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Zach Samuels has just published a rather disturbing book Confessions Of A Crack Head about his life as a drug user. I work with the homeless and a good proportion of my clients have addiction problems, so this book was one that I could definitely relate to. Zach (not his real name) agreed to sit down and give a short interview.

My normal style is to begin an interview with a biographical question, you know the sort of thing, ‘tell us a little about yourself.’ Obviously that wasn’t going to work, he writes under a pen name and has changed all the names and places. Instead I decided to find out his motivation behind the book, and where the idea came from.

Zach: About two years ago I was at a birthday party for my sister and my mom and my cousin from Toronto, who is an actor/writer/director, was there. I started telling him some of my story and he got really interested in making it a play and told me to just start writing. So I did and the words just flowed. Soon it turned into a book. I really don’t care too much about fame or fortune; if I help a few people by telling my story I’ll be happy.

One of the observations I have made in the 6 years I have spent working with people who have addictions is that they age really fast, in real years they may be 25, but they look more like 75. Bad skin, no teeth, thin like an escapee from a Nazi concentration camp, and health issues beyond comprehension. As one sage person told me ‘There are no old Crack Heads,’ they have a career potential of an average NFL player a few seasons, and they are done. Zach seems to have fared better than most.

Zach: I used crack for about 9 years and then a couple more after stopping for 12 years. My breathing isn’t very good anymore, I cough a lot and I have to use a puffer now. That’s the only damage I’m aware of.

I live in Calgary, it is a city of just over one million people. It used to be a very friendly place. Over the past few years there has been a huge increase in street gangs, violence, and drugs. Crack being very prevalent. Hardly a day goes by without some mention in the local press about violence and drugs, is there any kind of solution?

Zach: I think education is the best prevention. I used to go to schools and tell my story so that kids would know where to get help if they got into trouble. I think it should be a big part of the curriculum in high schools.

I am not so sure I am in total agreement with this answer, yes, it is important to educate, but it is equally important to remove the dealers, the runners, and the cooks, from the picture. It is a rare day that I do not walk by a group smoking Crack or doing a joint, yet the police seem to ignore it. Unless there are guns or knives and a whole lot of blood involved, they prefer to look the other way. Too much paperwork involved? Too overfilled jails? Too much aggravation, to just watch while a Judge lets them out again? I don’t know the answer, I only see the problem.

There is a school of thought among the pot smokers that pot should be legal, it does not lead people to stronger drugs. My thoughts on this are divided, for some people pot is enough, I know people that have smoked for years, and have never been tempted to try anything else. I also believe that there are people that for whatever reason are compelled to move on to other drugs. This leads to the idea, can an addict move back down the ladder? From Crack to let’s say Pot?

Zach: It’s my opinion that if you’re an addict you have to stay off all drugs and alcohol in order to recover. Substituting with alcohol or pot will just get you hooked on that or lead you back to your drug of choice.

It is said, once an addict always an addict, do you think controlling addiction becomes easier over time? My wife used to smoke cigarettes, she gave up 7 years ago, but she still has the occasional craving. Does time temper the urges?

Zach: The simple answer is no. The nature of the disease of addiction is that we have an allergy which means as soon as we put a substance into our body we develop a craving which demands more and we can’t stop. That never changes so the answer is complete abstinence.

I know that addiction has become a part of government funding, but I often wonder if there is enough funding, or if this is just a sop to look like they care, while basically ignoring the problem. Spending $100,000 for a drug rehab program makes for a good ’sound bite’ but when you consider the fact that it is probably costing them millions to just repair the pot holes on main street, you have to wonder.

Zach: I believe the government is already doing a lot at the rehab level. In my city they are pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into a new rehab and I think the trend is nation wide which is great.

I still remain skeptical. Little money is ever given freely in the area of mental health, and I don’t think Alberta is unique in this trait. If you are missing a limb, sure you are disabled, and the money comes easy, if there is a mental health issue, all bets are off!

The one thing that I am certain about, is that Zach’s support system is outside of the mainstream government funded one.

