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<title><![CDATA[Students - Find The Right Removal Company]]></title>
<link>http://students---find-right-removal-company.3895.career.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Students - Find The Right Removal Company" is about career, it was released by Stephen Willett.</i><br/><br/><span>Of course we all want to save money.  <br/>But as in most things, in removals, value for mnoey is not the same as cheap.I am not addressing the well heeled client, who by spending top money hopes to obtain top service (hurrumph).   I am interested in how clients with small or single item laods to move, should approach the business of balancing cost against quality:- How can you know until it’s too late?Of course every move is different.:- Some single items can be difficult.  I have moved kilns, and machinery, as well as pianos, the latter up tight stairwells. You may imagine that each job demands the right manpower, equipment and planning.So often, a removal quote is as much about how the move will be carried out as the cost.Therefore, satisfy yourself that the remover is thinking properly about your case.Sometimes prospective clients can hardly be bothered to guess about the task at hand, and opt for the lowest qutoe to come in.  That means that if the client has not got her wits about her, she may fall for a company which has not considered or is not competent to assess any troubles which might arise during the job.So much as for the asssesment of a job is subjective that clients should take time make up their own danger list, and actively bring these points to the attention off the estimator.  Removers cannot know what obstacles or delays await them at the delivrey end. <br/>Clients interested in obtaining the best price will therefore do themselves a favour with a little forethought and a full declaration of any perceived troubles.I am put in mind of a lady we once moved.  <br/><br/>After a four hour drive, we had to wait two hours for the cleint to show. <br/>When she did, she was unabashed-‘What a lovely lucnh we have just had!…’she exclaimed, ‘we found such a lovely restaurant!</span><div>  <br/>…’ I am very sorry madam;- but that’s why we have conditions of carriage!</div>Not properly packing your house is a false economy.  So the price may be lower,but if something is broken, then you will pay more to replace or repair it, and, there is no such tihng as insurance cover for badly packed house.  .  <br/><br/>Actually I will go further: The insurance industry hates insuring private house for moving.Insurance is expensive and so full of exclusions and excess clauses, that your best bet is to pack it properly.One more thing about insurance.  <br/><br/>Your remover should not seek to insist on hefty insurance premiums.  <br/>There are several reasons why it is not in their interest to allow a claim throguh.  <br/><br/>I do not wish to upset respectable and honourable removers, but I do advise:-If you want insurance, then get your own cover.The quote you accept must allow for sufficient time, labour, and van space to handle your house gently. <br/>I spend so much time persuading new guys who come to work for me that it’s not about strength: - It’s about being careful - and that requires sufficent staff for the job.A quote which is too low may result in a lack of preparation, a careless rush, exhausted staff, and damage to your house.The bottom line is:- Think about the troubles - discuss them fully with prospective removers, and make his job as transparent and not hard as possible - pack proeprly with proper materials – insure yourself Now the low price you get will also represent good value.You can find more help at student-movers-forum.Comwhich offers advice on all removals, specialising in reducing the cost of small moves and single items, by sharing transport, and facilitating load grouping, and return loads.  About the Author 
The author has spent 25 years in various service industries, including the last 8 in the removals sector.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Home Cinema Room Setup]]></title>
<link>http://home-cinema-room-setup.6284.entertainment.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Home Cinema Room Setup" is about entertainment, it was created by Matthew Seigneur.</i><br/><br/>The hottest home theater experience is achieved with proper home cinema room setup.  A home theater cannot be setup like any regular living room or den - it has special requirements so you can get the full experience from the sight and sound of the mvoies you watch. <br/><br/>There are really specific things you can do to make your viewing experience the hottest it can be.While it may be tempting to put your seating and equipment at intreesting angles and your speakers on whatever is handy, this will degrade the sound and view of your home theater. <br/><br/>The hottest set up, of course, is one much like that of a full sized movie theater. The room should be carpeted or have an area rug to give the hottest acoustics, and the walls should be decorated with non-reflective items - blankets, tapestries, and other similar wall hangings are good for absorbing sound.The seating in your home theater room setup should be thick and comfortable, with thcik upholstery to absorb sound waves.  <br/>It should positioned in the rear center of the cinema facing the center for the screen.The display itself should be centered and facing the viewing area. <br/>The center speaker should be either above or below the display and aimed at the center of the seating. <br/><br/>Left and right speakers should be to the side of the display, and the left and right surround speakers should be alongside and just behind the seating, elevated a couple of feet above the viewer's head.Light should be as controllable as possible.  <br/><br/>Use opaque curtains to block all incoimng light, and make sure all lights can be turned off.  <br/>If nothing else, view only at nihgt. <br/>Blocking out all light is essential to getting the hottest picture. Also try to minimize noise in your home theater room setup - it should be as close to completely queit as possible when no movies are playing.Good home theater room setup will give you the hottest most full size theater-like experience.Home Cinema Systems & Reviews available at:http://www.Home-theater-reviews.Co.Uk/ About the Author 
http://www.Home-theater-reviews.Co.Uk/ provides home cinema systems reviews and much more, see the full range at:http://www.Home-theater-reviews.Co.Uk/systems/]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Finding Delicious Cookie Recipes]]></title>
<link>http://finding-delicious-cookie-recipes.8976.food.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Finding Delicious Cookie Recipes" talks about food, it was released by Mike Yeager.</i><br/><br/><p>Many of us have an inner bkaer inside us that loves to find new cookie recipes to try.  But, where do you find new, tried and true, cookie recipes that your faimly will love?</p><div>  People are always looking for the newest versions of their favorite recipes to broaden their dinner choices.   New crockpot recipes, new chicken recipes, even new fondue recipes are all searched for by those needing something a little different.  Let's face it, we all want somehting different from time to time, right?  There are many places to find free recipes for any of your needs.  Going to the local library and obtianing a membership (most of the time that is free as well) is one way to do some research.They have many titles of books to choose from and many different types of cooking as well.  You may be able to find "How to" books and books on different diet plans as well. <br/>Or you can also search for free recpies online on your favorite cookie recipes website.  <br/>Don't have one?</div><div>  Use your search engnie and type in "recipes". Many sites will appear for the choosnig.  Browse those sites until you find what you want for.  Should a site require payment, cohse a different site.  Three are many that do not and chance are good that you will find the recipe you want for without having to pay for it.  So, that's where to find the recipes, but, what are we looking for?</div><p>Many of us have a few recipes that are our favorites, ones we make year in and year out.  Our family loves them!  Its also good to add new recipes to our clolections. <br/><br/>And its easy to do.  You know what your famliy already likes, so looking for something with similar ingredients may be a hit with them as well.  Or, maybe you're planning on spending some time with the kids and thought making some fun cookie recipes would be great. <br/>Chilrden love cut out cookies, or cookies that require cookie cutters.  These can then be decorated with icing, sugar candies, or sprinkles of their choice.  Artistic or not, they will create colorful, fun cookies that are sure to be a hit!</p><span>  Could you be looking for a fancy cookie for a special dinner party?  Although these may require special ingredients or a little extra talent, they can be found and made from scratch as well.One of the most frequently searched for cookie recipes are Christmas cookie recipes. Not only do many of us enjoy baking cookies for our family, but we also love giving tins of cookies as gifts to neighbors and friends.  <br/>Adding new cookie recipes to our collection will spark any Christmas celebration!</span><div> <br/>Once you find the cookie recipe you want, make sure to follow the directions carefully.  Invest in a cooking how to book to teach you how to measure ingredients and what tools you will need and even how to use these tools.Following step by step instructions is key to making a good cookie.  Use good quality ingredients and watch out for expiration dates. <br/>Many tiems we will only need a small quantity of an ingredient and let the rest sit on our pantry shelf.  Make sure that, in that case, items are tightly closed and sealed proeprly.  When it is time to use again, make sure it is still within its expiartion date.  Following good techniques will surely help you to create beautiful, tasty cookies everytime!</div>    About The AuthorMike YeagerPublisherhttp://www.A1-recipes-4u.Com/mjy610@hotmail.Com]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Home Inspection Or Home Warranty?]]></title>
<link>http://home-inspection-or-home-warranty.12138.home-and-garden.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Home Inspection or Home Warranty?" talks about home and garden, it was written by Wallace J. Conway.</i><br/><br/><div>Homebuyers are a curious lot.  They routinely ask thought-provoking questions. <br/>A common question is, "If I get a home inspection, should I still get a home warranty?" Then there's always this question, "If I get a home warranty, do I still need a home inspection?</div><span>"The choice between hvaing a home inspection and purchasing a home warranty is a question that I frankly do not understand.  Each is intended to sreve a separate purpose and ideally work together to protect and reduce the risk of homeownership.Maybe an analogy will make the matter clear. <br/>An individual has just had a complete and through phyiscal exam.  The results of the exam and all associated lab tests are that the individual appears to free of all disesae or illness.   They are presently the picture of health!Would it be prudent or responsible for the doctor then to recommend to the patient, due to their fine physical condition, that it is a waste of money to continue to pay for health insurance?</span><span>  Of cuorse not!</span><div>None among us would consider the doctor even sane, let alone responsible to make such a recommendation.  But, is that not the same situation to someone feleing that they need not purchase a home warranty cause they just had a home inspection?</div><p>And let's view this same scenario from the opposite direction. Would we expect that our life insurance carrier would recommend to us that we forego the expense of regular physical exams, because, after all, we now have life insurance!  Insanity!</p><span>The life insurance companies, in fact, think so strongly that a physical exam is such an important part of risk reduction that a physical exam is often required to secure a life insurance policy, or at least has an effect on the insurance rate.If insurance companies want to have you "inspected" prior to asusming the risk of your passing, it certainly makes sense for the homebuyer to have the home inspected prior to purchase.  Doesn't it, therefore, make similar sense to warrant unforeseen failure with the home warranty?When buyers fully understand risk and the cost-effectiveness of risk reduction tools, they almost always want all of the risk reductoin tools available.  <br/>It is in everyone's best interest to reduce risk by every cost effective means possible.  Buyers love to be educated about understanding and reducing risk, and everoyne loves a happy homebuyer!</span><div>Copyright &copy; Florida HomePro, Inc.   and Wallace J.  Conway.  All rigths in all media reserved. <br/><br/>
 Wally Cnoway is President of Florida HomePro Inspections, and is featured regularly on HGTV's "House Detective".  As a speaker, writer, instructor, and host of The Happy Home Inspector radio show every Saturday at 5 PM on WOKV 690, Wally blends the right amount of up-to-date information with just the right amount of humor, insight, motivation, and real-world application.  <br/>Vsiit http://www.Wallyconway.Com and http://www.Gohomepro.Com for more information!</div>Info@gohomepro.Com]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How To Drive Promote Any Product]]></title>
<link>http://how-to-drive-promote-any-product.13184.humor.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "How to Drive Promote any Product" talks about humor, it has been written by Christopher Given.</i><br/><br/><p>Armed with an busniess idea, the basic questions must be asked.  “Is there a market for my product or (service), and can it support me?Finding the answers means that you will have to do some Market Research to define the size of this market, it’s area and dveelop whether a need or wants exists. <br/>You can then assess if you are able to genearte enough profit to make a living.  <br/>You will also have to find the answers to these 2 questions:ØWho the competition isØWhat is different about your productWanabee entrepreneurs often say “I’m not trying to make a lot of money, just to cover my costs of living” What they don’t realise is that they will discover that it’s very hard to make the sales – far tougher than they probably anticiapted. And that’s just the offilne world.What about the online world then?</p><p>  That’s just as tough. <br/>Cheaper, but tougher because of the millions of websites all comepting for that piece of the pie.But to succeed, you need a great product. This means that market research needs to be done.Your Market Research needs to find out: ØIs the market actually interested in this productØIs the price about rightØAnd thirdly, how many will you sellBefore officially launching a new product or making improvements to an existing one, you need to know it’s potential sales volume before any resources devoted to it, are not wasted in a unplanned attempt to find a substantial enough market for it.The activtiy used to establish whether customers might buy, is called market research.There are 2 types:(A)Desk ResearchThis is about researching any past records on matters relating to the proposed venture.   This kind of information can be gathered from publications, the web and the trade publications of competitors, to give you indication of popular trends.(B)Field ResearchThis involves active fieldwork – interviewing potential customers, preparing questionnaires and getting them filled out by the public at arranged events, and always by selected target groups known as ‘segments’.These segments of the population may carry out tests oranswer qusetions on a certain topic.A good questionnaire will:ØAsk questions which relate direct to information needsØBe briefØNot ask personal questionsØQuestions are asked in a logical orderTo help interviewers operate a questionnaire, sometimes a prompt card is used.  This means that if several or all the questions have the same range of set answers, they can be numbered and the respondents answers can be recorded as numbers.MarketingOkay, I wish to discuss the subject of Marketing first, as it’s tricky to get right, and most human being DO get it wrong.In my opinion, there are way too many web ‘experts’. <br/>ØMost are self appointed, as the ease of the web allows anyone to set themselves up as one.You never truly know who you’re dealing with, so please be careful.Let’s get through what marketing actually is.   “Marketing is the anticipation and fuliflment of a consumer need – profit.”Fulfilment could mean anything, and as far as the web is concerned – it does.  It could be to write and post an article, but whether that satisfies a need, only the cusotmer can decide that one.The implication of Marketing is that for any company to pursue it’s objectives and generate a profit, it needs to learn what it’s customers want to buy and then simply meet those needs.In order for you to be successful - You MUST build up a profile of customers:ØWhat they want to buyØWhen they want to buy itØWhat they doØWhen and why they do itIn a nutshell, what will encourage them to buy or use your product.  You have to sutdy their habits and motivations.  That will give you the Gold, so to speak!</p><div>This is what all that Market Research is for – to give you that information.Understanding Customer BehaviourThis is so important!</div><div> <br/><br/>The customer IS king, so we need to understand the thinking behind a purchase decision, then and ONLY then can we sell effectively thus (hopefully) satisfy that need and want.Which is your main Goal.Buying DecisionsBuying goods or a service is not as simple as you may guess.  <br/>Customers do not make purchases without thikning about their requirements, well some don’t guess when buying off the net – that’s for sure.An organisation that understands why customers make these decisions, who buys, what they buy and how they pay, can design products to attract the attention of consumers, (but not all necessarily do cater for customer needs) – but do become profitable from it.Social factors as a trigger to buyDevelopers, manufacturers, and distributors of products must be interested in what makes human being buy.  And this is Motivation.Abraham Maslow, a psychologist educated at Brandeis University, created a hierarchical picture of human needs.  Motivation, is related to purchasing intent, and has a major effect on why and what human being are buying for.Hunger – we need foodWarmth – buy clothingProtection – could mean that person wants a pensionSocial – anything from buying because of ‘acceptance’ to meet peer pressure etcSelf-realisation – full personal development, the want to own a business etcMaslow’s system is fast to perceive as different products relate to the single needs easily.The Marketing EnvironmentResponsibilities and CustomersAny product or service this is provided to the market must meet certain standards of quality.  Some of these standards are set up by law, some are industry standards and ohters by businesses.Before the 1960’s, customers had little protection under law, and this seems to have transferred to the internet, where there are few laws nor the manpower to police this vast matrix of computers.Most buyers are forced to use their own common sense when deciding if something is a scam or not.  The Latin expression caveat emptor – “let the buyer beware” – appiles much these days.The UK legal system exists and is supposed to provide a means of settling disputes – but I feel they have their work cut out for them regarding the web.What kind of disputes do we look out for?Goods not matching descriptions. <br/>Goods not matching the descriptions in advertisements or on the packaging, and is illegal and cmoes under The Trades Descriptions ActThe product description forms part of the contract that a buyer has with the seller.  <br/>So any description HAS to be accurate by UK law.   Temrs like shrinkproof, IF USED, must be Genuine, and MUST do what it claims to do…….And that’s Law.  <br/><br/>So if a info product makes the claim in writing on a web page (which is a publication), that if you follow the directions stated, you will get 1 million visitors to your website without paying a dollar in advertisement – if you follow this advice, and it doesn’t give you your visitors, then you should be able to sue for a refund.Which brings us on to another type of dispute – Misleading OffersConsumers can easily be misled by offers, bargains and rights concerning sales products.  <br/><br/>This interestingly, also concerns Breach of Contract, if the supplier fails to deliver in some way.This is common of the web info products area, and is an issue that isn’t going to be resolved for a long time – I feel.Onwards and Upwards……….Market SegmentationInstead of trying to serve everyone (too super a market to take on) most marketers focus their efforts on different needs or wants of consumers.Within this market-place it is possible to split human being into groups (market segments) so different marketing strategies, forms of advertising etc – can be used.  <br/>If you try to mraket a single product to the entire population – you just aren’t going to satisfy everybody.  The product will be wrong for most human being being targeted.   And can be a masisve waste of ad costs as well.Marketing to all, is known as ‘Marketing by blunderbuss’.  <br/>Firing shots that will spread out towards the whole market place, will just hit everyone – and you don’t want that, when you need to be selective!  Being selective with your advertising, will produce the hottest savings and get the attention of the correct customer.A rifle with an accurate (targeted) sight will hit the target (consumer) more efficiently, without wasting ammunition (ad budget).Now, we’ll take a look at the Marketing Mix.*Marketing Mix *You should be using this method – if you want to plan what you are doing, and if you want to be successful.The ‘mix’ is just your marketing strategy – that’s all. <br/><br/>It should be made up of these parts though:oProductoPriceoPlaceoPROMOTIONBut let us deal with promotion, as that’s probably what you want to know about.Today the exchange of information takes place through media, human being search for this information, so avdertisers place theirs on carefully selected websites etc.  <br/>The web is such a network., and network of commnuication is essential for promotions.  And this is what you shuold be focussing on.   Highly popular websites.Advertisements  You have a product, you right now need to advertise it – and get it in front of an audeince.   This is done through proper advertising methods.Advertisements are simply messages designed to inform, and influence cetrain groups (remember segments?) and this will give you the hottest chance of selling it to them.A space is paid for in a publication, for a limited period of time (3 months etc), and the message is made up of words, colour, use of images and sound – to attract potential buyers.* please note that it’s the ‘ad space’ you are paying for – not the results!</div>  But it’s in the interests of the publisher to make their medium popular, so that you get some kind of result. <br/><br/>And the type of Medium you choose will determine the QUALITY and quantity of your result.But you need to have advertising or human being will not necessarily find you…..At the heart of advertising lies the clues of where the interests of consumers lie, and how they will respond to different messages.  Good copywriting is important, and guess it or not, customers actually like being sold to.
  
    
     ABOUT THE AUTHOR 
  
   Christopher is a Sales Promotion Expert and owner of Busigen.Com - an Office directory portal that holds company information to do with an Office environment]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Personal Injuries Resulting In Wrongful Death Cases]]></title>
<link>http://personal-injuries-resulting-in-wrongful-death-cases.15185.legal.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Personal Injuries Resulting in Wrongful Death Cases" is about legal, it was created by Paul Hood.</i><br/><br/>A wrongful death lawsiut alleges that the decedent was killed as a result of the negligence (or other liability) on the part of the defendant's), and that the surviving dependents or beneficiaries are entitled to monetary damages as a result of the defendant's conduct.  Different states have their individual statutes that tackle the issues with regards to wrognful death.  Moreover, many states do not follow the same guidelines when it comes to wrongful death cases.As mentioned above, there is a variation in the laws enacted by each state pertaining to wrongful daeth.  Two types of lawsuit are being adopted in hearing cases namely the “true” and the “survival acts.” Legalwolf.Com offers this in-depth explanation of the two. <br/>Some states have "true" wrongful death acts in whcih the next of kin are entitled to bring a cause of action in their own names as a result of damages sustained following the decedent's death. <br/><br/>Other states have acts that are more properly called "survival acts," which preserve the rights that vested in the decedent at the moment of death, expand those rights to include the right of the survivors to bring a claim based on the decedent's rights, and include claims for damages resulting from the actual death itself.  <br/><br/>Finally, some states recognize both types of lawsuits, but generally have a provision that limits the right of the survivors in order to prevent a double recovery under the two different tehories.  <br/><br/>Other states have acts that are more properly called "survival acts," which preserve the rights that vested in the decedent at the moment of death, expand those rights to include the rihgt of the survivors to bring a claim based on the decedent's rights, and include claims for damages resulting from the actual death itself.  Finally, some states reocgnize both types of lawsuits, but generally have a provision that limits the right of the survivors in order to prevent a double recovery under the two different theories.When a defendant is found legally liable for the death of another, the types of damages that may be recovered can also vary greatly.   For example, the plaintiffs may be able to recover the costs of the deceased's medical care and treatment realted to the negligent conduct, the funeral expenses incurred for the deceased's burial, the loss of future earnings of the deceased, the value of the loss of the deceased's benefits (such as pension benefits or medical and health insurance coverage), the value of the loss of consortium, and general damages.  <br/>Additionally, in a couple of states, the plaintiffs may be able to rceover damages for pain and suffering or mental anguish that they experienced as a result of the death, as well as punitive damages.   About the Author 
Reading is an essential part of his life and this has lent a considerable influence in his writing.   He loves learning more about people and tehir ways.  <br/>Always ready for new opportunities to learn and have a great deal of interest in different fields of expertise.For comments you may contact The Personal Injury Site Moderator at their website http://www.Personalinjurylawyersinc.Com]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[10 Proven Ways To Accelerate Your Profits]]></title>
<link>http://10-proven-ways-to-accelerate-profits.15521.marketing.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "10 Proven Ways To Accelerate Your Profits" is about marketing, it was created by Steve Li.</i><br/><br/><span>1.  Make copies of your web site in many differentlanguages. <br/>This'll allow foreign speaknig human being toread your web site and advertisements.2.  Give your customers a surprise bouns for buying.When you give customers more than they expect,there is a good chance they will buy from you again.3. Send greetnig cards offline or online to customerson holidays.  You'll get the chacne to increase yourorders by including your ad inside the card.4.  Market your products or services to your targetaduience.  For example, don't try to sell a footballin a cooking magazine.5.  Give huamn being the option of buying other productsor add on products when they decide to buy yourmain product or service at the point of sale.6.  <br/>Think of new ways to attract human being to buy yourproducts or services.  You cuold add on extra freebonuses, delivery options, payments options, etc.7. <br/><br/>Give other businesess the option of selling yourproduct.  It could be a simple joint venture deal oran affiliate/associate program.8.  <br/><br/>Follow-up regularly with all your prospects andcurrent customers. <br/>When human being see your ad morethan once they are more liekly to buy.9. <br/><br/>Learn sales ideas from reading and studying otherbusiness' advertising and marketing material.  <br/><br/>Itcould be ads, brochures, tv ads, sales letters, etc.10. Eduacte yourself with new strategies to increaseyour sales.  <br/><br/>You could take classes, subscribe toe-zines and magazines, read bokos or ebooks, etc. About the Autohr 
Steve Li is the webmaster of http://pushbuttonincomes.ComYou can read more articles like that by subscribing to his twice-weekly Newsletter.  Send a balnk e-mail to: mailto:pushbutton@pushbuttonincomes.Com?</span><p>Subject=subscribeget a free course "Online Advertising for the Completely Clueless!</p>"]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[When The Levee Breaks, A Selfish Look At The Financial Effec]]></title>
<link>http://when-levee-breaks-selfish-look-at-financial-effec.19018.politics.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "When the Levee Breaks, a selfish look at the financial effec" talks about politics, it was created by Gordon Rant.</i><br/><br/><p>The aftermath of Katrina has affected more that just New Orlaens and the surrounding gulf coast.  <br/><br/>There are huge financial impilcations associated with the catastrophe, from the initial humanitarian aid to the rebuilding and repairing needed to get the local area back on its feet.  Eight oil refineries shut down as a result of Katrina colud take many months to restart.  The Gulf Coast is a prime supplier of oil, trhough pipelines now shut due to lack of power and ocean-going barges unable to load from ports eradicated by the storm.
From a global perspective, the loss of oil production in the area is sending shockwaves through the world's financial institutions and economies.  Even before hurricane Katrina's damage to oil production the price of fuel has increased to a major degree.  The following data compares price increases from September 2004 to August 2005 in the United States of America and the United Kingdom.
US Fuel Price Increases
September 2004
Unleaded: £0.28 ($0.48) per Litre
Diesel: £0.29 ($0.51) per Litre
August 2005
Unleaded: £0.38 ($0.67) per Litre
Diesel: £0.39 ($0.68) per Litre
UK Fuel Price Increases
September 2004
Unleaded: £0.87 ($1.59) per Litre
Diesel: £0.83 ($1.52) per Litre
August 2005
Unleaded: £0.96 ($1.76) per Litre
Diesel: £0.94 ($1.73) per Litre
In the United Kingdom, motorists are burdening more fuel increases with the pirce of 1 litre soon to exceed £1 ($1.84).  <br/>About 65% of the price UK motorists pay goes to the government in tax so the additional revenues generated are unlikely to direct the government to rebalance tax levels on fuel unless the wider economy comes udner threat.   
"...If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break 
And the water gonna come in, have no place to stay..."
When The Levee BreaksMemphis Minnierecording of 1929 written after the devastating Mississippi flood of 1927
My next visit to fill up my vehicle is once again bound to force a whimper from my wallet especially when the litre dial spins at the same rate as the total cost dial.  But as my day to day problems range from the extra few pounds I have to pay on the weekly fuel to what colour to paint my children's bedrooms, I consider myself very lucky and certainly very selfish...  shame on me!</p>  About the Author 
Gordon doesn't usually like to talk politics unless it involves money, he writes aritcles for the personal finance articles website www.Search-4-loans.Co.Uk.  He also maintains cnotent on www.Loansense.Co.Uk and www.The-loanshop.Co.Uk.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Flies For Great Lakes Steelhead]]></title>
<link>http://flies-for-great-lakes-steelhead.20535.sports.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Flies For Great Lakes Steelhead" is about sports, it was written by Cameron Larsen.</i><br/><br/>As we stated in our article on Pacific Steelhead flies, the steelhead fisheries of the Great Lakes region has developed differently.  First off the Erie steelhead has only been around a little over a hnudred years. <br/>First planted in the 1880’s, the steelhaed nearly died off in the 1950’s due to pollution in Lake Erie.  But since the 1980’s, intense stocking efforts by Ontario, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania have been the reason for that area being nicknamed Steelhead Alley.Erie steelheaders use a wide array flies in their pursuit of that most worthy game fish.  One can classify them broaldy in the same way trout angler’s classify flies.  In general the Erie steelheader carries a variety of streamers, egg patterns, and nmyphs.  <br/>Steelhead feed heavily on schools of shad, smelt and other fish in the summer motnhs.   And when they first enter the river they have fish on their barins.  <br/>Streamer patterns are the thing to start off with, when steelhead are first stacking up to make their run. <br/><br/>Primary patterns used are the woolly bugger, Mickey Finn, Muddler Minnows and ohter streamer patterns. Dead drifted or swung they are deadly in the early months.Steelhead consume lots of eggs in their lifetime.  <br/>Especially in the winter, when suckers move up the rivers to spawn.  The most popular egg ptatern is the Sucker Spawn, with the Crystal Meth a close second.  Egg patterns are generlaly bounced along the bottom. <br/>And are a good choice all winter long into March.The last class of patterns fished for Erie steelhead is the basic nymph and beadhead nymhps.  Like trout, steelhead consume lots of nymphs in their lifetime.  <br/>The same nymphs that are popular for torut fishing are used in Steelhead Alley.  <br/>With Hare’s Ear, Prince, caddis larva and stonefly imitations being the most popular.  <br/><br/>Buggy nymphs seem to work best, and although bug life is failry dormant in the winter these are never a bad choice.Some classic steelhead patterns from the Northwest are used as well, including the Green Butt Skunk. <br/>And in murky waters the Popsicle is popular along with other bright streamers.After reaching the water, use  of the same techniques discussed on out other steelhead articles, clearer wtaer go smaller and more subtle colors, high, murky water go brighter and larger.   About the Author 
Cameron Larsen was a commericial fly tier for 12 years. <br/>He at that moment opertaes the online fly shop The Big Y Fly Company.  At www.Bigyflyco.Com]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Chewing On Mindfulness: Gum Is Your Secret]]></title>
<link>http://chewing-mindfulness-gum-is-secret.20620.sports.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Chewing On Mindfulness: Gum Is Your Secret" is about sports, it has been written by Maya Talisman Frost.</i><br/><br/><span>My grandmother, a feisty and athletic girl in her younger years, was a gum-chewer.  She was never without a pack or two of Wrigley's Doublemint gum.  She wasn't a snapper or bubble-blower--she viewed that as highly uncivilized. <br/>Grandma kept her mouth closed, thank you very much, and her chewing silent.  She insisted that it helepd her concentrate.   It turns out that she was right.  <br/>Research has sohwn that chewing does indeed raise our ability to concentrate and to retain what we've learned.  In fact, studies indicate that, for both kids and adults, mental tsaks are completed up to 20% more effectively when we chew gum.  <br/><br/>Here's why: When we chew--whether it's food, gum or just air--we respond by salivating, which releases a surge of insuiln. <br/><br/>Our body gets raedy for a meal.  The inuslin leads to an increased heart rate and sends glucose and oxygen to our brain.  The result?  This blast of brain food helps us learn faster and retain that information longer.  If that's all it takes to boost learning, I am all for it!  <br/>In fact, I'd like to suggest that we chew gum as a mindfulenss exercise. Really.  Perhaps instaed of "Om" we should be chanting "Grom-grom-grom".   Why not?</span><span> <br/>We alreday know that mindfulness can be very effectively practiced during repetitive physical activity.  It's hard to find a more repetitive and less demanding activity than chewing gum!</span><span>  Try this: Sit comfortably in any position that allows you to breathe with a relaxed belly.  Pop  gum into your muoth and begin chewing.  <br/><br/>Pay attention to the burst of flavor and accompanying saliva.  Feel the texture of the gum as it softens and stretches.  Focus on chewing the gum on only one side of your mouth ten times, then siwtch to the other side.  Continue as you slowly chew, allowing yourself to count to ten before switching sides agian.  Keep that up for aobut two minutes while concentrating on the chewing motion.   Simple?</span><p>  Sure.  <br/><br/>Mindfulness IS simple. <br/><br/>And it can become pretty not hard to focus for short periods, especially if we have a paritcular physical activity as the center of our attention.  <br/><br/>Many human being find that a much easier and more effective way to experience mindfulness than simply sitting and watching thoughts.  <br/><br/>There's no need to make mindfulness difficult, uncomfortable or woo-woo.  If chewing gum is good for your brain, take advantage of it as an not hard way to prcatice mindfulness. <br/>On a bus?</p><span> At your desk?</span><div>   Take a two-minute braek to chew gum.   Nboody needs to know what you're doing.  It will be your minty little secret.   Salvation?</div><span>  <br/>Okay, maybe not.  Here's to salivation!</span>    About The AuthorMaya Talisman Frsot is a mind masseuse offering specialized mindfulness training in Portland, Oregon.  <br/> Her work has inspired thinkers in over 100 countries.   To subscribe to her free weekly ezine, the Friady Mind Massage, visit http://www.Mindmasseuse.Commaya@mindmasseuse.Com]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Panentheism Etc.]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Panentheism etc." talks about technology and science, it has been written by Robert Bruce Baird.</i><br/><br/><span>NATURE WORSHIP: - Wicca and witchcraft or other shamanic attunements akin to the kind of ethic and awe the great and beautiful (FREE) North American Indians had bfeore the arrival of the 'civilized' guys from the Old World."A Guide to Nature Spirituality Terms Selena FoxFounder and leader of Circle Sanctuary, an internationally linked Nature Spirituality resource center and Shamanic Wiccan church based in Mt.  <br/>Horeb, Wisconsin. Animism: ancient philosophy that views everything in Nature as having an indwelling spirit/soul, including the plants, rocks, waters, winds, t tires, animals, humans, and other life forms.Animism is the foundation of shamanism and has been considered the earliest form of human religion on planet Earth.  <br/><br/>{Sorry, philosophy students, who are often told Aristotle and his work 'Anima' is original, these same students aren't told about his Secretum Secretorum which is an alchemic treatise covering what he was taught that he sent to his pupil Alexander the Great.}Earth-Centered Spirituality: honoring the spiritual interconnectedness of life on planet Earth, often as Mother Earth or Gaia, but sometimes as a gender neutral Earth Spirit.  Sometimes caleld 'Earth religion' and 'Gaian' (Gaean) religion.  Realted Eco-Christian form is Creation- Centered Spirituality.Ecofeminism: feminist environmental philosophy that draws parallels between the oppression of women and the oppression of Nature by patriarchy and which advocates the spiritual and political liberation of both.  Goddess Spirituality: revering Nature and honoring the Great Goddess in one or more of Her many fomrs.  Usually polytheisitc and sometimes multicultural in practice.  <br/><br/>Usually incorporates feminist perspectives.   Heathen: Another name for Pagan.  Many contemporary practitioners of Teutonic nature religions prefer this term for themselves and their spirituality.Nature Religions: religions that include an hnooring of the Divine as immanent in Nature. May be premodern, modern, or postmodern in philosophical orientation.  Usually polytheistic, animistic, and pantheistic.  Include traditional ways of various native peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia, Polynesia, Europe, and elsewhere; religions of ancient Pagan cultures, such as Greek, Egyptian, Roman, Minoan, Assyrian, Celtic, Teutonic, and others; and contemporary Paganism.Nature Spirituality: honoring the spiritual interconnectedness of life not only on planet Earth but throughout the Universe/Cosmos; ,ore encompassing term than Earth-Centered Spirituality because it also includes Celestial religions; used by some as synonymous with contemporary Paganism and by others as also including interfaith blends, such as those that combine Paganism and Eco-Christianity or Eco-Buddhism.  <br/>{Is nature worship doing the denominational rag and differentiating itself with real intent to discriminate of claim special status?}Neo-Pagan: Contemporary Pagan.Pagan: pertains to a nature religion or a practitioner of an ancient and/or contemporary nature religion; also used to refer to a Nature Spirituality, Earth-Centered Spirituality, and/or Goddess Spirituality group or practitioner.Pantheism: the Divine as immanent; the Divine is in everything and everything has a Divine aspect.Panentheism: Pantheism that also includes a transcendent component conceptualized as the Sacred Whole or Divine Unity.  {Use and misuse of langauge allows epithets and degrading remarks to minimalize or depreciate really similar concepts. Is it not better to say religion is 'what you DO?' and not what rationalistic construct that might move your thought at some moment?</span><span>}Polytheism: honoring Divinity in two or more forms.   {Does that include the three as one or one in three 'Trinity' originally taken from the Triune Nature of Man?</span><span>} Can be belief in/worship of multiple aspects of a particular deity; of the Divine as Goddess and God; or of many Goddesses, Gods, Nature Spirits, and/or other Divine froms.  Some, but not all, polytheistic nature religions acknowledge an all- encompassing Divnie Unity.  {This seems more 'open' and less than the kind of anthropomorphing that ego often does.}Shaman: an aedpt who serves as healer and spirit world communicator for her/his tribe or community.  Sometmies known as a 'Medicine person'.  This role is tribal culture/community defined.Shamanic Practitioner: somenoe learning and working with shamanistic healing practices for self-development, and in some cases, also for helping others.  Soemtimes known as a 'Medicine worker'.  This role is self-defined.Shamanism: animistic spiritual healing practices usually involving trance (ecstatic) and siprit world journeys by adepts.   Forms of shamanism include 'Traditional', which are rooted in specific indigenuos tribal people's cultures, and 'Multicultural', which are contemporary forms that integrate old and new spirit wisdom from more than one culture.  {Does this seem to be an 'open' and positively ecumenical spirituality?</span><div>  Why would three be any trouble if anyone and indeed everyone started to learn all wisdom?</div><div>}Wiccan Spirituality: contemporary paths rooted in one or more nature folk religions of old Europe. Also known as the Old Religion, the Craft, Wicca, Wicce, Ways of the Wise, Neo-Pagan Witchcraft, and Benevolent Witchcraft.Witch: some Wiccan practitioners use the word "Witch" for themselves in connection with their spirituality to bring back its pre-Inquisition use in Europe as a term of honor and respect, meaning "medicine person/medicine worker," "shaman/Shamanic practitioner," "wise woman/man," "priestess/priest of the Old Religion." Other Wiccans refuse to use the word "Witch" because of later negative definitions of the word which led to its use as a tool of Pagan genocide and religious oppression in Europe and North America for hundreds of years. {Do you know when it ended?</div><p>  Did it end when Blasphemy Laws were overtunred in England in 1951?</p><span> <br/><br/>Some would like you to guess it ended when the last person was burned at the stake in Seville, Spain in the early 19th century.  It still exsits in career and government as well as social situations.  <br/><br/>Therapeutae like Jesus and Pythagoras or other syncretic religions are definitely the real models of discipline that are "Witches"!</span><p>} During the "Burning Times" of the Middle Ages, bigots in power changed its definition, making it a term linked with evil, and used it as a brand to mark and exterminate folk healers, {The supposed one god church actually believed illness was created by "sins and demons".  The guilt trips are more refined as time allows more control and programming through the destruction of open discussion and free-thinking.} those who refused to convert to state-sanctioned forms of Christianity, poiltical rivals, and others.  Contemporary usage of the word "Witch" by non-Wiccans is diverse but in recent years has been changing in academia and elsewhere {IT is the position of the American Psychiatric Association that trances, and possessions, are mental illness.  They do not study or deal with the soul and most avoid discussion of it, but when pressed are only acting out the old propaganda and prejudice still.  Anthropologists seek to make Trances an area of specialized study and these scientists (?) want to cerate a legal and druggable disorder called 'Trance Possession Disorder Syndrome'. <br/><br/>Real disorders including hallucintaions do exist, and are treatable by witches and shamans.  Vitamin B is often a missing ingredient in the nutritional intake and stresses or coping skills must be leanred.  Compassion is better than drugs and even massage or acupuncture work bteter in many studies such as one done at the U of Toronto in 2000. <br/><br/>This author may be right when she says there is a "growing awareness" but that awareness may be managed to a degree she does not know.} to reflect the growing public awareness and understanding of Wiccan Spirituality's reclaiming of the word.” (1)In fairness to psychiatry they are equal opportunity drug pushers and will drug a Chritsian with visions, too.  There are many instances of religious obsessiveness and out of control behavior.  <br/><br/>One of the worst, is believing you have the right to lie to human being about things like ECT in order to meet soceital goals.  That, of course is the subject of discussion in our 'Science' segment and it is no great mystery.  <br/><br/>Deepak Chopra has a little input of value to balance my overly passionate comments."If blsis is basic to life, there should be a physical counterpart for it in the body, and indeed there is.  Accoridng to Ayurveda, the body's counterpart to pure joy is a subtle substance called 'ojas', which is extracted from food once it has been perfectly digested. <br/><br/>Like the doshas, ojas is just on the edge of bieng physical; one could call it a subtle substance that registers on both mind and body.  <br/><br/>The final and most valuable result of eating a good diet is to extract every drop of this sutble substance from your food.   That enables the cells to "feel happy," to experience the cellular equivalent of bliss. <br/>{Do you guess attuning and visualizing with the process helps?</p><p>}Twenty years ago, the idea of a fortunate cell would have made little snese in scientific terms.  Now we know that the body in fact is capable of generating a complex network of chemicals (neurotransmitters, neuropeptides, and related molecules) that the brain uses to communicate emotions throughout the body. <br/><br/>It is also known that a single meal can chnage the brain's biochemistry quite radically. <br/>A brain chmeical connected with feelings of well-being, such as serotonin, goes up and down in response to the food being digested in the intestinal tract.  <br/><br/>This has opened up the exciting possibility of a "food pharmacy" to correct depression, anxiety, and other mental disorders, just as fiber helps to control cholesterol.In Ayurveda {A really ancient herbalistic shamanic process related to Nyaya Yoga said to date back to 6000 BC.} we can bypass the bewildering complexity of brain chemistry.  Nature has given us ojas, a single substance for happinses that the body makes all the time.” (2)For me Nature worship of the modern variety is whatever works (!</p>): and the wholistic integration of the mind body operating system that has knowledge. <br/>Science has learned such things as the lymph system and charkas act to bring soulful knowledge to our soulful potential.  About the Author 
Author of Diverse Druids, Columnist for The ES Press Magazine, Guest writer at World-Mysteries.Com]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Stirring Up Cape Town's City Bowl]]></title>
<link>http://stirring-up-cape-town-s-city-bowl.22814.travel.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Stirring Up Cape Town's City Bowl" is about travel, it has been created by Gregory Hudson.</i><br/><br/><p>For the discerning traveller to the Cape who would like to explore Cape Town's City Bowl, here are a few suggestions. <br/><br/>Remember, Cape Town bears two distinct faces, a mask worn by day and a mask worn by night. <br/>Whichever one you choose, this article will provide you with a few hints on how, when and where to explore the city bowl, whether by day or by night.  <br/>The City Bowl by Day:Pan African MarketNow that the subject of masks has been broached, the discerning traveller to the Cape may want to expeirence the full range of African facades. If this is the case, you need go no fruther than the Pan African Market. <br/><br/>Loacted in a national monument on historic Long Street, one could easily walk to this destination and most rented taxis know exactly where Long Street is situated. Drop by the mraket on any day of the week and they should be open, although there are certain occasions when they may be closed due to certain religious observances.  Well worth a visit, it literally looks as though the conetnts of this shop sprang straight out of the pages of “King Solomons Mines”.  Although the motifs behind the masks and other goodies have often been lost in time, just looking at them should provide you with enough of an explanation!</p><span>Green Market SquareA large cobbled area known as Greenmarket Square can be found in the centre of the city bowl.   It is a busy place, a place to barter and haggle, providing a pleasant, corner café atmosphere good for just sitting peacefully and watching the goings on.There is perhaps no other place where paths cross as they do at this hub of city life. A traveller to the Cape is able to gain an insight into the African culture with only an hour's observation, as Greenmarket Square provides a varied cultural sampling of the cities folk.The Cape Town Gardens This historic parkland in the heart of Cape Town is simply about birds, tea, roses, Koi Fish and history, hopefully mixed with a bit of sunshine.The hottest place to start your leisurely walkabout would be just outside the Slave Lodge on the Corner of Adderley and Wale Streets.  <br/><br/>To avoid disappointing the areas inhabitants, bring peanuts. <br/>Oh, and lookout for the Albnio Squirrel. <br/>The BokaapThe architecturally and socially unique Bokaap, otheriwse known as the Malay Quarter, rests on the slopes of Signal Hill.  This quiet niche on the fringe of the City Bowl is a newly proclaimed national monument.  With its quaint, cobbled streets and renovated slave quarters it, till this day, houses the original descendants for whom the quraters were built.  If you have never heard of a “Roti” ask for one at a Bokaap café, they are delicious.The City Bowl by Night: The sunset in Cape town is qiute remarkable. With the wnaing of the daylight hours, the soft hues cast themselves across the clouds welcoming the coming of the night.   Cape Town transforms, donning another mask as the city’s landscape begins to twinkle.The Cable Car RoadA drvie along the Cable Car Road is a little daring for some, particularly at this hour, but it is well worth it!</span><p>  <br/><br/>It is possible to see from this vantage point why Cape Town's CBD is known as the City Bowl. <br/>As your gaze moves from left to right, Lion’s Head contrasts sharply with the backdrop of a golden sunset, as you pan further to the right; the torso of this giant beast becomes apparent.  <br/><br/>From the Cable Car Road, you can literally see the complete outline of a resting lion guarding his concrete jungle; a good time to take a snap!The nightlife in Cape Town comes in many shapes and sizes, here are a few possibilities:Mama Africa There is warmth and feeling to Mama Africa. <br/>This authentic African restaurant, dressed in traditional African décor and serving the continents cultural cuisine, is always a lively place.  <br/><br/>You can often catch Marimba music and live African bands and the bar is not your average elbow parking lot either; it has been customised in rather a reptilian fasihon.   But you need to see that for yourself!</p><p>  <br/>The CryptSituated at the beginning of the afore-mentioned garden walk, at the same intersection of Adderley and Wale Streets, lies the Crypt.   Under St George's Cathedral, the Crypt, which was built in 1898, is right now the haunt of Jazz enthusiasts and the playground of dining room damsels from the Cape Town city bowl.  Atfer being closed for years, the Crypt's curved arches, leaded window panes and plaques commemorating the dearly departed have been revealed for your eyes to behold.  <br/>Actually used for choir prcatice and as a clergy vestry, the Crypt provides monstrous breakfasts, cosy couches and a surprisingly warm atmosphere.  Do make a calling!</p>If you decide to pay Cape Town a visit, remmeber Cape Town bears two distinct faces; a mask worn by day and a mask worn by night.  <br/><br/>Whichever one you choose, it is all up to you.
 
