From the daily archives: Monday, March 8, 2010
Non-wovens are defined as flat structured fabrics, such as sheets or webs, not made by weaving but by bonding and entangling fibers by means of mechanical, thermal or chemical processes.
The major non-woven technologies now available, are needle-punching, thermal-bonding, air laid, spun-bonding, melt blowing and spun lacing/ hydro-entanglement.
The non-woven materials produced under these processes are extensively used for technical applications such as surgical gowns, diaper cover stocks, automotive linings, and military applications such as decontamination wipes and geo-textiles such as insulating tank/lake bunds.
India, firmly well-established in commodity textiles such as apparels/made-ups at the rear of its tough cotton economy, has to promote itself into high-value products such as technical textiles/non-wovens.
Non-woven textiles inside the overall technical textiles is likely to grow globally at an average 8 per cent, with the Asia-Pacific region being expected to show a vigorous 9.6 per cent annual escalation rate between 2006 and 2009.
The world production of non-wovens elevated from 2.16 million tones in 1994 to 4.43 million tones in 2004 with a probable value jump from $9 billion to $15.9 billion, correspondingly, during this period.
Europe and North America, which had the lion’s share of 1.35 million tones and 1.16 million tones, respectively, in 2004 world production figure of 4.43 million tones, may give way to the Asia-Pacific region, which is projected to increase its non-woven products productivity from 1.02 million tones in 2004 to 1.67 million tones by 2009.
At present, the total volume of non-wovens produced from India is estimated at 35,000 tones, as compared to China’s non-woven product output of 7.55 lakh tones (China is a dominating force in non-wovens among the Asia-Pacific region and the third largest non-woven producing region after America and Europe because of life-style changes, the rising middle-class, and its economy).
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There is a path to fiction writing success that is quick and sure, even obvious. It’s a path that’s simple to explain. In fact, I’m going to explain it in this short article. And when I’m finished, most of you who read this will nod and say to yourselves, “I knew that.” Then you’ll move on without giving it another thought. And you won’t do it.
And that will be a shame.
As with any profession, writing good fiction requires a learning curve. It begins with the very basics – the rules of proper grammar. From there, you’ll want to learn all the aspects of storytelling. These can include everything from setting to character development, from dialogue to plot, and more. And when you become comfortable in your knowledge of storytelling, you’ll want to learn about the business end of writing … how to build your career, working with agents, what all those contract clauses mean, etc. Learning will be a life-long journey.
But if you learn all of the above, inside and out, even become an expert at it, it won’t mean a thing toward writing successful fiction unless you do one more thing.
You know what it is, don’t you?
Yes.
You have to write, and you have to write everyday.
It doesn’t matter how knowledgeable or how talented you are. If you don’t write regularly you’ll never be successful. Having edited a newsletter, a small press magazine, and several anthologies, I can tell you from experience, it’s not the most talented writers who succeed. It’s the most persistent writers. The writers who work on their craft with a passion. Who pour their souls into their work.
And it’s not how much time you have, it’s the routine that matters. Writing success comes from placing your butt in the chair and putting words down on a piece of paper or your computer screen on a daily basis. It doesn’t matter if you only have fifteen minutes a day, as long as you fill that time writing.
The best way to do this is to make an appointment with yourself, set a specific time everyday that’s reserved for nothing but writing. It might be the first thing in the morning before the rest of the family wakes up. It might be during your lunch hour, or late at night after everyone else is in bed. It doesn’t matter, as long as it’s the same time everyday, and the only thing that happens is that you write.
By the way, researching isn’t writing. Plotting isn’t writing. Developing a character isn’t writing. Those are all important aspect of developing good stories, and they need to be done, but they are not writing. Don’t let them get in the way. It’s easy to get caught up in all the details of your story without ever actually putting a word on paper.
So there you have it.
The quickest, surest path to fiction writing success.
Write everyday.
Sounds easy, doesn’t it?
And you already knew it, didn’t you?
So now the question is this: what are you going to do about it?
David B. Silva is the author of numerous short stories and novels. Currently, he serves as the webmaster for The Successful Writer, a website designed to provide writing information and resources for new and upcoming writers.
