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Jan Smith - EzineArticles.com Expert Author  

In 2009 I relocated from Edmonton Canada back to Australia. I now live in Torquay Hervey Bay Queensland. I have lived in other countries overseas and have also traveled Australia extensively as well as visiting numerous other countries for holidays. I could be classified as a perennial gray-haired nomad but I would prefer to have it said that I'm passionate about traveling and learning new things and making new friends. The reason I appear ... [More]

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  • Is Tipping a Nonsense Way to Expect People to Earn a Living?
    [Business:Career-Advice] To many people who don't live in North America, they find the business of tipping people who are doing their jobs a nonsense way for them to earn a living. When you stop to think about it, isn't it a way of making debt slaves? All the owner of the restaurant is doing is giving them a place to work and for this 'privilege' they get to clean up the restaurant, keep the owners customers happy, take the abuse of angry customers and put up with rowdy, rude ignorant and bad mannered people for the princely sum of $2-3 per hour?


  • Fun Online Game Sites Teach Life Skills
    [Gaming:Online-Gaming] It's not so easy to find a fun and family friendly online game site as one would suppose today. So many of the games are are so sexually explicit that they would embarrass a ship load of sailors and others are so violent they seem to come from the training facilities of various Defense Departments.


  • Article Writing - What is Fair and Reasonable to Article Directory Owners, Authors and Publishers
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Article-Marketing] There are a myriad variety of article directories available for authors on the internet in which they can publish their articles. These article directories are crying out for new or existing authors to write and publish more articles in their article directories.


  • There is a Problem With the Internet For Internet Marketers
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online] The big problem with the Internet for Internet Marketers (IM'ers) is the amount of information available online. All of this information is of interest to anyone studying, learning or applying the knowledge to earn some extra income or a full time income.


  • Marketing Tactics That Annoy Many People
    [Business:Marketing] If a person has to see an offer up to 7 times sometimes to make up their minds as to whether or not they will buy the product, is it a good thing to grab them by the mouse on the first visit and not let them depart the page when they want to click away without taking your preferred action? How would you feel in 'real life' if you wanted to walk out of Walmart without buying anything and the security guy there grabbed you by the arm and wouldn't let you out of the door until you had gone back into the store and visited the rest of the shops in there like the Optometrist, the hairdresser and Starbucks?


  • Assisting Affiliates to Hear Their Customers Better
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Affiliate-Revenue] Assisting affiliates to hear their customers better is simply suggesting to them that they listen to what the questions being asked are, so they will know what their customers are actually seeking. I know that may sound weird but let me share a short story with you that happened to me two days ago.


  • Are Long Tailed Keywords Going to Hinder Article Marketing?
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Article-Marketing] I find it extremely interesting doing keyword research from the point of noticing how well or how little some people can verbalise or enunciate their request. Some people appear almost dyslexic while others are so verbose that I'm reminded of reading Tolstoy's "War and Peace" epic. The other thing that surprises me frequently is that many people seem to have trouble putting a simple sentence together.


  • Ten Reasons Why You Need CB Pirate
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Internet-Marketing] ClickBank Pirate is a well thought out, impeccably implemented, sales system. It is a systematic and total turnkey operation for internet marketing because it combines all the step-by-step processes of a good sales funnel.


  • Don't Flog When You Blog
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] How many times have you looked forward to reading a blog post only to find that for the second or third post in a row they have been flogging one product after another? I find this really disappointing because I'll go to someone's blog just to read their latest missive because up until this happens, I've learnt something from what they have had to say. IMHO they are shooting themselves in the foot.


  • What is a Blog?
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] A Blog is short for Weblog. A weblog is a log like that which a sea captain on a ship keeps of all daily activities and events, only this log is kept on the World Wide Web, so it has been shortened down to weblog.


  • Women and Insurance Policies
    [Insurance] Women who have been on an insurance policy as a shared policy holder and whose husband/partner has always been the one to look after the insurance requirements for the household, could suddenly find herself disadvantaged if the marriage fails. Let's just take car insurance for starters.


  • A Cheap Car Insurance Quote Could Be Very Expensive
    [Insurance:Car-Auto] A cheap car insurance quote could be the most expensive insurance you have ever had if you don't read and fully understand the policy terms and conditions. All insurance policies these days have a seven day 'cooling off' period which should be ample time for you to read, understand or question, any wording in the policy that you don't understand or think needs further clarification either from a lawyer or from the insurance company issuing the policy. There is no point in asking advice from a mate or from another insurance broker dealing ...


  • Why Are People of All Ages Playing With Zhu Zhu Toys?
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews] There is something about scampering robotic Hamsters that has grabbed people's affections this Christmas season. Is it the colouring of these small, lovable robotic critters or the fact that they don't bite, scratch, need feeding, have to be walked or ever need to use a litter box?


  • Life Insurance Information
    [Insurance:Life-Annuities] When you fist investigate taking out a life insurance policy to cover yourself as the beneficiary or your wife and family as the beneficiaries all the legal 'mumbo-jumbo' can seem daunting. Here is a very brief explanation of some of the more common insurance classes that are used in Australia and most other countries around the world.


  • Life Insurance Advice Before Selling a Structured Policy
    [Insurance:Life-Annuities] There are several classes of life insurance policies in Australia and before you decide to pass your settlement in for a lump sum payment you may find the following information essential to know. Terminology in insurance is essential for clarity and if you are uncertain of the terminology used it could cost you many hundred's of dollars. If you don't clearly understand the wording either go back to the insurance company and ask them for clarification in writing or get professional legal advice.


  • Men's Clothing and Why Some Men Hate Shopping
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] Mention the words "going shopping" to some men and you can almost see the back of their heels as they suddenly decide that the lawn needs mowing. This getting busy and as dirty as possible, is a pretty common defence so they won't be expected to go shopping with you.


  • Polo Shirts For Men
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] Polo shirts are the shirts that can be easily made informal or more formal simply by tucking them into your pants and wearing a belt. If the venue is a very informal BBQ in a backyard then wearing the shirt out of your pants gives a very informal and 'non-stuffy' appearance.


  • Men's Shirts For All Occasions
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] An office working man today needs shirts for meetings, in-office and out-of-office, luncheons and after hours meetings. And if he has no meetings scheduled he will need a loosely fitting shirt for comfortable wearing all day at the office. This need not be so 'trendy' but it does need to be very comfortable.


  • Men's Polo Shirts - Rotund Men Need Stripes Not Bands
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] Men's polo shirts suit most men of average figure. By average, because we all know that such a sizing doesn't exist, I mean someone who is slightly over or underweight for their height. If you are considerably overweight then it's probably not a good idea to buy yourself a polo shirt that has bands going horizontally across the stomach.


  • Mens Shirts and Name Differences
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] It is hard to imagine a man's shirt being called anything but a man's shirt, right? And basically a shirt's a shirt, sort of. In the case of Tee shirts it's not quite so clear cut though.


  • Knitted Christmas Stocking Fillers For Toddlers
    [Home-and-Family:Holidays] It is sometimes quite difficult to get stocking fillers for toddlers aged between 18 - 30 months. That is why knitted Christmas stocking fillers are so good for this age group. A child of this age also needs bright, cheerful happy toys that they can relate to and giggle at as they gnaw on them.


  • Women's Nylon Stockings For Christmas
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] If you are an anxious lover and you have started thinking about what to get your 'significant other' this Christmas then you won't go far wrong with a pair of special stockings. These special stockings can be whatever suits you best; fishnet, sheer, patterned, silky thigh highs or whatever you choose. But I do strongly recommend you check out her proper size.


  • Affiliate Marketing Help When Using Audio
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online] I believe audio recordings programmed to start immediately are doing more harm to a persons credibility than they fully understand. Not only is your website seared into the memory of the noise recipient of "danger, danger, danger" but you never actually ever get a chance to sell or inform them of anything!


  • What is a Subprime Mortgage Lender?
    [Real-Estate:Mortgage-Refinance] A subprime mortgage lender is a person or an organization who lends money to people and businesses who would most likely be unable to procure a loan from a financial institution like a bank or credit union because of a bad credit history or not enough income to cover the loan amount. Sometimes a person may already be fully extended financially and to take out a further loan without consolidating existing loans will sometimes be a reason for a financial institution refusing a loan application.


  • What is a Subprime Loan?
    [Finance:Loans] A subprime loan is a loan made to someone who wouldn't or couldn't qualify for a loan from a financial institution using existing credit law as set out as guidelines for safe lending practices under existing legislation. This legislation is either Federal or State law.


  • Cashing in Your Structured Settlement
    [Finance] Cashing in a structured settlement is a huge decision in today's economic climate. If you do decide to sell your monthly income in lieu of a lump sum payout then there are a couple of things that you may need to consider very carefully first.


  • Your Best Free Weight Loss Program
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The good news is that you have a free weight loss program available and waiting for you to start whenever you are ready. And it is the very best one for you simply because it is you. You are the arbiter, instigator, performer, controller, director, actor, participant or anything else that you want to call yourself in your own weight loss program.


  • Women's Car Insurance Quotes
    [Insurance:Car-Auto] It often surprises me to hear a woman ask if there is any levy that has to be paid on a car insurance policy quote just because she's a woman. So much for Government non-discrimination policies; now all the Government has to do is educate some women themselves to feel equal.


