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How to soften old muffins

Do you ever make a tray of muffins only to find them a few days later able to become the sofa leg you needed? Well to revive those hard rocks all you need is to spray with a little water and put in a brown paper bag. Place them in the oven for 10 minutes and they are as good as new!!

Have to avoid burning muffins

Next time you make muffins or popovers, fill one compartment of the muffin tin 1/2 full of water. This helps prevent the other muffins from burning!

Keeping the grill clean

Looking for an easy way to keep your grill grate clean? The trick is to clean it AFTER you've cooked. After you're done cooking, leave the grill burning and close the lid. After 10 minutes or so turn the grill off. Most of the left over food particles will have burned off. Scrap any left over particles off with a wire brush. It's much easier to clean the grill while it's still warm from cooking, and the next time you go to cook, you'll have a clean grill with no cleaning required!

Easy way to start the charcoal grill

Place an empty carton of milk or juice with charcoal inside at the bottom of the grill. Set on fire the top of the carton; the wax lining of the carton will delay the burning method thus the coals will eventually heat up to the most desired temperature. While the carton is burning, the smoldering coals will spread across the whole grill.

Tips for living the Golden Rule

Let’s take a look at some everyday tips for living the Golden Rule in your daily life:

Practice understanding. Try to place yourself in the shoes of another person. Any person. Loved ones, co-workers, and people you meet on the street. Really try to understand, to the extent that you can, what it is like to be them, what they are going through, and why they do what they do.

Practice sympathy. Once you can understand another person, and feel what they’re going through, learn to want to end their suffering. When you can, take even a small action to somehow ease their pain in some way.

How would you want to be treated? There a is little twist to the Golden Rule which I believe is overlooked by most people - the Golden Rule doesn’t really mean that you should treat someone else exactly as you’d want them to treat you … it means that you should try to imagine how they want to be treated, and do that. So when you put yourself in their shoes, ask yourself how you think they want to be treated.

Be friendly. When you’re in doubt, follow this tip. It’s usually safe to be friendly towards others. Of course, there are times when others just don’t want someone acting friendly towards them, and you should be sensitive to that. You should also be friendly within the boundaries – it’s not about being friend to some because maybe they fit a certain criteria… Anyone! Who doesn’t like to feel welcome and wanted?

Listen to others. Another weakness: a lot of us want to talk, but very few of us want to listen. And yet, we all want to be listened to. So take the time to actually listen to another person, rather than just wait your turn to talk. It’ll also go a long way to helping you understand others.

Terrific Everyday Tips

An Easy Way To Remove Grease From Gravy

Trying to skim grease from the top of gravy can be time consuming. There's an easier way: place your saucepan in the freezer. Grease will rise to the top, solidify in one chunk, and can be lifted off easily.

Eliminate Burned Bottoms

If your cookies and biscuits get too brown on the bottom, try doubling up on your baking pans. Double-panning eliminates burned bottoms.

Hassle-free Bed Making

Do you hate changing sheets? There's any easy way to cut the job in half. Make your bed up with all of your clean bottom sheets. Each week, pull off one bottom sheet to reveal the clean sheet underneath.

Reduce Noise When Traveling

If you find your kids are getting too noisy in the back seat, hold a "quiet contest." The winner earns a candy.

When Kids Fight About The Larger Portion

If your kids argue about who has the larger portion, solve the dilemma by getting one child to divide portions, while the other one gets to pick. This works every time.

Couple Buying Strategy

If you and your mate can't agree on which household items to buy first. Make a pact: you'll support him in his choice if he'll then support you in yours. Take turns and see how well this works.

Sleep Remedy

If you can't go to sleep, lying in bed trying to fall asleep seldom works. Instead, sit up and read. You will relax, your eyes will grow heavy, and soon you will drift off to sleep.

Stress-free Mornings

If you hate rushing to work in the morning, you can cut your "getting ready" time by taking your shower the evening before. You'll still be clean in the morning, but instead of using your time showering, you can use those precious minutes to have another cup or coffee and read the paper or a favorite book

Making A Life Plan

We all know that life is too short. Make a life plan and stick to it, no matter what. Tell yourself and others the following: My life plan doesn't include failure, poverty, or settling for something I don't want.

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15 Common Mistakes that violate Google Adsense TOS

Google Adsense program is a popular web advertising program which provides a good income source for many websites. There are well defined terms of service to strictly adhere to when participating in the program.

