<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68278468896962001</id><updated>2011-04-21T13:15:06.786-07:00</updated><title type='text'>schmitigalhildy</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://schmitigalhildy.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/68278468896962001/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://schmitigalhildy.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/68278468896962001/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>schmitigalhildy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08454871077771720531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>120</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68278468896962001.post-5626515443074541594</id><published>2008-06-16T04:56:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-16T04:56:54.807-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Tanning Bed Tips -- Enhancing Your Tanning Experience!</title><content type='html'>By Yaksha Patel If you are reading this, you have probably experienced the joys of the tanning bed and are now looking for tanning bed tips to enhance the pleasure of donning the tanned look. With several different opinions flying around, we thought it best to house some of the best proven tanning bed tips at a single point to facilitate your endeavor. Before we start, remember that if you have photosensitive skin, light pigmentation or a history of skin problems, then tanning beds are probably not for you. Having said that, the key factor that governs the quality of use are the tanning bed lights or bulbs that your tanning bed has. The number of tanning bed lights, the power of each light and the format of the tanning bed itself all play an integral role in determining the effectiveness. Fewer the tanning bulbs, lesser the power, more the time taken to tan but considerably lower skin reactions. So choose the tanning bed lights depending on your skin complexion and texture. Secondly, exposure in tanning beds needs to be consistently spread in time with equal-timed doses. As a tanning bed tip, this is probably not as commonly understood and practiced as it should be. Changes in skin complexion are a gradual process and therefore any break in the regularity of the exposure might set you back on the tanning time-cycle. Ensure that in each of these doses, you follow recommended directions of use for the particular tanning bed that you are using. And of course, no tanning bed tips would be complete without a mention of tanning bed lotions, pillows, goggles and apparel. The most obvious choice of these accessories is to go with the ones that make you feel comfortable while maintaining the safety requirement of tanning bed use. While people get swayed by discounted lotions, cheap goggles etc, we recommend that you go for a certified and branded product in any of these categories. The right lotion for the right skin will give your body the dream tanned look you have always wanted. Go ahead, use these tanning bed tips and make tanning memorable for you!! Visit our articles section at Tanning Articles and Resources for more such practical tanning advice and tips.  2005,Yaksha Patel. This article is courtesy of Tanning Wonders - Making Tanning work for you! You may publish it at no cost, as long as the links are left intact, made live, and this notice stays in place. 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Problems that arise have many different ways of being handled and your solution might not be your partners solution.  Being emotionally intelligent in a relationship means that you are able to dial yourself into the emotional status of your partner.  This requires you to use one of the four pillars of neurolinguistic programmingsensory awareness, or simply making full use of your senses to collect information and make an informed decision on how to act. Observe Without Evaluating When using sensory awareness when communicating to your loved one, its important to observe and collect information using all your senses, but without evaluating the information being collected.  Your fears, your assumptions, your beliefs, your wantsall of these can taint the information being collected.  Just as a scientist makes sure that his experiments are objective and repeatable by other scientists, so should you remain objective when using sensory awareness to observe the situation.  What you are doing when you are observing is carefully noticing things that are different with your partner.  What they say, what they do, what they look likeall of these things you are observing, without making any conclusions as to why these changes are taking place. Evaluating the information being collected is particularly bad because of the way we make assumptions.  We have an egocentric thought process and we tend to think of ourselves first before others.  Therefore when we make assumptions, we tend to base those assumptions off our worst fears or we inject ourselves into that assumption, when in reality, it has nothing to do with us at all.  By keeping evaluation separate from observation, we can weigh the information objectively. Communicate Your Findings Because we never really know what our partner is thinking, the only way to understand them is by connecting to them with the power of communication.  Let them know the changes you observed and express your genuine concern.  Have them explain themselves and focus on listening and asking questions.  You will find that your level of connectedness with your partner will increase by using this method. Tristan Loo is the founder of Alternative Conflict Resolution Services, a management consultancy based out of San Diego County, Calfornia.  Tristan is a former police officer, conflict expert, professional mediator, and negotiator.  Tristan gained his experience by actively engaging conflict out on the streets, honing his knowledge and understanding of conflict during hundreds of dangerous encounters with hostile and violent subjects.   Tristan is the author of Street Negotiation--How to Resolve Any Conflict Anytime. 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After all, without the winter wedding invitations, no one will know when or where the ceremony is taking place. ==Start Shopping For Your Winter Wedding Invitations Before It Gets Too Cold== With the many different types of wedding invitations on the market, it can be difficult to choose only one style, and that is one reason it is so important to shop around carefully.  It may take some time to find the winter wedding invitations that are perfect for you, so be sure to start shopping long before the weather has turned cold. ==Shop At Different Places To Help You Choose Your Invitations== It is important to shop for your wedding invitations at a number of different sources.  There are many types of vendors who can create stunning winter wedding invitations, from local print shops to office supply stores to the internet.  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Having an accurate count of the number of wedding guests you can expect is vital to proper wedding planning, and the wedding invitations are your key to getting this valuable information. Shaunta Pleasant is a professional writer and editor on wedding planning topics. 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Baker A contrite heart, a broken heart, a humble heart, these are just different ways of saying the same thing, but they can also have different meanings and its important to understand the difference, so as to avoid confusion.  What is a contrite heart? What is true humility in the Bible sense? Ive heard Christians pray God break me and make me into what you want me to be. I understand what they are saying, but when you look at the Word of God, you see that God  wants a whole vessel that can be used unto His honor. Jesus paid the ultimate price for our redemption. He died so that we can be whole spirit, soul, and body.  A broken water pitcher wont hold water, and cant be used for the masters use.  So my question is, what is true Bible humility, what does the Bible mean when it is talking about a broken heart?  Lets look to the Word of God as always for the answers. Ps:34:18.  The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart, And saves such as have a contrite spirit. &lt;br /&gt;19.  Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all. In this instance the Word broken means,-- crush, destroy, hurt, quench, tear.    The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart, or a crushed or hurt heart.&lt;br /&gt;When the righteousness have been hurt the Lord is there to deliver them. The Lord is not the one doing the crushing and destroying He is the one doing the delivering.  &lt;br /&gt;Jesus said, in &lt;br /&gt;John 10:10.  "The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. In this instance there is deliverance out of the condition of brokenness.   As vs. 19 goes on to say:   Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all. &lt;br /&gt;This gives the sense of there being healing and wholeness in Gods deliverance. Psalms 51:17.  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart These, O God, You will not despise. &lt;br /&gt;In this case contrite means,  -- Grieving and penitent for sin.    &lt;br /&gt;God does not despise a broken heart, this is true humility, and its the first step to real forgiveness and cleansing. Real forgiveness only comes when you humble your heart before God. God does not do this for you, the Holy Spirit will draw you to the love of God, but you have to receive it. Micah 6:8.  He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God? In Micah it says walking humbly with, you see in this case it is not talking about a crushed or bruised spirit, it is talking about walking with God, or in cooperation along with God. When you are walking under someone elses authority, you have their full backing and support. One example of this would be a police officer who is directing traffic. He doesnt on his own have the power to stop a car but he has the authority granted him by his local govt. or municipality to stop cars, doesnt he?  