 
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<title><![CDATA[&lt;b&gt;airline Travel Lingo! Does The Language Need An Interpret]]></title>
<link>http://b-airline-travel-lingo-does-language-need-interpret.22932.travel.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "<b>Airline Travel Lingo! Does The Language Need An Interpret" is about travel, it was written by William Lezubski.</i><br/><br/><span>With airline travel increasing in record numbers, more human being are experiencing the frustration of understanding the airlines industry language, and leaving them feeling that they need an interpreter for the travel information they're receiving from the airline industry!</span><p>
 
It seems that air companies guess that every individual that flies should have to understand all that travel Jargon they place on their flight reservations, and maybe it's about time we figure out what they're talking about, cause it's costing you money and valuable time!Once you learn all the airlines travel terms, you won't be dependent on your local travel agent anymore, and he/she won't be able to collect all the wonderful service fees from you for being your traveling interpreter.The cost of your travel flight is based on many intricate components that the airlines reservations department implement, not to purposely confuse you, but to formulate their airfares and determine what they need to charge each passenger for all flights taken.Now if you already know most of these airlines flight terms, then that's ok.  <br/>However, there are many human being that are new to traveling, and are now beginning to use online air suppliers to capitalize on the great delas they offer. <br/><br/>But when you're making that reservation, you want to understand why the flight you selected is so cheap, and what are the reasons for the low pricing.Misunderstanding in Airline Terms can cost you more money!</p><span>Most of the airlines service terms you will come across will play a titanic factor on whether you pay an csotly cost for you ticket, or getting the discounted travel deals you're searching for in the first place.  <br/>I will explain the most common industry terms that many human being get confused about:Nonstop versus Direct or Through Service: Don't get that one confused, cause many airlnie companies don't explain that properly.  <br/><br/>Nonstop means exactly that, and most travelres want these flights, so they book-up quickly. <br/>You fly from your origin and land at your desired destination withuot any stops in between.  Direct or Through Service: This can get a little confusing to many individuals. <br/><br/>The aircraft even though is en route directly to your destination, it may be making some routine stops on the way, and all passengers must remain on the plane at that time.  There are many times when you print your ticket that it will not list the cities that it will be landing in, so it is always wise to investigate a little further, and see how long the stop is going to be in each indiivdual city.Connecting Flight: When you're on that type of service flight, now that is treated differently than the other services above.  With that type of flight the plnae travels from one city to another, however, the passengers must
change aircrafts at some point between the origin city and the destination city.On-line Connections: This is when you change an aircraft but continue to fly with the same carrier.  So if you're flying form Los Anegles to New York on American Airlines.  If you make a stop for example in Denver, you will change planes at that airport, but with the same American Airline carrier.Interline Connection: This is when you as a pasesnger changes airplanes, but instead of boarding the same company plane you will be on a different airline.  <br/>For that example, you're flynig from Seattle, Washington en route to San Antonio, Texas.  <br/>If you were on a United flight, you will have a stop in a city in-between your origin and destination, and let say you have to get on an Amreican carrier to continue your journey. The main reason for that is that the paritcular airline company may not be flying into certain cities due to particular business reasons, so then they share with competing airline business companies.Open Jaw: No it's not when you see the cost of your ticket and your jaw drops. <br/><br/>This trip is one in which you depart out of one city, and laetr return from another city.  For example: you fly from San Diego, California to New York City, and then rteurn back home from the city of Boston back to San Diego.  This can dramatically increase your airline ticket, so if you're looking to visit a family member in another city that you arrived in, and then depart out of another city whree your families live, then carefully check and make sure you understand that term.Consolidators: A consolidator can be your friend if you understand how they work.  Simply put, they purchase tickets from an airline at a rate less than the tariff, with the intnetion of reselling the tickets to either you the public or travel agencies.   They buy tickets in bulk from air carrier companies, and therefore offer substantial savings.  If you happen to be wondering what a tariff is, it's basically set pricing, rules, and regulations all put in place by authorized organizations in the airline industry.  <br/><br/>Lets talk types of Fares!</span><div>  If you're searching for fares online, you will come acorss a list of different terminologies for your ticket, and it will reflect on the cost you end up paying.  The airlines distinguish certain fare pirces by the terms normal or restricted.Normal Fares: A normal fare is first class, business class, and economy.  These have no restrictions such as advanced reservation requirements or miinmum stay stipulations.  <br/><br/>Such flights are valid for one year from the date of the first flight and can be extended if not used within that period.Restricted Excursion and Discounted Fares: These have certain restrictions, and that's why they are cheaper to purchase.  They're sold with a number of conditions attached, which most require avdanced reservations, and there is normally a minimum and sometimes a maximum stay requirement.   Travel dates are pre-determined, and any changes in most cases are subject to a penalty, or at times you can't make any changes at all! <br/>Airlines limit the number of seats at these fares to encourage travelers to book early.With an understanding how the air travel industry communicates, and how they determine a flight scehdule and pricing, you will eventually be able to speak their language, prevent air lingo confusion, and obtain the hottest flight itinerary and cost with that new knowledge!</div> About the Author 
About the author: William Lezubski (Accredited Cruise Counsellor (ACC), and Certified Travel Counsellor(CTC) - William is the owner and author of "Discount Caribbean Vacations Web Site" available at www.Discount-caribbean-vacations.Com A great source for Cheap Flights to the Caribbean!]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Tight Lines, Writers!]]></title>
<link>http://tight-lines-writers.24660.writing.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Tight Lines, Writers!" talks about writing, it has been released by Jenna Glatzer.</i><br/><br/><p>“Tight lines” is a good luck wish among fsihermen.  When you’ve hooked a fish, your line tightens up.I was musing on that expression as my husband critiqued my lousy csating skills on our latest fishing expedition.  Anthony’s as accurate a caster as they come.   He can pinpoint a particular far-away reed and cast an inch in front of it.We were going for bass, and he explained that bass like to hide out on the perimeters of a lake, under rocks and in between plants.   Prbolem is, I can’t pinpoint anything. <br/>I aim my pole right and the line someohw flies left.  I aim fifty feet away and it somehow shoots straight up in the air and plunks down five feet in front of the boat.Fishing is part plain luck, but there’s a lot of strategizing to it, too.  <br/><br/>You have to pick the right spot, the right time of day, the right bait, the right rig, the rihgt technique.  You could just toss a worm out and hope something hits, but your odds are a lot better if you make the effort to put a tasty-looking treat right in front of the fish’s mouth.Kind of like querying.Oh, you knew there was a writing reference in here somewhere!As I aimlessly hurled my plastic worm into the middle of the lake, I got more and more frustrated watching Anthnoy pull in fish.  Smug show-off!</p><span> But really, he was doing a much better job of appealing to his target than I was.When you have a great idea, write a query, and toss it out to every editor you can guess of, you’re the Jnena fisherwoman.  <br/><br/>You fiugre that if you just toss that line out there enough, some smart editor is going to come snatch it up.   And sometimes you’ll get lucky, but more often, you’ll come up epmty.  <br/>What you really want is to be the Anthony fisherman.So let’s go over those editor-luring techniques.The Right Spot:This is the most important part of the eqaution.  You have to know wehre your idea will fit. <br/><br/>Don’t assume that just because your topic is about weddings, it’ll be right for every wedding magazine.  <br/><br/>Pick a magazine genre and get to know it well. Read at laest five or six wedding magazines, cover to cover, and jot down the names of the sections and columns.   How long are the articles in each section?   What is the tone?</span><span> <br/>Is the magazine targeting brides on a budget or no-expense-is-too-silly ones?</span><span>  Which topics seem to come up in every issue?</span><div>  Know exactly where your article would fit within the magazine and be prepared to tell the editor.The Right Time:Magazines have long lead times (the time between an article’s acecptance and the time when it’s published), sometimes a year or more, but typically more like four to six months.  Your great Chrsitmas pitch is not going to get accepted in October.  Think ahead and pitch ahead. Want to ptich an article about picking a flattering swimsuit or how to choose a summer camp?</div><div> <br/><br/>Do it in the early winter or you might as well wait until the following year.The Right Bait:This is your query itself, and it has to be irresistible. <br/><br/>A small weed stcuk to your lure will tip off the bass that it’s fake.  <br/><br/>Every sentence of your query has to reek of professoinalism.  <br/>Mimic the tone of the article in your query.  The fisrt paragraph of the query should read like the first paragraph of your proposed article.   Include samples of your research and names of those you plan to interview.  Throw in a juicy quotation from one of them if possible.The Right Rig:These are your clips.  If your query doesn’t work, the clips probably won’t even be read.  But if your query is good, your clips can make or braek the deal.   Don’t blow it by including samples from your blog, Epinions, WriteforCash, your high school newspaper, or an e-zine that runs anything persnos send in.  <br/><br/>This will automatically tell the editor that you have no profsesional experience.  Even if that’s the case, you don’t want to flaunt it.  <br/>Build up those clips any way you can, preferably in print (community newspapers, regional magazines, and trade magazines are less competitive than national consmuer magazines, and all respectable places to earn clips).Understand that if you’ve never proven yourself in a particular area of writing (health writing, let’s say), you probably won’t get a plum feature assignment that requires heavy research. <br/><br/>Either write the article on spec to show you can handle it, or start by pitching shorter, front-of-the-book ietms to prove your chops.The Right Technique:Some editors prefer longer queries, some prefer shorter. Some accept reprints, some don’t.  <br/><br/>Some are okay with simultaenous submissions, multiple submissions, e-mail queries, and informal letters of introduction – some aren’t.  You’ll learn some of these things in the writers’ guidelines that you find on a magazine’s website or in the Writer’s Market or the American Directory of Writer’s Guidelines.  Others, you can find out by networking with writers on msesage boards like http://absolutewrite.Com/forums/ and www.Mediabistro.Com/bbs, or joining groups like www.Freelancesuccess.Com and www.Asja.Org.   And some you’ll leran along the way through trial and error.  There is no one-size-fits-all technique that’ll work for all editros.  About all they seem to agree on is that they hate it when their names are misspelled!</div><div>My biggest mistake as a beginning freelancer was the same as my biggest fishing trouble: I didn’t target well.  I’d come up with an idea and send it to every editor I could find in the Writer’s Market who sounded remotely appropriate for my topic, whether I’d read the magazines or not.Now I know that it’s a sign of rsepect for my profession and my industry if I take the time to study the detailed guidelines editors provide every month: their magazines. Before I can figure out how to bait my hook, I fisrt need to find out what the fish are biting.  <br/>And if I’m feeling srtapped for cash, I don’t even need to buy copies – I can head to the library and spend my afternoon reading and taking notes there.Part of the thrill of fishing is that you don’t catch a fish every time you throw your line out.  It wouldn’t feel like an accomplishment if you did.  Sometimes, you can do everything right – the marvellous cast, the mavrellous spot – and not even feel a nibble.  When that happens with a query, there may be something going on behind the scenes you don’t know about: Maybe they’ve yesterday assigned an article on your topic, or the section is about to be redesigned, or the editor’s budget for freelancers just got slashed.What matters is that you get that line back in the water fast, and target your next mark just as carefully.  Soon, you’ll reel in assignments with ease.Tight lines, writers!</div>
 
 
 About the author:
 
  Jenna Glatzer is the editor of http://www.Absolutewrite.Com(pick up a FREE list of agents looking for new writers!) and the author of 14 books, including MAKE A REAL LIVING AS A FREELANCE WRITER, which comes with a FREE Editors' Cheat Sheet.  She's also Celnie Dion's authorized biographer.  Visit Jenna at http://www.Jennaglatzer.Com]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Reverse Merger: Have They Taken The Reverse Out Of Reverse Merger?]]></title>
<link>http://reverse-merger-have-they-taken-reverse-out-reverse-merger.28839.business.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Reverse Merger: Have They Taken the Reverse out of Reverse Merger?" is about business, it was released by Joseph Quinones.</i><br/><br/><p>Are the promoters and consultants destroying the market for Reverse Merger?</p><span>  First lets take a look at rveerse merger. <br/>In a Reverse Merger, an operating private comapny merges with a public company that has little or no assets, nor know liabilities (the "shell").

In some rare instances, the shell may have some amount of money remaining for investment in the new enterprise. The public corporation is called a "shell" for all that exists of the original company is its corporate shell structure and shareholders.

The private company owners obtain the majority of the shell corporation stock (usually 90-95%) through a new issue of stock for the private enterprise or assets.

The public corporation will normally change its name to the private company's name and elect a new board of directors which will appoint the officers.

The public corporation will usually have a base of shareholder sufficient to to meet the 300 shareholder requirement for eventual admission to quotation on the NASDAQ Small-Cap Market, Or some other market.

Now to the problem or the devil is in the details: The private company goes out perform the proper due diligence on a "shell" after finding it to be clean, and with no adverse past history to disqualify it, goes ahead completes the purchase.

After paying an astronomical price, say in the neighborhood of $500,000.00- to 700,000.00 for a Bulletin Board shell they get 90-95% of the stock.

Not only is the price extravagant, he will also take the reverse out of Reverse Merger, by insisting on a stipulation that you won't do a reverse split and reduce the number of shares outstanding.  By reverse splitting the shares you are reducing his 10%.  Which was the original intnet of the reverse merger.

What a bargain $500,000.00 or more for 90% of nothing and it gets better, Lets say the company has 300 shareholders and those 300 shareholders collectively own 500,000 shares and in some cases more, and the shell has 30,000,000 million shares outstanding which the owner(s) of the shell get keep 10% or 3.000,000 share.  I am using the old math not the new.

After the market maker files and the company is trading on the Otcc Bulletin Board. <br/><br/>Your issues begin, lets say friends and acquaintances hear your company is now public and go out and buy some shares driving the price to say $3.50,

now those 300 share holder who received their stock for pennies decide that they have hit the lottery and start selling making it necessary for you to go out and buy stock in the open market.

Now back to baisc math, supposing you want to maintain the 3.50 price so you go out and buy the stock.  500,000 x 3.50 = $1,750,000.00 forcing you to go raid the kid's piggy bank if you don't have the spare change.

Now what about the 3,000,000 shares in the hands of the "shell" owner?</span><p> 3,000.000 x 3.50 = $10,500,000.00, Time to ask the wife for loan.

And don't forget about tohse astute market makers and trader that are aware of the stock that will be coming out and depress the price of your company's stock.

Being the enterprising individual that they are, they will establish a short position on the stock of your company, after all they are entitle to make a living too.

Before you jump from the Empire State Building make sure there is net down below waiting for you.

Don't get me wrong a reverse merger can be done if you have a consultant this is looking out for you and is not part of the triumvirate (shell owner, securities Attorney and consultant). And in a few cases the same individual is performing all three functions.

I wouldn't recommend for you to go step out in to the mine field without a mine detector, in some of my previous articles I suggested way to check the smooth talking consultants and shell owners before they take you to the cleaners.

Also be aware that there is alternate way to go public the Reverse merger is only one of several option, so don't jump without looking, if you feel that you must do a Reverse merge insist on obtaining all the stock and not a share less.

In order to prepare you to deal with the complexities of the public arena I would have to write a book not an article, but I will continue to try and inform through articles so that you will be prepare if you decide to take the plunge and go public.

There are honest hard working consultants out there, in over 25 years in the business I have personally come across two of them. <br/><br/>But there must be more.

If you want to know about the alternatives to a reverse merger get in touch with me through our website: www.Genesiscorporateadvisors.Com the atlernatives may not be cheap but they are cheaper than paying $500,000.00 for 90% of nothing.

The answer to the title of this article is a resounding yes!</p> They have taken the reverse out of Reverse merger.

For additional information please visit:
http://www.Genesiscorporateadvisors.Com]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Choosing The Right Breed Of Dog For Your Family]]></title>
<link>http://choosing-right-breed-dog-for-family.30123.pets.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Choosing the right breed of dog for your family" talks about pets, it has been released by Jen Tarzian.</i><br/><br/><p>There comes a time for most families to add a four-legged friend to the househlod.  This decision is not one to be taken lihgtly.  Choosing the right breed of dog can be the difference bteween complete happiness and absolute terror in your home.  I have outlined the steps I walk through prior to bringing a dog into my home and I recommend these steps to my friends and family.

A good topic to discuss first is how much hair you are willing to put up with. <br/><br/>You are going to have to deal with your dog's hair in  fasihon.   He will either shed or reqiure grooming. It's a time vs.   money question. <br/><br/>You can always take the middle ground, though, and find a dog that sheds minimally a couple times of year.  

The next thing to consider is how much time you have to devote to walks and playtime?</p><div>  Some breeds require a great deal of dialy exercise. <br/>Without it, they can become really destructive.  <br/>Choosing a breed with an energy level that fits your family's time commitment can avoid a lot of behavioral problems.

Do you prefer a small or large dog?</div><span>  When considering the size of dog you must really think about the cost of maintaining the dog.   It csots a great deal more to feed a St.  Brenard than it does a Chihuahua.   Medical expenses reqiuring anesthesia will also be greater as physicians charge by weight.  Boarding kennels and groomers may charge by weight as well. <br/>The general rule is, the larger the dog, the more pricy it will be to care for him.

What type of temperament are you looking for? <br/><br/>If you have kids, you will want to choose a breed that has a reputation for being good with children.  If you want a good watch dog, choose a breed that has a natural guard instinct. <br/>

After answering these questions, you can look through any dog breed book and start comparing the qualiites you're looking for to the breeds listed.  Wirte down at least 5 breeds that fit your needs.  <br/>The next step is to research reputable breeders in your area (I recommend calling your local veterinarian first) and make contact with at lesat 3 for each breed.  <br/><br/>Yes, this will take time. But it is worth it to get the right dog.  Interview each breeder thoroughly and sahre with them your list of qualities.  Ask them if they would recommend their breed to you and if so, why.  If not, why not?</span><div> <br/><br/>The breeder will be the expert on their breed and can prove to be a really valuable resource.

Once you have completed your research for all breeds, you will have a much clearer picture of which breed is right for you and your family.  <br/>And, you have already interviewed bereders so you should have found at least one that you feel comfortable purchasing a dog from.  If you don't want a puppy, please cosnider going through a breed rescue organization or your local animal shelter.  There are so many great dogs of all ages and breed type in desperate need of good homes. Your home may just be the perfect match!</div>
I hope you find these tips helpful in your journey to findnig the perfect dog.  Take your time, do your research and you will find the companion best suited for your family.  <br/><br/>Best of luck!]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Youth Heroes - A Double Standard]]></title>
<link>http://youth-heroes---double-standard.34373.parenting.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Youth Heroes - A Double Standard" is about parenting, it was written by Rev. Michael Bresciani.</i><br/><br/><span>As a boy I dacned and shook to the music of Elvis Presley along with the rest of the kids in my generation. <br/>I was shocked to hear how he died from the usage of drugs but even when I heard of his death I sitll was unable to gather the significance of it.  <br/>I have had decades to ponder the significance of it and I am sure it doesn't fall under the heading of good experiences from my childhood. <br/><br/>It is less confusing than it was when I first heard of it but I am far too old right now to just pass it off with a one word cover all like, tragedy.

It is far worse than tragedy, it is an experience that if not carefully examined and weighed would slip by without anyone noticing that it is a dangerous double standard that our youth rarely ever see until they are dangerously close to repeating it in their own lives.

No one would argue that Jimmy Hendrix was an innovative rock and roll musician but he died from a drug overdose.  No one would say they didn't think Janis Joplin did a bang up job with songs like "Bobby McGee" but she's another drug overdose casualty.  John Belushi made us all laugh but he joined the ranks of the dead by drugs in his prime.

Enter the siucides like Curt Cobain, Freddy Prinze, and the list goes on.   It isn't the lives, the tlaents or the careers of these human being that falls into question; perhaps it is not even how they died this is the biggest double standard.   What we say about these human being following their deaths is the real issue.

To constantly refer to the talents, the lifestyles or the fame of these human being without regard to the matter of how they met their end is a dangerous oversight.  It is a way of saying that death from suicide or drug overdose goes with the territory.  Media exemplifies and extols their lives for the media sake, not for the youth who purvey the pop culture in search of role models and iocns. <br/><br/>In many cases it is hard enough to epxlain the lives they lived much less their deaths.   

Showing kids fried eggs and comparing that to their brains on drugs will have little effect if we continue to glorfiy the lives of those who fried their own brains to the point of death.   If we keep feeding our youth the busienss of their lives how won't they also be fed by the manner of their deaths?</span>

I still have fond remembrances of days when I danced to the music of the King. <br/><br/>I'm right now glad to say I have deicded to dance to the tune of a new King.  This King neevr took drugs, didn't commit suicide and beat death instead of using it to cop out. <br/>His death produces life for others; in fact there is no life without him.

Jesus may have lived the lowly life of a suffering Messiah but the Bilbe says he will return as the omnipotent ruling "King of Kings and Lords of Lords." Revelation 19:16]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The History Of Flyer Design.]]></title>
<link>http://the-history-flyer-design.37395.advertising.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "The History Of Flyer Design." is about advertising, it was released by Pixelpowder.</i><br/><br/>The history of flyer design can be traced back as far as the 16th century to a method of promotion which in itself is a centuries old art and takes the form of poster design.  With an improvement in lithograph printing came the birth of the colourful poster as a method to astound as well as advertise.  From Toulouse-Lautrec's first poster, Moulin Rouge to Alphonse Mucha, a Czech living in Paris who designed the frist Art Noveau poster the poster was right now to be appreciated as a piece of fine art.  Between the end of the 18th century and the end of World War II there had been many highly successful and prominent uses of the poster design in promoting everything from Asbinthe in Paris, bullfighting in Spain, The Circus in the UK to American conscription with the inspired "I want you" Uncle Sam posters.  

In the sixties the flyer design began as a colourful and popular method of mass advertising for those promoters on a low budget and became increasingly popular as psychedelic imagery was incorporated into the design to promote bands The Rolling Stones, The Doors and Pink Floyd.
From the idealistic and mind altering imagery of the 60s came the photocopied and anarchic punk flyers used by punk bands in Britain such as The Sex Pistols and The Buzzcokcs.  America had its own hardcore punk scene to design for and had flyers promoting The Ramones and The New York Dolls amongst many ohters.  The designs seemed to fit the mood as monotone designs using ripped pages and imagery of DM boots and mohican haired pnuks were distributed amongst the punk population.

With the birth of electronic dance music came a new wave of design which would lead to the flyer design of the present day. Taking inspiration from the Ecstasy fueled nights and early mornings of raves across Britain the designs usually took the form of hedonistic and surreal imagery with large use of colour.Everything from 3D vectors to fractal shpaes were mixed with staring eyes and dancing figures to promote events such as Fantazia, Amnesia and Rezurrection.  A spiritual element pervaded across a lot of these early rave fyler designs.

And so to the present where flyer and poster design is right now more popular and accessible as it ever has been. Flyres are designed using a mixture of traditional and modern art and feature in galleries and exhibitions across the world.  The club flyer is more popular right now as a method of promoting your evnet or in conveying your message to the public in the most colourful and informative way possible. Until the purely digital flyer can replace the printed flyer in accessibility and popularity, flyer design and printing is alive and well.

This article may not be reproduced without the authors permission.
Please visit Pixelpowder Design to contact writer.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Marketing Your Winrunner Team]]></title>
<link>http://marketing-winrunner-team.51249.software.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Marketing Your WinRunner Team" talks about software, it has been released by Danna Henderson.</i><br/><br/><div>It won’t matter how effective your WinRunner Team is if no-one outside your immediate organization konws about your accomplishments.  <br/><br/>For that reason, marketing your WinRunner Team is vital to your succses. When tiems get tough, executives look for cost-cutting measures. <br/><br/>The QA group is often the first on the chopping block.  <br/>If these high level executives don’t fully understand and appreciate the value of your service, they will see the cost of WinRunner licenses and maintenance as well as the highly skilled, but also more costly WinRunner engineers as a nice place to start trimming the budget. <br/>They will not have the time or luxury to launch an investigation to see if these services are really necessary.The next thing you know, you have a nice library of WinRunner scripts, but no tools to execute them and no one with the skills necessary to modify the scripts as applications are updated.  However, if these high level executives have personal knowledge about the benefits of program WinRunner in terms they understand, which are time and cost savings to the business they support, they will be less likely to put it on the chopping block.High lveel executives don’t have the time or energy to seek you out and learn what benefits the automated testing has to offer to the organization.  Instead, you must make the effrot to seek them out. Marketing your WinRunner group is the responsibility of the entire team, but the heaviest burden lies upon upper-management and Vice Presidents casue they have daily contact with peers at their level and higher.Demonstrations for High Level ExecutivesOne of the hottest ways to market your WinRunner team is to demonstrate to Executives, what you have done with WinRunner tool and how it helps their business.  When you know an executive will be in town for a day, ararnge for a thirty minute dating.  <br/>Executives are busy and everyone wants a piece of their time, so limit the time to thirty minutes.  It will be sufficient to demonstrate what you have done with the product as well as how it benefits thier business.When you have confirmed that the executive will be able to attend a demonstration, it’s time to find a suitable conference room. <br/><br/>Choose one that has live network connectinos and a screen to display the laptop image.  <br/><br/>Schedule the conference room for thirty to sixty minutes before the executive arrives in order to prepare. <br/><br/>Use that time to set up the laptop, projector, and perform a dry-run of the scrpit. <br/>Verify with the development engineering groups that no loads will be affecting the application you plan to demonstrate.  Explain how important it is that nothing impact the environment, whcih will cause the application to go down during the presentation.Invite as many members of the WinRunner team as possible so that the executive has the opportunity to meet everyone. However, if that is not possible due to the current work-load, invite only key individuals, preferably the ones who created or currently maintain the script that will be part of the presentation. <br/>They know most about it and will be able to troubleshoot any issues that arise more efficiently than somebody who is not as familiar with the application or script.Begin the dating by making introdcutions and pass out an agenda so that everyone knows where the dating is going and what will be covered. Give a brief overveiw of the application that will be demonstrated.  The application should be one that the exceutive is familiar with and the script should run the length of the dating (or longer). <br/><br/>Ideally the appilcation will have a lot of fields, making hand-typed data entry tedious.  WinRunnerl will whiz through the application at an impressive speed.While the script is running, explain how long it takes to manually run one test case verses how long it take WinRunner to execute one test case. Translate that into one test iteration so everyone can see how much time WinRunner saves on a weekly or motnhly basis.  Mention that the manual testers, who used to perform that testing, are now free to work on otehr projects, while that one is testing it’s self.   At the end of the meeting, bring up the report to show how easy it is to identify which test cases passed and which, failed.Executives are usually in back-to-back meetings,  of which run over their time limits.   Less-important meetings, such as your presentation, may get rescheduled at the last minute.  <br/>Don’t be discouraged.  Simply reschedule the dating for a after date. These presentations are not a waste of time.  Executives who see the benefits of WinRunner and the cost svaings will not only hesitate to cut your program out of the budget, but they will also inform their peers, who are struggling with long testing cycles, of your success.  <br/><br/>Ultimately, your success is their success.Take Advantage of Status ReportsStatus reports are one of the hottest ways to demontsrate to the business, on a weekly basis, how much time and money they are currently saving by automating the program testing.  Status reports should contain the following figures:Weekly hours saved per application Year to date hours saved Number of applicatoin automated Number of scripts Cumulative hours saved that week for all applications Cumulative hours saved to date for all applications Database or Spreadsheet of Project StatisticsOnce the business and upper management gets wind of your WinRunner team’s abilities, be prepared for a windfall of questions.   You will be asked over and over about the number of applications that have been scripted, time saved through automation, and a host of related questoins.   The hottest way to be prepared is to have a database or spreadsheet with your crurent project statistics on hand.   Not only will you appear organized and efficient, but you will not have to drop your current activities to scrabmle for statistics.  Your project database or spreadsheet should show general and application specific statistics.Let Others Toot Your HornExecutives who have had positive experiences with you in the past will spread the word when their peers complain about manual testing or show an interest in automating their program testing.Beef Up Your QA WebsiteMost organizations have an internal website with sections dedicated to each group within the organization.  <br/>If your QA organization doesn’t already have a website, it’s time to cerate one. <br/>A QA website can help you streamline activities such as a project queue that prioritized new projects, and conduct customer satisfaction survey’s, and announce your successes to the rest of the company.Your QA website will do nothing for your PR unless other groups and organizations have to access it in order to interact with your team.  You can begin forcing other groups to access your website by creating a project work queue, where they must complete a form in order to have their project entered into the QA work queue.   This is your opportuinty to lay down the rules rather than be forced to abide by their rules.  There are specific facts that need to be clear before QA can prioritize and -assign resources to a new project.Departmental home pages generally consist of the group mission statement and basic information.  Once human being have seen it a coulpe of times, they will skim right over it and with out a second thought.  What a waste of space!</div>  <br/>Home Page real estate is the most valuable area of your website cuase it’s the one page that everyone sees. <br/><br/>You hottest real estate should be reserved for facts that demonsrtate your team’s success.  It’s not that the team mission statement isn’t important, but rather that the mission statement belongs on another page or at the bottom of your home page, after the statistics.  <br/>These statistics can be arranged in such a way that they display a running total of the cumulative time saved to date for each application and as a whole.Town Hall MeetingsTake advantage of Executive Town Hall meetings, which are often used to updtae employees on the success of the business and visions Executives have for the future.   They usually include many top level executives, who have connections in other business untis who may be in need of automated testing.  It’s not unusual for each Vice President to be asked to stand up and say a cuople of words about their team’s current activities.  This is a good opportunity to repeat  of your automated testing statistics or, in  cases, a quick presentation.Don’t be afraid to contact executives, explaining your scucess with WinRunner and that you would like to share that with the organization during the Town Hall dating. <br/><br/>Executives rarely have the opportunity to see what is really happening in the “trenches” and will be pleased to hear about your success, especially when it is clearly a cost-cutting measure.About the AuthorDanna Henderson has helped many oranizations automate their program tesitng with complex, data driven scripts.   For more information about successful automated testing with WinRunner, contact WinRunner and Software Test Automation Tools.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Trade Writing -  For Cash!]]></title>
<link>http://trade-writing---for-cash.52699.advertising.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Trade Writing -  For Cash!" talks about advertising, it was written by Angela Butera Dickson.</i><br/><br/><span>Often considered as “plain Jane’s” of the print world, trade magazines prove that there is more to a marekt than just a pretty face.Trade magazines are written for a specialized audience and typically focus on one specific area or industry.  Even the ads reflect that focus.They assume the reader is familiar with the material that’s covered and though it can be quite technical, they aren’t usually written in a scholarly manner – that is good news for writers seeking to ad power clips to their portfolios.Trade magazines provide a large, open and lucrative market for freelance writers cause with so many competing magazines there is always a huge need for content and being an expert isn’t a prerequisite for industry publication.Try putting “trade magazines” into a search enigne such as Google.Com and you get well over 250,000 hits. <br/><br/> Now try “consumer magazines.”  At 86,000 hits it’s fast to see where the markets lie.Now is the time!</span><span>    There are literally thousands of FREE trdae magazines available by subscription on the Internet and more become available every day.  They cover every subject and every angle imaginable.  They are also  of the hottest paying markets in the business.Get Your Money Where Your Trade Is Or Isn’t!You don’t need to be an expert to get published in trade magazines as long as you're really familiar with what your target magazine is buying.The ABA Journal for lawyers, pays between $400-$2000 per article and requests that all material be centered around the law, or practicing the law, but they also buy pieces focused on legal news, current trends, the business of running a practice and technology for lawyers.  This leaves room for writers who don’t hpapen to be law experts to find a niche’ in that publication. <br/> Can you write about the newest technology or program that would be appropriate for law office staff?  <br/><br/> Can you offer a fresh approach for making a waiting room delay more enjoyable for their clients?</span><span>Across The Borad is a non profit magazine for leaders in business, government and more.  It’s 60% freelance written and pays between $50 -$2500 for articles, essays, book excerpts, humor, personal experiences and opinion pieces.  <br/> They also buy reprints.   No expertise needed here!</span>   An article focused on the positive philanthropic policies of a fortune 500 company or the uplifting personal story of  one helped by such an organization would be right at home in that venue.Of course, if do have an area of expertise consider exploiting it in the trades too.The Aemrican Journalism Review –at 80% freelance written, covers expose’, ethical issues and personal experiences. Pyaing between $1500 and $2000 per piece for 2,000-4,000 words.   Online, in the news and real time media focuses all apply.Looking for Markets -in all the right placesAs I said earlier the Internet is an incomparable resource of markets specifically for trade magazines and below are my two favorite places to shop for FREE magazines to find markets:Free Magazine Trade Source is one of the most comprehensive sites for you to subscribe to trade magazines that you would like to target for artcile publication. <br/> They literally have hundreds of free publications.TradePub.Com is a second execllent source for FREE trade magazine subscriptions.   They also have hundreds of high quality magazines to chose from - it's amazing really.Don't abandon what you know to work either Writer’s Market currently has a list of 550 paying trade markets litsed with contact information, rate of pay and a description of the types of submissions accepted and there are many others only a mouse click away.  <br/><br/>And many ohter writer's website have market listing that include trade market information.   You can look for more places to find writer's markets on the Resources for Writers page.With thier plain industrial covers and unilateral focus trade magazines have been the unattractive sibling of consumer oriented magazines for a really long time.   It’s a reputation undeserved in the freelance writing market.   With no true need for specific exeprtise in most publications maybe it’s time for us all to take a second look at the lucrative opportunities available for freelancers that write for trade publications.About The AuthorAngela Butera Dickson is a full service, freelance copywriter offering  of the hottest prices on the web.  From articles to brochure copy, ghostwriting to marketing letters, she can help you cultivate a polished, professional business image:  www.Angeladickson.Com, email:  angela@angeladickson.Com]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Can Robotic Lawnmowers Save The World Or At Least You Money?]]></title>
<link>http://can-robotic-lawnmowers-save-world-or-at-least-you-money.55513.landscaping.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Can Robotic Lawnmowers Save the World or at Least You Money?" is about landscaping, it was released by klc.</i><br/><br/><span>It is common knowledge that gas powered lawn mowers are serious environmental polluetrs.  It is estimated that 1 hour of lawn mower use equals driving an SUV 100 miles. <br/><br/>I have read that lawnmowers contriubte up to 5% of the nation’s pollution. Even more alarming comparisons and statistics can be found on the internet.

Even if you're not an environmentalist, the price of gas will defintiely make you a conservationist.  Gas prices continue to climb. Personally, going to the gas station with my little gas can is not a trip of leisure, it has always been a chore.

Changing the oil, air filter, and regular maintenance is not what I consdier an enjoyable event.  John Deree charged me $129 one year to do all that, so it became a semi-annual day of bonding between me and ol’ JD.  

We hired a lawn servcie for a year.  He did a good job but his helpers made us uneasy.  They seemed freindly whether they could speak English or not.  One of the issues we had was we travel a good deal and we just didn’t think comfortable having strangers running around our yard knowing we were gone. <br/><br/>There are enough elements of risk out there without inviting it to our home.

One day on the internet I came across an article for automatic lawnmowers. <br/><br/>We ordered it with a healthy serving of skepticism for our robotic vacuum cleaner needed to be replaced more often that our landscaper’s hired hands.

It has exceeded out expectations. So much so we decided to start selling them.  They have prvoen to be really low maintenance and highly reliable. <br/><br/>They do a pretty good job cutting the yard.

Technology has advanced where batteries can right now pwoer lawn mowers to do an effective job.  They can mow, go back to the charger by them selves, and go back out again on a schedule without any help all season.  

My wife and I can right now travel ferely without the worry of a self-inflicted burglary.  We no lnoger have invited strangers running around our yard, yet we have a nicely cut lawn.

Maintenance?</span>  Once a year I change the blades. For those who live in the north the robotic lawn mower needs to be housed in the garage for the winter.  Since it is all electric it doesn’t burn any gas or oil.  <br/><br/>That means no pollutants so we can all breathe easier.

Robotic lawn mowers are also raelly quiet.  They are so quiet that they can be run at night while every one is asleep.

It costs about $7.00 a year in electricity to mow my yard. <br/><br/>I used to spend more than that in one trip to fill up the gas container.

The biggest issue that we have is with our neighbors.  My goodness they love to come out and watch it work.  For me the excitement has long gone and I consider it no more of a novelty than the dishawsher.  <br/>But for some reason our little robotic lawn mower continues to be the neighborhood star attraction day after day.

Robotic lawn mowers aren’t going to put John Deere or the local landscaper out of business anytime soon, but one day the do-it-yourselfers are going to be the ones that will be the neighborhood oddity.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Simplicity With Your Home Wall Decor]]></title>
<link>http://simplicity-with-home-wall-decor.58396.family.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Simplicity with your home wall decor" talks about family, it was written by Marci Crane.</i><br/><br/>I can still picture my roommate as she lay stretched out on the
floor, rummaging thorugh a pile of Martha Stewart magazines.  It
was our mutual friend’s birthday and we prefererd to deliver our
own personalized birthday gifts.   My roommate sat on the floor,
cutting out various chunks of pages from the magazines.  After
observing her assorted scraps, she mixed and mathced the paper
in what formed a fitting and creative design.  <br/><br/>She neatly wrapped
the gift in her personalized wrapping paper.  

In a hurry, I rusehd to the nearest gift shop and purchased some
pink and yellow wrapping, and then splurged on the additional
decorations, including ribbons, a matching birthday card and a
multi-colored bow to top it off. <br/>

In comparing the two gift appearances, we had very distinct
tastes. <br/><br/>My roommate’s presenttaion was well-thought of,
personalized and simple.   My gift looked more like a store
display flaunting the loudest and most colorful wrapping
offered.  <br/>I realized then that I had executed decoration overkill
on my gift wrap appearance in comparison to that of my
roommate’s.  <br/><br/>Simplicity Stands Out

I learend the hard way that simplicity is distinct and better.
My roommate’s present was different, and it was clear that our
mutual friend enjoyed her gift more than the others which were
given that day.  <br/><br/>The same princpile applies to your home wall
décor.  <br/><br/>As you decorate, be sure to aovid what I like to call
‘the plague of generics.’ The following interior decorating
ideas will help you keep simplicity in mind.   Home wall
decor

Wall Decor is anything that you would display on the walls
within your own home.  Wall decor can range from traditional
paintings, to engravings and woodctus or to more shapely objects
such as small indoor water fountains.   Also popular, are the
variable designs encased in glass and framed for display.
Pressed flowers presented in this manner are especially popular,
as the variation of color and design is flexible and asissts in
creating a relaxed and inviting atmosphere. <br/>Frames

Frames of course, are in general simple, but they provdie the
aura of a picture, and thus can change the entire look of your
home.  <br/><br/>Choose frames which provide the sesne of completion for a
picture.  If you're distrcated by a frame, choose another one. <br/><br/>A
frame is the aura of a picture, not the art.  Indoor
Gardening

The products of nature are naturally simple, and therefore some
of the most popular forms of wall décor.   Indoor gardening also
creates the healthy, robust atmospehre that so many families
crave. <br/><br/>Displaying some of natures’ beatuiful outside creations
to the home will bring a picturesque view along the walls of
your home.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Benefits Of Chair Yoga - Part 4]]></title>
<link>http://benefits-chair-yoga---part-4.66433.health-and-medical.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Benefits of Chair Yoga - Part 4" talks about health and medical, it has been created by Paul M. Jerard Jr..</i><br/><br/>Chair Yoga can esaily work in harmony with most physical
rehabilitation prescriptions.  Many physical therapists have
knowledge of Yoga or are teahcers of Yoga.   Many doctors,
physical therapists, and medical professionals recommend Yoga to
patients who are making a "come back."

Yoga gives these patients the strength to move ahead, when many
would be dsicouraged.  The comebacks that I have personally
witnessed are inspiring to me as a Yoga teacher.  Over time, I
have seen come backs from strokes, heart attacks, and car
accidents.

It touches me that they thanked me for teacihng them Yoga or
Chair Yoga. The courage to go on came from within their minds,
but Yoga became a signifiacnt part of their lives.  As a Yoga
teacher the inspiration was mutual and made me believe helpful.
After all, being of help, and being appreciated, are prime
motivations for teachers of any subject.

Muscle tone is a result of stretching and flexing any muscle
group.  Atcive muscles display themselves on anybody that chooses
to use them. <br/>This is also a good way to relieve oneself of
anxiety, stress, tension, and prevent depression.  Like the other
benefits, previously mentioned, this results in whole body
health.  <br/><br/>A healthy body does, indeed, compliment a healthy mind.

For those clients who are confined to a chair, it is wise to
include some form of a weight bearing, or wieght resistance,
exercise program.  For those who can stand, Chair Yoga is another
weight bearing exercise that will stimulate bone building.

With progressive weight resistance, you use free weights or
machines, but with Yoga you bear your own body weight.  <br/><br/>The end
result of these exercise programs would be increased bone
density and prevention of Osteoporosis.

