Lord Browne resigned as chief executive from BP on May 1 with immediate effect. This move was in response to a court battle he had lost. He had unsuccessfully tried to stop a newspaper from printing details of his relationship with a rent-boy.

Not only did he lose the case in which he had tried to protect his personal life from total exposure, as only the British tabloids are able to do without shame or regret while digging into the deepest pit that they can find. But he was also found to be lying in his legal documents as presented to the court. in support of his case.

Nobody should really be surprised that said rent-boy had sold his story to a newspaper. It is the nature of the beast, that gets paid for services provided, that a payment for the story would also fall under services provided in this instance obviously to the media. In a way The Mail on Sunday, the newspaper involved, has bought into the same service.

In due course, this exposure of Lord Browne will drop out of the news. And it is fairly certain that even though Lord Browne has suffered financial loss due to his early resignation, he will not starve. He might even have more time now to write his memoirs, which should make for interesting reading.

The real shame is the fact that Lord Browne has had to hide his sexuality all his life. It seems pointless for people to say that he should not have hesitated to ‘come out’. The inference seems to be that society is more understanding and open to homosexuality. Lord Browne, a shrewd and highly successful business man would have evaluated the situation and realised that his career would have been over if he had admitted to being gay. The decision to try to keep this affair covered up, could not have been made easily.

With all the modern thinking, open society and laws to protect the rights of people no matter their sexual preference it is nevertheless a great sad fact of life that gays and lesbians do not have the same acceptance as worthy human beings as heterosexuals have. It is therefore hardly surprising that they would feel the need to lie about their sexuality and to have to be furtive about their relationships.

Anja Merret lives in Brighton, UK. Her personal blog http://www.anjamerret.com allows her to voice opinions on issues that interest her and observations she makes.

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Many of us believe that the harder we work the more money we’ll earn. This isn’t true. In fact within reason the opposite is true.

Let me give you an example. It’s a fact that it’s the poorest people in this world who work the hardest. Try working in a factory for 7 days a week at just a few cents an hour and you’ll soon realise this.

Take a look at any rich person you know or know of. How hard do they really work? Probably not very hard. If they do work hard it’s often because they enjoy it.

The fundamental difference between the rich and the poor is that the poor work hard for very little money but the rich have money work for them.

The rich have assets which earn them more money while the poor have liabilities which cost them money.

To be a successful entrepreneur you must learn to obtain assets and build systems which will earn money for you, not buy liabilities which will cost you money in the long term.

An example I often use is the following: two men buy an expensive car from the same garage at the same price.

The first man drives it around for a few years and after paying out thousands of dollars in fuel, insurance and tax he finally sells it on (as he can no longer afford to run it) at a loss of another 20 thousand dollars. I personally know people who do this continuously.

The second man hires out the car to people for special occasions such as weddings and parties. After having his customers pay for the fuel, insurance and tax for a few years he pockets the profits he’s made and trades in the car for a bigger one. Any expenses he incurs are tax deductible. He then repeats the process with his bigger, smarter car and in a few years time is able to buy two cars, then three…

Ten years down the line the first man has made a substantial loss and is back riding his push bike to work. The second man now has a fleet of posh cars which he hires out for a living and has quit his day job as a result.

So, if these two men both started off buying the same car at the same price, what went wrong for the first man and what went right for the second man?

It’s simple, the first man turned his car into a liability as many of us do. The second man immediately turned it into an asset.

Next time you buy anything of any value just remember this example and establish whether you’re really buying an asset or a liability. Try to be the second man wherever possible and you’ll be one large step ahead of your friends and associates who haven’t been fortunate enough to read this article.

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Best Regards,
Jason King BSc MBCS CITP
http://www.entrepreneur-mindset.com

Jason King designs websites, runs a number of online businesses and is also in the property letting business. His interests include researching the entrepreneurial mindset, his goal being to learn all there is to know about how to be a successful entrepreneur. He is the author of the book ‘The Secrets of a Successful Entrepreneur’, the result of his extensive research. For more information visit: http://www.entrepreneur-mindset.com

Mother’s Day is almost here. This is the time when we take a moment to really appreciate our Mothers. We do love them but how often do we honor and show them with special tokens that we really care.

We could never repay our Mothers for all they have sacrificed for us. My Mother is priceless. Many people will be sad on Mother’s day, but remember that she lives on in our hearts.

Usually on Mother’s Day, there is a barbecue at our house for all the Mothers in our family. Some Mother’s appreciate gifts while others are contented with being feted on Mother’s Day.