We all have authority we have to submit to, whether we like it or not, whether it be the traffic cop or our boss, without it there would be chaos. The highest authority we have to submit to is God. His authority is the ultimate authority we all have to submit to, either now or later!  The Word of God tells us every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is lord to the glory of God the Father.    (Phil:2:11).&lt;br /&gt;When I think of humility, I think of submitting to a greater authority. Or putting yourself in a place of subservience to, as in 1 Peter 5:6.   Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time,  &lt;br /&gt;7. casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you. This is not talking about a master and a slave, this is talking about walking under the authority of a caring Father.   Theres a huge difference!  It is saying here to humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God,   or putting ourselves under His authority. He is telling us to do this so that He can exalt us, however He cant exalt us unless we put ourselves in a place where He can do it.  Its His desire to exalt us, but we must do our part. Hes already done His part through the redemptive work of  Jesus Christ. How can we truly submit to God, what do we have to do?  This is a straight foreword question that we all would like to know the answer to.  We have to submit to His Word. His Word is His written will to us all.  Gods Word is Gods will. You can not truly get to know God or know His will unless you read His Word. It is scriptural to ask God to give you a desire and a hunger for His Word, if you are earnest, you will get it.      Jesus said in the gospel of Matthew. Matthew 5:6.  Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.   &lt;br /&gt;It didnt say they might be filled, it said they shall be filled.&lt;br /&gt;It starts when you acknowledge you dont have the answers, but recognize He does. &lt;br /&gt;I dont have all the answers but Gods Word has all the answers, and as I learn of Him, and submit to His will, he will lift me up. It is an act of your will to submit, and it is also in your best interest.  God always has our best interest in mind. His desire is to see us healthy and prosperous, as the apostle John wrote by the unction of the Holy Spirit, 3 John 1:2.  Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers. This doesnt sound like the ravings of a mad dictator, this is the desire of a loving and caring Father.  The Father always has our best interest in mind,  always!   If we can acknowledge that, it makes it a lot easier for us to submit to Him.  Once you learn to trust God you will wonder why you never did in the past.  He loves us more than we can comprehend. Jesus said in Matthew,&lt;br /&gt;Matthew 11:29.  "Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. &lt;br /&gt;30. "For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.'' He is saying for us to take on His yoke, and learn of Him,  He is gentle and lowly of heart, and that is the place where we find rest for our souls.  If you only knew the true peace that comes when you enter into Gods rest, you would never want to leave.  His Word tells us to labor to enter into that rest. Hebrews 4:9.  There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. &lt;br /&gt;10.  For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His. &lt;br /&gt;11.  Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience. Entering Gods rest is being obedient and submissive to His will. The Word is telling us to be diligent to enter that rest. Rest is much better than works, rest is flowing with God, and walking with Him under His authority.  Ive been on both sides, and rest is better, even if it is a labor to get there, rest is better, learning of God and partaking of His fellowship and His life and His love is a life changing experience that you can only experience when you submit to Him.    How about it?&lt;br /&gt;Are you willing to take the first step. The first step is to acknowledge Jesus as Lord and savior. If you dont know Him I would like to invite you to pray this prayer. Dear Heavenly Father,&lt;br /&gt;I come to you in the name of Jesus.&lt;br /&gt;Your word says, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.     (Jn.6:37),&lt;br /&gt;So I know You wont cast me out, but You take me in,&lt;br /&gt;And I thank you for it.  &lt;br /&gt;You said in your Word,   "whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.''     (Ro. 10:13).&lt;br /&gt;I am calling on Your  name,   So I know You have saved me now,&lt;br /&gt;You also said, that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes to righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made to salvation.      (Ro.10:9,10).&lt;br /&gt;I believe in my heart that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.&lt;br /&gt;I believe He was raised from the dead for my justification.&lt;br /&gt;And I confess Him now as my Lord,&lt;br /&gt;Because Your Word says,  with the heart one believes to righteousness and I do believe with my heart,&lt;br /&gt;I have now become the righteousness of God in Christ. (2 Cor. 5:21),&lt;br /&gt;And I am saved!            Thank You, Lord!&lt;br /&gt;I can now truthfully say,  I see myself as a born again child of God! Glory to God!!!!          Amen. I was raised Catholic, and was born again at the age of 17. I received God's call into ministry at the age of 19 and began to prepare for ministry. I graduated from Rhema Bible Training Center in 1979.  The Lord has called me to teach.  My desire is to help all that are seeking to come into a deeper understanding of what God has done for us through Christ Jesus and I have started a web site for this purpose called The Olive Branch;  Please visit us for more free studies and resources to help you on your journey.&lt;br /&gt;Mark Baker&lt;br /&gt;http://www.olivebranchministries.us Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Mark_E._Baker http://EzineArticles.com/?What-Is-A-Contrite-Heart?&amp;id=522097 &lt;a href="http://moodle.smartstepwebhosting.co.uk/user/view.php?id=21&amp;course=1"&gt;tax implications on hard money loan interest&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://ashmoodle.org/user/view.php?id=575&amp;course=1"&gt;bank of america personal loans&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://finnet.itek.norut.no/user/view.php?id=1195&amp;course=1"&gt;payday lender 2nd advance out&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://ossn.co.za/support/user/view.php?id=17&amp;course=1"&gt;lts cash advance&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/68278468896962001-1801760576597284500?l=schmitigalhildy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/68278468896962001/posts/default/1801760576597284500'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/68278468896962001/posts/default/1801760576597284500'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://schmitigalhildy.blogspot.com/2008/06/what-is-contrite-heart.html' title='What Is A Contrite Heart?'/><author><name>schmitigalhildy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08454871077771720531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68278468896962001.post-5237849892190127064</id><published>2008-05-30T05:04:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-30T05:04:53.881-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Decoding the Nokring</title><content type='html'>By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Philip_Nicosia]Philip Nicosia Todays cell phone user can download practically anything for a ring tone, whether it be a rock and roll song or the sound of cows mooing. A single search on ringtones can generate over a million sitesand in one site, up to 100,000 ringtones. Thats a lot of options. The most popular format for ringtones is the Nokring, also called the RTTTL (ringing tones text transfer language). Basically, it allows users to transfer the ringtone codes through a data cable and a special software. One mouse click and youre done and ready to rock and roll (or moo, whatever the case may be). RTTTL is not the only format that Nokia uses for its phones. Some models are equipped with the Nokia composer, which allows users to type in the music code directly into the phone. The Nokia 3210 model was the first to offer this function. The binary format, on the other hand, lets you code a ringtone using the Smart Messaging function. Essentially, you receive the ringtone as a message, which the phone recognizes and activates. The problem with Composer ringtones is, well, the work involved. Youve got to type, and type it very accurately, or itll come out very, very wrong. The binary format, while more convenient, only works on a small selection of Nokia phones. Only RTTTL offers both absolute convenience and reliability, and it doesnt hurt that the majority of the ringtones are in this format. How do you know if a ringtone is in RTTTL format? There are three specific elements. First, youll see the name of the ringtone followed by a string of characters that represent each note. Duration is indicated by the letter d, while octave is indicated by the letter o and beats per minute (or tempo) is indicated by the letter b. These letters are followed by a number that shows the note. If no modifier is present, then the phone automatically uses the default duration, octave and tempo.Each note is then followed by a comma. Many people say that of all the formats, RTTTL is the most intuitive: the codes make sense, and thus are easier to manipulate to customize a tone. This could be the reason why more people are encouraged to create the ringtones and upload them to sites. RTTTLs variety of ringtones is unparalleledand for those whod rather download ringtones than create them, thats the only thing that matters. Downloading an RTTTL ringtone is also very easy: you just need a couple of tools. First, you need a way to connect the phone to your computer. You can use a data cable, or if you have one of the newer phones with infrared capabilities, you can activate that feature. You will also need a software, such as Nokia Data Suite, Logo Manager or Nokring. These are available on the website, or are sometimes bundled with the phone. Another option is to the many freeware and shareware programs available. Yes, its that easyand once everythings set up, you can automatically download the ringtones. B(ring) it on! 