  • Super Affiliate Thinks Outside the Box
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Affiliate-Revenue] Every now and again a surprise comes along and one thinks to themselves "What a good idea ~ why haven't more people thought of that?" It has been said many times that to help someone else also helps oneself but it isn't very often that you see it practiced.


  • Slide Ins Need to Slither Out For Affiliate Marketing Success
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Affiliate-Revenue] Has anyone else noticed the rash of pop ups, slide ins, computer generated virtual assistants with a special offer deal that seem to have attached themselves to many info product pages lately? I find these pop/slide ins annoying and time wasters, and they show me their web site visitor a certain lack of respect.


  • Please Leave Christ in Christmas
    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion] One of the things that I don't like about Christmas is the way some people spell it. By spelling Christmas as Xmas is not only demeaning and disrespectful it's simply lazy or ignorant spelling. Christ is in Christmas the same as egg is in eggnog.


  • Track Your Website and Blog Actions
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Search-Engine-Marketing] It can be very frustrating when working diligently as an affiliate marketer or AdSense publisher only to find that the results don't change and few visitors have found your Web site. This can lead one into some precipitous actions of making several changes all at the same time and in the space of a couple of days.


  • Call it Courage If Using AdSense This Way
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:PPC-Publishing] Sometimes courage is very difficult to have even when common sense tells one it's the most logical course of action. Courage is a very intangible emotion; it makes a person feel terribly afraid yet bolsters one's determination all at the same time. The heart races, breathe comes in short shallow gulps and one's body breaks out in a cold sweat.


  • Women's T Shirts Can Be Worn on Most Occasions
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] The fabric used in women's T Shirts today lends itself to being dressed up so that a T Shirt can be a very attractive 'clean-casual' dress. The cut of the fabric is quite different to other fabrics that are used more for the very casual and 'statement' type of T-shirt.


  • Novelty Tee Shirts, Fun But Limited
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] Over the years I have seen some very funny Tee shirts. Some have been funny and extremely provocative and others have been very proactive for some pretty doubtful causes. The beauty of Tee shirts is that not only are they very comfortable to wear they are also very easy to tie dye or emblazon with marketing messages.


  • Your Personal Phone Number Finder
    [Communications] Have you ever been caught in a situation where you have both hands full and the cell or mobile phone rings and you just can't answer it? I have seen a person balance china very precariously on a shopping trolley just to answer her phone.


  • Lap Bands and Bananas
    [Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] I went to all the trouble of losing 55kgs by having a gastric bypass Laparoscopic lap band inserted to be a physical impediment to overeating five years ago. I don't regret having it done for one minute but I do regret my returning to bad habits. Banana's are my downfall these days.


  • Another Embarrassing Stocking Story
    [Womens-Interests] It's not too surprising really that the most embarrassing moments of your life happen when you least expect them. It's also probably not too surprising either that these are the stories of one's misspent youth that makes a person laugh in hindsight. I was fourteen at the time and dressed up to the nines and thought I was "as smart as a rat with a gold tooth" as my Uncle Jock used to say.


  • How to Write Better Web Copy
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Copywriting] I have recently read an article on how people read on the web. It is interesting to note that in the last five years people's web reading method hasn't changed. The only thing that has changed is how the researchers can better view the intensity with which they now read certain areas of a web page.


  • Compare Insurance Policies Thoroughly
    [Insurance] By comparing your car insurance policy carefully when seeking new quotes will help you to sort out the 'wheat from the chaff' easily. As the other saying goes "the devils in the details."


  • Suggested Motivations For Losing Weight
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] It is sometimes very hard to get motivated to do something that you know that you should, you really don't want to but you know you have to do. If this sounds familiar, know that you are not alone.


  • Women's Stockings and High Heels
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] In the winter time it's very tempting to wear the thickest pair of stockings in your lingerie drawer but if you are planning on wearing a pair of high heeled shoes, this may not be the best look overall. High heels on a woman are very attractive and so they attract people's eyes to your legs and seeing a thick pair of school-girl type tights is unattractive.


  • Dealing With Ripped Stocking Tops
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] Have you ever bought a new pair of stockings of a different brand to the ones you usually buy and when you get them home and go to wear them for the first time only to find that the sizing on the packet was all wrong? Isn't this just the pits? And, often it means that you don't have a spare pair in the drawer or you made the mistake of buying several pairs of them at the same time 'because they were a good buy on special'.


  • Women in Laddered Stockings Need Nail Polish
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] Women in stockings with a ladder running up their leg in a very noticeable position need to find a stockings or lingerie store as soon as possible. But anyone who has ever had the misfortune to have this happen to them knows that this is not often possible.


  • Mens T-Shirts Can Be Dressy Or Casual
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] There is something about a man dressed in a casual manner that seems to add to his sex appeal. Perhaps its because of his relaxed manner or perhaps he's simply feeling comfortably dressed but this look is one that seems to suit most men. Men can now look well-dressed in a T Shirt simply because of the variety of styles, colors and fabrics now available in t shirts.


  • Window Air Conditioners - Good For Tenants
    [Home-Improvement:Heating-and-Air-Conditioning] Window air conditioners were invented for people who are renting a property or who move residence frequently but still want a few home comforts. This is when a window air conditioner could be the answer for you. If you are living in a house that has a double-hung window this makes it the easiest way to insert one of these air conditioners into a window space providing it is firmly attached to good support that isn't going to damage the external appearance or structure of the house.


  • Mens Clothing Styles
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] It was said when I was considerably younger and quite determined to be a fashionable person that if you lived long enough, all the fashions recycled themselves. Now I'm older and know precisely what they were talking about. The latest Mens clothing styles that comes to mind is Mens pointy toed shoes.


  • Make Your Own Christmas Gift Baskets
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Gifts] There is something very personal about making up a Christmas Gift basket for someone that you hold dear. It is such a loving and personal task that shows the person receiving the gift that they mean a lot to you. It also gives you the opportunity to show that person just how well you know them by selecting just those little or big things that you know they need or would like.


  • What Makes a Personalized Christmas Gift?
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Gifts] This question is one which has about as many answers as the age old question "How long is a piece of string?" People's ideas of personal vary as much as there are people.


  • Christmas Stocking Time Again
    [Home-and-Family:Holidays] Each year Christmas seems to find me earlier and earlier but one of the big retailers in Australia said on TV last night that they put their Christmas decorations up at the same time each year. I heard it on TV so it must be right, right?


  • Super Affiliate Programs Review
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Affiliate-Revenue] Super affiliate marketers are not as common as some would have you believe but not many affiliate marketers speak about super affiliate programs. There are definitely some programs that will teach you what you need to know about everything you need to know. It may sound like 'double Dutch' but it isn't really; it's Internet marketing.


  • Affiliate Marketing is Harder Than You Think
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Affiliate-Revenue] When you first start out working on the Internet the first thing you seem to come into contact with is affiliate marketing. It seems that everyone who has ever created a product has an affiliate programme to go with it.


  • Are You a Candidate For Gastric Bypass Surgery?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Not everyone is a suitable candidate for gastric bypass surgery and in fact, if you were to find a not-so-ethical Doctor to perform the surgery when you didn't comply with the guidelines laid down by your country's health organization, it could in fact be very harmful to your health long term.


  • Residential Power Savings Can Buy Solar Panels
    [Home-Improvement:Energy-Efficiency] There is no doubt about the fact that the cost of power for residential homes is rising each time a bill is delivered to your post box from your electricity or utilities provider. It seems that no matter how many unused lights, computers, sound boxes or other electrical appliances you get to turn off each time you find one unused in an attempt to save your power bill the bill still seems to rise beyond your anticipation.


  • Car Insurance Too Expensive Not to Have Today
    [Insurance:Car-Auto] Has the idea of going without a fully insured car or vehicle ever crossed your mind over your low bank balance? If you are honest with yourself, I'm sure it probably has.


  • Internet Affiliate Programs Based on Bartering
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online] It has been said many times that some of the best things in life are free. The past four days have been a bit of a nightmare for this author. Her computer is set to receive automatic updates and two of the updates had a disagreement and I lost.


  • Alice in Wonderland
    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips] Situated in the middle of Australia is a wonderland of sparse beauty called Alice Springs. The beauty of "the Alice" as it's known will not appeal to everyone.


  • What is it About Limericks?
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Poetry] Limericks seem to appeal to people of all ages and from many countries. Basically they originated from Limerick in Ireland and perhaps the appeal to people is more to those from an Anglo-Saxon background.


  • Diamond and Pearls
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Jewelry-Diamonds] Diamonds and pearls are a very interesting combination of jewels when set together. The diamond being the hardest gem stone of all and the Pearl being the only living gem stone.


  • Wedding Stationary Or Stationery?
    [Relationships:Wedding] Wedding stationery is too often spelt 'stationary' but this is not correct because this 'stationary' means someone or something is standing still. And believe me, no bride gets enough time to stand still if she is not organized!


  • What Makes Diamonds So Rare?
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Jewelry-Diamonds] Most people don't even stop to consider how that diamond came to be sitting in that jeweler's case! There is quite a bit of work that is done before a diamond is ready to sell to the general public.


