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What else is there but amateur competition and games like
the Olympics?

Believe it or not, there are many other uses of gymnastics
for your child besides amateur competition and the Olympic
games. Unlike some other sports, such as football or
hockey, which may only get him or her into a college on a
scholarship on an off chance, gymnastics has much more of a
future to offer those who are capable. Professional
gymnastics, gymnastics coaching, performances, and theater
are only a few of the options beyond the aforementioned –
quite literally, the sky is the limit.

Professional gymnastics

In terms of professional gymnastics there are quite
literally dozens of substyles to choose from, all of which
stem either from rhythmic gymnastics or artistic
gymnastics. Dancing, juggling, tumbling, rolling,
vaulting, horse and beams can be involved in a professional
competition. Even the rings, which are limited only to
men, are offered. Lucrative and fun for your gymnast, the
professional sport is typically reserved for those who are
extremely well-qualified. Lots of gymnasts who participate,
though, are fresh out of school. No rule states that one
must be an Olympic champion in order to enter a contest for
money. Obviously, the gymnast must be prepared both
physically and mentally. Of course, if your gymnast is the
best in his or her local or state division, then he or she
may want to go for a prize purse. Typically, those who do
have already won a few amateur titles. If you want to see
your son or daughter have the option of professional
gymnastics, keep this in mind… Every country that
participates in the Olympics, practically, has its own
professional tournaments and divisions. The possibilities
are wide.

Gymnastics coaching

Coaching for gymnastics may also be a viable suggestion for
your gymnast. After they have tired of competing with
other gymnasts, they can put their skills and their mettle
to the test by coaching young, up-and-coming gymnasts in
their quests for gold. This, usually, is a step left for
the far future, but it is always an option for the
accomplished gymnastics student, with some common sense and
some intuition, to teach the next generation. Olympic and
professional athletes could not get to where they are
today, after all, if they did not have the proper coaching.

Performances

This is perhaps the most diverse category yet of ‘other’
gymnastics. While many types of performing art may seem
unrelated to gymnastics, keep in mind that gymnastics can
be modified creatively.

The most obvious addition to this category would be dance.
Dance performances, no matter what type they may be
(ballet, ballroom, what have you), are inherently gymnastic
in their motion. This is why gymnastics students always
have a leg up (no pun intended) on some of the more
outrageous maneuvers like splits or high kicks or leaps
than those who have never had any experience with gymnastic
art.

Before you laugh at the idea…Circuses are a relatively
respectable use of gymnastics as well–and we don’t just
mean Barnum and Bailey’s, either. Artistic circuses such
as the Cirque du Soleil are famous for their contortionists
and for their high-flying acrobatic and gymnastic shows of
skill; in fact, the Cirque itself has international renown.
It is indeed a thought!

Theatrical performances routinely involve gymnastics,
sometimes in the form of displays of flexibility, other
times in the form of creative dance. Performances of this
sort are not only limited to the Broadway, off-Broadway, or
off-off-Broadway shows you might be thinking of. In fact,
if your gymnast also has an inclination toward ice skating,
there is an entirely new world of opportunity right at
their fingertips, so to speak. Shows that are on ice -
musicals, dramas, or what have you – are always filled with
outrageous and wonderful moves that your skilled gymnast
can surely identify with.

And finally, there is the idea of gymnastics on the big
screen–or the small screen. Hollywood is always looking
for people with gymnastic skill to perform as stunt doubles
or stars. In fact, so too are some television shows,
believe it or not.

Indeed, with your young gymnast’s abilities, they can go
anywhere their minds take them — and indeed, the way you
encourage them will play a large part in their continuing
gymnastic career. There is always something out there.
One needs only look!

By Murray Hughes
Gymnastics Secrets Revealed
“The book EVERY gymnastics parent should read”

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An ecommerce design for a website is a bit more expensive than a
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internet-based business that conducts financial transactions
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When considering your website development needs, you may wonder
if there are easy ways around getting an ecommerce design for
your website since an ecommerce design is more expensive than
getting a site without ecommerce design features, especially if
funds are tight starting out.

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get you by until you can afford the development expense for an
ecommerce design, but if you take your ecommerce business
seriously, you really do need an ecommerce design because of its
many advantages over other websites.