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Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Philip_Nicosia http://EzineArticles.com/?Decoding-the-Nokring&amp;id=241875 &lt;a href="http://cpbarber.co.uk/user/view.php?id=71&amp;course=1"&gt;hard money lenders in antioch ca&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.micatedra.net/moodle/user/view.php?id=281&amp;course=1"&gt;payday loans victoria bc&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://lwvnyc.mrooms.net/user/view.php?id=59&amp;course=1"&gt;pay day loan one hour&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.leedsschools.org/primary/user/view.php?id=34&amp;course=1"&gt;used auot loan and bad credit&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/68278468896962001-5237849892190127064?l=schmitigalhildy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/68278468896962001/posts/default/5237849892190127064'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/68278468896962001/posts/default/5237849892190127064'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://schmitigalhildy.blogspot.com/2008/05/decoding-nokring.html' title='Decoding the Nokring'/><author><name>schmitigalhildy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08454871077771720531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68278468896962001.post-3137948976765588557</id><published>2008-05-27T19:00:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-27T19:00:21.292-07:00</updated><title type='text'>All About Ballet Pointe Shoes But Were Afraid To Ask</title><content type='html'>By Nick Polajenko Before doing anything. How old is the child? How many years of ballet&lt;br /&gt;training has she done? How many times per week is she taking or has taken&lt;br /&gt;ballet classes? How is her body weight, thin, skinny, chubby, slightly&lt;br /&gt;over weight or a lot? INFORMATION  INFORMATION  INFORMATION The following, as you can see, is for information purposes only. What you&lt;br /&gt;are about to read will give you some idea of what Ballet Pointe Shoes&lt;br /&gt;is all about. These questions should be taken into consideration before trying on &lt;br /&gt;pointe shoes for your little girl. Oh yes. there are other questions&lt;br /&gt;that have to be answered before going on pointe. Her ballet teacher should be the judge of when she should go on pointe.&lt;br /&gt;It will also depend on how many years of ballet she has had, what&lt;br /&gt;dance level she is in and how old she is before going on pointe. "My Way or Their Way", you as a parent may ask. If you were to ask 2 ballet&lt;br /&gt;teachers when should my child go on pointe, you will receive, but not in&lt;br /&gt;writing, 2 different answers. Change Ballet Schools or move to another city&lt;br /&gt;and you will have different answers. So what do I DO? First and foremost, find out how many children and at what age do they&lt;br /&gt;go on pointe in the school your child is enrolled. Ask questions of other&lt;br /&gt;mothers. Observe other children when they are taking point class. Look&lt;br /&gt;at them and think about your little girl, will she be able to do what&lt;br /&gt;the other girls are doing? How long have they been taking pointe class&lt;br /&gt;and what age are they now? Please remember to ASK questions. If you don't know which ones to ask just&lt;br /&gt;go to her teacher and say, "My little girl wants to go on pointe, is she&lt;br /&gt;ready?" Her teacher should be able to give you the information needed to&lt;br /&gt;make a decision. If her teacher says she is ready to go on pointe then it is the time&lt;br /&gt;to fit her first pair of pointe shoes. This is going to be the&lt;br /&gt;most difficult choice to make. More questions. Where to buy the pointe shoes? Which style (many to choose from), size (correct&lt;br /&gt;fitting is a MUST), which width B,C,D E (narrow, medium, large etc.) Many&lt;br /&gt;things to consider. Such as the Shank, Box, Vamp. If you go to &lt;br /&gt;www.ballet-feetfirst.com you will find the answers. Having purchased the pointe shoes, were you surprised how expensive they are?&lt;br /&gt;Do you know how to take care of them, sew ribbons to the pointe shoes as&lt;br /&gt;well as elastics? If you need more information go to FAQ at http://www.ballet-feetfirst.com/pointe-shoes.html Please do not forget to ask questions. It is very IMPORTANT to know as&lt;br /&gt;much as possible before having your child go on pointe and buying pointe shoes. NICHOLAS POLAJENKO A native of New York City, Nicholas Polajenko was trained by the famed Russian teachers Anatole Vilzak &amp; Ludmilla Schollar. Soon recognized as dancer of exceptional technique and acting versatility, he rapidly rose to the rank of Principal Dancer with such companies as the Metropolitan Ballet, Ballet des Champs Elysees, Ballet Roland Petit, Londons Festival Ballet and the International Ballet Marquis de Ceuvas. Before going to Paris France in December 1948 he was in two Broadway Musicals. Music In My Heart and Annie Get Your Gun. Between 1951 and 1968 he performed every major classical role, partnering such outstanding ballerinas as Tamara Toumamova, Marjorie Tallchief, Alexandra Danilova, Toni Lander, Yvette Chauvire, Svetlana Beriosova and Rosella Hightower. He has worked with such brilliant choreographers as Anton Dolin, Nicholas Beriosoff, Harald Lander, Roland Petit, Leonid Massine, Serge Lifar, Bronislava Nijinska and Alvin Ailey. 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My brother and I swam there everyday.  One day we were swimming the length of the pool underwater.  As I came up at the edge of the pool gasping for air, the lifeguard was there to meet me.   He asked if my brother and I would join the swim team.  We were so excited; we talked about it for days. The next few weeks we prepared for competition.  That day arrived and our first meet took us to a pool across town.  We all piled out of the car and I still remember how our excitement was shattered.  As I looked across the parking lot at the other team, each member was in a matching uniform.  At that moment, I knew the thoughts of my teammates, We were going to get creamed.  Our coach saw our faces and quickly said, Shake it off, they just look pretty.   Yes, they did and we lost.   After all, we looked like a bunch of kids from a watering hole.  The other team even told us that.  We all felt it.  They were a real team with real uniforms. Thats how it is in the business game.  You're judged by appearance.  Thats because when you first meet a person, visual appearance is the first item sent to the brain. Its the only data the brain has at that time.  The minute I saw the other team in those splendid matching uniforms, my brain said, Theyre better than you. Hey ladies, get the Uniform! Since your image is the first piece of information the other person sees, thats when their mind forms an opinion of you. Your clothes are your uniform. If you wear the uniform of business, the suit, then youre considered one of the team.   If you dont wear the uniform, then you are not taken seriously. Women often tell me that they dont get respect from their male counterparts in the office.   Their opinions are not taken into consideration.  Thats because they look like us kids from the pool.  Each of us picked our swimsuits and they showed our personality.  I wore a two-piece pink swimsuit with white ruffles. My brother wore a yellow and purple boxer type suit.   We looked colorful, but not focused! Think about it.  You walk into a boardroom full of men and they all have on suits.  Their business attire is very similar and each is in a power color, gray, navy, or black.  All mens suits are alike.  They have those splendid matching uniforms.  How focused they look, just like that swim team.  Now check out the business attire of the women in the office. Oh, you see a pink dress with white ruffles and a yellow dress with tiny purple flowers.  What about that beautiful peach colored dress with burgundy and peach shoes?  Just look at that teal colored pantsuit with a floral jacket.  How colorful they look.  Oops,  I just described your wardrobe.  Its okay, I felt that way too.  One of the guys who taught me how to play this game politely handed me a book about dressing for power in business.  I went home and discovered every piece of clothing I owned was either peach, pink, baby blue or lavender.  Heck, I thought those were power colors.  After all, I felt powerful in them.  The guys teased me about it.  They told me in jest, No Gina, we said POWER colors, not POWDER colors. Wait, dont grab that credit card and run to the store yet.  There are a few things you should know before you go shopping.  If youre petite, you must have a black suit with a white blouse.   This is pure power.  If youre tall, skip the black suit because it could be too intimidating, and go with burgundy.   If you do business with men, stick to the solids colors such as gray, navy, and beige.    Stay away from stylish suits and colors unless you have the money to buy the new style and new color next year.   The suit styles that are in today will scream out of style next year. While youre at the mall, pick up a book about body types and how to dress them.  You can usually find these books in the sewing or fashion section of a bookstore.   Remember, a suit that looks great on that plastic model may not be advantageous to your figure.  If youre still not sure about what to buy, watch TV newswomen and see how they are dressed.  Professionals dress these women and you get this wisdom for free. ### Gina Novelle (copyright 12-2004) Gina Novelle is a published free lance writer. Her company sponsors the web site http://www.thirdpocket.com, a support site for the self-employed. Her book, Business Secrets Men Dont Tell Women reveals how women and men view self-employment differently and will be available in 2005.  