I wish Zach all the best in his conquest over Crack, and hope that others will learn the lessons from reading his book, rather than by personal experience.

(Originally published at Blogger News Network and reprinted with the permission of the author, Simon Barrett).

Simon Barrett is an adult educator in Calgary, Alberta. With the 11 months a year of winter, he reads a lot of books! He is also a contributing editor for Blogger News and maintains a personal blog at Simon B.

I recently had the opportunity to review Eric Kampmann’s latest book Trail Thoughts. It is a very reflective piece with biblically inspired thoughts for each day of the year. This is a book designed for the reader to sip and enjoy, rather than guzzle down like us reviewers are apt to do!

I had the opportunity to ask Eric about his book, and also about himself.

Can you tell us a little about yourself Eric?

In one way, you need a “unified field theory” to understand my bio. I am an entrepreneur, a businessman, a publisher, a distributor, a teacher, a photographer, a section hiker on the Appalachian Trail, and most importantly of all, I am the author of Trail Thoughts: A Daily Companion for Your Journey to Faith. I guess the real point is I love all the things I do and I particularly enjoy sharing them with other people.

Trail Thoughts is a very reflective piece, where did the idea come from and how long did it take you to put it together?

In a sense you are asking another biographical question. This journey began with a discovery. Up until the late 1980’s, I knew about the Bible, but I certainly did not know the Bible. Quite the opposite. But in early 1991 I began reading a little bit every day and over time I became committed to not only knowing the Bible but also sharing it with others. That was the seed for my first book Tree of Life which began as a book of daily Bible verses for my three sons. It later became a full-fledged book of verses of wisdom for men. (Not a brilliant marketing move as most books are bought by women). But again we are talking about planting seeds and so in January 2003 I began writing a daily reflection for each verse in The Tree of Life. Approximately five years later, Trail Thoughts was published.

What kind of feedback have you received from readers?

I have had great individual reviews and I have even received testimonials. People sense that Trail Thoughts is a work of love, written to touch the human heart as well as the mind. So I have been really pleased by the response. It also has a near highest rating at Amazon.

Do you have a web site where people can find out more information?

The Web Site is trailthoughts dot come. Not only can you get a devotion a day sent to you, but you can view some of my photographs in the gallery section. Plus we have a place where the readers can blog.

Changing the subject completely for a moment. When you are not writing, and I understand that you currently have 3 books to your credit, you are involved in the publishing industry. In fact if my memory serves me correctly it was your house that published the O.J. Simpson If I Did It book. Can you tell us a little about that project?

Talk about a question that requires a long answer! Yes, my publishing company did publish If I Did It last September. Perhaps I am na

When you think of local advertising, the obvious choices are traditional media—newspapers, radio, yellow pages, possibly some local television spots. Targeted online advertising, like that offered by Yahoo Search Marketing, is a better choice, because you reach people while they’re looking for your products or services, and you pay only for results.

Yahoo Search Marketing is pay-per-click advertising. If you’re not familiar with this type of online advertising, these are ads that appear on search pages when someone searches for the keywords you’ve chosen. You choose how much you will pay when someone clicks on your ad for each particular keyword phrase, and you only pay when someone clicks on your ad and visits your site.

Targeting local visitors is easy with Yahoo Search Marketing. You simply choose the geographic area you wish to target, and Yahoo’s intelligent interface will send your ads only to people in your area. This means that you reach only people who are searching for your type of business, in your local area. The clicks you receive with this type of marketing will be from people who are looking for you and just don’t know it yet.

With traditional advertising, you take a shotgun approach, scattering your ad to the winds and hoping that someone who is interested in your offerings will see it at the right time. With Yahoo Search Marketing you focus with a laser-like precision on only those people who are good prospects for your business—and you only pay if they actually visit your site.

Advertising costs can eat you alive if your advertising is not hitting the mark. With traditional advertising, it is very difficult, not to mention expensive to get in front of the right people at the right time, but with Yahoo Search Marketing, this is both easy and affordable.