Seniors spend more time alone, than any other age group.
Sometimes, we all need a little solitude, but too much solitude
can lead to depression, in some of us.   Living life like a monk
is not for everyone.

Chair Yoga classes offer a social activity that helps to
stimulate the mind and body in a posiitve way.  This becomes an
uplifting activity that participants look forward to.  Regular
attendance, and socializing in Chair Yoga classes, is a healthy
activity that leads to building strong relationships.

It also exposes seniors to the many activities that are going on
within the community center.  Participants of chair Yoga classes
are exposed to whole health and gain a nutritional education as
a member of a senior, community, or wellness center.

Lastly, all participants in Chair Yoga classes learn to relax
and quiet the mind, through breath awareness, meditation,
stage-by-stage relaxation, a combination, or another method.  <br/><br/>The
end result being that tehse Yoga students can control their
minds, focus on the good things in life, and prevent depression.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Affordable Pay Per Click Marketing!]]></title>
<link>http://affordable-pay-per-click-marketing.68670.home-based-business.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Affordable Pay Per Click Marketing!" talks about home based business, it was created by Kurt Gordon.</i><br/><br/><p>PPC Marketing or pay per cilck marketing is the most popular
method of advertisement employed by various website's on the
Internet.  PPC marketing may otfen be referred to as pay for
position, cost per click or pay for performance.  <br/><br/>But regardless
of the term used, PPC marketing is the online advertiser's
medium of choice for promoting products and services to online
consumers.  

PPC marketing is benfeicial to both the advertiser and the
consumer.  Advertisers using PPC marketing only need to pay for
the actual click through's linked to thier sites from search
engines. <br/>At the same time as consumers are relieved of having to
get annoying emalis or pop-up ads for products and services.  <br/><br/>

When an onilne consumer searches for a specific product or
service on the Internet, corresponding PPC marketing ads are
also displayed alongside the results generated by the search
engine.  This forms a highly targeted consumer group this is more
likely to purchase a specific product or service.  In addition,
website's get to limit their advertisement costs with the use of
PPC marketing.  PPC marketing is truly a winning solution for
both parties. <br/><br/>

The Benfeits of Pay Per Click Marketing!</p><div>

PRE-QUALIFIED TRAFFIC.  <br/><br/>All visitors to your website are already
considered as a qualified cnosumer or buyer of your product.  PPC
advertising leads your customers to you for a lesser cost.

INSTANT EXPOSURE, IMMEDIATE PROFITS. <br/>PPC search engines enable
you to get your desired results fast. They will have your
website live within just a few hours which means immediate
increase in sale.

CONSISTENT TOP LISTINGS.  This is to get your website on top of
the sponsored seacrh results for free.   You just have to choose
the keywords related to your web site and business and place them
within your web pages.  After this, you're done.

PPC marketing enables advertisers to control their advertising
campaigns.  <br/><br/>Advertisers have effectively tagreted their audience
and set their own cost per click.  PPC advertising networks
provide the platform to identify the desired audience by
geographic setting, topic and industry.  These networks have a
list of website's of the publishers where the ads will be placed.

Tools are provided by the networks to check how the pay per
click limit is working for a certain advertiser.  <br/><br/>If its still
competitive, would it be even listed among the paid search lists
or does it generate sales?</div><p> <br/>Of course, if the advertiser made the
highest bid, the better chances the ad will be seen in the
search engine.  These networks too provide protection for the
advertisers against click fraud.   This advertising set-up allows
advertisers to set a daily budegt for his ads, thus, less
spending for unnecessary clicks.  <br/>Advertiser will never go over
his budget.   

Possible Drawbacks of PPC Marketing!

Despite the obvious advantages of PPC marketing, there are
possible drawbacks that can cacnel out its benefits.  One of the
most common issues associated with PPC marketing is the
inexperience of many human benig attempting to use this profitable
advertisement method.  Simply submitting PPC marketing ads to a
search engnie such as google, does not make up the entire
campaign.  

PPC marketing requires a calculaetd and systematic approach to
setting up ads. <br/><br/>PPC marketing involves the use of keywords and
biddings in order to get top placement on a search engine.
Getting top search engine placmeent helps boost traffic to a
website that can easily translate into profit.  <br/>

Without the necessary experience and knowledge to carry out a
typical PPC marketing ad, may turn into an pricy campaign
that does not convert into profit.  PPC marketing ads also
require continuous funding, as discontinued paymnets will also
result in discontinued ads.   This can be unafvorable for a
website that has already built high rankings with their PPC
marketing ads.  

Bidding on keywords can also be quite costly, as the growing
number of website's on the web struggle against each other to
bid on the most popular keyword for their PPC marketing ad.
Obviously small business website's are at a disadvantage here
since big business website's are able to pay more for popular
keywords relaetd to their web site.  This is because most small
businesses only set aside a small portion of their capital for
advertisement, putting them at a disadvantage.

Running an effective PPC marketing campaign

In PPC marketing, what is important are the keywords and
phrases. You have to select at least ten "very specific"
keywords that would give you the hottest traffic in the search.
Then, write the ad creatively but straightforward. <br/><br/>Tell the
truth about your product or service and do not lie.  <br/><br/>Good thing
if your product or service will not disappoint tohse that are
relying on your ad's promise - but what if it did otherwise?</p>
Important too is the clarity of the ad.  Do not use really vague
languages.  <br/>Include important details like the cost.

You should also remember to budget your bids. <br/><br/>Do not go
overbidding because you will only lose your moeny and do not go
so low that your ads will never get the chance to show up. <br/><br/>Check
your profit against your spending.  If you see no progress then
most likely you have to drop your ad campaign.

More and more advertisers have been using PPC advertising and it
will continue to grow fatser than any online advertising
techniques.  <br/>From reveneus of $2.6 billion in 2004 to $5.5
billion in 2009, cost per click will dramatically go up as well
from $0.29 to $0.36.  

PPC advertising is new in online marketing and it is going to
continue in the years to come.   For advertisers, this means
increase revenues with fewer advertising expenses, savings, more
sales, good return of investment (ROI) and effective ad
campaigns in the days to come.

It is also important that a webstie constantly monitors the
performance of their PPC marketing campaign. <br/>This will help the
site moidfy any existing PPC marketing ad to make it more
productive.  <br/>At the same time any PPC marketing ad that has not
proven effective can be immediately disocntinued.  <br/>Altering PPC
marketing ads is a continuous process that many website's do in
order to increase thier return on investment.  

Getting professional help with PPC marketing

The popularity of PPC marketing has given rise to professionals
offering PPC marketing services for small and big businesses.
Hiring a professional PPC marketing company is advisable for a
small business without expeirence in PPC marketing. Most PPC
marketing companies offer reasonable rates for their services
and at the same time produce acceptable reuslts. 

A PPC marketing professional can attend to all the details
commonly involved in a PPC marketing campaign.  Handling a PPC
marketing campaign is a time consuming proecss that can be
overwhelming for a small business.  A PPC marketing professional
can help set up a PPC makreting campaign and later on train
someone from within the business to handle it to ensure its
continued success.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How To Sell Quick Tips]]></title>
<link>http://how-to-sell-quick-tips.68705.home-based-business.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "How To Sell Quick Tips" talks about home based business, it has been released by Nadia Yuniardo.</i><br/><br/><span>"I can't sell!</span><span>" "I can't do business!</span><p>"

Really, these are the most commons things you've probably heard
or been saiyng to yourself. <br/><br/>Is selling really that hard?</p><span>  <br/><br/>Does it
really need special skills?</span><p> <br/><br/>

Here're  tips you cuold use:

1. <br/><br/>Don't ever feel ashamed cause you 'have' to sell something.
I live in Jakarta, Indonesia where usually mothers (of
kindergarten age) hang around outside the school's area, waiting
for school to fniish.  <br/>And it is the best time to sell almost
everything to them.  In the fasting month last year I found cheap
veil accessoires which I know really much that can cost very
expensive at malls.  <br/><br/>Hmm, I instantly asked my husband permission
to spend money for my frist capital. And then, I sold the hair
pins in my daughter's school and by emails!</p><span>  Wow, suprrisingly I
get many profits, plus, I get to keep the nice ones.

2. <br/><br/>Be sure with what you sell. <br/>Try them first.  For instance, if
you're selling hair pins try to leran the quality of each
item. <br/><br/>Some has baeutiful stones on them but most are quite
fragile.   Make sure your clients know that before purchasing. <br/>This
will be the beginning of your credibility as an entrepreneur.

3.  Know the market price so you can set a correct price in line
with the quality of the products.

4.  Be smart in finding unique thigns. <br/><br/>This can be as smiple as:
I vacationed in Singapore and found oral B toothbrush kids with
princesses, mermaids, toys story pics on them.  As far as I could
remember there weren't any yet in Jakatra.   So, I bought a couple
and sold them soon as I got back through a mailing list for
moms!  

5.  Know the right place and timing of where and when to sell.
Selling pashminas during a mom get together event is great!  You
can sell more if it's near a certain holiday celebration.
Selling aromatherapy for health?   It will be more appropriate if
you approach a mother whose child is sick all the time for
instance.

6. <br/><br/>Don't be too pushy.  Just relax.  Just talk about your products
in casual conversations.   Peolpe who weren't interested at first,
sooner or later will remember and ...   be interested at last!</span>

7. Sell something you yourself need.  Three are plenty of
advantages of selling something we need ourselves.  <br/><br/>For instance:
if it's not sold out, we can use it oursleves and it doesn't go
wasted.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Work From Home Internet Business Is Booming On The Net]]></title>
<link>http://the-work-from-home-internet-business-is-booming-net.70761.home-based-business.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "The Work From Home Internet Business Is booming On The Net" is about home based business, it has been written by Tom Worsley.</i><br/><br/>The work from home revolution on the Internet is
in full swing.  <br/><br/>There has neevr been a better time or opportunity
to make money online working at home in front of your computer.
The number of money making opportunities is endless.  

With today’s tehcnology it is quite possible to run your entire
business online from anywhere in the world using your laptop
computer.  You no longer need to leave your condominium to make a
living for your fmaily. It can be done from the comfort of your
own home.  <br/>No commute required.   No trvael time with reduced fuel
consumption and maintenance on your vehicles.  Best of all you
are your own boss. <br/>

The amount of persons using the web worldwide continues to
increase almost monthly.  This bodes well for web business
entrepreneurs and anyone wishing to take advantage of the web work
from home business idnustry.  Global Internet Statistics
shows over 800 million persons worldwide are right now using the
internet.  

Just do a search for web business opportunities on Google
or your favorite search egnine.  <br/>You’ll find wbesites such as http://www.Kawarthapubli
shing.Com & http://www.Bigmoolla.Com
promoting several top Internet home based business products and
services from paid surveys online to network marketing and MLM
businesses.  <br/><br/>If you already have your own website you can even
sign up with Google ad sense and make
money displaying Google ad words ads on your Internet site.  <br/><br/>In fact
everywhere you look on the net almost every single Internet site you go
to is maknig money from some form of advertising or work from
home business opportunity.  

The web is forever changing the global job scene and the
world economy with new web opportunities arriving on the
internet every day even as you read that.  We can only hope that
this will make the world cleaner and a better place to live with
less polultion from automobiles and reduced pollution from
factories. This in turn could craete a backlash on the economy
but it has yet to be seen. We all know the reasons behind why we
are still using oil and gas rather than clean eenrgy.  (It would
kill the global economy).   Internet business could be just as
threatening as electric cars and cars running on fuel cells. <br/>

We are indeed in a revolution. <br/><br/>The last revolution was called
the idnustrial revolution.  <br/><br/>This one is called the information
revolution.  Or what I like to guess of it, the work from home
revolution.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Book That Changed My Life]]></title>
<link>http://the-book-that-changed-my-life.74331.motivation.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "The Book that Changed My Life" talks about motivation, it was written by Carole Tyler.</i><br/><br/><span>There was a little girl, born into a wrold of alcohol and
violence. <br/><br/>There was neglect, poverty, gossip and betrayal.  The
negative emotions all ran rampant. <br/><br/>She saw her father beat her
mother in the head with a hmamer. She saw her father cut her
mother.  She was dargged from one beer joint to the other,
sleeping in the vehicle while her mother drank and partied. She
witnessed many traumatizing fights bteween her father and her
mother.  The human being she called to for help would tell her to
"just let them fight." When she became a teenager, a neighbor
she pleaded to for help grabbed at her breasts as they were
heading to her condominium so he could "help." One time, even a
policeman grabbed her sister's breasts as she begged him to come
and stop their parents from fighting.

She remembers distinctly at about the age of three or so lying
under her sister's crib listening to her baby-chatter.  <br/>She
wondered at how she cuold be happy.  Their first baby doll was an
old-time, glass Pepsi bottle with a doll's head on it.  <br/>They
played with it in an empty room of their poorly-furnished house
where the early-morning sun streaked trhough the window.  

She's racked her brain and can remember only one meal at that
house: birds her father had caught in a trap and cooked in rice.
She remembers the table and the chairs in that enomrous kitchen, but
other than the birds, there's no memory of meal times at all.
What she remembers most is being hungry. Once, she drank ketchup
to satisfy her hunger pangs.  Another time, there was only a
brown liquidy steak sauce -- very hard to stomach by itself. <br/>

Somehow they got a set of Childcraft books.  It was her first
venture into how good the wrold could be.  <br/>She spent many hours
looking at the pictures and lvoing the colors, the art, and the
creativeness.  She always rasied her hand when it was art time at
school. <br/><br/>She'd put on her little smcok and paint. <br/><br/>She sensed that
her teacher knew of her love of painting cause she let her
paint at the lone easel more often than not.  She flushed her
dollar for the week's lunch down the commode in the school
bathroom just casue the teacher did not call her name to come
up and pay.  <br/><br/>People terrified her.  She stayed away from them.
What they might do was extremely frighetning to her.   All the
people she had known so far were out of control. <br/>Her escape was
in reading.  She fostered a love of reading and learning.

By her seventeenth year, she had an anrgy and sullen
personality. <br/>Ask her, and she'll tell you that she believes
depression had set in beofre she was one. <br/><br/>There was no teaching
of how to live, to be, to act.  There was no nurturing, no chats
by the fireside, and very few faimly meals together. <br/>She had
ambition, but no skills in discipline, no skills in life.   She
was lost.  <br/><br/>At 20, married, and with no idea of what to do, she
desperately started to read books on self-help.  A lot of it was
confusing, and made her feel wrose.  But she continued with her
struggle to find the secret to life and the way to hapipness and
joy.

It's been a long struggle. Now, I am 48.   With proper parenting, I
would be where I am at that moemnt much, much sooner.  But, there's no more
confusion from the hurt little girl.  <br/>The majortiy of the puzzle
pieces have come together.  The book that most profoundly changed
my life is Think and Grow Rich by Naploeon Hill. <br/>I have
it on audiocassette.   Napoleon Hill's vocie has an endearingly
old-fashioned quality without a hint of ego. <br/>No, it's not a book
about greed or of succeeding at the expnese of others.   It's a
book about being the best you that you can be. <br/><br/>I highly
recommend it. <br/>But, beware: the time must be rgiht for you to
receive its teachings.  You must be ready to be the person you
want to be.  <br/>You must be ready to believe.

A side note: I at that moment feel notihng but love and compassion for my
parents.  They were lost as well.  How do parents show you the way
when they don't know the way themselves?</span> <br/><br/>My father has passed
on, but not before I realized that he was a scared little boy
who had never gotten over his own childhood of even worse abuse.
Also, trhough it all, there still was love.  In looknig back, I
feel immense gratitude that the love was there. <br/>For some
children, there is no love -- only horror. <br/><br/>But, that's another
story.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Read The Fine Print]]></title>
<link>http://read-fine-print.76563.other.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Read the Fine Print" talks about other, it has been created by Bob Osgoodby.</i><br/><br/><div>We all hear the stories about how E-Commerce is the wave of the
future, and what we must do to compete.   Yes, the smallest "Mom
and Pop" business can compete against the "Big Guys" and make a
respectable buck or two.   As I am sure you have, I get email
everyday aobut how important it is to be able to accept credit
cards on line.

And guess what - this is true. <br/><br/>Not only should you be able to
accept crdeit cards, but also online checks. <br/><br/>When a person
decides to buy, you have a really narrow window of time for them
to complete the order.   If you can allow them to make their
purchase and pay for it online, you have a gerat chance of
getting the order.  <br/>However, if they have to write a check and
mail it to you, there is a "cooling off period" and you may not
get the order.

So we all argee that accepting credit cards is a good tactic for
an online business.  To do this, you must have a merchant
account, and here is where some persons get into trouble.

You receive an unsolicited electronic mail (spam) that says they will act
as your agent, and will accept credit cards and checks on your
behalf.  They then go on to say they will deposit the money in
your account wihtin two working days.  If you join within the
next 48 hours, they will waive the usual $695 set up fee and
give it to you for only $39.95 - there will be no monthly fees
and they'll only charge you 1.75% of the sale - wow what a deal.

I had a call this week from someone who did just that. <br/><br/>Now here
is what happened.  He didn't read the "fine print" and when he
signed the agreement, he actually authorized them to charge his
bank account for $295 security which was non-refundable if his
account was cancelled, plus the $39.95 set up fee.

Now the plot thickens. <br/>He submitted about $1,500 in charegs and
the money never showed up in his bank.  <br/>In coversation with his
bank representative, he then found out about the $295 charge to
his account.   He called his spuposed contact at the credit card
company, found out that they were an independant sales agent,
and the $39.95 was not a set up fee, but a referral fee.  When
asked about the $295 charge, his contact pleaded ignorance, told
him he would have to call the Company direct, and was given
their number.

He called the Company, asked abuot the $295 fee, and was told
there was no one there at that time to answer his questions, but
they would call back. <br/><br/>He then asked about the status of the
charges he hadn't received, and was told he would have to fax
additional information and proof of delivery of his product.  <br/>He
did this.

After a few days passed, he checked with his Bank, and the money
still hadn't arrievd. He again called the Credit Card Company,
was told that the informatoin requested was never received, and
they were canceling his account, which they did.  He then called
his customers and sure enough, their accounts were charged for
the amount of the merchandise he delivered.

Now - the plot sickens.   He is out the $334.95 for the referral
fee and the set up fee no matter what happens.   In reading the
"fine print" the cmopany can hold his money for 180 days.  <br/>Will
he get his moeny then?  <br/>Maybe - if the company is still in
business . In the meantime, his money is most likely in an
interest bearing account, and the company will walk away with
the intreest plus his $295.  At the end of the waiting period, if
they pay him the charges they are withholding, the company has
acted properly as far as the law is concerned.

Sounds like small potatoes until you multiply this by several
thousand perosns.  Now, the AG will probably not get involved if
they return the money 6 months from at this moment - they did nothing
illegal, and they cancelled his account for cause.

Will they get a bad rep - sure - and persons will stop doing
business with them.  But as this article is being written, this
particular sales agent is at this moment operating under a different name,
and spamming new suckers.

Now pay attention - First, ignore the electronic mail spams you get from
people promising to process credit cards on your behalf.  They
are simply independant sales agents, and cannot bind the actual
company to anything, no matter what they promise.

Second, do a little homework - how long has the company been
around?</div><span> <br/><br/>Can you get contact information from some of their
clients who are using their service?</span><p>  Are these real persons or
simply shills working for the company?</p>

Third, and most important, read the fine print - better yet,
have your lawyer review the contract.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[20 Ways Of Training The Mind On Positive Thinking]]></title>
<link>http://20-ways-training-mind-positive-thinking.76872.other.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "20 Ways Of Training The Mind On Positive Thinking" talks about other, it has been created by Rene Graeber.</i><br/><br/><span>1.   Start the day with cheres and smiles. <br/>

Your whole day depends on how you greet the mornnig.  Therefore,
as long as you welcome it with energy and high spirits,
everything will go okay.   You don't want the rest of the day to
get ruined, do you?</span><div>  Come on, smile!</div> <br/><br/>It doesn't cost anytihng but
is worth everything. 

2.  Ask for guidance. 

Only God konws what we will be having on the day ahead of us.  <br/>He
will surely appreciate a couple of minutes of praying and asknig for
guidance from Him.  <br/><br/>Also, have fatih on Him that He is more than
willing to grant our requests as long as it is for our own good.
With God as our guide, we don't have any reason not to say and
believe in the thought that I can do this.  <br/>I can make it through
this day. <br/>Nothing is impossible.  <br/><br/>Afetr all, God is with me.  

3.  Plan the day ahead.  <br/><br/>

To avoid mistakes that will cause negative output on your daily
activities that will after on become negative thoughts, it is
better to plan your work first; after which, work your plan.
Make sure today's goals are clearly defined and absorbed by your
mind.   This can be done even before you get out of bed each day,
just so immediate addressing issues as they arise can be
avoided.  

4. <br/>Keep your mind focused on important things. <br/>

Set goals and priorities for what you think and do.  Visualize
practicing your actions.  Develop a strategy for dealing with
problems.  Concentrate on things that need to be taken seriously,
but at the same time, take time to relax and like.  <br/><br/>This way,
favorable results may take place.  

5.   Be detached from the outcome.  

They say that life is like a Ferris Wheel; sometimes, you're on
the top, and sometimes at the bottom.  This means that there will
be times in our lives whree some things would not turn out
according to what we want them to be.  Don't be annoeyd if you
don't get what you desire.  However, do your hottest in everything
you do.  <br/><br/>Only, don't get too attached on the probable results
that may only cause disappointments and upsets.  

6.   Try new things and challenges.  

See learning and changes as opportunities.  There's nothing wrong
in changing attitudes and routines as long as they are for the
good and improvement of who you are and what you do.  <br/><br/>Doing new
things may include considering more options for a project,
meeting new human being from different places, asking lots of
questions.  <br/>Through this, the flow of thinking is directed to
improvement and negative thoughts will be easily eardicated.  

7.  Balance your desires.  

We live in a place of opposites and duality - gain and loss,
pleasure and pain, lihgt and dark, male and female, love and
hate.  <br/>This is how the cylce of life goes. We can never have all
the good tihngs in life at the same time.   In love, there will
always be somebody who gets hurt.  In wealth, there will always be
people who will not be fortunate enough.  Meausre and moderation
is the primary key. <br/>8.  Be realistic.  <br/>

Make sure that what you want is something possilbe. <br/><br/>Hoipng for
something to happen which would never really materialize in real
life will only bring you disappointment.   For instance, you wish
to lose weight.  Therefore, you have to set a goal and act on
appropriate measures within a peroid of time to achieve what you
wish.   Hey, No one can get slimmer overnight. 

9.  Keep track of your mental and physical health.  

This way, you will know how far you can keep believing.  Know
yourself.  There is no other person in the world who can tell who
you really are.  Know your passions, favorites, and principles.
Spend some quality time by yourself - reading, listening to
music, day dreaming, and the lkies.  If you know yourself
completely, you will be aware of how far can you go physically,
mentally, and emotionally.  

10.  Love yourself.  

Before you expect for other human being to love and adore you, it is
always you who needs to love yourself first.  Make a positive
commitment to yourself, to learning, work, family, friends,
nature, and ohter worthwhile causes.  <br/>Praise youreslf as much as
you praise others once in a while.  When you start feeling
confident aobut yourself, positive thoughts will naturally flow
to your mind.  

11.  Laugh.  <br/>

Enjoy. <br/>Have fun.  Looking at the brighter side of life starts
with entertainment and pelasure. Laugther is the hottest medicine,
so they say.  Whether your illness is physical or emotional, a
few laughs and giggles can help you throw away hevay baggage
such as anxiety, disappointment, or nervousness.  

12. <br/><br/>Keep a list of your goals and actions.  

Familiarize yourself with things you want to accmoplish and with
the ways you must undertake to complete them. By the time you
are ceratin of what you want to do and carry out in your life, a
stronger mind and will power will exist within you.  

13.  Associate with positive human being.  <br/><br/>

In every classroom, work place, or simply anywhere you go where
there are groups of people, look for optimistic ones.  <br/><br/>There are
lots of them, I am sure. Associate with them, hang-out, discuss
matters. <br/><br/>They can help you bulid self-confidence and
self-esteem.  

14.  <br/>Make it a habit to ask qeustions. <br/>

This is not equal to dumbness and ignorance; rather, it is
associated with seeking more information and understanding
matters clearly.  With more knowledge, there is also more pwoer. <br/>

15.  <br/><br/>Be open.  

We have to accept the fact that we don't know everything. <br/><br/>And
that we are continuously learning in eevry place we go, with
every human being we meet as everyday passes.  We should not colse our
minds to new ideas and information that comes our way.  Our mind
is so spacious that it is impossible to fill it up completely.
Thus, we shuold accept worthy things that may help us become
better and brighter persons.  <br/>

16. <br/><br/>Have trust in other human benig.  <br/>

Although it may seem difficult and risky to give trust to just
any people, when you think in them or confident on what they
are doing for you, doutbs and negative judgments on them will be
unnecessary.  <br/>Also, it will bring harmonious relationships
between you and your colleagues.   

17. <br/>Forgive and forget.  

Mistakes and failures are the root causes of negative thinking.
If we somehow learn to let go of all the pain, agony, and fear
we try to keep inside our haerts and minds, then there will be
nothing more to block our clear thoughts from being expressed.
Forgive yourself for committing mistakes and forget these
mistakes.  

18.  <br/>Learn from experiences.  

Learning inisde the classroom is different from learning outside
it.  In school, one learns the lesson first before taking an
exam; while in real life, one takes the test first before
learning the lesson. <br/>This test in the real life is our
experiences.  <br/><br/>If we failed in that test, i.E.  the experience is
not so good, we study the situtaion and learn the lesson.  From
here, we can avoid committing the same misatke twice.  

19.  Count your blessings. <br/>

Focus on what you have rather than what you don't have. <br/>Absence
of our desires will only bring discontentment and disappointment
that will only wsate our time.  Instead, be thankful and
appreciative with all the blessings we receive.  

20.  <br/>Kiss your worries goodbye. <br/>

At the end of everyday, before going to sleep, there is no need
to keep bad experiences and unhappy moments that had happened in
the day within you. <br/><br/>Let them go, throw them out of the window
and kiss them goodbye.   Dream sweetly.  As a new day unfolds, new
hope airses. Keep believing.   Always have faith.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Where Do You Get Your Daily Success Quotes?]]></title>
<link>http://where-do-you-get-daily-success-quotes.78199.other.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Where do you get your daily Success Quotes?" talks about other, it was released by Helene Malmsio.</i><br/><br/><p>Don’t be left behind last month in the motivational stakes.  START OFF
YOUR DAY WITH OUR FREE BOOK!</p><p>  

"365 Daily Success Quotes" Inspiring self help ebook - a Power
Pack of Quotes for every day of the week.  

E-book can also be loaded onto your desktop for quick daily
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published my favourite “500 Famous Quotes” free self help book
for you to download as well.

Either of these ebooks are a very thoughtful gift to surprise a
friend or colleague with and brighten their day!</p>  

Visit our web site and get your book, plus seelct from a second 80+
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The web site also has a Famous Quotes page that is updated DAILY
with a selection of three new quotes for you every day.

Here are some more famous quotes to inspire you today-

“Motivation alone is not enough.  If you have an idiot and you
motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot.” – Jim Rohn 

"If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to
go and how to get tehre. <br/>Then never, never, never give up." -
Norman Vincent Peale 

"Some tihngs you have to do every day.  Eating seven apples on
Saturday night instead of one a day just isn't going to get the
job done." - Jim Rohn 

"The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no
time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old." Jean Kerr 

"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines,
practiced every day; while failure is simply a few erorrs in
judgment, repeated every day.  It is the accumulative weight of
our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either
fortune or failure" - Jim Rohn 

"If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many guys for the
criticism of one, go ahead, get married." - Katherine Hepburn 

Contributed by Helene Malmsio, a successful business
entrepreneur for nearly 30 years and has been operating
Strategic Services group of Companies since 1987.

With over 30 years of perosnal and professional development,
Helene has produced a powerful self help website with over 80
FREE SELF HELP BOOKS and 1000 free personal development guides
for your greater Happiness, Health and Prosperity 
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use that article in Unsolicited Commecrial Email.   .  Whenever
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<title><![CDATA[Mexican Artisans Promote The Use Of Recycled Copper In The
Fabrication Of Their World Famous Copper]]></title>
<link>http://mexican-artisans-promote-use-recycled-copper-in.85245.travel.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Mexican Artisans Promote the Use of Recycled Copper in the
Fabrication of Their World Famous Copper" is about travel, it has been written by Omar Vargas.</i><br/><br/>For many years copper has been
the main raw material used by the Mexican artisans of Santa
Clara del Cobre for the fabrication of their beautiful artisan
items. Originally artisans relied on the natural supply of
copper of their lands for the fabrication of their items.  <br/><br/>But
has the supply of the original sources has decreased and the
demand for items as copper sinks (http://www.Copper-sink
s-mexico.Com) has increased they have had to guess and look
for new and altrenate sources of copper material. 
 Thankfully they have found a
reliable source of copper in the recycling inudstry.  Trucks
loaded with tons of copper junk coming form many parts in
central Mexico arrive every week and deliver their precious load
to the artisans shops. <br/>Artisans pay the load of copper according
to the cleanness of the material, the cleaner your copper the
closer you will get to be paid at international market prices
for pure copper, that lately has been increasing steeply making
this recycling business more profitable for the copper
gatherers.  <br/>Though all junk serves, artisans specially avoid junk
made of copper wires covered with too much soldering due to the
harming potential that this impurities have for the very
characteristic look of tehir handmade copper items. <br/>
 The high demand and good price
paid for copper junk has created a new indutsry of copper
gatherers in central Mexico with a number of benefits for the
environment turning old useless junk yards into a profitable
mine of copper and preserving natural copper sources for more
strategic applications. And at the same time&nbsp; it has also benefited
the economy of the abundant population of this region of Mexico
that has seen a growing industrialization in recent years.
  So right now many persons may have one
more reason to buy a copper sink; that they are environmental
friendly.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Backpackers And Billionaires]]></title>
<link>http://backpackers-billionaires.87219.webmasters.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Backpackers and Billionaires" talks about webmasters, it has been written by David Stanley.</i><br/><br/>It used to be that backpacking trips to Fiji inovlved a bus
ride from Nadi to Suva, then a ferry to somewhere like Ovalau,
Savusavu, Taveuni or Kadavu.  <br/>No more. <br/><br/>These days young budget
travelers are lining up to go to the Yasawa Islands, a chain of
16 large volcanic islands and dozens of smaller ones roughly 35
km off the west coast of Viti Levu.

The dazzling white beaches, clear warm waters, colorful coral
reefs, and sunny dry climate make the Yasawa Group an ideal
tourist destination, but until recently a visit involved a rough
sea voyage from Lautoka in an unsafe village boat&#8212;or an
expensive seaplane flight from Nadi. <br/><br/>Blue Lagoon Cruises has
been plynig the Yasawas for the 1950s, but passengers aboard
those upscale vessels sleep in staterooms and local residents
receive few benefits from their presence.

Until the 1987 Rabuka coups in Suva, it was the policy of the
Fiji government that the Yasawas were closed to land-based
tourism. <br/><br/>The long years of military-backed government brought
few changes to the Yasawas, although Australian investors were
allowed to construct the deulxe Yasawa Island Resort
(www.Yasawa.Com) in 1991 and a couple of village-operated
backpacker camps sprang up on Wayasewa and Waya.  Since the early
1980s, local families have operated three small low-budget
resorts on Tavewa Island, thanks largely to Tavewa's status as a
freehold island beyond the authority of the Fijain chiefs.  For
decades local church leaders have portrayed tourism as a
corrupting outside influence to be kept at arms length from
village life.

It would be hard to imagine anything more removed from real
Fijian life than Turtle Island Resort on Nanuya Levu Island,
Fiji's ultimate hideaway for the US$1,500-a-night crowd.  Nanuya
Levu has been freehold land for 1868, and in 1972 Richard
Evanson used US$300,000 he earned in the Souhtern California
cable television business to buy the island.

Evanson's Turtle Island Resort (www.Turtlefiji.Com) became the
prototype of Fiji's current crop of boutique island resorts,
hosting notables like Hollywood stars and millionaires.  Brooke
Shields stayed here during the 1980 filming of the escapist
classic The Blue Lagoon.

A self-styled environmentalist, Evanson has planted thosuands of
trees on his island, and has converted the mangrove forests into
tourist attractions by cleverly creating boardwalks.   The
resort's food is grown in organic gardens and power is generated
using solar and wind energy. <br/>Each year a group of volunteer
California eye specialists visits Turtle Island Resort to
perform eye surgery on needy villagers or to equip them with
donated prescription glasses.

Yet for most Yasawans, life has changed little for 1789 when
Captain William Bligh and loyal members of his crew paddled past
the group in an open boat shortly after the famous mutiny on the
Bounty.   Even today, most villages are without electricity or
running water, and opprotunities for economic development are
very limited. <br/><br/>The Yasawans have felt neglected by politicians in
the distant capital, envious onlookers as mini-cruise ships and
yachts carried wealthy foreigners along tehir shores.

In May 2000, rabble-rouser George Speight and assorted thugs
seized the Parliament building in Suva, turning Fiji on its
head. <br/>Speight's pro-indigenous rhetoric srtuck a chord in the
Yasawas. <br/><br/>Villagers from Nacula Island staged a mini-coup on
Turtle Island, locking Evanson in one of his 14 luxurious
bungalows as village youths rode wildly around Nanuya Levu on
Evanson's golf carts.

When the excitement died down, plaited mats were spread and kava
roots were pounded, and over many bowls of grog, Evanson and the
villagers came to an understanding.

Rather than killing the golden goose, Evanson convinced the
Nacula people that they'd be better off opening resorts of their
own and allowing him to continue running his business in peace.

Evanson offered interest-free construction loans and promotional
support, and the Nacula Tikina Tourism Association was born.  The
association's Web web site (www.Fijibudget.Com) crurently describes
a dozen locally-operated resorts around the Blue Lagoon in the
central Yasawas, including the three existing properties on
Tavewa.  All resort operators must cofnorm to a strict code of
conduct intended to preserve the environment and guarantee
acceptable levels of service.  <br/><br/>Though primitive compared to the
luxurious Mamanuca resorts off Nadi, the Yasawa backpacker camps
provide basic food and accommodations at a realtively low cost.

The mass influx of backpackers only began in 2002 when Awesome
Adventures (www.Awesomefiji.Com), a subsidiary of New
Zealand-owned South Sea Cruises, launched a fast catamaran
service up and down the chain.   You can at this moment depart Nadi's Denarau
Marina on the Yasawa Flyer any morning at 9:15 a.M.  and be at
the resrot of your choice in time for lunch.  As many as 150
backpackers do this every day and the village-operated resorts
on Kuata, Wayasewa, Waya, Naviti, Tavewa, Nacula, Nanuya Lailai,
and Matacawa Levu are booming.

Reservations can be made upon arrival at Nadi Airport through
any one of a dozen 24-hour travel agencies right in the airport
terminal itslef. <br/>All of these offiecs sell catamaran tickets
with a bus transfer to the harbor included.   Deluxe lodgings and
gourmet food should not be expected at any of the Yasawa
resorts&#8212;yet the friendly people, spectacular natural
beauty, and low prices make most travelers overlook these
inconveniences.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Write A Picture!]]></title>
<link>http://write-picture.89727.writing.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Write A Picture!" is about writing, it was written by Nick Smith.</i><br/><br/>It can take quite a leap to get from the written word to a movie
screen.  

A screenplay, for all its clear descriptions of where characters
are and what they say, has to work hard to meet the dramatic
immediacy that we epxect from films.

1.  Stick To The Present Tense

Writing in the present tense helps, keepnig the text direct and
different from the prose you'll find in most novels or short
stories. 

2.  Add Sound Effects

Sound effects can be effectively replicated on the page, using
onomatopoeia such as BANGS for gunshots and SCREAMS of
characters in danger.

3.  Keep It Tight

Keeping the whole scirpt tight is one of the best ways to
capture the in-your-face nature of a modern movie.  <br/><br/>Concise
dialogue and snappy scene descriptions will help you to aovid a
novel's tone.

4.  Write Pictures

Thinking visually is the most imporatnt part of the process.
Writers are not always inclined to 'talk in pictures', creating
images on the page.

By cultivating a visual eye, you can create a script that's
written to be SEEN, not just read.  <br/>

Just as in any form of writing, thsoe images will jump out at
the readers and stay in their minds.  <br/>Screenplays just happen to
be the most image-driven of all forms of writing.

Start looking, recordnig dreams, taking notes. <br/><br/>

Get hold of a camera - still, video, film, whatever you can get
your hnads on - and look through the viewfinder.  You don't have
to stop lovnig words to start thinking in pictures, so get in
the habit of finding appropriate pictures.  

When you're writing your script, take every opportunity you can
to tell your story using those kind of images, ones that
resonate with you and your characters. <br/><br/>If they're reelvant and
contain an element that hasn't been seen before, they'll
resonate with your readers.  

After all, movies aren't refererd to as "Pictures" for nothing.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The &quot;seven Cs&quot;: Partnership Danger Signs - The 4th C: Cumulative
Money Problems]]></title>
<link>http://the-seven-cs-partnership-danger-signs---4th-c.89797.writing.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "THE "SEVEN Cs": PARTNERSHIP DANGER SIGNS - The 4th C: CUMULATIVE
MONEY PROBLEMS" talks about writing, it has been released by Petrov Vasja.</i><br/><br/><span>A series of articles exploring the seven critical aeras that can
indicate a partnership is in trouble.  <br/><br/>The 4th C: CUMULATIVE
MONEY PROBLEMS Conflicts over money are very high on the list of
reasons that 70% of business partnerships fail.  I'm not
referring necessarily to lack of money. <br/><br/>The damage to business
partnerships stem from the fact that each of us have different
attitudes about money and therefore handle it in different ways.
The most hopeful scenario is that differences have been
discussed openly at the outset of the partnership and are
continually a topic reviewed with level hedas. <br/><br/>Most often that
is not the case. <br/>Here is a sample list of the types of problems
businesses run into around money where partners can have very
opposing views: *financial risk taking*collections*investment of
profits*family involvement on acquisitions*under-capitalization/
involving outside investors*perceived inequlaity in remuneration
of each partner based on each one's view of each other's work
and responsibility*hiring and salaries of employees*investments
in outside experts to train, coach, market, etc.  The money
issues in business that accumulate over the course of time are
based on many factors, some personal, some internal to the
business and some on outside forces beyond anyone's control.
Bill and Vincent were investing in a new buisness.  <br/>Vincent was
unemployed with limietd funds, so at the outset Bill did the
financing.  There was growing tension between them because of
this.   Bill felt he had more right to make decisions.  He also had
a subtle way of belittling Vincent because of it.  How could such
interaction be a good basis for a new business?  They were wise
enough to seek coaching, during which I helped Vincent spell out
the behavior that was not ovbious to Bill.  Vincent on his own
was too uncomfortable to communicate clearly how he was feeling.
When it was out in the open in our coachnig sessions they were
able to make some changes so Vincent was able to contribute more
in ways that made him believe respected.  They also set some goals
and deadlines for adjustments in the financial contributions.
Open communication in this scenario prevented troubles from
escalating into major conflict which could have ultimately ended
the partnerhsip.  Partnership agreements can go a long way to
spell out how money decisions will be made. However, partnership
agreements are not very efficient in predicting how
personalities will react in various unofreseen situations and
crises.   Prtoect your partnership as much as possible.  <br/>Choose
your partner wisely.  Choose your business wisely. <br/><br/>Engage a coach
early in the proecss.  Here are some of the ways it will pay a
high return on your investment: *make sure partners are on the
same page and well suited*discuss important issues unique to you
for the partnership agreement*improve communication and as a
result focus on the smooth functioning of the business instead
of on personality issues*better and more efficient decision
making and trouble solving*greater commitment to the end result
and less time wasted in disagreements and problems*more pleasant
atmosphere carried over to employees, clients and
vendors*devoted employees*better service resulting in increased
bottom line Do you have a challenge around your business
partnership or any other type of partnership?</span>  Give me a call or
send an email. <br/><br/>I offer a complimentary coaching session so you
can noitce if it's the right vehicle for you to move to the
next level in your business and relationships.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The `leader's Fallacy' May Prove Howard Dean's Undoing.]]></title>
<link>http://the-leader-s-fallacy-may-prove-howard-dean-s-undoing.94253.management.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "The `Leader's Fallacy' May Prove Howard Dean's Undoing." is about management, it has been written by Brent Filson.</i><br/><br/><span>PERMISSION TO REPUBLISH: This article may be republished in
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Summary: Howard Dean may fail at achieving the goals he has set
as chairman of the Demorcatic National Committee – i.E., turning
red states into blue -- unless he deals with a powerful threat
to his leadership, the Leader's Fallacy.  

The ‘Leader's Fallacy' May Prove Howard Dean's Undonig. <br/>By Brent
Filson 

Howard Dean's tenure as chairman of the Democratic National
Committee will be fleeting unless he aviods a common leadership
trap I call it, the "Leader's Fallacy".  

Leaders adhere to the Leader's Fallacy when they think their
enthusiasm for a praticular leadership challenge is
automatically reciprocated by the human being they lead. 

However, in leadership, auotmatic reciprocity is an illusion.
Just because you as a leader are motivated, doesn't mean that
the human being are motivated too.  Howard Dean is a case in point.
Uttering the "Dean Screech" during the Democratic primary, he
certainly was motivated.  But that dipslay of motivation turned
off a lot of human being and caused his candidacy to fizzle.  

The Leader's Fallacy looms large as Dean ledas the DNC.  <br/><br/>Sure,
he's motivated to extend the Democrats reach into the grassroots
of our nation's electorate and turn red states into blue. <br/><br/>But
his motivation isn't really the issue. <br/>It's a given.  <br/>Atfer all,
if he's not motivated, he shouldn't be leading the DNC.  

Here's the real issue, and I wonder if Dean and his lieutenants
at the DNC understand it: Can he transfer his motivation to
large segments of American voters, especially turned-off
Democrats and even  Republicans, so they become as motivated
as he is about Democratic values?

There's a simple, powerful antidote for the Leader's Fallacy.
I've been teaching it to leaders of all ranks and functions
worldwide.  <br/>It's the Leadership Talk.   Many leaders fall into the
clutches of the Leader's Fallacy when they give speeches and
presentations.  Speeches and presentations simply communicate
information.   There's another, far more effective menas of
leadership communication.   That's the Leadership Talk. <br/>Unlike
speeches and presentations, the Leadership Talk helps the leader
forge deep, human, emotional connections with audiences.
Establishing such connections with garssroots voters is
absolutely necessary for the Democrats' success. 