She currently offers her services as an Ezine Writer to optimize search engine ratings. gina@exclusivemarkets.net Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Gina_Novelle http://EzineArticles.com/?Image-and-Style-Count&amp;id=6829 &lt;a href="http://moodle.uh.cu/user/view.php?id=4238&amp;course=1"&gt;fast cash personal loans&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.elearnsolutions.co.za/moodle/user/view.php?id=798&amp;course=1"&gt;texas payday laws&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://project.alinari.it/moodle//user/view.php?id=1846&amp;course=1"&gt;online application for secured loan uk&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.ammoodle.org/moodlestick/user/view.php?id=38&amp;course=1"&gt;cash advance check to self&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/68278468896962001-4738087392400491774?l=schmitigalhildy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/68278468896962001/posts/default/4738087392400491774'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/68278468896962001/posts/default/4738087392400491774'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://schmitigalhildy.blogspot.com/2008/05/image-and-style-count.html' title='Image and Style Count'/><author><name>schmitigalhildy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08454871077771720531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68278468896962001.post-9041202356892219189</id><published>2008-05-21T00:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-21T00:48:00.030-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What Many Christians Believe</title><content type='html'>By Glenda Erceg Christians often share many of the same beliefs.  Some Christians agree on certain core beliefs but differ on others.  &lt;br /&gt;Here are some of the beliefs shared by many Christians: 1. The Bible, both old and new testaments are verbally inspired by God. These writings are the final authority and are supreme. 2. There is one God and he exists in the Trinity.  The Trinity is three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 3. Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit and was born of the Virgin Mary.  Jesus Christ is true God and true man. 4. We were created in the image of God; we sinned and suffered physical death as well as separation from God.  We are born with a sinful nature and sin in thought, word and deed. 5. Jesus died for our sins and if we believe in Him we are saved because of His sacrifice. 6. We believe in the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus and His Ascension into heaven. 7. We believe that Jesus will return to judge the living and the dead. 8. We believe that all who receive Jesus by faith are born again of the Holy Spirit and are the children of God. There are other doctrines and creeds that individual denominations follow.  Each church has governing beliefs and &lt;br /&gt;certain ways of carrying out their beliefs. Christians may differ in some areas of belief but hold many of the same convictions as truth.  It is interesting to compare the teachings of different Christian churches.  Not every Christian or every Christian church will agree on every doctrine or teaching. 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It happened at the bus stop when she was 16 on her way back from her first day at college.  Shed sprained her ankle and a friend was half-supporting, half-carrying her.  Despite the pain she couldnt help but notice the good looking guy waiting at the bus stop. Scott looked at her and his first words to her were that she was a drunken c**t.  Julie thought that was hilarious. By the time she got off the bus they had exchanged phone numbers.  They started dating and within weeks had decided they were each others perfect partner.  They soon got engaged.  The relationship was passionate, tempestuous with tremendous highs and lows. 5 years on, Julie and Scott are still together and Julies confidence is shot to pieces.  Scott still tells her he loves her, from time to time, but spends a lot more time telling her how stupid, lazy, ugly and fat she is.  And, of course, how lucky she is to have someone like him, because nobody else would want her.  The sad thing is, she believes him totally.  Shes been so brainwashed by him for so long. We live in a society where people habitually say rude, abrasive, sometimes clever, things to each other, which are often quite funny.  But rude, abrasive words have the power to chip away at a person until they break them into small pieces. And we live in a society where we arent very good at seeing the big picture: if words make us laugh, then they cant be damaging.  (Why not?)  Domestic violence is a situation in which one person, still statistically more likely to be the man, strikes their partner and/or the children.  If there are no physical blows then it cant be violence, can it? Actually, it can.  Domestic violence is a term that describes any situation where one person deliberately, and consistently, hurts another. Verbal abuse is, correctly speaking, verbal violence.  The old adage says: Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words can never hurt me.  Its an utter nonsense.  Words, if spoken by someone whose opinion of you, you care about, can shatter you into a thousand pieces. Had Hitler not been able to use words so effectively in the first place he would never have won support and never have come to power.  Hitler was a past-master of verbal violence.  Did his verbal violence pave the way for physical violence, or simply go hand in hand with physical violence?  It hardly matters here.  What does matter is to be aware that the destructive power of verbal violence is huge.  Whether or not, as often happens in time, verbal violence  escalates into physical violence. Emotional abuse, correctly speaking, is emotional violence; as anyone who has ever experienced it will know.  The difference between verbal and emotional abuse or violence is illusory.  Maybe verbal abuse sounds less destructive, but it works through emotional brainwashing and brutality.  Telling someone who loves you that they disgust you, repeatedly, will devastate them psychologically. Mental abuse, correctly speaking is mental violence.  All verbal, emotional and physical violence is mental abuse.  Mental abuse occurs whenever one person in a relationship attempts to gain unconditional power and control over the other person. When it is done through physical intimidation its easy enough to spot; although women will still, frequently, make excuses like: He was drunk, Hes had a hard time etc.  Mental abuse is designed to smash another persons self-confidence so  that they become emotionally dependent; which then becomes another fault they can be criticized for. Like Julie, I spent years in a verbally abusive relationship; in my case, a marriage.  My then husband had had a difficult childhood.  He was sensitive, vulnerable, and he also had a touch of the bad boy about him.  It was an intoxicating mixture.  I felt that I could care for him and make him happy.  I was also flattered by the way he became so passionate about me so fast. I didnt know that fast wooing is a key sign of an abuser.  They come into a relationship hungry for the status, the sense of well being and power that they get from having someone fall deeply in love with them.  They woo fast, because they need to hook their partner in before he/she really starts to see their dark side.  They woo fast because while they can come out with all the right words, and acts, and maybe even mean them at the time, its not love that really drives them, but having their needs met.  They get their needs met by draining the life, the spirit, the independence, the joy, out of their partner.  They are emotional vampires. Our courtship was brief.  I didnt know it at the time but each time I committed a little more of myself to him he started to behave worse.  There was the first time that he screamed: What the hell do you expect from me for no apparent reason.  After half an hour he was fine.  On our honeymoon he refused to speak to me for 24 hours.  Then he was as loving as before.  The fights and the silences became more frequent and longer. I didnt get it at all.  I didnt realise that he was throwing temper tantrums and sulking and then starting the whole cycle all over again.  At first when he was nice, Id ask him why hed said all those mean things, and hed say he didnt mean them.  In time, he stopped being nice and I stopped asking. But he still told me, occasionally, that he loved me, and I was more desperate than ever to believe him.  Partly because he didnt like them, partly because I was ashamed to admit what was happening, I stopped seeing my friends and family.  The more isolated I became, the more dependent I became on him.  And the more careless and cruel he was in his treatment of me. In public, of course, we acted like there wasnt a problem.  I could almost convince myself there wasnt a problem: he loved me, didnt he?  And I loved him.  I thought he had so much potential to become the man of my dreams (despite all the evidence to the contrary). Our friends thought we had the perfect marriage; they thought he was as caring and sensitive as he appeared to be in public.  He told everyone he was a nice guy, and they believed him. It took me over 20 years to realise the damage that had happened to me and to our child, who saw  and understood - the stark reality long before I did.  Then it took a while to start unpicking the web of lies hed spun around me. Actually, other people did like and value me.  Other men did find me attractive.  There were a lot of men out there who were an awful lot nicer, and kinder, than he ever was.  I had all sorts of skills, talents and qualities that he had never recognised, never nurtured.  The world was not the cruel, destructive place that he had said; that was his dark reality that he had visited on me.  It didnt have to be mine. Recently I was talking, socially, to a wonderful lady in her seventies about a domestic violence poster for our local refuge.  She said that people dont understand that verbal abuse can be just as damaging as physical violence.  Shed been married to a verbally abusive man for 50 years; because her generation stayed married.  