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It's a common fact nowadays that we all use social media in one way or another. Its uses lie mainly in keeping in touch with friends and family but increasingly companies have been using it to research candidates before they offer them a job. Other businesses are using it to keep tabs on existing employees.

Think about your Facebook page and your most recent night out documented in all its glory. Think about your twitter account and your series of tweets moaning about one of your co-workers. Would you really want a prospective employer seeing those? If the answer is no the best solution is to check your privacy settings on these websites and make sure your accounts are set to private.

You may think an employer making a snap decision on you based on your Facebook page harsh and unjust but and long as the decision made by the company has no bases on gender, ethnicity or religion they are quite within their rights not to hire you. The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) say that nearly all employers research candidates for a job online.

Of course it's not just when applying for jobs when you need to be careful. We've all heard stories of people who call in sick for a couple of days but actually go and visit their friends for a long weekend. Pictures of the weekend are put up on Facebook, the office gossip catches wind and before you know it you're in the boss's office getting a warning. Of course, the simple option is not to lie about things like that; you will probably be caught out in the end anyway. Also be aware of fitness apps that update your status or tweets automatically for you. If you have called in sick then you app tells Facebook you burned 700 calories running that might set chins wagging.

There are other scenarios to be wary of. You might have had a really rubbish day at work, your boss was moaning on and on and you need a place to vent your anger. Think twice before turning to Facebook or Twitter. People have lost their jobs to spur of the moment tweet slagging off bosses, co-workers or customers. Remember what you say represents the company you work for so any comments made by you about a customer is the responsibility of the company you work for.

Make sure you are aware of the importance your social media accounts and the potential effect they could have on your career. If you would like more information on social media policies, please don't hesitate to contact us today.

As discovered by most prolific writers, the true secret of freelance writing for cash lies in developing the ability to generate an increasing flow of ideas; since higher the ratio of ideas that you succeed in developing, the higher your capacity to earn a home income becomes. Thus, taking out time to spend some hours over the weekend, generating a flow of fresh ideas for your writing gig, will supply you with ample backdrop information for the days lying ahead of you.

Ideas are crucial to your success. These four verified ways for getting ideas will certainly keep your writing constantly flowing.

Looking through a magazine stash

Magazines generally provide you with tons of new ideas. Although it may come to you as somewhat of a surprise, articles are least likely to be your main source. Almost certainly, you will find the best ideas quietly nestled among letters to the editor, or with a more definite degree of certainty among the ads. The process is highly commended, so never forget paying special attention to these ads and the message they convey.

Prior to spending several thousand dollars on their advertisement campaign, advertisers normally commission painstaking research. When reading through ads and spending time to think them over, you will gradually begin to appreciate the importance of the message that readers of the magazine are targeted to perceive.

Just as it helps advertisers sell their product or service to prospective consumers; it will help in selling your articles as well.

Challenges faced by colleagues and friends

You obviously enjoy gossip; as everyone else does too. Next time when you sit down with your colleagues and friends for a casual chat, take your pen and notebook along. Just see what you can note down in an informal conversation; it will leave you amazed!

Visit bookstores and see what sells

Your local corner bookstore is a trove of ideas - that sell. Make notes of books that your store promotes more heartily. Publishers normally pay for promoting specific titles. Areas in which publishers spend money should serve to provide you with good clue as to what readers currently focused on.

Learning a new thing gives you something to write about

The easiest and most productive tip is using your personal life and experiences. Whenever you have the occasion to learn a new thing, it's time you wrote about it. Nothing is more imperative than using what you have experienced firsthand.

When you buy a new laptop, write about the process and what it by and large involves. After all, people buy laptops everyday, with many searching for good advice. If you've experienced a car breakdown, there should be plenty to write about. These are anxious moments that attract lots of readers.

As writer, your whole life becomes an endless source. Once you get going, you will simply never cease running out of great ideas to write about.

When you want to go anywhere, Mapquest driving directions can get you there without needing more than a couple sheets of paper. This is one of the finest web sites to find directions on the Internet making a quick and simple to plan your trip.

From the main page of the site, you need to find the tab for driving directions which will allow you to enter in your starting addresses well as rending address. You can induce much information in these fields as you want from a full address to even just a zip code. This is the information that mapquest uses to plan your trip.