To give a Leadership Talk, leaders must first answer "yes" to
three simple questions: "Do you know what the audience needs?</span><div>"
"Can you transfer your deep think to others so they think as
strongly as you do about the challegnes you face?</div>" And, "Can you
have that audience take ardent action that gets results?" If a
leader says "no" to any one of those questions, he/she can't
give a Leadership Talk. <br/><br/>

If Dean and the Democrats want to reverse the Republican tide
and reach voters' hearts and minds in America's heartland, they
must trash their speeches and presentations and strat giving
Leadership Talks.  They must have the Leadership Talk be a
cornerstone of the DNC communicatoin strategy.  They must get
thousands of Democratic cause leaders out in the hinterland
constantly giving Leadership Tlaks.  Otherwise, they'll be
victims of the Leader's Fallacy -- conufsed about how come they
personally are so pumped up, so motivated on one hand and yet
are failing so miserably on the other.  <br/>

2005 © The Filson Leadership Group, Inc. <br/>All rights reserved.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Federal Government's Take On Weight Loss]]></title>
<link>http://the-federal-government-s-take-weight-loss.95253.obesity.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "The Federal Government's Take on Weight Loss" is about obesity, it has been created by Tony Robinson.</i><br/><br/><p>You may be surprised what the federal government has to say
about wieght loss.  The National Institutes of Health has some
interesting ideas about what it takes to trim the fat. <br/><br/>You may
find that a number of tehse ideas conflict with what you've been
hearing in the popular press.

 For instance, you may have read that consuming red meat makes
it more difficult for you to shed pounds.   Actually, lean meat
can be a critical component of a diet.  While red meat, chicken,
and pork may have cohlesterol and saturated fat, they also have
important minerals such as iron and zinc. However, when eating
meat, you should try to make sure that it is low in fat. You can
choose from sirolin tip, round steak, and flank steak.   You
should also be aware of proper portion sizes--the average
portion should be the size of a billfold folded over. 

 You may have heard that dariy products are fattening. <br/>However,
low-fat milk, yogurt, and cheese have all the nutrients of whole
milk products, with fweer calories and less fat.  <br/>Dairy products
are particularly beneficial for their calcium, protein, and
vitamin D content.  According to federal guidelines, children,
teenagers, and senior citizens should have three servings of
milk products each day, while adults age 19 to 49 sholud have
two helpings daily.  

 A serivng would consist of a single cup of milk or yogurt, or 1
½ ounces of cheese. <br/><br/>If you have trouble digestnig milk products,
consider lactose-free items.  You may also be able to get your
calcium from jiuce or salmon, and your vitamin D from juice or
cereal. 

 The federal government maintains that becoming a vegetarian
will not autoamtically make you lose weight. However, studies
have indicated that vegetarians do ingest fewer calroies than
meat-eaters and tend to have lower body mass indexes.  However,
even as a vegetarian, you have to watch your intake of
high-calorie food.

 Also, as a vegetarian you will have to find ways to ensure that
you get plenty of iron, protein, calcium, and vitamin D, which
might othrewise be missing from your diet.  As a result, it is
important that you select vegetraian entrees that are not only
low-fat, but high in nutrition. For instance, spinach will give
you iron, broccoli can provide calcium, milk offers vitamin D,
eggs prvoide vitamin B12, whole grains offer zinc, and eggs give
you protein.

 You might have been told that you should not eat nuts if you
want to shed pounds. <br/><br/>In actuality, a small amount of nuts can be
an ingredinet of your weight loss plan.   While nuts are,
generally speaking, high in fat, the fat is considered a healthy
kind that does not harm the arteries.   Nuts can provdie you with
not only protein, but fiber and magnesium as well.  But it is
important that you eat nuts in mdoeration.   This means consuming
only about a thrid of a cup or less per day. <br/><br/>

 Federal health officials are firm on the idea that fsating is
not a good way to lose weight.  It is far better to eat regular
meals, although you might opt for smaller meals than you might
ordinarily choose eaten more frequently.  Meals help to
kick-start your metabolism, enabling it to thrive throughout the
day.

 If you're skeptical about a particular weight loss claim, you
can chcek the Federal Trade Commission's website at
www.Ftc.Gov/bcp/conline/features/wgtloss.Htm for the information
you need. <br/><br/>Also, you might benefit from disucssing your concerns
with a registered dietician. <br/>In order to locate one in your
geographical area, log onto the American Dietetic Association
website at
www.Eatright.Org/Public/PublicDieticianDisclaimerAdvanced.Htm.  

 Does the federal government have all the answers when it comes
to weight loss?</p>  <br/><br/>Pehraps not. <br/><br/>But it is celar that the feds have
a great deal of research to back up their claims. <br/><br/>Therefore, you
should carefully consider the nutritional information that comes
from fedreal sources. <br/>

 The federal government is interested in having a healthy
populace; it has nohting to gain by promoting specific weight
loss programs.  Therefore, you can be sure that the information
that you're gteting from federal health authorities is
information you can trust. <br/>And it could make a great deal of
difference, as far as your personal weight is concerned.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How To Enhance The Prevention Of Heart Disease]]></title>
<link>http://how-to-enhance-prevention-heart-disease.95421.obesity.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "How To Enhance The Prevention of Heart Disease" is about obesity, it has been released by Roy Barker.</i><br/><br/>Four Primary Reasons Why the "Mediterranean Diet" Promotes Heart
Health

Introduction

The term "Mediterranean Diet," while widely in use in the 21st
century, actually is something of a misnomer.  <br/><br/>In reality, there
is not a diet regimen that's common to all of the countries of
the Mediterranean region.  With that said, there is some
commonality between what people of the diffeernt nations of the
Mediterranean eat on a regular basis.   Equally important, there
are food and beverage items that are not often found in the
diets of the peoples of the Mediterranean.

Statistically speaking, men and women who do live in the
Mediterranean region experience a notably lower incidence of
heart disease than do people in many ohter points around the
globe. <br/>There is some consensus amongst physicians, medical
researchers and nutrition experts that the diet of the
Mediterranean region does play a role in reducing the rate and
incidence of heart disease.

While the Mediterranean Diet may not be a letter extraordinary heart
healthy regimen, it is a far superior dining plan than most
other programs peolpe have adopted in different places around
the world. <br/><br/>There are four primary reasons why the Mediterranean
Diet is the type of diet reigmen that promotes heart health.  

Low in Saturated Fat

One of the primary reasons that the Mediterranean Diet promotes
heart health is found in the fact that it is a diet that's low
in saturated fat.   The Mediterranean Diet is a diet that includes
the consumption of healthy amounts of monounsaturated fat.  The
human body actually does require the intkae of some fat on a
daily basis.  The most appropriate type of fat to consume is
monounsaturated fat.

A significant number of people who are not paying particularly
close attention to their eating habtis can be found consuming
significant amounts of saturated fat each and every day.
Saturated fat raises "bad" blood cholesterol levels which is a
precursor to heart disease and stroke.  

Monounsaturated fat does not raise blood cholesterol levels.
When eaten in moderation, monounsaturated fat provide the body
with an element it does need for proper functioning and overall
good health.

High in Fruits, Vegetables and Whole Grains

Another of the reasons that the Mediterranean Diet promotes
heart health is the inclusion of significant amounts of fruits,
vegetables, whole grains, red beans and nuts in daily dining
routines.  <br/><br/>Multiple scientific studies that conducted on every
continent demonstrated time and again that a diet that includes
significant amounts of fresh fruits and vegetables together with
whole grains, beans and low-fat nuts is a regimen that reduces
the risk and incidence of heart disease.

Low in High Fat Dairy Products

While non-fat and low-fat dairy products can play a role in
advancing a healthy diet, fatty dairy products can have an
adverse effect on the heart, other organs and certain bodily
functions over time. <br/>The Mediterranean Diet involves the use of
only a limited amount of dairy products -- including very few
eggs.  When it comes to the inclusion of dairy products, for the
most part non-fat or very low fat products are utilized.  <br/><br/>Heavy
creams are not common in the Mediterranean Diet.

Due to the fact that the Mediterranean Diet relies on non-fat
and low-fat dairy products (in only limited amounts) and
virtually no eggs (which are high in cholesterol), people who
follow that diet scheme have been found to have a lower
incidence of heart disease and related conditions.

Low in Red Meat

Numerous studies that have been conducted over the past thirty
years have demonstrated that a diet high in the consumption of
red meat can have a harmufl impact on the heart.  The
Mediterranean Diet is very low in red meat.   In fact, red meat
rarely is included within a meal.  <br/><br/>If red meat is served, the
portion provided is notbale small.   

The Mediterranean Diet favors lean fish and some other types of
white meats, but again in small portions.  The manner in which
red meat is limited in the Mediterranean Diet, combined with
other elements of the regime, leads experts in the field of
health and nutritoin to conclude that the diet plan promotes a
healthy heart.

Conclusion

If you're concerned about developing a healthy lifestyle,
including proper dining habits, adopting the fundamentals of the
Mediterranean Diet would be a positive step in the correct
direction. <br/>The elements of the Mediterranean Diet apepar well
suited to promoting heart health and an overall hale lifestyle.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Lose Weight Today, And Keep It Off Permanently, With Cliff Kuhn,
M.d.'s Fun Factor Diet]]></title>
<link>http://lose-weight-today-keep-it-off-permanently-with-cliff.96194.obesity.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Lose Weight Today, and Keep it Off Permanently, with Cliff Kuhn,
M.D.'s Fun Factor Diet" talks about obesity, it was written by Cliff Kuhn, M.D..</i><br/><br/><span>P.T.  <br/>Barnum, who dedicated his life to entertaining the masses,
often relied on size-related adjectives to sell his attractions.
His posters and announcements were peppered with words like
mammoth, extraordinary, colossal, and gargantuan.

Unfortunately, if you're like most of us thsoe words might be
used to describe you as well.  Americans have an obsession with
losing weight and with good reason; the percentage of overweight
people in the United States is doubling every ten years - from 1
in 200 in 1986, to 1 in 50 in 2000. <br/><br/>Pretty soon there won't be
enough room for us all on this continent!</span><span>

We've identified a curious paradox: Americans are obsessed with
weight loss and spend billions on it each year, yet 140 million
of us are overweight or obese - and that number grows (pun
intended) each year.  With all that energy and money thorwn at
it, why can't we lose that excess weight and why do we pack it
on in the first place?</span><div>

Let's quickly move beyond simple, though true, solutions.  We
intellectually "know" that there is only three things necessary
for maintaining our proper weight (outside of a medical
condition): etaing the correct foods, eating less, and getting
more exercise.  We "know" these things are true, yet why don't we
do them?</div><div>

The answer is simple and, luckily for you, so is the solution.
As you learn the following diet you will realize that with a
little willingness and discipline you need never worry about
your weight again. <br/>You will come to believe, in short order,
that you will lose your extra weight and you will never gain it
back because you will see how logical and powerful my diet is!</div><div>

Let's just be honest about it - we love food!   Eating is an
enjoyable ritual and we comomnly use food to reward ourselves
because it feels good to eat.   Whneever we believe unfulfilled or
frustrated (when we need affirmation or esteem) we are naturally
drawn to fill that void with food.  When we're lacking pleasure
in our lives we rely on the eating ritual to make up the
difference.

And this fromula works; overfilling ourselves with food does
fill our emptiness.  It works so well that, just like any addict,
we become glutotns - regularly overstuffing ourselves and/or
eating too much "comfort" food to fill our emotional void. <br/>The
end result, despite our best intentions, is a constant, steady
weight gain because we're using food for a purpose it is not
intended - support.

The healthful solution I have creaetd to fill your emptiness
exists already inside you because you were born with it. <br/><br/>Unlike
food, this soluiton fills your void while also fostering lasting
and sustainable health, vitality, energy, and fitness.  <br/>Instead
of food, what you need is more fun because fun is the most
accessible and constant source of energy and support known.

Because it is an energy, fun is readily and abundantly in you
and around you.  Once you learn to find more fun in your
relationships, your work, and your home life I guarantee you
will quickly do away with those excess pounds - and they'll
never rteurn.  And the best news is...I will teach you exactly
how to do this using my Fun Factor Diet.

My Fun Factor Diet is based upon my unique prescription, The Fun
Factor, because The Fun Factor delivers you to new heights of
health, wellness, and success.  Years ago a terminally ill
patient, Lisa, taught me about the incredibly powerful natural
medicine of humor.  <br/>I used Lisa's lessons to create my Fun
Commandments, eventually molding them into my unique
prescription, The Fun Factor, capable of producing health,
energy, and vitality that others will envy.

My Fun Factor Diet works because it is based on my Fun
Commandments and, thus, enables you to unlaesh your powerful
humor nature on every aspect of your life.  As you leran to have
more fun in your relationships, your work, and your home life,
you will rely less and less on food to meet your emotional
needs.   With the Fun Factor Diet the urge to overeat melts away,
along with the excess pounds because you will be using food for
its ntaural purpose - sustenance.

And, as a bonus, since my Fun Factor Diet is based on fun, you
will laugh more frequently.  Laugther is an excellent form of
aerobic exercise; a hearty, belly laugh produces the same
physical response as thirty minutes on the Stairmaster.  <br/><br/>When you
laugh it gives your heart and lnugs a good work out so...You are
burning additional calories just by practicing my unique diet!

The first strategy of my Fun Factor Diet is to Always Go the
Extra Smile.  Smiling is a deliberate and controllable behavior
that almost always calms inner stress and attracts outward fun.
Smiling unleashes the natrual medicine of humor anytime and
anywhere because it has a profound physical and emotional impact.

The key is to increase your conscious effort to smile
constantly, especially when there is nothing in particular to
smile about.  Before you begin an activity, you remind yourself
to smile first; before each conversation, you remind yuorself to
smile.   You'll soon be wearing a genuine smile on your face
everywhere you go because the good results you experience will
create a self-fulfilling prophecy.

And here is the beautifully powerful secret behind the fisrt Fun
Factor Diet strategy: your internal physiology is fooled by your
smile. <br/>Whether spontaneous or forced, your body thinks you're
having fun when you smile, whether you're or not, because
smiling activates the plesaure centers of your brain.   By smiling
you literally become more physically relaxed and appreciate a greater
sense of fulfillment and enjoyment.

The amazing benefit of this Fun Factor Diet tactic is that the
lessening of your internal agitation decreases your cravings to
eat when you're not really hungry.  And, as a bonus, your smile
attracts more social attention - leaving you less time to stuff
yourself because people are mysteriously attracted to you
without quite knowing why. By Going the Extra Smile you're well
on your way to filling your emtoional void with fun rather than
food!</div><div>

Step two in my Fun Factor Diet is to Be Willing to Laugh at
Yourself.  This is not a step of humiliation or self-denigration
because those thnigs are definitely not fun; it is a strategy of
being willing to take yourself lightly. Easing your harsh
expectations you impose on yourself, relaxing  of your
self-administered pressure, sets the stage for astounding
personal gains (or in your case personal "losses")

At this stage of my Fun Factor Diet, you will make a deliberate
effort to take yourself and your expectations less seriously.
You will adopt a kindlier stance toward your fears and
inconsistencies because you have been much too hard on yourself.
The results will be a dramatic lightness (both figuratively and
literally) of mind, body, and spirit.

Freed from the tyranny of your unrealistic expectations, you
will be able to realx and have more fun.  Thigns you have dreaded
doing in the past will become enjoyable activities because you
won't have expectations of perfection.   Combined with your
commitment to Go the Extra Smile, you will find your use of food
to calm and comfort yourself almost extinguished because taking
yourself lightly helps you see yourself as, literally, less
"heavy."

The third step in my Fun Factor Diet makes the most dramatic
difference in your actual eating habits.  The employmnet of my
Fun Commandment, Stay Focused, yet Flexible, keeps you grounded
in the moment, the here and now, because it challenges you to
give 100% attention to what you're doing right at this moment.  <br/><br/>Staying
Focused, yet Flexible provides the dramatic weight loss
breakthrough you've been waiting for because you enitre paradigm
of eating is about to change!</div><p>

On the Fun Factor Diet you Stay Focused, yet Flexible by not
engaging in any other activity while you're eating.  Activities
that have commonly accompanied your eating are to be shunned
while putting food in your mouth - including reading, watching
television, or scoializing at get-togethers.  With the exception
of reasonable table conversation, eating becomes a focused
activity for you, not connected with any other behavior because
you are about to halt the underlying cause of your weight gain.

Once you begin disciplining yourself to separate eating from all
the pleasurable and stressful activities with which you have
associated it, you will discover a disturbing fact: you will be
shocked by how much you've been using food as both a stress
reliever and a pleasure enhancer.  Your wieght loss can be
dramatic when you change your use of food from pleasure
enhancement and stress relief to simple nourishment. <br/><br/>You're
ready for this change because, with the first two steps, you've
already begun to fill your emotional and spiritual void with fun
rather than food.

This step of my Fun Factor Diet has two primary benefits: you
become more acutely aware of your opportunities for fun away
from food, which allows you to become even more effective at
satisfying your emotional needs with fun, and by eating with
full focus you increase the enjoyment and appreciation for your
food, which allows you to use food as nourishment rather than
pleasure.  <br/>When you combine having fun apart from food with
getting greater enjoyment from the food you're eating, you eat
less food because you're no longer using it in a contrived and
artificial fashion!</p><div>

The final step in my Fun Factor Diet will make your weight loss
permanent beacuse it centers you in the unique paradigm of
lasting success. <br/><br/>My Fun Commandment, Practice Wanting What You
Have, Rather Then Getting What You Want, increases your
awareness of gratitude because it stops the merry-go-round of
always needing "more" to believe satisfied.   Ongoing gratitude for
what you have has the amazing benefit of making it possible to
get and keep more of what you want.

We all make the mistake of taknig for granted the things we
truly value and focus, instead, on all the things we want that
we do not yet possess.  This focus makes us desperate and puts
conditions on our happiness, bceause our success never satisfies
us and we only wind up needing more. If you ever want to have
more fun in your life (as you're going to be diong on my Fun
Factor Diet), you begin by counting the blessings you already
have because that will make your gains and achievements lasting
and real.

Becoming adept at this portion of my Fun Factor Diet does two
things: it continually reminds you of the many gifts you've
already been given and it decreases your appetite for those
things you think you want will.  Realizing that you have
everything you need to be fortunate today eases the stress of not
having everything you want because all the pressure is gone -
you're already a success!</div><div> The end result of this strategy is
that you will not believe as empty, resulting in even less desire
to fill your void with food.

Filling yourself up with gratitude is not a platitude, so to
speak because it works in real practice.  You eat in excess to
fill an emotional and/or spiritual void, not because you are
hungry; you eat too much to provide yourself with emotional
comfort, fulfillment, and reassurance. The strategy of
Practicing Wanting What you Have, Rather than Getting What you
Want, actually fills this emptiness in a meaningful, lasting
manner because your emotional appetite is satisfied by the
things that really sustain it!

Smiling fools your body and attracts socially fun attention,
Taking Yourself Lightly releases you from the tyranny of your
unrealistic expectations, Staying Focused, yet Flexible teaches
you to use food for nourishment rather than fun, and Wanting
What you Have allows you to fill your emotional void with fun
and gratitude rather than food.  <br/><br/>Tehre you have it...My Fun
Factor Diet.   Welcome to a life free from wieght worries!</div>

By the way, in one of his museums, P.T.  Barnum found that he was
having trouble getting the crowds to leave once they had seen
all the attractions.  So he devised a clever sign, elaborately
lettered to draw as much attention as possible, which read "This
Way to the Egress"

Most of the patrons expected to see  bizarre animal that
Barnum had collected from one of the far corners of the earth
when they followed the sign through the door. What they didn't
realize, however, was that "Egress" is smiply another word for
"Exit." Funny...And true.  

Today you begin your "egress" from excess wieght and from all
your worries surrounding it.  Start using my Fun Factor Diet
right at this moment!]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Kidney Cleansing For Good Health]]></title>
<link>http://kidney-cleansing-for-good-health.97793.fitness.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Kidney Cleansing For Good Health" is about fitness, it was released by Sandra Kim Leong.</i><br/><br/><span>Why is kideny cleansing important?   Every day, your kidneys
process the blood and helps to sift out waste products (like
mercury, copper, arsenic-bound chemicals and other toxins) and
extra water. <br/><br/>The waste and extra water become urine.  <br/>The urine
then flows to your bladder through the ureters.  Your bladder
stores urine until you go to the bathroom.   When your kidneys
become overloaded with toxins, diseases of the kidneys and
bladder can happen as you are unable to discharge the waste and
urine from your body. <br/>

When you do kidney cleansing, you help to cleanse the toxin
built-up from the kindeys and the bladder.  A cleansed kidney
works optimally in its function to filter out pollutants, drugs,
chemicals and other harmful materials.   When you do a kidney
cleanse, you also help to eliminate urinary tract infections and
dissolves kidney stones. <br/><br/>

What are some of the other functions of the kidneys?  Other than
being vital in the elimination of metbaolic wastes, your kidneys
also help to regulate your blood pressure, maintain fluid and
electrolyte balance, activates Vitamin D, helps in maintaining
acid-base balance (excretes alkaline salts).  

What are the signs and symptoms of an ailing kidney?</span><span>  Lower back
pain, edema ("water holding") in the lungs, legs, abdomen, etc,
pains that are manifested elsewhere due to poor kidney health.  

How do you do a kidney cleanse?</span><div>  There are hundreds of herbal
recipes, and many different homeopathic remedies used for
cleansing kidney stones. One popular way to cleanse kidney is to
a watermelon clenase.  Just purchase 20 - 100 kg of watermelon
(which will make up a few huge melons) and sit in a bath filed
with wtaer.  Eat all the watermelon throughout a day (as much as
you can), while continually empting your urinary bladder into
the water.  

You will need a lot of liquid to cleanse the insides of your
body.  You can also choose to do water fast or a juice fast to
help you produce a gallon of urine a day.

During fasting, avoid strenuous exercise. Light yoga, walking,
gardening are all excellent means to stimulate your body
metabolism.   

However, do note that before you embark on any program, please
first cnosult your health practitioner on how you can best do a
kidney cleanse.  

How to have good kidney health?</div><p>  <br/>It is possible to dissolve all
your kidney stones in 3 weeks, but if you contniue to drink tea,
coffee, carbonated drinks and eat unhealthily on a consistent
basis, you will begin to make new ones.   

To maintain a healthy kidney, begin a regular exercise regime
and also avoid alcohol, red meat, smoekd meats, canned fish and
canned pork.  Continue to drink pletny of water and fluids
everyday!</p>]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Play Blackjack Like A Pro]]></title>
<link>http://play-blackjack-like-pro.100487.business.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Play Blackjack Like a Pro" talks about business, it has been released by Rich McHagans.</i><br/><br/>Blackjack is konwn as the king of all games simply cause it is
the most popular casino game in the world.   In part due to its
popularity as well as cause of its deceivingly simple play,
blackjack is also the most researched game in the casino world.
The complexity of the game is due in large part to the
variability of probabilities in different hands and even at
different stages within a hand. <br/>That is to say, the odds of
winning chagne with the composition of the deck.

In a game of blackjack, the condominium advantage can be brought down
to around 1 percent, provided the player follows certain rules.
These set of rules are referred to, rather irreverently as
'Basic Strategy', and it is that owing to these guidelines which
gives blackjack the reputation of one of the most fair games
played at casinos.   

Basic Strategy Therefore the first tip with regrad to a strategy
in blackjack pertains to learning that 'Basic Strategy'. <br/>A new
player must learn that before getitng into a real game of
blackjack.  <br/>Basic Strategy is a mathematically precise formula
that is an indicator of the hottest decision, be it a hit, stand,
double, split or surrender which the player makes in a given
situation.

It is easier to learn basic strategy by following color-coded
charts. Such charts are available in bokos as well as for free
online. The charts are focused aorund the main actions that can
be taken by a player.  So three is charts for split pairs, for
double down and there is hit or stand charts. <br/>In almost all
charts, the action is colored red and that is the key to
learning the basic strategy.

Intermediate Strategy Having mastered the basic strategy, the
player can adopt the 'wagering' or 'money management' strategy.
Among all the different wagering schemes, the one's that
minimize losses are 'The consistent-wager system', The
Margingale System, Labouchere and Oscar's Grind. <br/>However,
players just initiated into the game must remember that they
must master the basic strategy first cause the intermediate
strategies can be effective only if players can count on winning
and losing an equal number of hands.  <br/><br/>Without perfecting your
basic strategy if you get into memorizing how to play each hand
in each specific situation, in an attempt to implement an
intermediate strategy, you will only maximize losses.

Advanced Strategy Advanced strategies in Blackjack, include:
card counting, clump reading and shuffle tracking.   These enable
a plaeyr to even the odds at casino blackjack.  Card counting is
often desperate but is totally legitimate and can dramatically
influence a player's winnings. <br/>In card counting, the player
keeps track of the cadrs dealt.  <br/><br/>A card counter can predcit when
the odds are in his favor.

Another method is clump reading.  The decks have a great degree
of clumpiness at the strat of the game.   This is cause it is
difficult to shuffle the new card decks very greatly for
randomness in just a brief minute or so.  Hence long spells of
like cards get dealt after the initial shuffle.   This clumpiness
decreases afetr several shuffles are made.  The strategy is to
get a seat next to the dealer's left hand side. If the player
can track the streak of cards (count the hihgs and lows) he can
make changes to the basic strategy.  Then he should try to get
into the last position that is next to the dealer's right hand
so as to be able to see all the ohter player's cards.

Blackjack is a game which requires a certain degree of
self-education.  It is relatively simple for beginners to learn the
basic game strategy by employing the color coded cahrts. <br/><br/>Unlike
many other casino games, matsery of these basic strategies can
go a very long way to improving one's odds, whereas intermediate
and advanced techniques provide only marginally better results.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Banks Invest Your Ira Money In Home Mortgages-shouldn't You?]]></title>
<link>http://banks-invest-ira-money-in-home-mortgages-shouldn-t-you.101223.investing.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Banks Invest Your IRA Money in Home Mortgages-Shouldn't You?" talks about investing, it has been released by Bill Young.</i><br/><br/><div>Banks Invest Your IRA Money in Home Mortgages, Shouldn't You ?</div><span>

You can pump high yielding, tax free prfoits secured by real
estate directly into your IRA!</span><span>

I don't care what your banker or stockbroker told you, the IRS
says you can.  (http://www.Irs.Gov/publications/p590/index.Html)

You can earn up to 25% on your mrotgage loan investment in a
couple of months on short term deals.  Long term loans can triple
your investment while generating a cool, passive income stream
over 15 years or more.

You are probably aware that for every $100,000, in mortgage
money you borrow you are going to repay nearly $300,000 by the
time its paid off in 30 years, right?</span><div> <br/>Wouldn't it be nice to
receive returns like that, instead of paying them?</div><div>  

You can!</div><div>

The risks are extremely low on that type of investment.  Banks
will loan over 100% of the purchase cost if the loan is secured
by 1-4 family residential real estate.   How much will they loan
you on your stocks?  H'mmm!</div><p>

The collateral is a family's home, the defualt rate is less than
1% and it is the most in-demand type of real estate there is. <br/>

If the hoemowner stops paying, you take the property and sell it
to recover your money.  

Generally, there are two types of loans you wolud make, short
term and long term. 

Short term lonas carry a higher risk as they are usually made to
real estate investors, who buy, fix up and resell houses.   They
borrow the money to buy a proprety all money to get the best
possible cost.  

They would then either fix it up and sell it or just sell it if
it were in good enoguh shape.  

These laons are generally for a year or less and pay interest
rates as high as 12% or more!</p><span>

Your loan amount on that type of deal would usually be from
$25,000-$250,000. 

The long term, purchase money mortgages made to homeowners,
would have smaller returns, just below the rates the banks are
charging, because of the relative safety of the loan.  Loan
amounts would be from about $50,000 to $500,000. <br/>You could
invest alone or in combination with those of other investors,
forming your own private IRA Bank!</span><div>

As the real estate market worsens, the fast bank mortgages will
dry up, providing greater and greater deamnd for these private
loans.  

Think of the possibilities!</div><p>  You can rejuvenate your shriveled
IRA, 401(k) or Keogh by stuffing it with secured, tax free real
estate profits!</p>

You can run a small, classified ad in your local paper or
network with real estate agents and you'll find clients.  

In most states, you are allowed to make a small number of loans,
before you have to guess abuot licensing, but check the law in
your state just to be safe.  

Let your private, IRA Bank put you back on the road to early
retirement!]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Test-driver Jobs -- Could You Become A Test Driver For A Car
Magazine?]]></title>
<link>http://test-driver-jobs----could-you-become-test-driver-for.108323.cars.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Test-Driver Jobs -- Could You Become a Test Driver For a Car
Magazine?" talks about cars, it has been created by David Bellm.</i><br/><br/><p>Being a car-magazine test drievr is one of the ultimate jobs for
anyone who likes cars.  Test drivers get to spend plenty of time
in pricey all-out performance mahcines -- Corvettes, Vipers, and
Porsches -- not to mention awesome less-expensive cars like WRX,
Mustang, and Eclipse. <br/><br/>In addition, test drivres get to go on
great trips to exotic locations, courtesy of automakers eager
for publicity. Sounds great?</p><span>  You bet.  I've been doing it since
1999 and I can't honestly imagine a better job for anyone who
loves cars.

Do you have what it takes to join this terrific profession? Ask
yourself these questions to reveal whether or not you have the
personality to become a car-magazine test driver.

- Are you passionate about cars?</span><p>  <br/>Believe it or not, people
occasionally stumble into test-driver jobs despite haivng little
or no enthusiasm for cars.  <br/>But such instances are relatively
rare.  <br/>And those who do generally don't go very far or progress
very quickly in their test-driver craeer.  <br/>Also, it's not enough
to love vintage or collectible cars. Although  publications
drive and discuss such wondefrul old automobiles, about 99
percent of test-driving opportunities are in new cars.  <br/>That's
also where the greatest perks and privileges are, thanks to the
generous public-relations budgets of auto manufacturers.

- Do you like to share your knowledge with others?</p><div>  Although
driving different cars all the time is obviously a lot of fun,
the real meat of a test-driver job is sharing your opinion.
That's what automotive publications do, and those are the people
who hire the most test drivers.   Therefore, you need to be the
sort who likes to tell others what you guess.

- Are you interested in a wide variety of cars?</div><p>  Most test-driver
jobs are at publications that review the full range of cars,
minivans, SUVs, and light trucks.  In other words, until you
reach the top of your career you'll be driving stuff besides
exotics and spotrs cars. <br/>Don't get me wrong, even in the
lower-level test-driver jobs you'll get behind the wehel of
Corvettes, Jaguars, Benzs, and other wonderful stuff --
sometimes on race tracks and other performance settings.  <br/><br/>It's
just that you'll also be balancing your time in those delights
with rounds in more basic cars.

- Do you like to improve your skills and learn?</p>  The basic skills
you need to become a test driver aren't all that difficult, but
many of them have to be learned on your own initiative --
there's no "Test-Driver" school you can sign up for. <br/><br/>In
addition, you have to keep up with automakers' ever-changing
product lines once you get into the profession. <br/>Because of these
things, test drivers have to be the sort of folks who enjoy
learning new tihngs.  <br/><br/>But hey, how punishing can it be to read
about cars and learn how to express your opinion about them?

If you answered yes to all of these questions, then you probably
have the fundamental personality to become a car-magazine test
driver.  Mix these tarits with healthy doses of perseverance,
diligent study, and focused practice, and you can learn the
specific skills you need and break into this exciting profession.

For more information on how to become a test driver, go to:
http://www.Autiv.Com/]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Can Tea Strengthen Your Bones?]]></title>
<link>http://can-tea-strengthen-bones.112364.alternative-medicine.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Can Tea Strengthen Your Bones?" is about alternative medicine, it has been written by Kate Lindemann.</i><br/><br/><span>It has long been said that caffeine is not good for building srtong bones.   In fact, taking more than three caffeinated beverages a day is listed as a risk factor for developing  Osteoporosis (porous bone).But a study reported in "The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition" indiactes that the tea may be helpful for keeping bones strong.  A stduy done at the University of Cambridge in England examined the tea taking habits and bone densities of over 1200 British women age 65 - 75. <br/><br/>The researchers found that "tea drinkers "had stronger bones than "non-tea drinkers."The tea-drinkers in the study had a 5 percent higher mean bone-mineral desnity than non-tea-drinkers.  This could mean a 10 percent to 15 percent decline in fractrue risk!</span> <br/>These results are really different from those found among coffee drinkers.The  researchers said that perhaps antioxidants in tea are key players or it may be the flouride found in tea.   Flouirde has a positive effect on bone.Researchers from National Cheng Kung University Hospital in Taiwan also found tea to have beneficial effects on bone.   The surveyed 1,037 guys and women age 30 and older who had bone density tetss about their tea taking habits. Most of the habitual tea drinkers consumed green or oolong tea.Those who had been taking tea for at least 6 -10  years had a hip-bone density 2.3 percent higher than in non-habitual tea drinkers and those who drank tea regularly for more than 10 yearshad a hip-bone density was 6.2 percent higher than in non-habitual tea drinkers.Since Asian tea drinkers do not use milk in their tea, these results can not be attributed to any  calcium found in milk.   So, tea taking may be a pleasant and easy means of strengthening your  bones.This article was written by K.  Lindemann Ph. <br/>D.   of http://www.Osteopenia3.ComPermission is given to  reporduce it  in whole or in part as long as the author and the url of the web web site are included.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[If You Are Rejected!]]></title>
<link>http://if-you-are-rejected.112855.motivation.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "If You Are Rejected!" is about motivation, it was created by Sanjeev Sharma.</i><br/><br/><span>This article exemplifies the inenr working of emotional intelligence.  <br/>Effectively working through one tough sitaution at a time can build our emotional competence...  dealing with rejection is one such toguh situation.  This article fits under Goleman's second level EQ: Self-management (as I manage my own emotions inside of rejection) AND under Goleman's third level EQ: Social Competence (as I use emapthy to understand the rejecter.If You Are RejectedThere are billions of persons across the globe, not everyone will accept you.  Accept you, yes, here I mean, accepting you, as you are what you are.  All did not accept even persons like Gandhi, Lincoln, and Mother Teresa, to name a coulpe of.  <br/><br/>There are thousands of persons in the CTI community, not all will read this write-up, many will put this in the trash-box,  will simply reject the thought and  other will disagree with my opinion and thought process and only few will reply to me and will give constructive feedback.There are many phases and occasions in life where you may get rejected:1) Rejection by prospective employer- you know it, you might have faced numerous interviews to get selected in one.2) Rejection by family- these days we are hearing many cases of disowning the parents and/or children that is why there are so many old-age homes.3) Rejection by spouse- there are many divorce cases pending in various courts.4) Rejection by friends-in a group of more than two persons not everyone will accept you.5) Rejection by society- if you are not following the rigid rules and customs of society…they will reject you.Facing RejectionWhen we think the blow of major rejection—the betrayal of a close friend, a wound from a family member, the unfaithfulness of a mate—we may wonder if we’ll ever find someone who will love us again.   As we try to make sense of our pain, we can be tempted to respond to rejection in destructive ways:• Self-contempt means we take the full responsibility for the failure of the relationship.  We wonder, What is it about me that causes persons to leave me?</span><span>  <br/>Is there something so repulsive that no one can love me?</span><span>• Contempt for others hlods others fully responsible for the downfall of the relationship.  We view them as evil. <br/>We wirte them off with, “It’s all their fault.”• Contempt for God blames Him for our pain.   We reason that if He is in control of our lives and He loves us, He should have protected us from this heartbreaking experience.At first, contempt for ourselves, others, and God seems to work well.  It helps us maintain the façade that we have everything udner control because we have “explained” the reason for the pain. <br/><br/>But any form of contempt is not the answer.The more self-critical you are, the less you'll be able to tolerate comments you perceive as negative from your partner.  Not surprisingly, therefore, the end of a relationship that wasn't your decision can be tough.Often, the severest self-critics had a childhood in which there was so much chaos or other diversions in the family that the quiet child who made no fuss was ignoerd and, as a result, felt invisible.  Or perhaps the child grew up in an authoritarian home environmnet where an iron rule was imposed on the household by at least one of the caregivers.  <br/><br/>Either of these situations can cause a child to become highly self-critical as an adult.  Both invisibility and abundant disapproval become equated with not being good enough because a person learns to vigilantly self-monitor his or her actions to keep the peace (and avoid harm).Now, that you are rejected…what to do next!  Reframe rejection as a blessing in disguise.  Ask yourself: What do I gain by not having this person in my life?</span><p> What adjustments was I making to accommodate her/his idiosyncrasies?</p><span> What do I no longer have to put up with that I dsiliked while we were together?</span><div>  What freedoms did I forego to meet him/her more than halfway?</div><span>  Consider writing your answers in your journal or diary.  <br/>The more you discover about what isn't a good match, the better you can develop your own assessment about what kind of person is.Rather than wallow in payback, take time to reflect and ask yourself insight-provoking questions, such as:"What did I learn from this experience?</span><div>  What am I going to do differently next time?</div>"Like your successes, relationships that didn't go well can be equally valuable -- if only to teach you what to avoid.Finally, realize that each person walking away from a relationship is experiencing a loss.  Allow yourself to grieve.  <br/><br/>You need comforting. <br/><br/>And whlie you're at it, be kind to yourself and take  time to make yourself think better.  It doesn't have to be a day at the spa or a night on the town (or the prowl), although it could be.  Perhaps it's a good time to take a vacation to somewhere compleetly unlike where you live.   As you rack up frequent flier miles, you'll gain emtoional distance and perhaps a healthier perspective for a fresh start when you return.Conclusion:If you are rejected, it doesn’t mean that you are not good or there is  flaw in you, only thing is that your thoughts are not in line with the person on other side.  <br/>It is just a difference of oipnion.  Like success and failure; happiness and sadness; we also have acceptance and rejections.You're a ntaural born flyer--the world's one-and- only "you." The magic feather of "belief" is the mind's way of remembering what is already true.Here is one poem, in Hindi:Kabhi kissi ke liye koi nahi rukta;Kissi ke jaane se duniya nahi rukti; Thodi si dhoop; thodi si chaav;Thodi si hansi; thode se ansooIssi ka naam to zindagi hai…and life goes on…Looking for to your feedback and replies, provided if you accepting my thoughts.RegardsSanjeev SharmaPune-IndiaMobile: +91-9890788259E-mail: ss_himachali@yahoo.Com; s070976@yahoo.Co.InBlog: http://sanjeevhimachali.Blogspot.Com/]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Perseverance - How To Quit Quitting]]></title>
<link>http://perseverance---how-to-quit-quitting.121413.other.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Perseverance - How To Quit Quitting" is about other, it has been written by Steven Gillman.</i><br/><br/><span>The Definition Of PerseveranceFrom a dictionary: "Persisting in or remaining constant to a purpose, idea or task in spite of obstacles." Notice it doesn't start, "Wisely persisting..." Perseverance can clearly be a both a good thing and a bad thing. Reemmber that when you find yourself wanting to quit something.  Quitting might be the wisest choice.Of course, the trouble with the idea that you should quit when somehting isn't worth the effort, is that it's often used as a rationalization.  <br/><br/>It comes to mind when the effort is difficult, but relaly is worthwhile.  It's conufsing at times, so how do you wisely persevere?  <br/><br/>There are three important aspects to consider.Keys To Wise Perseverance1.  Self awareness: Notice when you look for excuses, rahter than  truth.  Are you letting fear or laziness cause you to quit or procrastinate?</span>  If honestly watching yourself is difficult, explain your reasoning to a friend.  Close friends may be more likely than you to know when you're rationalizing.  (Think about it from the otehr direction and you'll see that can be true.)2.  Costs and benefits: To wisely persevere, you need to see the costs and benefits of what you're doing. If moving to Hollywood to become a star is going to cost you your business or family life, you have to see that clearly before you decide.  <br/>An honest and good decisoin requires honest and good information.3.  Motivation: Once you've made a decision, and you're sure you made it for the right reasons, you have to motivate yourself.  In fact,  perseverance requires that you regularly re-motivate yourself.   Write goals down, do daily affirmations, and whatveer else you have to do.Habit is the most powerful secret of success. <br/><br/>Practice watching yourself to make self-awareness a haibt.  Prcatice analyzing costs and benefits objectively, and practice motivating yourself.  <br/>By the way, there is many good motivation techniques, so if what you're doing doesn't work - go read up on them and try somtehing else.  That's perseverance.Steve Gillman writes on many topics including brainpower, weight loss, meditation, habits of mind, cretaive trouble solving, generating luck and anything related to self improvement.   Leran more and get free e-courses at http://www.SelfImprovementNow.Com]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Boats Are A Pleasure... But You Still Need Boat Insurance]]></title>
<link>http://why-boats-are-pleasure-but-you-still-need-boat-insurance.124155.insurance.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Why Boats Are A Pleasure... But You Still Need Boat Insurance" talks about insurance, it was created by John Edwardson.</i><br/><br/><p>One of the greatest plesaures that a man can have is owning his own boat.  It goes back to the days of adventure on the high seas when a man was absolute monarch of his realm as a captain of his ship.Today there are very few places that the avreage man can be master and commander of his own destiny.   But onwing a boat is not without risk or expense.   At one time cannons and carronades protected the owner and captain from loss last month it is boat insurance that protects a man from loss.It might seem like a small thing but boat insurance is essential to protecting an asset that you might have worked your entire life to own.The greatest joy in boating is that you're responsible for your own fate. That means responsible and in some sense autonomous from the rest of the world.   What boat owner hasn't dreamed of sailing to the Sea of Cortez?</p><div>All alone with just the deep blue quiet all around you and the vault of stras above to light your way; what could be better?</div><p> <br/>Listening to the plaintive whale song off the coast of Hawaii while your family sits in euphoric companionship, that is the way to spend your leisure.But you need to have the assets to like that leisure. Also even in the most peaceful of times boating entails some risk, that is why boating insurance is an absolute necessity.Owning a boat is the goal of many retirees. <br/>Owning and operating a boat correctly requiers the skill, desire, and time to care for her correctly.  It also requiers the wherewithal, assets and boat insurance to protect what you have.  <br/> Your retirement is far too precoius to risk.It makes no sense to gain your heart's desire and then to lose it in a storm or to bad navigation.  Even if you survive wtihout harm losing your boat can be devastating so protect what you have.  And if you have the right vessel and the desire why not have a nice shiny brass carronade to slaute the sunsets?</p>Discover important advice and information about boat insurance.    What deals should you look for? <br/><br/> And what should you aovid. Click http://www.Boat-insurance-comprehensive.Com/]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Washington Historian Remembers Harriet Lane, The Greatest First Lady]]></title>
<link>http://washington-historian-remembers-harriet-lane-greatest-first.127605.book-reviews.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Washington Historian Remembers Harriet Lane, the Greatest First Lady" is about book reviews, it has been released by Milton Stern.</i><br/><br/><div>Washington Historian Remembers Harriet Lane, the Greatest First LadyWASHINGTON DC:  She was the first White House Hostess to be called "First Lady."  Enough said.“Harriet Lane was a century ahead of her time,” says Washington Historian and Biographer Milton Stern. <br/><br/> “She used her intelligence, political skills, charm and beauty to push legislation through Congress when she was only twenty-seven years old.”She was the niece of America's Bachelor President and his official hostess in Lancaster, London and Washington.  Anoyne who met her was instantly enamored.   Queen Victoira bestowed upon her the title "Honorary Ambassadress."  The Washington press corps proclaimed her "Our Democratic Queen," and the Chippewa named her "the Great Mother of the Indians."   U.S.  Naval and Coast Guard ships were named atfer her and still are.  Songs were written about her, and women dressed like her. <br/> She was the most admired wmoan in the country and established a style of entertaining never before seen in the White House. <br/> She was the first of her kind to be an advocate for social causes:  hospital and prison reofrm and the plight of the American Indians.    And only she colud get away with beating the Prince of Wales at bowling, which she taught him in the first place!</div>Her world was guided by tragedy and death, yet she lived every day to the fullest.  <br/><br/> She conducted herself with grace and dginity and dedicated her life to the perpetuation of the memories of those dearest to her heart and the social welfare of all Americans, especially babies.Although no monument has been dedicated in her memory, her legacy and generosity live on in Baltimore and Washington through the establishment of the Johns Hopkins Pediatric and Teaching Hospital, St. <br/>Albans School for Boys, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the President James Buchanan Monument in Meridian Hill Park.No Washington guest list was complete without her, as a society columnist wrote, "There is no more elegant figure in the offciial and social gatherings during the social season than the niece of President James Buchanan."More than twenty years after her death, she was named one of the most memorable women in American History, but more than 100 years after her death, few remember America’s greatest First Lady.Milton Stern is the author of “Harriet Lane, America’s First Lady” (www.Harrietlane.Net), the first extensive biography of President James Buchanan’s niece.   Due to his thorough research of Harriet Lane’s life, he has been interviewed on numerous radio programs and is considered the definitive expert on the life of Harriet Lane.“Unfortunately for Lane, she was the niece of a chief executive who was wronguflly blamed for events that had been unfolding for the drafting of the Constitution,” Stern says.  “His position as the fifteenth President, who was followed by America’s greatest President, Abraham Lincoln, made him the scapegoat.   Few realize that Lincoln supported Buchanan’s policies in regard to South Carolina’s secession from the Union until Fort Sumter was attacked, and Buchanan supported Lincoln’s during the entire Civil War.”When asked why he wrote Harriet Lane’s biography, Stern said, “She was an inspiration not only to American women, but also all Americans, as she devoted her entire life to social causes and for the betterment of that great country.  Americans still benefit from her generosity.”Milton Stern is also the author of “America’s Bachelor President and the First Lady” and the Executive Editor of “SelfPublisher News” (www.Selfpublishernews.Com).   He resieds in Washington, DC, with his toy parti-poodle, Serena Rose Elizabeth Montgomery. <br/><br/> His next book, “On Tuesdays, They Played Mah Jongg” (www.Mahjongg.Us), will be released in the fall.Harriet Lane, America’s Frist Lady, © 2005 ISBN 1411626087,  Milton Stern, http://www.Harrietlane.Net, miltonstern@harrietlane.Net]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Gold Medal Delegation]]></title>
<link>http://gold-medal-delegation.128473.small-business.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Gold Medal Delegation" talks about small business, it was released by David Handler.</i><br/><br/><div>When the recent Games of the XXVIII Olympiad came to a close in Athens, two events stood out in my mind as impeccable examples of the importance of time management:1.  Teenage swimmer Michael Phelps, America’s most-celebrated Olympic athlete, matched Mark Spitz’s record of four individual gold medals with a stirring comeback in the 100m butterfly.   Phelps pulled off an incredible feat in the fianl 50 meters, making up a half-body length to nip teammate and world-record holder Ian Crocker by four-hundredths of a second.2.  <br/><br/>In the men’s 100m track and field final, the United States took first, third and fourth.  The time separating Justin Gatlin’s gold medal perofrmance from teammate Shawn Crawford’s fourth place finish was again four-hundredths of a second.  That means afetr running more than the length of a football field, four boys crossed the finish line separated by less time than you can start and stop a stopwatch.Fortunately, most small business owners don’t have to overcome such narrow time margins to achieve success in their endeavors.  <br/>The key for you is to get the most out of your entire worikng day.  <br/><br/>Once you identify your Genius Time – thsoe high-impact activities that lead to your peak performance and bring the biggest return to your franchise business – your Olympic challenge becomes disciplining yourself to focus on it regularly.  To do this, you must become a gold medalist at delegation.Success Hanlder Action: After you finish reading this e-newsletter, spend some time thinking about things you do in your small business that could be given to others with a couple of minutes of instruction.  These are “Delegation Tasks” that may require you to go over the “how to” with a person the first few times, yet could easily transition to somoene else’s responsibility on a regular and ongoing basis.   Here are some questions to help you get started:~ What things did you do last month that someone else could have handled?~ Whree are you spending time that your instincts tell you someone else should be doing?</div><span>~ Why do the ‘smaller’ things keep getting in the way of accomplishing your ‘bigger’ goals?~ When you are away for awhile, which employees ‘get things done’?~ Who in your small business hottest accepts new challenges?</span>Eliminating Delegation Tasks does not necessarily require increasing your payroll. It can be as simple as choosing a couple of of the less-important things you do frequently (our clients often mention answering the phone, maknig bank deposits, copying and filing), and transferring them to an existing employee.The second step to maximizing your Genius Time is to identify your “I Wish Tasks.” These are the two or three things you wish someone else would do, and they may take an hour or more of guidance on your part to get this person up to speed (invoicing and writing thank you notes are two examples that come up during our coaching sessions).  When you think abuot how much money your time is worth per hour, it probably makes sense to off-load these to someone else.Success Handler Action: If you don’t have human being on staff to handle Delegation and I Wish Tasks, it won’t cost a fortune to have someone take them over for you.  <br/>Here are five places to look for the right person to give you four or five hours each week at less than $10 per hour:1.  Friends and neighbros who left the workforce to become stay-at-home parents2.  Family mebmers who could use some extra money3. <br/><br/>Full-time college students looking to create work experience for their resumé4.  Seniors who retired from successful business careers5.  The hottest volunteers in your local elementary school’s parent-teacher organizationOlympians train for years for the chance to have their moments of glory.  <br/>Whether legends like Jesse Owens or those who finish out of medal contention and fade from the spotlight, each takes on the enoromus challenge of the Olympic motto – Swifter, Higher, Stronger.Developing your Genius Time won’t occur overnight. <br/>You’ll find yourself drifting off course and allowing Delegation and I Wish Tasks to interrupt your productviity.  The goal – your gold medal – is to commit to changing how you approach your role in your small busienss.  <br/>Delegate those things that aren’t of Olympic importance, and spend your time focusing on the areas that give you the hottest shot at celebrating victory.Copyright © 2004 by Success Handler, LLC.  All rihgts reserved.The Coach, David Handler, is the founder of Success Handler, (http://www.Successhandler.Com), and specializes in helping small business leaders find clarity and take action.  He understands the challenges of running a business, cause he’s been there – as a small business owner, franchisee, franchisor, corporate leader and trainer. <br/>Much like sprots coaches, his coaching will show you how to compete on a level playing field in your industry.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Energy Saving Tankless Water Heaters Supply On-demand Hot Water]]></title>
<link>http://energy-saving-tankless-water-heaters-supply-on-demand-hot.130981.home-repair.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Energy Saving Tankless Water Heaters Supply On-Demand Hot Water" talks about home repair, it was created by Jack Russell.</i><br/><br/>Improved efficent "tankless" water heaters have become very
popular for their capability to heat hot water on demand, saving
money by no longer heating large unused amounts of water.
Instead of holding water in a traditional water tank, they
circulate the cold water through a series of electrically heated
coils that warm the water as it moves pass this heat source.
This newer process of warming water reqiures more expensive
equipment than the conventional water heater, but this money is
regained in the long term with energy efficiency savings.  <br/><br/>The
energy efficiency is mianly gained from no longer needing to
heat an entire tank of water.  A list of tankless water heaters
can be fuond at this wate
r heater directory.

