin that disappears, and every bird that flies out from the magician’s hat leaves you spellbound and breathless. After every mesmerizing performance you go home wondering about the possibility of trying your hand at magic tricks, and now you are ready to attempt it.

Don’t let your lack of experience or lack of funds discourage you. Even expert and famous magicians had to go through long hours of practice and sacrifice to become the best in their craft. Becoming a magician requires hard work and a genuine passion.

With your creativity, resourcefulness, and right attitude you can come up with the proper equipment and free training to develop your reportoir. As your skills improve, you can add more complex magic tricks in your performances.

A lot of websites offer free instructional videos and step by step guide on how magic tricks are executed. Some magicians even offer to share some trade secrets to magic enthusiasts.

If the materials or equipment you need can’t be done by yourself, consider purchasing them from magic shops. If there is none available near you, check out the ones you can find online. Most of these online shops offer discounted prices on magic sets that are often sold with instructional videos and instructions.

Online magic shops are always updated with the latest magic trends. A current favorite item is the Knock out Prediction Outdone that was made by Wayne Fox- Trick. Your spectators will be amazed at how you can cut to any card the participants cut to, no matter how they mix the cards. You can perform the trick right away and be ready to be delighted with your audience’s amazed faces.

Some tried and tested best sellers are also available online, such as the Ghost-Tag by Peter Eggink-Trick. This tag with its spooky “dead grandfather” photo reveals your spectator’s card selection. The “Ghost Tag” can be chained on your keys and you’re always ready to give your audience a scare.

Trick stores online sell a wide range of equipment and materials: card magic, coin magic, bizarre, comedy, mentalism, stage magic, and many more. They also sell reference materials such as books and DVDs.

You must bear in mind though, that the success of your magic does not rely on your equipment alone. It doesn’t matter if the equipment you are using is top of the line, if your execution is lousy your magic tricks are bound to fail.

By means of practice, every part of your magic trick diligently until your hand movements becomes natural and effortless. It is also ideal to practice you tricks in front of a mirror. This will make you see how you look while performing your magic tricks and help build the much needed confidence on your first public performance.

Lots of you know about David Blaine and his style of Street sorcery that mixes with mentalism. The majority of his tricks, though they appear very unlikely to attain initially, are basically easy and in this piece I am detailing how straightforward they can be performed by anybody with the David Blaine tricks revealed that I have here.

Resurrection – In this trick Blaine picks a total stranger off the streets. He then drags the stranger to a close-by auto promising to show him something fantastic. He then picks a plausibly dead fly off the windscreen and after giving a little talk about his powers of black wizardry and some peculiar hand gestures the fly returns to life and flies away.

Now, I know you are thinking there isn’t any way you can bring any dead thing irrespective of how little back to life. Well the fly wasn’t dead to start with. The only preparation you want for this trick is to catch a fly and freeze it, ideally in dry ice, to cause less damage to the fly. Once the fly becomes frozen, it causes a non permanent coma. Then you can go on to place the fly on a windscreen of a shaded auto. Then carry on with the trick rabbiting rubbish about your powers of black magic till the fly unfreezes its way back to life!

Voodoo Spirit Writing – David Blaine’s tricks exhibit his acting abilities more than his capability of mind power.
Generally this trick is carried out with a big crowd watching.

Blaine takes a note pad and a pencil and writes or draws something then hides it not showing any one what he has written. Then he asks an audience member to think about a number or a shape, saying that he already knows what he/she is going to think of and it is written on his piece of paper. Then when he/she has written it she shows it to the gang and him, then he shows her his piece of paper with precisely the same number or shape on his/her paper.

This David Blaine tricks revealed is incredibly simple it doesn’t even hold its appeal any more when you know how it’s done. For the preparation you must super stick a tiny piece of pencil lead on to your thumb. Then when you’re about to pen something on your piece of paper just fake it and keep it blank.

Once the fans member has revealed what they have written, with the assistance of misdirection you write it on your piece of paper with the piece of lead fixed to your thumb. And then dazzle the spectators with your fantastic powers of mentalism.

Money From Thin Air – Originally performed by David Blaine this trick guarantees to make you a millionaire overnight. Seriously these tricks are so simple! Here’s another one you can perfect at home and dazzle your chums with.

The trick starts out with David Blaine sitting quietly at a table facing the crowd member also seated opposite him. Then he rolls up his sleeves one at a time to show you that there’s nothing concealed in them. Then he waves his hands seriously and all of a sudden out comes cash out of thin air. OK so again this trick depends on your misdirecting capacities.

