Saturday, February 12, 2011

Yahoo! Personal Finance: Calculators, Money Advice, Guides, & More

The Best Places to Retire Outside the U.S.

by Cindy Perman Retiring in another country used to be a foreign concept to most Americans but it's becoming more common thanks to two main factors: the Internet and the economy.

The Internet has provided some much-needed connectivity and the economy has priced many retirees out of warm-weather cities in the U.S.

"You can live better for less in a tropical paradise," said Dan Prescher, the special projects editor for International Living magazine. "All you have to do is think outside the border."

AARP found 10 of the best places to retire outside the U.S., using five criteria: the cost of living, housing costs, health care (both quality and accessibility), cultural and recreational options and if there's already an expat community there. They include Buenos Aires, Argentina; Corozal, Belize; Le Marche, Italy; Boquete, Panama; and Cascais, Portugal, as well as five other locales.

Click through to find out more about them.

I am so on this it's not funny. I get the feeling the US is going to implode. Maybe it's just me being paranoid, but I'm just sayin'........

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

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Probably just dreaming here, but I spent some time on this site dreaming of how cool it would be to have a virtual assistant. These guys really seem to have their stuff together for a pretty reasonable price.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Robbie's Pet Recipe Collection: Oatmeal Dog Biscuits

Check out this website I found at recipes.robbiehaf.com

Oatmeal Dog Biscuits

1 1/2 cups hot water
1 cup rolled oats
1/3 cup butter OR margarine
1 Tbls. beef OR chicken bouillon granules
3/4 cup dry milk powder
3/4 cup cornmeal
1 egg - beaten
3 cups whole wheat flour
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-Stir together water, oats, butter, and bouillon; allow to stand for 5 minutes.
-Stir in milk powder, cornmeal, and egg until combined.
-Stir in flour, 1/2 cup at a time, mixing well after each addition.
-Turn dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead for 4 minutes, adding more flour if necessary to make a stiff dough.
-Roll dough out to 1/2" thick.
-Cut shapes out of dough with a cookie cutter and place on a greased cookie sheet.
-Bake in a 325 degree oven for 50 minutes.
-Allow to cool and dry on wire racks.

Notes: Store in refrigerator up to 1 month OR freeze up to 1 year.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Home Improvement Genius | Home Improvement Products, Tools and Advice

Honeywell Programmable Thermostat

Programmable ThermostatIt is very possible to painlessly grab savings of approximately 10 to 15% annually on your heating and air conditioning expenses by simply adjusting your thermostat down 10°–15° for eight hours of each day. The downside is that you have to remember to readjust the thermostat every time.  The better alternative is to accomplish  the same thing automatically without sacrificing comfort by installing a modern
Programmable Thermostat
.

A very common false opinion about programmable thermostats is that a typical furnace or air conditioner has to burn more energy than normal to heat or cool the home back to a livable and comfortable temperature after the thermostat has returned to it previous temperature, providing very little or no energy savings (as well as money savings). But research proves, the moment your living space dip below its normal temperature, the house will lose heat or coolling to the surrounding exterior temperatures far more slowly.

The heat loss is even less (and slower) when the temperature of the inside of the house is lower. So this means that the more time the interior of the home stays at the lower temperature, the more likely you are to save energy, because the home has lost a good deal less energy than it would have if it was maintained at the greater temperature. The same basic rules apply to increasing the temperature of  your thermostat setting in the cooling season; if you raise the temperature inside your home it will decrease the movement of hot exterior air into your the inside of your home, saving money on your air conditioning bill.

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I am looking to put in a programmable thermostat in the house to try and save some energy and some money this winter. This article shows how the Honeywell Programmable Thermostat functions. Good article with valuable usage tips.

Monday, January 17, 2011

Mervyn Peake Gormenghast Trilogy | Making Money On The Internet

This first sentence is always important as it is what shows up in the search engines. I want the Mervyn Peake Gormenghast trilogy to show up so I make sure that is in the first sentence or two. Of course I would override this using the All in one SEO plugin as the first sentence is surely going to put off searchers………………..

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Apologies to you if you have come here looking to buy the books via a search engine. Although you most certainly can buy them by clicking the links above, and you can bet the Gormenghast books price is the lowest online, this is actually an article explaining just how it is that you actually came here.

You see, what you clicked on via a search engine is actually a listing that has ranked highly because it has written about the topic, i.e The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake, and has included a lot of related words that surround that term, i.e Titus Alone, Titus Groan, and Titus Awakes.

Not to mention Flay and various other characters.

This is actually a series of articles showing you and the readers of this blog just how to get visitors to pages like this by writing content and sending what are known as backlinks to it. At least, you would be reading this via a search engine query if I had spent time sending it backlinks. But I haven’t, so in reality you are not really reading this.

Confused?