But shed suffered terribly, not least because he always presented himself to the world as a delightful gentle man.  The years of her widowhood had been the happiest and freest of her life. Nobody should lose years, or even months, of their life in the misery, humiliation and fear of an abusive relationship.  If anyone says mean things about you and wont stop when you tell them not to, because its upsetting you, that is abusive.  That person is giving you a clear sign that they dont care about your feelings  no matter what excuse they make later.  If they dont care about your feelings, make no mistake, they will smash into you whenever they want to, just to make themselves feel better.  That is the reality of a verbally abusive relationship. The abuser acts as if he/she has a licence to hurt the other person.  Each time you accept it and give him/her, or the relationship, another chance, you are endorsing his/her right to hurt you.  You cannot help another person to change.  You cannot change them by offering them the love they never had.  You can only tear yourself into bite-sized chunks of raw flesh that they will devour whenever they feel hungry.  That is exactly what you can expect. If you are prepared to end up as a whitening pile of bones at the end of the relationship, while your partner moves on to feed on fresh prey, then go for it.  If not, then I suggest you listen very carefully, right from the start, to the words they say.  If, ever, they are dismissive or you, or even if they put you on a pedestal but are dismissive of other people, then run.  It wont be too long before they turn their savagery on you.  A pedestal is no protection at all.  Protestations of love are no protection at all.  Predators feed on raw meat and abusers are predators, whether the violence they use is verbal, emotional, mental or physical.   2006 Annie Kaszina Annie Kaszina Ph D, is a coach and writer who has helped hundred of women to rebuild their confidence and their life after an abusive relationship. Annie is the author of "The Woman You Want To Be". Inside this ebook you'll learn to believe in yourself and the fulfilling future you're looking for. To find out more and sign up to Annie's free bi-monthly ezine visit: http://www.joyfulcoaching.com You can email Annie at: annie@joyfulcoaching.com Feel free to reprint this article on your website or in your ezine, just include the resource box. 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Thus, instead of recreating the wheel, here is a short, sweet, easy-to-understand marketing strategy template to help you place your ducks are in a row in designing your marketing strategy. &lt;br /&gt;  MARKETING STRATEGY FOR INDEPENDENT PROFESSIONALS ...coaches, consultants, accountants, lawyers... &lt;br /&gt;  GENERAL OVERVIEW &lt;br /&gt; Business Strengths &lt;br /&gt; Our extensive knowledge of the adventure travel industry is our greatest strength, in addition to our positioning in the region. &lt;br /&gt; Business Weaknesses &lt;br /&gt; The greatest weakness our business faces is our ability to handle new competition. Currently, we are the only providers of our services in the area, and any competitor that moves in will pose a threat to our stability. &lt;br /&gt;  BUSINESS GOALS &lt;br /&gt; Profit &lt;br /&gt; Our current profit goals are: Year Two: $__________ post-tax profit Year Three: $________ post-tax profit We have not established any other long-range profit goals at this time &lt;br /&gt; Sales &lt;br /&gt; Our long-term sales goals are to operate at or close to cash flow break-even by Year Two and to be profitable from Year One onward. We would like our profit margin to be 7 percent by Year Three. &lt;br /&gt; Marketing &lt;br /&gt; Our long-term marketing goals are to develop an extensive Web site, to increase our public relations activities, and to create an informative store window to draw in customers. &lt;br /&gt;  POSITION IN THE MARKETPLACE &lt;br /&gt; Description of Our Customers &lt;br /&gt; Our customers are ___ to ___-year-old professionals, married or unmarried, without children, who are ___________. &lt;br /&gt; Our Customers Needs &lt;br /&gt; Our target customers are looking for customized planning services that will provide them with all the information necessary to take an adventure vacation in Europe. Often, they do not have the time or the resources to do the research themselves, so they turn to us for hassle-free planning services. &lt;br /&gt; Why Our Customers Choose Us &lt;br /&gt; Our well-informed, up-to-date staff, combined with our extensive knowledge of the ______________, allows us to surpass the services provided by other agencies. &lt;br /&gt; What Sets Us Apart From the Competition &lt;br /&gt; What sets our company apart from our competitors is the fact that we sell custom-designed packages for people. We ask them questions, find out exactly what they want and need, and direct them to the appropriate destinations. &lt;br /&gt;  MARKETING CAMPAIGN SPECIFICS &lt;br /&gt; STRATEGY &lt;br /&gt; Goals of the Campaign &lt;br /&gt; We would like to increase our visibility, attract new customers, and display special offers that are currently available. &lt;br /&gt; Campaign Focus: Specific Products or General Promotion? &lt;br /&gt; Our primary focus is to expand our customer base. We would also like to keep our current customers aware of special promotions we are offering and secure their future business with us. &lt;br /&gt; Products to be Advertised &lt;br /&gt; We will be advertising our complete range of European adventure travel services, special discounts on travel packages, and sales on seasonal clothing and gear. &lt;br /&gt; Measurements of Success &lt;br /&gt; We will measure this ad campaigns success by the number of inquiries received after its launch. This includes phone inquiries as well as inquiries made in person at the store. &lt;br /&gt; Evaluation of Effectiveness &lt;br /&gt; We will be reviewing the campaigns effectiveness one month after its launch. We will evaluate its effectiveness based on the number of inquires we receive and any corresponding increase in revenue. &lt;br /&gt;  MESSAGE &lt;br /&gt; Our Marketing Message: &lt;br /&gt; No one knows more about [what] than [Your name]. TIME FRAME &lt;br /&gt; Campaign Start Date &lt;br /&gt; We will launch this marketing campaign in ________. &lt;br /&gt; Length of Campaign &lt;br /&gt; This campaign will run through __________, for a total of ________ months. &lt;br /&gt;  BUDGET &lt;br /&gt; Annual Marketing Budget  $40,000 &lt;br /&gt; Budget For This Campaign &lt;br /&gt; $81,025. This includes $41,325 for Web site and database design, implementation, and hardware purchases, which will be useful for more than one year and will therefore be capitalized and depreciated accordingly. &lt;br /&gt; Cost-Saving Measures &lt;br /&gt; We plan to keep advertising costs down by targeting the most appropriate advertising methods for our business, which include online advertising, newspaper ads, and classified ads. Catherine Franz, a Certified Professional Marketing &amp; Writing Coach, specializes in product development,  Internet writing and marketing, nonfiction, training.  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I disagree with them. If you own a business and your market is well defined, then you can brand your small business in a way that makes sense and helps you accomplish your marketing goals. Remember, branding is about your reputation. Your brand, if created well, will instantly tell a person what you do and why they should do business with you. It will help them remember you rather than your competition. It will tell a potential customer how you do business and why you're a better choice. The key in building your  brand is to saturate your target market with your message. Make sure your intended audience hears your message from a variety of sources over and over again. Your goal is to expose your audience as many times as possible to your consistent message. It's best if you commit to a certain time frame (at least one year). And you need to commit sufficient resources to the effort. Using a variety of media is the most effective way to build your brand. If you use some creativity, it doesn't need to cost a fortune. Every market has many inexpensive ways it can be reached. As you plan your  marketing, be creative. Find ways to get your name out and make your business famous in your market. It can be as simple as signs on your building, ads in the local paper, or joining several business organizations in your community. Do as many things as you can afford to that will get your business name out in your community. ---------------------------- &lt;br /&gt;More customers! More revenue! More profits! That's what Kevin Stirtz helps companies create. Kevin is a business growth expert who helps people improve their companies. He has developed a unique program called "Build a Better Business" that does just that. It helps you build a better business, on your terms and according to your goals. Get a free copy of Kevin's latest book, "Marketing for Smart People" by going to his website at: http://www.StirtzGroup.com. You can call Kevin directly at 952-212-4681. 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Young kids need encouragement to develop and learn, and these learning playthings are ideal to boost your child's learning. Children learning toys for are developed to encourage development of the sensor motor and promote creativity, intellectual augmentation. They are of great fun and keep kids full of activity to while the time away and yet still keep on learning.  