For preparation you have got to keep a firmly rolled bunch of bills hidden in a crease of one of your sleeves then while you distract the onlooker by showing him that your sleeves are empty and your hands are hiding nothing. While they’re distracted by one hand, swiftly take out the roll of cash revealed from the crease, then continue to add some enchanting hand gestures and then start spitting out the cash.

The David Blaine tricks revealed here are straightforward when you know how and with a bit of practice you can also be pretty much as good as him.

Since trash is a huge business, you can make tons of money operating a garbage truck. After the end of World War II, the growth of trash disposal industry got a boost. People did not have the option to burn trash anymore. According to environmental laws, industrial wastes had to be safely disposed of. In this article, we are going to talk about how you can make money using a garbage truck.

Private Trash Collection

In urban areas, the purpose of trash collection is to make sure all cities are free from garbage and trash. Metropolitan centers hire the services of trash trucks for the collection and recycling of Industrial waste.

Therefore, garbage truck operators can offer their services to clean cities. On the other hand, smaller villages don’t have access to discretionary funds in order to invest in cash trucks and enjoy the services of full-time staff. In these areas, independent garbage truck operators can provide their services.

Trash Contracts

In large cities, administrators hire refuse truck fleets for collecting trash. However, most of them sign an annual contract with these service providers. If you are an independent it or operator, you can’t even think of competing against these big players.

But small municipal groups, such as school districts don’t need to sign long term contract. Therefore, you can approach these institutions in order to offer your services. Since there are a lot of these small institutes, you can contact them one by one and sign short term contracts. This will help you make a lot of money.

Recycling Trash

Another way you can make money is to provide your recycling services. Although city administration may have its own fleet of garbage trucks, you can still find a lot of cities where they don’t have funds in order to purchase their own trucks. Some of them don’t have enough vehicles to collect recyclable trash.

Is an independent garbage truck operator, you can collect recyclable trash from different municipalities in order to make tons of money. Apart from this, you can collect recyclable stuff found in curbside bins. You can then sell this trash and earn a lot of money.

In this type of business, you need to take care of customer billing and collection fees. So, this can be a great way to make money if you have your own garbage truck.

Toxic Trash Disposal

For independent contractors, corporate trash collection is another great source of income. This is true about areas that are not served by metropolitan services. In some cases, business centers have so much trash that they have to hire independent contractors.

Apart from this, you can also offer your services to collect toxic waste, such as waste oil and mercury. You have to collect this type of waste and transport it to special recycling centers.

In short, if you purchase and operate a garbage truck, you can make a lot of money by following the tips given in this article. Hopefully, this will help you start your business as a garbage truck operator and make a lot of money.

Over the weekend, I got an email from a woman who told me that she and her husband had recently had a fight and he blurted out that he didn’t even love her anymore, but that he was staying married “for the sake of the kids.”  She had no idea how to respond to this.  Of course, she was devastated.  But, she also wondered if she should stay in a “loveless marriage” or if it would be more detrimental to the kids to divorce than to remain in a household where one of the parents didn’t love the other.

 It was hard for her to separate her feelings about a divorce and her feelings about her husband.  Although she was annoyed with him, she did still love him and she wanted to make the marriage work.  If it were up to her, there would be no divorce. So, in the following article, I’ll tell you what I told her about how to view this situation right now, but how to also turn it around in the future. 

Divorce Vs Parents Who Don’t Love Their Spouses From The Viewpoint Of Your Child(ren): First, I want to get how the kids fit into this out of the way.  Sure, it’s detrimental for a child to grow up in a household where there is no love at all.  But, this woman’s situation was not one where both parents did not deeply love their kids.  Both of them adored their children – so much so that it was their kids that were keeping them hanging in there. 

With that said, divorce is devastating to children.  Honestly, if you had asked me as a kid if I would rather my parents get divorced so I would never have to see them fight again, or if I would rather they remained married, but combative, I would’ve chose the fighting in an intact family any day of the week. 

Now, to be fair, my parents’ fights weren’t out of hand or physically and verbally abusive.  There were a lot of great times, so when they did separate and eventually split up all together, I used to dwell on why they couldn’t focus on the good times as a stepping stone to working things out.  I realize that parents can not live for their children, but I also feel that saying kids would rather have happy parents than parents in a loveless marriage is often not true – at least from the viewpoint of the child.  In fact, what I believe that what the child really wants is for you to work it out so that you can all be happy again – together, as a family.  And, there is often a lot of resentment once the divorce puts a lot of financial strain on the family and there are drastic lifestyle changes which often makes the kid feel guilty and caught in the middle. 