As an alternative to an ecommerce design, you could use your
website as a lead generation tool without actually conducting
financial transactions online. If you use your website for lead
generation rather than getting an ecommerce design for your
website, you will have many manual tasks to accomplish that will
be time consuming.

You can use a contact form, email, a fax line, or a phone number
to accept orders offering payment options such as sending in a
check or money order or providing a credit card number by phone,
if you have a merchant account.

This is not a very good option for you or your customers;
however, for more than one reason. Your customers may not take
your ecommerce business seriously if you do not have an ecommerce
design website that accepts payments online. Online shoppers are
also generally impulse buyers.

If the process of purchasing something from your company is too
cumbersome, many will just surf the net and find another
alternative, so your sales potential will be diminished. You will
also have to manually process orders and payments and matching
the order to the payment can be a complicated task at times, so
your order fulfillment process might be inefficient.

That results in poor customer service, angry customers and
negativity against the reputation of your business. Really, it is
a vicious circle.

A more beneficial alternative to an ecommerce design is the use
of PayPal’s automated payment features. PayPal enables you to
place “Pay Now” buttons on your website which will enable your
customers to make online payments to your PayPal account.

This is certainly a better alternative than having no online
payment option on your website; however, a website with an
ecommerce design will likely be much more appealing to your
website visitors.

The benefits of an ecommerce design are that it enables your
customers to place orders quickly and easily, especially if you
have a shopping cart feature in your ecommerce design. Multiple
products or services can be purchased at one time, the order
(including tax and shipping) can be automatically totaled, and
the customer can make an online payment for the complete order.

Some ecommerce design features may even send the customer an
order confirmation and if you have shipping tracking built into
your ecommerce design, you can update your database when an order
ships and a tracking confirmation will be automatically sent to
your customers via email so they can keep tabs on the status of
their order.

The main advantages of an ecommerce design is that it automated
the sales process, improves customer confidence, increases sales,
and saves you loads of time in the order processing and follow-up
processes.

An ecommerce design might be a bit more costly than other designs
in the website development phase, but over the long run, your
ecommerce design will pay for itself ten-fold at least in
increased revenues and saved time.

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Baseball players would be in a pretty pickle if all signals were verbal. Would a player be excused, by an irate fit to be tied coach, if he did not hear the screaming that goes on.

The coaches are out there giving signals. The umpire is giving signals. Baseball players are watching everything. What is this signal thing about anyway?

There is a secret among a coach and his players and they dare not let the opponent in on the know. I have seen the first and third base coaches play around out there like they had the itch or mosquitoes biting or something.

They will scratch their shirts across the letters, take off their caps, run their hands thru their hair, rub the back of their legs with their foot, and even rub their arms like crazy.I know something must be up. Wonder if it’s catching?

I’ll tell you who had better catch it. Those team players. I’m told these are their secret signals.

The umpires also go thru all kind of gyrations. I have seen the base umps run down the foul line on a well hit ball suddenly stop, turn toward the playing field and point like a bird dog on point.

Another common antic of an umpire is he will intently watch when a runner is running to a base and a tag is about to be made. If the tag is too late to get the runner out then the umpire goes half ape. He will stand there throwing his hand out as if he is shooing away a swarm of gnats. Then he calmly turns his back and walks away.

Players may jump up and down and exclaim he was out and the manager may even come a running. Brother, the umpire simply stands there with his arms folded across his chest and utters not a word. The coach sends his players away with a hand motion. The coach has his say to the ump. The coach makes out like he is mad but suddenly, like an ole hound dog which has been shot with a B B gun, he tucks and trots away.

Folks all of this signalling and use of hands serves a most useful and human purpose.

Many, many years ago a couple of deaf players loved and played the game of baseball. These two gentlemen, a Mr. Luther Taylor and Mr.William Hoy, are owed a tremendous debt of gratitude for their dedicated insistence for use and development of umpire hand signals.

I refer to these gentlemen as Mr. in respect for what they did for our great game of baseball. You see they are credited with making umpire hand signals an integral part of the game.

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Part of studying for CCNA exam success is keeping all these new commands straight in your head! And let’s face it, there are a lot of commands you need to know in order to pass the CCNA exam and earn that certification. Here’s a review of some very important distance vector and static routing commands you need to know, along with their proper usage and console output.