Get your baby off early on in learning with these fantastic learning toys which can provide both entertainment and education. Play time is learning time. Children's learning toys give your child the opportunity to practice the skills they'll need in life and have a good time while doing it. From basic motor skills (see this article on gross motor skills with respect to toys) to imitating grown-up activities, toys encourage children to use their imagination. Up till now, parents who are about to buy toys for their children need not look any further than the Internet to do their shopping. There are sites featuring toys manufactured by such reputable companies. Some sites even offer same-day shipping, free gift-wrap, and advice on choosing the best toys for children of all ages. Here are some of the most popular learning toys and educational toys for babies and Toddlers:  Kids need toys that can prepare them for their first days in school. It is true that appealing toys usually offer only the basics. Like toys that play kiddies music, teaches the alphabet and letters, shows numbers and shapes that progress as the child grows and develops.  Reading toys for preschool and children at elementary are introduced to letters, numbers and words, then go on with higher levels as kids progresses with even more challenging reading activities. A captivating mixture of beautiful illustrated letters, shapes, maps, and jigsaw puzzles. This is especially designed to reinforce basic skills and make learning easy and fun.  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There are several important aspects and considerations you may want to research before getting this type of procedure. Before The Surgery First, the surgeon will have to determine your state of health and then identify the areas of fat to be treated. The surgeon will also have to look at your skin type or tone. In addition, the surgeon should thoroughly discuss with you the procedure of liposuction surgery including the risks involved and other options or methods of fat removal that may work for you as well. Be sure to relate to your surgeon any questions or concerns you might have. Be honest about your goals and expectations. Inform your surgeon of any significant detail that may affect the procedure such as any medications that you are taking. Your surgeon will instruct you on what you should or should not do before the liposuction surgery including what food, drink and medications are safe to take. During the Surgery Liposuction surgery starts with the surgeon cutting a small opening on the area to be treated where the cannula will be inserted. The surgeon uses this instrument to go under the layers of fat, break them down and suction them out of the body. Usually, liposuction surgery is performed under local anesthesia to numb the area. General anesthesia is given to patients during an extensive liposuction surgery. Liposuction surgery is performed in a hospital, surgeons office or an outpatient surgery facility. Unless the liposuction surgery is extensive, you do not have to stay at the hospital after the surgery. After the Surgery You will experience soreness, swelling and bruising after the liposuction surgery. Usually, you will be asked to wear tight elastic garments for several weeks to provide compression to the area and reduce swelling. You may also have to take antibiotics as prescribed by your surgeon. You may able to return to work in as short as 2 days or as much as a couple of weeks. Your surgeon will closely monitor your recovery and advise you when you may be able to resume other normal activities. Understanding Liposuction Risks Liposuction permanently removes fat in isolated areas of the body that results in a well-sculpted and improved body contour. While current liposuction techniques have greatly improved and are considered much safer, it is important to remember that liposuction is a surgical procedure and as with any type of surgery, it is not without its risks. Consider These 4 Liposuction Risks Before You Make A Final Decision 1. Skin and tissue burns: These liposuction risks may occur during ultrasonic liposuction, as the probe that generates the ultrasound may overheat with too much ultrasonic energy. 2. Seroma or fluid buildup on the treated area may occur after liposuction as a result of the body responding to injury. Seroma creates bulges and skin irregularities. Pulmonary edema or fluid build up in the lungs, which may occur if the doctor excessively replenishes the fluid lost during liposuction. 3. Damage to internal organs: Internal organs may be accidentally punctured as the surgeon moves the cannula or the suction tube inside the treatment area. 4. Lidocaine is a local anesthesia often used in liposuction, to numb the skin over the treatment area. The most common liposuction technique, which is tumescent liposuction, involves injecting the patient with large amounts of fluid that contains Lidocaine.  This may cause overdose of this drug, which can be toxic. Other liposuction risks include swelling, scarring, sagging skin, skin discoloration, and numbness. Liposuction scars are permanent and may darken if greatly exposed to the sun. Liposuction risks, whether common or rare, can be significantly reduced by ensuring that the procedure will be performed only by a board-certified and experienced liposuction surgeon. After learning about liposuction risks, you will be more informed in making your decision and become better prepared should you decide to go on with a liposuction surgery. Dean Shainin is a successful Webmaster and publisher of Tummy-Tucks.Deans-Knowledgebase.com. For pictures, articles, and valuable resources for getting effective treatment, visit his site at: tummy tuck pictures. 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Ignore what you've been hearing about lackluster job growth and an unstable economic climate caused by massive deficits, the war, and other gloomy factors. Those are real concerns, but they have little to do with the job boom that's happening right now.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;What is driving this boom? &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;It's sort of a side-affect or backlash caused by what was going on a few years ago. You remember... in the early part of this decade, the dot-com bubble burst and hundreds of thousands of jobs disappeared as companies all over America downsized, reorganized, outsourced or went bankrupt. Employees lucky enough to hold onto their jobs have been subjected to longer hours, lower salaries, fewer advancement opportunities--with little choice but to put up with whatever bosses dished out because the job market was so weak!  Employers held all the cards.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;But this type of environment resulted in the worst employee productivity (the amount of work done by each worker) in almost a decade. It makes sense, right? Unhappy workers are not productive workers. And unhappy workers eventually say "Enough is enough!"&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The result? An unprecedented "quit rate." According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of people who have quit their jobs has dramatically increased since 2003. There are now nearly 3 million people leaving their jobs each month. At the same time, job openings have increased by about half-a-million positions.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;And on top of that, baby boomers are retiring like crazy!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;As people retire or quit, employers struggle to hold onto their dwindling workforce. According to Business 2.0 magazine, "The result is a volatile labor market that teems with opportunity for employees...but move fast: the current situation is the job market equivalent of an unusual astronomical event. The planets have rarely if ever been aligned quite like this, and the period of optimal conditions is likely to be fleeting."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;In other words, the time to strike is now.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Cities like Las Vegas, Orlando, Austin, and Phoenix are experiencing record-breaking job opportunities. But you don't have to live in those locations to take advantage of this job boom. If you're unhappy where you are, this could be the best time to move on.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;But do it wisely. Polish up your resume and improve your interviewing skills. Do not let your current employer know you're looking for another job. And do not quit until you have a firm offer somewhere else. Bonnie Lowe is author of the popular Job Interview Success System and free information-packed ezine, "Career-Life Times." 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They each have different goals, techniques, products and outcomes. Although it may be desirable to be using all elements of marketing, publicity and promotion as essential tools in your business kit, there will be times that these disciplines and tools are sequential not overlapping. Marketing is about product placement and positioning. Marketing activities are not always sales, as it is everything that leads to the sales, as well as at times, the actual sales. Marketing defines who you are and contributes to the perception and management of your brand. Marketing activities and products can include networking, advertising, speaking, identifying leads, one-on one meetings, proposal generation and closing. Marketing will have a say in all the ways that your market perceives your brand, including how you look and what you say to your market. Publicity is about press and other media including magazines, newspapers, trade and financial papers, television, radio, internet blogs, viral word or mouth recognition, newsletters and webzines. The goal is to generate non-fee based recognition. The outcome of publicity is attention, visibility, market share recognition and emotional connection with your brand. Publicity is gained through the hiring and activities of a Publicist. Techniques include integrating core messages and corporate goals, and introducing them to the media through high interest stories for their readers. Products used in publicity include press releases, feature stories, and interacting with marketing in circulating attention getting direct mail such as postcards and newsletters. Promotion is a huge umbrella that can include all of the above, as well as radio, street teams, mailers, posters, booth and trade show participation, parties, events, charitable activities, sponsorships, product endorsements and tie-ins, product production and branded merchandise or activities around brands and branded merchandise. Advertising is a product. Advertising is most likely used in Marketing and Promotion, as it is fee based. The Hudsucker Proxy, starring Tim Robbins and Paul Newman may help you envision the role of each. After the suicide of the founder, business college school grad and new mail clerk, Norville Barnes (Tim Robbins) is made puppet president to make sure board members maintain company control when the stock goes public in thirty days. The promotion causes stock prices to dive, but things abruptly turn around when young Barnes invents a national sensationthe hula hoop. How Tim Robbins and Paul Newman turn a circle sketched on a pad into a frenzy driven nation-wide sensation will clearly demonstrate the roles of marketing, publicity, promotion and sales. Key words: the roles of marketing, publicity, promotion and sales, publicity and promotion, advertising and product placement, product placement and positioning, branding your firm, marketing a firm, marketing activities and products, press releases and feature stories, promoting a firm, sales and marketing, market share recognition. 