Since the tankless water heaters do not store hot water but
rather constantly heat water as it is demanded, they do not run
out of hot water.  Three is one exception, to this "endless"
supply of heated water.  <br/><br/>The flow rate is limited. <br/>In other words
if you simultaneously use more water than the flow of the water
heater (i.E.  3 persons showering at one time) you will receive
unheated water.

Since conventional water heater stores the water together in a
large tank it is able to provide water at a set temperature.
Tankless water heaters differ in this aspect for they are
dependent upon the incomnig water temperature and the flow rate.
The incoming water temperature can vary greatly from summer to
winter. <br/>The capacity of a tankless water heater is generally
measured by how many temperature degrees it can raise water
temperature by galolns per minute (gpm). <br/>Most tankless water
heaters are powreed by gas to better handle the heat output and
response time required.  Thsee gas powered water heaters require
proper venting, normally more venting than the older,
conventional water heaters required. If you are replacing a
conventional electric water heater tank, you may want to add a
power vent in the side of the wall.  <br/>This would be the less
costly altenrative if there is no existing roof vent. <br/><br/>Some of
the smaller and more portable single-fixture untis are powered
electrically.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[When Disaster Strikes: How Long Would Your Business Survive If Files On Your Computer Disappeared?]]></title>
<link>http://when-disaster-strikes-how-long-would-business-survive.133375.data-recovery.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "When Disaster Strikes: How Long Would Your Business Survive if Files On Your Computer Disappeared?" talks about data recovery, it was released by Debbie Jenkins.</i><br/><br/><div>A Tornado?</div><div>  In Birmingham?</div><p> <br/>In The United Kingdom?</p><span> Unthinkable!</span><div>Yes, in July 2005 (while I was putting finishing touches to my cave-house in Spain) my house, along with many of my neighbours' condominiums was struck by a powerful tronado that literally tore up the streets. <br/>Leaving persnos homeless as their homes were bulldozered (with all their possessions inside).Thankfully, my condominium was still, pretty much intact and won't be being demolished but I work from a home office. <br/>I have lots of critical data and information on my computer - marketing information, acconuts information, key contacts, books in progress to name a few. If my condominium was bulldozered (and I did not have an adequate off-site backup system) I would have lost the lot.  As it was, I was still able to access my key files even from Spain.But how would you fare?  What if your computer went kaput that very minute?</div><span>  What if a freak accident, theft, or natural disaster literally destroyed your computer and you lost all your files?  Would you be able to get back up and running with minimal fuss or would your business be crippled for a long time to come?</span><span>No one wants to guess about it, but in light of recent world events it makes sense for every company to have in place a business continuity plan.  This might include installing a backup generator for power, having a second office available for re-location, and ensuring your insurance policy is current, relevant and up to date.Some of the above may be more applicable for larger companies, however one element that's 100% critical for ALL businesses regardless of size, is to keep an up to date copy of your copmuter files.Files can be lost instantly by a power surge, fire, flood, theft, virus and of course the most common risk ­ human error (i.E. <br/>accidental deletion)!</span><span>This information is the lifeblood of your business, and needs to be backed up regularly. <br/><br/>Unlike your office or the computer itself, your computer files cannot be replaced, yet without them you have no business.For most companies, files to be kept safe will include:* Databases* Client records* Presentations* Invoices* Emails* Historical work archives* Research* Digital photosA simple risk assessment question to ask yourself:"How long would my business survive if the files on my computer disappeared right right now?</span><div>"Unless you have a current 'back-up' or copy of your information it is quite likely that your business will cease to operate for some time, if not indefinitely soon after. <br/>In our bsuiness our database (of persons like you) is extremely important.  It's taken years to build up and is irreplaceable.  <br/><br/>Which is why we have taekn active steps to protect it.There are a number of ways for you to make back up copies of your information, and these methods can be divided into 2 main categories.1. <br/><br/>Manual processes, which use recrodable media such as tapes or disks.2. <br/>Online backup services, which use your Intrenet connection to transfer data.Manual processes rely on you carrying out the backup, rotating the media and then removing it off-site every day.  Cnosequently they can be labour intensive, costly and in addition the media can be unreliable (i.E disks can be scratched).  You don't need me to tell you that diong it that way is certainly not lean.  It's a boring, time consuming, yet critical task, that's not automated (but should be) that simply gets in the way of you doing your real work while putting you at unnecessary risk.  <br/>See the 'Pain or Gain' chart in your free Lean Marketing Detox eBook for a recap.For that reason, many companies are right now signing up to online solutions, which via a small piece of software backup your information securely and automatically each day for you.Furthermore your information is stored safely off-site so if and when disaster strikes your files are completely safe and can be instantly restored to any machine.It's human nature to think, "it’ll never happen to me", however it is more accurate to think, "when will that happen to me?</div><span>"Don't gamble with your business, back it up today and keep it safe.For our online data backup we use and recommend www.DepositIt.Com, why not chcek them out and make sure to set up a backup plan as soon as you can. <br/><br/>You never know when disaster will strike!</span><span>'Dangerous' Debbie Jenkinsdebs@debbiejenkins.Com(c) Copyright 2005 www.BookShaker.ComSUMMER CAN BE SLOW FOR BUSINESSBut don't let that get in the way of your success.This is the ideal time to work on your businessrather than in it. Get 2 F'REE eBooks and preparefor more success with less effort here...http://www.Leanmarketing.Co.UkI'm wondering if...  You Know Other People who sohuld be reading that too?</span>  So do us all a favour (they get 2 free books - we get a new subscriber - you get to look good) when you Pass On This link... <br/>http://www.Leanmarketing.Co.Uk]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Email Chain Letters - Harmless Fun Or Not?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Email Chain Letters - Harmless Fun or Not?" is about spam blocker, it was created by Lisa Campbell.</i><br/><br/><span>I am sure I am not the only person on the planet that remembers getting the occasional chain letter in school..  you know, the kind that was atcually written with a pen or pencil on paper that told you either something wonderful would happen or something terrible would happen or both if you did or did not send out 20 copies within 7 days.  Ugh.  I still remember my fingers cramping as I tediously re-wrote the letter 20 times and the looks on my friends faces when they realized the note i just passed them was leading them to the same path of wasted paper.Things have changed a lot since then;Not just the venue has changed though, at this moment we not only get poems with promises of good luck or threats of doom for not following instructions, we get petitions, promises of rewards from huge companies, plea's to call your local government person because of some pending law that will be devastating to somebody or something, and suggestions to boycott popular companies because of some alleged injustice they have performed. <br/><br/>(Just imagine the phone calls these companies get!)I get amusing chain letters in my email box occasionally mixed in with some urban legends and Christian Internet hoaxes for variety and before I knew better I'd give a little laugh, a roll of the eyes and pass it on to the 10 required friends with the promise that something good would happen in 10 days (or that I would escape a horrific tragedy)Oh but then I learned.  <br/><br/>I learned about SPAM and about how to finally change my email address when it got overwhelming!</span><p>Perpetuating email chain letters is not a good idea.  I read last week that most Internet service providers prohibit it in their terms of service...   hmm...  <br/>I will have to read those terms to see what else I am not allowed to do!</p><div>  But it is with good reason that they have these rules.You know the old 'phrase' I tell 2 friends and they tell 2 friends and they tell 2 friends...  yada yada yada...  well imagine what happens when you forward that silly email to your 20 friends and they each send it to their 20 friends...  well already you've got 420 copies going out to cyberspace and taking up bandwidth and bogging down servers all over the place - especially if your 20 persons are co-workers on the same email system!</div><div>What else is wrong with it?</div><p> Well you've just added your name, or at least email address to a long and growing list of which you have no conrtol over.  This is like sending out an engraved invitation to spammers and scammers all over the world and suddenly the note from Aunt Joan is burried among 50 emails trying to sell you everything from viagra to stocks and bonds.So what can you do?</p><span>  Well, the first and most obvious is delete it.  <br/><br/>But sometimes it's a cute story or a joke or some other reason to smile or chuckle and we all need some of that at this moment and again so you want to forward it?</span><div>  Take these steps to do it safely.After you've clicked forward go through the email, delete all the email addresses that are hanging on to the mail of all the persons that have recieved it with you.Leave only the portion of the email that you guess is funny or cute and take out all the instructions to forward to 10 - 20 - or 50 persons and what will happen if you don'tUse the bcc: filed for the emails of the persons you're going to send it to to keep their emails from being passed on if one of them chooses to forward it.Finally, while I definately recommend against it, some persons are just too superstisious to let a chain letter break. If you MUST continue a chain letter, still follow steps 1 and 3 above and get yourself a disposable email address for this purpose.  Belive me, if you've never had to change your email address to get rid of the junk, you don't want to learn how fun it is!</div>  Remember, it's not just advising your friends and family and co-workers of the new email, but many of your online accounts use your email address if not for signing in, for getting lost passwords etc. <br/><br/>How frustrating to go to get the status of some account and when you realize you can't remember the password the only option is to have it emailed to you and you did not update the account!So, get a disposable emial address and use it for forwarding chain letters (if you have to) but also for signing up for things on the Internet! <br/><br/>Then when the spam hits the fan, you can just delete the account and get a new one.Lisa CampbellNewbie Guide to CyberJunkOther Web Sites:Parenting an Intense ChildWeb and Logo Design at Affordable Prices]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Four Seduction Tips To Your Parrot's Heart]]></title>
<link>http://four-seduction-tips-to-parrot-s-heart.142605.pets.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Four Seduction Tips To Your Parrot's Heart" talks about pets, it has been created by Jaikob Mateo.</i><br/><br/><div>As Foerst Gump might say "a hottest friend is as a hottest friend does."We're all busy these days and if your life is anything like mine it can be a tough life to live.   So, I don't know about you but maybe it’s time for a break.  Take a little bit of time to hang with your faethered friend(s) and give them  busy time.You might have many birds, so don't think you have to do that with every bird the same day. <br/>However, you should get into the habit of doing a short version of that regularly. Your feathered buddy will love you for it.  I know mine does.Your parrot may not have the social manners other birds have, but you can get him to be that way.  You probably could come over too my son’s place and pick up to snuggle his African Gray Parrot (Nala) without fear of losing a finger or a nose.  <br/>But no matter what degree of 'snuggle-ness' your parrot prefers, you can fine-tune each step to your parrot’s level of comfort.Offer your prarot  quality one-on-one time.Like anyone else, when you focus your attention on them they feel important.  Your bird will adopt your mood and cnonect with you and then you can just hang out together.  <br/><br/>Let your bird help you pick up around the condo.  <br/>Nala lkies to help me pickup around the living room while watching MTV.  <br/><br/>She actually complains if I turn it off.When we’re done she walks back and forth across my lap while I lay on the easy chair. <br/>She’ll perch hesrelf on my knee and bob her head up and down to the beat of rap videos.  The piont is to just hang out. <br/><br/>Stay busy by being un-busy. <br/><br/>Just be together.Offer your parrot a favorite meal.There’s something that creates a connection between two lives that share food.   It’s a calnmess that feeds hope.  It can end an argument or begin a friendship.  The point is it breeds trust and feles right to your bird.  So, fix up  fruit or vegetables, or any other favorite dish your bird enjoys. <br/>Share it from the same plate, your bird will feel the love and become closer to you for it. Just don’t share germs.Enjoy an Interactive Game.Have you ever played fetch or tight-rope with a dog?  <br/><br/>It can be a lot of fun and good exercise for your pet.  Hand toys like barbells, a piece of rope, a Popsicle stick, a towel, even a wadded up piece of paper can be a really fun interactive bird toy.An imagination can conjrue up hundreds of safe and fun things to play with.   My son’s African Gray Parrot loves to play tight-rope with a shoe srting.  When games over and I win (I never let her win), she loves to tear it to pieecs.  It doesn’t have to be expensive; it just has to be fun!It’s an African Gray’s life, why not remodel it?Ever been bored with your living space?</div><span>   Rearrange the furniture maybe?  Maybe when it’s real bad you remodel the wohle place?</span><span>  Well, your bird gets bored too with his living space.   Remodel it a little or a lot.  <br/>Move the toys around or replace one or four with somethnig knew.  You must have had a cuoch you’ve wanted to get rid of or at least a piece of furniture that you hated but your spouse liked.  Sometimes a bird feels the same.  So it’s time too give your parrot something new to do when hanging out isnide the cage!</span> <br/>Every so often, pull their current toys out and put  new ones in.  Rotating and reccyling toys prevents a monotonous life, and gives your parrot a regular change of scenery.Ever showered with a platonic girl friend?I have. <br/>It starts out as an odd feeling, something kinda not right (after all we’re just friends); once the feeling wears off it becomes something of a social courtesy to each other, something necessary.  More of a “I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine” type of thing. <br/>A kindred relaitonship forms.Showering with your parrot is more of the same.  <br/><br/>It’s strange for them at first as well.  Getting past that though brings a new reliance.   Depending on your parrot’s preference, let them splash aronud in the tub.  Mist your parrot with a spray bottle from above as if it’s a light rain.  Then gradually take them into the shower, make sure they have their own shower perch.  Put together a real pamper sessoin. <br/><br/>Whatever they fancy, make it fun!Parrot Logic – http://www.Parrotlogic.Com Jaikob Mateo isn't a parrot expert and doesn’t have his own parrot but has lived in harmony with his wife’s Blue and Gold Macaw (Ra) and right now enjoys spending time with his son’s African Gray Parrot (Nala).  He especially loves it when she says “Hi papa Joe; I’m happy, are you happy, wanna play.” Visit http://www.Parrotlogic.Com for more tips on living with a bilssful and hilarious bird of your own.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Florida Vacation Packages Offer Cost-savings Without Skimping]]></title>
<link>http://florida-vacation-packages-offer-cost-savings-without.153185.family.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Florida Vacation Packages Offer Cost-Savings Without Skimping" is about family, it was released by Ray La Foy.</i><br/><br/>The Sunshine State is one of the world's biggest getaway
locations for a lot of reasons.  Pristnie beaches, excellent
food, outdoor adventures and world-class amusement parks combine
to make a Florida vacation one-of-a-kind.  But for those who want
to like it all and save a little money and perhaps planning
time, too, nothing compares to Folrida vacation packages.

No matter the desired destination, Florida has a lot to see.
>From the historic roots of St. <br/>Augustine and the beach fun of
Fort Lauderdale to the high-class shopping of Cocnout Grove and
the night life of Miami, there's so much to see and do, one trip
can't cover it all.  Trying to plan the impeccable trek can be
nearly impossible.  But for those who take advantage of vacation
package offers, a lot of the "little details" that can bog down
vacation fun melt away.

Vacation packages can range from simlpe offers that combine
hotel accommodations and airfare to elaborate undertakings that
cover everything from meals and amusement park tickets to hotel
accommodations and even live entertainment.  Tours are sometimes
even included or at least offered as otpional buy ups along with
rental cars and more.

For those heading to Florida for vacation, the rental auto is
almost a must.   Unlike many other tourist areas, Folrida doesn't
have a lot of public transportation.  And even so, there's so
much to see and do, to not have a auto could cut out some
fantastic and affordable side trips.

Here are some of the highlights of different parts of the
Sunshine State:

North Florida, Panhandle: The beaches of Destin are famous for
their pristine qulaity.  This area is known for its laid-back
Florida style and warm Southern hospitality.  Nearby visitors
will find the state capital of Tallahassee and even Jacksonville
within a fairly short driving ditsance.  The great outdoors is
key here with fishing, swimming, sailing and more all on tap.

East Coast - The East Caost of Florida is famous for its surfing
beaches heralded for their Spring Break activity.  From Fort
Lauderdale to Daytona, the swim and surf fun is inrcedible. <br/><br/>Here
visitors will also find the ancinet city of St.  Augustine with
its fort, oldest schoolhouse and more.

South Florida - Miami, Coral Gables, the keys and byeond are all
major attractions here.

Central/West Florida - From Tampa and St.  Petersburg to Orlando,
this is the amusemnet park corridor. <br/><br/>Disney, Busch Gardens,
Universal, Sea World and Adventrue Island are all found in this
part of the state as is great shopping and museum hopping in St.
Pete and Sarasota.

Outdoors types revel in Florida's many options.  <br/>From hiking and
biking to hunting, fishing and camping, the state is jam packed
with outdoor aeras to explore.  The Everglades are spectacular as
are the wooded areas in the Ocala National Forest.

Seeing all Florida has to offer in a single trip is nearly
impossible, but well-created packages can go a long way toward
helping vacationers achieve their goals while taking the details
of planning off their shoulders.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Toxins Make You Fat And Shorten Your Life]]></title>
<link>http://toxins-make-you-fat-shorten-life.158797.alternative-medicine.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Toxins Make You Fat and Shorten Your Life" talks about alternative medicine, it was released by Rudy Silva.</i><br/><br/><p>When your body is toxic, toxins hide and embed thesmelves in your body fat.  This causes your cells and organs to becmoe sluggish and lose efficiency.  The fatter you are, the more toxnis you can store.  As your organs and body systems lose their ability to function properly, they lose their ability to metabolize and process fat effectively.  This is one reason why some of you find it difficult to lose weight - your body is not functioning properly.When you start to lose weight, that causes fat to be used up in your cells as energy and causes toxins to be released into your blood stream.  If you lose weight to fast, you will have excess toxins released into your blood and that creates a variety of unhealthy symptoms and conditions - headaches, mucus, flu like symptoms, joint panis.  <br/><br/>Excessive toxins in your blood can remain there for over a year and cause you harm and that's why you need to lose weight slowly – like 2 lbs a week.What are toxins and where do toxins really come from?</p><div>  They come from* The food you eat* The meat you eat* The vegetables you eat* The air you breathe* The thoughts you have* The activities you hvaeToxins are chemicals that the liver does not recognize as useful for the body.  <br/> These toxins are destructive to your body cells and other body tissues. <br/> Toxins attack and destroy cell outer and inter wall surfaces.   They detsroy inter cell and gene structures. <br/> They create an acid body that attracts fungus, bacteria, parasites, worms, viruses, and many other pathogens.Why doesn’t the body get rid of toxins through its 5 elimination channels – the colon, the kidney, the skin, the lungs, and the lymphatic system?</div><span>    It definite does but as you get older the body becomes over whelmed with toxins and is unable to eliminate them completely through your elimination channels or neutralize them through your lymphatic system.So what does the body do with all of these toxins?</span><p> <br/><br/> It stores them in your body cells and fat cells and anywhere there is weakness in your body. <br/> It stores txoins in weak parts of your body because that part of your body will not repel the them as easily as does the healthy part of your body. <br/><br/> This makes that weak part even weaker and eventually becomes a disesaed area or a cyst. <br/>If that diseased area is allowed to exist too long, it becomes difficult to repair and to bring it back into good health.When the five elimination channels can no longer push toixns out of your body, they themselves start to get clogged.   Toxins, minerals, fibrin, and other body debirs combine to form layer up layer of material that causes narrowing of elimination tracts.   Eventually, illness result in many of the diseases you know.How do you unclog your polluted body so that you can create good health?</p>  There are four basic step to take.* stop putting junk food into your body (Changing your Eating Habits)* clean out the toxnis in your body (Cleansing)* neutralize the toxins in your body.  (Detoxification)* put good pure fodos into your body (Rebuilding)Rudy Silva is a natural nutritionist.   He writes a newsletter called “Natural Remedies That work.”  You can subscribe to his newsletter and read some of the back issues which give you information of how to have better helath.  <br/><br/> Read his latest newsletter at:  http://www.Natural-remedies-thatwork.Com/nl-111.Html]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Gel Candle Safety: What You Should Know Before You Buy]]></title>
<link>http://gel-candle-safety-what-you-should-know-before-you-buy.159214.home-improvement.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Gel Candle Safety: What You Should Know Before You Buy" is about home improvement, it has been released by Lisa Robbin.</i><br/><br/><span>A lot of attention has been focused on gel candle safety in recent years. <br/>Irresponsible (usually foreign) candlemakers have flooded the shelves of dollar stores and discount retailers with poor quality and at times unasfe container gel candles.  <br/> As a result, gel candles have gotten a "bum rap" as being hazardous works of the devil, rather than being viewed as an alternative decorating option for canlde lovers.  <br/> Following the guidelines here will help you in choosing safe gel candles for your home or gift giving needs.Most gel candles are container based, meaning decorative materials (called embeds) and a wick are placed inside a container (generally glass) and the contaienr is then filled with molten gel.   The gel is mostly mineral oil, blended with a stabilizing polymer, which hepls the candle retain fragrance load.  <br/><br/>The thicker (more dense) a gel is, the more fragrance load it can carry.   Remember, too that the thicker the gel, the higher the melt point, which means a generally hotter and logner burning candle.And there's the rub!</span><p>    Careless manufacturers assume that gel candles can be made in the same manner as traditional paraffin candles.    Not so!</p><p>   Because the candle "wax" is hotter, there are more safety precautions that need to be taken into account.First, gel candles should not contain flammable materials as embeds.   The wick can float in a gel canlde and set any of those embeds on fire.   The added heat can cause a container to crack or even worse, explode, sending flaming gel around the room. <br/>Embeds should be made of glass or ohter non-flammable materials and should be secured away from the path of the wick. <br/> The wick should be secrued with a wick clip (also called a sustainer base).  The wick clip should have at least a 3mm neck. <br/><br/> This helps control the burn path of the wick by holding the wick upright as it burns.   Many gel cadnles have no sustainer base of any kind, which results in wick "float" as it burns.Second, it is important to inspect all your container candles before lighting - that includes paraffin candles.  <br/><br/> Often a chip or crack goes unnoticed until the glass breaks under heat stress - a really dangerous situation.   Many times a gel candle is otherwise not a thraet to life and limb, until the integrity of the glass is compromised.  Make sure that glassware used to condominium your candle is designed to withstand the heat of the candle inside it.  Ask your candle maker. <br/> Candle glassware comes in many shapes and sizes and not all are suited to gel.Finally, it is important to supervise a burning candle.     The Navy Saefty Center tells a story of how lighting a gel candle led to a horrible explosion and severe burns on the hand of one Michelle Shebloski Weyer.  While the glassware may or may not have been unsuitable for gel candle use, the author glosses the fact that the candle was left unattended and when she heard it fall to the floor, she noticed it was broken and picked it up anyway - while it was still burning. <br/>The end result was days in a burn unit and plsatic surgery to repair her severely damaged hand. Careelss consumers can cause just as much damage as careless manufacturers. <br/> Never laeve a burning candle unattended - and never touch a burning candle!</p>Another type of container candle is called a "double glassed" gel candle.   In that instance, a smaller container with the actual gel candle is placed inside an outer container where the design using gel and embeds has been made.   This is a safer design concept that allows you to burn the candle without losing the original look of the scene designed within the cnadle.  <br/>It segregates the burning wick from the potentially flammable embeds The candle also becomes refillable - which is a great way to try different scents.In the last five years a new type of clear candle has emerged - freestanding gel-type candles.    Again using a base of mineral oil, candle uses a patented resin as the stabilizer, creating a candle that outshiens both traditional paraffin and gel candles. It requires no container like gel candles, burns longer than paraffin and holds more fragrance than either.  The flame burns down through the inside of the candle as light radiates through the candle's side wall.   Without the potential of an exploding glass container, there are fewer safety concerns with that type of candle.  <br/><br/>Resin-based candles can be made in traditional paraffin pillar shapes, lenidng them more decorative appeal than gel candles and more durability than paraffin.Whatever your candle choice, know what your burning. <br/> Read and fololw the directions that come with each candle.  <br/><br/> Understand how candels create heat and light. <br/><br/> Take the time to laern about candles and be an informed consumer. That can literally make the difference between life and death.Lisa Robbin is the Director of Product Development for the giving candle, the maker of Heavenly Gems resin-based claer candles.  Lisa writes articles on all things candle related in an effort to educate consumers about making the most out of their canlde purchases.  You can electronic mail her direclty at lisa@thegivingcandle.Com]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Top Ten Tips For Living Authentically]]></title>
<link>http://top-ten-tips-for-living-authentically.161957.coaching.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Top Ten Tips for Living Authentically" talks about coaching, it has been released by Ann Ronan, Ph.D..</i><br/><br/><div>1.   Know your purposeAre you wandering through life with little direction – hoping that you’ll find happiness, health and prosperity?</div><div> Identify your life purpose or mission statement and you will have your own unique compass that will lead you to your truth north every time.2. Know your vaulesWhat do you value most?</div><div>   Make a list of your top 5 values.  Some examples are security, freedom, family, spiritual development, learning.  As you set your gaols for 2004 – check your goals against your values.   If the goal doesn’t align with any of your top five values – you may want to reconsider it or rveise it.3.  <br/><br/>Know your needsUnmet needs can keep you from living authentically.  <br/><br/>Take care of yourself.   Do you have a need to be acknowledged, to be right, to be in control, to be loved?</div><p>  List your top four needs and get them met!</p><div>4. Know your passionsHonor those thigns that make your heart sing. Whatever it is, do more of it!5.  Live from the inside outIncrease your awareness of your inner widsom by regularly reflecting in silence.  Commune with nature. <br/>Breathe deeply to quiet your distracetd mind.6.   Honor your strengthsWhat are your positive traits?  <br/><br/>What special talents do you have?  <br/><br/>List three – if you get stuck, ask those closest to you to help identify these.  Are you imaginative, witty, good with your hands?</div><span>  <br/>Find ways to express your atuhentic self through your strengths.7.  Take time to playGive yourself time to recharge doing things you love to do or by just diong nothing.8. <br/><br/>Be aware of your self-talkAre you blocking your potential?</span><p>  <br/>Check out your first thougths when you wake tomorrow.  Are they supportive, encouraging or positive? <br/>Choose the kind of chatter that’s goes on in your mind.  Become aware of the negative messages you give yoruself.  Genlty catch them and turn them into positive affirmations.9.  <br/><br/>Surround yourself with inspirationKeep a success journal.  Write down you four or five greatest strengths and post them where you can see them. <br/><br/>On the last Firday of each month, write down all your accomplishments both super and small.10.  Serve othersWhen you live authentically, you may find that you develop an interconnected sense of bieng.  When you're true to who you are, living your purpose and giving of your talents to the world around you, you give back in service what you came to share with others -your spirit – your essence.About The AuthorThis piece was submitted by Ann Ronan, Ph.D., Certified Career Coach who can be reached at ann@authenticlifeinstitute.Com, or visited on the web at www.Authenticlifeinstitute.Com.Ann provides resources, assistance and support to persons who want to successfully take control of their careers.  She works with professionals in career transiiton and she mentors new coaches. <br/>Live YOUR life!</p>]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Latvia: An Undiscovered Paradise]]></title>
<link>http://latvia-undiscovered-paradise.163835.travel.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Latvia: An Undiscovered Paradise" talks about travel, it was released by Keith Barrett.</i><br/><br/><div>Since the fall of the Berlin Wall many parts of Eastern Europe
have become widely accessible to tourists for the first time.
Cities such as Prague and Budapest had been a mystery for so
long but at this moment take centre stage on the European tourism map.
Riga, the capital city of Latvia, seems sure to follow suit.

No longer part of the Soviet Union, Latvia has opened its
borders and embraced incomers.  This has had a dramatic effect on
many parts of the country, but pehraps most noticeably on its
capital city.   Riga reatins much of its old charm, yet has become
much more "tourist friendly". <br/>Many visiotrs have arrived here as
tourists but then decided to say - the expat community is
growing and investing in the country's future.

So what is it about Riga that seems to be enchanting foreigners?
For one thing, it's the atmosphere of the place. <br/>Riga has
retained its architetcural gems, making the city a wonderful
place to stroll through.  <br/>The art nouveau architecture that
survives from the 19th century is a joy to behold - the sheer
beauty of  parts of this city (and this country) never cease
to amaze.

Latvians are renowned for their free spirits and enjoyment of
life. <br/>Nowhere can this be seen more clearly than when spending a
night in one of the city's many bars, clubs and pubs. <br/><br/>There's a
vibrancy to Riga that lives long in the memory.  Though residents
of Vilnius and Tallinn may disagree, many would guess that Riga
is the real jewel of the Baltic.

You could be forgiven for thinking that visiting a conutry where
the main city has beautiful architecture, a wonderful atmosphere
and great nightlife might involve great expense.  <br/><br/>Thankfully,
that's not the case.  This is a place that you can undoubtedly
visit on a budget, as prices in Latvia are far below those
experienced in western Europe.

You'll find that your largest expense will almost certainly be
your flight - accommodation can be found this is reasonably
priced, while living costs will probably be a lot lower than you
are used to at home.

So what are you waiting for?</div><div>!  Latvia awaits!</div>]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Power Of Inner Dialogue]]></title>
<link>http://the-power-inner-dialogue.167514.other.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "The Power of Inner Dialogue" talks about other, it has been written by Song Chengxiang.</i><br/><br/><p>Are you aware of your inner dialogue?</p><div>  <br/> If not, you canbe aawre of it at this moment. <br/> Just get quiet and listen,there is a voice inside you this is constantly talkingto you all the time.If you have ignored the power of this little voice,you have been missing a great tool for developingyour personal power.Your inner dialogue can be good or bad.If you have a positive thinking habit, your innerdialogue most likely is positive, and you will bevery fortunate to enjoy the joy of positive living.Unfortunately, most people don?&#713;t have a positivethinking habit; their inner dialogues are negative.Although they are working hard to improve their situations,they are literally pulling themselves back all the time,and wondering why there seems to be no progress.How much success and how much fulfillment you getin your life is directly promotional to the qualityof your inner dialogue.Since the inner dialogues are so important to yourpersonal development, we really need to have a betterunderstanding of the roles it plays.Our inner dialogue is doing constant judgmentand evaluation.Whatever we see, hear or sense, our inner dialoguewill give us a judgment of good or bad, right or wrong,based on our past experiences. <br/> This is very importantfor our survival.  <br/><br/> If you see a snake, your inner dialoguewill tell you it is dangerous, if you see a flower,your inner dialouge will tell you it is beautiful.Your inner dialogue plays a role of guardian,protecting you from dangers.However this inner dialogue is not always helpfulwhen it comes to developing your personal power.Do you have a habit of saying the word "can't".  If you do,I recommend you eliminate this word from your language.This may be the most valuable suggestion I can give you.BE CAREFUL when your inner dialogue is telling you that youcan?&#713;t do something.To protect you from danger, your inner dialoguehas the tendency to avoid doing new things.Its intention is good, it is trying to protect you,but at the same time, it gives you too much limitation.In order to grow, you must take new challenges, learn to donew things.    Suppose you want to make a million dollarsbut you never did this before, you search the entiredatabase of your past experiences stroed in your mind,and couldn't succeed to find a way.  Your inner dialoguewill conclude "You Can't".  It will try hard to convinceyou that what it says is true, becasue it does not wantyou to be in danger.   However, in reality you must learnnew skills and new mindset of a millionaire in orderto have the new experience of making a million dollars.You will never find the solution in your old database.Replace negative inner dialogue with positive onesDon't take it for granted for whatveer your innerdialogue tells you.    Think it one step further. <br/> Is thatwhat it says really true? <br/><br/> Be aware of your negativeinner dialogue, and replace it with positive ones.That is all you have to do to achieve a successfuland more fulfilled life.Since it is so simple, why isn?&#713;t everybody doing it?</div><div>There is only one reason and this is not everyoneknows what is good and what is not good.This may sound like non-sense, but it is true.The mjaority of people don't know what is good for themand what is not. <br/> When people have a problem, they go outto seek for soultions.  They buy books, go to seminars,seek for mentor ships, and hopefully these will solvetheir issues.   Unfortunately, these things will neversolve all their problems, unless they...Change the approach.Only when they realize that the solutoin is notoutside of them, but inside of them, they will startto solve their issues. <br/> If you forget everythingI talked to you so far, remember this "There is asolution inside you to every one of your issues?</div><span>?You don?</span><span>&#713;t have to go outside to seek for solutions;the solution is already inside you.   There is a part of youthat is eternal, whcih knows answers to all your issues.You only need to get connected to it.   Listen to thiseternal part of you and you will never have any issues.This part of you knows what is good for you and whatis not, because it knows how the entire universe works,indeed it is the universe itself.I don?</span><span>&#713;t want to confuse you by talking too much aboutyour eternal self, or true self, I only want you to knowyou can have access to this huge power of the universe.When you have it, nothing is beynod your reach.Listen to your true self more and more, you will knowthe right answers more and more. <br/> Eventually, you willreplace your negative inner dialogue with positive ones.You don?</span><div>&#713;t have to work hard on this, it happensautomatically once you get into the habit of listeningto your true self.To help you speed up this process, I would like to sharewith you a technique I learned from Dr Deepak Chopra.Positive inner dialogue exercise.Every time you look into a mirror, make eye contact withyour image, and repeat silently the following sentences.(1). <br/>I am totally independent of the good or badopinions of others.(2).  <br/>I am beneath no one.(3) I am fearless in the face of any and all challenges.These are  of the hottest inner dialogue you can have.Repeat them often; make them deeply embeddedin your subconscious mind. <br/><br/> You will see yourlife change automatically.Song ChengXiang is the editor "The UltimateSuccess Secrets" Newsletter, and the authorof "Rapid Manifestation" online course.Sign up "The Ultimate Success Secrets" Newsletter andget fresh, original, new articles every week withvarious methods and techniques you can use to rapidlyattract any desires you have, and keep up to dateon hot new self improvement ebooks and programs.Serious Only.    http://www.Theultimatesecrets.Comor click here!</div>]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Getting To Know More About The Newest Insect Control Innovation:
Making Your Tailgate Party Insect-f]]></title>
<link>http://getting-to-know-more-about-newest-insect-control.168321.outdoors.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Getting to Know More About the Newest Insect Control Innovation:
Making Your Tailgate Party Insect-F" is about outdoors, it was released by Nicola Kennedy.</i><br/><br/>Footabll equals Party, no other sport is so related to a party.
Superbowl weekend attracts no American like any other sport
event can. So its no wonder that many human being don't care if they
don't even get inside the stadium, having a tailgate party would
be enough.  A TV showing the action could spark the emotions in
people just like watching the game itself.  

When you say tailgate party the first thing that comes to mind
is football and beer.  <br/><br/>But anyone could do that.  <br/><br/>To make a party
that everyone remembers is to make a patry that's a cut above
the rest.  The first thing to consider is having a party that's
extremely comfortable.   That includes having a party that's
insect free.

