Sham Pathania www.greatgtahomes.com

Good neighbourliness and safety

If you come back from office in the afternoon after snow strom, be ready for the snow shovelling.

The City of Toronto offers the following suggestions:

• Residents are expected to clear snow from the sidewalks in front of their homes. It would be nice if they could help elderly neighbours
• Please don't push your snow onto city streets
• Please don't park on the street (where possible) after a snowfall
• Please make sure fire hydrants are clearly visible by clearing the snow around them
• Use a more environmentally benign product than salt to deal with ice
• Shovel safely. If you have cardiac problems, don't do it at all
• Dress appropriately, start slow, take frequent breaks, and when possible, push the snow instead of lifting it
• Protect your back: bend at the knees, keep the shovel close to your body, keep your feet hip-width apart and avoid twisting
• Call 911 if you experience discomfort or heaviness in the chest, arms or neck; unusual or prolonged shortness of breath; a dizzy or faint feeling; or excessive sweating, nausea or vomiting
• More tips and video about safe snow shovelling are available at http://www.torontoems.ca/
• Stay off water bodies that are only partly frozen

Today, it snowed all the day in GTA area. I shovelled snow four times !! It was tyring but fun.

Whenever its storm watch in winter to me it means no driving. No office, no showings etc. However, I find it is the best time to update contact list. And that what I did today: updating data base, writing emails and updating website.

This is what happened today at 427 and Finch.

Somewhere in Toronto

Will it have an impact on Real Estate ? As a result most of us are already getting affected. Its the time to market but to move ahead very carefully. We got to control our expenditures very juditiously.

This is what happend in a single day. Its like one short fired and 74,000 jobs lost !

Read this story and see who are the latest in row to join the so called recession?

On Monday, employers in the US and internationally announced tens of thousands of layoffs in an indication that the economic crisis is accelerating and spreading throughout the American and world economy-and far outpacing governmental measures to respond. Among the major layoffs:

* Caterpillar Inc., the world leader in heavy construction equipment, announced 20,000 layoffs for the first quarter of 2009.

* The drugmaker Pfizer Inc. said it will lay off 8,000 workers, the first casualties of the firm's $68 billion takeover of rival pharmaceutical corporation Wyeth.

* SprintNextel, the cell phone carrier, will cut 8,000 jobs, or 14 percent of its workforce, by the end of March. It eliminated 4,000 jobs little more than a year ago.

* Home Depot Inc., the largest US home improvement retailer, said it will cut 7,000 jobs and shutter 34 of its Expo home design stores.

* General Motors, the embattled auto giant, announced 2,000 more layoffs affecting plants in Ohio and Michigan, where the unemployment rate has already climbed past 10 percent.

* Texas Instruments Inc., after announcing a precipitous decline in profits, said it would eliminate 3,400 jobs.

* Phillips Electronics, the Dutch electronics giant, said it would cut 6,000 workers from its worldwide workforce.

* Corus Group, a steelmaker, said it would eliminate 3,500 jobs, 2,500 of which will come in Britain.

* The Dutch bank ING announced the elimination of 7,000 jobs after it reported its first-ever quarterly loss.

The explosive growth of the Internet and the continuing public demand for greater access to government has resulted in governments at all levels rushing to ensure their presence on the World Wide Web. The main purpose of most of the government Web sites is to communicate with constituents and distribute information on various programs and services. Governments at the federal and provincial levels, as well as most local and regional governments in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) have established their own Web sites in an effort to get closer to the voters.

To know more visit:

http://communications2.torontomls.net/gov_rel/websites/index.htm

Should we do it our self or should we pay it to other party.

Well it depends how much time we have in hand. Its a good tool and the key words v/s relevent contents are the very important for the respective pages. Depending upon the requirement, we can always cutomise it. However, all said, its not that simple and it can takes time to bring it in top 10 and to keep it there for long is another challenge. Pay per click can be the next option.

Adding contents regularly to the website is next important point. If you are doing it your slef, its an endless task and consumes a lot of time thats what we must know..