Publishing Guidelines: Feel free to publish the following article in its entirety in your ezine, website, or print newsletter. The resource box must be included with an active link. Please send a courtesy copy of the publication in which the article appears to: deborah@fiveminuteparent.com Word wrap to 60, (214 words)*************************************************20 Fun Ideas for National Turn Off TV WeekBy National Turn Off Your TV Week is April 21-27 this year. Why not take the holiday one step further and turn off the computer as well? Here are 20 fun ways your family can make the most of this celebration.1. Read a book.2.
Write a letter-not an email-to a dear friend.3. Bathe the dog.4. Play a game of Candyland or Chutes and Ladders.5. Paint each other's faces.6. Do cartwheels in the front yard.7.
Camp out in the back yard with a tent, flashlight and lots of munchies.8. Host a garage sale.9. Visit the library for story time.10. Go on a snail-hunting expedition, then release the snails in a cool, moist, shady spot.11. Look through and organize family photos.12.
Start a seasonal family photo scrapbook.13. Read the Sunday comics together.14. Make a CD wall mirror with free internet CDs that arrive in the mail.15. Bake cookies.16. Have a living room picnic.17.
Challenge your brother or sister to a staring contest.18. Play a game of I-Spy.19. Go for a walk around the block.20. Make and fly paper airplanes.However you decide to entertain yourself and your family, remember the most important thing: No television!.
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Global Value Connect ( http://www.globalvalueconnect.com ) continues to witness an erosion in the cost of T1 service despite the fact that many pundits predicted the end of price erosion for T1 bandwidth more than a year ago. T1 service providers are still experiencing severe price competition and are more than willing to reduce their pricing in an effort to fill their pipes and turn a profit. As recently as only a few years ago, the price of a T1 line was out of reach of many businesses, but these days a T1 line has become very price-aggressive, with prices that are very affordable and cost effective even for a small business.Many companies and individuals that entered into T1 service agreements 2-years ago may be spending much more and receiving less bandwidth then they could purchase today. And if they have had a T1 line for more than 3-years there is an extremely strong possibility and likelihood that they are paying too much for it.A...
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How to Make Sure to Save Money and Headaches on Your Next Used Laptop Purchase
(ContentDesk) October 29, 2005 -- Anyone who is in the retail sector of the computer business will recognize the following dilemna.
Before buying, the consumer desires to know everything about the technical aspects of the laptops, rather than the practical aspects.
It seems the customer will try and find out all of the technical differences between hard drives&
such as seek time, partitions available, physical dimensions&. All important stuff to be sure.
But this information is sought out before the practical details such as What am I going to do with this laptop is considered.
It is still amazing to hear people say they do not really know what they want to DO with a laptop, but they are sure they want a Dell.
The concern is not with their desire for a Dell (a great brand, sure)& but why they didnt bother to think about what they were hoping to do with the laptop they were planning to buy in the first place.
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The "Real" Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales Told at Storyteller.net
(ContentDesk) November 21, 2005 -- Bad boys, gutsy girls, petulant parents, and knives are all hereand that's just the first story on the CD, says nationally-traveled storyteller and expert on the Brothers Grimm, K. Sean Buvala, describing his newest CD release of Seven Ravens: Unvarnished Tales from the Brothers Grimm. Buvala, the director of Storyteller.net and a veteran of 20 years of storytelling throughout the country, releases his fourth storytelling CD to coincide with the DVD release of The Brothers Grimm movie.
Folks who want to explore folktales that haven't been 'cleaned up' will really appreciate this CD, said Buvala. The Grimm Brothers were collectors of folklore, not the con men they are portrayed as in the movie. The Grimms really intended to preserve the heritage of the people, and with that comes all the fullness of their images of life, death...
Andy Andrews' "Seven Decisions" Will Make 2006 the Best Year of Your Life
(ContentDesk) January 11, 2006 -- There are seven simple personal decisions that can make 2006 great.
Andy Andrews, bestselling author/speaker/TV personality is one of America's most gifted storytellers.
In his incredible book, "The Traveler's Gift" he offers seven important decisions that are simple, yet life-changing.
His recent well-received specials on PBS nationwide launched "The Seven Decisions" DVD, based on the principles in woven in the story of David Ponder in "The Traveler's Gift".
These seven decisions include:1.
The Buck Stops Here - Taking personal responsibility 2. Seek Wisdom - Search for understanding and discernment 3. Be a Person of Action - Being a courageous leader 4. Have a Decided Heart - Overcoming double-mindedness 5. Choose Happiness - Possessing a grateful spirit 6.
Forgive others - The power of grace and mercy 7. Persist - Persevering with faith until the end Using historical personalities (Lincoln, Anne Frank,...
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Our Accidental Top Page Rank in Google And How Little Difference It Makes (So Far)
Case study into keywords reveals how a firm of Amsterdam-based copywriters achieved PR-3 listing in GoogleThis a shameless marketing article but we're hard faced enough to take on the odds you're going to read it A-Z. It is the story of how we ended up in the top echelons of major search engines, a goal everybody wishes to achieve, so we're surely forgiven for sharing it with you AND in whatever selfobsessed promotional style we choose. And as we'll reveal later, it's likely the most sturdy promotion we'll ever make on the basis of the baffling page rank in the foreseeable future. The website in question is www.contentClix.com. Ours.
We -the five of us- live together in a big, crooked house overlooking the lovely canals in Amsterdam and when we don?t play table tennis, we write long, short, medium and stupendously superfluous copy for a variety of international websites who generally are on the lookout for content that?s crisp...
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Converting Newsletter Readers Into Website Explorers
All the experts agree, if you want visitors to explore yourwebsite, you have to give them a reason; without one, they'llclick away from your site. If you publish an email newsletterand own a website, here's an interesting way to promote viewingof your website's pages among your newsletter readers.Sprinkle (actually, "hide") trivia tidbits throughout thepages on your website. They can be in body copy, imagecaptions, advertiser copy ... anywhere. Then run a quiz inyour newsletter, letting your readers know the that all ofthe answers are somewhere on your site.
Offer a prize to thefirst person to email you with all the correct answers.You may freely repost the sample quiz without any resourcebox. I would appreciate, however, some sort of a link to mywebsite Bison Creek Author Services
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