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If you are a heavy Internet user like me, and you need a daily, no hourly fix of news, then Spokeo is your new best friend. Spokeo is the perfect tool to keep track of all your friends’ profiles and even find new profiles you’ve never seen before!

The core of Spokeo is its people search technology. This is what allows Spokeo to find people and their profiles across every major network on the Web.

Want to find people, find people’s MySpace profiles?
No problem, Spokeo not only retrieves MySpace profiles, but also MySpace photos, videos, blogs, and music playlists?

What about LinkedIn resume updates?
Spokeo has you covered there as well. It searches every major network out there, so how can it miss LinkedIn?

What if there’s information about friends on lesser known websites?
Spokeo also grabs information from these websites and classifies them in its own unique category as ‘web references.’

This people search technology is broad, targeting over 40 major networks, and it is deep, retrieving rich content in original format. Spokeo knows that you don’t just want a profile picture, but you want all the rich multimedia. It transplants the entire profile from the original network into Spokeo.

Now, here is where the fun begins. The first time you use Spokeo, you will be amazed by how comprehensively it has searched people. If you are a prolific Internet junkie like me and have an email address book of over 1000 contacts, then be prepared to read through the search results for more than half an hour.

I literally found hundreds of my friends’ flickr accounts, and I sat there looking at their photo albums one by one. Keeping up with my close friends was a good feeling, and thumbing through all the photos of my more distant friends showed me a thing or two about their personalities.

So I got my fix of news that day, but it simply wasn’t enough. I needed all the updates as soon as they came in. Good thing Spokeo also tracks these people for you on a hourly basis. As soon as any of your friends or colleagues so much as twitches on a social network, Spokeo picks it up and displays it right in front of you. Voila, here’s your fire hose of feeds, RSS, news, updates, pokes, and wall doodles!

Some people call this persistent people search, but to me it’s a fix. Now let me get back to reading about some of my friends’ latest exploits. Happy searching.

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As well as providing interest from your window, encouraging wildlife is beneficial to your plants and soil. Bees and butterflies aid pollination, whilst frogs and hedgehogs control pests. A balanced ecosystem is the key to a healthy garden - but don’t think that you have to create a wilderness to attract animal life. A careful choice of plants and the addition of a small pool can invite hundreds of species to your doorstep.

Insect-friendly Veg

If you grow vegetables, you may be worried about insects on your crop. However, sowing flowers in your kitchen garden can encourage useful creatures such as the hoverfly. Attracted by the flowers, they will lay eggs on your produce and the hungry larvae will prey upon pesky aphids.

The popularity of organic methods has led to a renewed interest in companion planting. Rather than using pesticides which disrupt the natural balance of the ecosystem, aim to confuse potential pests with strong-smelling plants. Grow marigolds alongside your tomatoes to deter whitefly, or try nasturtiums with your cabbages to stop caterpillars from feasting on your produce. For a combination which is practical as well as beautiful, sow red-flowered nasturtiums against the deep green leaves of your cabbages.

Attracting Bees

Bees are essential in the garden for pollinating both vegetables and ornamentals. The larvae are raised during the spring, and require the protein and fats provided by pollen. Try to avoid mowing the lawn and tidying too early in the the year, as bees will appreciate the odd weed flower as a source of food - violets, clover and dandelions are among their favourites. A meadowland mixture provides nectar all year long. Sow in spring for summer flowers and next year you will be rewarded with wild flowers in spring, summer and autumn. It isn’t necessary to have a huge swathe - the mix can be used to fill gaps in the border, or to create a single patch. It is advisable to avoid sowing seeds in shadier areas - bees love the sunshine and may ignore plants situated in dark corners!

At gardens4less, we stock an array of insect houses. The pollinating bee log provides a winter home for Mason and Solitary species, whilst the solar study chamber allows different creatures to be observed and studied - ideal for children learning about wildlife.

Butterflies and Moths

There are over fifty different species of butterfly in the UK, although they are sadly becoming a rare sight. Careful planting can help encourage these beautiful creatures back into your garden. Buddleja is a superb choice, as the flowers are full of nectar. Our buddleja mix contains a variety of colours to attract beneficial, summer insects. Earlier in the year, aubretia provides an abundant food source for butterflies emerging from hibernation. Our butterfly habitats offer roosting space for over wintering species and can be filled with food. We also offer a special feeder which can be charged with sugar/water solution, or soaked with butterfly attractant to encourage rarer species.

Pest-busting Visitors

Rather than using pesticides, invite predators into your garden. Frogs, toads, hedgehogs and bats will feast upon your slugs, snails and greenfly, saving your plants from devastation. Almost all wildlife will appreciate a small amount of water - read our guide to creating a pond. If space is an issue, a sunken washing up bowl will suffice - but ensure that you include a rock or piece of wood to allow creatures to get out easily. Unfortunately, visiting frogs and toads may become easy prey for prowling cats. Offer them a safe haven in the form of our purpose-built house. The dual-chambered design provides both dry, over wintering space and a separate access door to a damp, soil-level haven.

The lottery is a game of luck with the possibility of winning very unlikely. In the UK lottery for example, the odds of winning the jackpot by selecting all 6 drawn numbers are 1 in 14 million. If you are playing the Euro Millions the odds are even more distant at 76 million to 1. So is it really possible to give your odds a boost?

If you do a search online you will find masses of websites offering you information on how to increase your chances of winning the lotto; these methods range from the unrealistic to the believable and most will cost you quite a few lottery tickets to find out if they will work. You will see software programs that hold databases of all the lotto number machines and ball sets used in each draw that statistically analyse the frequency of each number appearing in a lottery draw. These programs then spit out sets of numbers that have produced the best results in past lottery draws.

There is another bunch of products that will happily accept your cash in return for their writers’ own system of selecting winning numbers for which they will show proof of their lottery winning results. Some will sell you their set of numbers which they declare have won frequently over many months or years. And if you are truly desperate to win the lottery you could even pay to have good luck spells cast for you by modern witchcraft practitioners; or buy charms that vow to affect the result of the lotto draws in your favour.

But are there any genuine ways in which to boost your lottery winning chances?

The answer is yes; playing as a member of a lottery syndicate is probably the best way of boosting your odds. As a syndicate member you pool all your entry fees to purchase a larger number of tickets in your preferred lotto game. This of course gives you and your syndicate members a much greater chance of winning cash prizes. Naturally the downside of joining a lottery syndicate is that you have to distribute all winnings with every other syndicate member. It also makes sense to build your syndicate membership with people that you know well and above all trust; but only you can make this decision.

If you want total peace of mind, have a good look at the eLottery syndicate system. e-Lottery gives players of the UK lotto and Euro Millions a considerable advantage due to the way in which the syndicates have been designed. If you elect to play the UK lottery, your syndicate plays with one number guaranteed in every draw; this equates to a 733% advantage that your syndicate holds over the ticket buying community. If you opt to play the Euromillions lottery, both “Lucky Star” numbers are guaranteed in every draw meaning that your syndicate plays with an even greater 3600% advantage over the entire ticket buying public.

Whichever way you view it the lottery is a risk and the odds are stacked against you but you can reduce those odds by working with others in a well managed lotto syndicate.