On my visit through sites and forums, I daily notice several instances of misuse of Adsense ads. So here a few helpful Google Adsense tips, probably many you already know, and few you might gain by knowing now. These adsense faq are all picked from the Program Policies, Terms and Conditions and FAQ itself and presented in a simplified manner.

1. Never click your own adsense ads or get them clicked for whatever reason. You know this one very well. This is a surefire way to close you Adsense account. Never tell your office associates or friends to click on them. Keep a check if your family or children are busy increasing your income by clicking your ads and indirectly trying to stop your income. Dont even think of offering incentives for clicks, using automated clicking tools, or other deceptive software. Adsense is very smart to detect fraudulent clicks. Check the ads which appear on your pages by the Google Preview tool if required.

2. Never change the Adsense code. There are enough means of adsense optimization & customizations available to change the colour, background or border to suit your needs. Do whatever you want to do outside the code, never fiddle within the ad or the search code. They know it when you do. The search code has more limitations to colour and placement, but you should adhere to the rules. The code may stop working and violates the TOS.

3. Do not place more than 3 ad units and 3 ad links or 2 adsense search boxes on any web page. Anyway, ads will not appear in those units even if you place more ad units. But this is the limit they set, so it is better to stick to it.

4. Do not run competitive contextual text ad or search services on the same site which offer Google Adsense competition in their field. Never try to create link structures resembling the adsense ads. Never use other competitive search tools on the same pages which have Adsense powered Google search. They do allow affiliate or limited-text links. Update: Google has allowed you to run contextual advertising like Yahoo ads, Chitika etc provided the ads do not resemble Adsense ads.

5. Do not disclose confidential information about your account like the CTR, CPM and income derived via individual ad units or any other confidential information they may reveal to you. However, you may reveal the total money you make as per recent updates to the TOS.

6. Label headings as “sponsored links” or “advertisements” only. Other labels are not allowed. I have seen many sites label ads with other titles. Dont make your site a target in a few seconds gaze.

7. Never launch a New Page for clicked ads by default. Adsense ads should open on the same page. You may be using a base target tag to open all links in a new window or frame by default. Correct it now as they do not want new pages opening from clicked ads.

8. One Account suffices for Multiple websites. You do not need to create 5 accounts for 5 different websites. One account will do. If you live in the fear that if one account is closed down for violation of TOS, believe me they will close all accounts when they find out. You can keep track of clicks by using channels with real time statistics. They will automatically detect the new site and display relevant ads.

9. Place ads only on Content Pages. Advertisers pay only for content based ads. Content drives relevant ads. Although you might manage some clicks from error, login, registration, “thank you” or welcome pages, parking pages or pop ups, it will get you out of the program.

10. Do not mask ad elements. Alteration of colours and border is a facility to blend or contrast ads as per your site requirements. I have seen many sites where the url part is of the same colour as the background. While blending the ad with your site is a good idea, hiding relevant components of the ads is not allowed. Also do not block the visibility of ads by overlapping images, pop ups, tables etc.

11. Do not send your ads by email. Html formatted emails look good and allow placement of these javascript ads. But it is not allowed as per TOS. You do not want impressions registering on their logs from any email even once. They are watching!

12. Keep track of your content. So Adsense is not allowed on several non content pages. But it is also not allowed on several content pages too. Do not add it on web pages with MP3, Video, News Groups, and Image Results. Also exclude any pornographic, hate-related, violent, or illegal content.

13. Do not alter the results after ad clicks or searches - Ensure you are not in any way altering the site which the user reaches to after clicking the ads. Do not frame, minimize, remove, redirect or otherwise inhibit the full and complete display of any Advertiser Page or Search Results Page after the user clicks on any Ad or Search results.

14. Avoid excessive advertising and keyword stuffing - Although the definition of ‘excessive’ is a gray area and is subject to discretion, yet Google adsense with correct placement, focused content and high traffic will get you much more income than other programs, so excessive advertising is not required. Keyword stuffing does target better focused ads, but overdoing it is not required.

15. Ensure you Language is Supported - Adsense supports “Chinese (simplified), Japanese, Danish, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, English, Polish, Finnish, Portuguese, French, Russian, German, Spanish, Hungarian, Swedish, Italian and Turkish”. In addition, AdSense for search is available in Czech, Slovak, and Traditional Chinese. If your web pages language is not supported, do not use the code on such pages.

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