Because you choose the keyword phrases to advertise on, and the maximum amount you will pay for each click, you control your budget and know exactly how much you’ll spend on Yahoo Search Marketing. And again, because you’re advertising to people who are already looking for what you offer, your results will be far superior to traditional advertising.

The Internet has changed the way people buy, and Yahoo Search Marketing lets you reach people where and when they’re ready to buy. You no longer have to send out a “shotgun” ad through traditional media and hope the right people see your ad and come to your Yahoo Store. Now you can put your web site where people are looking—on the search results pages of Yahoo.

When you begin advertising on Yahoo Search Marketing, you may want to test different ads to see which one brings more clicks, and sales, and to make different offers to different customers. You can test your ads and run different ad groups for different keywords with Yahoo Search Marketing, quickly and easily.

Advertising has never been simpler, more affordable, or more effective. With Yahoo Search Marketing, reaching the right people at the right time is a matter of choosing your keywords and your budget, and pulling in customers like a magnet.

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Hellen DeRich was sitting at the dressing table in her boudoir. She loved staying at her penthouse in Manhattan, it was so convenient and the city at night was the place to be especially in the spring. However it was time for vacation once again and the planning and arrangements had to be taken care of. This month the destination was Paris and the Chateau needed to be opened and made ready, time to call our agency, and of course the fitting at La Maison de Argent for her spring outfits. Hellen sighed quietly as she remembered that her personal dressmaker had warned her that she was gaining weight, and in all the wrong places. She shrugged the thought off and moved to the next item on the agenda, the children.

As usual they were delighted to spend time at the ranch in Montana, their grandma and pap-pap were looking forward to seeing them and of course there was horse riding their favorite pastime. She made a note to have them fitted with new things for the trip; they were probably bored with their outfits, after all those things were almost three months old. She picked up her phone and called her husband. Harry answered the phone, he sounded hurried and irritable, and she felt sorry for him. All these stocks and bonds and brokers and bankers that he had to deal with was wearing him down and she was happy that he was taking some time off. One week vacation every month was hardly enough but it was the best he could do, poor fella. She reminded him to schedule their private jet to take the children to the farm and to return in time for their trip to Europe. Hellen hung up and changed into her swimsuit for an early morning dip.

Okay, okay back to the real world. We all take vacations, well most of us do but there are the people that are so in love with their jobs that the thought of taking a break never occurs to them. However if you are an author or you are planning to become one I would recommend that you choose your vacation destinations with care. I am suggesting that you consider combining your time off with a suitable venue that could be added to the book you are planning to write. For example a trip to a Caribbean Island would be perfect if you could include the ambiance and beauty of the island in a segments of your book.

“Bill met Milly the dragon girl at the beach party, the night was warm and sultry and the reggae music was intoxicating. They were seen wandering down the beach close to the lapping waves and that was the last anyone saw of them.”

In June of 07, I took a long overdue vacation, my book was finally finished and in the hands of the editor. I was physically exhausted but emotionally elated. I packed my bags and with my “lovely wife” at my side we headed for Europe and the Mediterranean. It was my first trip to that part of the world and I made sure that I did not forget my trusty notebook and my camera.

There is a major disadvantage to traveling by cruise ships, you never get to see as mush as you would like to at any port of call. On the other hand, the convenience could never be overstated, and the cost compares well with other forms of vacationing. In three weeks we visited seven countries, France, Italy, Portugal, Croatia, England, Spain, and Gibraltar. There are so many things I could say about this trip, we came face to face with the ancient history of the old Europe, the magnificent Cathedrals, the Vatican, the Eiffel Tower, the Pantheon, and the Coliseum, the list goes on and on. I took pictures and I made notes and on my way home a glimmering of an idea took root.

“It started in America, a super secret team left Washington on a luxury yacht for Gibraltar to join an equally secret British team for a raid across the straits to Morocco.” But that is another story. Do your homework, make notes, and take pictures.