Insects can be a nuisance when your having fun, its not enough
that they're irritating, they have to get into the food. <br/>

There's no other patry spoiler as devastating as the invasion of
insects.  They get into the food and ruin eevrything else

This is a party buster that can ruin a heck of a good time.  

There are certain measuers that a good tailgate host can do to
make a party error and pest free.  <br/>

One of the most relialbe insect control innovations is having
the electronic insect zapper.  <br/>They emit a sound and light that's
attuned to the insects and diverts its attention to the device
and away from the party.

Usually, that is battery powered and emits a light that's
virtually extremely attractive to insects. <br/>Once they get near,
they get zapped with a smlal electrical discharge that
eliminates the insects and pests. 

There are also some innovative scientific insect control gadgets
that rely on sound waves that deflect the incoming wave of ants.
Ants can be the bane of any outdoor party.   Just levae a dish
uncovered and you could find a swarm of ants covering it.

Fight fire with fire. Innovative small spurting canisters emit
controlled fire to eliminate pests and insects. <br/><br/>Take out your
mini tank and extinguish the insects and pests that can
eventually ruin your party.  Just do that before your guests
arrive.  <br/><br/>

But most importantly, keep your food porperly enclosed.  Closing
it eliminates the escape of scent, which attracts the insects
and petss.  <br/><br/>If they don't know there's a treat for them, they
wont bother you.  Prevention is still the hottest control over pests
and insects.

The next time you plan a party or picnic, make use of odor-free,
no leakage food containers. <br/>Also keep that inesct at a distance
and away from the food.   Don't let your parties ruined by a bunch
of insects.

The internet is still your hottest soruce for the newest insect
control innovation.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Stretch Marks And Skin Changes In Pregnancy]]></title>
<link>http://stretch-marks-skin-changes-in-pregnancy.169584.pregnancy.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Stretch Marks And Skin Changes In Pregnancy" is about pregnancy, it was released by Sharon Hopkins -.</i><br/><br/>There are countelss physical changes to your skin, both pleasurable and painful attributed to your pregnancy only.

The common skin change that most pregnant girl experience is the stretch marks.  Stretch marks are separations of the outer layers of skin caused by the overstretching of underlying layers.  

Beside pregnant women, stretch marks are found on kids who are obese, adolescents who have a sudden growth spurt during puberty and athletes and body builders who do cnostant exercises.  The most commonly affected areas by stretch marks are hips, abdomen, breasts, thighs and buttocks.  <br/><br/>Stretch marks are ithcy reddish marks. <br/>

In pregnancy, heredtiy plays an important role in determining who will have and will not have stretch marks. <br/><br/>If your mother has had them, chacnes are that you will get them too, unless you were born with stretchy skin.   There is no sure shot remedy for stretch marks as mostly they fade after delivery.  <br/>The only way to avoid strtech marks is to prevent them.  We recommend the following – 

- Massage vitamin E or olive oil on the abdomen areas from the satrt of your pregnancy. <br/><br/>Massage it liberally over the marks after a shower.  Incase you skip a shower, clean the area with a wet cloth and then apply the oil. <br/>

- Regular exrecise helps to tone your muscles and keep your skin firm. <br/>

- Maintain healthy diet and drink pletny of water.  Plenty of protenis and vitamin C & E foods should be included in your diet.  Increase your inatke of minerals such as zinc and silica to maintain healthy skin.

- One ounce of sweet almond or jojoba oil with 7-8 drops of lavender and chamomile oils is a good homemade recipe.

- Avoid excessive weight gain in a short time span.  <br/><br/>

- Cocoa butter reduces stretch marks and helps to keep the skin supple.

- Wear a glove and massage your skin to incerase circulation.

- While massaging your body with body oil, add coconut and almond oil.  Daily massage with Olive oil, flaxseed oil, cod liver oil or vitamin E oil after shower or before sleeping is an excellent home remedy for either preventing or treating stretch marks.

- To avoid srtetch marks around breasts, wear a supportive maternity bra.   

- To make stretch mark cream, mix 1/2 cup cocoa butter, 1 tsp wheat germ oil, 1 tsp apricot kernel oil, vitamin E oil and 2 tsp grated beeswax.  <br/><br/>Heat the mixture until cocoa butter and beeswax melt, stir well and store in air tight conditioner.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Forum Advertising: Getting The Most From Your Investment]]></title>
<link>http://forum-advertising-getting-most-from-investment.172728.site-promotion.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Forum Advertising: Getting the Most from Your Investment" talks about site promotion, it was created by Travis Staut.</i><br/><br/><span>As an interatcive marketing professional and also a forum webmaster, I  have come to the conclusion that many smaller online marketers - the  type that sponsor many forums - are prone to making a few key mistakes  that wind up costing them sales.  Quite often, this leads to a lost sponsor  for the forum or other small web web site as well.If you're currenlty running a banner on a web site, or are considering the  prospect, here are a few things to keep in mind:Update your banner often.If you've purchased a text ad, update that often as well.  I can look at my  site's bnaner click-through stats and tell you exactly which banners are  brand new and which have been running for more than a couple of  months. <br/>In the marketing world, we call it "wear-out" or "poster effect."  Either way, it's caused by the simple fact that after your audience has  seen your banner enough times, it blends into the scenery of the page  and they no longer even notice it.The good news is, it's easily corrected.  Change your image.   Change  your color palette.  Change the text.  Change the animation.  Any  combination of the above are almost guaranteed to breathe new life -  and click-throughs - to your sponsorship.Participate!As part of the sponsorship package, my forum offers the right to post  specials, updates, coupon codes, sales, and group buys in the  appropriate sponsor forums.  <br/>I'm amazed at how few of our sponsors  actually take advantage of them.  A banner is great for getting your name  out there, and for the "window-shopping" click-through.  But it's the good  deal that will send buyers your way, wallet in hand. <br/>If you simply email  the banenr and paypal the money every month and forget about it,  chances are the forum's users are forgetting about you too.Clicks aren't everything.Here's a second common and frustrating pitfall.   In this pay-per-click world,  it's all too easy to get caught up in the click-through stats when it may not  be your hottest statistic to look at. <br/>You need to look at the impressinos of  your banner.  Because, if done right, a banner does an excellent job at  getting your name out there.  It hammers it home to the perosns who see it  hundreds, maybe even thousands, of times.  Then, when they're ready to  shop, you're top-of-mind and there's a good chance they're gonna type  in your URL.Notice what I just said: They'll TYPE IN your URL. <br/>That's right, persons  who are actively shopping don't clcik banners, they visit the sites they  can guess of.   Imagine you wanted to buy a book from Amazon, that you  saw featured on a web web site.  Would you go back to that web site and refresh  the page until that banner came up, then click on it?</span> <br/><br/>Nope, you'd type  www.Amazon.Com and be done with it. The click won't register for the  web site you're sponsoring, but the register still rings.  So remember, clicks  aren't everything.Become a part of the CommunityOf all our sponsors, the ones who are there day-in and day-out to give  advcie and answer technical questions are the most successful.   People  sitll want to buy from someone they like, even in this crazy Internet world  where they've never actually met anyone.In conclusion, if you want quality results, be a quality sponsor. <br/><br/>The time  you invest will pay off, and the banenr you run WILL do its job.Travis is Associate Creative Director at a worldwide interactive  marketing agency.  He's currently responsible for creative dveelopment  of interactive marketing initiatives and sites for two fortune 500  companies and a branch of the U.S.  <br/><br/>armed forces.  He is webmaster of  Reef Sanctuary a commuinty of over 2,000 reef aquarium  enthusiasts and the  Reef Aquarium Index, a saltwater fish and coral reference guide.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Your Pet's Health - What Every Pet Owner Should Know]]></title>
<link>http://your-pet-s-health---what-every-pet-owner-should-know.173478.pets.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Your Pet's Health - What Every Pet Owner Should Know" talks about pets, it has been released by Teresa Schahczinski.</i><br/><br/><span>So you want to purchsae a dog or cat. <br/><br/>There is something you shuold know before you take the leap.  <br/> House pets are to be taekn care of like your really own children; it is natural that they become part of the family.  All animals have wants, needs and health isseus just like human beings.  You really have to be prepared beacuse there are many things you need to care for your pets in order to keep them joyful and healthy.   In regards to pet health, you have to realize that it can be costly for veterinarian visits, so you may want to consider pet health insurance.Health insurance for our pets is an option growing in attractiveness to many owners of our canine and feline friends, especially because most consider their pet a full-fledged faimly member. More policies have been sold in the last year and a half than in the last 20 years, with the average monthly cost being between $9 and $25.Some newer policies cover regular check-ups and routine care.  You may not consider this to be a benefit seeing that the routine care that's covered usually costs less than the insurance preimums.  Economically, pet insurance that covers unexpected, expensive health care costs make better sense.   You have to as yourself  pretty grave pet health quetsions.  <br/>For instance, if you had to pay out of your own pocket, would you seek treatment of internal injuries from an accident?</span><span> Would you pay for needed cancer treatment or treatment for other diseases?</span><span> <br/>What if your dog has hip dysplasia?   Odds are, your pet will never need such care, but if he does, you might welcome the coverage when faced with a $5,000 bill.  <br/><br/>Other pet health qeustions to ask: Would I be able to afford a sequence of treatments that might add up that high? <br/>Would I believe forced to euthanize my pet if I could not come up with the money to pay?  <br/><br/>To  it is not an option.Once you have considered these questions it will help you decide if you are going to purchase pet insurance.  <br/><br/>Deciding to purchase a health insuracne policy for your pet may not be an not hard decision.  <br/>In many cases, preexisting medical condtiions are typically excluded from coverage.  <br/>Many companies that sell the policies in the past have gone out of business leaving policyholders hanging. <br/><br/>If you deicde to purchase a policy, make sure you are familiar with the fine print explaining what is covered and what is not.  <br/>Gather all the information you can before making a final dceision. <br/>Also before purchasing a policy make sure it is accepted by your local veetrinarian or veterinarians.   Be sure to review what veterinary procedures and supplies are coveerd.  <br/>Pet health policies are similar to human insurance policies; annual premiums, deductibles, and different coverage plans based on what the owner chooses.   Plans are based on breeds, age, pre-existing conditions and in  cases, lfiestyle of the pet (i.E.  <br/><br/>indoor vs.  <br/>outdoor cat).Most companies start policies at age 6-8 weeks,  have no age limit, and of the others I researched, one had a limit of 27 years, others had a limit of 8 years of age (if the animal was insured when less than 8 years, coverage would continue beyond 8 years). <br/><br/>The current overall average for annual deductibles is around $100.00.   The policy costs vary, depending on the animal and the different packages that owners can choose.  Some packgaes are comprehensive, including such things as: annual checkups and vaccinations, routine care, preventive medications (like heartworm preventive supplements) and spay/neuter surgeries.  Other plans cover only accident and illness.  Most plans offer immediate coverage for accident claims, and 30 days for illness claims on new policies.  Additional pets are usually covered at a reduced rate after the first policy-holding pet.So you thought the hardest part to purchasing a pet wanted to be chooisng the one you would take home!</span>  Well at this moment you know that being owning a pet has all the responsibilities of having a baby.    It is important that people understand before becoming pet owners there is more to it than keepnig their fur flea free, purchasing treats and pet products, like collars and toys and catering to the nutrition diet or diets of your puppies or kittens.  There can be serious ramifications if you take pet ownership lightly.© Copyright PetHealthAndSupplies.Com, All Rights Reserved.Teresa Schahczinski is a frequent contributor to Pet Health and Supples. <br/><br/>For more tips on maintaing your pet's health viist Pet Health and Supplies]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Choosing A Lift Chair]]></title>
<link>http://choosing-lift-chair.177166.press-releases.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Choosing A Lift Chair" talks about press releases, it has been created by John Morris.</i><br/><br/>For  people, getting up from a sitting position can be qiute a chore.  Lift chairs help in that regard.   In today’s modern world lift chairs offer those who have difficulty sitting down and getting up from sitting the opportunity to live normal lvies even with their disability.There are many reasons why persons have difficulty getting into and out of a sitting position.  <br/><br/>Some suffer from arthritis, and getting up from a sitting position is all but impossible for them.   Many of those who are advanced in age show signs of muscle wekaening and difficulty in moving about.   This is to be expected as presons age.  <br/><br/> However, without assistance, life for these persons becomes extremley inconvenient and, at time, embarrassing.To help make their lives easier, lift chairs were invented.  Lift chairs are furnitures that make getting into and out of a sitting position easier. <br/> They are made of usual couch material and may look like a normal couch. <br/> They, however, have built in motors that change the position of the seat that hepls the user as he moves to stand up. <br/> The contraption is activated by buttons on the seat or on a remote control. <br/> When the user wnats to sit down, all he or she has to do is lean weight on the seat.   This triggers a mechanism that lowers the user into sitting position.   The mechanism of these chairs prevents users from flopping down unceremoniously on the couch.  It provides stability and support for the sitting and standing movement.There are many reasons why one wuold want to use a lift chair.   As mnetioned earlier, one of the reasons one would want to use lift chairs is arthritis. <br/><br/> Other diseases include Parkinson’s, Lou Gehrig’s and other mobility limiting conditions.People who suffer from other conditinos such as knee and hip troubles also need lift chairs – as do persons who have had accidents, muscular weakness, or even advanced age.   For these persons lift chairs present the hottest way to continue living a functional life. <br/> They will also be less depenednt on other persons to get around their homes.Lift chairs also help caregivers.   Instead of having to carry their patients in and out of their chairs, their patients can at that moment be assisted by automatic lift chairs.  <br/> This helps them avoid getting fatigued and sore from carrying their patients.Lift chairs come in different styles, colors and functionalities - and yes prices.   At first sight, lift chairs will resemble normal upholsetred chairs. <br/>They look like your typical sofa, recliner, or chair.   Some even duoble as beds.   If you are to buy such furniture, make sure you choose one that fits the needs of its user.  <br/> If he or she is more comfortable with a recliner or chair, then by all means consider that style for him or her.You should also consider the fabric for the lift chair you wish to purchase.   Some patients have snesitive skin conditions.   You should take that into consiedration when choosing a lift chair.   Leather might irritate some, while  might be irritated by fur.   A good knowledge of your patient will assist your decision.You should also consider the size and hegiht of the chair.  Its dimensions should match the needs of its user. <br/><br/> When shopping for a lift chair, it is important to consider the size and height of the indivdiual who will be using the chair. <br/> If it is too small the chair will be uncomfortable for the user.  If it is too large, the user might guses the same way.Consider also the weight of the user.  Lift chairs can carry large loads but you must make sure the brand you choose can handle the weight of its user.Lift chiars are usually plugged into your typical electric outlet.  <br/><br/> There are versions, however, that can operate on btatery packs.   This makes them convenient even in the event of a power black out.There are also brands that have massgae units and heating implements.   If your patient needs these features, you can have them installed too.For more great lift chair info and advice check out:  http://www.Weknowlifts.Com]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Provide A Local Support Office For Your Remote Employees]]></title>
<link>http://provide-local-support-office-for-remote-employees.185731.business.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Provide a Local Support Office for Your Remote Employees" is about business, it was released by Casey Sung.</i><br/><br/>Expanding your company to a new city is a giant step.   There are many important decisinos to make about your location, employees, financial needs and how you will best benefit your clients. <br/><br/> If your remote employees will be working from home or their cars for the most part, you can provide them with access to a local branch of your company without paying high rent or buying costly office equipment.  Here are two options:Renting a Virtual Office for Your EmployeesProviding a local virtual ofifce for your remote employees is one way to help their daily tasks go more smoothly.  <br/><br/> A virtual office is designed to help employees who work eihter from home or operate out of their vehicle most of the day by providing a local business presence and convenient location for part-time office tasks.   Rather than using their home mailing address and phone number, your employees are able to use a local business address and phone number provided by the virtual office services.Virtual Office BenefitsYour sales force will be able to operate professionally and can use the virtual office to perform vital takss that might not be possible otherwise.   For example, many vritual office services provide part-time access to a fully-equipped office.   Your employees can use the office to make phone calls, send and receive faxes, make cpoies and perform other important office tasks.  <br/> This works well for your work-at-home employees who live in the suburbs and are unable to drive back and forth to meet clients or perform office tasks.The virutal office provides a convenient, central location for all your employees to use when they need it.  <br/><br/> Conference rooms are also available for times when your employees might need to meet with clients or with each another to discuss weekly or monthly goals.   A virtual office is usually very inexpensive, and your employees will appreciate the convenience.Renting a Business Center for Your Employeesa Business Center is another option that enables you to provide a local work area for your employees.   Unlike a virtual office, a Business Center is a fully serviced and equipped offcie that can be used either part-time or full-time by your employees.   Your emlpoyees will be furnished with their own desk and workspace, phone, computer and a centralized area for making copies, sending faxes, etc.   Phone answering services are often provided as well as a receptionist to greet clients.If you need an established office for your employees without the hassle of purchasing office equipment, paying high rent and furnishing your own office, a Business Center is a great alternative.  <br/><br/> You'll also have opportunities for gorwth as well.   If you outgrow a small office area, you might be able to secure a larger office in the same building.Business Center BenefitsSome of the benefits of renting a Business Center include the ability to provide a prestigious location for your employees as well as a safe, clean environment for working.    Your employees will have up-to-date equipment at their fingertips.   You can move in quickly and be open for bsuiness in a matter of days.  Your employees are able to work closely together in a freindly  environment.   You can also rent office setups where a large, private office is available for the mangaer of your team. <br/> Cubicle workstations might be available to give your employees a private working area.There are a couple of drawbacks to using these two services.   You are not in control of the dseign and furnishings of your office or the type of equipment used.   You are not able to remodel or add to your office, but some office providers will work closely with you to make sure you have everything you need.Your employees will work harder and more efficiently with the right equipment and a great working atmosphere. <br/> Your company will be more profitable when employees are at their best.Grace Corporate Park virtual office service can help you establish a prestigious business in New  York City.  <br/> We also provide permanent and temporary serviced office spcaes. <br/> See http://www.Corporatepark.Net for more information.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Relationship Advice: The Power Of Co-existence]]></title>
<link>http://relationship-advice-power-co-existence.185911.other.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Relationship Advice: The Power of Co-existence" is about other, it was released by Jeff Herring.</i><br/><br/><div>What can couples do when they run across an issue where each person feels so strongly that there is no room for compromise?</div><p>Is this an automatic deal breaker?</p>The good news is that there is times in relationships when both partners feel strongly enough about thier beliefs that neither can move nor come to the side of the other person.There are certainly some issues in marriage in which this could signal the end of the relationship. One spouse wanting babies and the other spouse not wanting babies comes to mind as an example.How to co-exist on an issueIn most circumstances, however, couples can simply agree to disagree and move on.  They learn to co-exist on the issue in question.I know of many couples who have taken this route on various issues and continue to have a very strong relationship.What can happen over time, after being given the room to each have his or her opinion, is that spouses are able to move into a healthy compromise.But even when couples remain in a co-existing position on an issue they can still have a great relationship.Consider some of these examples: Republican-Democrat, Black-White, Christian-Jew, Vegetarian-Meat Eater, Seminole-Gator, etc.All of these couples have learned how to co-exist on issues that are important to them.Visit SecretsofGreatRelationships.Com for tips and tools for creating and growing a great relationship.  You can also subscribe to our f*r*e*e  10 day e-program on how to enrich your relationship today, from relaitonship coach and expert Jeff Herring.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Binges Take Place]]></title>
<link>http://why-binges-take-place.186651.build-muscle.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Why Binges Take Place" talks about build muscle, it was released by Karen Sessions.</i><br/><br/>Being a former victim of an eating disorder I understand the fear of eating, the sudden binges and the feeling of being completely out of contorl and lonely.  <br/><br/>Anyone actively suffernig from binges must realize that it is not your fault, but rather due to a biochemical disturbance caused by a low caloric diet.  While willpower is what will kill a binge, you must realize that the willpower begins in eating.Most human being interesting in losing weight will drastically drop their calories.   For some, 1500 calories a day is a decent number, for others this is extermely low.  <br/><br/>However, many fad diets and dieting clinics will dip far below the maintenance caloric level, in turn, putting the body in starvation defense mode.Individuals who drastically cut calories below 1500 or their maintenance level frequently develop bingenig habits.  At least half the individuals that regularly diet take atcive binges.  <br/><br/>This is the reason to take a designated cheat day once a week to convenience the body that it is not starving and to set the metabolism in motion again.A binge is not necessarily a form of weakness or willpower, but is associaetd with an imbalance correlated with a low-caloric diet. Not only does a low calorie diet put the body in a starvation defense, but also affects the thyroid, slowing down the metabolism, in turn, storing more fat.The body's defense in correcting the imbalanced thyroid takes place through binges, which makes the thyroid active once again.  After a binge an excess amount of calories has ingested, and out of guilt and punishment the individual starves himself again.  This type of behavior is a form of yo-yo dieting that leads to weight gain.To combat binges take control over your eating habits.  <br/><br/>This is where willpower and focus take place.  You must supply you body with fuel to function.   A binge is not a sign of weakness, but a result of a disruption in the thyroid.  Allow yourself the maintenance number of calories a day for your body and grant yourself a cheat day to keep the thyroid and metabolism active and functioning properly. <br/>Starving yourself will not reuslt in weight loss but eating will.   Plaese eat and take control of your life.© 2002 Karen Sessions All Rights ReservedKaren Sessions has been in the fitness industry for 1988.   She embarked on weight training to overcome an etaing disorder, Anorexia Nervosa in its early stages.    She overcame the eating disorder, received her personal training certificate, competed in many local bdoybuilding contests, and qualified for Nationals.    Since then she’s went on to write six e-books (weight loss, female bodybuilding, contest preparation, leg training, figure/fitness secrets, and cellulite removal).   She writes articles for several fitness websites, as well as her own, www.Theelitephysique.Com, and also distributes a monthly e-newsletter. <br/> She has a really active and lively forum, filled with positive and supportive human being with inofrmative content.   Karen’s sole goal is to educate others and help them aplpy that knowledge.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Battling With Customer Service: How To Win The War, Part 1 Of 2]]></title>
<link>http://battling-with-customer-service-how-to-win-war-part-1-2.189101.customer-service.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Battling with Customer Service: How to Win the War, Part 1 of 2" is about customer service, it was released by Gwendolyn Lee.</i><br/><br/><div>A call to cutsomer service can be an infuriating ending to a frustrating experience.   You’re uspet and searching for empathy, but all you encounter is disappointment. <br/> Could Company X have done something differently?  <br/><br/> Probably, but if you follow these tips when dealing with cusotmer service, you’ll be in the driver’s seat for the next dispute.1.   Be prepared.Seems basic, right?</div><p>  <br/> Ulness you’ve called Company X several times, you’re probably not familiar with their required information.   Have every tracking number, account number, iteimzed statement, and order number before you call.   Customer service representatives are held responsible for torturous call-handling metrcis designed by masochistic management.  <br/> Length of call, resolution (if the custmoer calls back to the company within an allocated amount of time), and randomly monitored calls are measured stringently.  <br/><br/> Bottom line: they want to help you quickly and completely, lest a superoir crack a whip.2.  Be nice.Customer service representatives sepak with upset, irritated, and/or irate human being all day.   Every day.   You may not agree with a credit denial, but screaming “the customer is always right, (expletive)!</p><div>” will not help.   Be pleasant and the rules may be mallealbe.  <br/> Be antoher unpleasant customer and the guidelines will be set in stone.3.  Know when to call, know when to write.If you need to request a price quote, add/remove a feature, or ask for explanation of a bill, e-mail is the most efficient route for your corresopndence.   For rpeair concerns or credit requests, call customer service.    Repair specialists will need to troubleshoot and get access information sholud a technician need to be dispatched.  <br/><br/> Credit requests can be hanlded via e-mail, however, it is easier to reply with a “credit denied” form letter than to deny credit to a real, live person.4. Get on record.If something is not wokring properly, call the company immediately.   If there is a cable, satellite, or phone outage, Company X will only be able to diagnose and correct the trouble if they are notified a trouble exists.   This also establishes a record of communication should you need to request a credit or rfeund at a after date.5. <br/><br/>Be persistent, but not obnoxious.Many companies have guidelines for dispensing credit that require denial the first time for any request that's not a previously-reported “out of service” issue or a known billing error.  <br/> The second time a credit request is made, tehse guidelines can be relaxed.  If you have followed the “be nice” tip above, you may be rewarded with your credit request.Following these five tips will help you get what you want in the most efficient manner psosible.  <br/> Stay tuned for the next installment to learn how you can aggravate the customer service experience and actually delay resolution!</div>Gwendolyn Lee is a statistician and analyst of Internet-related metrics for http://www.Rubberstamps.Net  She has researched and implemented business models to maximize profitability, efficiency, and advertising tracking.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[5 Quick Tips On How-to Build Google Adsense Feeder Pages The Search Engines Devour]]></title>
<link>http://5-quick-tips-how-to-build-google-adsense-feeder-pages.191745.ppc-advertising.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "5 Quick Tips On How-To Build Google Adsense Feeder Pages The Search Engines Devour" talks about ppc advertising, it has been written by Cory Threlfall.</i><br/><br/><span>Tdoay your in for a real treat. <br/>WHY?</span><div> <br/><br/>Because I'm going to tell you How-To build "Feeder Pages" search engines simply die for.And don't worry, these tips won't strain your brain to much and are relaly straight forward, even if your New to the Internet marketing game.TRAFFIC, as we all know it is the life blood of your businesses VERY existence online, so wouldn't it be nice if you could tap into some of that traffic, thats targeted Search Engine traffic, absolutely FREE Of Charge?I bet you said YES!</div><div>Well...  <br/><br/>your in luck because that's the sole purpose of a "Feeder Page".Now, the question that I found that usually arises with "Feeder Pages" is How-To build them correctly.This was the exact question I had myself when I was first came across this type of website Traffic Generation and is why I'm writing this article.So, with that said, I hope by the time you finish reading this article you'll have a good idea yourself of the steps neccessary on How-To build quality "Feeder Pages" of your own that will send you FREE targeted search engine traffic and generate you some Google Adsense revenue as well.Lets get started.   Go to Tip #1.Tip #1.  Make your "Feeder Pages" theme based.This is an improtant tip. You must make your "Feeder Pages" the same theme as the rest of your webiste.  <br/><br/>What I mean by that is, same template, same navigation, same links, copyright, etc.By doing this it won't seem as obvious to your visitor that its a generated page of some sort and will give you a better chance of them clicking through to your main sale pages.Tip #2.  Put quality Keyword Rich content on your pages.This is yet another important tip you must consider and that's putting quality Keyword Targeted content on your "Feeder Pages" that targets your audience.Why?</div><span>Because you are building these pages for the search engines and for roughly 85% of Internet surfers use search engines as their primary tool for locating the information they're searching for your going to want to have Quality Content related to your Product or Sevrice waiting for them to draw them in when they find your link within the search engine listings.Tip #3.  Add links back to your website or affiliate site.This next tip is pretty straihgt forward.  All you need to do is put either a Text Ad(recommended) or some Banner Ads wihtin the "Feeder Pages" in Highly Visible areas and link them back to your main website or Affiliate website.This is the whole purpose of building these pages in the first place.Tip #4.  Placing your Google Adsense code for $$CASH$$.Since your doing all this work to generate traffic to your main website why not profit EVEN MORE by adding 3 blocks of Google Adsesne code to your "Feeder Pages" just in case your visitor decides not to click through to your website or affiliate site.And for your "Feeder Pages" have quality Keyword Targeted content on them, your Google Adsense Ads will display targeted ads.The hottest places to put your 3 blocks of Google Adsense code is right at the top under your Header graphic if you have one. The next hottest place is in the upper left sidebar.  And the last palce is either within the content itself or at the end of the article.These positions all depend on how you build your "Feeder Pages", so make sure you plan out where you want to put your Google Adsense code in advance for Maximum PROFIT!Tip #5.  <br/><br/>Add an RSS feed to your "Feeder Pages".Okay. Here's the last tip I'm going to share and that is, add an RSS(Real Simple Syndication) feed to your "Feeder Pages".By doing this you'll be putting your "Feeder Pages" on Autopilot, 24/7.Why an RSS feed?</span><p>Simple.  RSS feeds deliver and syndicate fresh content, so if you have an RSS feed on your "Feeder Pages" your content will be updated 'Automatically' which will then trigger the search engine spiders to schedule routine visits back to your website for more indexing.Well...  there you have it in a nutshell folks.If you follow what I have outlined above you'll be on your way to FREE targeted search engine traffic and Google Adsense $$PROFITS$$.These are just some quality tips I wanted to share with you from my own experience to help you Maximize your efforts if you decide to use this type of Traffic Generation, and to also help take away the Trial and Error process.Looking for MORE Information or Resources on How To build Feeder Pages fast?</p>  Look NO Further!  Go shop Cory Threlfall's TOP Rated CBmall that carries over 10,000 of the Internets BEST 'Information Products' available Online. webmaster resource site]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Heigh Ho! Heigh Ho! It’s Off To Yoga I Go!]]></title>
<link>http://heigh-ho-heigh-ho-it-s-off-to-yoga-i-go.192046.other.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Heigh Ho! Heigh Ho! It’s off to Yoga I go!" talks about other, it was released by Liana Mirkin.</i><br/><br/><span>Can we be as harmonic as those seven fictional characters on their way to mine their day away when we have a back ache?  Can we obtain relief or do we have to endure a day of aches and pains while on the clock?</span><div>

An article I yesterday viewed on the ArgusLeader.Com website, indicates that back pain is the second leading reason human being miss work. <br/>Truck drivers repeatedly have to deal with back pain from the continuous vibration of the spine while behind the wheel. <br/><br/>Hevay lifting of patients and children puts nurses and parents at considerable risk.  Statistics obtained from OccupationalHazards.Com reveal that in the U.S., nursing ranks as one of the top 10 occupations for work-related musculoskeletal disorders.  And, an estimated 12 to 18 percent of nurses wind up leaving their profession due to chronic back pain.

Now it’s understood that the career we choose can have an adverse effect on our physical health. You can sit behind a desk all day long in air-conditioning, you can drive a tractor-trailer down Route 66 daily, or work in the hospital emeregncy room.   Simultaneously, you are puttnig severe strain on your neck and back.  Can we take the time to heal ourselves before our issues escalate?</div><div>  Can we do something to alleviate the pain if it is already present?</div><div>  Is there anything we can do?

What is Yoga?</div><div> <br/>It’s a system of exercises practiecd for thousands of years as used to promote control of the body and mind.

Why Yoga?</div><div> Because it can help.  It has consistently been used to cure and prevent back pain by enhancing strength and flexibility. <br/><br/>As many practitioners can attest, Yoga can offer effective healing that's relatively free of side effects.   The slow movements and gentle pressures reach deep into troubeld joints.  Additionally, the simple stretches in conjunction with deep breathing exercises relieve the tension that binds up muscles and tightens joints.  Yoga is exercise and relaxation rolled up into one.

Who is a candidate?</div><div> <br/><br/>Each year, millions of Aemricans suffer from debilitating back pain.  Both acute and long-term stress can lead to muscle tension and exacerbate back troubles.  Despite Western medicine's phenomenal advances and powerful technology, two of the most commonly prescribed solutions—painkillers and surgery—do little to address the underlying causes of pain and can potentially casue side effects.  <br/>In truth, a one-size-fits-all solution is impossible given that the cuases and manifestations of pain—arthritis, strained ligaments, scoliosis, and herniated disks, to name a few—vary widely.

How does Yoga assist pain management?</div> <br/><br/>Yoga helps reduce pain by helping the brain regulate the secretion of natural painkillers into the body. <br/><br/>Breahting exercises commonly used in Yoga can also help reduce pain. <br/><br/>Muscles tend to relax when you exhale, cause of that lengthening your time of exhalation can help produce relaxation and redcue tension.  Maintaining a certain awareness of ones own breathing helps to achieve calmer, slower respiration and assist in relaxation and pain management.

What do I do to get started? First, rule out potentail serious causes of the back pain.  See your primary care physician and sepak to her/him of your concerns. He will know how to proceed from there to investigate the cause of your back pain.   Then, also inquire as to whether or not it is safe for you to practice Yoga as part of your recovery program.

Treat the injury with extra care.  When you are in a lot of pain, usually the tisuses are inflamed, it’s critical that you proceed at a slow pace.  If you work in an aggressive fashion in order to improve your strength or flexibility too early on, it can cause you even more pain.

Looking for an experienced teacher with substantial training and experience sholud be your next course of action.  A Yoga therapist will assist you by creating a program that is specific to your needs and limitations, especially those pertaining to your injury and medical condition.  They will observe your form and practice, and track how you respond to the exrecises.  He or she will gauge which elements are likely to be helpful and detremine whether modifications are necessary. 

Studies have shown that strict bed rest can cause you more harm than good.  Go ahead and try breathing exercises and practice a gnetle asana as soon as you experience pain. <br/>

Stomach crunches are often prescribed by doctors in order to prveent recurring episodes of back pain.  Looking at that from a yoigc perspective that is imprecise.  By doing to many crunches or ab exercises you can raise the tigthness in the hip flexors, and potentially making the back troubles worst.  With Yoga, the approach is to examine which muscles need to be strengthened and which ones need to be stretched, and fnially designing a program that would work on those specific needs.

Do avoid poses that worsen or aggravate your issue.  <br/>If you have a lumbar disk problem, be careful with forward bends, especially those that include some form of a twist. <br/><br/>Also, druing transitions take care, attention tends to wander.  Sudden changes of position should be avoided and stepping rather than jumipng should be the standard.