After you has all of your trip of information and, a new page pops up with a map in detail driving instructions. You can see the route that you'll be driving as well as the actual mileage between each member to step. If you look at the map, you'll notice on the right side there are a series of icons that will allow you to find entertainment, gas, lodgings and food places for you to stop while traveling and include them on the map. You may have too soon into an area to find this information, but it will really help you better plan your trip.

It can also customize your trip. You can choose to omit having tree type the information in with reverse directions, which will get you back home from the ending location. You can also choose to find the shortest route for the shortest time as well as be able to avoid highways, toll roads or those that seasonally close with these options.

If you can also add a new destination went to an error in your start in many locations. This is entered on the map page and allows you to not have to alter the original trip and still be able to include any other side trip you want to make. This can make and convenient to go to more than one place. You can also use the search function to find businesses by name that you would like to visit or use the drop down menu to select from categories.

This site allows you to create a log and information so that you can keep your starting destination without having to type it in for every visit. You can also use it to quickly find maps that you have used before making logging and a much more convenient and user process to get the directions you want.

The gas price feature shows the gas prices across the different states that you may be traveling in as well as your home state. You can see the price differences from the highest to lowest which can help you bet your trip planning better since you can see the average price of the gas or you might need to stop.

Mapquest driving directions Gives you the best director and to make any trip. You have many options to choose from to give you the best information for your trips.

It is not always easy to get one's lover in the mood for a night between the sheets, especially with the winter nights drawing in. The cold can really stem amorous thoughts, and so it can take a little more effort to get your special person in the right mood. Candles can certainly play a part in creating the right atmosphere. Some might argue it is the ultimate in mood lighting.

It allows people to feel relaxed in intimate situations because, quite honestly, the light from candles makes people look good - soft shadows and warm colours settle nerves and allow people to really enjoy each other.

There are a huge range of candles available, and all can have a big role to play in creating a loving mood for you and your lover. Smell is closely associated with feelings of intimacy, as the wrong smell can quite easily spoil an otherwise spicy mood. As such, there is a wide range of scented candles available which can help to lift the sensual mood.

It is something that can often be overlooked - especially by males - but is one that can have a superb effect. This way, candles can help boost various sense; it can help with the visuals - warm, inviting colours; it can help with smell; and if you have enough of them it can give out a great deal of warmth. It's not so good with touch, as you might get your fingers burned.

Floating candles are an option. These can either be floating in separate vessels; like a vase or a glass. They can also be put into a bath, ready for your lover to come home. Little floating candles create a magical atmosphere in the bath tub, however one must be careful to remove them before entering the bath! If you have a really big bath - such that owned by Cleopatra, for example - then you may wish to keep a few floating around for effect.

You may wish to increase the ornate feel of the loving environment, by buying some ornate candlesticks for your candles. This adds a feeling of grandeur - and of course all lovers like to feel special; especially females. They will be far more likely to entertain thoughts of a biblical nature if they know they are being treated with respect and that there has been some significant thought gone into the evening of love you have planned. If you are planning an evening of romantic adventure, then candles might be something to consider.

No, sleeping all day, though one of Sir Gallahad's favorite activities is not one of the fluffball's top five lessons. And if you feel taking advice from a cat is one step removed from cat-lady crazy, consider this: the cat is the only person in my immediate social circle whose daily ability to enjoy life is not impaired or informed by the news.

While I'm not advocating willful ignorance of the current state of the world, not getting caught up in all of the sensational headlines is a good starting point on the road back to finding true happiness this holiday season.

And so Sir Gallahad will now teach us the five things he does that make him a happy, healthy being in a time of extreme stress and uncertainty:

1. Your time is the most valuable gift you can give.

You don't need to spend wads of cash-or anything at all-to let the people you love know you care about them. The proof of your love lies in the quality time you carve out for them, whether it be through an uninterrupted cross-country phone call, a dinner shared, or a game of kick ball.

Planning time together that shows your friend/family member you've thought about his/her likes is even better. In Sir Gallahad's case, this means playing fetch instead of jingle ball on a stick. He thinks he's a dog.