Bandwidth
IGRP makes a default assumption that any Serial interface running IGRP is connected to a T1 line, which runs at 1544 KBPS. With equal-cost load-balancing enabled by default, this may be an undesirable assumption.

To alter IGRP’s assumption, use the bandwidth command on the serial interface in question. Note that this command does NOT actually affect the bandwidth available to the interface; it merely changes IGRP’s assumption of the bandwidth.
R2#conf t

R2(config)#int s0

R2(config-if)#bandwidth 512

Clear ip route *

This command clears your routing table of all non-static and non-connected routes. In a lab environment, it’s very handy because it forces your routers running routing protocols to send and request updates, rather than waiting for the regularly scheduled updates.
R2#clear ip route *

Debug ip igrp events

Debug ip igrp events allows you to see IGRP updates being sent and requested. Here, the debug is run and then the routing table is cleared. The router immediately broadcasts update requests via the IGRP-enabled interfaces.

R2#debug ip igrp event

IGRP event debugging is on

R2#clear ip route *

06:02:51: IGRP: broadcasting request on BRI0

06:02:51: IGRP: broadcasting request on Serial0.123

Debug ip igrp transactions

To configure IGRP unequal-cost load-sharing with the variance command, you’ve got to know the metric of the less-desirable routes. EIGRP keeps these in its topology table; IGRP has no such table.

To get the metrics of routes not in the routing table, run debug ip igrp transactions. To force IGRP updates, the routing table below was cleared with clear ip route *.

R2#debug ip igrp transactions

IGRP protocol debugging is on

R2#clear ip route *

06:05:33: IGRP: received update from 172.12.123.1 on Serial0.123

06:05:33: subnet 172.12.123.0, metric 10476 (neighbor 8476)

06:05:33: network 1.0.0.0, metric 8976 (neighbor 501)

06:05:33: IGRP: edition is now 3

06:05:33: IGRP: sending update to 255.255.255.255 via BRI0 (172.12.12.2)

06:05:33: network 1.0.0.0, metric=8976

06:05:33: IGRP: sending update to 255.255.255.255 via Serial0.123 (172.12.123.2) – suppressing null update

06:05:34: IGRP: received update from 172.12.12.1 on BRI0

06:05:34: subnet 172.12.13.0, metric 160250 (neighbor 8476)

06:05:34: network 1.0.0.0, metric 158750 (neighbor 501)

Debug ip rip

R2#debug ip rip

IP protocol debugging is on

R2#clear ip route *

6:14:53: RIP: received v2 update from 172.23.23.3 on Ethernet0

6:14:53: 1.0.0.0/8 via 0.0.0.0 in 16 hops (inaccessible)

6:14:53: 1.1.1.1/32 via 0.0.0.0 in 2 hops

6:14:53: 172.12.0.0/16 via 0.0.0.0 in 16 hops (inaccessible)

6:14:53: 172.12.12.2/32 via 0.0.0.0 in 2 hops

6:14:53: 172.12.13.0/30 via 0.0.0.0 in 1 hops

6:14:53: 172.12.123.0/24 via 0.0.0.0 in 1 hops

6:14:53: 172.23.0.0/16 via 0.0.0.0 in 16 hops (inaccessible)

Run debug ip rip to troubleshoot routing update problems, RIP authentication problems, and to view the routing update contents. Clear ip route * was run to clear the routing table and to force a RIP update.

Ip route
R2#conf t

R2(config)#ip route 1.1.1.1 255.255.255.255 172.12.123.1

OR

R2(config)#ip route 1.1.1.1 255.255.255.255 serial0

To configure a static route to a given destination IP address, use the ip route command. The destination is followed by a subnet mask, and that can be followed by either the next-hop IP address or the exit interface on the local router.

Ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0

R2#conf t

R2(config)#ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 172.12.123.1

OR

R2(config)#ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 ethernet0

To configure a default static route, use either of these two commands.

You could have any number for the first “0.0.0.0″, since the second set of zeroes is the subnet mask. This means that any destination will match this route statement.

That’s a good review to get started with! I’ll be back tomorrow with Part II of this CCNA exam command review!