Mother’s Day is celebrated on different days in other countries depending on the origination of Mother’s Day. Originally, the US copied the UK where Mother’s Day was a call to unite Mother’s against war. Now they are totally different in that the US celebrate Mother’s day on the second Sunday in May and is an occasion to celebrate Mothers and Motherhood. In the UK, Mother’s Day is related to the Church. The Mother Church is visited by all and is a means for Children and their Mother to unite.

Mother’s Day has now been copied from the US by several other nations. It now represents a Day where we celebrate with our Mothers by taking them out to restaurants, sending them flowers, buying them special gifts or, like us, just having them over for a barbecue.

The Author is a stay at home Mother having been disabled by the disease RSD. She has her own website dedicated to health and wellness and talks about diverse subjects
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I have been thinking recently about the correlation between the type of vacation people choose and the type of lifestyle they live.

It’s easier nowadays than ever before to jump on a plane and travel to any part of the world we wish. Some people are constrained in the type of vacation they can take, either because of commitments of some kind or simply the cost. However many people are now in a position where they can take any kind of vacation they choose.

If we take away the limitations imposed by budget and commitments and assume people can take any kind of vacation they wish, is there a correlation between the type of vacation they take and the type of lifestyle they live? I think there is.

I am not just talking about rich people going on more expensive vacations because that’s too obvious and doesn’t teach us anything. I am talking about the tendency for the average person to take relaxing vacations in the sun (and there’s nothing wrong with that) and the tendency for entrepreneurs to take more adventurous and challenging vacations.

There’s some obvious examples of this. The most common foreign destination for people living here in the UK is Tenerife. Sun, sea, bars, beaches, relaxation and all for relatively little cost. I went there myself a few years ago.

Then lets take someone like Richard Branson who’s one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the UK. Although he often takes vacations on his own Necker Island (who wouldn’t) he’s famous for his many daring adventures. He’s no stranger to world record attempts involving balloon flights around the world and travelling across the Atlantic Ocean in a boat.

Admittedly, most of us can’t afford to do this type of thing but for many people even if they could they’d still chose not to risk their lives in the name of adventure (and probably PR) and stick with lying on a beach for two weeks instead.

The point I am trying to make here is that I believe there’s a strong link between what we choose to do with a week or two of our spare time and the amount of entrepreneurial spirit we possess.

That still leaves the question, does being an entrepreneur make you more adventurous or does being more adventurous make you an entrepreneur? I can’t answer that but I’d guess it’s simply that the two qualities go hand in hand and anyone who possesses one will possess the other to some degree.

You’re probably wondering what on earth made me think of such an obscure article topic. I guess now’s a good time to use myself as an example. Up until the last few years I’d been the sort of person who had always used up my spare time to take beach holidays in the sun. As I stated earlier I was in Tenerife myself only a few years ago and I’d only ever really been to Spain and Greece before that.

What made me think of this topic was when I looked back on my more recent vacations. In 2005 my main vacation was drastically different. I flew to Phoenix, America with only one night in a hotel booked, a car hired and a flight booked back two weeks later 2,000 miles away from San-Francisco. Having always taken conventional package holidays, for me to drive 2,000 miles across America navigating and finding a bed each night depending on where I was at the time was quite adventurous for me.

In 2006 my main holiday was going on safari in Kenya. Again, for me this was far away from my usual holiday to Tenerife. This year I have chosen to do a 190 mile walk coast to coast across England spanning eleven consecutive days. This could turn out to be a very painful challenge and by no means relaxing.

Why the sudden and drastic change in vacation choice? I don’t know, but I can say that it did coincide with my increasing interest in entrepreneurialism. I don’t know which one influenced the other most but I do think they’re linked. It must be the challenge and desire to achieve something that I never thought I dare even attempt. I am not sure.

I think the value we can all take from this is that there is very likely to be a link between the type of vacation we choose and the type of lifestyle we pursue. Think about how you’d ideally like to spend two weeks of your spare time and it may teach you something about yourself that you’d previously not even considered.

For information on the entrepreneurial mindset please visit: http://www.entrepreneur-mindset.com

Best Regards,
Jason King BSc MBCS CITP
http://www.entrepreneur-mindset.com

Jason King designs websites, runs a number of online businesses and is also in the property letting business. His interests include researching the entrepreneurial mindset, his goal being to learn all there is to know about how to be a successful entrepreneur. He is the author of the book ‘The Secrets of a Successful Entrepreneur’, the result of his extensive research. For more information visit: http://www.entrepreneur-mindset.com

You might at some time want to add Adsense blocks to one or more of your web pages. To add these exactly where you want them you will have to know how to insert tables into your page of the size that you want, and exactly where you want them. You will also require knowledge of the HTML needed to have your text flow round the blocks, rather than having your Adsense looking stupid, sitting at the side of a page with nothing but space on the other side.