  • Where Our Diamonds Are Mined
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Jewelry-Diamonds] Argyle mine is located in the Kimberley region in the far north east of Western Australia. Owned by Rio Tinto, this mine is the world's largest single producer of volume of diamonds. However, due to low proportion of gem quality diamonds it is not the value leader.


  • Australian Diamond Mines
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Jewelry-Diamonds] Diamonds are rare and usually located in remote areas around the world. In Australia, two of the Diamond mines are located in the far north of Australia.


  • Diamonds Are Now Used in Nano Technology
    [Cancer] Diamonds are now used in Chemotherapy. Australian Scientists have developed a new method for delivering chemotherapy to breast cancer patients via a patch composed of diamonds.


  • Assisting Affiliates With Spelling and Grammar Check
    [Writing-and-Speaking] Assisting affiliates with spelling and grammar information before they write their articles as their main means of traffic generation, is intended to make them aware that just because they use the spell and grammar checker frequently and proof read their articles before submission, they need to be aware that they cannot rely on a spell and grammar checker to get the English correct.


  • Beware Black Stockings and White Skirts
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] Petticoats are another item of women's clothing that seems to be little used today but there are still some times that they really should be worn. Filmy white skirts and a black top look smart and well dressed. When completed with a pair of black stockings and black high heeled shoes they really look smart and compliment most women's figures beautifully.


  • Living With a Laparoscopic Lap Band
    [Womens-Interests:Cosmetic-Surgery] Living with a laparoscopically inserted lap band isn't difficult once you adjust to a new life style. All it does once you have settled into a routine is help to keep you in that routine.


  • Novelty Tee Shirts
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] Novelty tee shirts can be a lot of fun but they aren't always suitable attire to wear to some functions. If you are going to buy and wear a novelty tee shirt then be aware that there are some places that these simply can't be worn.


  • Don't Forget Your No Claim Bonus When Getting Car Insurance Quotes
    [Insurance:Car-Auto] Car insurance is something that seems to come around quicker and quicker every year. That is, unless you have had a car accident and haven't been insured. If that has happened to you then you probably aren't too happy right now. But did you know that this accident will probably now increase any future car insurance quote?


  • When Did Women's Blouses Become Shirts?
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] Women's blouses are rarely called a blouse anymore by retailers and shoppers alike. They are more often called women's tops or women's shirts but back in the 1960's they were still called women's blouses.


  • Insurance Quotes - Are You Adequately Covered?
    [Insurance] Insurance is expensive to have but costs a lot more if you don't have it. When you get your free insurance quote are you adequately covering all your personal possessions for replacement in case you lost them overnight?


  • Do Car Insurance Prices Vary Between Online and Offline Quotes?
    [Insurance:Car-Auto] Has anyone ever done comparison shopping between online and offline quotes? I am not sure if it's just the new area that I have moved to or if it could be because I now live in a different state but the car insurance quotes varied considerably between the local insurer representative I asked to give me a price and what I was able to find online.


  • Do Your Emails Communicate?
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Email-Marketing] Emails can be personalized or business-like. Business emails are usually not brusque though and sometimes if you don't take enough care in how you phrase your request it can 'sound' quite rude and very unhelpful to the reader.


  • Biggest Loser Reality TV Show - How Unreal Has Our Reality Become?
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Movies-TV] I rarely watch any TV reality shows as I find them not only immensely boring but extremely disrespectful to people. I think they belittle the contestants and I think they are adding to societies problems of 'dumbing down' our communities.


  • AdWords and AdSense - The Ying and Yang of Google
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:PPC-Advertising] AdSense first attracts many people looking for a new way to earn some extra cash or to set up a new business because of its apparent simplicity. On the surface it is deceptively easy.


  • Assisting Affiliates Through the Domain Name Maze
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Affiliate-Revenue] When you first start out working on the Internet, one of the first things you decide to do is to buy your first domain name. Somehow, we all seem to purchase a domain name that appeals to us emotionally and 'could almost' fit what product or service we want to do.


  • Mobile Phones, Phone Charges and Social Networking Contacts
    [Communications:Mobile-Cell-Phone] Mobile phones are called cell phones in the US and Canada and here in Australia they come with some heavy call charges. For some reason best known to Telstra and other phone company shareholders, they have decreed that mobile phones are much more expensive to operate than any other phone service with the exception of a satellite phone.


  • Men's Shirts Come in All Sizes and Sayings
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] Men's shirts seem to come in all sizes, stripes, colours and sayings. If you have ever gone shopping for a men's shirt for your partner, father, brother or son, you soon realise the dilemma that you could end up being faced with if you didn't really concentrate on two main things.


  • Weight Loss by Fasting
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Fasting to lose weight is not advisable under any circumstances because it's just plain dangerous to your short term and long term health. Some people have gone on a liquid fast and they don't seem to suffer too badly short term or long term to my knowledge.


  • Would Surgery Help You Lose Weight?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] There are many methods of dieting and losing weight. Some diets obviously work better than others and others obviously work better at sticking to the diet plan.


  • Diamond and White Gold Engagement Rings
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Jewelry-Diamonds] White gold engagement rings are the perfect answer for any woman allergic to the yellow gold. Diamonds are non-allergenic, non- partisan, non- anything except "non cheap!" If you want a diamond engagement ring set in white gold then you will have to pay considerably extra for it. On the upside, you will probably end up with a unique white gold engagement ring.


  • Ideas to Consider When Using AdWords For Traffic Generation
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:PPC-Advertising] One of the things that I found a bit confusing when I first started working on the Internet was the real difference between AdWords and AdSense. I immediately knew, of course, that they were two sides of the same coin but I hadn't fully understood just how important understanding the real difference between them actually is to earning a living off the Internet.


  • Stick Socialising!
    [Communications] Minglesticks have been invented to help everyone improve their socialising skills. How many times have you been out and met someone that you really want to keep in contact with only to find that you don't have a pen or paper to hand? Annoying, isn't it?


  • The Electronic Business Card
    [Business] The electronic business card technology allows us to collect a lot more detail about someone if that person or business wants us to have it. The electronic business card is called a Minglestick and it has been developed by Mingle360 based in Fairfax, VA United States of America.


  • Electronic Business Cards
    [Business:Advertising] Electronic business cards seem to have been a long time coming but they are finally here. Electronic business cards have been something that we've all been waiting for but most of us have just been happy enough to sit and wait for their arrival. Not so for Mingle360 because they went out and produced them.


  • Women's Stockings and Bleach Don't Mix
    [Womens-Interests] Women's stockings and bleach really don't mix. I have a friend who carelessly put her stockings into a laundry stocking bag to put them through a gentle cycle in her washing machine along with some tea towels and bleach...


  • Assisting Affiliates With Ways Not to Scare Visitors Off
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Affiliate-Revenue] As an affiliate marketer, do you work with sound around you or in silence? I am one of the silent types of operators. So any sudden noise scares me half to death! I jump two feet off the ground when a voice comes out of no-where and starts talking at me.


  • Pick Up Lines With a Difference
    [Relationships:Singles] Have you ever been to a nightclub and seen the most gorgeous guy/gal across the room and you want to say 'Hello" but then feel all shy and unsure of what you could say next? If you have, then you are part of Humanity. Terrible dilemma sometimes, isn't it?


  • How to Benefit Quickly From a Structured Settlement
    [Finance:Structured-Settlements] Many people today have a structured settlement that pays them out in dribs-and-drabs but they really need the money this month. The urgent need for ready cash could be to pay of credit cards or other debts or you may want to purchase stocks and bonds while the prices are lower than they could be in the future. Whatever your reason is for wanting the cash now is entirely up to you.


  • Be Aware When You Buy Software
    [Computers-and-Technology:Software] Over the years I have purchased quite a bit of software. Each piece has performed assistance in whatever it was designed to do at the time. What I am finding slowly so slowly is that not many of them continue to work in the way they were originally designed to do.


  • Women's Stockings and Hot Humid Days Don't Go Together
    [Womens-Interests] There's absolutely no doubt about it but it is cruel to want women to wear nylon stockings in the summer. Here in Queensland Australia the days are hot around 30 degrees Celsius every day which is nice but you really have to dress accordingly or you could die from heat exhaustion. No joke!


  • Romantic Pick Up Lines Must Sound Sincere
    [Relationships:Singles] There are few things that will make you lose 'kudos' faster than an insincere romantic pick up line. Insincerity can be heard, felt, smelt, observed and quickly left behind. Anyone who compliments a person insincerely sounds false because it comes out not only in the voice but in the facial expression, the eyes and the person giving the compliment's whole body language reeks of dishonesty.


  • Pick Up Lines For Women
    [Relationships:Singles] It has always been hard for women to 'make the first move' and try to pick up a guy. It's easier for younger women today because their Mothers have drilled into them that they don't have to wait for a guy for anything and can do as they want when it comes to picking a mate to be with. But picking up a guy for a girl isn't so easy.


  • Pick Up Lines For Guys
    [Relationships:Singles] Traditionally men have always been the hunters of the female sex but society has changed some of it's rules but still operates largely under a prescribed set of double standards. These are socially accepted unwritten laws that do need to be remembered.


  • Lame Pick Up Lines Need More Than a Crutch
    [Relationships:Singles] I have heard some really lame pick up lines in my time. I mean, some of them have been so lame that a wheelchair even ejected before objecting. I think the most common and stupid one was/is "Do you come here often? Talk about a dead end conversation street.