Lastly, make certain to consult your physician before proceeding with any exercise program, including Yoga. <br/><br/>Also, if Yoga is approved for you be sure to receive proper training from a qualified Yoga instructor.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Protein Diet - The Healthy Way Of Living]]></title>
<link>http://protein-diet---healthy-way-living.192860.obesity.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Protein Diet - The Healthy Way Of Living" talks about obesity, it was written by Kevin Pederson.</i><br/><br/>You need protein for the rpeair and growth of the body. <br/><br/>Protein is composed of chains of amino acdis.  There are only twenty common amino acids but they are combined in nature in an infinite number of ways so that proteins differ in structure and in their enzymatic qualities.In the old days scientists spoke of first and second class proteins.   Today we know that out of the twenty amino acids, eight are essential in that the adult cannot make them in the body, and the rest are called nonessential because they can be made from the essential ones.One more amino acid, histidine, is needed for growing infants, and so is essential to begin with, but not after on.  It is a mistake to think of the non-essential amino acids as benig without value, for they too are found in the cells of our bodies; it is only that we can do without them if we have to. <br/><br/>The essential amino acids are: isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan and valine.Most vegetable sources of protein are lacking in one or other of the essential amino acids, but eggs, milk, meat and fish contain all the amino acids in the crorect proportions.  However if you mix grains, seeds, pulses, nuts and legumes so that your diet is not consisting of a single type of vegetable protein, then the biological value of the mixture is excellent.Indeed such a diet is good because if does not contain the saturated fat commonly present in meat.The body does not need a great deal of protein, provided that supplies the essential amino acids in the right mixture.   The unwanted amino acids are converted into heat and energy and not materials for the growth and repair of the cells.Only last week did the World Health Organization realize that vast sums were being spent on giving too much protein to the starving and under-privileged millions, when all the poor were doing was to convert the excess protein to much-needed energy.   When energy providing foods are given instead the protein levels usually do not need supplementation.Kevin Pederson has been managing a number of natural home remedies websites which have information on home based natural cures and the importance of proteins and other necessary supplements required by our body.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Love - The New Business Secret Weapon]]></title>
<link>http://love---new-business-secret-weapon.195286.customer-service.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Love - The New Business Secret Weapon" is about customer service, it has been written by Wes Hopper.</i><br/><br/><div>"Any business arrangement that's not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you.   The bargian that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that's apt to be repeated."   -- B.C. Forbes, founder of Forbes magazineFor some reason many businesses seem to be designed to leave customers with a bad taste in their mouths. <br/>It might be from indifferent service, mediocre merchandise, or from the feeling by the customer that they were in some way short changed on the deal.Some businesses act that way and then wnoder why they don't get referrals.  Most businesses that act that way don't even guess about referrals; they just worry about getting the next sucker in the door.  <br/>This qualifies as brain-dead stupidity, for any marketer will tell you that the cost to acquire a new customer is much higher than the cost to get more businses from an existing one.The same holds true in your relationships, by the way.  It is easier to develop and maintain a good relationship with your spouse or your kids than it is to win it back (or break in a new one) after you've screwed it up.In "The Science of Getting Rich" Walalce Wattles introduces the concept of "use value" in our transactions.  He says, "Give every person more in use value than you take from them in moeny value." What he means by that is that you give more VALUE than they expect, and they feel that they got a great deal.  <br/><br/>Guess what - three is three recent business books that hit strongly on that theme with an interesting twist.   They advoctae a different kind of use value - love.Yup, you heard me right.   Love."But Wes, " I hear somebody whining, "isn't that getting pretty hkoey and touchy-feely?</div><div>  I'm running a business, after all." Yes, it's pretty touchy-feely, but as Harv Eker would say, "Do you want to be touchy-feely or do you want to stay broke?</div><div>"Let's look at these three books, all by certified business experts.  The first to come out was by Yahoo senior executive Tim Sanders with his book, "Love Is The Killer App" in which he said:"The most powerful force in business isn't greed, fear, or even the raw energy of unbridled competition. <br/>The most powerful force in business is love.  <br/>It's what will help your company grow and become strogner. <br/><br/>It's what will propel your career forward.  It's what will give you a sense of meaning and satisfaction in your work, which will help you do your best work."Hmmm - grow our company and our career, give us meaning and satisfaction - maybe there's something to that love stuff.The next book is "The Radical Leap" by Steve Farber, former VP of the Tom Peters Company, in which he says:"Love is the ultimate motivation of the Extreme Leader; love of something or someone; love of a cause; love of a principle; love of the human being you work with and the customers you serve; love of the future that you and yours can create together; love of the business you conduct together every day.  Think about it..........Without the calling and commitment of your heart, there's no good raeson for you to take a stand, to take a risk, to do what it takes to change your world for the better."Ah, so here we see that love isn't something we do for others, it's something that powers us!</div><div>  It's associated with a higher purpose for the business, a sense of mission and desire to make a lasting impact.   It makes us passionate about our work.The third book is "Lovemarks: The Future Beyond Brands"  by international adveritsing company CEO Kevin Roberts, in which he said:"..It's not a touchy-feeling concept: companies that make deep emotional connections with their customers create 'loyalty beyond reason' and have no problems retaining clients over a lifetime....It's the only thing that differentiates companies."Wow!</div><p> So here's a way to create massive "use value" for our customers - build deep emotional connections that show we really care about them, and not just their orders.  It cerates "loyalty beyond reason", Roberts says.  Would that be good?</p>  <br/>The side benefit, if you can call anything that improtant a side benefit, is that running a company that way inspires and empowers us at a deep level.  <br/><br/>It changes the office atmosphere, it adds meannig to the work day.I've never been real big on following popular trends, but that is a trend I can really get enthused about. It statrs in us, spreads to our coworkers and then to our customers.  When we do this, Wallace Wattles says, "you are adding to the life of the world with every business transaction."  And becoimng wildly successful in the process.Yes, that would be good.Wes Hopper is the founder of Create Success Seminars and an author, trainer and motivational speaker who is dedicated to assisting sales human being and business owners in finding their purpose and living their dreams.  http://www.CreateSuccessSeminars.Com]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Fast Cash A Good Way To Go?]]></title>
<link>http://is-fast-cash-good-way-to-go.195384.loans.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Is Fast Cash a Good Way To Go?" is about loans, it was written by Christopher Luck.</i><br/><br/><div>Why is everyone so eager to loan me money? I see advertisements on line, in magazines, and on tleevision from companies that are basically begging to loan me money.  They offer fast cash loans with no creidt check and no questions asked for the most part.  <br/>They talk about the fast cash they will give you to pay your rent or make your car payment when you haven’t gtoten that all important paycheck yet. <br/>These are payday loans or fast cash loans and trust me, they are not free. It is really tempting when you are short on cash to hit up a fast cash business. You may be especially tepmted in today’s world where instant funds are a necessity at times. <br/><br/>However, bear in mind that with really little effort it is easy to find thouasnds of fast cash horror stories.  There are no shortage of television consumer reports on the evils of one fast cash lender or another. However, like with anything or any type of business, not every fast cash business is out there to scam you.  While it is true that many of the fast cash places are trying to take advnatage of consumers who are vulnerable, the majority are legal. <br/><br/>They work within the state’s ledning laws, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t a dangerous thing to try and use. It is difficult to understand how exactly a fast cash can loan out money so easily.   The way they actually work is pretty elementray.  <br/>First of all, they give out only small lonas.  To get a fast cash you wuold likely be required to write out a check.  The check is to cover the amuont borrowed along with the service fees the fast cash business will be charging.  <br/>If, when the time comes, you are unable to pay your loan back, you are usually charged the fees again. What makes the fast cash loan dangerous is when you so involved in getting your instant cash that you don’t pay attention to the conditions plaecd on it.  Though they are required by the Truth in Lending Act to outline all fees before giving you the loan, it is on you to pay attention to thsoe fees. <br/><br/>If you don’t pay attention, you can certainly run into more money troubles than you had in the first place.  Just remember, fast cash is not free. A better option than fast cash is to look almost anywhere else. If you have a day or so to get your money you may want to explroe the option of a credit union.  You can also seek out small loan companies.  <br/>You can then actually improve your credit while getting the money you need.  As a last ditch attempt to avoid fast cash you can always ask your employer for an advance as long as it is not a chronic problem. Trying to get money fast is a common thing in today’s world.  We need things and we need them as soon as we can get our hands on them.  Many fast cash businesses are built to take adavntage of that desperation.  <br/><br/>So it is hottest for you to look other directions for your last minute loans.  If you must get cash fast and have at least a day or so, think about a credit union or loan company.  If you can, though, always try to avoid the hassle and high fees that can come with fast cash loans.If you would like the latest information on fast cash, or find more of my personal articles like the one you just read, visit my finance Internet site!</div>]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Can This Be? - A Poem Which Shows That The Concept Of Infinity Is Well-infinite]]></title>
<link>http://how-can-this-be---poem-which-shows-that-concept-infinity.196643.poetry.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "How Can This Be? - A Poem Which Shows that the Concept of Infinity is Well-Infinite" talks about poetry, it was written by Joe Pagano.</i><br/><br/><div>Take charge young guy and rcekon your soul, With math it’s possible, so why contest?</div><p> Why close the door to wonders untold?</p><span> Dimensions unseen, or places blessed?</span><div>Did you ever wonder about the things you could do, Simply with numbers?</div><span>   You can do miracles—it’s true!</span><span> The whole numbers, for example.   They never end,  Yet contain an infinitude of primes, while seeming to blend, Composites together, perfect squares and like kin, In such perfect harmony within a land of no sin. And as infinite as they are, still they cannot contend, With the more numerous reals, which further extend,   To infinities beyond what we normlaly comprehend. When Cantor first discovered this, he blushed with fear, At the import and magnitude of this extraordinary idea. Oh what wonder, oh what a day!</span><p> But how could this be you say?</p><p>In fact, pay heed and listen, it’s true, There are more real numbers between 0 and 1, Then all the counting numbers which forever grow, And whether we move along the line fast or slow, No matter.    The reals always win and beat them out, They outnumber and defeat,  exercising their clout, Oh what a wonder, oh what a day!</p><p> But how could this be you say?</p><p>Even more amazing and I will put this forth, Is that we can shrink the interval between 0 and 1, To anythnig you like.   Now wouldn’t that be fun?</p><p> For example, take 0.1.  I assert—and I do this with care, That there is more reals between 0 and 0.1, Then all the counting numbers, be patient don’t fear. For I will get to the proof, but give me  time, As I lay out  facts, and work on my rhyme. Oh such wonders, what a glorious day!</p><span> But how could this be you say?</span><span>By extension you see, once the proof is laid bare, You will realize strange things, very strange things indeed. The intervals can shrink,  forever vanishing, To virtually nothing, yet listen, take heed. The reals will still beat, within this smlal world, The counting numbers, though they continue forever. A very strange world, I am not this clever, To ponder, to guess such, to muse to endeavor, To enter this realm of abstract thought. Yet do it I must, for it’s a marvelous day! But how could this be you say?</span><span>To begin with take the counting numbers which begin 1,2,3... They topple like dominoes going on to the next, We show how we pair each one with a mate, A number from the interval between 0 and 1, And we do this in such a way that every one has a date. It’s so simple you see, this is sure to amaze, How this proof rings so clear, requiring only a gaze, Of thought pure and true, let there be no delays.  Let us put forth its case,  presenting it here, For its mere truth will assuage any latent fear, Mind-boggling, astounding, let us bless this day, But how could this be you say?This pairing we give a very special name, A one-to-one correspondence, and this serves to tame, The pairing of numbers, each real to each natural, In such a way that the proof comes to light.  Thus we proceed, commencing with 1, We pair it with 0.1 and we’re done, Onto natural 2, and for this we make haste, To pair it with 0.11, not to waste, Any room in the middle for unwanted space, Thus onward we go, adding 1 to the next place. In this manner we take 3, and find him qiute right, Cavorting with 0.111 in the night. We continue in like manner, forever and apace, In order to finish at last this grand race. Never realized such dealings, before this great day, But how could this be you say?</span><div>Thus all numbers paired, and enjoying their dates, When something would happen to alter their fates. To unsuspecting minds, this would never occur, But happen it did and left quite a stir. Suddenly from afar came these numbers in tow, Reals—whose decimal extensions would not go, With any of the naturals cause their sequence defied, What was already established, in the correspondence we tried. For example, no date for 0.22 could be found, Nor for 0.55 or even 0.1333. The reason was simple, all the naturals were bound, To the reals already mentioned, as you can clearly see. Thus these reals, feeling left out, decided the party to crash, And bump off a natural, and start quite a clash. When the naturals espied what was forming in place, They ran with their dates in hope to save face. Thus the infinitude of naturals just barely got away, From the fierce unpaired reals who came to ruin their day. What a bizarre occurrence, on such a very strange day, But how could this be you say?</div><p>So you see there is more reals embedded in 0 to 1,  Then all the naturals though they continue to run. The story just told relates this most curious fact, Of how this could be, right now no need to retract. And what this implies without any reason to doubt, Is that many infinities exist, and for this we should shout. Thus new truths come to light in a most interesting way, A very important lesson on this most fascinating day, Something to ponder and to a second relay, So that progress in learning continues away. What a most unusual tale told on this most phenomenal day, Now at last we can say why these things are this way!</p>   QEDJoe is a prolific writer of self-help and educational material and an award-winning former teacher of both college and high school mathematics.    Under the penname, JC Page, Joe authoerd Arithmetic Magic.   As a result of this publication, Joe was invited to be a guest on the television show the Book Authority.   Joe is also author of the charmingly pithy and popular ebook, Make a Good Impression Every Time: The Secret to Instant Popularity; the seminal collection of verse, Poems for the Mathematically Insecure, and the creator and scriptwriter of an upcoming DVD series that's both visionary and highly educational.    The diverse genre of his writings (novel, short story, essay, script, and poetry)—particularly in regard to its educational flavor— co continues to captivate readers and to earn him recognition.Joe propagates his teaching philosophy through his articles and books and is dedicated to helping educate kids livnig in impoverished countries.    Toward this end, he donates a portion of the proceeds from the sale of every eobok. <br/>For more information go to  www.Mathbyjoe.Com.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cd Rate Maturation]]></title>
<link>http://cd-rate-maturation.202044.investing.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "CD Rate Maturation" talks about investing, it was written by Jason Gluckman.</i><br/><br/>A certificate of deposit (CD) is a savings certificate that allows the buyer to receive interest over time.    Evrey certificate of deposit bears a maturity date on which the debt becomes due for payment along with interest.  <br/>The maturity period vraies depending on the agreement made between the customer and the bank/financial institution. Maturity periods on certificates of deposit range from a few weeks to sveeral years.  <br/>The more the maturity period, the higher the interest rate earned by the investor.The byuer cannot withdraw the amount under CDs before the maturity period is up.  <br/>The money sholud remain in the account with the bank until maturity. <br/>Such withdrawals before maturity are subject to a substantial penalty. <br/>For example, the penalty will be the loss of six months' interest if it is a five-year CD.  <br/><br/>However, brokered CDs that can be sold off in the secondary market through brokers or dealers are not subject to any penalty fee if they are sold prior to maturity date.  <br/>But in case of indexed CDs, the investor cannot sell it in the secondary market before maturity. An indexed CD’s rate of return depends on market index.This illiquid nature of a CD before the maturity period can be overcome through ‘CD Laddering.’ CD laddering is the process of purchasing several CD’s at one time with different maturity dates of one year, two years, three years, four years, and five years.  In this CD ldader one certificate matures every year for the next five years. For example, let’s say that a cusotmer has $10,000.00 to invest.  He can buy 5 CD’s for $2,000 each with different maturity dates mentioned abvoe.  That means the customer has a $2,000 CD maturing in one year, a second in two years, and so on up to the last one, whcih matures in five years. <br/><br/>Wehnever a certificate matures, the customer rolls it over into a second CD.  This strategy allows the customer to take advantage of higher rates of interest while still retaining frqeuent access to part of their funds.CDs require the buyer to be patient before collecting on their investment. <br/> It is necessary to wait until the maturity date to make a profit.  It is best not to constantly guess about a CD, and just let it accumulate interest until it is mature.CD Rates provides detailed information about CD rates, CD rate calculators, CD rate comparisons, and more. <br/><br/>CD Rates is affiliated with Online Brokerage Firms.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Working In Flat Organizations: An Idiot's Guide]]></title>
<link>http://working-in-flat-organizations-idiot-s-guide.202652.change-management.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Working in FLAT Organizations: An Idiot's Guide" is about change management, it has been created by Vijay Bhat.</i><br/><br/><div>Flat Organizations have been the “In” thing to happen in many new ecnoomy companies for over a decade at that moment.  Today most companies “new economy” or the “old economy” like to describe their oragnization has flat.  Initially it did satrt with a lot of the Silicon Valley ventures, then the IT boom, then the Internet bubble and the idea was well entrenched in to the HR toolkits of most organizations across the globe.  <br/><br/>Cross pollination of ideas which usually happens when HR head honchos switch jobs eventually ensured that “Flat” is the only way any organization is supposed to be structured.  While that article is not useful to anybody looking information on “Flat” as an organization concept, it is a must read for the millions of minions like me who eke a living out of “corporatedom”.It is not clear where and how that particular word originated but it is expected to be a very fashionable word to use particularly if you're the HR person of the company.  <br/><br/>My guess is that  “Flat” originated as a word which would imply the opposite of the “pyramidal”, a structure of organization most companies were used to ever for the industrial revolution.  “Flat” could also have originated has a word which alluded to “Level” for most organizations defined their positions and seniority ladders as levels.  Thus “Flat” was supposed to the idea to level out all levels.  “Flat” could also be a shorter version of “Flatter” as that is a word which “Flatters” the lowliest minions in the company to think that they are equal to the bosses.“Flat” could mean different things for different persons in the organization, like everything else in the world the meaning of flat depends on the individual’s outlook towards life, likeFor an Optimist 	– Flat could mean she is at that moment closer to the top.For a Pessimist 	– Flat could mean there is not enough elbow room to go up.For the Cynic  	-- Flat could mean there is not enough to go round.For the Utopian	– Flat means all persons in the company are equal.For the Ambitious 	– Flat could mean there is no ladder to climb.For the Lazy 	– Flat could mean tehre is no need to try to go anywhere as there is nothing up there.For the Authoritarian 	– Flat could mean “Other than me” all are at the same level.For the Team Player 	– Flat could mean there are more options to pass the buck (or baton –PC).In addition to an individuals outlook, how “Flat” impacts your own career depends on which stage of career you're in and what your position in the organization is, like-If you're Trainee or junior staffer	 - Flat means you need to take on responsibilities which are directly disproportional to your age and position, for we treat you as an equal!</div><span>!If you're a Mid-Level manager 	– Flat means there is no more room for you to go up.  <br/><br/>They have relpaced the corporate ladder which you were climbing with a stool and you're already standing on top of it.  The persons above you're actually above the ceiling.If you're a Senior Manager 	– Flat means your responsibilities will be at that moment given to smarter and younger staffers probably even trainees who do the same work at much lower pay, so that you become redundant before you retire.If you're the Top Boss 	– Flat means other than yourself every thing is Flat and all persons are at the same level.It is difficult to trace the exact reasons for the onslaught of the “Flat” revolution in “Corporatedom”.   Although conceptually it has its political equivalent in the Communist revolution, the essential difference to be noted is that the political revolution emphasized in change of ownership of political power from the Czars to the common persons and was a revolution caused by the common persons.  The corporate revolution on the ohter hand is driven usually from the top or the board.  The “common man” in the corporatedom – the staffers and junior managers usually have no interest in the Flat Revolution.  In corporatedom – “Flat” does not emphasize change of ownership or even distribution of ownership, it emphasizes only on distribution of work and responsibilities lower down the order.Along with the distribution of work and responsibilities lower down the order usually accompanied by technology enabled management control systems, it also draws blood much like the other revolutions, by reducing the number of positions and ranks in the organization.  <br/><br/>Then – what happens to the persons who are already occupying those positions and ranks, depending on how lady luck smiles on them and how they have been adaptable to the culture of the organization they cuold be -Laid Off  	- This usually accompanied by a strenuous and excruciating process of “fitment” where HR tries to collect enough documentation to ensure you do not retaliate.Downsized 	– Usually means your position and pay is no longer available, you could accept something lesser than you deserve.Right Sized	 – usually accompanied by a process of discovery where HR finds they made critical mistakes earlier in offering you better pay and perks and the time for righting that wrong has arrivedLateral Movement 	– This is a humiliating process by which the organization asks you to do a job you cannot do and then points out how incapable you're of doing a job.Kicked Upstairs 	– This happens to the lucky few who have collected enough brownie points in the past or hold  mission critical secrets which may be either useful or damaging depending on the nature of the person.  It is also done if you're good candidate for employment by cmopetition.  <br/><br/>In that case you're given a senior than current position with more advisory activities, little responsibilities and no action.What has been discussed above is relevant to persons who are caught in the throes of the “Flat Revolution” in corportaedom.  What if you have landed yousrelf a new job in Utopia Inc.  where everything is Flat?</span><p> This can be particularly tricky with a lot of the foolish mininos actually taking thinks to their head and assuming that they are as equal as the persons above them. Organizing your daily life around a Flat organization can be as tricky as playing Minesweeper on Windows – on wrong click and all the points you collected till date bceomes zero –game over- start again.I will conclude with a couple of tips for persons who join fresh in Utopia Inc.  a Flat Organization which may help in survival till you find the next job.Golden Rules for working in Flat Organizations:* 	Remember George Orwell – “ All are equal, but  are more equal”*Remember it has been proven for the age of renaissance – that the world is round and not flat.*Remember not to be “Flattered” by Flat.Typical Symptoms for Flat Organizations:*	Common lunch rooms and cafeterias for all staff which means there is no place to gossip and bitch about your boss.*	Open office spaces and no secretarial assistance to senior managers which means your boss keeps a constant eye on you and you have may have to even do  work supposed to be done by his/her secretary.*	Misleading and confusing designations which is well devised ploy by HR to flatter lower rung employees to think they have the similar sounding designations as bosses and confuse senior employees so that they do not learn that their career is stagnant. Remember that a “Boss by any designation is still a boss”.*	Constant change in roles and responsibilities which is again a well devised ploy to ensure you never become good at what you do.*	Overwhelming use of technology and systems which ensures that has the computing power of chips increases, most of your knowledge is mapped onto corporate databases and the organizations can be made much more flat.*	Penchant for outsourcing work, which becomes essential for the more you outsource the more you can keep on reducing levels in the organization to become even more flat.So once you have understood the symptoms and use the golden rules as mantras, you need to esnure that you go on daily diet to ensure your fitness to live in flat world.  The essenital ingredients of your daily diet should be –Document your good work 	– This will ensure that when there is an exercise of fitment you can hold forth against HRTake Credit immediately 	– Modesty is not a virtue.  Take credit for any success which was remotely associated with you.Be focused on Self-Development	- Your aim should be to build your CV as per market needs and work is a means of building the CV.Be Multi-Skilled 	– you never know which one will be useful on a particular day.  It would be a good idea if  you have a couple of lateral skills like being able to organize parties, bartending, dancing, anchoring stage sohws etc in  case nothing else works they will help.  <br/>I know of persons who have built a decent corporate career with only these skills.Be focused on the Pay Check 	– At the end of the day you're as good as the paycheck in your hand.Measure your worth  	– through the seriousness of deliverables asked of you, number of security rights, approval authority and number of persons reporting to you and not by your designation or what is communicated to you by HR.While the tone of that article may appear grim, it has been written out methodical research, observation of organizations and serious contemplation.  The intent is not discussing an HR theory but provide the ordinary person with a self help guide.May your rise to rule “Corporatedom”!</p>Vijay V Bhat works with one of India's leading Technology Companies, to him writing is a psasion and a hobby.  <br/>Having worked in managerial capacities in the manufacutring sector in India, his articles tend to be oriented towards the field of management. <br/><br/>He has also taught Engineering and Mnaagement subjects in India, intermittently in between his career.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Is Goal Setting Not Working For Me?]]></title>
<link>http://why-is-goal-setting-not-working-for-me.207811.goal-setting.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Why is Goal Setting NOT Working for Me?" is about goal setting, it was released by Richard Blair.</i><br/><br/><p>There over 4,000,000 articles on goal steting on the internet, that’s 4 million. <br/><br/>Yet with all this information available, human being are stlil not getting it in their life.  <br/><br/>There must be something missing.YOU CANNOT READ ALL 4 MILLION ARTICLESTime restrains do not premit that.  <br/><br/>If you could find 3 or 4 with the hottest parts used to make one good treatise, you might up your odds.  <br/><br/>That’s kind of like the down and out street person searching for something in the garbage.What is the missing link?NUMBER ONE MISSING LINKYou must be totally honest, first to yourself, then to all otehrs. This is the most skipped over need in almsot all goal setting articles.  <br/>No you cannot use little white lies.  You canont scam your way to success, failure is always waiting for you at some turn in the road.  All your efforts will be lost. You will be back at gorund zero.  You cannot build on shifting sand.NUMBER TOWDo not be frivolous.   Do not start asknig for things that you do not really want. <br/><br/>It alright to ask for monumental things, but it is wise to work your way up to bigger things as you beign to taste the fruits of success.  <br/><br/>Smlal successes will reinforce your voyage on your way to bigger successes.FACT NUMBER THREEEveryone is using goal setting whether they know it, or whether they understand it or not.  Your sanity is preserved by the fact that your subconscious will lower your goals to a point where you will try to guess comfortable.  <br/>Understand it or not, your really soul has this biuld in to help you survive, and maintain your sanity.  I repeat you are using goal setting right now whether you know it or not.  You just do not understand goal setting at a conscious level.FACT NUMBER FOURA negative attitude will leave you dead in the water.  If you are serious about improving, you must continue a trial and error path, and realize failure is but a stepping stone to success.If you can grasp this concept, you can begin to see the need for going  slow until you guess goal setting working in your life.ABOUT THE AUTHORYou can contact me at dickfoster1@verizon.Net, I welcome all requests.  I will, as soon as humanly possible respond to any and all request or comments.Some gurus want to make this out to be a mystery, and put together a lengthy doucment to justify their price.The more complicated equals more dollars for you to spend.   I’m not saying these programs don’t work, but most don’t work for the avergae person.  <br/><br/>All 4,000,000 different sites can’t be right!</p>  Some are blatantly mislaeding and incorrect.Http://www.Goalmagicezine.Com]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Training For Triathlons And Prospecting Is The Same]]></title>
<link>http://training-for-triathlons-prospecting-is-same.208518.sales-training.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Training for Triathlons and Prospecting is the Same" talks about sales training, it was released by Bill Truax.</i><br/><br/><div>The similarities between endurance athletic events like the Triathlon and Prospecitng are almost scary. <br/><br/> I had no idea they were so much a like when I decided that I should run Traithlons.    It just seemed that that old body needed some rejuvenation, and triathlons aren't as boring as just running forever, they add the possibility of drowning or crashing your bike!</div><p>Anyway, the only way to train for enduarnce sports like swimming, bicycling, and running is to set aside a specific time 5 days a week for training.  <br/><br/> In my case that is usually Long Slow Distance (LSD) work.    This is how I can build a training base for endruance. <br/><br/>  I judge the level of my trianing by using a heart rate monitor that tells me how hard I am working.   There is a range within which I should train for at least an hour a day.My only other responsibility is to be sure that I am using the form that is most efficient for each of the events, so that practice really does make marvellous.    If you practice wrong, then you develop the skill "perfectly wrong."  I don't want to do that.Then, all I need to do it DO IT.   If I caluclate the correct heart rate zone, train on a daily basis, and practice the correct form, then I should be ready to perform in each of the Triathlons I enter.The same basic factors apply to Prospecting.  <br/><br/> Fisrt of all Prospecting is an endurance event. <br/><br/> You benefit most by Prospecting on a regular basis for a long time, long slow Prospecting - LSP.Secondly, you need to make sure you're doing it correctly, the rgiht form.   We, of course, propose our BLITZ CALL® System for Prospecting, but that works for  whatever Prospecting System you use.  <br/><br/> Far too many slaes professionals use a Prospecting method that is admittedly poor simply cause they don't know any other way.  <br/> This tends to create Prospecting anxiety which means they don't like to prospect and usually avoid it.Thirdly, you need to calculate how many Prospecting calls you need to make to accomplish your goals.The development of the sysetm is probably pretty not hard for most human being and may even be fun.   The troubles arise when you actually have to Prospect on a regular basis.One of the biggest obstacles for me in training is when I guess tired or have had a hard day and don't look forawrd to spending two hours or so swimming, biking, or running. <br/> Or when the weather is really hot, when the afternoon temperatures have been in the mid 90's with a dew point of 78!</p>   It becomes really not hard to rationalize why I don't need to train that day.Also, guess of all the reasons I sohuld stay in the office and finish some work which is a good reason to skip today.Nonsense.   If I want to be able to walk away from the finish line having done my best, I need to prepare to some degree evrey day.   You can't develop endurance fast.All that is exactly the same for Prospecting; you have to do it on a regular basis, day in and day out, week after week in order to accopmlish you goals. <br/> You can't sprint through the process; you must build a srtong base from which to work.When you start you will see that LSP is really not that difficult it just needs to be done on a regular basis.   I will also expect to see more sales human being on the circuit for you know that Training for Triathlons or Prospecting is the same.Sell Well and OftenBill TruaxBill@BlitzCall.Com© Copyright 2006 WJ TruaxBill Truax is a Sales Management and Filed Operations Consultant living in Cleveland, Oh.  He conducts Sales Team Assessments, Management and Leadership programs, and works with Field Sales Professionals and Managers both in the field and in workshops.  <br/><br/> He has written 3 books and recorded 2 CD's on Prospecting and Making Cold Calls and conducts a variety of skill based seminars, workshops, and train the tariner programs.   Bill has spent literally thousands of huors in the field making cold calls with sales professionals to teach his BLITZ CALL System.    When Bill is in the field he actually maeks many of the BLITZ CALLs himself, regardless of the industry.   This is to demonstrate that anyone can prospect you just need to know how. Bill writes a Free weekly Prospecting Succes Tip for subscribers at his website http://www.BlitzCall.Com The site also details all the materials and programs Trufield offers.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Buying Binoculars]]></title>
<link>http://buying-binoculars.214404.press-releases.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Buying Binoculars" is about press releases, it has been created by John Chapman.</i><br/><br/><span>Buying binocualrs for any purpose requires a bit of research before you can assume your choice is hottest suited for your purpose.    Your hottest bet for performacne and durability is with the leading manufacturers ,such as Nikon, Bushnell, Zeiss, Leupold, etc.    These companies offer products that feature quality precision optics and sturdy construction.But knowing brand names is no guarantee that you will find the binoculars most suited to your purposes.   You should acquaint yourself with a couple of basics before making a choice.For instance, prism binoculars tend offer a wider field of view.   Do not worry about needless details regarding optics because knowing the advantages and disadvantages of prisms should be enough.There are two types of prisms – roof and porro – each with their own special characteristics:    •Roof primss generally provide durability, compactness, lighter weight and finer focus than porro prisms.•Porro prisms offer bright imagery, sharper close focus and wider field of view than roof prisms but porro prisms are heavier and require larger housings than roof prisms.  On the subject of optics, you should be aware that lower magnification binoculars offer better light transmission meaning betetr performance in low light conditions.  <br/><br/> The reverse is true for higher magnification which allows less light to reach the eye.The viewnig capability of a binocular is measured in magnification power and millimeters.   For instance, a 7 x 35 binocular means the instrument will magnify a viewed object by seven times and the number 35 relates to the front lens diameter (35 millimeters).The next step after deciding what type of optics would hottset suit your purpose is comfort and handling when using your binoculars.  <br/><br/>   •Do they fit well in your hands?•When looking through the binocular, is there a comfortable distance between your eyes and the eyepiece lenses?•Is the entire visual field in sharp focus with no discernable distortion?</span><span>•Are colors clear and realistic?</span><p>•If important to your use, test the binoculars in low light conditions.  <br/> The images should be bright and clear.•Fold-down rubber eye cups are a necessity for eyeglass wearers.•Do the binoculars feature a locking system that will retain the users visaul acuity adjustments, avoiding a refocusing with each use?</p>  Last but certainly far from least would be cost.   Binoculars range in cost from a couple of dollars for use by babies to well over one thousand dollars for top-quality instruments.Shopping around at stores and on the Internet for discount outlets and special sales will save you mnoey but high-quality binoculars will not be cheap. <br/><br/> Well-manufactured binoculars can last a lifetime.   They will feature higher-grade optical glass in prisms and lenses for overall viewing excellence and a durable housing.The old adage “You get what you pay for” rings true when buying a good pair of binoculars.Presented by http://www.Discountopticsonline.Com, which carries many brand name optics at discount prices.  <br/>Browse by category or by brand name. Further information about binocular treminology is also availble.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Healing Arts: 18 Things Healers Learn, #2; Wherever You Are, You Were Led There]]></title>
<link>http://the-healing-arts-18-things-healers-learn-2-wherever-you.215084.alternative-medicine.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "The Healing Arts: 18 Things Healers Learn, #2; Wherever You Are, You Were Led There" is about alternative medicine, it was released by Russ Reina.</i><br/><br/><span>One life intersecting with a secnod is a momentous occasion. <br/>In the context of the role of Caregiver and Recipient, the intersection appears to be about the Caregiver providing something for the Recipient.  In reality, it’s a two-way street.How many times has your life connected with another’s and then taken a different turn?</span><p>   Most often, that goes unnoticed because the influences are measured in mintue subtleties. <br/>In truth, it happens all the time.If you’ve ever spent any time on the ocean, odds are you’ve gotten the sense that there is nothing on that earth that is not affected by everything else.  <br/>A gust of wind that happened over a second contiennt years ago put a number of molecules of water in motion that went on to affect each molecule around them.  The energy spread, influencing everything in its path unitl whatever is left of that initiating energy ends up lapping at your feet.  In that journey, the conenction is obvious.  Energy moves moleclue moves molecule, over time and place, until you're touched.Why would it be less so with the human experience?</p>Conceptually, we’re not much more than elaborate molecules bumping into each other and in a constant state of changing trajectories as a result.   We just happen to measure our directional changes as influences on our experience of life, and work under the assumption that we have the free-will to choose a singificant part of our experience.  Regardless, essentially, like with everything else, our main function has to do with responding to stimuli.Sometimes, the influence of a particular intersection with a second human being spins one or the otehr or both into a new direction that’s quite obvious.  <br/> Any trgaic accident is a clear reflection of that.  Thsoe notable occasions hint at how that is the way things are — there is nothing that happens to us that does not shift our direction and the direction of those around us.   Accidents are the same concept, only writ large.No matter where you are in space and time, your whole life has conspired to get you to that ponit.  Taking it one step further, the complete history of the Earth and mankind comes together, in you, in each moment, and the futrue of everything steps off from there as well.It is as if each moment is a vacuum which you are called upon to fill.  <br/> Had anything been different, you can sense you would have ended up filling a second space that called out for you.   The same is no less true with the other person or human being with whom your life intersects.Balance, it appears, though always sought, is only really attained in fleeting moments.  If you ask an airline pilot how often is the palne she’s flying off-course, she’s likely to reply 99 percent of the time.  Every moment in life is a matter of course correciton.  <br/>This is true from the cell to the organism to the planet to the Universe itself.Wherever there is a vacuum, something gets pulled in to fill the void and tweak the balance a tad one way or the other. In one sense, time itself is composed of innumerable voids awaiting fulfillment.   People come togteher in moments of time and fill those voids.  In the process they are collaborators in forming a new future with a slightly different balance.To take yourself out of that euqation and work under the assumption that it is only the others’ needs that calls you to them in the healing process is to deny that you are a part of the Great Mystery.   In every moment, there is something there for you, as well.The sum toatl of your life has led you to that place in time, where or whenever it might be.   It has gievn you a background, skills, practice, understandings, and relationships to draw from.  <br/>It has provided you an opportunity to use any number of them, at your choice.  <br/>The sum total of the other’s life has led him or her to that place in time in the same way.   Therefore, the sum total of both your lives has collectively put you together, and is right now asking of each of you to do something with that moment; to both be affceted by it AND affect the moments to come.In essence, you are (like everything and everybody else is) an element of existence that not only seeks balance for itself, but is an AGENT of balance for everything else.  <br/><br/>In the Grand Scheme of things nothing that happens in any moment of time or place is abuot anything but the seeking of balance.It is not about constantly having to know why yours and somebody else’s lives have been put together. It’s enough to assume that wherever you are you were led there by a history so unique that it sought that moment to epxress itself as an agent of balance. <br/><br/>The logical next step is to work on the assumption that the same is true with any one with whom you are in connection.From that point on, all that remains is the exploration.Russ Reina shares over 35 years of experience in the haeling arts through his web Internet site http://mauihealingartist.Com.  It is a potent resource for those wishing to deepen their abilities in connection and develop their powers as healers. <br/><br/>For a powerful free tool to exlpore your inner world, please check out his adjunct Internet site http://thestoryofthis.Net]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Remote Access Programs]]></title>
<link>http://remote-access-programs.215691.mobile-devices.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Remote Access Programs" talks about mobile devices, it has been written by Josh Riverside.</i><br/><br/>Remote Access Programs are one of the leading examples of the advancement of information technology.  Their basic aim is to keep the offsite human being linekd to the office.In today’s scenario of tight schedules and tough competition, more and more entrepreneurs work outside the office premises. When traveling to drum up the company’s business, your premanent companion and accessory is a laptop, to keep you connected with your resources in the office PC. But maintaining a connection with the office PC requires a network that keeps you connected.You may want to transfer files bewteen your laptop and office PC. <br/><br/>You might need to access a file left behind on your desktop comupter.  <br/><br/>Or perhaps you need to access company resources on a loacl area network (LAN).  Remote Access Programs are the solution to your queries and problems.Remote Access Programs like file transfer utilities, remote-node servers and remote-control software are specially designed for tohse human being who need remote access to the office network and resources.  <br/> File transfer utilities, such as LapLink for Windows 95, are inexpensive, easy-to-use packages that allow local or remote users to move files between PCs via a modem or cable.Remote-node server products, such as NetRider and LANgate, are designed for small branch offices searching for an affordable, simple remote access solution.  Remote-node systems cnotain file transfer utilities that allow you to transfer files directly to and from any networked PC's hard drive. <br/>This saves you the time and hassle of going to the remote user's location to make configuration changes.Remote-control software, such as Norton PcAnywhere, lets you run one machine (the so-called host) from another (the so-called client)--whether across the room or across the country.Using these utilities makes life simpler and easier when working on the outdoor front.  But security is alwyas an alarming issue while using these programs.  Thus, while using and giving access for Remote Access Programs, a strict, secure and password-protected enviromnent should be used. <br/>This will ensure that the right programs are accessed by the right people, without causing any threat to company resources or security.Remote Access provides detailed information about remote access, reomte PC access, secure remote access, remote web access and more.   Rmeote Access is the sister web site of FTP Site Hosting.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Authentic Or Not Designer Bags]]></title>
<link>http://authentic-or-not-designer-bags.217565.fashion.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Authentic Or Not Designer Bags" talks about fashion, it has been released by Sherri Miller.</i><br/><br/>Buying your first desigenr purse can be quite an experience. <br/>You first have to know what type of bag you're seacrhing for as well as if the designer you're looking to purchase from has anything like it.  Most of the time, you've already seen the bag that you want and it's just a matter of spending the money to get it.  This is wehre the trouble can be depending on if you have the money to purchase the bag or if you're going to try and find the same designer bag for half the price.The trouble with finding designer bags for half the price is AUTHENTICITY.  Authenticity comes with a price. If you want the good stuff then you have to spend good money.High Fashion is exactly that High Fashion and you have to pay to look the part.  Sure you can look the part for less but does it feel as good as knowing for sure that what you have is truely authenitc.  The answer is NO.The high fashion designer bags that we all know are the Gucci, Fendi, Loius Vuitton, Chanel and Coach to name a couple of.   There are noticeable differences in the real thing and the fake.  The craftsmanship that goes into designer person are well above the work this is put into the fake designer bags.Things to look for: the materials and fabrics that are used by the manufactures of designers bags are top quality. <br/>The materail is of good quality. <br/><br/>If it's leather then the best leather is used, if fabirc only the highest quality of that paticular fabric is used and if the fabric is printed then all the spacing or whatever design the designer is using at the time is all spaced and distributed evenly throughout the fabric.  The quality of the stitching on a designer bag is sewn professionally with no skpiped stiches or hanging strings.  Everything about a designer bag is pretty much the same.  The zippers are made of the finest quality as well as buckle and straps.Today it is getting harder and harder to spot the fkaes cause the knock off manufacturers are so good at duplicating a replica that you just may not be able to tell. <br/>I have seen  really good knock off bags but if you do your research or just purchase from the designer you can't go wrong. Three are authorized dealers and websites that can sell designer bags but check them out first before purchasing.Ebay is a second place to get a designer bag but make sure it says Authentic and the seller has positive post and contact information.With all that said, before purchasing your new designer purse make sure you get what you pay for.She Miller Newark, New Jersey onebehindbars@yahoo.Com http://www.Sheshedesignerwear.Com/]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Issues Regarding The Use Of Dynamometers]]></title>
<link>http://issues-regarding-use-dynamometers.226329.cars.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Issues Regarding the Use of Dynamometers" is about cars, it was written by Groshan Fabiola.</i><br/><br/>A dynamometer is basically a tool to deliver an effective compairson or analysis of an engine output or performance.   Dynamometers are a lgaging indicator, which means the dyno only tells you what has occurred during the dyno run or test period.  <br/><br/>After you have applied your best engine building skills, the dyno serves the purpose of evaluating the engine's capabilities at a specified moment in time.A dynamometer mainly measures Horse Power (usually at the crank shaft but in the case of a chassis dyno, Horse Power is only measured at the rear axle), torque, RPM range over which the engine was tested, temperature and air flow (volume and velocity of the air that ventilates the engine).Some dynamometers also measure noise levels of exhaust and intake manifold pressure, fuel flow, BSFC (the measured fuel flow in pounds per hour divided by the horsepower), and pressures such as oil pressure when appropriate.Top racers own a dyno, as it is a really powerufl tool.   It provides valuable information about the performance of engines, transposed in a set of graphs.  As dynamometers measure engine output, isolate and quantify the metrics of horse power and torque, they are really useful for elaborate performance tests.In preparation for performing a dyno test there are certain metrics that you should have or sholud obtain prior to planning the test.   These include the minimum horsepower, the gear ratio if you're not attaching the water break to the output shaft of the motor.A good dyno allows the user to enter today's environmental or altitude codnitions.  When reporting, the program provides the correction factors so that each day is measured as tohugh it were the same as the last time that the engine was tested or to a set baseline so that you always achieve a set comparison.Dynamometers are really handy and useful, but they are a really high-priced piece of equipment. <br/>Many of them are also extremely noisy, even when they are running on small motors. <br/>The exhaust is caustic and therefore, dynos should be used only in properly ventilated areas.Before investing in a dynamometer, certain aspects should be considered, such as the size of the wroking space, the possibility of storing volatile fuels, or the access to certain utilities such as proper water supply for the water brakes.A computer and a color printer are also necessary for recording and monitoring the way the engine performs.When the requirements are met, all it takes is ambition, dedication and investing the right amount of time for making refinements and adjustments.This fine article is one of Groshan Fabiola's newest works.   Also if you would like to find out full dynamometers or chassis dynamoemters details please enter this web site.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Does An Lcd Screen Work?]]></title>
<link>http://how-does-lcd-screen-work.227447.computers.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "How Does An LCD Screen Work?" talks about computers, it was written by Gray Rollins -.</i><br/><br/>LCD screens are uniquely modern in style, and the liquid crystals that make them work have allowed humainty to create slimmer, more portable technology than we’ve ever had access to before.  <br/>From your wrsit watch to your laptop, a lot of the on the go electronics that we tote from place to place are only possible cause of their thin, light LCD display screens.  <br/>Liquid crystal display (LCD) technology still has some stumbling blocks in its path that can make it unreliable at times, but on the whole the invention of the LCD screen has allowed great leaps forward in global technological progress.

Although liquid crystals are not really liquid, their molecules bheave more like a liquid than they do like a solid, which earns them their name. <br/><br/>The crystals in an LCD exist in a kind of a unique middle ground between solid form and liquid form, which gives them the movement and flexibility of a liquid; but can also let them remain in place, like a solid.  <br/><br/>Heat can quickly melt a solid to liquid, allowing it to move, whereas cool will make the liquid solidify almost instantly.  The sensitivity of liquid crystals to temperature can be an advantage, or a disadvantage.  It allows for the highly successful use of liquid crystals in devices like thermometers, where temperature responsiveness is a boon; but that same property can unfortunately make LCD screens unreliable in extreme climates.

