Political strategists like to proclaim: “Campaigns matter!” It is our usual caution that elections, where even strong incumbents are concerned, often turn on campaign performance. A cynic might observe, “Strategists always say that, it makes them more important.” But remember Barack Obama’s innovative nomination fight and then his transcendent general election battle?...
Sunday, October 9, 2011
How to combat dollar's decline
A DIVING Aussie dollar has rubbed some shine from online retail bargain hunting but some savvy shoppers have been finding novel ways to bolster their buying power. With our dollar dropping about US15c in the past few weeks, an analysis of transactions by financial services company Access Prepaid has discovered a spike in online shoppers using foreign exchange travel cards to lock in higher exchange rates.Economists...
How to build mental health wellness in our children
We’ve all heard about the mind/body connection.
Psychiatrist Dr. Chris Wilkes likes to put a finer point on it.
“There is no health without mental health,” Wilkes says, explaining that it is profoundly connected to our physical health and overall well-being.
He’s got the numbers to prove that poor mental health equals poor physical health — and therefore a huge cost to our health-care system.
Wilkes and a group of other Calgary...
How to ride out the economic crisis
Anxious investors have endured another difficult week – and all the signals indicate that things could get a lot, lot worse before they start to get better. The Governor of the Bank of England admitted that this could be the "worse financial crisis ever" as he pumped billions of pounds into the banking system in a bid to stave off another recession. But while "quantitative easing" might help banks and businesses,...
How to hide wires behind your TV wall brackets
After buying a nice TV wall bracket, are you well prepared to install your LCD TV sets to the wall? Do you know what you should pay close attention to during the process of the installation? Look before you leap. You need to make sure that the maximum allowable weight of your TV wall brackets has exceeded the actual weight of your TV sets to determine a perfect position for the installation your TV set. What's more, it is...
How to win the TNP New Face
SHE felt she had to up her game to win. So, three days before the big event, Jamie Lim began practising the catwalk on her way home. It paid off in style - the 19-year-old first year business student at Singapore Management University was crowned the winner of The New Paper New Face 2011, held at Takashimaya Square last evening. Besides...
How to Make a 'Lowball' Offer
For some home sellers, it was a long summer without a home sale. That means this fall, some buyers -- smelling the desperation -- may be able to cut a better deal. "Sellers who had their homes on the market all summer are anxious to move on, especially before the holidays hit," says Bill Golden, a real-estate agent with ReMax in Atlanta....
How to spend right on shopping
How many of us have had our budgets spiral out of control during the festive season? How many of us haven’t been able to avail of even lucrative deals simply because we don’t know if we can afford to splurge? Haven’t we cursed ourselves and our lack of financial planning then?
The festive season (October to December-end) is when people...
Friday, September 23, 2011
How to Prepare Your Business for Google+
Google+ just opened its doors to the world by enabling open signups and moving to the beta, testing phase. The nascent social network is still thin on features and ways for businesses to properly use it, but its minimalist approach has gained Google+ millions of users in a very short period.
If you've tried it out for yourself, you'll know...
How to use Chrome's latest 'new tab' page
The blank Web site that stares back at you when you open a new browser tab is no longer a vast field of dead white space. Google is making Chrome's 'new tab' page a robust launch pad from which you can interact with your recently visited sites, Web apps, and bookmarks. It's currently only available in Chrome 15 beta, but it'll be handed over...
How to unclutter your email inbox
Once upon a time we had in boxes and out boxes. They sat nicely stacked on our desks and, as the week went along, more memos, copies and little yellow phone messages came in than went out. The in box filled with paper detritus and raised our general stress levels.
Then came email. It sent the paper memo to the same crumply grave as folder...
How to focus in a manic market
While the market was doing another backward swan dive, one email came to me that reflected the mass anxiety: “Some are saying it may be time to panic, and I am resisting. What do you think? And what does panic mean: Jump? Sell off?”
After I offered some brief words of staid resolve, it occurred to me that the luncheon speaker at the Morningstar...
How to get rid of a manipulative boyfriend
Having a boyfriend can be a wonderful and exciting experience. The feeling of companionship and closeness you can develop with your boyfriend can be matched by few other experiences. However, some boyfriends just don't quite make the grade. Manipulative people can be extremely difficult to deal with, and manipulative boyfriends can be even...
How to find out who unfriended you on Facebook
We've shown you how to try Facebook's new profile page — also known as the "Timeline" — right now, but did you know that it's more than just a pretty design? It can be used to find out exactly which of your friends quietly unfriended you at some point.This clever trick was discovered by the folks at Buzzfeed...
How to plummet 10 storeys without killing yourself
Peter Kent on some of the tricks of a stuntman's trade:
? A "high fall" is when you jump off a building that's at least 10 storeys.
"You're usually into an airbag," says Kent, who produced an award-winning series on stunts called Stunt Dawgs in 2006.
"The trick is to get your landing right and not to go in feet first or head first, because they can result in a broken neck or a torn spinal cord. I know people who have done that,...
Travel advice: how to recover a hotel booking fee
On July 9 I booked two return flights to Prague with easyJet, travelling out on January 12 for a four-night stay. I also booked hotel accommodation through easyJet because I wanted to be sure that if the flight timings were changed I could amend the hotel booking.
EasyJet has now cancelled the outbound flight and can offer no alternative on the same day. It says it will refund our fares but will not cancel the hotel booking and...
How to reduce risk but stay in the stock game
The relief rally that pushed the Standard & Poor’s 500 index back above 1,200 ended abruptly Wednesday after the Federal Reserve said it would purchase $400 billion of longer-dated Treasurys to “put downward pressure on longer-term interest rates.”
Global markets sold off big time, a selloff that continued Thursday, as the Fed’s downbeat statement cited continued economic weakness. But the debt crisis in Europe and here will...
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