  • Great Pick Up Lines Make Good Memories
    [Relationships:Singles] What constitutes a great pick up line is how well it is remembered by those who took part in the meeting. If you have memories that make you smile then it was a great pick up line. It is these memories that will stay with you into your 'old age' when your eyes grow dim while sitting in a rocker on your front porch so make the memories worth the reliving.


  • Unique Corporate Christmas Gifts
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Gifts] Once again it's the time of year when Personal Assistants are asked to start thinking about ordering those unique corporate Christmas Gifts. As in past years the Personal Assistant (PA) will turn to the Internet and probably a couple dozen Catalogs sent from past suppliers in the hope that one or more of their products will be chosen again this year. But if the PA is the sort of person who is usually employed to assist the Boss, she will be looking for something special to suggest.


  • Photo Business Cards Are Dead
    [Business:Marketing] Photo business cards are dead. They have been killed by a Minglestick which now includes not only a persons name and phone number, address and photo but also the person's social networking profiles on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn. No doubt in due course there will probably be other networking sites become available on the Minglestick but it sure beats the old photo business card into oblivion and antiquity.


  • New and Unique Promotional Tool
    [Business:Marketing] Plumbers are always on the look out for a new and unique way to promote their business. To find a quality promotional product at an affordable price is like looking for a diamond in the first pond of a sewerage treatment plant.


  • Don't Buy Any More Business Cards
    [Business:Advertising] Are you tired of paying for large quantities of Business cards every six months or so? Business card costs vary because the printer has to make some money out of printing them so a certain number known as a 'print run' has to be done. Digital printing changed a lot of this but the savings were never fully passed down to the consumer.


  • The End of the Photo Business Card
    [Business:Networking] The end is near for photo business cards because now you can get it all on a Minglestick. As flash drives answered so many problems for computer users so too will the Minglestick answer most of the problems for anyone who has to carry Business cards.


  • Be Unique and a Business Leader With New Technology Promo Tools
    [Computers-and-Technology:Hardware] If you are like many people today searching for a way to advertise your business more effectively without losing an arm and a leg in the process, then the Minglestick is for you. This will be a lot more than a convenience for your clients and customers by providing them with a very useful item; it will also show them that you are 'up there' with all the latest technology.


  • New Pickup Line For Guys and Gals
    [Relationships:Dating] Have you ever wanted to go and say hello to someone at the bar but felt too shy to do so? I mean, there's always the obvious one that will never be beaten and that's simply saying: "Hello" I mean, that really isn't too hard but it seems that some people need to have another arrow in their quiver in case the "hello" line doesn't lead to further conversation. Well, let's be a bit more frank here...


  • Event Management Memorabilia
    [Business:Marketing] Event management is a big thing these days and to find a unique gift to distribute to seminar and conference attendees is not always easy. To find a useful unique gift is even more difficult. A year or two ago it was flash drives and these were gratefully received because they were seen as a useful gift.


  • My Advice is Not to Advise Unnecessarily
    [Reference-and-Education:Languages] So which do you normally give if someone asks you for your advice? If someone thought I could offer some good insight into whatever the question was I would hope that I manage to advise them with some sound advice. For some reason many people seem to get these two words quite confused.


  • The Owl and My Pussycat
    [Home-and-Family:Entertaining] Owls in Australia where I grew up are called Mopokes. These are a small spotted bird that only comes out at night and has a very sad cry as it hunts for mice and other small mammals. My pussycat was a light ginger three quarter Persian fluff ball named Lucky but as his life would have it, he was badly misnamed.


  • Koala Bears Are Now Asking For Water
    [Reference-and-Education:Wildlife] Someone once said that a picture was worth a thousand words, so why are we now seeing pictures of Koala Bears asking ~ begging ~ for water? For anyone who is still in denial about climate change happening, please understand this about Australia's Koala Bears. Koala Bears do not normally drink water.


  • Tradesmen Who Tell Fibs, Don't Get Second Dibs
    [Home-Improvement:Remodeling] I have always remarked that unless you have a very good memory; don't ever tell fibs because it's practically guaranteed that you will slip up somewhere, so why bother even going there? For a tradesperson who says they've done a job to 'pad out' their bill when they haven't done the work is losing a lot more than a bit of extra cash.


  • Ladies Tee Shirts For the Office
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] Ladies wearing good quality tee shirts in an office environment always look good. They are a smart casual dress that rarely dates unless you have a time-sensitive message written on it somewhere.


  • What Makes an Interesting Nonsense Game?
    [Gaming] We all play games at some time or other so what makes an interesting nonsense game to you? Some people love the World of War Craft games and others like brain quizzes. Some people like playing naughts and crosses but this game is also known as ticktacktoe in some countries.


  • Nonsense - A Simple Word That Packs a Punch
    [Writing-and-Speaking] Nonsense is a word that doesn't seem to be used a lot today. It is a simple sounding word but it carries the weight of a Howitzer gun as anyone will attest if someone has ever refuted an argument they have put forth with the one word "nonsense!" said in a disparaging tone of voice.


  • Tee Shirts and Stockings
    [Womens-Interests] The dress code today has certainly changed from twenty years ago. These days you can wear tee shirts, skirt and stockings and look quite glamorous. Stockings are an item of clothing that is slowly disappearing off the legs of the women who live in a more tropical climate.


  • Lose Belly Fat by Walking
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] One of the best exercises you can do every day or more if you have the time, is simply to walk. Walking is the best exercise for so many problem areas of the human body but especially the belly. One of the least exhausting and more pleasurable ways of walking is by the clock.


  • Exercising to Get a Flat Stomach
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Exercising to get a flat stomach means extending and exalting flabby and defunct belly muscles to get them working again. These may have gone flabby due to any number of reasons some of which may have been age-related; childbirth, stomach surgery or simply too much of doing too little exercise.


  • One Piece Swim Suits Flatter Mature Figures
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] A one piece swim suit is usually more flattering to mature figures instead of a bikini or even a two-piece suit. The well designed and cut one piece swim suit lines flow along a well sculptured figure of any age to show off curves rather than bulges.


  • Bathing Suits For Women
    [Womens-Interests:Plus-Size] Many women feel uncomfortable in a bathing suit mainly because they don't have a positive image of themselves. Women can be their own worst enemies in this regard probably because they are far too critical of themselves.


  • Email Hazards For Affiliate Marketers
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Affiliate-Revenue] Email subscriptions can be one of the biggest hazards for many newbie affiliate marketers. One thing you will probably have in common with all other 'newbie' Internet Marketers when you first start out will be a severe case of information overload. This happens to all of us and it never really dissipates, you just learn how to live with it.


  • Gastric Bypass Diet - Don't Do What I Did
    [Health-and-Fitness:Popular-Diets] In 2004 I had a laparoscopic lap band inserted instead of the more radical gastric bypass surgery and I lost 55kgs on the dietitian's diet. I was so proud of my achievement and felt so comfortable with my physical eating restraint that I started to slip back into bad habits.


  • Five Common Dieting Mistakes Plus the Biggest Mistake of All
    [Health-and-Fitness:Popular-Diets] When you start dieting there are five common mistakes many new dieters and 'yo-yo' dieters fall for every diet. Are you guilty of them too?


  • Article Writing For Affiliates
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing-Articles] Article writing seems to be something that comes easily to some and to others they would almost prefer to have a tooth extracted. So which category do you fall into?


  • XSitePro Built For Technophobes
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Internet-Marketing] XSitePro is built for technophobes but when I first bought it, I didn't fully know that. Have you ever been confronted with something that you didn't understand but knew you had to overcome anyway? I had been when I first decided to work as an Internet Marketer and then I met XSitePro.


  • Finding a Good Keyword Search Tool
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:PPC-Advertising] A good place to start to find a good keyword search tool is to start by understanding the Google Keyword Estimator which is a free tool supplied by Google. All the other keyword tools will use this tool in some form or another for gathering, checking, verifying data.


  • Shocking Stocking Stories
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] Nylon stockings are not suitable for every woman to wear simply because some women are allergic to nylon. Now that nylon has been technologically improved and the more common material used today to make women's stockings is called spandex. Spandex has many improved qualities over nylon for stockings including the fact that fewer women are allergic to the material.


  • Mature Women Can Still Be Beautiful in Support Stockings
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] Many beautiful mature women today living in a temperate climate still prefer to wear nylon stockings rather than jeans or slacks. Also many mature women prefer to wear a support or compression stocking as against wearing just an everyday nylon stocking.


  • XsitePro Boosted With XHeader Templates
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Design] XsitePro has saved me hundred's and hundred's of dollars. Then the XsitePro team 'upped' the value and gave me the XHeader programme saving me hundred's more. Now I not only whip all my own websites up in a matter of hours, I also make all my own graphic headers that, even if I am immodest enough to say so, look pretty 'acceptable'. Australians are not given to singing our own praises - we consider that 'bad form'.


  • Can the Stomach Band Be Felt by Hand?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Stomach bands or laparoscopic lap bands have a port located just under the skin and mid-way up your midriff just under the diaphragm. If you lay flat on your back and put your hand on the top part of your tummy, you can feel the port just below the skin. This port is a very small, soft piece of 'plasticity' type material that reminds me of a drinking straw.


