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Vacation Season is Coming

Vacation season is fast approaching. Do you have any special trip planned? If you are needing to rent a car then I have a tip for you. Here’s a great site to check out for all of your car rental needs.

They have some attractive special offers going on right now too that look good. If you need an SUV, it can be hard to find good rates. Advantage is coming through with the best rates available on new SUVs right now, though.

I would heartily encourage anyone needing car rental information to check out Advantage’s website. Great deals!

Interesting Progression of Newspaper

I thought this was interesting. The “sister” newspaper to the newspaper we subscribe to has just suspended their hard copy circulation and has turned to completely publishing online.

Story:

Citing dwindling circulation The Capital Times of Madison, Wisconsin has closed down its print operation and will now focus its efforts online.

The 90-year-old daily newspaper saw its circulation drop to around 18,000 down from a high of 40,000 in the 1960’s. Along with it’s ending its print operations; The Capital Times also cut its staff by more than 20, through buyouts or layoffs.

“We felt our audience was shrinking so that we were not relevant,” said Clayton Frink, publisher of The Capitol Times. “We are going a little farther, a little faster, but the general trend is happening everywhere.”

An editorial on the newspapers Web site reads,” Instead of printing on paper for distribution each afternoon, we will produce a Web-based daily newspaper that will be accessed for free on the Internet at www.captimes.com.”

“Additionally, we will produce a weekly journal of news and opinion that will be available free of charge and more broadly than the current paper.”

Kind of a trend, I imagine. I wouldn’t be surprised if this becomes more and more common.

Use Lifelock to Protect your Good Name

Today’s technology makes it a mandatory thing to protect your identity. There are so many ways that your identity can be compromised today.

The folks at Lifelock have put together a very comprehensive plan to protect you and your identity. Just listen to how they will ensure your safety. In fact, they will not only secure your identity and guarantee your good name, they will go so far as to ensure it with their $1 Million Service Guarantee.

Here’s some of what they will do for you:

1. They will request fraud alerts and credit reports on your behalf from the major credit bureaus. 2. They will set locks on your credit so that if anyone requesting credit in your name the creditor will call you prior to any action. 3. They will move to have your name removed from junk mail lists. 4. They will move to have your name removed from pre-approved credit lists. 5. You will receive reports about the progress of all of these actions. 6. They will repeat all of these actions every 90 days.

Sound interesting? I think so! Go take a look at Lifelock.

Recommending a Good Blog

My internet wanderings have brought to me an interesting blog over the last few days. I’ve been dropping my Entrecard and now I’ve also just found the blog: The Fate of Tyrlon and other Dubious Things on SocialSpark.

The blog-writer has an interesting post up that I found today. It’s called Broken Dreams and is written from the perspective of an abandoned blog. Very sad! I hope none of my blogs are ever in that dismal, depressing state!

Anyway, I had fun cruising around this blog. It’s a good read and the blog is nicely organized. You should drop in and see the interesting things blogged about there!

Sublingual B12 Energy Booster

Vitamin B12 is the hottest new energy booster. It’s very “now” among celebs and other high profile people. In fact, I recently read something about Madonna carrying around hypodermic doses of B12 with her and even administering them to other people if they aren’t feeling well! Yikes! There’s a better way people!

How about getting all the same great benefits without painful shots? Sound good to you? It does to me! Check out this site - Get your sublingual B12 here. I think I am going to!

Sublingual B12 is a safe and affordable option and the best part is it isn’t a shot! This is a painless B12 shot alternative. Many people with health issues such as diabetes, dementia, or gastric bypass need to supplement their diets with B12. It’s even recommended that vegans think about supplementing as well. I would imagine if you are trying to lose weight it might be a good thing to think about. Perhaps I should really look into this myself.

This company, Trivita, has sold over 10 million boxes of their Sublingual B12. Why you may ask? Because, very simply, it works.

Charities Starting to Feel a Pinch…

As the economy worsens and folks are buckling down, one result is that charities and community organizations are hit hard.

Two things happen, actually. There are fewer contributions and there are more demands for services. People begin to fall through the cracks and lose their jobs.

Food banks are starting to really see the results of the weakening economy. The shortness of supplies is due to a combination of fewer government subsidies, fewer personal donations, and food price inflation.

I sure wish I could do more about this, but unfortunately feeding my family of 9 is more than what I can handle on a weekly basis. My food budget has had to be bumped up about $15 a week to buy basically the same items. Pretty depressing.

Reverse Phone Lookup Service

Most people know that in 2003, the Federal Government made it possible for both cell phone and land line users to block unwanted calls from telemarketers. All you had to do was register your telephone number in the National No Call Registry and you are removing your number from any database available to telemarketers.

After doing this, to perform a reverse phone lookup and get information about any number that may have called you, you simply enter the phone number into the search function available on this reverse cell phone lookup page.

Week Two…

Week two well underway and I am doing well! Hopefully writing about it won’t jinx me but rather will serve to motivate me and keep me on track.

I’ve been eating well, cut out a lot of fat, been drinking tons of water, and have been exercising every day and have managed to lose about 5 pounds! I’ll be ready for a swim suit in no time!

Custom Labels for your Business Needs

There are many uses in business for a good custom label. The Label World website has created a business that can provide quality labels for many different label needs. They make wine labels, safety labels, industrial labels, and medical labels. They also specialize in large quantity orders for different types of industrial labels.

Thought for the Day

Are you Happy?

Existing sadness should be worked through as quickly as possible. It tends to grow like a vine. By midday you may feel confused; by evening a whole slew of weak, wasteful and negative thoughts will have taken deep roots in the mind. The result is chaos.

It can be hard to resist sometimes. The attitude of: “So what if I feel the blues today? It’s my life; no one else will be affected”.

The more you allow yourself to experience sorrow, the less time will be available to be happy and content. I know it sounds ridiculously obvious! Are you aware of the value of happiness, though? It is an extremely rare commodity, and the cost is premium. Also, is it your life? Yes, you are the one living it…but you are a member of a family or a co-worker with others, and also a part of society…right? If so, then every action affects and is affected by those around you.

Strive to be happy!