An easy solution to any crisis

The solution is... Chocolate covered strawberries! It's that easy. Eat two or three (or twelve) and all your problems instantly fade away. Who knew it was that simple?

Most important to successful dipping is to get ripe and flavorful strawberries, but a close second is the type of chocolate you use. This is very important - use only milk chocolate. Per bag of milk chocolate use one tablespoon of shortening (Crisco). Melt in a glass bowl in the microwave, stirring in 30 second intervals. One bag will yield enough chocolate for at least 40 medium-small strawberries. Yum!

Are eggs have been hard-boiled or uncooked?

Here’s an easy way to tell if the eggs in your fridge have been hard-boiled:

Simply give the egg a spin on a firm surface. If cooked, it will continue to spin; if not, it may make one or two wobbly turns and promptly stop.

The reason? The liquid inside an uncooked egg (as in a glass of water) will not pick up momentum. However, the solid inside of a cooked egg will (as would frozen water).

PLR Articles Value Maintaining Tips

The easiest thing to do with PLR articles is to copy and paste them into a favorite forum posting, a blog or a Squidoo lens – without doing any editing or rewriting to the original content. But, the minute an articles got published, it loses it's uniqueness and loses the value.

Below are some tips to maintain the value of any PLR articles you currently have:

Delete nonrelevant articles

Delete those articles which are not relevant to your online business theme or business focus. Merely copying and pasting articles in blogs do not guarantee profit from Adsense. If you have thought about doing the same thing, drop it. You’re better off focusing on your current online business theme.

Re-categorized it

Most PLR articles have insufficient titles. It’s too long, too corny or too superficial. Take the time to rewrite them. You can be creative with your choices as long as it fits into your content theme.

Extract it

One of the things you can do to add uniqueness to an article and make it original is to extract the main points, keywords, concepts or ideas from the article.

Rewrite an article

After that, rewrite a new article based on what you’ve extracted. By far, it is the most practical way to make the article original, but this is also the most time-consuming activity.

Summarize it

This is easier than extracting article content. But this is difficult way to add originality to PLR article because at the end result is still the same.

Striking the Balance - An Easy Solution

"Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other." - James Harvey Robinson

A trait that most humans have inherited is the mentality that everything can be split into clear-cut segments. Unfortunately, this is one of our greatest faults as a species. The truth is that most things do not have finite distinctions, and failing to recognize this can be dangerous. Succinctly, people must find balance in everything they do, otherwise everything can topple over to one side.

Balance in Life

A simple example of striking a balance in life is when one leaves time for both work and play. As I said before, there is never a clear distinction between things, so work can easily become play and vice-versa. However, if time is only spent playing, for example, nothing is accomplished. Similarly, if one works all the time, there is no time for rest, which is also detrimental.

The same goes for everything in life: there is nothing wrong with eating unhealthy foods as long as it is balanced with healthier ones; watching TV is fine as long as there is some time spent doing physical activities; leaving time for oneself is important, but it must not take away from time spent with others; etc.

If ever you are distressed by a problem, try to think of it in terms of balance: if you have been doing a lot of one thing, have you done enough of the other? People are often surprised when they realize that much of their stress can be alleviated by simply incorporating a balance.

Balance of the Mind

We also tend to split things into groups mentally. Black vs. white, male vs. female, wrong vs. right, liberal vs. conservative, etc. This is another fault many humans have. By thinking in terms of one extreme versus another, we exclude a very important grey area. Historically, this need to distinguish and discriminate is what caused a lot of suffering.

Adolf Hitler was responsible for the near extinction of the Jewish population because he believed they were as a whole intolerable. African Americans had to fight for freedom and equality because of the same narrow mentality. Women, homosexuals, Irish, Tutsis, and many other communities have struggled, often sacrificing their lives, in an attempt to change this extremist frame of mind. Because of the immense sacrifices these groups had to make, it is difficult to believe that all that was necessary to better their conditions was for people to recognize that they are not really that different from each other.

These extreme cases only illustrate the point that imbalance, though relatively easy to correct, can be hugely damaging on a larger scale. However, thinking in simpler terms is just as important. For example, wheat bread is thought to be healthier than white bread. Though this is generally true, certain kinds of wheat bread are not whole wheat and contain a lot of added sugars. In other words, don't take one thing and assume that it is the same as all the others of its kind just because it is not the other extreme.

Striking the Balance

Remember that very few things (if not nothing at all) can be separated into finite categories. Try to think of things more as a spectrum. Recognize what you already have in your life and then try to create more of a balance by adding elements you don't have much of, or removing elements you have too much of. This will help you in just about every aspect of your life.

Limit Traffic Noise Outside Your Window

Traffic noise impacts more people than any other environmental noise source. Traffic noise can affect the ability to work, learn, rest, relax, sleep, etc. Excessive noise can lead to mental and physical health problems.

If your home is near a major road or you are experiencing problems with traffic noise, you may be able to limit the speed of cars (and accordingly traffic noise) with this easy to imitate method.