With a knowledge of HTML you will be confident of designing a web page exactly as you want it, and formatting the text as needed, not only to make the most sense of it, but to make it look good to your visitors. However, there is more!

If you are intending to make money from internet marketing, you will already know that you need a list. The purpose of building a list is to provide you with prospects to whom you can make offers on a regular basis. Naturally, you will also provide them with information on the subject that they registered to find more about, but you will find it difficult to do so without at least a basic working knowledge of HTML.

If you make an offer on your email, you will likely have to provide a clickable link. Whether this leads the prospect to a sales page or to a page from which they can download a free offer makes no difference. In either case, you will have to know how to form the HTML tags to make the link active unless you want to produce an ugly URL as the link.

Irrespective of all the reasons that I have heard why there is no need to learn HTML, everybody who has a successful website, and is making money using internet marketing, has a working knowledge of it, and HTML is essential if you use a website in your internet business.

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Weight loss, fitness and healthy living are the concerns of all, and more than ever before now, workout services are springing up daily online claiming to provide fitness and weight loss services through workout websites and associated services.

Most of these workout services are created by fitness experts to be easy to follow and ready for you to use in achieving weight loss, making yourself fit and upping your athletic standard in your chosen field of sports.

If a workout program will help you blast fat away from your body because it employs new advanced workout methods that ensures complete stability that improves your strength, then it is worth your while, on the other hand, if all a workout site does is showcase the traditional workout methods then what is its worth to you?

Therefore, you must be careful when choosing a workout site or program to help you achieve weight loss and fitness, because there are many workout sites out there that are not going to help you achieve your aim even when they claim that they can.

Finally, depending on your need; whether it is weight loss or sports fitness, bear in mind that it is you who will achieve your aim by following a particular program religiously. No matter how good a workout site or program may be, if you do not follow instructions you will not achieve weight loss of fitness. As the name implies, workout means working the different exercises that a program employs to help you achieve weight loss or fitness.

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How to watch satellite TV online for free? This is entirely possible but you need to know a little more about how you can get satellite TV for free to watch on your PC. When we say free satellite TV online, we are talking about free to air satellite TV broadcasts and free LIVE or recorded streaming TV and video on certain online satellite TV channels. Here’s a guide on how to watch satellite TV online for free.

Satellite TV channels can be found online through some of the stations’ websites. You can find free online TV programs streaming from different countries such as BeeLineTV.com and WorldTVPC.com. There are others where you can watch satellite TV online for free. You can type in the words ‘watch satellite TV on PC’, ‘watch satellite TV online’, ‘free internet satellite TV’, ‘internet satellite TV’ etc into the search engines to locate the relevant websites.

Since the satellite TV programs can be streaming LIVE feeds, your computer has to meet certain basic requirements in order for you to watch satellite TV online for free. Your PC should have at least a minimum Pentium 3 CPU, with processing speeds higher than 333 MHz. Other basic system needs include a decent video graphics card, a sound card, a large enough LCD screen and a set of external speakers.

Using PC satellite TV software is another quick way to watch satellite TV online for free. This software allows one to watch satellite TV instantly online and it is entirely free. You do not need to pay the TV stations to watch TV as what the software is receiving are Free To Air TV broadcasts. Free To Air TV broadcasts actually means that anyone is allowed to receive and watch the unencrypted broadcasts legally. The satellite stations are only very concerned if you send a signal to them. So unless you are sending them signals, there is nothing to worry about receiving free TV to watch.

You can watch satellite TV online and tune in to more than 3000 channels worldwide. TV channels online include movies, music, LIVE games, news, educational, kids channels and radio stations. So there is a channel for everyone in the family from grandparents to the youngest kid in the house. This neat piece of software can be downloaded at several online authorized retailers. The whole process of downloading the PC satellite TV software to watch TV online from payment to installation and playtime takes no more than 1 hour even for PC dummies.

Similarly, there are some basic requirements for the online software to work properly on your PC. Requirements are quite identical with what was mentioned earlier. And you can watch satellite TV online on most operating systems like Windows 95, 98, NT, ME, 2000 or XP. That is practically all Windows Operating Systems (OS).

These are the two main ways to watch satellite TV online for free. Find out at my satellite TV blog how you can join more than 1 million users to watch satellite TV online at a discounted price.

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There are several reasons why you should learn HTML, but before we discuss these it is important to understand what HTML is.

HTML is not, as many people believe, a computer language. Even though it is short for Hypertext Markup Language, it is no more than a means of formatting and to use the term ‘language’ for it is to provide it with a dignity that it does not deserve. It uses formatting tags in much the same way as the old word processors used control codes to format text. The reason it cannot be accepted as a language is that it is your own written language that is used, and all it does is to provide instructions as to how that language is displayed on the page.