When writing a resume you must remember the fact that you are trying to promote yourself and therefore must present yourself in the best possible manner so that you will be called in for a job interview and then hopefully get a job. Things to include are past jobs that you have done and also your achievements and your accomplishments.
You must give possible future employers an idea of how you are going to work for them. Including ones job objectively is something that people frequently forget to include in their resume. By not including your job objective, you show no direction in where you would like to go which leaves employers not too interested in you.
There are two different types of resumes. The first is the chronological format and is most preferred by employers. This is perfect if you don’t really plan on changing fields. The other one is called the functional format. This is the resume that you would choose if you were changing fields and you have certain skills that are transferable to different jobs.
If you simply do not have any kind of experience then the best thing to do is go out and volunteer. If you volunteer you will gain experience and will also have something to include on your resume. One excellent thing to do on your resume is try to impress the employer. Do this by stating certain problems that happened at previous work places, the action you took to solve it and how what you did was beneficial for the company.
People love to include hobbies and interests on their resumes however you should not really include them unless they are relevant to the job that you are trying to apply for. For example do not list that you like to read as one of your hobbies if applying for a construction job you would state that if you were trying to work in a library. One last thing to remember is, do not fold your resume along text line because the ink could flake.
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If you are a tenant having no property under your name or you may be having a home or any valued property but you do not want to risk it, then in such a situation a loan is still a possibility. You can opt for non secured loans which do not at all require you to pledge any property as collateral. Lenders approve non secured loans taking into account personal circumstances of the borrowers. This obviously means that lenders have a flexible approach in offering loan. Non secured loans can be put to any use like home renovations, buying a car, debt consolidation, enjoying holiday trip or for wedding.
Under Non Secured Loans you are able to borrow smaller amount that usually ranges up to ?25000 for a repayment duration ranging from 5 to 15 years. Since non secured loans are risky for borrowers, they tend to charge interest at higher rate. However, interest rate depends on your credit history also. If your past record of paying loans in time is excellent or good the lender is most likely to approve non secured loans at comparatively lower rate. In case of bad credit, you would be charged enhanced rate. Also not that the lower is your credit score the higher goes the interest rate on non- secured loans. in approving non secured loans the lenders’ main focus is on your repaying capacity. Lender sees how much you earn per annum and how much you can set aside for paying back per month the loan installments in time. So take a convincing repayment plan to the lender for timely approval of the loan.
Do not worry if you could no pay past loans in time or have arrears, payment defaults and county court judgments against your name. non secured loans are given despite bad credit. Search well for such a lender offering loans to bad credit people and you will surely find one.
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Are you only able to work on your book dream on the weekend or in small blocks of time? No worries; you are a weekend warrior in book writing. Welcome to the Weekend Warrior Book Writing Club! No, you don’t have to pay dues to join. You need only be a person struggling to fit book writing into a small block of time.
First think about all the benefits you are missing by not fulfilling your book dream. Let’s put a time table to that thought. What would happen if you didn’t get your short book written in the next 90 days? You’d miss having a book to make your business stand out in the crowd. Your business would definitely take longer to build to a whopper success.
You wouldn’t have the competitive edge you’d have as an expert with a book. You’d miss out on the adventures and opportunities waiting for you on the other side of getting your book done. And worst of all, you’d miss the extra profits you could make by charging up to 400% more on your fees as author.
Now that you are properly motivated to cash in on all that you are missing by not getting your book done. Here are 5 simple strategies to get your book written using your weekends or any small blocks of time.
1. Write your book making it easy on yourself. Remove the pressure to complete a big book. Instead choose to write a short book. Divide your monster book into 2 books. Use shorter sentences and paragraphs. Your copy is more compelling when you are succinct and to the point. Write shorter chapters; shorten your stories and examples. Make your book an easy read. If you have a fairly complex topic, spread out your stats and tables. Section your details and develop your book into several parts.