  • Assisting Affiliates - Keyword Search Tools
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Affiliate-Revenue] Keyword search tools are the tools of the trade for any affiliate marketer. Just as a carpenter has several hammers in their tool box so should an affiliate marketer have several keyword tools in their armament arsenal.


  • Short Skirts, Stockings and High Heels
    [Womens-Interests] Short skirts were all the rage in the late 60's even if you didn't have 'the legs' to wear one. Jean Shrimpton was the yardstick we all measured ourselves against and back then, she was considered a very skinny example. But, oh boy, did she ever cause a stir here in Australia!


  • Learning XsitePro by Videos
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Design] Learning anything new can be scary and stressful but with XsitePro2 Videos it's a breeze. My suggestion to you is that you watch all of them through one at a time, sit back and just watch. And then Do. That's all there is to learning XSitePro.


  • XsitePro Reviews
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Development] I am an XsitePro user for both version 1 and the updated version XsitePro2. My reviews will compare both products and the innovative thinking that Paul Smithson has added into the second version. Both XsitePro1 and XsitePro2 have been created for affiliate marketers.


  • How to Find the Most Searched Keywords
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Search-Engine-Marketing] As anyone who works on the Internet will tell you, keywords are the golden nuggets we all strive to find. We search as avidly as any gold prospector from years ago. It is not as physically exhausting but it can be very brain-draining.


  • Side Effects Vary Between Gastric Bypass Surgery Procedures
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Gastric Bypass side effects will vary according to which procedure you decide on. If you go with a stomach stapling then you will be more likely to have different side effects to someone who has had a total gastric bypass where the stomach has been cut and rejoined to the large intestine.


  • My Gastric Bypass Story
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] My decision to have a Laparoscopic lap banding done as against having a stomach stapling or a more radical gastric bypass procedure stemmed from the fact that I am basically a coward. I wanted a way back if it ever became needed.


  • Nylon Stocking & Toes
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] Have you ever thought about why most 'average cost' women's stockings have that double thickness around the toe section of the foot? Yes, it does add comfort to the toes particularly if the shoes are a bit too tight but there is a more important reason. And that's because many women do not give themselves a pedicure often enough to keep their toenails trimmed and cared for!


  • What Happens When a Human Being Becomes a Has Been?
    [Relationships:Conflict] Relationships between human beings can change so quickly. Bad communication or misunderstood communication can start wars. So what happens when a human being friend or customer's expectations gets muddled and they do something to offend or hurt you and you write them off as a has 'been?'


  • Five Tips For a Healthy Weight Watch Diet
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] People's health problems are not a major consideration itemised in financial accounts by C.E.O.'s or shareholders in any of the multinational food conglomerates today. Here are five tips to help you survive a trip to your local supermarket.


  • Solar Energy - My Vision For 2020
    [Real-Estate:Green-Real-Estate] I envisage solar energy will be Australia's fastest growing industry and a major source of domestic energy supply by the year 2020. Bold prediction maybe but with the cost of electricity rising every six months why will the average consumer continue to pay exorbitant rates to make a few major energy corporations and their shareholder's disproportionately wealthy?


  • Check My Email - I'm Drowning in It
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Email-Marketing] Please check my email unsubscribe and stop emailing me. Are we personally better off with having email auto responders so readily available to us all? I find myself during the course of a day flitting betwixt and between email accounts to get login details and verification emails etc and I seem to spend a lot of unproductive time reading emails.


  • Women Wearing Stockings Today
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Lingerie] Stockings are one of those items of clothing that is slowly fading into the dim past. Today many office workers don't bother to 'dress up' to go to work like they did 30 years ago. Today in most office environments you see men and women in jeans and tee-shirts or most women will wear a blouse but the days seem to have passed when the majority of women wore stockings, girdles, skirts and blouses or a dress.


  • Mature Women in Stockings Today
    [Womens-Interests] Most of the older women in our society today remember the days when they first had to wear stockings. Most of them probably started out with a suspender belt and 'graduated' to wearing a corset or girdle. The stockings fabric used then was either silk or cotton depending on their financial circumstances and held up by suspenders attached to the suspender belt, corsets or later a girdle.


  • What Makes Women's Stockings Sexy?
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Lingerie] Women's stockings are sexy because of their sensuous feel. The smooth silkiness of the fabric invites being touched and investigated. It simply feels good to the human touch.


  • Best Diets For Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] There have been thousands of diets for weight loss created over the years. Each month alone there are hundred's and hundred's of them published though women's magazines and other publications. The best diet for weight loss is the one that suits your lifestyle, the one that suits your metabolism and most importantly of all, the one that you stick with.


  • Free Weight Loss Diet
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Free weight loss diets can be found anywhere on the Internet or they can be found in any one of the thousands of women's magazines published each week around the world. If you don't want to purchase any of these magazines then perhaps you can access them through your nearest public library.


  • Corsets and Stockings
    [Reference-and-Education] Once upon a time not so long ago, women didn't have any choice but to wear whalebone corsets. These torture clothes were forced on women by society's standards of the day. This all happened around the same time as it was considered immoral if a woman showed so much as a stockinged ankle!


  • My Life Before and After Lap Banding
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] I had a laparoscopic lap banding done in 2004 instead of a gastric bypass. Before the lap banding I was carrying far too much extra weight at 128kgs and being 1.68 meters or 5'6"tall.


  • How to Choose Your Pay Per Click Software
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:PPC-Advertising] Many Keyword tools today incorporate the pay per click software that tells a searcher whether a keyword is worth targeting or not. Personally two of my favourite software programs are Micro Niche Finder and Keyword Elite.


  • Choose Your Website Affiliate Programs Wisely
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Affiliate-Revenue] Today there are hundred's of affiliate programs available for anyone who has a website or wants to try their hand at Internet marketing and can already make their own websites. One of the more popular places to go for affiliate programs is ClickBank. They have tens of thousands of vendor's products in there just waiting for affiliate marketers to come along, pick them up and run with them.


  • My Diet After Gastric Bypass Surgery
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] My diet immediately after gastric bypass surgery was, well, limited. Two teaspoons of clear chicken soup that night to be precise. But it tasted good and it sat comfortably in my considerably smaller stomach.


  • Website Affiliate Program
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Affiliate-Revenue] If you are going to be a serious internet marketer you are going to need your own website. What's more, you are really going to need to know how to make it for yourself so you can do all the tweaking and small changes that you are going to need to do to see what suits your market best. Yes there are definitely affiliate programs on the internet that provide you with your own website and you can market it.


  • Affiliate Programs Software
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Affiliate-Revenue] The best affiliate program 'software' is you. Why? Because no matter how many tools, eBooks, programs, systems or anything else you buy will ever replace you and your will to succeed.


  • Your Highest Paying Affiliate Programs
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Affiliate-Revenue] Your highest paying affiliate program is going to obviously be the one you make the most money out of. And the only way to find out for sure which one will make you money is to choose an affiliate program that interests you and then work at marketing it.


  • Stockings Underwear
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] With the arrival of the pantyhose in 1968 a means of wearing stockings as underwear first became possible. Prior to this the stockings were always held up by suspenders either from a corset, a girdle or a suspender belt.


  • Women's Nylon Stockings
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] Women's nylon stockings these days are made from a nylon derivative called spandex. This is a much more comfortable fabric for women because it fits better and stretches where it needs a bit more stretch yet hugs the figure where it's needed.


  • The Highest Paying Affiliate Programs
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Affiliate-Revenue] There are literally thousands of affiliate programs out on the Internet begging for affiliates to come along and pick them up and run with them. ClickBank is one of the most popular sites for affiliate programs but they are far from the only ones and all the products listed do not necessarily offer a high commission rate.


  • Solar Power Supply
    [Home-Improvement:Energy-Efficiency] Solar power is supplied by the sun and that is why it is known as solar power. Here in Australia we are blessed with sunshine. Here in Queensland solar power pours down on us like a blessing from heaven.


  • Solar Power Products
    [Home-Improvement:Energy-Efficiency] Solar Power products, or rather the method of manufacturing solar power panels, are now available on the Internet. Up until this point in time the solar panel's development has been left up to the big manufacturers that have had access to huge quantities of Research and Development (R&D) start up capital either through Government programs or through venture capitalists.


  • What is Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding sounds like something that people do to homing pigeons but in reality what it does, is to bring a 'bird' back to baseline weight again according to medical jargon. Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) is another method of gastric bypass that is much less invasive than the original method of cutting or stapling a person's stomach.


  • The Cost of Fat
    [Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] Being a 'fattie' for most of my life, I can tell you the cost is very high. It costs you more in self esteem, money and social acceptance than most people realise. You don't know it is actually there until you lose the weight and notice the difference in how people treat you.


  • A History of Beautiful Stockings, Corsets, and Suspender Belts
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] Technology has assisted today's woman with the advent of better fabrics and the invention of the pantyhose.No longer do women have to wear the obligatory brown seamed stocking. Now we can all colour co-ordinate our whole wardrobe and I'm sure, you will agree that today's woman in her beautifully patterned colour coordinated stockings can really look fabulous


  • Successful Dieting Starts in the Mind
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Sometimes, especially if we have been over weight for some time, we have buried thoughts so deep in our psyches that we need a "dynamite thought" to unearth them. Sometimes this thought comes in the form of an ultimatum from a partner or sometimes from a Doctor but it's still up to each individual to start the thought process for themselves.