I realize that there are people who will tell you that the divorce was better for them and their families, but, from personal experience, I’m not one of them.  I now have two step parents who are both lovely people and I now have small, younger sisters.  I am now married myself and I realize exactly how hard it is to keep a marriage going (in fact, I almost divorced a few years ago), but the child in me still can not forget how painful it was for my parents to split up, and every Christmas, when I have to celebrate with two families, it just honestly feels wrong. I realize this is selfish of me, but it is truly how I feel.

Your Children Don’t Want You To Stay Together For Their Sake, But They Want You To Find A Way To Become A Happy, United Family Again: My mother’s friends used to say things like: “aren’t you glad that your parents are happy again and that you don’t have to hear the fighting any more?”   I suppose I was glad that there was no more fighting, but, what I really wanted was for there to be no more fighting because they had found a way to be happy again – together. I wanted for them to be happy together – not separately.

No one is going to argue that it’s not good for a child to grow up in a tense, unhappy home.  But, before you divorce, ask yourself if it’s possible to change your marriage (and not the status of it) so that your child can grow up in a happy home that includes both of their parents.  Sometimes, this isn’t possible.  I concede that.  There are some marriages that just can’t be saved, but I’ve seen countless seemingly dead marriages turn around because both parties were committed to making that happen and finally found the right tools to be successful. 

Separating The Kids From Your Marriage:  This is going to sound a bit strange when I say it, but often, while the kids are the glue that holds the parents together, they’re also often the thing that stresses the marriage the most.  Stay with me while I explain.  What I mean by that is that often children will turn two people who were deeply in love and focused on one another into two people who begin to focus more on their kids once they are born.  You are now less lovers and more mom and dad.

I honestly believe that “falling out of love” or “not loving each other anymore” is more the result or neglect, not taking the time, and shifting priorities, rather than changing feelings or the fact that the chemistry is no longer there.  Often, the chemistry is very much still there – but you’ve buried it under a sea of obligations.  Often, if you push everything else to the back burner for a while and focus only on the marriage and giving your spouse the time, attention and appreciation you did when you were dating, you’ll find that the two people who fell in love are still in there somewhere.

And, quite honestly, the best gift that you can give your kids is two parents who love each other, and them, very much.  But sometimes, you have to spend regular time away from the kids to give them this. They would much rather you be a little selfish and have regular date nights than to grow up in two separate homes.

Ever wonder why your manager seems to get so much done without seeming to do a lot of work? It is not that they are doing nothing; it is more because they are doing things right. If you take the time to observe your manager, you will probably notice him or her doing five things that you may not be doing. These five things are easy tricks to successful time management at the office.

1. Manage what hits the inbox. You should conduct an audit of the type of things that land in your inbox, whether it is paper or electronic. You could be getting copied on information that you do not need to see, if so ask to be removed from the distribution list. You might be seeing stuff that requires action but it is not in your realm of skill or responsibility, if so pass the information on to the right person and possibly suggest they request your name be replaced with theirs on future correspondence. That should just leave what you need to know or you need to act upon. For the remaining items, act upon them in some way so you do not need to keep going back to them.
2. Keep desk clean. Clutter is distracting and makes it hard to find what you need when you need it. Put photos and memorabilia on a shelf or bulletin board, not on your desk. Make it a habit to put everything away before you leave for the day or go out to lunch, so you come back to a clean work area. Develop a filing system that works for the things you want to keep. Then immediately recycle or trash the things you do not need to keep.
3. Go to lunch earlier or later than noon. Most people go to lunch at noon so there will always be time wasted standing in line to get a table, wait on the food order, wait on the check and pay it, plus traffic to and from the location where you eat. It does not matter if you go out or eat in the company cafeteria; noon is always a crowded time. Instead go at 11:00AM or 1:00PM to get a quicker and quieter lunch experience.
4. Keep track of who is interrupting and why. If you know who is always stopping by to ask questions or just talk, then you can work together to reduce unnecessary interruptions. This will work for both of you in managing your time better. Together you should set 10-15 minutes to meet once or twice a day instead of having multiple disruptions during the workday. Since you set short meetings, you can stand during the meeting to ensure they do not go longer.
5. Prepare for meetings. Gather everything you need for the meeting you are participating in or leading. Put the meeting on your calendar 5-10 minutes ahead and a few minutes after. In the minutes before, you have time to get ready and get there on time. In the minutes afterwards, you can get moving on any action items you got from the meeting. Also, make sure the meeting has an agenda so everyone’s time is used efficiently when you are all together. If you were not sent an agenda, ask for it before the meeting starts.

Now that you have reviewed the five time management tricks that most managers use successfully, will you consider using them too? If you apply these simple concepts to your work in the office, you should see that you too can get more done.