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QUESTION TO MR. HANDYMAN
My driveway has cracks. How can this be repaired?
Thanks for asking Mr. Handyman, Neil. You are wise to want to repair these cracks as soon as possible. With winter’s freeze/thaw conditions, driveway cracks can become progressively worse. This will increase the cost of repair if left untreated. During the summer it becomes a battle keeping all sorts of weeds from growing in these cracks. Weeds just love to grow in driveway or walkway cracks. In time, the roots enlarge the damage too.
If the driveway is fairly new and the cracks appear, there could be some other underlying problem. A good driveway will have a layer of gravel under it called a substrate, often four inches or more. This helps to drain away standing ground water. In the winter, the water underneath, if not drained will freeze, causing the cracks. In this case whatever you do now to fix the cracks will not last long. If your driveway has poor drainage, the only correct fix is to replace it by adding gravel. Find small concrete truck delivery near me.
As in many repairs, careful preparation and patience will mean the difference between success and failure. To repair small or narrow cracks (less then 1/2”) clean out any sand and debris that has accumulated. This is best accomplished using a garden hose with a pressure nozzle. When the area is dry, apply high quality asphalt filler that comes in a can or a caulking gun tube. Read and follow the directions on whatever product you purchase. Remember also to buy a small can of paint thinner if the product you choose is not latex. This is used to clean tools after you have finished. If you are using filler from a can, use a trowel to spread and fill the crack. With material from a caulking gun, squeeze as much as you can into the crack, add some more and trowel it even with the original asphalt top. Allow the filler to dry from 12 to 24 hours before driving on it.
If the crack is a ½” or wider, chop out any lose material. This is done by using a pick axe, hammer, and cold chisel. As stated above, remove sand, weeds, or debris from the crack and add gravel to the substrate if needed. You will be using what is called cold-patch to fill the area. Depending on the size of the area to be filled, use a shovel or garden spade to fill the crack. Tamp down the material and then add more material as needed. To tamp it down use a 4” x 4” x 8” board. The board works well and saves you the cost of buying a tamper. Compact it until the cold patch is even with the driveway. Let the cold-patch cure for 24 to 36 hours before driving on it.
Mr. Handyman technicians hold years of experience dealing with projects like this. If you feel unsure about being a do-it-yourself person, just give us a call and say “Help,” and help will be there, “ON TIME.” You can also take comfort knowing that the work will be, “DONE RIGHT,” with 100% satisfaction guaranteed.
Healthy and Balanced Meal Plan Ideas: Recipes & Prep
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At Verywell, we believe there is no one-size-fits-all approach to a healthy lifestyle. Successful eating plans need to be individualized and consider the whole person. Before starting a new diet plan, consult with a healthcare provider or a registered dietitian, especially if you have an underlying health condition. Read more about Alpilean.
Consuming a healthy, balanced diet is a goal for many people. While this is an excellent goal for health reasons, the terms “healthy” and “balanced” will vary for each individual. A healthy, balanced diet generally means one that is rich in whole grains, fruits, vegetables, lean proteins, and healthy fats. A meal plan is a great tool to help you plan and
Meal planning can help keep you on track, no matter what your nutrition goal is. Prepping and planning doesn’t have to be time-intensive and complicated. A few simple steps, including basic meal constructs, making a shopping list, shopping strategically, and methodically preparing food ahead of time, are what make meal planning a helpful tool to keep you energized, meet your nutrition goals, reduce food waste, and save money.
Why Nutrition is Important for a Healthy and Balanced Diet
A healthy, balanced diet looks different for each person, as nutrition needs vary based on gender, height, weight, activity level, and many more factors. When thinking about what is “healthy” and “balanced” for you, there are many considerations. Think about taste preferences, nutrition needs, cooking ability, medical conditions, budget, and more, these are the latest Alpilean reviews.
Planning a daily menu isn’t difficult as long as each meal and snack has some protein, fiber, complex carbohydrates, and a little bit of fat.1 You may want to plan approximately 100 to 250 calories for each snack and 300 to 600 calories per meal; however, you may need more or less depending on your hunger levels and energy needs.
7-Day Sample Menu
This one-week meal plan was designed for a person who needs about 2,000 to 2,200 calories per day and has no dietary restrictions. Your daily calorie goal may vary. Learn what it is below, then make tweaks to the plan to fit your specific needs. Consider working with a registered dietitian or speaking with a health care provider to assess and plan for your dietary needs more accurately.