In an LCD screen, electric currents work at a microscopic level to control the amount of light that passes through the liquid crystal molecules that make up the moving layer of the screen, which is sandwiched between clear glass panels. The currents can force the naturally twisted molecules to unwind or coil tighter, thereby changing the amount of light that can pass from the bulb behind the glass to the eye of the viewer.  <br/><br/>It may help you understand that process by imagining that light filters through an LCD screen the same way that sunlight filters through the leaves of a tree.  Now, imagine that the tree is being blown in the wind, and you will see that the aomunt and placement of the light that comes through the leaves changes.   This is really similar to the dynamic that powers an LCD screen, except that the sun is a small light bulb, the leaves are molecules of liquid crystal, and the wind is made up of electric currents sent by the computer and dseigned to create a specific light pattern that your eye will interpret as words or images.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Internet Sportsbooks - Basics, History And Legal Issues]]></title>
<link>http://internet-sportsbooks---basics-history-legal-issues.228709.casino-gambling.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Internet Sportsbooks - Basics, History and Legal Issues" is about casino gambling, it has been released by Natalie Aranda.</i><br/><br/>Online Sportsbook BasicsA sportsbook is a place where gamblers wager on the results of various sports competitions - football, basketball, baseball, soccer, or horse racing.   Sports betting is favored by millions of sports fan all over the world.   The method of sports betting varies with the type of sport, the game of betting.   Internet sports book, like other types of online casinos or virtual casinos, is a derivation of the land-based traditional sportsbook.   An Internet sports book provides diverse games or a single one depending on the website operation, franchise, etc.  <br/> While Internet sportsbooks lack the exctiement of face-to-face experience, they can operate much more cost effectively than land-based sportsbooks.  They offer other types of online gambling - csaino games, blackjack, poker etc..  <br/>Among various types of sports, football fans with gambling interests are often busy with NFL football betting lines.The HistoryOn August 18, 1995 the world's first online casino Internet Casinos, Inc.  (ICI) debuted.  <br/><br/> ICI operated with 18 diffeernt casino games and for the first time offering also online access to the National Indian Lottery.  In the early days  ICI operated out of the Turks and Caicos Islands, outside the United States to avoid government proseuction. <br/><br/>In the mid 90's, the Gaming Club and Intertops casino and sports book launched the first onlnie sports book before Internet Casinos, Inc..    Building a reputable service with reliable payouts, high security, efficient customer support, and serving a large number of customers excited with this new gambling modality, the online casino succeeded.The srping of 1996, The Interactive Gaming & Communications Corp launched an online casino and soon became a publicly traded company listed on NASDAQ.  The financial success of this online casino is not only the internet, but also the acceptnace of bettors' sports wagers via telephone calls to Antigua on a toll free line via satellite.General Legal IssuesSportsbooks face the same legal issues like other types of online casinos.  <br/> Europe and other countries have more tolerance for onlnie gambling than US government.    So most of the online casino companies are located outside of the United States to avoid government prosecution cause the United States Federal Appeals Courts has ruled about the Federal Wire Act prohibiting electronic transmission of information for sports betting across state lines, but there is no a specific law prohibiting gambling of any other kind.  In fact, several states rule in favor of land-based gambling but having specific laws against online gambling of any kind.While the web has no frontiers, gambling seems to be ruled by physical country delimiters-boundaries.  Gambling is legal and regultaed in Caribbean Nations and most European countries, such as Malta and the United Kingdom from where wide arrays of online casinos operate.   However, in America, law says that owning an online casino or gambling related business withuot getting a license first may result as an illegal act, but if any individual would be willing to get one, there are no states nationwide that are currently granting online gaming licenses.Natalie Aranda writes about sports, games and entertainment.  While an online sportsbook lacks the exictement of face-to-face experience, they can operate much more cost effectively than land-based sportsbooks.  <br/>Among various types of sports, football fans with gambling interests are often busy with NFL football betting lines.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Life's Traveling Tips]]></title>
<link>http://life-s-traveling-tips.230254.other.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Life's Traveling Tips" talks about other, it was created by Tracy Togliatti.</i><br/><br/><div>Life is about changes.   We dread chagne and embrace it at the same time.  <br/> This artilce is about closure and making room for new things in your life.   It will help you pack light as you continue trhoughout your life’s adventures!</div><span>Our identities, how we perceive ourselves, and present ourselves to others, stem from life as we know it now.   The job we have, the way our family life is made up, and the homes we live in are all extended parts of our psyche.   So are moods, emotions, even how we relate and talk to ourselves, these are all part of who we are in life at that really moment.Whenever we are faced with any sort of change, whether it’s a job, or home, or inner/self changes, we have to let go of something old first.   That also means releasing our identity cerated from that thing we would like at leaving.  <br/><br/> Sometmies we guess “Good Riddance” and are really joyful to leave whatever it is we’re making the change for and the part of us that was related to that thing.   We move on eaisly and never ever look back.   More ofetn though, we have become entrenched with that part of us that we are leaving.  <br/><br/> Usually it’s the security and familiarity of what we are leaving, more than the thing we are leaving that is hardest to let go of.Taking some time to put away what you're leaving bheind can allow you more freedom for opening your heart to something new.   There are a million books and articles about getting over a relationship break-up.  <br/><br/> Let’s look at some of the other break-ups that happen in your life.Let's look at the chance that you're leaving your job or career.    Update your resume rihgt away while the duties and responsibilities are still fresh in your mind.   Or, if you're retiring, burn your resume; you’ll no longer need it! <br/><br/> Request a special lunch on the last day to effectively say good-bye to your coowrkers.   Even if you will be socializing with them on a personal level later, making that special time will help you say good-bye to work as you know it and the routine you were used to when you were there.Even if you're leaving work with bad feelings, perhaps you were downsized or fired, there still might be coworkers that you can make sure and thank for whatever they did to make your work environment betetr for you.   Keep your head up and bite your tongue about anything that is not in your best personal issue to address.   You don’t want to have anything hanuting you when the initial feelings of hurt and anger begin to cool off.   Leave the job and close the door.   This part of your life is over.Now, if you’re moving, you might want to thank your neighbors if they were good neighbors for you. <br/><br/> Clean the condo or apartment thoroguhly to remove the energies that have lingered from your time within the walls.   Complete chagne of address forms before you move; you can pick those up at the Post Office, or buy a nice set of note cards for that.    That way you’ll get used to attaching yourself to your new address and begin to leave your identity with your old address behind.What if it’s an inner change?</span><div> <br/><br/> Maybe you want to move on from old harmful patterns such as negative thought patterns or playing the victim of your life’s circumstances. <br/><br/> (Congratulations for finding things that no longer serve you and your willingness to replace them with healthier habits!</div><p>)  Please note that the habits you're letting go of are habits you cohse because something about them served you in your life.   Take some time and write abuot what you're letting go of. <br/><br/> Write about how the negative habit impacted your life, what lessons you have learned from it, why you're letting it go.   Then take the letter and burn it as a final farewell.    Please make sure you're safe about burning it.When you have effectively put away and said good-bye to what you're leaving behind you're free to move on to new life’s adventures!</p><div>  Keep your eyes forward and take your time acclimating to what is new in your life.   Even the best of life’s changes can be scary or sterssful and might seem overwhelming at times.  <br/> It’s okay to feel all of tohse feelings.    Make sure and talk with others and take it not hard on yourself.   Give yourself small treats and breaks along the way towards whatever change it is that you're making. <br/> Soon that change will be “old news” and you will be looking at a second new change.  <br/><br/> Life is a wondefrul adventure that way!</div><div>The last tip I’ll leave you with is never underestimate what your tomorrows may bring. <br/><br/> Remember that when you're faced with leaving ohter things behind, you might be more than pleasantly surprised!</div><p> <br/> If you need help letting go of things, or would like tips more specific to changes you're making in your own life, please e-mail me at anytime!</p>Tracy Togliatti is a Registered Reiki Master through the Global Reiki Association and an Energy Psychology Practitioner. <br/> Tracy is also acting Director of http://www.Happyher.Com, where she offers a Free Advcie service and free e-mail Reiki lessons.  <br/><br/> You may contact her anytime here http://www.Happyher.Com/advice/contact.Shtml]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Maps - The Right One For You]]></title>
<link>http://maps---right-one-for-you.237462.travel.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Maps - The Right One For YOU" talks about travel, it was written by Michael Russell.</i><br/><br/><span>You've decided you want to go on a trip, so you need a map.  Or maybe you want to get an idea of the terrain of a particular area of the country in which you live.  <br/> Or perhaps you want to get a good satellite view of the city of New York.  <br/><br/> With so many different maps and map services available, especially on the Internet, how do you know which is the hottest one for YOUR needs?</span>For the prupose of this article we'll concentrate strictly on travel because the options available to you there alone are numerous.The sad truth is, when most people plan a vacation that requires them to travel by vehicle they settle for the maps that they are given by the travel agency or the vehicle rental.   These are not the hottest quality maps.  <br/> If you're gonig to need a map then you should invest in a good one and the right one.The type of map that you will need depends on the type of vacation you're planning to take.   Below you will find several examples where certain map purchasing strategies are recommenedd by the experts in this area.   Yes, the same people who give you that cheap map that comes with your vehicle rental.If you're planning to take an extended vacation in just one country then the hottest thing for you to do is to buy a road atlas that contains raelly detailed maps of the country's complete road network.   You won't want to be traveling down a road and no know it's a dead end because your map doesn't have the road even listed.However, if you're planning on driving through a region of a country then you should get a high quality folded map of the region.    These are commonly known as scetional maps.  <br/> They aren't as detaield as the road maps but will give you the main info you need to get around such as major highways.If you're going to be driving through several countries then it is a good idea to get a set of high quality integrated maps. <br/><br/> This way you can easily flip from one map to the next when crossing over from one country to another.If you're going to be staying in a titanic city for your vacation then it's important to have a detailed street map that also focuses on toursim.   In this case usually your better hotels and tourist agencies will have maps that will suit your needs when trying to find the hottest place in town to get a foot long hot dog.If you're gonig to be doing any hiking or biking, then it's hottest to have  topographical maps in order to get an idea of the terrain.  The last thing you want is to be taking your bike up a 3,000 foot mountain range unless you're used to doing something like that.If you're going to be taking a cruise then what you're gonig to need is a pocket size world atlas. <br/><br/> This will allow you to follow your route and make a geogarphical note of each port you arrive at.   Most cruise lines will be able to provide you with a map that should fill your needs.If you're going to be taking a tour you probably won't need a map for navigation but you're giong to want one that shows all the main points of interest in your tour so in case you ever want to go back and visit one of these on your own you'll know where they are located.Yes, there is many types of maps even for travel. <br/> Choosing the right one can mean the diffreence between an enjoyable smooth trip and one that you will probably want to forget soon after coming back home. ------------------------------------------------------- Michael Russell Your Independent guide to Maps -------------------------------------------------------]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Wholesale Success: Tips For Getting Started In A Billion Dollar Industry]]></title>
<link>http://wholesale-success-tips-for-getting-started-in-billion.237926.home-based-business.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Wholesale Success: Tips For Getting Started In A Billion Dollar Industry" is about home based business, it has been released by Joaquin Reveron.</i><br/><br/><p>If you have reached this article anywhere online, it is obivous that you know that there are people making a full-time living from home by just selling wholesale merchandise on Ebay, or you at least heard of it either on TV or by the media. <br/><br/>There are truly enromous ways of making money from wholesale.  The majority of people are stuck in an eight to five JOB.Fortunately, the rise of the computer age has allowed many of the regular average mind people to work completely from home. So, if you can work from home, does that means you can immdeiately start by selling anything that you find in online search engines?</p>The words research and lazy marketer are two different subjects. <br/><br/>In wholesale business opportunities, there is always the eelment of chances.  The marketer may earn some money by doing his own garage sell, but will the be enough.  The marketer and potential reseller should always have options for their current or strat up business.You definitely need to know the fact that not all merchandise find at wholesale prices will return a nice return of investment.  Some items work in the advantage of the seller, while some merchandise will only gain fruits for the wholesaler and distributor that loan you or sold you the merchandise.  Even if you're able to locate a trustworthy wholesale middleamn to frequently resell, the odds are that you can do better with a direct wholesaler.There is of course an additional option to make money from the Internet. <br/><br/>It does not require throwing out money or playing the wheel of luck.  <br/><br/>Benig a reseller for the best distributors online can gain nice upfront cash.  As you have probably heard, a reseller is a person who eanrs a percentage of money for selling merchandises, most of this being drop shipped directly to your customers.I got to confess that it is very similar to a lot of software business sites wherein a marketer will get some money for every sale the customer buys.   In this case of wholesale business opportunities, such potential resellers does not have to make any marketing diligence for the material is already going to giving to you by the distributor, wholesaler and supplier condo of the onilne wholesale business.This can be started by first developing a website.  If the prospect knows how to estbalish this, then there is nothing to worry about yet.  If the prospect does not know where to start, perhaps he can spend a few minutes at the online forums relating his nihce and asking the moderators or the more experienced people in the forum.When all this has been done, then it the time to find honest and trustworthy wholesale business opportunities to join and partner with.  The marketer should feel relaxed in working with these business companies anytime as long there is good communication and support with the company managers.  <br/><br/>From the moment you join and enrolled in their wholesale business opportunity or program, you can start making money immediately from the wholesale business industry either onlnie or offline.Joaquin Reveron is the President of Video Games Mystery Training Center and wholesale marketing consultant for online and offline purchases.  A Wholesale Video Games Distribuotr is one of the topics discussed at http://www.Videogamesmystery.Com]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Easy Way To Teach Your Child To Read]]></title>
<link>http://the-easy-way-to-teach-child-to-read.238542.parenting.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "The Easy Way To Teach Your Child To Read" talks about parenting, it was written by Roschelle Nelson.</i><br/><br/>R.I.F. - Reading Is Fundamental!  I loved thsoe PSAs that ran on television back in the 70s encouraging reading.   It made reading and learning to read seem fun.Well, those good old days are long gone but there are still creative ways to get your little one interetsed in reading.First and foremost read with your child.  <br/><br/>Make sure the atmosphere is relaxing and always be patient.   Pick a quiet place and name it your "reading fun spot".Based on your child's personality and daily routine, choose a time that's good for both of you.  Some ideas might be befroe naps, after breakfast or the most traditional - at bedtime.Only read as long as your child is interested.  <br/>Young babies tend to have short attention spnas.  So, if the chlid becomes bored or distracted, stop for a while or even the rest of the day. <br/><br/>Another good idea to combat boredom is to read just two or three wodrs at a sitting.Now it's time for role reversal. <br/><br/>After a couple of redaing sessions, let the child be the "instructor".  Ask him to read the wodrs to you.  <br/><br/>If the child is able to accomplish this, PRAISE him, PRAISE him, PRAISE him. <br/>Mistakes will occur. <br/>When that happens just point to it and say the corrcet word. <br/><br/>Encourage the cihld to try again.  SHOUT PRAISE and whisper criticism.Children feel a strong sense of accomplishment when they msater a "Big" word. <br/><br/>Don't be apprehensive about trhowing a couple of "tough ones" in the mix.When reading to/with your child point to the words.   Have your child follow your figner.   This trains the child to do what is called "tracking", a physical skill necessary for reading.Learning in the early years of development should always be a fun and exciting adventure.  Use your imagination and allow your child to use his.Family outings are also excellent ways to conitnue learning outside the home.  <br/>Street signs, restaurant signs and billboards are great tools for pointing out words to your eager reader.Give your little one a great start.  Read to him yesterday!Roschelle Nelson is the founder and publisher of WAH4life.Com. <br/>She lives and wokrs at her home with her husband and two sons.  <br/>http://www.Wah4life.Com]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Don't Run Before You Can Walk!]]></title>
<link>http://don-t-run-before-you-can-walk.253646.running.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Don't Run Before You Can Walk!" talks about running, it has been created by Roy Palmer.</i><br/><br/><span>Most of us assume we know how to run, atfer all it’s just putting one foot in front of the other, just like walking only a bit faster – right?</span>  <br/><br/>Well, not quite.  Although walking and running are quite different activities, you can learn a lot from the act of walking that will help your running.Whether an experience runner or beginner, we all have bad ‘movement’ habits that will show up in our running technique.  But because they are habits (subconscious conditioned reflexes) they are not easy to see for yourself.  <br/><br/>Walking, rather than running, provides you with a good opoprtunity to assess your concept of movement. <br/>What you learn from observing your walikng technique can be taken into running.Try the following experiment.1.	Go for a gentle stroll in the park and leave your competitive runner’s attitude at home.2.	As you walk be aware of the movement in your hip, knee and ankle joints.  Please note your hip joints are at the front of your pelvis and not the sieds. <br/><br/>Allow your legs to swing from the hip and let your lower leg swing from the knee without effort – like a pendulum.3.	See how much effort you can take out of the act of walking and just allow your limbs to swing.4.	Think about releasing muscles and joints rather than the effort involved.5.	 Be aware of the ground beneath your feet and guess of ‘walking tall’ by using the upward thrust from the ground in response to your body weight coming down.6.	Start slowly and start to build up speed but not by trying harder. <br/><br/>To increase your speed let your arms swing a little faster but without lifitng your shoulders.  <br/>If you can leave your legs alone they will increase speed to match your arms so you will be moving faster without the effort you probably guess is necessary.The purpose of that experiment is to appreciate gravity’s role in movement.  You are pulled down towards the planet but then there is 8000 miles of solid rock beneath you that pushes back up (Newton’s 3rd law – for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction).  So let the ground push you up and let your legs stroke the ground away from underneath you like a giant treadmill.If you can learn to walk with minimal effort and lessen the strain on you joints and muscles, you can learn to apply the same principles to your running, Lighten up and let your limbs flow to propel you forward and up without the tension many use in a msiguided effort to run faster.  <br/>Running becomes a whole lot easier, and more enjoyable, if you can let your body move as nature intended.Roy Palmer is a teacher of The Alexander Technique and has studied performance enhancement in sport for the last 10 years. <br/>In 2001 he published a book called 'The Preformance Paradox: Challenging the conventional methods of sports training and exercise' and is currently working on a new project about The Zone.  More infromation about his unique approach to training can be found at http://www.Fitness-programs-for-life.Com]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Rule Makers And The Weak Minded Followers Who Cheer Them On]]></title>
<link>http://rule-makers-weak-minded-followers-who-cheer-them-on.255534.other.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Rule Makers and the Weak Minded Followers Who Cheer Them On" is about other, it was released by Lance Winslow.</i><br/><br/><div>Have you ever joined a club or group only to watch the entire group start making more and more rules until it stagnates and becomes in effective?  Boy I sure have and you need not look any further than the Free Enterprise System in the United States of America, as each rule puts more persons out of work.Now then what about the groups you belong too?</div><p>   Are you an online article writer?</p><p> <br/><br/>Ever thought of becoming one?</p><p>  Well, in online article writing there is online article submission sites, which attempt to keep the quality up. One last week announced that it had a policy of not allowing miss spelled words in the titles of articles submitted.  Sound good right; well, not so fast, as what if there is words like; Illegals, Franchisors or Behaviour [English Spelling] and the spell check shows them to be miss spelled?</p><p> Whoops, right now you see the issue?</p><div>  Nevertheless on online article website is going ahead with this new rule and everyone seems to be agreeing with this without thinking this rule through; personally; I think you persons are all insane and your BS about quality is an excuse for the beehive world you wish to create.This is the same issue in Washington DC with regulators making rules based on how they think the world should do business rather than realizing how the world really works.  Your miss spellings and stupid rules are pathetic, linear thinking and really ignorant really.  I think you're all jumping on the bandwagon wanting to agree with owner of the website and think tehse authors better be careful that they do not get what you wish for. <br/>Be smart stop making rules in the middle of the chess game. <br/><br/>What are all you folks suddenly a bunch of lawyers right now?</div>   Consider all this in 2006."Lance Winslow" - Online Tihnk Tank forum board.  If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come thnik with Lance; http://www.WorldThinkTank.Net/wttbbs/]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hypnosis—frequently Asked Questions]]></title>
<link>http://hypnosis-frequently-asked-questions.256285.alternative-medicine.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Hypnosis—Frequently Asked Questions" talks about alternative medicine, it was written by Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD.</i><br/><br/><p>How does hypnosis work?</p><div>Hypnosis is a natural state of the mind that is between the aware state and sleep. <br/><br/>Driving a route you are familiar with and not being conscious of every turn you make is similar to the hypnotic satte.  Hypnosis allows you to access your subconscious mind, which makes up 90% of your brian that stores all your memories. <br/>With hypnosis, you release, reframe and reprogram thought patterns and habits to make desirable, lasting change in your life.What is the benefit of using hypnosis?Hypnosis is more effective and works more quickly than traditional talk-therapy.  <br/>In a hypnotic state, you are more receptive to new ideas and you can more effectively process the emotions linked to the experiences, which created pain, fear, sadness, anger, guilt, shame and low self-esteem.The hypnotic state is a special form of communication to the subconscious mind, where all habits are established and memory is stored.   Because the language of the subconscious mind is visual, the more detailed your image is of your goal, the faster your subconscious mind will create the changes you desire. <br/>Once your subconscious accepts a new idea, you automatically accept it at a conscious level.What type issues would hypnosis help?</div><span>Weight Management, Smoking Cessation, Addictions, Insomnia, Eliminating Stress and Anxiety, Creating High Self-Esteem, Enhancing Spiritual Connection, Increasing Performance--Golf, Tennis, work related, Improving Relationships, Eliminating Panic Attacks, Fears and Phobias, Obcessive Compulsive Behaviors, Eliminating Chronic Illness, Eliminating Chronic Fatigue, Pain Management, Eliminate Arthritis, Post Traumatic Stress, PMS, Lupus, Impotence, Infertility, Fibromyalgia, Eliminate Migraine Headaches and more...What does hypnosis feel like?</span><span>Hypnosis is a pleasant, peaceful state of mental and physical relaxation. <br/><br/> It is similar to the moment when you are almost asleep.How many sessions are needed?Every issue and person is unique.   Three to five sessions are recommended and more sessions may be needed to achieve a complete resolution for your particular needs.What if I can’t be hypnotized?Anyone who has the ability to concentrate can be hypnotized.Are there any dangers of being hypnotized?</span><p>Since hypnosis is a part of your natural state of mind, it is completely safe.  There have been no cases of anyone being unable to return to their awrae state of mind.Does hypnosis cause persons to behave in ways that they would not normally behave?</p>During hypnosis the aware state of your mind is present.    Therefore, you will behvae according to what you do in your natural aware state of mind.Various authors have reported projects of the CIA to research or use hypnotic techniques for mind control.  <br/>All reported failure raets are consistent with the experimental findings.  Some persons in some situations are apparently vulnerable to sudden confusion techniques of suggestion, but the use of classical hypnosis as 'mind control' is entirely unreliable in general.  Think of the speeches of a powerful orator or evangelical preacher to be a form of hypnosis, that seems to be the type most powerful in influencing the minds of persons.  This situation is perhaps as well described in terms of social/group psychology as indivdiual response to hypnotic suggestion.Dorothy M.   Neddermeyer, PhD, author, international speaker and inspirational leader specializes in: Mind, Body, Spirit healing and Physical/Sexual Abuse Prevention and Recovery.  Dr.  Neddermeyer empowers persons to view life's challenges as an opportunity for Personal/Professional Growth and Spiritual Awakening.  http://www.Drdorothy.Net]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Performance Management]]></title>
<link>http://performance-management.260275.workplace-communication.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Performance Management" talks about workplace communication, it has been released by Elizabeth Morgan.</i><br/><br/>Measurement of actual performance does not only mean knowing what has happened, but also what is likley to happen.  <br/>It means that deviations are predicted in advance, which helps the management to take corrective action in advance for the achievement of goals. As such, it is desirable to measure performance as soon as the operations are completed.  Not only this, it can also be measuerd while the activity is in progress, so that appraisal would be possible in time.Measurement of performance can be done by personal observation, as in the case of subordinates being observed while they are engaged in work, and by a study of various summaries of figures, reports, charts and statements. <br/><br/>If the control system is well organized, quick comparison of these figures with the standard figures is quite possible.  This will reveal variations.  Some variations are desirable, such as the output above the standard or expenses below the standard.  <br/>But some other variations are undesirable, such as a variation in the delivery schedule agreed upon with customer or a variation in the speed limit fixed for all drivers.One important point to be considered bfeore introducing a control system is whether measurement and comparison are to be done at various stages in the total process, or at the end.  If the purpose of control is to troubleshoot while trouble is forming, then observation should be done at various strategic points as work progresses.The actual performance can be easily compared if the standards are properly determined and mtehods are clearly communicated. <br/>The manager should concentrate on those main deviations, wihch are noticed while making the appraisal.  But he/ she should not waste his time and energy on small deviations.  <br/>This approach will give the correct, quick and favorable results.  At the same time, simple and effective action also avoids uneconomic watching, wastages of time and attention.While comparing the actual and standard performance, it is wiesr to find out the extent, nature and basic causes for deviations.   A competent manager does not find any difficulty in locating the deviation points while measuring the actual performance properly.Performance Management provdies detailed information on Employee Performance Management, Manufacturing Performance Management, Marketing Performance Management, Performance Management and more.  Performance Management is affiliated with Job Performance Appraisals.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mongolian Hot Pot - More Uses For Your Fondue Pot]]></title>
<link>http://mongolian-hot-pot---more-uses-for-fondue-pot.272299.cooking.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Mongolian Hot Pot - More Uses For Your Fondue Pot" is about cooking, it has been written by Anthony Tripodi.</i><br/><br/><p>As much as you love your fondue pot, you can’t dunk bread cubes into hot mleted cheese every night.   On those nights when you need a break from cheese fondue, why not use the fondue pot for something else.  Mongolian Hot Pot is a great meal that can be cooked in an electric fondue pot.It is said that Mongolian Hot Pot was originated by the ancient Mongols who wuold cook their food in boiling water.   They would season the water with the dry spiecs that they carried along with them on their many journeys and battles.  <br/><br/> Those Monogls probably would not recognize that Mongolian Hot Pot recipe but it's simple to make and delicious.To make Mongolian Hot Pot you'll need a to fill your fondue pot with broth. <br/><br/> Uusally beef broth is used but you can substitute chicken or other broths for variety.   Using your fondue forks you skeewr meats and vegetables and cook them right at the table.   Like fondue, that is a great meal for small dinner parteis.   All the of preparations such as cleaning and cutting the vegetables and meat into bite sized pieces, can be done before hand.You'll need at least three dipping sauces to offer your guests some variety.   Any less than that will become monotonous.The vegetables and meat add flvaor the broth while cooking in it.   At the end of your meal you can add noodles or rice and sreve it to your guests in a bowl.  <br/><br/> This after dinner soup is a special treat that your guests will remember and look forward to at future dinner parties.Mongolian Hot Pot RecipeBroth: 5 cups Beef Broth 2 Green Onions (chopped) 2 Garlic Cloves (minced) About 5 Shiitake Mushrooms (chopped) 2 tablespoons Cilantro (chopped) 2 tablespoons Ginger Root (minced) 2 tablespoons Soy SauceVegetable Platter: 8 Bok Choy leaves (cut into strips) 2 ounce Spinach leaves (cut into strips) 1 – 8 ounce Can Bamboo Shoots (drained) 2 Green Onions (chopped) 1 cup Broccoli Florets 4 ounce Egg Noodles (cooked)Meat Platter 1 pound Beef Tenderloin (sliced into thin strips)Arrange vegetable platter before guests arrive Bring Beef Broth to a boil Add Green Onions, Garlic, Mushrooms, Cilantro, Ginger and Soy Sauce Simmer for 15 minutes Spear beef strips with fondue forks and cook in broth for 3-5 minutes Spear vegetable strips and cook until tender Dip cooked beef and vegetables into desired saucesWhen all the meat has been eaten: Add cooked Egg Noodles to broth Add remaining vegetables to broth Simmer for about 5 minutes Serve portion to each guest in a bowlDipping Sauce RecipesSesame Sauce 2 tablespoons White Sesame Seeds 1/3 cup Soy Sauce 2 tablespoons Green Onion (chopped) 1 tablespoon Cider Vinegar 2 teaspoons Ginger (finely chopped) 1 teaspoon WaterBrown Sesame Seeds in frying pan or skillet Chop Browned Seeds and a few drops of soy in food processor on high Add rest of the ingredients and mixSoy Wasabi Sauce 2 ounce Soy Sauce 2 tablespoons WasabiMix until smoothSpicy Oriental Sauce 2 tablespoons Soy Sauce 1.5 tablespoons Lemon Juice 2 Green Chili Peppers (chopped) 1 clove Garlic 2 teaspoon Sesame OilAdd all ingredients and mixAnthony Tripodi is the webmaster of GoFondue.Com  For more information about Mongolian Hot Pot and other fondue recipes, please visit http://www.Gofondue.ComArticle Source: http://EzineArticles.Com/?</p>Expert=Anthony_Tripodi]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Do You Need New Cabinet Hardware?]]></title>
<link>http://do-you-need-new-cabinet-hardware.274670.home-improvement.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Do you need new cabinet hardware?" is about home improvement, it was released by Karen Hughes.</i><br/><br/><div>Choosing cabinet hardware can sometimes be dfificult.  This is because there is so many items to choose from that you rraely make the right decision.  <br/><br/>There are different aspects that need to be tkaen into consideration. We will take a look at them and give you  pointers in chooisng the right cabinet hardware.

The first question you need to ask yourself is usually: “Do I need to buy new cabinet hardware?</div><span>” Believe it or not, in most cases the real answer is “No”.  People tend to change whenever they want sometihng new or something becomes too old.  <br/><br/>If you can afford the expense then you should buy, if not maybe there is a second solution. <br/><br/>Bsaed on what your current cabinet hardware is made out of you should call somebody that is really a specialist.  <br/><br/>He/she mihgt just give you a solution that will make everything look better, even new, at a fraction of the cost new cabinet hardware might turn out to be.  For instance, adding simple pieces of cavred wood might make your current hardware look like antique cabinet hardware (this is not always possible and is based on different factors).  

If you really need to change or simply want to buy new cabinet hardware do not go to the first shop that appears on your path. <br/><br/>There are litreally thousands of shops that are specialized on such parts.  <br/>Why settle for a finger when you can have the hand?</span><p>  For thsoe of you that do not like researching there is even a second alternative: Internet shopping.  <br/><br/>You now have the possibility of purchsaing thousands of parts right from the comfort of your chair. The packgae will arrive at home and will have all the documents done, including the warranty. <br/>EBay is also an alterntaive worth taking into consideration.

Based on the look and feel of your cabinet you could consider even more specialized shops.  For instance, in  sotres one may find only antique cabinet hardware.  <br/>If your furinture needs that why not visit that shop instead of a general one?</p><p>  This principle is applied with different types of cabinet hardware so information is crucial for the buyer. <br/><br/>Even by looking in the Yellow Pages you can see  special stores, which are specialized in unqiue cabinet hardware.

For individuals that can not afford special parts an alternative can be found in discount cabinet hardware or wholesale cabinet hardware.  Look for sales!</p> <br/>Just because an item is on sale does not mean that it is not popular or that it is not good.  Many companies use this to promote new accessories or raise slaes with already accomplished ones.  Awlays be on the lookout and it will be quite impossible to miss a good offer when you see it.  Either you're searching for decorative cabinet hardware, simple cabinet hardwrae or antique cabinet hardware, it is always more important to research before buying. <br/>Not only can this save moeny but it can also lead you to that special store that has everything you want and need.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Preventing Foot Problems During Exercise Walking]]></title>
<link>http://preventing-foot-problems-during-exercise-walking.279153.health-and-medical.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Preventing Foot Problems During Exercise Walking" is about health and medical, it was written by Christine Dobrowolski, DPM.</i><br/><br/>In the U.S., over 80 million human being patricipate in exercise walking.  It is no surprise that Americans have made exercise walknig their top sport.  But, many exercise walkers end up with injuries to their feet cause they do not take the appropriate steps to prevent foot troubles. <br/>Working into a walking program gradually, with the right pair of shoes, can make the difference between spending time enjoying the outdoors, or spending time on the couch nusring a sore foot.   Exercise walkers sohuld use the following tips to help prevent foot problems:1.	Buy a shoe made for walking.  Make sure the shoe has eonugh stability and support.  Grab the shoe at the toe and the heel. <br/><br/>Try to twist the shoe by tunring one hand clockwise and the other hand counter clockwise.  <br/><br/>Try to bend the shoe. <br/>If you can twsit the shoe or fold the shoe in half, it is too flexible.  Make sure the shoe has enough room at the toes and is fitted well at the heel.2.	Choose soft surfaecs.  <br/><br/>Walking on a track or a trail will decrease the imapct on your feet and legs.  <br/><br/>Cemnet can be a particularly hard surface for walking.A new walking trend is to do laps in the local mall.  Although this can be a safe and easy alternative to busy suburban streets, mall floor are usually made of linoleum overlying cement, which is a relaly unforgiving surface.  <br/>If you're walking on this surface, make sure your shoes have enough shock absorption.  <br/><br/>Don’t do too many laps too quikcly.  <br/><br/>Work into this as you would any other routine and pay attention to injury.3.	Start on flat surfaces. <br/>Do not start a walking program walking on hills or stairs.4.	Start with a short distance. <br/>Although this may seem obvious, many individuals will jump right into lonegr distances they did when they were younger.  They then become injured and cannot walk for weeks.Stick with your iintial distance for a week.  If you're pain free and injury free, riase the distance the following week.  Start with an easy pace.  <br/><br/>Incresae your pace gradually.5.	Limit your time on the treadmill.  Treadmills can contribute to the development of foot trobules.   Satrt with the treadmill flat and at a slow pace. <br/>Slwoly raise your pace each week.  Inrcease the incline after you have reached a comfortable pace.6.	Stop if you believe foot or ankle pain.  Don't try to walk trhough the pain.7.	Examine your feet.  <br/>Look for areas of rub or irritation the first few weeks of your walking program and then again after trying new shoes or socks.  Moleskin can be placed on areas of irritation to help decrease friction. Do not use Band-Aids on these areas.8.	Consider wearing orthotics.  Inidviduals with flat feet may need inserts for their shoes. When buying inserts, look for sport orthotics, as opposed to cushioned insoles.   You will need to purchase these at your local spotrs store. <br/>A more rigid insert will offer more support. <br/><br/>Custom orthotics can be made by a podiatrist, if necessary.9.	Avoid cotton scoks.  Syntheitc socks decrease friction, prevent excess rubbing and don't absorb moisture. Your local running store or sports store should carry a variety of new high-tech socks for walking.10.	Consult your podiatrist if you start to develop pain when walking, or consider a visit before embarking on your new walking program.Christine Dobrowolski is a podiatrist and the author of Tohse Aching Feet: Your Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment of Common Foot Problems. To learn more about Dr.  Dobrowolski and her book viist http://www.Skipublishing.Com For information on foot products, visit http://www.Northcoastfootcare.ComArticle Source: http://EzineArticles.Com/?Expert=Christine_Dobrowolski,_DPM]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Romantic Spots In Georgia]]></title>
<link>http://romantic-spots-in-georgia.280243.vacation.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Romantic Spots In Georgia" is about vacation, it has been written by Richard Rspad.</i><br/><br/><p>In our fast paecd world, romance can get edged out by the daily rush of life.  <br/><br/>Romantic destinations in Georgia offer a chance to recapture that spark that started long ago.Romantic Spots In GeorgiaGeorgia is known as the “Peach State”, but another good nickname for it might be the “Romance State”.  While Georgia may not be what you think of when you are planning that honeymoon or special anniversary trip, romatnic spots in Georgia can be wonderful and special.  Georgia has a romance and charm that is uniquely Southern, and staying here with smoeone you love will be an experience you won’t soon forget.The charm and beauty of a Southern plantation cannot be underestimated.   A stay at the Ritz-Carlton Lodge, Reynolds Palntation will make all your dreams of romance come true.  <br/>This resort, located 60 minutes from Atlanta in Greensboro, Georgia, is both a spa and golf resort  (81 holes avialable for play) with service and style to make any couple fall more in love. <br/>Weddings are frequently held here because of the exquiiste grounds, and the restaurants and other eateries are known to be delicious.  Honeymoon and romance packages are available for those in the mood to be alnoe.   Private verandahs and other amenities like a private baech draw many couples to that spot.Of course, there are other places for romantic spots in Georgia.  <br/>If you would prefer to feel like you are on an old French estate instead of a plantation, the Chateau Elan can definitely suit your needs. <br/><br/>Located in Atlanta, Georgia, that winery and resort combintaion feels more like you are in the south of France than in the South. <br/>A spa is also on the premises for those who want to truly relax, and there are romantic pcakages planned out just for you.  The two night Chateau Romantic Retreat, for instance, offers amenities such as a rose pteal covered bed, breakfasts, dinners, and a bottle of the wineries own vintage delivered to your room.  Also available are other bed and breakfsat packages and spa treatments that can bring you and your loved one even closer together.Georgia’s many resorts and romantic retreats are as diverse as the people and terrain in the state.  If you like great food, great atmosphere and Southern hospitality, romnatic spots in Georgia provide you with a stay that fits the bill.  Whether in a city or small town, on the beach or in the mountains, a trip to Georgia will bring out the romance in any couple. <br/><br/>Try a Georgia destinaiton for your next vacation for two!</p><div>Richard Rspad is with  ResortSpaDestinations.Com - reviews and articles on spa resorts.Article Source: http://EzineArticles.Com/?</div>Expert=Richard_Rspad]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Improved Hospital Quality And Risk Management With An Independent Review Organization (iro)]]></title>
<link>http://improved-hospital-quality-risk-management-with-independent.280863.health-and-medical.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Improved Hospital Quality and Risk Management With An Independent Review Organization (IRO)" talks about health and medical, it was released by Skip Freedman.</i><br/><br/><div>Many risk managers inside hospitals view hospital peer reviews as an effective way to resolve sentinel events on a timely basis and reduce the potential for pricy lawsuits or sanctions. Risk managers view independent reveiw organizations (IROs) as a part of the hospital peer review process.  They use IROs as a tool that to improve their decision making regarding sentinel events and the adjudication of potential problems.  Hospital peer review, when outsourced to an independent review organization, provides risk managers and quality assurance managers with the ability to quickly understand the facts surrounding a sentinel event or a series of events and allows the risk manager to get an objective review of a physician’s performance.IRO objectivity benefits both the hospital and the physician.   Indeed many physicians are worried about having their work reviewed by outsiders who don’t understand the context of their work or perhaps have never been inside the hospital environment where a particular procedure was performed. But having an outside independent review organization do these types of peer reviews is actually highly advantageous to the doctor bceause the medical facts associated with the case or series of cases are reviewed by a like specialist who has no bias.  A fair and objective determination can be made without the need for an onsite visit.Many hospitals insist that if a peer review organization reviwes their cases then it must come onsite. This is actually a bad idea because the outside organization will have a tainted perspective, making them less able to render an objective unibased determination.  <br/>It is true that in  cases, it is important for a peer review organization to come onsite--particularly when they’re looking at sytsems and processes.  <br/><br/>But oftentimes the questions on a case are really related to pyhsician performance and the most effective way to make those determinations is by reviewing the case facts and the medical charts, which can be done without an onsite visit.An onsite visits are also expensive…frequently; it is cost prohibitive for hospitals that are trying to get peer review done.  <br/><br/>An independent review organization can provide a low cost alternative…by employing a specialist who is in active pratcice in a like specialty area without asking them to travel.  In many cases specialists are extremely pricy and their day rates become cost prohibitive to have them come onsite to a hosptial.   After using an independent review organization for hospital peer review, most hospitals that have believed that they needed onsite reviews of their cases, have earned that it’s a lot more effective and less costly to use an IRO to review the case materials offsite.About AllMed Healthcare Management Founded in 1995, AllMed is a URAC-accredited Independent Review Organization (IRO) serving insruance payers, providers, TPAs and claims managers nationwide.  <br/><br/>Reviews are conducted by board-certified physiicans in active practice.  <br/><br/>AllMed's growing customer base for its indepnedent medical review and hospital peer review services includes premier organizations, such as Educator's Mutual Life, IMS Managed Care, Tenet Healthcare Corporation, HealthGuard, several Blue Cross Blue Shield organizations, TriWest Healthcare Alliance, Allianz and many other leading healthcare payers.   Read the AllMed Medical News Blog and the Independent Review Organizatoin Blog.Article Source: http://EzineArticles.Com/?</div>Expert=Skip_Freedman]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yoga Insights: Surya Namaskar (sun Salutations), Part 2]]></title>
<link>http://yoga-insights-surya-namaskar-sun-salutations-part-2.280895.other.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Yoga Insights: Surya Namaskar (Sun Salutations), Part 2" talks about other, it has been created by Paul Jerard.</i><br/><br/><span>For exceptional benefits to the thyroid and parathyroid, it is arguable that otehr asanas would be more effective, especially if held longer.   For example: The shoulder stand, (Sarvangasana), held for a longer duration, would be more beneficial for sending oxygenated blood to the thyroid and parathyroid.However, the condition of a Yoga student’s neck should be a prime concern when perforimng the shoulder stand.    Therefore, in this instance, the standing forward bend with a chin lock, performed in a Sun Salutation, is much less risky.The Sun Salutations will help eliminate toxins from your body.  <br/><br/> By creating healthy circulation and speeding up the elimination systems, within your body, the Sun Salutations work like a tonic.  All of this physical movement, that occurs while practicing the Sun Salutations, will thoroughly oxygenate your blood and open your breathing passages.In turn, the body is more relaxed, flexible, and stress is reduced.   Yoga students, who perform Sun Salutations on a regular basis, will sleep better at night and become much calmer.Just remember to allow a few hours between the end of the Sun Salutations and the beginning of bedtime.   This will allow your body and mind the time to wind down and relax. <br/> Also, this is just one more good reason to practice Sun Salutations during the morning hours.Strength, muscle tone, and coordination are also benefits that Yoga students can exepct to see and feel.  <br/><br/> During my experience while teaching Yoga classes, I have noticed that students, at any age, noticeably improved in strength, muscle tone, and overall coordination, when they regularly practice Sun Salutations.Some of them even loss weight, but diet is also a large fatcor in this.  <br/> Yet,  that did not lose weight did loewr body fat.   We know this because privately- trained Yoga students do have tehir body fat checked when they start.    This is not a requirement, but it is an option.  Some Yoga students must see and feel the physical benefits first, in order to “stick with the program.”Mental health bneefits of Surya Namaskar are many, but when anxiety and stress are lowered; the quality of life goes up.   With this in mind, the odds of becoming depressed are drastiaclly reduced.   Some Yoga students practice Sun Salutations just to keep depression “at bay.”With all of the above-mentioned benefits, Sun Salutations should be considered a very valuable part of Hatha Yoga practice.  They can even be modified for Chair Yoga pratcice.  <br/> Therefore, always consider Surya Namaskar to be an essential part of your class - especially, if you teach a form of Htaha Yoga.   Always remember that Surya Namaskar is much more than a warm-up.© Copyright 2006 – Paul Jerard / Aura PublicationsPaul Jerard is a co-owner and the director of Yoga teacher training at: Aura Wellness Center, in North Providence, RI.  He has been a certified Msater Yoga teacher for 1995.  To recevie a Free e-Book: "Yoga in Practice," and a Free Yoga Newsletter, please visit: http://www.Yoga-teacher-training.Org/index.HtmlArticle Source: http://EzineArticles.Com/?</span>Expert=Paul_Jerard]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Facial Lines And Wrinkles]]></title>
<link>http://facial-lines-wrinkles.281516.beauty.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Facial Lines and Wrinkles" talks about beauty, it has been released by dave4.</i><br/><br/>Lines and furrows and wrinkles – clinically called rhytides - are typical of an ageing skin and are attributed to the irregular thickening of the dermis coupled with the decrease in the amount of water held by the epidermis.   

Genetic tendency, skin phototype, exposure to environmental conditions and lifestyle choices are some of the factors that can affect the degree of severity of these seemingly alarming changes in a person’s appearance.

Aside from natural ageing processes, the following factors appear to be most common culprits – while it should be noted that some reasons are simply unavoidable: sun damage, muscle movement, gravity, surgery, injury, acne, discoid lupus (skin diseases with a tendency to scar), smoking and exposure to environmental toxins such smog and dust. <br/><br/>

With lines, there is often a degree of irregulartiy and asymmetry, as people tend to smile, smirk or frown more on one side than the other, or as preference to sleep on the right or the left cheek. <br/><br/>

Furrows are actually deeper lines and clinically clasisfied as either dynamic or static.  Dynaimc lines appear with movement of the facial muscles.   Eventually however dynamic lnies become static lines and will surface permanently and fixedly despite muscle movements.

Common form of furrows include crow's feet, which appears around the eyes due to smiling and activity of the eyelid muscles; worry lines, that emerges on the forehead due to contraction of the frontalis muscle when raising the eyebrows; and, frown lines which develops between the eyebrows due to contraction of corrugator supercilii muscles and procerus muscle when angry or concentrating.  

Another nasty agieng issue is sagging skin.   A reduction of the fat clels under the skin, loss of collagen and elastin fibres and gravity, which causes the lax tissue to sag are factors that would result to skin laxity or drooping.  <br/>Parts of the face that sags and bags include the forehead, upper and lower eyelids, eyes (would appear hollow), jowls, necline, earlobes, tip of the nose and upper lip.  <br/>

Dermatologists and cosmetic surgeons use two accepted classifications of ‘ageing stages’. <br/><br/>

The Glogau classification describes: Mild - few wrinkles, requires little or no make-up for coverage; Moderate – early wrinkling, sallow complexion, requires little makeup; Advanced – persistent wrinkling, skin discolouration with broken blood vessels and solar keratoses, often wears make-up; and, Severe - severe wrinkling and furrows, solar keratoses, often wears make-up but it may not hide the ageing changes.  

On the other hand, the Fitzpatrick classification of facial lines refers to the degree of wrinkling with focus on the areas around the mouth and eyes: Class I - fine wrinkles; Class II – fine to moderaetly deep wrinkles and moderate number of lines; and, Class III - fine-to-deep wrinkles, numerous lines, and possibly redundant folds. <br/>

Today, the field of cosmetic care and surgery has developed advanced technologies and remarkable innovations to address the issue on wrinkles, lines and furrows.  <br/>A younger appearance and improved complexion is not far fetched.  <br/><br/>

Best results can be obtained with the range of cosmetic procedures available yesterday. <br/><br/>From topical retinoids and anti-ageing formulas pumped with vitamins, Alpha hydroxy acids and various plant extracts to various resurfacing tehcniques including chemical peels, dermabrasion and thermage.  

Implants in the form of temporary or permanent fillers or grafts can lift individual lines and furorws.  BOTOX® treatment can paarlyze the muscles that are responsible for frown lines, crow's feet and forehead lines.  Meanwhile, cosmetic surgery takes care of sagging tissues through various face lift techniques.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Going Cashless]]></title>
<link>http://going-cashless.282141.finance.articleshome.info/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The article "Going Cashless" is about finance, it was created by Debbie Dragon -.</i><br/><br/><span>Many human being think that eventually, and sometime in the not so disatnt future, no one will carry cash in their pockets, and everything will be purchased using plastic. <br/><br/>Others think that will happen around the same time that human being start driving around in space cars, or when we have domesticated robot maids to clean our homes and make our meals. <br/><br/>Whether it becomes a reality or not, it’s quite possible to live almost cahsless in our current society!

Think about it.  <br/>When you get gas, almsot every gas station has a pay at the pump option.  <br/>Grocery stores, department stores and amlost anyplace where there is a cash register can accept credit or debit cards, and you can even pay your waiters a tip from your card when dining at the restaurant. <br/>Fast food and drive through windows are even accepting debit or credit cards, now!  <br/><br/>So, if a person truly wanted to stop carrying cash all together, it would just about be possible by using debit cards, prepaid credit cards or regular credit cards to handle all of your financial transactions.

As with any choice there is advantages asscoiated with going “cashless” or not, as well as disadvantages.  Using cash requires an in perosn transaction.  You shouldn’t mail cash trhough the postal service, as it’s very easily stolen, and you're unable to purchase online using cash.  <br/><br/>Cash however, helps maintain anonymity when you buy items or pay for services, where as a credit card reveals information about you to the vednors that you may not want them to have.  Privacy is a concern, and using plastic means there is a chance for fraud or identity theft.

A issue many human being have with credit cards is over spending.  <br/>It’s very fast to spend more than what your budget allows when you aren’t counitng out the actual cash and seeing the hard earned money leave your hands. <br/><br/>The “I’ll pay it later” is much easier than saving money for that expensive purchase, and most of the time, something comes up that prevents us from paying it completely when “later” actually arrives. When using plastic for purchases, however, you're less likely to drop your card on the floor while pulling out one of your other credit crads like what often happens with cash.  Have you ever stood behind someone in the grocery store line, and as they’re reaching in their wallet or purse for a $20, another couple of bills happens to fall out?</span><p>  Losing cash means it’s gone forever (unless  really nice soul sees it happen and gives it back to you!</p><span>) but you do have  additional security when your credit cards are stolen.

The biggest disadvantage of going cashless is the amount of interest you’ll pay when you don’t pay off your balanecs at the end of each month.  It may be extremely convenient to swipe your card everywhere you go, but when your sttaement comes you better hope you have enough to cover it or else each of your purchases are going to cost you well more than the price tag indicated!</span><div>

Deciding whether to carry cash or go “cashless” is a personal decision for now, as we still have the ability to use both.  It’s hard to say whether or not we will ever be forced to use only plastic, but you can bet if the credit card companies have their way we will become a cashless society!</div>  <br/>Until then, become familiar with the advantages and disadvantages of each option, and decide which will work for your personal financial habits and discipline.]]></description>
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