2. Make time to exercise.

You've read it a thousand times. Exercising reduces stress. But there are other reasons why hitting the gym or your local bike path should be a daily part of your routine, like:

Exercising provides a social forum. If you've been laid off recently, you might be hurting for the daily interaction with coworkers that until now was the norm for you. Check out what group activities-from spinning, to yoga, hiking, and walks-are available through your local gym or your city. It's an excellent opportunity to meet new people, and get those endorphins to release so you don't wind up a self-imposed hermit.

The excuse that you should be spending all of your time looking for another job is not valid. Get up an hour early, go for a jog, lift some weights, then get your job-hunting game face on!

Sir Gallahad recruits people daily to play fetch with him. If they don't, he'll throw his own ball, attack Christmas tree ornaments, or jump up and down on the bed all morning to get his daily exercise.

3. Be thankful for the people in your life, and show them you are.

When you get down to it, nothing else really matters. The house you live in, your material possessions, the cars you drive. Your true friends are your friends because they like you. And you must have family members that love you unconditionally, even if you don't always agree with each other.

If all anyone can say about you when you leave town or this Earth is, "Man, that guy had a sweet car!" it may be time to reassess your values.

Sir Gallahad kisses his mom and dad, lies in their laps, and runs to the front door when they come home. You don't need tongue action with all of your friends and family to show them you appreciate them. A hug will do. Or a great big smile that demonstrates you're happy to see them.

4. Keep yourself groomed.

Sir Gallahad is always clean and neat, whether he's lounging around by himself, or entertaining guests.

Taking pride in your appearance boosts your self confidence. You never know, your next job might come from a friendly conversation in the grocery store checkout line. You'll be more likely to talk-and more likely to make a good impression-if you don't look like you came straight from your bed.

People are attracted to confidence. If you're feeling a little shakey lately, as we all are, fake it 'till you make it. Sir Galahad doesn't always land on his feet, as cats are supposed to, but he still thinks he's hot stuff even after he misses the couch by a few inches.

5. Don't hide under the bed.

Opportunity awaits, but chances are it's not hiding in your bedroom. Or on your couch in front of the TV. Your favorite stars didn't become famous overnight. It took 10 years for some of them to finally break through.

View this period of your life as an opportunity to set yourself up for stardom. Take some community college classes that might help advance your career, or change courses altogether. Intern at a company you may want to work for someday. Feed the homeless.

Do something that gets you out there, so you can network. No matter how easy and useful online social networking is, nothing beats face-to-face action. Unless the guy you meet in class is a real arse, he will not ignore you when you speak to him. Online, he'll just ignore your friend request.

Sir Galahad is still working on this lesson. New people scare him, so he hides under the bed when they come over. But when he comes out, he finds somebody new to play with-someone who is not sick of throwing his ball for him, or who didn't know he'd already been fed-and realizes that he's been missing out.

Life's hard right now. But it's important to look at the bigger picture instead of getting embroiled in the negative. Are you healthy? There's something to be extremely happy about. Do you have a best friend? A mom? A dad? Happy. Happy. Happy.

Troubled times force us to be more introspective, figuring out who we are without our job descriptions, and what we value without our possessions. Sir Galahad may only be a cat, but he's got a pretty good hold on what's most important in his life. It's just that those things are all that's going on in his life!

Dung Beetles. Superfamily Scarabaeoidea. You might be surprised to learn that there's a dung beetle in your family tree, maybe even at the dinner table, MAYBE in the mirror (are YOU a dung beetle?)

The dung beetle is a beetle whose larvae feed on dung, according to The New Oxford American Dictionary. The larger kinds of beetle place the dung in a hole before the eggs are laid, and some beetles roll the dung along in a ball as they gather it. That's what we have in the Texas Hill Country - the dung-ball-rolling variety.

My first introduction to the dung beetle was fourteen years ago walking with my kids in our neighborhood. I was new to Texas and had been horrified to learn that not only were there scorpions, tarantulas and rattlesnakes here, but that they lived in VERY close proximity, and in the case of scorpions, could be found inside my home!

Naturally, when I saw a large, dark "critter" making its slow progress across the road, I approached with caution. "What new devilry has this god-forsaken terrain cooked up now?" I wondered.