It’s OK to swap out similar menu items, but keep cooking methods in mind. Replacing a sirloin steak with grilled chicken is fine, for instance, but replacing it with chicken-fried steak isn’t going to work because of the breading changes the fat, carb and sodium counts—and the calories. Finally, you can adjust your calorie intake by eliminating snacks if you want to lose weight or eating larger snacks if you want to gain weight.
Healthy and Balanced Meal Plan Ideas: Recipes & Prep
At Verywell, we believe there is no one-size-fits-all approach to a healthy lifestyle. Successful eating plans need to be individualized and consider the whole person. Before starting a new diet plan, consult with a healthcare provider or a registered dietitian, especially if you have an underlying health condition. Read more about alpilean weight loss.
Consuming a healthy, balanced diet is a goal for many people. While this is an excellent goal for health reasons, the terms “healthy” and “balanced” will vary for each individual. A healthy, balanced diet generally means one that is rich in whole grains, fruits, vegetables, lean proteins, and healthy fats. A meal plan is a great tool to help you plan and
Meal planning can help keep you on track, no matter what your nutrition goal is. Prepping and planning doesn’t have to be time-intensive and complicated. A few simple steps, including basic meal constructs, making a shopping list, shopping strategically, and methodically preparing food ahead of time, are what make meal planning a helpful tool to keep you energized, meet your nutrition goals, reduce food waste, and save money.
Why Nutrition is Important for a Healthy and Balanced Diet
A healthy, balanced diet looks different for each person, as nutrition needs vary based on gender, height, weight, activity level, and many more factors. When thinking about what is “healthy” and “balanced” for you, there are many considerations. Think about taste preferences, nutrition needs, cooking ability, medical conditions, budget, and more, these are the latest alpilean reviews.
Planning a daily menu isn’t difficult as long as each meal and snack has some protein, fiber, complex carbohydrates, and a little bit of fat.1 You may want to plan approximately 100 to 250 calories for each snack and 300 to 600 calories per meal; however, you may need more or less depending on your hunger levels and energy needs.
7-Day Sample Menu
This one-week meal plan was designed for a person who needs about 2,000 to 2,200 calories per day and has no dietary restrictions. Your daily calorie goal may vary. Learn what it is below, then make tweaks to the plan to fit your specific needs. Consider working with a registered dietitian or speaking with a health care provider to assess and plan for your dietary needs more accurately. Read more about alpilean.
It’s OK to swap out similar menu items, but keep cooking methods in mind. Replacing a sirloin steak with grilled chicken is fine, for instance, but replacing it with chicken-fried steak isn’t going to work because of the breading changes the fat, carb and sodium counts—and the calories. Finally, you can adjust your calorie intake by eliminating snacks if you want to lose weight or eating larger snacks if you want to gain weight.
Every Tuesday for the next 6 weeks Willam Belli, Alaska Thunderfuck, and Courtney Act will be live on air at 2pm ET/ 11am PT. Tune in on Out Q channel 106.
This is LIVE radio people, who knows what will happen. Here are some snippets from their first show discussing Caitlyn Jenner’s Vanity Fair cover
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SEO isn’t just for big businesses. As a small company or a local business, there is actually a lot you can do yourself to get good results from search. This ultimate guide for local and small business SEO will help you get the most out of search by finding your niche, optimizing your pages and using social media.
As local SEO is basically about optimizing for local search engine results, it’s fair to say that local SEO and small business SEO are closely related, which is why we’ll cover both in this article.
We’ll discuss a variety of related topics in this article:
Table of contents
- Local SEO in tough times
- The three pillars of local SEO: proximity, prominence and relevance
- More background on how local SEO works
- Your site, our Local SEO plugin + My Business
- Finding your niche
- Low budget branding
- Start writing great content
- Share your content on social media
- Local ranking factors that help your small business SEO
- Google My Business
- Add ratings and reviews
- Links from related small businesses
- Near me searches
- In conclusion
As long as Google’s local search result pages continue to grow and improve, we’ll never be done with this subject. In the meantime, here’s our ultimate guide to local and small business SEO. But first, let’s start with an update on local SEO and the Coronavirus pandemic.
