12 Ways to turn a bad day into a better one

They are inevitable. Bad days happen to everyone. But, there are things you can do to make them better. Here are a few…

1. Play with kids.

I dare you.

2. Give someone a compliment.

Not a fake one, but take the time to see something that someone else is doing well.

3. Sing in your car.

And sing as loud as you can. Have you ever noticed how hard it is to frown while you are singing?

4. Read Philippians 4.

And while you are at it, just think about where Paul was while he was writing it.

5. Bake your favorite kind of cookies.

Then eat some.

6. Count your blessings.

I mean it. Start a list of all the things you are thankful for. Write until you can't write anymore. Staple it to the wall.

7. Watch people.

Go find a crowded public area, sit down and watch. Allow yourself to wonder what he ate for breakfast, or what her name is, or where he bought that shirt.

8. Do something for someone you love.

Do the dishes for your wife, take your neice out for ice cream, take your mom to Starbucks for a coffee.

9. Pray.

It's 9 because you expected it to be 1. What could be more encouraging that talking to the Creator of the universe?

10. Think of the most encouraging person you know and call them.

But don't complain. Refrain from telling them how bad your day is and focus on making their day better.

11. Write a letter.

A good old-fashioned paper and ink letter. Bonus: write it to someone who has impacted your life and thank them and let them know how much you appreciate their role/impact in your life.

12. Remember the truth.

That God causes all things to work together for GOOD (Romans 8:28)

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By: Joanna Joyner

Search Engine Optimization is very important for any website. If you want to design a SEO-Friendly web site then you must follow the following tips-

1. Use Good Keywords

This is probably the most effective way to make your web site SEO friendly as this is the first criteria to get a good SEO ranking. Therefore, you must find a good key phrase for every page on your website. Don't optimize the entire site with one common key word or phrase as it may prevent the different type of data from different pages from coming up at the right time. For example, suppose that your website is on different types of textiles and in it you have given information about all types of textile and have also included the information about different countries which export them. Now, if suppose you just keep one key- phrase i.e. "Textiles of the world" for the entire site. Now, your website will only be visible for the people who want to find out about the different types of textiles. People, who want to know about the textile exporting countries, won't be able to see the pages on your site giving that information. Therefore, you should keep a different keyword or phrase for every separate page.

2. Refresh the content frequently

If the content on your site is old and stale then you will lose the traffic on it. Therefore, you must keep refreshing the content on the web pages on regular basis. It has been observed that the web sites which have updated and add new content on regular basis are counted among the better and trustworthy sites by search engines and surfers both. Updating your content will also help your website get better reviews and the increase its reputation. A popular site among surfers automatically improves its ranking in the search engine indexes.

3. Your Content should be unique

If you want to rank high in the search engines then your website content should also be good. The content should always be unique and new. This is also important for getting repeated visits on your site as nobody will visit your page if the content on it is stolen from another and apparently much better site.

4. The phrase should not be too popular

The phrase that you want to choose for your web pages should be a popular one but not too popular as that can be counter productive for your website. It may seem like a good idea to choose an extremely popular keyword phrase for your website but you should remember that such keywords are extremely competitive. Therefore, you should choose a phrase that gives you a chance to compete and higher your rank.

5. Use the phrase in the title

The title of your website and every webpage is the most important. You must use your keyword phrase in the title to make it visible for the search engines.  Also, this way the key phrase will appear in the address bar and the search engine will be able to show it as link.

Search Engine Optimization is a technical process which is used to raise the rank of a website in the search engine index. SEO makes a website easier for the search engines to read and also helps the users in finding the best websites to read. It is an easy and cheap way to get more traffic on a website. SEO helps the different pages of a website to get a good rank in the search engine.

Let's discuss ways to optimize your web site-

1. Content should be strong

Every search engine wants to give the best and most relevant results. That's why they regularly review the sites and the content on them, in order to make sure that every search result is ranked according to its worth.  Therefore, the first thing you should focus on your website is its content. The content should be strong and relevant to the subject and keyword phrase used by the website.

2. Use HTML

This is a very important step in the search engine optimization but it is often by the web site developers. A valid HTML format of the web site is a very simple thing to do but it is an important in order to optimize your websites. It has been found that a site in a valid HTML format gets spidered much easily and widely.