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People comment that if you want to do something with your life you have to go to college because it will give you the greatest opportunities. We all hear the statistics that say if you go to college you make a lot more than a high school graduate over your lifetime. Those things are true but they are not true for everyone. Just as some people benefit from going to college a lot of people do not. College does not guarantee a job or success and if a college graduate is unable to obtain a quality position they will not only have wasted a lot of money and have a lot of loans piled up but they will also have wasted several years of their life. No one wants to waste four years of their life under the impression that everything will be great after college which is why students need to know if they are making the most productive selection by going to college. If you choose to go to college do several things, pursue scholarships, work as much as you can, and do an internship. Pursuing scholarships will allow you to minimize the amount of loans you will need. Working while in college will also allow you to minimize loans and doing an internship will give you an edge in the job market. 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However the benefits of planning &lt;br /&gt;nutritious meals far outweigh the time required &lt;br /&gt;to get it right.   Creating a weekly menu plan is important &lt;br /&gt;to creating healthy delicious meals for our family. &lt;br /&gt;Menu planning can actually add hours to your week &lt;br /&gt;rather than reducing the time you have available. Meal planning should give you more time not reduce the &lt;br /&gt;spare time you have available.  You will become &lt;br /&gt;an efficient shopper.  Always use the KISS principal &lt;br /&gt;and start small and expand your efforts over time. A small investment of time creating a simple meal plan &lt;br /&gt;can reap great rewards When you step into those mega &lt;br /&gt;grocery stores, you need a plan to navigate away from &lt;br /&gt;the frozen pizzas and get to the good stuff.  &lt;br /&gt;The good stuff is hidden in the back of the store &lt;br /&gt;in the fruit and vegetable area of the super markets. &lt;br /&gt;Having a meal plan tells you exactly where to go and &lt;br /&gt;what aisle to avoid. Once you get home with your stash of goodies, fruits, &lt;br /&gt;vegetables and other nutrient rich foods, you will feel &lt;br /&gt;the need to get all those other foods out of the refrigerator &lt;br /&gt;and into the garbage.  The rotten tomatoes, that never got &lt;br /&gt;added to the salad are history.  The vegetables that are &lt;br /&gt;squishy can be gone.  Next week the good stuff will be eaten and &lt;br /&gt;there will be no waste in the kitchen because a menu plan is &lt;br /&gt;in place. Organizing meal preparation will actually keep you sane.  &lt;br /&gt;You will know each day "what's for dinner".  You will have &lt;br /&gt;all the ingredients necessary to prepare a quick nutritious &lt;br /&gt;meal.  You won't have to stop by the grocery store on your way &lt;br /&gt;home from work.  You will have all the ingredients on hand &lt;br /&gt;to prepare a meal without having to step out to the &lt;br /&gt;neighbors for a cup of yogurt or an extra tomato for the salad &lt;br /&gt;you are making.  There won't be any standing at the &lt;br /&gt;refrigerator wondering what to cook for dinner. Once you organize your menus for the week, the next thing &lt;br /&gt;you'll notice is that the whole kitchen is organized and you can &lt;br /&gt;prepare a meal in peace.  Getting help from the family is a good &lt;br /&gt;idea when the meal plan is put together.  There is nothing worse &lt;br /&gt;than seeing the faces of the family drop to the floor when &lt;br /&gt;you introduce a new healthier way of eating. Taking the time to find and perhaps chart the most &lt;br /&gt;nutritious foods and integrating them into the daily meals can be a &lt;br /&gt;simple task.  Knowing what you need from the grocery store will &lt;br /&gt;eliminate wasted time, energy and money.  Your inventory for the &lt;br /&gt;week of meal preparations becomes more streamlined as you start &lt;br /&gt;your family on a healthy path to fitness. There are several stages of meal planning that include inventory &lt;br /&gt;control, recipes for the menus, pricing of food and the actual &lt;br /&gt;cooking of the final meal.  But with proper planning the &lt;br /&gt;meal plan becomes easier and more efficient over time. The basics of  &lt;br /&gt;a menu plan must be simple. Getting everything the family needs for optimum health into &lt;br /&gt;one meal a day.  Not so simple? Most families only eat one meal &lt;br /&gt;a day together so the extension of the meal plan may include &lt;br /&gt;healthy meal from popular take out restaurants. McDonalds &lt;br /&gt;now includes yogurt and fruits cups as alternatives to french &lt;br /&gt;fries. Many families just ignore the need for menu planning and the &lt;br /&gt;results can be devastating.The teenagers gain weight and blame the &lt;br /&gt;parents, toddlers start to show signs of sugar overload and mom and &lt;br /&gt;dad are just tired all the time. Some minor adjustment to the diet &lt;br /&gt;and a mealplan can get a family's meal time ritual out of the doldrums &lt;br /&gt;and into an exciting journey to good health. For more information about meal planning and to find out how &lt;br /&gt;you can have us do all the hard work of menu planning &lt;br /&gt;for you visit http://www.healthymenumailer.com today. 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There are 2 main types of obesity surgery: those that reduce the size of the stomach and those that reduce absorption of calories in the small intestine. Gastric bypass is a combination of the two and is the most common type done. All require a lifelong commitment to making drastic changes in eating habits and lifestyle. Obesity surgery is beset with many risks and for young people, this may mean permanent stunting of growth. 2% of patients die from the surgery and 40% develop complications within six months. Complications range from infection, respiratory problems and bleeding, to vomiting, hernias and stomach obstruction. Many patients develop anemia or osteoporosis in the long term and have to constantly take supplements. Obesity-related illnesses, such as diabetes, are often resolved, though. Considering only the short-term effects, young people actually have fewer risk factors in developing complications from obesity surgery if they follow all the recommendations. Overall, obesity surgery remains highly controversial. Many argue that the psychological benefits of feeling human again far outweigh the disadvantages, especially for teenagers. There is always the possibility of regaining the weight lost or developing serious complications. Much of the success of obesity surgery depends on choosing an experienced physician and complying with orders. Obesity surgery has greatly improved over the years and for many, those unwanted pounds have become a thing of the past. John Furnem specializes in work psychology and Stress disorders, he has written articles and held workshops/seminars on the effect of stress on children and adults . 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Failing that, I have been able to track down several cake templates for free on line. However, recently I have hit a road block when it comes to making character cakes: there are generally no templates or instructions to be found for the latest, greatest, hippest character. Not wanting to disappoint my fans, I found a way to create a cake template.  It takes a small amount of computer knowledge and a bit of patience  but if you are making character cakes already, you likely have patience and enthusiasm for these kinds of things. The first step is to locate a simple cartoon of the character.  Avoid cartoons with lots of details or background image.  You want there to be enough detail to make the character recognizable, but not too much that its going to be confusing when you enlarge the image. You can find this image in a colouring book, but you will need to scan it.  Alternatively, try an online search for the character and see what you can find from there. The next step is to decide what size of cake you are working with.  Now, you need to blow up the cartoon image that you are working with to fit the dimensions of the cake. If you are doing this digitally, you can do it in a Word file.  Just set the size of the page to the dimensions of the cake, then paste the image in  (NB  there are probably various graphics programs you can do this in as well, that I dont know about.) If you are working Low-Fidelity, you can take your image to the local photocopier and resize it. Now, print out your image! Lay your image on your cooled cake, and use toothpicks to poke through the image and transfer the design onto the cake.  