Confessions of an Apple Junkie

Today I accidentally got Hydrogen Peroxide in my eye..

This wasn’t my clumsiness..it was just..an accident..

I woke up this morning and went about cleaning the house and everything before getting in the shower. After I got out, I grabbed my contact lenses and my sister’s contact lens solution on the window and proceeded to rinse my lens before I put it in my eye.

So I placed the lens in the palm using my finger, picked up the solution and squeezed some into my hand, rubbing the lens in the solution. I used a different finger that wasn’t wet, picked up the lens and put it on the back of my palm. I got the lens back on my finger, open my eye with my other hand and placed it on my cornea.

Before I’d blinked to get the lens in the right place, my eye started burning like…

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Emily Carter ~ Nature as Art

Driving through the Serrana de Ronda, we arrived to the metropolis of Ronda. After visiting the tiny villages of Casares and Gaucin, Ronda was a bit overwhelming. Completely unaware that the day we were traveling was a huge competition day for bikers and runners.

While considered one of the white villages of Andalusia, Spain, the size of Ronda takes away from the quaintness of the smaller villages we had already visited. Considered to be the birthplace of bull-fighting, Ronda was a popular summer home for Ernest Hemingway and Orson Welles. Their writings of Ronda, its bull-fighting culture and Spanish heritage has made Ronda well-known. Names by Julius Caesar, Ronda has its roots tracing back well before 6th century BC.

One of the more popular sites within Ronda is the Puente Nuevo (or new bridge) that crosses a canyon to enter Ronda. With spectacular views into the valley below filled with…

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Make The Most Of Your Social Media Marketing With These Suggestions 871090

If you don’t know what social media marketing is, your first step should be to spend some time on Facebook and Twitter. Once you understand what these sites are all about, you can begin the journey to getting your business in line with them. This is going to be very important for your business if you want to expand in the future.

When posting on Facebook, use the 80/20 rule. This means you should post about 80% relevant information and 20% “just for fun” information. Posting this way makes you feel less like a business, and more like a human. This can be a great thing when it comes to social media marketing. Remember that when you are using social media to market your business, you are communicating with people, not at them. The technology that people are using now and the way social media is designed is allowing your customers to communicate easier than ever before. You have to engage in this conversation and communicate with your customers in contrast to posting ad copy with a one-sided point of view.

To help your customers help you spread your content, make sure blog posts have the right buttons to get easily shared. You can add Facebook Like and Share buttons, as well as Linked share ability and the Retweet button for Twitter users. When you have engaging content your regular followers like, they will spread it around the internet, hopefully drawing more followers to you. Have links on your main website to your main social media profiles. Your Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Google+ pages should all be linked from your main website. So, that customers know that they are the official websites for your company, and they can trust the content that is published on those social media sites.

Having your business set up online with social media is becoming an essential for all businesses. If you haven’t done it already, this article has shown you how you can become part of this online world. Your business can see a lot of increase in interest and sales just by using this one marketing trick.

Learn Everything There Is To Know About Blogging 191456

Almost everyone today has a blog, it is just one of those things that is catching on and what people are using to get their voice heard. If you wish to figure out how you can create and maintain an online presence then this article and all of the knowledge inside should help you do just that.

When opening a blog to make money, it’s crucial that you make a decision on what you want its mission to be. Your posts need to focus around a certain theme. If you just simply write anything that comes to mind, then you will be limited in how many visitors you have because you won’t be attracting any specific set of people. Therefore, you should make sure that you stay on your topic. Choose a subject you know. Avoid picking a subject to blog about solely to fill a niche. A good niche is important; however attempting to sound knowledgeable on a topic you know nothing about is a recipe for disaster. Your readers, who usually know something on the subject, will quickly see through your attempts to sound like an authority and will turn away – never to return.

Whenever possible, you should try to include some first hand narration on the topics that you are talking about. This will make your audience feel closer to you, which will make them want to come back and read more from you. This is a powerful and easy way to make your blog excel. It is important to be patient and stay motivated when starting a new blog. The first few weeks of any blog are the most difficult. You will spend a significant amount of time writing articles and posting updates, but will have very few readers. While it might be tough, being able to get through this period without being discouraged is a definite sign that you can be a successful blogger. If you can maintain the motivation to keep blogging with relatively few readers, you can definitely do it with a large number of readers.

As you have now read through this article you should feel a lot better about blogging and how fun it can be for you. Go ahead and share this information with friends and coworkers, everyone should be blogging these days. Share your knowledge of blogging and who knows what someone might share back that could help you.

Mike Powell

Usually my photos are realistic, almost hyper-realistic in their macro details. Sometimes, though, I get excited by a portion of an image and the patterns and lines contained therein.

Yesterday I took some close-ups of a male Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly. Thanks to my telephoto lens the butterfly more than filled the frame. After a bit of tweaking I ended up with an image that is almost abstract, with lots of interesting lines and shapes. You can still tell that it is a butterfly and a flower, but it has a different feel than my other butterfly shots.

I find it fun to try something completely different from time to time.

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