Bernard Steele is a veteran law enforcement officer (operational and administrative), now retired. He was the former chief security officer of the National Banking System of Guyana S.A. To learn about his new book visit Death in Small Doses.

I quote, with redundancy, from the biography of John F. Kennedy to summarize the legacy of this American martyr. Unfortunately, many citizens of the United States know little about that legacy. Here was a man who chose to fight political corruption in a manner never attempted by any president other than Abraham Lincoln. Kennedy genuinely put America and all Americans first, and under his leadership, the powerful and corrupt were put in second place. His fearless actions eventually led to an untimely death. He died a martyr, and he continues to die every November 22nd of every year, for me and for many others.

This will continue until corruption is ripped from our United States government. It will continue until all politicians enter rehab to kick their nasty addiction to the most dangerous drug of all: absolute power. It will continue until powerful unknowns stop waiting for everyone directly involved to simply pass away, leaving no one to prosecute. It will continue until these people stop putting decades of distance between that tragic day, and allow us Americans in on intelligence that could possibly bring an end to the mystery shrouding Kennedy’s death. The Kennedy assassination was bigger than the whole of America – bigger than the world will ever know. But Kennedy’s death was miniscule compared to the underlying reasons for his assassination.

The United States of America is a well-oiled machine. Massive! Superior! But every machine has its defects. Technicians are trained to eliminate these problems and keep the machine running. One of the biggest defects in the American machine is patriotism. Not the kind of patriotism where silly Americans wave the flag and scream, “I’m proud to be an American!” I’m talking about true patriotism – the kind where Americans are willing to look below the surface. Look at those who will stop at nothing to control our government and the world. Look through the shroud that cloaks our America. Stop at nothing to allow the citizens therein to view our America and its processes with clarity. That, my friends, is true patriotism.

Every machine produces waste. In the case of our country, the waste produced is most often the blood of our citizens. The technicians refer to this waste as collateral damage.

That’s just the way it is!

That’s the way it’s always been!

That’s the way it will always be!

That’s the American way!

In these pettifogging times where the democratic/republican process seemingly hovers above the masses of American society, remember one thing: in truth lies the most complex of enigmas.

In an age of uncertainty from within a society governed; a secretively, seemingly unreliable government for which the United States was founded, breaths unnoticeable corruption from alleyways never meant to be walked upon by you or I! With two words stamped unto highly secured documents at unprecedented levels of our massive government, TOP SECRET, locks you and I, pawns, out of a world for which our deaths mean nothing in the succession of the objectives therein…

American democracy was founded of the people, by the people, and for the people, but that’s what you’re conditioned to believe America! With man being unquestionably fallible, the questioning of mans every action by other men is deathly pertinent. Therefore, if you’re asking the questions of man in this day of unquestionable corruption. Corruption collectively orchestrated at the highest of levels, then I advise you to equip yourselves with one very important tool: a shovel; for you are sure to be repeatedly buried in shit.

Pragmatic author A.K. Kuykendall has a passion for writing conspiracy, espionage, horror, and suspense literature that blends the concepts of fact and fiction. For more information on his projects, visit The Writer of Books or, to email the author directly for Q&A on this article, write to breakingthrough@thewriterofbooks.com.

I’d like to tell you that Dawn came fully clad out of the cleft head of Zeus…but that would be avoiding truth in favor of myth. To give you a fair answer, the character of Dawn contains a part of every woman I’ve ever known — from my own mother, to my former wife, down to the wildest tigress I ever dated. And it doesn’t stop there.

Quite a confession…but not very satisfying. No mere floozy is Dawn Carlisle, this wild woman wanderer, who suicidally jumps out of Abner’s truck at the Palm Coast I-95 exit in Florida, then turns into a principled young woman capable of nursing an injured bull terrier back to health. She then, in good time, falls for her rescuer, Abner Weaver, the truck driver who has interrupted her march to oblivion down the American road…all of it, quite a stretch. How can this woman have so many sides?