However, it is splitting hairs as to whether HTML is a language or a formatting system. If you want to make money from internet marketing, rather than just play at it, you need your own website. Once you have that you will require a means of designing and adding test to your pages. That is what HTML does.

In fact, it does a bit more than that, in that it is used to design the website itself. However, the nearest most people get to website design is to fill in the blanks on templates. With the search engines placing more emphasis on content, however, it is becoming increasingly more important that your web pages be refreshed regularly.

Most people are more interested in their home page that any of their internal pages, but even there the content must change occasionally or it will slowly lose listing position. In order to make these changes it is frequently necessary to have knowledge of HTML. Depending on your web host, and the editing facilities provided, you might have a wysiwyg HTML editor that you can use to edit the main body text. If not however, you will have to edit the HTML.

This might involve no more than simply adding text to that existing, without any further formatting being required. However, if you want add another table or to format the text in some way, such as italicizing or bolding it, then you will have to employ the relevant HTML tags:

to italicize text like this use the emphasis tag<em>surround the text with the tag like this</em>

To make your text bold use

<b> or <strong>like this<strong>here the strong tag surrounds the text.</strong>
<b>And this shows the bold tag</b>

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The Atkins diet has indeed proven effective at shedding pounds and keeping them off. But like anything, the Atkins diet has its benefits as well as its trade-offs. The Atkins diet should not be undertaken by women on menopause unless expressly given permission by their physician. (Note: Anyone thinking of starting any new diet should first consult with their physician to discuss possible side effects.)

The Atkins diet is not recommended for women experiencing menopause because of calcium depletion. Because the Atkins diet advocates limiting processed carbohydrates like sugar and flour, the body must derive more of its energy from other sources such as stored fats.

This process of converting stored fats into energy and the digestion of more non-carb sources of food causes more acid to be produced. The increased acid is offset by calcium. When there is insufficient calcium in the food ingested, the body will get the calcium from alternate sources—such as the bones. Therefore, people on the Atkins diet generally need to increase their calcium intake naturally or via supplements.

The reason why the Atkins diet is not recommended for women experiencing menopause is because they are already experiencing the same calcium loss—without being on the diet. Menopause causes extreme hormone deficiencies and imbalances that cause the blood to be acidic, just as it becomes after being on the Atkins diet.

Osteoporosis is a prime concern for women because of menopause. The acidic blood caused by the hormone imbalances is counteracted by calcium that must be leached from the bones as there are insufficient amounts in the diet.

So, because both menopause and the Atkins diet lead to extreme calcium loss that must be offset in most cases by supplements, they are not recommended in conjunction with one another. However, some physicians may be able to prescribe specialized diets and calcium supplements that can accommodate the extreme calcium loss.

Many women may not want to take any more supplements, vitamins, or any other form of medication but still want to enjoy all the proven benefits of the Atkins diet. It is possible to increase calcium consumption naturally by eating more cheese or butter. You can also eat leafy green vegetables also after the Induction phase is over and you are allowed to bring more carbs to the dinner table. Spinach, cabbage, chicola and even kale.

The acidic nature of the blood is offset by calcium, just as it is when on the Atkins diet. However, unlike the increased acidity of menopause which is caused by hormone imbalances, the Atkins diet causes acidic blood and urine due to increased digestive functioning and fat burning. The result is the same in both cases, however—calcium ends up being leached from the bones. These effects can be offset with increased calcium intake through alternative sources, such as supplements or green leafy vegetables after the Induction phase.

Note: The Author is not a doctor. Please consult a doctor before starting any new diet plan.

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Your funnel begins at the front end, which is where all of your marketing tools are. Whether you use SEO, pay per click advertising, Web2 promotion, ezine advertising and any of a large number of lead creating techniques, your objective at the front end is to get an opt-in, which is basically a volunteer jumping into your funnel.

At the front end you are look for people to give you permission to contact them. Once in the funnel, you start the process of qualifying and disqualifying leads. Disqualification is an important part of a sale funnel You must spend the bulk of your time on qualified leads, who are interested in your products, not those who have little interest. Your front end is about capturing leads, and keeping those that show interest in what you have to offer.

You don’t make money at the front end, just fill your funnel. The back end is where the money is made. Your back end customers have filtered down the funnel, opting for free offers, and paying initially for inexpensive items, then other higher priced products. At the back end, they are exposed to the highest priced products such as audio and video products, seminars, mentoring or even highly priced ebooks.

Your sales funnel allows you to analyze every step of the process and decide where your efforts are best expended at any one time. Internet marketers that use sales funnels have a more focused route to follow, and are on top of their business day after day, and fully aware of the potential of their lists and how to maximize them. That is why you need a sales funnel to maximize your business potential.

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