2. Write your book as a top priority. Commit to a writing schedule. Think about your priorities right now. Can you arrange to write at least 7-10 hours a week? If you have to let something go that is not high on your priority list, do it. Now is your time to succeed in writing your book. Later is not better. Set yourself up for success. Write a book this year by making your book goal a top priority.
3. Write your book with an intention statement. Do you have a plan in place? Write on purpose. Don’t set yourself up to fail by not planning. Even if it’s a simple intention goal like “I complete my book (title of book) this year by (date and year.) I educate myself and do what it takes to complete it.” Set one and write it down so you can hit the mark.
4. Write your book the easy way to finish fast. Five of the top ways to speed write your book includes: 1.Act Now. Action will paralyze fear each and every time. 2. Avoid marathon writing. Know you don’t have to become a hermit to write and complete a successful book. 3. Commit to the tracking approach. Doing a set amount even if it’s only 30 minutes to an hour- each day builds a cumulative effect. 4. Know you don’t have to write chapters in order. You can jump around and fill in the blanks to gain momentum. 5. Maintain your momentum. Don’t give in to writers block. Move on to work on the chapter you feel passion bubbling for at that moment.
5. Write your book using laser focus. Apply laser focus to complete your book writing project faster. For example, if you look at a 40 watt bulb, the light is soft. It’s not even strong enough to light an average room sufficiently. Yet you can take the same 40 watts; put it in a laser gun and get a totally different output.
In the laser gun, the same 40 watts become a focused beam of light that can cut through different objects like a sharp knife through paper. Same amount of energy but different focus. To use laser focus in your book project, prioritize, do only one project at a time and complete one project before you start another.
If you don’t use these techniques to finish fast using the time you have, you may be this time next year working on the same book project. Remember to make it easier on yourself, make your book dream a top priority in your life, write an intention goal, learn to write the easy way and use laser focus. Using the above simple tips you can easily write and complete your book. Even if it’s only on the weekend, finish fast; finish strong and sell sooner.
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The name of the game in fiction writing. Can I do it? Can I develop an intriguing plot? Can I keep up my energy? Can I finish what I started?
I don’t know about you but these and many other questions like this are racing through my mind when I begin a new story. How can I wrestle myself to accomplish the goal that stands before me.
Well I have some answers for that. You shouldn’t have to wrestle yourself. OK, yes almost all goals are trying and testing. And anything worth having is worth working for. But writing a small 250 page book is so daunting. It seems like I stand at the foot of the Matterhorn. How can I climb such a beast of a mountain.
The answer may surprise you but it is really simple. Inch by inch its a cinch, by the yard its hard. That’s right and it does work. Break that monstrous goal into smaller and smaller steps. I’ll demonstrate.
Let’s say you have a two hundred fifty page book that you want to write. The average book whether you’re a fiction writer or not is about three hundred pages. So we do a little math. Two hundred fifty pages multiplied by three hundred gives us a total manuscript word count of seventy five thousand, that’s 75,000 for those that like to see the number written out. Now that for any new would be fiction writer is a daunting number. So let’s break it up.
If you wrote 250 words a day which is about as much as you talk during your coffee break, you can have 75,000 words written in 300 days. I know people that have spent over two years writing a book, namely myself. My book wasn’t nearly that long. Talk about a time waster / procrastinator. I was indeed. But if I had been smart and written 250 words a day I could have had a book written in
300 days and probably less time than that.
Why less time than that you say? It’s because its like everything else you try to do. You know what I mean don’t you? You know you need to start something but you just can’t get yourself to take action and do it. Then FINALLY, you muster the courage and slowly wade into it and within ten minutes of writing, you’re off and you can’t stop. So the reason I say less time than that is because you will usually write a lot more than 250 words in one setting. Which is good, but don’t let that give you a reason to stop writing on the next day like you should.
If 250 words is still huge to you break it up further. I hate having a goal like that personally. A word count goal I mean. I like time better. Here’s what I mean. Instead of using a word count goal use a specific time limit as your
goal. Let’s say you can type 50 words per minute. That’s 5 minutes of typing.