Where, but in America, does a woman have the right to cast herself adrift with no one concerned enough to come to her aid? Someone might help (as Abner Weaver most certainly does), but it would take an unusually kind person — sensitive to the pain in another — to step outside the callousness we generally display toward anyone wandering the berm. Head down, bindle under an arm, deep in anguished thought, a female vagabond exhibiting not the slightest desire of needing a lift… Health and legal ramifications aside — would you stop to pick up such a woman?

What if…you DID stop, accepting whatever it was that was coming to you for committing such a foolhardy act? Suppose you had no ulterior sexual or monetary motive in attempting to aid such a person? What Christian credits might be chalked to your slate? But…you never intended to stop, did you? Not in a million years…

That’s the beauty of the novel. We can indulge ourselves…let it all hang out! The truth is, I have a lot of pent-up emotions regarding the women I’ve formed close bonds with over the course of my life…I’ve drawn freely on some of those feelings to shape Dawn. Fifteen years of married life packed plenty (the good and the bad) in my emotive memory bank. Then the nastiness of a divorce…the painful transition to a solitary life.

Does a man then insulate himself from the complexities of the female mind? I guess that’s done easily enough…writing, as I do, in isolation. But living like a hermit, how do I feel the emotions I’m no longer privy to? How, as a writer, do I reconstruct situations I no longer experience? Numerous women novelists have accurately cranked out the thoughts and emotions of male characters…why not the reverse? After all, I do have a rich backlog of experience to draw from. My years before marriage weren’t particularly cloistered.

Let me sidestep to another theory: that men and women are neither all masculine, nor all feminine; instead, a mixture, genetically, of inherited traits — some feminine, some masculine. You might describe the physical features and dress of a gorgeous female creature, yet gift her with the cold, calculating mind of an international banker, softened again with a mother’s love for her child, bringing the reader a fascinating and convincing character. (This is partly what appeared when I first set Dawn Carlisle on the page.)

But you can’t just woodenly toss a bunch of character traits into a big mixing bowl, stir them around and expect something believable to pop out. You must feel a genuine excitement in the character you’ve chosen to set down — sensing in them a budding star quality. (A few main characters will be allowed to steal the show; but you will need to suppress your secondary characters so they do not. Even so, those minor characters may toss off tiny sparks of stardom.)

I really believe that, within yourself, you’ve got to feel the same gut emotions each character is experiencing. If you don’t, neither your description of their actions, their personae, or the words they utter will convey that indefinable “IT” quality — that stellar quality — which must emerge, or like empty sacks your characters will collapse.

Every writer has to kill his own snakes, getting “IT” onto the page. If you find my characters interesting, that may come from the magical education I received in the mid-1950s, when I studied “method” and character acting in New York with the great Stella Adler. When the people you are writing about are so deeply imbued in your psyche you can virtually touch and feel them as you write their scenes, that’s a gift no one can ever take from you. (It’s bound to produce riveting work.) It may take years of banging away at the keyboard, but one day you will be startled — you’ll know when you see “IT” on the page. You’ll sit back, scratching your head, “Did I just write that?…”

To get into the desperate, scrambled brain that is Dawn Carlisle’s when she jumps out of Abner’s truck, conceivably to her death, I started with the recordings of Janis Joplin; film clips from Bette Midler’s portrayal in “The Rose;” then read a few biographies of Janis. (This was occasioned by a writing instructor at the Cape Cod Writers’ Conference. She had given our class a reading assignment; a story so oddly violent that I refused to believe the young woman protagonist capable of such jumbled thinking.) By the time I’d finished my study of Janis Joplin, I was a believer. I felt my own nervous system twitching, jangling, rebelling …forget the drugs. I was THERE…with Janis!

But Dawn’s male side — that’s the poker wizard. Cool, calculating, and exacting. The careful student of Doyle Brunson’s Super System, her gifted mathematical mind plotting the way to clean out every poker player in Steelton and Reading, PA…revenge for the fortune her alcoholic father had lost at the game. (This is back-story, off the page.)

And let’s not forget that Dawn is the mother of a five-year old daughter, Lisa. You’d better know, from your observation of life on this planet, that the female of the species — animal or human — is not to be separated from her offspring. A good mother will do anything to protect and nurture her child. Anything imaginable…no holds barred!