Me too ;)

Let’s take a look at the the different ways in which this article could have actually been written if I did actually want to rank number 1 for the term Mervyn Peake Gormenghast Trilogy. I would make sure that I would include a number of keywords that I have found to definitely lead to sales. Let’s see if you can find them. I encourage you to read this properly as there are a lot of terms here that you can employ to make very targeted sales and to attract the right kinds of visitors to your content.

We will also look at a few different ways to write your articles. Don’t just believe what others tell you about the length and style of your writing. Many believe that content has to be long when the reality may actually surprise you somewhat.  Which is actually the point of this whole article. Not to mention the fact that I wanted to genuinely introduce readers to the best series of books that I have ever read.  This may seem simplistic to you but I know for a fact that a lot of people are still not maximizing the work they do online simply because they seem afraid to actually put their links and images in a  prominent position. Maybe this will make you realize. Let’s begin shall we?

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You will find that the Gormenghast novels price is the lowest online and with so many positive reviews you can be sure that the Mervyn Peake books will have you enthralled.

I can honestly say that of the vast number of books that I have read over the years it is the Titus novels for sale that are by far the most intriguing, left me with the biggest impression, and fixed a world in my imagination that has never left.

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I simply felt that I had to write a review of the Gormenghast Trilogy for sale at Amazon for an amazing price.


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This is a series of books that I come back to time and time again. I was browsing Amazon the other day and saw just how cheap the Mervyn Peake Gormenghast novels for sale actually are. If I had to recommend one series of books to everyone then this would be it. I don’t even know how many times I have now read these novels but I KNOW it is a large number.

Being an avid reader, and loving other Mevyn Peake books, especially Mr.Pye, I adore the way that a whole world is created after reading only the first page. The sense of wonder and the reality of the characters that Mr. Peake somehow creates really is spellbinding. Never before or since has an author really managed to create such an atmosphere of place and time with what seems like no effort at all. After all these years I still get a feeling of melancholy as I picture in my mind the motes of dust caught in a stray shaft of murky light that somehow made it in to the dank and turgid hall where the King sat.

This is a series of books that really will have you enthralled. The sense of eerie melancholy within the walls of Gormenghast is more akin to Poe and Lovecraft, but with a much more subtle yet no less misanthropic and cloistering feel.

You get totally caught up in the atmosphere of the place, it lingers long after you have put the book down to rest.

Characters such as Flay are realized in perfect form in your minds eye and the image of Steerpike and his wicked ways will stay with you for ever.

It really is hard to put in to words just how special the series is, buy Mervy Peake’s Gormeghast Trilogy for sale on Amazon and you are going to have a hard time finding anything else that lives up to this Gothic masterpiece of fully realized fantasy.

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We should never take for granted the way we believe we should write our content. Long, short, reviews, straight out “buy the bloody book right now” content, a site with a mix of them all may be just about the best of all.

There is no magic formula, you need to think about what type of people your content and your choice of keywords will attract and write accordingly. For the white socks analogy we often use then writing 400 words about “White Socks With Red Stripes For Sale” would be daft. What is the point?

Anyways, have a think about it. Don’t just follow what someone told you.

Oh, and the Mervyn Peake Gormenghast Novels really are a once in a lifetime read. I kid you not.

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That’s how you do it ;)

This is a great post by a guy named Dave who has become a sorta mentor of mine. Dave runs an excellent blog and through my communications with him via his "comments" section and emails has proven himself to be one of the good guys on the internet. I wish him and his wife and animals only the best.

Saturday, January 15, 2011

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Gotta keep track of this guy

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Cubs, Outfielder Reed Johnson agree to Minor League Contract | cubs.com: Official Info


01/12/2011 4:30 PM ET
Cubs, Outfielder Reed Johnson agree to Minor League Contract

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The Chicago Cubs and outfielder Reed Johnson have agreed to terms on a 2011 minor league contract with an invite to major league spring training. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Johnson, 34, returns to the Cubs organization after spending the 2010 campaign with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Johnson played two seasons with the Cubs from 2008-09, combining to bat .287 (143-for-498) with 31 doubles, 10 home runs, 72 RBI, 75 runs scored and a .348 on-base percentage in 174 games with Chicago.

Last season, Johnson saw action in 102 games with the Dodgers and batted .262 (53-for-202) with 11 doubles, two home runs and 15 RBI.

Johnson is a career .281 hitter (781-for-2783) with 156 doubles, 18 triples, 54 home runs and 321 RBI in 886 major league games with Toronto (2003-07), the Cubs (2008-09) and Dodgers (2010).

I know, I know. Not everybody gives a damn about the Cubs. But you will have to bear with me, because this is the time of year when Cub fans begin to forget the pain and indignity of the last 101 years and begin to think of the possibilities of a new baseball season. The wife and I love us some Reed Johnson. The guy plays hard every time his cleats touch grass. We will be keeping an ear to the ground during spring training to track Reed's progress. C'mon Reed, we need your work ethic at Wrigley.....