The Meat You Eat: How Corporate Farming Has Endangered America’s Food Supply

Ocak 28th, 2012

Factory Farming

The big names in American agriculture would like you to believe that your strip steak, salmon filet, scrambled eggs and bacon came from healthy, happy animals raised on good, old-fashioned family farms. But, as more Americans are coming to realize, behind those perfectly cellophane-wrapped meats, bright white eggs and plastic milk gallons are tales so gruesome and downright shocking that it’s a surprise Hollywood has yet to make it a movie about it.

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Joining a Gang: How to Help Kids Prevent it, How to Tell if They’ve Joined

Ocak 28th, 2012

While youth gangs are nothing new — they’ve been traced back to the early 19th century — the demographic of a youth gang is something that is constantly changing. Many people stereotype gang members as urban, inner city males from racial minorities, but in fact gangs are a problem in suburbs as well as cities, for all races and for girls as well as boys.

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The Toxic Danger of Fabric Softener and Dryer Sheets

Ocak 28th, 2012

Many people will remember a famous TV ad where a woman races to her washing machine, fabric softener in hand, only to arrive just as the wash ends. This woman who “forgot to ad the fabric softener” was actually doing herself and her family a favor.

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The 6 Most Dangerous Appliances in Your House

Ocak 28th, 2012

At a time when homeland security ranks high on many Americans’ safety lists, it’s ironic that a major cause of deaths in the United States occurs right in our own homes: Deaths from unintentional injuries.

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The Ten Most Common Poisons Among Kids

Ocak 28th, 2012

For parents, keeping our kids safe is a constant top priority. But even with the best intentions it’s possible to overlook some potentially harmful household poisons. According to the National Academy of Poison Control Centers, 92 percent of all poison exposures occur in the home, and 52 percent of poison exposures occur in children under the age of 6.

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Fees Paid to Brokers by Mortgage Lenders Are Far Too High

Ocak 28th, 2012

Procuration fees paid by some sub-prime lenders are too high.

Fact.

There can be no justification for some of the fees paid by lenders. Proc fees of 2.75%-plus are simply deplorable when it is clients who will ultimately pay the price through an extra loading on the interest rate they pay, be it at the front end or – as is more common with some lenders – at the back end after an initial deep discount.

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How Not to Be Ripped Off by Mortgage Brokers

Ocak 28th, 2012

One of the things that bothers me about the mortgage industry is the number of unscrupulous brokers that operate in this market.

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The Cockroach Test

Ocak 28th, 2012

Let me ask you a question? Imagine I would offer you $10 for eating 10 living cockroaches. Would you do it? Now listen, I raise the ante and offer you $100. How does that feel? If you hear me saying “you get $1000 bucks” does that change something? Here is the ultimate offer 1 million dollars for eating 10 living cockroaches right now. What is your feeling now?

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Utilizing Popular Directories as Free Link Sources

Ocak 28th, 2012

If you’re a webmaster, you’ve probably spent almost as much time going after link exchanges as actually building your website. Gaining in-bound links, especially from websites with a higher PageRank than your own, can increase your own PageRank on Google, and help your site attain a better overall ranking in Google search results. Proposing link exchanges with other sites that have similar content to your own is a good idea, but the process can be terribly time consuming. So what else can you do?

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Selling To Your Affiliates

Ocak 28th, 2012

While success with any internet marketing program falls on the head of the marketer, what the program offers in pay outs and products plays a big roll. What I am going to focus on is the product side of the business. The products that you sell make the difference on who is going to buy them. Either you sell to people outside your own affiliate base. You sell to people within your base. Or you try and sell to both. I believe most marketers try and sell only outside their own affiliate base. If you do this then you are missing out on your greatest customer. Your own affiliates.

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