Somewhere I read that women are gatherers and men the hunters who “risk death to bring back meat.” Women bring back the immediately useful stuff, like “honey, fruit, water…and the hunters.” Women mostly live longer than men; programmed by nature to do so. They are (generally) more conservative in their actions. A woman’s wiles can translate to the cadgey; to downright unscrupulous behavior when it’s necessary for survival or the protection of a child. Once sobered up by Abner’s ministrations and the care she administers to an injured dog, Dawn begins to redirect her energies toward regaining possession of her daughter.

Dawn Carlisle originates from good stock, part of it Sioux Indian. So we must know something about what it is and was like to be an Oglala Sioux, transported east to attend the Carlisle Indian School in the late 1800s. That was her great grandfather — the Sioux character very much a part of Dawn’s every decision, as is the white, Irish industrial heritage on her mother’s side.

She loves Abner with a barely concealed Sioux fierceness, and here we are back to my longing for a character who is not afraid to shower love on someone worth loving. When Dawn knows love, she shows love. I gave Dawn objectives at every turn. Within each scene she has an objective.

Whether Dawn gains that objective or is frustrated in her efforts to achieve it, we watch how she acts and reacts. As writers, we judge her behavior. Should it ring false to the persona discovered in Dawn, should it deface that “IT” star quality she has exhibited before, we’ll do that scene over — NOT her character. Dawn’s traits, speech and actions are now ingrained — her character walking, thinking, talking in one distinctive way. Instinctively, we know that way when we see it. And we will cast out the crap, whenever and wherever we see it, as not representing the true and honest origins of Dawn Carlisle.

Richard Ide is a writer of realistic, action-adventure and romantic-suspense fiction. On May 26th, 2008, Button Top Books released 3 ACES, his first published work. Now available on Amazon.com or by special order (ISBN: 978-0-615-15821-1) in bookstores. For more information on Richard and 3 Aces, visit: 3 Aces.

If your company is limited to just a few employees, or if your specialist area is design and graphics, you may find it hard when commissioned to build a complete web solution to meet the demands of your client. Programming work can be time consuming, and needs to be handled by a specialist in the field if you want an efficient, robust and secure solution. Especially in the field of e-commerce, you simply cannot afford to have your reputation damaged when someone finds security holes all over a client’s site. If you are unsure of your abilities when it comes to programming, outsourcing the work to someone who knows what he’s doing can be the best way forward.

Let’s say you have been working on a complete redesign for a client and that they also want the functionality changing. Having looked at the code, it’s such a mess that you realise it would take you twice the allotted time scale just to figure out how it works and hence it will need rewriting from scratch. You start work on the look and feel of the site and design some new graphics since this is your strong point, and you try not to think about the back-end, this can come later. The client is happy with your work so far and is looking forward to the end result.

So, you have the design completed, your front-end XHTML/CSS is all in place, but the website you are working on still needs a shopping cart, content management facilities and user authentication implementing and you only have 3 days left! What do you do in this situation? Enter the freelancer.

Hiring a freelance programmer can significantly ease the burden when tackling difficult or large projects. You can pick and choose the areas that either you don’t want to work on or don’t have the time for or that you are simply unable to do yourself, and let somebody else worry about them. Not only does this free up your time to work on other aspects of a project, but it can even save you money.

A lot of freelancers will have a library of well tested programming code to draw from that means they can complete new projects very quickly, enabling them to charge less for it, and ensuring you a fast turnaround time while still getting top quality, optimized and secure code. Another great advantage to the reusable code scenario is that the code will often be very well organized making it much easier if the client comes back for something changing to avoid rewriting it all over again.

In summary, hiring a freelance programmer can save you time, money and stress, making your working life easier without the added burden of extra employees. They can deal with the areas that you can’t or can help to bridge the gap between small and large projects in that period when you have too much work for your staff, but not enough to hire more.