Imagine my surprise when the evil creature turned out to be a small, black beetle rolling an enormous dung ball across the road. I burst out laughing and pointed the roadside attraction out to my son.

I've since seen many such beetles and had a chuckle at their expense, but never thought much about it until about a week ago.

Last week I had occasion to encounter an entirely separate sort of beetle in Texas...

A while back I posted on the need to move beyond the past; I wrote, "What you don't get over, you live under." I thought about that as I was dealing with a relative who was having a hard time letting go of some painful memories when WHAM!! It hit me! She was a human dung beetle!

The more I thought about it, the more it fit. Like the dung beetle, she gathered up all the dung she could find, rolled it up into a great ball, and rolled it along with her wherever she went! Every miserable thing she could think of she wadded up and lovingly patted into place on the huge ball of dung she'd collected over her lifetime. At a moment's notice she could spin her magic ball of dung, find the exact spot she was looking for, and recall with perfect clarity what wrong had been done, by whom, and on what date!

What a waste of energy.

As I thought more about it, I realized a further resemblance to the wee beetles: in her sour attitude and her refusal to move beyond the past, she fed her family, her friends and colleagues a steady diet of dung, as well.

"Hmmm," I thought, "Time to step away from the buffet table!" And then I wondered how many other human dung beetles I knew. Turns out I know a few!

As it happens, there are other parallels between the Hill Country "rollers" and human dung beetles. For instance, if you watch dung beetles, you'll see that on occasion, what looks like a "helper" will show up. This beetle "bad man" appears out of nowhere, comes at a run and looks like he's trying to help his friend push the ball of dung along the road. Further observation, however, will show that the helper is a thief! "Might Is Right" might be the dung beetle motto: An animated dung beetle battle ensues and the victor scurries off with the coveted "ball o' dung."

Think about it: We all know people who thrive on other people's dung. Call it gossip, call it what you will, there's a certain breed of human dung beetle who loves to know what's wrong in your world. Maybe it makes them feel "better than," I don't know; but I do know that it feeds their internal dung beetle larvae.

Occasionally, occasionally, people call or write or blog or text with upbeat "here's what's wonderful today" kind of news; but by and large, they're rolling someone else's dung (or maybe their own) past your doorstep on their way to who-knows-where.

How do you overcome human dung-beetle-ness? I suspect that it starts by acknowledging that you bear a marked resemblance to the busy, dung-toting scarab. Simple awareness will start the process of healing.

And there's always humor; like the old proverb says: Laughter is the best medicine.

If you're wondering how a bug pushing a ball of dung down the road can be amusing, check out this video. I can pretty well guarantee that it will bring a smile to your face! Remember that the next time you find yourself pushing your own ball of dung uphill!

Trying to compare online bingo to live bingo is actually quite a difficult task, both of these entertainment forms have their merits. However it has to be said that online bingo in some ways has a great deal more going for it. And sadly, some people believe that one of the reasons for the decline in the popularity of playing live bingo lies to some extent with the popularity of playing online bingo.

Is it about the fact that one is more exciting than the other? I doubt that! But what definitely comes into play in this day and age is the fact that people just don't seem to be able to make the time to get out and socialize as much as they used to. Online bingo therefore provides a valuable social outlet for those of us, who perhaps can't find that time. Online bingo is also a way in which people who are unable to get out can make friends online and enjoy some really great games of bingo.

The UK is a land of bad weather, particularly in the winter, it is difficult for the elderly, infirm and disabled to get out of the house, even if they have someone who will take them, when the weather is bad. And besides, who wants to leave the comfort of a warm hearth and hot cup of tea in the winter, when they can enjoy this exciting pastime online.

Another one of the pros of playing online bingo as apposed to playing the game live is the fact that you are able to chat during games. In a land based bingo club this just wouldn't be possible. In live bingo halls, it is eyes down and silence during a game, if things weren't like this the chance that you might miss that all important winning number would be pretty high. In order to hear the bingo caller you have to maintain silence. However with an online bingo hall, the numbers are called and are automatically dabbed on your behalf. This means that while the game is playing, you can catch up with news and gossip, play side games such as slots and watch your numbers being dabbed off all at the same time. All in all there are definitely a great many pros to playing online bingo and not many cons; the choice really however is up to the player.