  • Keyword Search Tool
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Every Internet Marketer working on the web today uses one or more keyword search tools. We all dream of finding those elusive keywords. We search through thousands of keywords each week like the early pioneering gold miners of yesteryear looking for a gold seam or just a missed nugget.


  • Gastric Band Humour
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Humor] A sense of humour helps when you have a laparoscopic lap band inserted. We had to wait a little bit for our order to arrive because the restaurant was busy; so we had a couple of drinks first, as one does in such an ambient, romantic atmosphere.


  • The Secret to Gastric Bypass Success
    [Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] The secret with most good things is usually to be found 'out in the open'. With Gastric Bypass the secret for success is also out in the open. But it's not just one thing, it's a combination of things and they all need to be in place if you are to succeed long-term.


  • Your Supermodel Diet Secrets
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Supermodels have a diet secret that we can all share. Their diet happens in their mind first and their mind is what controls what they eat and drink. And the other secret is that you can do exactly the same.


  • Are You Someone Who Cannot Lose Weight?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Let me start by telling you a true story. I had this friend, my tennis partner actually, and she said to me one day that she absolutely could not lose weight. It was one of those periods in my life when I was back on the diet track and had lost a fair amount of weight and apparently was looking quite good, according to my husband at the time but I considered him to be biased so never really believed him.


  • Where Can I Find a Weight Loss Diet
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] There is weight loss diets published in nearly every woman's magazine every week and there are thousands of these magazines published world wide every week. But is one of these diets right for you? I mean, when you think about it, how can the 'Best' diet be published every week?


  • Gastric Bypass Complications
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Gastric bypass is an extremely radical surgical procedure and one that I would not recommend. Instead the modern method of laparoscopic lap banding does the same job with fewer of the potential complications. That isn't to say that there is absolutely no risk because as with any surgery there is always the potential for complications and a degree of risk.


  • Losing Weight and Lower Back Exercises
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Losing weight helps every part of our body but particularly our lower backs when we lose fat off our stomachs. Doing lower back exercises helps us in two ways: Firstly,it assists the removal of fat globules off vital organs in our stomachs and secondly, losing the weight off our stomachs strengthens muscles around our rib cages that are connected to our lower backs.


  • Do You Know Your Motivation to Lose Weight?
    [Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Motivation is the driving force behind most human's actions and reactions. So what is your motivation to lose weight? If you are motivated enough you will succeed and do it more easily than if your motivation is lack-lustre or not strong enough.


  • The Best Exercise to Lose Weight is the One You Do Regularly
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Many people have the right idea to start to exercise to lose weight but mistakenly believe that if they get all "gung-ho" that it's the best exercise. The best exercise to lose weight is the one that you do regularly. Walking needs to become one of your best friends.


  • Should it Be Reasons Or Motivations For Losing Weight?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Is there a difference between a reason and a motivation for losing weight? A reason is really an "either - or" situation and can be a very distinctive reason for doing something.


  • Do You Believe Weight Loss Photos?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Today with the technology that Photoshop and other picture enhancing programmes provide, I no longer trust any weight loss photos that I see. Personally, I prefer to give out my friends and family's email address so people can ask my friends and family for themselves as to whether I am truthful in telling of my weight loss. To me, that just seems a bit more honest.


  • Can't Lose Weight?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] If you are having difficulty losing weight and no matter what you do, the weight doesn't seem to come off then I think you may need to ask yourself three questions. Question number one is probably the most important question because if you have only been dieting for a couple of weeks, then I think perhaps your expectations may not be quiet realistic.


  • Lose Weight Fast to Improve Libido
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Have you ever noticed how your libido suffers when you don't feel good about yourself? Losing weight fast to improve libido can be as simple as liquid fasting for a day or two at the most each week.


  • So You Want to Lose Weight Really Fast?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] If you want to lose weight really fast then you are likely to have two serious problems. Firstly, if you think you can simply shed 10 kilograms or 10lbs in 10 days you may need a reality check and secondly, if you insist on trying you could become seriously ill.


  • Lose Water Weight by Drinking More Water
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Water sustains human life. If your body is holding onto water it could well be because you simply don't drink enough water and your body has gone into survival mode. To get rid of excess water, drink at least 8 big glasses of water spaced over a 12-15 hour day and combine this with some gentle exercise like walking.


  • One Method of How to Lose Weight Fast
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The fastest way to lose weight is not to put weight on in the first place. OK, so it's too late for that method so now we are actually going to have to do some serious work to get it off again.


  • Bariatric Weight Loss Surgery
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Bariatric weight loss surgery is any surgery performed on your stomach with the intention of forcing a weight loss. There are several different procedures that can bring this intention to fruition and some are obviously better than others and some are safer than some of the others.


  • What is a Bariatric Doctor?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] A Bariatric Doctor is a Doctor who specialises in stomach problems. A bariatric surgeon is a Doctor who performs bariatric surgery. A surgeon is the Doctor who specilaises in perfoming the cutting and repairing procedures on the human body.


  • Weight Loss Pills Vs Laparoscopic Lap Banding
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Having been a user of both weight loss pills and a lap band for a number of years I would like to share my findings with anyone seriously looking for a way to lose weight. If you are a diabetic, whichever way you decide is the right way for you to lose your excess weight, you know now that you are going to have to do some serious work to succeed.


  • Ten Ways to Lose Ten Pounds
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The fastest way to lose ten pounds is also the safest way to lose ten pounds and that is by rigid planning and strict discipline. Can you stick to a regime like that? Do you have the determination because without it, why bother putting your body through the stress?


  • Gastric Bypass
    [Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] Gastric bypass--not 'by pass'--is the bypassing of certain sections of the stomach or large intestine. This bypassing allows a shorter time for the absorption of food and nutrients into the body and helps to eliminate the storage of fat. Based on the principle that if the food isn't broken down enough to store unused portions as fat, then the faster it is removed out of the body's system the less chance it has to be stored as fat.


  • Gastric Bypass Diet
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Gastric bypass is an extremely radical operation for weight control so I chose to go with the laparoscopic lap banding instead of the gastric bypass for a number of reasons. Both operations achieve the same result. Whichever method you personally choose, a Dietician needs to be involved.


  • Weight Loss Surgeries
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Weight loss surgeries have been around for years. The first procedure was stomach stapling and evolved and progressed from there as more scientific and medically safer procedures became available. Stomach stapling and gastric bypass surgery is still available in most countries and is in fact preferred by some bariatric surgeons.


  • Cost of Gastric Bypass
    [Health-and-Fitness] The cost of gastric bypass surgery and/or laparoscopic lap banding varies from one country to another. Here in Australia if you are covered by a top health care plan and you have been referred by your GP (General Practitioner) as a morbidly obese person in need of more help than just dieting alone, most of the lap banding costs are covered in your health care plan. I have lived in Canada for the past year and my special friend in Alberta is a diabetic and a morbidly obese person.


  • Gastric Bypass Surgery Before and After
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Before I had a laparoscopic surgeon perform my lap banding operation instead of a gastric bypass, I took the time and did a lot of research into what was involved. I attended seminars, spoke with people who had had the operation and did a lot of Googling. Strangely, at the time (2004) there wasn't a lot known about laparoscopic lap band surgery in Australia as it was a relatively new procedure.


  • A Quick Way to Lose Weight is Not Good For You
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] There are ways and better ways to lose weight. If you want to lose weight and have the weight to stay off for a longer time then you need to take the weight loss very slowly and learn how to keep it off while losing the weight. Otherwise as soon as you go back to normal eating again, you will be right back where you started from 12 months down the track.


  • New Keyword Analysis Tool
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Search-Engine-Marketing] Technology has come a long way in advancing the keyword analysis tools now available for internet marketers working on the internet. Good keyword tools have become absolute necessities for anyone serious about analyzing keywords to earn a living off the internet.


  • Ten Tricks For Wearing Nylon Stockings in the Summer
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] Climate change will affect when and how often women will wear nylon stockings. I bet that fact was never taken into account by scientists!


  • Long Legs in Stockings
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] Long legs and well fitting stockings can pose a problem for many women. Long skinny legs can end up with the wearer being 'hobbled' around the inside thigh area.


  • Affiliate Marketing Secret
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Affiliate-Revenue] It is often said that the best place to hide something is in plain sight. The affiliate marketing secret is no different. Google and the 'gurus' all say the same thing "Content is King."


  • Do You Want a Good Free to Join Affiliate Program?
    [Business] Clickbank is a good free to join affiliate program. Affiliate programs are a symbiotic relationship between the advertiser and the manufacturer or distributor. One needs the other and by working together, everyone succeeds.


  • Very Short Skirts and Stockings
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] Very short skirts and a pair of silky stockings go together like ham and cheese. The finer the stockings are and a colour to compliment the colour of the skirt rather than to detract or clash with it makes the clothing combination even more attractive.


  • Clickbank Affiliate Network
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Affiliate-Revenue] Clickbank affiliate network is extremely easy to join but not so easy to make money in. Unless you are prepared for a big learning curve and are prepared to put the required time in to learn. So many producers of info products say that you don't need to know any HTML or have a website of your own. And yes, there are a lot of products where that is quite true.