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Auto clubs, like AAA, have been around for many years, almost since the invention of the automobile itself. They offer their members things like roadside assistance, travel discounts, and free maps. They do come at a cost, however, and many motorists wonder whether or not they should spend the money on an auto club membership. Before you sign up for an auto club, make sure you weigh the pros and cons and determine if it is a good option for you.

The Main Con – Cost

The main disadvantage of an auto club membership is the cost of enrollment. This can vary quite a bit from place to place. A typical AAA membership can cost between $60 and $100, depending on what benefits are purchased and how many people are on the plan. This is not a lot of money, but it is an amount that must be considered when deciding whether or not a membership is worth the cost.

Roadside Assistance Benefit

The main benefit of an auto club membership is roadside assistance. Most of these programs offer you a free or discounted towing service if you should be stranded at some point with a non-working vehicle. Having your vehicle towed costs a minimum of $75 in most places, so just using the tow benefit one time could pay for the cost of the membership itself.

Of course, most people do not need to have their vehicles towed on a regular basis. Newer vehicles are not prone to mechanical problems, which means that this benefit may never be used. Those who travel short distances also have less of a chance of being in a situation where they need a costly tow. On the other hand, those who travel long distances on a regular basis may find this benefit provides them with the peace of mind they need to feel comfortable on the road.

Some insurance plans offer free or discounted towing services. If you are considering purchasing an automotive club membership for the purpose of having this roadside assistance, make sure that you are not covered twice. While there are other benefits of auto club memberships, you may not need the roadside assistance program.

Travel Discount Benefit

Another perk to owning a major auto club membership, such as AAA, is the fact that you will be able to save money when you travel. You can book cruises, tours, and vacation packages through the auto club at deep discounts. Of course, the Internet sometimes makes it possible for you to get similar discounts other places, but this is a benefit that you would need to consider if you love to travel frequently.

Even if you are not someone who likes to take cruises, you can still save money with an auto club membership on your travel. Many programs have discounts available at hotels and amusement parks. Saving 10 to 15 percent on your hotel stay can really add up! Similar discounts are available on airfare, train tickets, and car rentals.

Other Discounts Are Available

Besides travel discounts and roadside assistance programs, other discounts are available to auto club members. Some stores and restaurants offer a percentage off program to auto club members. You can also purchase insurance through the club at a discounted rate. Repairs on your vehicle can be discounted through your membership if you use a participating mechanic.

The best way to determine if you could benefit from an auto club membership is to weigh these benefits against the cost of membership. If you feel that you would take advantage of these benefits on a regular basis, then the cost is worth it for you. If you would only use the benefits from time to time, you would probably end up paying more for the membership than it is really worth. Do your homework, learn the benefits of the club you are considering, and weigh them against the cost to decide if you should buy a membership or not.

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So your looking at starting a home based business and start earning extra income from home. This has become widely accepted all over the world are spreading like wild fire. Starting to work from home has become most desirable way to make money for many apparent reasons:

Think how it would feel to get up at your own sweet time and not to the sound of that annoying alarm clock. Imagine not having to hurry to office or your regular JOB. Envision how relaxed you could be not having the regular chaos of snarling traffic all the while being choked on pollution. Visualize your self no longer doing any of these things, no alarm clock, no dress code, no traffic, no boss telling you what to do, or how to do it. Now you see why starting a home based business has such an appeal to it, why thousands are starting to work from home daily and starting on the path to become financially free.

Having some extra income has not hurt anyone up to now, and it should not be hurting you either. If you are willing to do that extra effort or travel that extra mile for your boss, I am sure you will be more than willing to do so for yourself, especially if you feel that it would improve the quality of life of you and your family.

Earning extra income from home does not come free. It involves hard work and time and a budget, but has a self-motivator to become financially free and never having to go back to the 9 to 5 rat race. If you are a valued employee that goes the extra mile for your boss then owning your own business will be a great adventure, but instead of making someone else rich, you will be creating your own wealth and time freedom. It is not hard starting to work from home when you know you are working for yourself towards your goals and doing what you always wanted.