3. Decide on good keyword phrases

Choosing a perfect keyword phrase can be a difficult task but it is very important for optimization of a website. You must try to come up with one keyword phrase for every page of your website. The phrase should be focusing on the content of that page and should be relevant to the content on it. Also, use that phrase in the title of that page as that will enable it to appear as a link in the search engine.

4. Use the key phrase wisely

A website developer should make sure that the keyword phrase is used enough times in the content of the page. The keyword phase should come at least twice in every five hundred words in order to make it visible to the search engines. But on the other hand, one should not even load a web page with the keyword phrase as it will look like that the website developers are trying to cheat the search engines in increasing its rank. So, use it carefully and wisely.

5. Don't optimize the whole site with one keyword phrase

Sometimes, the website developers take the easy way out and optimize the entire site with just one keyword phrase. This is the wrong way to do it. In order to optimize your site successfully, you should try to come up with different keyword phrase for each separate page of the site. This will increase the rank of the website and will also bring more traffic to it.

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Dear heavenly Father, thank you for loving me.
Thank you for sending Jesus to die for me. Lord Jesus, I open wide the door of my heart, and ask you to come into me now. Be my Lord and my Savior. Wash me in your blood, forgive me of all my sins and eradicate my past. I turn my back on the world. I turn my back on sin, the devil and demon forces, and I embrace you today, Jesus.

I believe with all my heart that Jesus Christ is the Son of the Living God, and that he died on Calvary's Cross for me. He was buried, and on the third day, he came out of the grave alive. Now I confess with my mouth, that Jesus Christ is my Lord, and I am saved! Now fill me with the power of the Holy Spirit, with the evidence of speaking in other tongues, and give me the power to be a witness, and I will serve you all the days of my life.

In Jesus' Name, Amen.

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Darfur has been embroiled in a deadly conflict for over three years.  At least 400,000 people have been killed; more than 2 million innocent civilians have been forced to flee their homes and now live in displaced-persons camps in Sudan or in refugee camps in neighboring Chad; and more than 3.5 million men, women, and children are completely reliant on international aid for survival. Not since the Rwandan genocide of 1994 has the world seen such a calculated campaign of displacement, starvation, rape, and mass slaughter.

Since early 2003, Sudanese armed forces and Sudanese government-backed militia known as "Janjaweed" have been fighting two rebel groups in Darfur, the Sudanese Liberation Army/Movement (SLA/SLM) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM). The stated political aim of the rebels has been to compel the government of Sudan to address underdevelopment and the political marginalization of the region.  In response, the Sudanese government's regular armed forces and the Janjaweed – largely composed of fighters of Arab nomadic background – have targeted civilian populations and ethnic group from which the rebels primarily draw their support – the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa.

The Bush Administration has recognized these atrocities – carried out against civilians primarily by the government of Sudan and its allied Janjaweed militias – as genocide.  António Guterres, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, has described the situation in Sudan and Chad as "the largest and most complex humanitarian problem on the globe."  The Sudanese government and the Janjaweed militias are responsible for the burning and destruction of hundreds of rural villages, the killing of tens of thousands of people and rape and assault of thousands of women and girls.

With much international pressure, the Darfur Peace Agreement was brokered in May 2006 between the government of Sudan and one faction of Darfur rebels. However, deadlines have been ignored and the violence has escalated, with in-fighting among the various rebel groups and factions dramatically increasing and adding a new layer of complexity to the conflict. This violence has made it dangerous, if not impossible, for most of the millions of displaced persons to return to their homes. Humanitarian aid agencies face growing obstacles to bringing widespread relief.  In August 2006, the UN's top humanitarian official Jan Egeland stated that the situation in Darfur is "going from real bad to catastrophic."  Indeed, the violence in Darfur rages on with government-backed militias still attacking civilian populations with impunity.

On July 30, 2004, the UN Security Council adopted resolution 1556 demanding that the government of Sudan disarm the Janjaweed.  This same demand is also an important part of the Darfur Peace Agreement signed in May of 2006.  On August 31, 2006, the Security Council took the further step of authorizing a strong UN peacekeeping force for Darfur by passing resolution 1706.  Despite these actions, the Janjaweed are still active and free to commit the same genocidal crimes against civilians in Darfur with the aid of the Sudanese government.

International experts agree that the United Nations Security Council must deploy a peacekeeping force with a mandate to protect civilians immediately. Until it arrives, the under-funded and overwhelmed African Union monitoring mission must be bolstered. And governments and international institutions must provide and ensure access to sufficient humanitarian aid for those in need.

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