  • Beware of the Up Sells - They Bite
    [Business:Sales] It is a very common practice these days and no doubt in moderation, a reasonable one, to have up sells when launching a new product. But I suggest being extremely wary of them.


  • Sailing - What a Nonsense Word
    [Recreation-and-Sports] We sail on the sea, we sail through the air and we set sail. What is clearly nonsense is the sailing through the air part. Unless of, course, you are in an aeroplane. Then it is more likely that the plane is sailing and you are the passenger. Still, we mustn't get too pedantic here.


  • Plumbers and Gurglers
    [Business:Small-Business] Is your plumbing business one on the edge right now or can you drag out your electric eel and unplug the blockage? I hope you can because I doubt it's over yet in spite of what the financial analysts say.


  • Waste Recycling
    [News-and-Society:Environmental] What constitutes waste and how can different types of waste be reduced, reused or recycled? After all, remember the proverb "one man's rubbish is another man's treasure." Perhaps our forefathers had more wisdom than possessions needing reusing or recycling, but I do know they made the best use of everything they had; looked after everything they owned and still had time to think of wise ideas to hand down to today's generations.


  • AdWords Advantage
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:PPC-Advertising] Starting out with Google AdWords and using keywords can be a very daunting and expensive experience when you don't fully understand what you are doing. Not only is it daunting, it can be horrendously expensive and if not careful, can put you into debt for months.


  • Use Pay Per Play to Make Money With Every Website Visitor
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Pay Per Play is about to make a very dramatic inroad to Google's internet marketing supremacy in February 2008. AdSense has been all 'the go' now with web publishers for so long it has had the whole internet advertising playground practically to themselves. Yes, there are other contenders but they have never quite got within kicking distance of Google.


  • What is an Internet Web Publisher?
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Development] Web Publishing is more involved than just making pretty, high tech websites. Some days it feels like playing leap-frog while doing a jig-saw puzzle at the same time.


  • Bing - Will it Ping and Sing?
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online] Bing is Microsoft's new search engine. My impression as a web publisher is that it's clean, crisp, fresh and under-populated. So I gave it a helping hand and submitted two recently launched web sites into the pool. Now I want to find out how long it will take to ping and sing. I have my counters in place and the clocks ticking.


  • Lace Stockings
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] Nylon lace stockings when worn with complimentary clothing, can be sexy, feminine, attractive and appearance enhancing. Lace stocking are wonderful wardrobe enhancers when used to compliment an outfit rather than to compete against it.


  • Fishnet Stockings
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Lingerie] Have you ever really thought about why nylon fishnet stockings are called "fishnet stockings"? That's because that is precisely what they feel like when you wear them. They feel very holey and this makes a lady feel very 'unholy' to the point of absolute naughtiness.


  • Nylon Stockings
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Lingerie] As a young lady growing up in the mid 1960's, it was a time of hope, expectation, adventure and dreams. Being given my first pair of nylon stockings for a Christmas present from my Mother and Father was their acknowledgment to me that they now considered me old enough to wear nylon stockings and to be considered an eligible young lady. It was so exciting!


  • Seamed Stockings - Hard to Wear
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] Seamed stockings may have looked very glamorous but they were hugely uncomfortable to wear and even worse trouble was in keeping the seam straight. Why should anyone worry about keeping a seam straight? Well, for our younger readers, perhaps we had better describe what a stocking seam actually was or is.


  • Black Stockings Do Not Keep Feet Warm
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] Women's black nylon stockings are usually a 'clingy' type of material; but being such a fine, thin fabric they do not keep feet warm in winter. Now it is fall and the days are cooling down rapidly, just wearing stockings alone during the course of a day isn't enough to keep feet warm.


  • Nylon Stockings and Allergic Reactions
    [Health-and-Fitness:Allergies] Nylon can be a thin delicate fabric or it can be hardy enough to use as a parachute. Either way, it will pay you handsomely to take care of it properly to avoid an allergic reaction or death. When used as the material in women's stockings or pantyhose, it is sensual, soft, and hardy.


  • Very Short Skirt Disadvantages
    [Womens-Interests] The average woman is very disadvantaged if she wears a very short skirt. Why? Because we simply don't have suitable legs or the posture to carry the fashion elegantly. Legs have to be more than shapely they also have to be attractive. Nylon stockings make legs more attractive but this is where personal choice and beauty appreciation meets practicality.


  • Whalebone Corsets to Black Nylon Stockings
    [Womens-Interests] The elasticized torture tools called thigh high stockings, quickly disappeared with the arrival of the Pantyhose. Ah, the blessed relief at last! The first time I wore a pair of pantyhose I knew that they were here to stay. And so they have, are and will be for some time to come. Now they are available in all colours, sizes, thicknesses and prices. I sometimes wonder though what my Nana would think of my "ladylike qualities" by wearing a pair of black nylon pantyhose stockings. I just wish she could have lived to see the day


  • Habitat For Humanity Mortgage Foreclosures Are Rare
    [Real-Estate:Foreclosures] Firstly, what is Habitat for Humanity? Habitat for Humanity is an international, non-profit, non-government, ecumenical Christian organization that's dedicated to building decent, simple and affordable housing for people who may not otherwise be able to afford a home of their own.


  • Now is the Time for Plumbers to be Heard
    [Home-Improvement:Plumbing] Water is the one resource that humans can't live without, yet we 'Westerners' are squandering it as if there is no tomorrow. This is rarely done intentionally but it happens thoughtlessly or unknowingly.


  • Niche Opportunity for Passionate Plumbers
    [Business:Small-Business] Plumbers are the needed trade in the world's current climate change problems. They are the ones at the 'coal face' who actually install, repair and maintain good water supply to our homes, businesses and properties. Plumbers are in control at ground level to our water needs. Humans can do without a lot of things but not water. Without water, Humans die very quickly.


  • Discover the Niche Web Hosting Businesses Are Missing
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Hosting] As surprising as it may seem, when you visit any web hosting service provider, you are hit with a wide range of plans available and what is included in the way of technical details with each plan; but the newbie is left to flounder around like a fish out of water - which is precisely what they are. Most people, especially newbies, don't know what their service provider actually provides.


  • Stop the Adsense Spiral
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Let me ask you a few questions. If you were going on a long car journey or traveling to an unknown area, would you look it up on a map to see where you needed to go? Would you accept directions from someone? How about equipping yourself with a GPS like I have because I can't navigate for quids! When Allan Pease said "...and women can't read road maps" he was quite correct.


  • Audio Books are Great Teachers
    [Reference-and-Education] The nuance of a words meaning depends in which context (or words around it) are used in combination with voice inflection in the expression of those words. That is how you can understand the meaning intended behind the spoken word. Body language plays a big part too in expressing words. It's pretty easy to see whether someone is fond of you or wants to fight you. Language is much more than the spoken word.


  • Discover Your Online Book Store
    [Reference-and-Education] Audio Books are a great way to learn - or relax. Discover how easily they can be downloaded and carried. They are easily downloaded to CD, MP3 or iPod and carrried effortlessly anywhere we go. Whether we get stuck in traffic jams, or waiting at airports or just while waiting for trains or buses - There's no reason to ever be bored again!


  • Do Your People Skills Match Your Contracting Skills?
    [Business:Management] How many times have you as a contractor had to bite your tongue? This 'biting of your tongue' and not saying exactly what you're feeling has probably saved your business. How so? Well, put yourself in your customer's boots. If you weren't happy with some job that a contractor had done for you, do you seriously think if they went 'head to toe' with you in an argument trying to convince you that you should be happy with what you ended up with, do you seriously think they would convince you?


  • Discover When to Bare It
    [Reference-and-Education:Languages] I read a lot of documents, especially EBooks, and the number of times I'm absorbed in the information and then they ask me to 'bare' with them. I don’t mean they show all, I mean they are talking about bearing with them. I mean, if any of my contractors wrote to their clients talking about a load baring beam I doubt many husbands would leave their wives at home all day with them.


  • Inside Secrets of a Fruit Basket
    [Food-and-Drink] Fruit baskets represent caring and they are usually bright and cheerful. And they are an ideal present for the hard-to-buy for person who already seems to have everything. Just to look at one sitting on your nightstand when you are laid up in hospital with a broken leg, cheers one up no end. It seems to be encouraging you to get out and about and pick a piece from within its attractive basket.


  • Discover How Fish Oil Helps a 93 Year Old Matriarch
    [Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] My Step-Mum has taken one fish oil tablet for over half a century. And she has no plans to stop doing so any time soon. When she went to see her Doctor recently for her annual 'flu injection,' he remarked on how well she was looking and how she was in such extraordinary good health.


  • Why Do People Stay Subscribed?
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] I have been trolling through various forums lately and one of the more common laments seem to be people are on too many email lists. So what keeps people subscribed to lists that they really would prefer not to be on but are too afraid to get off?


  • Be Aware When Using Video
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Video-Streaming] One of the funniest things I have seen this week has been someone using video and trying to sell me something. His body Language did not match his words.