Local SEO in tough times
The Coronavirus pandemic has changed the world. Many local businesses have trouble keeping their heads above water while struggling with an audience that hasn’t come outside for a while. Even if everyone is allowed outside and do their thing, the behavior has changed. Priorities will change, which means some businesses will profit while others will falter. As a local business, you have to keep your ear to the ground to find out what your customers want and need. Maybe you need to pivot or find new ways of getting your products to your audience.
Even if businesses are reopening, chances are consumers will be cautious. On the other hand, e-commerce is soaring. For many businesses, now is the time to focus on getting online. It will be some time before everything goes back to normal, if ever. So, it’s best to find out what your customer needs right now and try to fulfill that demand. Many sites offer free data that helps you get insights into what’s happening, like Google’s Rising Retail Categories site.
Keep your listings up to date
For now, the least you can do is to keep your online business details up to date. Make sure that your data is correct and make use of the various tools search engines provide to help searchers find the most up to date information on your business. So, update your Google My Business, use the Posts feature to add additional information and add structured data if necessary. Google has guidance for businesses coping with COVID-19.;
We have a couple of posts that can help you find your footing as a local business during this difficult time:
- 4 quick tips to quickly improve your website during the current situation
- Adapting your content strategy to changing times
- Update your canceled or postponed events with Schema.org structured data
- 5 tips to switch from restaurant to food delivery
- Shops & restaurants: offer easy curbside pickup with WooCmmerce and Local SEO
The three pillars of local SEO: proximity, prominence and relevance
Ranking locally, means you have to keep three things in mind. Proximity, prominence and relevance are the factors that determine if your business should appear at the top of the local SERPs for a specific search term.
- To determine proximity, search engines have different means to find out where the searcher is, mostly based on zip codes and/or geo-coordinates.
- Prominence is all about trying to find out how well-known your business. To determine this, search engines look at a variety of sources available on the web like links, reviews and citations.
- Relevance is the third local SEO factor. Here, search engines look at how well a local company matches what a user is searching for. To be relevant, you don’t simply fill out and update your Google My Business account, as Google specifically mentions that it also factors in your rankings in the regular search results, so it is a good idea to work on your SEO in general.
“Crowdsurfing is like couchsurfing is like crowdsourcing. You’re falling into the audience— you’re asking them to help you.” – Amanda Palmer
“I am so thankful for your support and excited to make this music for you. The 20k funding goal scared me, I thought that I should make it lower and more achievable, but you have all proved me wrong and I am so grateful.
We have done a budget and to do this puppy properly we really need 60k. It’s a lot I know. This includes 7 tracks produced, mixed and mastered. 2 music videos (we have a really epic director on board for the debut clip, like… childhood dreams come true, I will reveal more in future backers updates), publicity, artwork, photography, CD production and everything else! I am truly humbled that you are even here considering pre-ordering my EP, anything you contribute I am so epically grateful. PS I added a new $60 Reward – Custom Voicemail greeting or Ring Tone.”
There is only four days left; can we rally to get to over 35k?
Click below to help fund Kaleidoscope:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/courtneyact/courtney-act-kaleidoscope-ep
I’m releasing an EP this summer and would love you to be a part of it!
I just flooded my basement cause my childhood dream of releasing a pop EP is coming true (Ok, so I called it an album during childhood, but there are 7 tracks so it’s practically an album).
It’s coming out this summer, you can pre-order it now and get lots of other exciting treats over at my Kickstarter!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/courtneyact/courtney-act-kaleidoscope-ep
Asking for help is mildly terrifying but I am so excited to bring this music to you so we can rock out on the dance floor this summer!
Thank you for taking the time, I hope you click on the link and check out the video I made too!
Get ready Europe because Courtney, Willam, and Alaska are taking over!
“Touring with Willam and Alaska is not only fun for us and the audience, but also fun for YouTube cause we always film out debauched adventures (except when I loose the camera). We can’t wait to invade the UK this May!” – Courtney Act
Be prepared to be thoroughly entertained by these queens. They will perform their top 10 Billboard Comedy Digital Hit Song “American Apparel Ad Girls” among other hits.
They will be bringing their talents to:
May 3rd – Holy Trannity – Manchester
May 6th – The Eagle – London
May 7th – The Eagle – London- SOLD OUT
May 8th – Club Revenge – Brighton
May 9th – AXM – Glasgow – SOLD OUT
May 10th – AXM – Glasgow
May 11th – Shade – Newcastle
Hurry and get your tickets soon because they are selling out quickly!