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Redesign To Stay Relevant
Web sites have the same shelf-life as print and broadcast advertising commercials. Very seldom do you see the same ad run longer than several months? You’ll see the same product, but the packaging changes because times change, issues change, public consciousness changes, and the way people research and judge businesses or buy items changes. If businesses are not updating their materials or message, they are shortchanging themselves and will eventually be overtaken by smarter, more aggressive competitors.

The new competitive edge is to redesign and update your Web site in order to stay relevant to potential customers.

And these customers are no longer down the street or across town. They’re worldwide and they’re creating a large pool of wealth for businesses that take their Web site seriously and do what’s necessary to connect with people. The Internet has erased state and country borders and has created a global economy that gets more technically savvy each day.

When potential customers surf the Internet, the first impression they get from your Web site is its design. Much like a storefront, it’s either attractive and professional, or it’s shoddy and questionable. A powerful Web site design creates a sense of trust and respect between you and your on-line visitors. The site explains its purpose clearly and quickly, and why a visitor should spend time browsing it. The client has to be able to say with little doubt, “This is a place where I can do business.”

Search Engine Optimization

The growth of the World Wide Web continues at a phenomenal pace. And that explosion is quickly changing the way people shop for items or information. The World Wide Web has truly made us one economy, one world.

Whether it’s a product, service, issue or cause that you want customers and potential customers to know about, you’ll need to rank high in major search engine results or become a victim of “search fatigue” because you’re buried on page 8 or 18, where most people never tread.

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My Mother never had a website.

It’s the one question that sets the average webmaster’s teeth on edge – Why do I actually need a website?

It always strikes me as the internet equivalent to “what is one plus one?” Yes, I do know the answer, but when someone asks you to explain exactly WHY one plus one equals two, then you have to stop and think about it a little more yourself.

To play devil’s advocate briefly, the world is saturated with advertising media – TV, posters, newspapers, handouts, telephones, SMS messages, movies, videos and DVDs, audio, and even sales teams I am already paying every one of which probably has the power of speech. So now, you want to hit me for a website so even yak farmers in Nepal and market traders in Uganda can learn about my products on-line. Well that sounds really useful but for this week, I’ll pass.

How do we answer this honestly?

I say honestly, because it is always a temptation just to say that since there are over 11.2 billion websites available on the internet then clearly someone must think that they are useful to have around! But that is not really an answer. After all, about half of the world’s population has pierced ears, wear dresses and use make-up. I do not – am I missing out? Or am I perhaps right in thinking they look a tad misplaced on a bearded male web designer? So – no short cuts then.

I suggest we have to go back to basics & look at the website in comparison with traditional marketing tools.

I always use this as my example.

Supposing you put a leaflet under a windscreen wiper of every car on the planet for a single fee on a single day, would that be worth your trouble?

After all: – Some people do not have a car,

An awful lot of people will just pull the leaflet out and throw it away unread,

Some cannot read it,

Some will read it – but do not want or need your product,

A few might read it and then pass it on to their friends,

Some might blow away from under the windscreen wiper of their car, or be dropped by other “readers” and someone else might pick them up,

Just a few of these who respond well to your well-designed leaflet will say – “Oh! Yeah! Great!” And will contact you,

This is called “conversion” If your conversion rate was only 0.01%, how many sales would you get?

On the net, your site is (or should be) viewable on every computer on the planet that has an internet connection (Estimated at 168,000,000 with 63, 0000 more every day).

Consider the possibilities of that kind of exposure – how little it will cost in comparison with all the other form of mass media with that kind of coverage such as worldwide use of national newspapers, radio and TV.

As with our leaflet campaign, you will draw many blanks – and there are many other leaflets out there – but now at least you are in the game.

I do not plan to get into issues of search engine strategies at this time, but with your “WWW” on every business card, receipt, company car, shop, signboard, staff uniform, coffee mug, pen, key fob and just about anything else you can lay hands on, it’s a simple matter of increasing your company’s exposure and that never hurts.

You are driving the public to the website where you can lay out your wares to their best advantage – and feel free to change your leaflet’s content ten times a day if you feel so inclined without having to go to the time and trouble of re-leafleting the planet, or at least your corner of it.

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