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To train your dog you need some good equipment to do it! It’s
easy enough to find places that sell dog training equipment
these days. You can find stores in your local phonebook or on
the internet. The internet has everything these days and is
usually a lot less expensive. So I suggest having a look there
first. Dog training equipment comes in all shapes, sizes and
colours so there is something to suit everyone.

Dog training equipment can be used anywhere, at home, at a
friend’s house or even in a field in the middle of nowhere. The
equipment is usually lightweight and portable and very easy to
pack so you should have no problems carting it around. Not only
can you get dog training equipment for dog agility but you can
also purchase items for dog obedience.

Dog obedience items are simple things like clickers, treat balls
(which are amazing), extendable leashes and other similar items.
They are a lot easier to get than agility items. When you
decided you want to compete with your dog you usually pick one
or the other, dog agility or dog obedience. For dog obedience
you only concentrate on dog obedience, for dog agility you need
your dog to be obedient so there is a little bit more training
involved.

Dog training equipment can be funky or old fashioned, bright or
dull it’s up to you. Many stores cater for individual needs so
you can specify what you would like your equipment to be like.
Dog training equipment is sometimes needed for obedience when
you have a stubborn dog, and for dog agility training equipment
is essential.

Dog training equipment needn’t only be for competition purposes.
You can get equipment for fun training to. When you want to
teach your dog to come, sit and stay and some other commands
toys are always a great help. You and your dog need to enjoy
special moments together to make a bond with each other, why not
make a bond and train at the same time? The better the bond the
more fun it will be!

For the British at least, Shrove Tuesday is probably better known as Pancake Day. Those wonderful delicacies, smothered in sugar and lemon and often tossed around in village competitions. As you will see from the recipes below, the Brits certainly don’t have the monopoly of this type of fare for the occasion:

REBANDAS DE CARNAVAL

This a great way to use up stale bread at any time.

Ingredients:

1 “yesterday’s” Canarian loaf (any crusty white bread like a French stick or baguette will do just as well), 1 egg, 1 cup of milk approx., Sugar, Sprinkle of ground cinnamon.

Method:

Slice the bread diagonally into 1/2 to 3/4 inch slices and discard the ends of the loaf. Beat the egg, milk and cinnamon together in a bowl then soak the bread slices briefly in the mixture. Lift them carefully and fry gently in oil in a shallow frying pan, turning once. Remove when golden, arrange on a plate and sprinkle with sugar. Watch them disappear fast!

(A variation on this recipe is to substitute half the milk with white wine.)

TORTILLA DE CARNAVAL

Ingredients:

Gofio, Plain Flour (optional), Three or four egg yolks, Ground cinnamon, Half a litre of milk, Sugar, Aniseed liqueur or Marie Brizard.

Method:

Mix the egg yolks with the milk, cinnamon and sugar (the amount of which you can vary according to taste), along with a dribble of the aniseed liqueur. Beat well, then add the gofio a little at a time, until you have a consistency resembling custard. (You can mix flour with the gofio, again according to preference). Fry small amounts of the mixture until golden in hot oil to make little pancakes. It is customary to eat them at Carnaval time, accompanied by coffee.

About The Author

Pamela Heywood has been resident in Tenerife since 1992. Formerly an accountant in the UK, she has since written for local magazines and newspapers and now runs several web sites, publishing a number of ezines. This article first appeared in Tenerife Topics, a monthly newsletter that looks mostly at the other face of Tenerife from that the tourist usually discovers. http://tenerife-topics.8m.com

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Why Should You Create a website?

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A. What do you want when you create a website?

B. What to do to get what you want.

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A. What do you want?

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1. You may be in a non-profit organisation and want to post
forthcoming events on the web. You don’t want to have thousands
of visitors to the site. But wait - do you want to create a
website for new members from the web? I found a new barbershop
singer through my website.

2. You may have a small business selling locally. You’re happy
with yellow pages. But wait - how many thousand words can you
put in your yellow page advert?

There is no limit if you create a website.

Have you ever had someone keep you on the phone for half an hour
of your valuable time with their questions? Wouldn’t it be nice
to direct them to your website for answers and sales messages?
Create a website!

Once you’ve written all those answers, wouldn’t it be profitable
to have potential customers reading your answers? Create a
website. A dentist has clients from a hundred miles away, from
his website.

3. Perhaps you sell items weighing a hundred tons costing a
million dollars. When you create a website you can still write
as much information about your product as you like - not like
the yellow pages. Then you can direct prospects to phone to make
an appointment with your best sales staff.

4. You want to sell a product on the web. First create a website
then get lots of traffic.

5. You want to make money on the web?!! without a product?!!
No…I’m not laughing. Create a website. If you have lots of
traffic you don’t even have to be good at selling to make some
money with Google Adsense.

If you’re good at pre-selling then you can try affiliate
marketing, or selling advertising on your site, or several other
channels of income. Just create a website and get the traffic
first.

B. What to do about it To get high traffic you must give
visitors what they want. Tricking Google will only get your
domain banned from their listing.

Here are some things not to do when you create a website. If
your visitors hit the back button their numbers don’t count.

a) Don’t use frames when you create a website - the search
engines can’t find you, and the inventors of frames don’t use
them on their own website.

b) It may be artistic to disguise your links, but you will lose
customers. I visited a site that displayed just one big picture.
I happened to pass my mouse over the picture on the way to the
back button, and discovered links flashing on the screen.
Apparently I had to click on bits of the picture to see any more!

c) Don’t use Flash when you create a website. If people are
using ADSL they are unlikely to wait longer than three seconds
before hitting the back button. If they’re on a 56K modem they
might be prepared to wait ten seconds. You’ve just lost another
client.

d) Don’t use big pictures when you create a website. If you have
a photography site, use postage stamp sized pictures with the
size stated in your coding, and ask the visitor to click for a
larger picture. Telling the browser how high and wide your
picture is will allow it to load after the text, so your visitor
has something to look at meantime.

e) Don’t use irrelevant pictures when you create a website. One
picture is worth a thousand words, but only if the picture is
saying what you want it to say. Why do people visit websites? It
is NOT for entertainment. Their TV gives them all the moving
pictures that they need. Even if it is an adult site, the
visitor is really wanting to download digital information for
later entertainment.

Information is what your visitor wants - When you create a
website don’t waste your time and money on anything else.

A paid designer will use all sorts of clever artistic tricks -
you now know that you will lose clients that way. More than 99%
of new websites soon have to close because they have no traffic,
which means no profit.

That is your biggest mistake. Instead, find what people want to
know first, then give it to them.

So why create a website? Simple, you know more about your own
subject than any show-off website designer. You don’t even need
to understand HTML coding if you use SBI. You still should learn
a little about HTML coding, but there are free lessons on my
website.