That’s it 5 minutes a day and you’ve got a book done in 300 days. Come on, I know you can do that. So I like to set time limits for myself. Goal: I will type for 10 minutes on book “Moon Planet” – your book on how the moon was terraformed into an earth like environment. Of course insert your own title in there. That’s all there is too it.
The result is that if you type 50 words per minute and don’t feel bad and neglect your writing if you don’t type that fast. But let’s say you do. You type for 10 minutes a day at 50 wpm which results in 500 words. Hello, 150 days later you’ve got yourself a 250 page book that is ready to be edited into a finished book.
What is the name of the game in fiction writing? Stay at it and you will succeed.
Good luck and keep writing.
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Non secured loans are often required by the borrowers who are in need of smaller financial support for considering their smaller expenditures that might have sprung up every now and then. Without pledging any valuable collateral borrower can meet their various purposes like personal or business needs with non secured loans.
Non secured loans as the name specifies that these are the loans that donâ??t demand any collateral for the loan approval; so borrowers who donâ??t have or not interested in pledging their collateral can avail non secured loans.
With non secured loans, borrower can meet their various needs like holidaying in lapse of nature or lofty mountains, buying a car, meeting home renovations expenses, higher education expenses etc. In non secured loans borrower is eligible to the amount that ranges from £ 1000-£25000 for the repayment period of 6months to 10 years.
In non secured loans the risks are intact for the lender as he has no collateral to back on for his amount. So, while offering the non secured loan, lender concentrates on the borrowerâ??s credit score, monthly income, bank statements and repaying capability.
Borrowers with good record of repaying past loans are approved unsecured personal loans without any delay and they too enjoy competitive rate of interest when compared to bad credit borrowers. Borrowers with imperfect credit history are also approved the loan but at comparatively higher interest rate.
Non secured loans are collateral free loans, so the loan approval time is lower than secured loans as no lengthy collateral evaluation process are carried on.
Borrower can locate number of non secured loans providers on online mode and traditional market too. While availing the non secured loans borrower must ensure an extensive comparison of their interest rates to land up with the best deal.
With the change of time, today non secured loans have become the choice of millions as it doesnâ??t require any collateral to pledge for their smaller cash requirement.
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Writing articles is easy once you learn how. There are plenty of simple strategies to use to write content rich articles that communicate your marketing message. These articles also add value to your product offerings and give your potential customers a taste of what you offer.
If you want to write articles that get read though, there are certain things you need to do:
1. Use short paragraphs.
When Ernest Hemingway was a reporter for the Kansas City Star, he learned to write short words, short sentences, and short paragraphs. This is good advice for writing on the internet because readers tend to skim.
2. Use numbers or bullets for your major points.
Not only can bullet points help you focus your article so you stick to the subject, it’s a fast and easy way to outline your articles. It makes writing your articles fast and easy.
Again, because readers skim, they pick up the salient points of your article. Make sure your resource box points your readers to more information. This will increase your conversions and help you get more subscribers and sales.
3. Use sub headings to break up paragraphs.
If you are writing an article for your website, or the article is unusually long, then use sub headings to break up your article into sections. You may even consider using sub headings and breaking your long articles into multiple pages.
4. Craft an attention getting headline or title.
Before you use any title for your article, do a search in your favorite search engine to make sure it’s not being used. This will allow you to more easily track the syndication of your article.
You also want to write a title that gets your reader to read the article. Study article titles, as well as headlines and use what you learn to write your titles. Look for titles that make you want to read the article.
5. Keep your readers interested.
Writing a good title is only the first part. Your next step is write content your readers want to read. Tips, tutorials, recipes, and problem solving articles are always a good way to keep your reader engaged.
6. Use specific statistics or statements for added punch.
Avoid using things like some, many, or all. Statistics add punch to your articles. It’s also a great way to get readers back to your site for more information. Also use numbers instead of the words for numbers as this makes your article easier to read.
Keep your articles short and to the point. Use these tips to get more readers for your articles, and you’ll get more targeted traffic.
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Jinger Jarrett is the author of “Internet Marketing to GO! Cashing in on Article Writing”, available on Amazon.
Can students be asked to identify conflict and resolution in a non-fictional article?
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