  • Brokerage with Google Adsense
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:PPC-Publishing] A Broker, according to the Concise Oxford Dictionary 1964, is a person who acts as a middleman. Today some would prefer the term Agent; hence we have Insurance Agents, Real Estate Agents and agents representing any number of Industries and Companies. Now there is a way to broker better deals for more Google Adsense income.


  • Don't Send Your Website Visitors Back to Google!
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] When a person types in their search request to the Google Search Engine, and Google sends that visitor to your Website, Google is trying very hard to please that client who has chosen to use the Google Search Engine. If the visitor doesn’t find what they are looking for on your Website and clicks the back button on their browser to return to search, Google takes note.


  • What Does Being Australian Mean To Me
    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion] Today 26th January is Australia day and I have been quietly enjoying thinking about it all.


  • Use this Download Reading Method to Save Your Eyes
    [Home-and-Family:Elder-Care] As we age, our eyesight diminishes. If we are one of the unfortunates who have Glaucoma or a Macular degeneration to our eyesight, then reading becomes difficult if not impossible. This deficiency happens at the time of a person’s life when they actually have the time to devote themselves to a good book. Up until retirement, people have often been too busy with day-to-day jobs to have had much time just to sit and relax.


  • Water Intoxication Caused By Excessive Drinking
    [Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Water Intoxication happens when a person drinks water in excess and causes a significant lowering of the concentration of sodium in the blood. This in turn causes the brain to swell and this produces a decreased level of conscientiousness.


  • CD Audio Books Save Bark
    [Travel-and-Leisure:Aviation-Airplanes] Many people who are frequent travellers, have found books in CD audio format so much lighter and easier to carry than the traditional hardback or soft-cover book When clearing through security screening at airports, taking off shoes while balancing a paperback book is certainly an uncomfortable feat that no posture can carry graciously and stay composed and dignified.


  • How to Get Your Customers to Pay for Your Advertising
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] And it’s so easy to do. In fact, if you have been on a few teleseminars recently, you have no doubt had the thought flit through your mind "Hey, I’m paying for this call so they can sell me their stuff!"


  • Music Downloads Are Now Being Challenged By Audio Books
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Music] Good audio Books, Plays and Radio Serials covering a broad range of subjects, book titles, genres and good quality narrative has not until now been readily available. But now there is even a monthly quantity of free stuff so the gap between the two is shortening as people become more familiar with hearing a book read rather than reading it themselves, page by page.


  • Will Infertility Happen To You
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] A woman is born with all the eggs she will ever have; and as she gets older, each month she is left with even fewer. Those that are left by the time she is in her mid-forties aren't always as fertile or healthy as she originally produced. If the man has been a heavy drinker or smoker, or for a variety of many other reasons ~ including wearing the wrong type of underpants~ all of which will affect his virility.


  • Audio Book Review
    [Book-Reviews:History] I have just been re-listening to the story of Christopher Columbus and his trials and tribulations a long-way from home. What I can see in my head is to feel the anxiety and desperation that they must have felt when they were ship-wrecked on Christmas Day 1492. They were a long, long way from home. And there weren't any shipping lanes in those days! It wasn't as if there was any likelihood that a passing ship would be able to rescue them. And the likelihood of becoming a tribal feast for a previously unknown group of "savages" smoking Volcanoes was a distinct likelihood. Christopher Columbus not only discovered America but he also discovered Tobacco.


  • Australian Climate Affects Eyesight
    [Health-and-Fitness:Eyes-Vision] Australia is a very bright land. Right now, it's even brighter than usual for summer because we are in drought. It has been said to be the worst drought in 1000 years and I'm sure the man on the land is likely to agree with that statement. But all this brightness has another downside. It affects eyesight. To understand more medical facts about eye health, it is recommended to hear all about it via a wide range of audio books that are now available on the subject.


  • Has the US Itself Been Am-Bush'd?
    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion] I often wonder if people in the US understand just how their decisions affect the rest of the world. Some of this effect is good, while other decisions impact on the world so badly it could make a lesser optimist than me sit and cry. No, I'm not going to "Yankee Bash" here but as we are your mates in thick and thin, as a 'mate' I'm allowed an opinion.


  • Which Marketing Manual Should YOU Buy?
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] This is probably the hardest question of all to answer for YOU about Internet Marketing. There are so many good, bad and indifferent Ebooks now available on the Internet and each Ebook deals with a different aspect of Internet marketing practices and possibilities. The information overload this causes is paralysing. It is this paralysis that causes people to never make a start. It seems to inhibit them rather than free them to actually take action.


  • An Inside Outsider
    [Relationships:Love] Due to shortage of time it’s often hard to find time for 'reading' many self-help books so to find they are now available in audio books is a great time and friendship saver.


  • Motherly Love
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] We all know that Mother’s love their kids. After all, we are all told that continuously by the media. And it is true. Probably one of the few things that the media does actually say, imply and re-enforces. One of the reasons this happens is because it’s good for society. But there are degrees of that love. Some Mothers will do anything to protect their kids. And there are some Mothers who love their kids but dislike the person they have become. Or dislike/disapprove of the action they have done. It can get very confusing.


  • Who Said There's Only One Path To Heaven
    [News-and-Society:Religion] To find out, you may need to read all the Holy Books. But do they give a definitive answer or is there more to it than that? Having the books available now in audio allows the stories to be told as they used to be. That is, told in story form down the generations. After all, that is how they originated until they became available through mass printing.


  • A Precious Wish
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] Once the excitement and happiness reaches a more manageable level after discovering that you are pregnant, then you need to put some real thought into life. What sort of life do you wish for your child? This could be the most fundamental questions you and your partner will ever face. Why? Because you have to finally think about what life really is and how you will guide your child. What sort of a life do you wish for your child? If you need more information and are not a 'reader', then perhaps you will find some ideas from listening to audio books.


  • Introduce Your Children to Their Own Imaginations
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] There are a lot of nice things about being a parent. It's not all worry, tears and work. A wonderful thing about being a parent is introducing them to their own abilities. One of which is firing up their imaginations. To see a child's face light up as they visualise their own 'word pictures' running through their heads is breathtaking. The child's face comes alive, their eyes twinkle and their joy is infectious.


  • Plumbers and their Mates
    [Business:Small-Business] Plumbers today are usually far too busy to take time out of their busy work schedule to learn new marketing methods. Yet when a quiet time comes, they often don't know how to advertise their services better. Or how to market their capabilities better and put themselves on the tendering lists for those bigger and sometimes more profitable jobs.


  • Use Your Time Wisely
    [Self-Improvement:Coaching] Do you get caught up in Traffic jams every day and spend time just sitting, waiting and waiting? Then your lifestyle is stealing your time. It's time for a change. Either change your lifestyle which isn't always possible or change the way you spend that time waiting. It’s up to you which you choose. Today with the arrival of MP3 players, CD players, iPods or even just your mobile phone, you can download an audio book on whatever subject you want to listen to and use your time to either teach yourself or to entertain yourself.


  • Who Knows What you are Listening To?
    [Arts-and-Entertainment] Mp3 players, iPods, CD players and mobile phones have extended our personal times significantly. We can choose what we listen to and no-one else can hear, so we can be listening to whatever we choose. This freedom is quite unique. For some of us it can be music that no one else likes, it could be a learning subject that no one else is interested in or it could be "adult" content and very, very personal. The truth is, unless someone steals our personal players, no one else will ever know what we are listening to!


  • Would You Prefer Heavy Or Light?
    [Travel-and-Leisure] Every Christmas it is a tradition in our family to give books as "Santa Clause" presents along with a box of Chocolates. So we all have something to read while still enjoying everyone’s company. This has certain drawbacks though if you are the one travelling. The alternative of not having a book at all to read when travelling strikes me with fear of total boredom. This is a worse scenario than having to haul a heavy book around.


  • Marketing Methods that Annoy
    [Business:Marketing] Have you ever wondered whether your method of marketing may actually annoy your target market? When someone sends me something on an approval basis and will "bill" me at the end of that time if I haven’t returned the item beforehand, really "gets my back up."


  • Immoral Internet Marketing Methods
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Why do people who have unsubscribed from a list still get contacted months after unsubscribing? Because some *bright* spark suggested that an unsubscribed list is still a list and shouldn’t be wasted. I consider this to be immoral. What do you think? Has it happened to you too?


  • Learning a Language by Listening
    [Reference-and-Education:Languages] Have you ever tried learning Spanish? It used to be difficult but there is now a new, easier and faster way to learn. One of the biggest problems when learning any new language is pronunciation. This needs to be heard to get all the inflexions and nuances of each word right. One of the worst languages to learn from the viewpoint of nuances is English.


  • Advantage of Audio Books
    [Self-Improvement] Today, most people are time short. Yet we all waste time. We waste time standing in queues, waiting because of traffic congestion, waiting for appointments, waiting for trains, buses, Trams, waiting, waiting, waiting. Yet most of us simply accept it as a fact of life today.


  • Radio Can Rule
    [Home-and-Family:Elder-Care] Consider a person afflicted with Alzheimer's. When their short-term memory goes, they often revert back to the time when radio ruled the airwaves. They listened and laughed along with the goon show, Life with Dexter and all the other radio plays that people enjoyed. These days, most radio stations don’t provide that content any more. Their audience these days is very niche marketed and it’s the older folk in our communities who are not often catered for.


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