Benefits to starting to work from home:

1. Become your own boss with no one looking over your shoulder. Freedom of time, moment, goals and finances, everything is left to you.

2. Work on your own schedule and be your own time master.

3. Total flexibility to do whatever you want to do, whenever you want to do it.

4. Job security and worries of the economy and of unemployment vanish.

5. Sense of pride. Make you more of a complete person who can proudly say that he/ she are an entrepreneur who has achieved something.

6. Self confidence going through the sky. This factor will help you face most hurdles in life with a lot lesser heartaches and stress.

7. Limitations of your earning no longer exist, your earning potential is unlimited and you can earn as much as you want by just stepping up the speed.

8. Most countries offer tax savings for starting a home based business and maintaining it since it is earning extra income from home.

9. You can retire when you want, take extended holidays, and have more time with your family. It is all entirely up to you.

Success becomes a commodity which you can appraise with your own yardstick rather others telling you what your worth. Starting a home based business and earning extra income from home or become financially free is in your hands, and defiantly worth a looking into if you want independence and success.

Faye Brown is a professional home business researcher based in Alberta Canada and reviews and rates new top home business ideas. Check out Faye’s current Top Pick here for: Starting A Home Based Business
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I am still 25 years old but I am already following an anti-skin aging regimen. I heard from a local celebrity that we should not wait to be 50 to do something for our skin. I admit that I have a younger looking skin (thanks Mom!) but I still don’t exclude myself for skin aging.

I’m not using any anti aging creams yet but I follow the guides below to prevent skin-aging and premature aging as well. Yet these guides are still useful for those who are suffer from skin aging, it will surely improve your skin condition and lessen the signs of skin aging.

Water, water and water.

Whenever I notice that my skin is dry, I imagine the cracked land in Africa during droughts. We know from our elementary science to drink 8 glasses of water a day. To ensure that I get the right amount, I put water in one liter of bottle. I may sure that I finish that at the end of the day.

For coffee lovers like me, I read in a newspaper that we should drink an additional glass for every cup of we sip. Savor the soup since it also counts to our recommended water intake.

Watch our diet

For the sake of our skin, we should consume fiber and antioxidants found in fruits and vegetables. Purple colored veggies like eggplants are good sources of antioxidants. Most vegetables are good sources of vitamin C which is good for our skin. We should start putting tomatoes, spinach, carrots and bell peppers in our grocery carts now.

Avoid eating processed food and junk foods. They only contain little or no nutrients at all. Worse, they are packed with preservatives and carcinogens that is linked with ailments and diseases like cancer. Lastly, avoid oily food since they will just go out of our system as pimples.

Mr. Sun

Do you tease your mom for carrying umbrellas every time? Well, you should start following them. Even if you just cross the street, you should protect yourself from the sun. Use a parasol, scarf or a cap to hide your skin from the sun. Avoid too much sun exposure and sunscreen is our best friend.

Your sunscreen should have at least SPF15 to be effective and should be reapplied when are sweating, wet or in prolonged exposure. Lastly, I apply sunscreen at least 15 minutes before I head out to give time for my skin to absorb the product.

Anti-Aging product

When using a product, we should choose the right one that best works for us. Your skin is different from the famous start endorsing the product. Carefully select products that contain anti-aging ingredients like collagen and CoEnzyme Q10. Read labels careful and if you have time search the internet about the product that you are trying to use. If you thinking of taking supplements, consult your doctor and get to know more about the product. You should be a smart buyer when it comes to skin care.

Visit Your Doctor

This is the most neglected activity in skin care. You should visit your dermatologist at twice a year to check your skin condition and prescribe the right products to use.

I hope you will follow these guides. If it works for me, it will for you too!

Skincare, acne and health expert. I also have been building a variety of websites for the last 3 years. Depth knowledge of medicine. Also, we have a doctor in our staff who helps me to write the articles. Julia Elorriaga LastSkinCare.com For more information about Skin Care visit Skin Care - LastSkinCare.com