Cut around the sides, and then decorate to your hearts content! A small decorating tip:  I have found that using fruit roll ups and fruit strings works wonders in place of piping in icing  its fast, it looks cool, and hey, its almost healthy ;) Jewel Goodwin is a mother of two and an avid crafter.  She loves to take tried and true methods and add an innovative twist to make her own unique crafts.  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There are so many tasks that can take up your time. One of the major things that worry couples is the minute things, such as flower selection, party favors, and overall theme. However once most of these details are ironed out, the little things start to come out. When a theme is selected, the hall then needs to be decorated. After the hall is decorated, you have to worry about the reception. When sitting at tables as well as dancing and socializing, your guests will notice this environment as much as they noticed the church. However, I think that one of the main pieces will be the table centerpieces. One of the most traditional choices for table centerpieces is the floral arrangements. It seems as though they are the easiest to match to any theme. The first decision you need to make is whether the flowers will be real or fake. Both options are equally as lovely, however some couples decide that they dont want to be stuck with hundreds of artificial flowers. 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The fruit along with pulp is allowed to ferment in special containers made for this purpose usually in plastic. The pH is maintained at optimum levels. The fermentation goes on for almost 2 months, this allows the juice to separate from the pulp and drip extraction is employed. The fermented juice gets its characteristic sour taste. The Noni juice can come pasteurized or non-pasteurized. The other popular form the juice is available is the freshly squeezed unfermented sweeter version. Typically a hydraulic fruit press is employed to extract the juice from the pulp. The pulp and seeds are typically employed to prepare Noni Products. The fresh juice has a golden color and may be further diluted and sweetened by bottlers. The Noni juice is a refreshing delight in south Asian countries. People call it in totally different names in different countries hence you may not know which is the famed Noni. Unlike other fruits the juice yield is much high. 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Its not hard to make a garden that will lure hummingbirds, but if youd like to build a home in which they will gladly nest and live all the way through the northern summer, you want to provide them with more than a sugar water feeder and a plant or two. An active hummingbird garden doesnt have to be huge, but it will have all of the following major ingredients to draw in and keep the little fairies. Select plants that bear flowers many times through the spring, summer and autumn.&lt;br /&gt;Flowers are the major ingredient in getting hummingbirds to your garden. The small birds feed on nectar that is made by flowers, and appear particularly attracted to plants with trumpet or tubular bright red and orange flowers. Some of their particular favorites are rose of sharon bushes, rhododendrons and azaleas, so the red trumpet isnt a hard and fast rule. 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Autumn Bloomers &lt;br /&gt;Butterfly bush, garden phlox, day lilies, bee-balm and impatiens all will keep hummingbirds returning through the autumn and entice late migrators. Have a source of water in the hummingbird garden. &lt;br /&gt;Unlike bigger birds, hummingbirds will rarely take advantage of a bird bath or bowl of water. Instead, they enjoy cool mists. A garden hose with a misting fixture or a small fountain that can be adapted to a fine mist will keep them coming back. Vertical space for hummingbirds to perch and nest. &lt;br /&gt;Hummingbirds require shelter from predators and tiny branches for perching and resting. By selecting a couple taller bushes or trees, you can offer both. A few feeders will provide a treat in your hummingbird garden. &lt;br /&gt;There are scores of commercially designed hummingbird feeders built to be attractive to the little roamers. Pick feeders with bright red accents to get their attention, and a feeder that holds about 8 ounces of sugar water. 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If you are having a wedding at a reception hall, you can ask your guest to pay for their own plate. &lt;br /&gt;If you feel uncomfortable about asking your guest to pay for their own plate, you can ask them to send a donation. Some couples ask their guest to donate an undisclosed amount of money to help them to place a down payment on a house. All you have to do is send out a note explaining that you and your spouse want to purchase a home. You can set up a webpage and place a photo of the house that you want to buy.  You can accept donations for your new home online. When you finally move into your new house, have a house warming party and invite everyone who contributed to your house fund.  You can purchase a plaque and have it engraved with the names of the people who donated to your fund.  When they visit your home, show them the plaque. Gift givers will feel appreciated by your creative gesture. 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(She contributed to The Kent Constabularys extraordinarily informative leaflet on  Domestic Violence.)  As her eyes read my face, she talked about the Three Rings. Briefly, all of our relationships fall somewhere within these three concentric rings.  It was as she spoke of the Second Ring that Glenna placed a hand supportively on my shoulder.  Glenna talked and I squirmed slightly in my seat, marvelling at how some more piece of the jigsaw had fallen into place I pass what she said on to you in the hope that it will be as enlightening for you as it was for me.  The language and any shortcomings are mine. The Third Ring This is the outermost ring and it comprises the people with whom you have, quite literally, a nodding acquaintance.  Your interaction with them may be pleasant enough.  It comes about not by design, but simply because your paths cross. The Second Ring These people you meet and become familiar with in specific circumstance.  You tend to become close quite quickly; you may share affinities that matter a lot at the time.   These relationships are more closely connected to where you are in your life at the time than they are to who you truly are. Second Ring relationships include the kind of instant friendships you strike up on holiday, workplace friendships, as well as the new mothers together bond.  They tend not to survive the specific circumstance in which they grew up for too long. Glenna points out how easy it is to confuse Second Ring romances with First Ring love.  There will be a common interest or experience that throws two people together so that, at the start, they share something quite powerful.  Rather than defining the nature of the bond, they are swayed by its force into believing in its quality and its durability. Two people who throw themselves into a Second Ring romance may well share a common hurt or problem, so that each has an unusual degree of awareness of what the other is feeling  and a sense that the other is equally aware of what they are feeling. It would be quick and easy to say that this intimate knowledge of the other persons feeling is indicative of a high level of mutual understanding and empathy, but it would be wrong. Although it may look initially like understanding and it may feel like empathy, it is something quite different.  What has happened is that two people have come together both looking for the same thing.  Their assumption is that, since the other knows what they have been through and what they want so intimately, the other will be able to heal them and make them whole.  He will satisfy their previously unmet needs. In short, the other person is there to do for them what they cannot do for themselves. With time, both come to realise that rather than mutual healing there will be an increasingly urgent battle to get their own needs met, because neither has the necessary resources to still the others old pain.  The abusive partner will find some release in masking his needs by shifting blame onto the other, who will be labelled too needy and dependent. Their needs brought them together and their needs will drive them apart but only after they have undergone profound disillusionment and suffering together. Second Ring romances typify the adage: marry in haste and relent at leisure. We let the wrong person through too many boundaries, too fast, without finding out the things we really needed to know about them. The First Ring The First Ring is the domain of truly loving, nurturing relationships with a partner, close friends and family.  It is the circle of congruence: peoples actions are consistent with their words. Unlike a Second Ring romance, in which one partner may protest undying love, but will, increasingly, treat the other with contempt and hostility, a First Ring partner has the personal resources to care for and treat the other as well as they treat themselves. First Ring people are not saints, but they are mature, functional human beings who are not always clamouring to get their needs met first. There would be a lot more to say about First Ring relationships, but our focus, here, is on The Second Ring because that is the ring over which we should have the greatest control, but often do not.  It is also the ring where a great deal of emotional damage occurs, that we can learn to prevent. (C) Annie Kaszina 2005&lt;br /&gt;Joyful Coaching An NLP Practitioner and Women's Empowerment Coach, Annie specialises in helping women heal the trauma of the past, so they can enjoy the present and look forward to the future. 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If you are not careful, this little phrase can be an absolute killer for your weight loss plans during this holiday season. And I'm not just talking about the food. The hidden danger is in all the alcoholic drinks and cocktails that's being offered to you.  Yes, those party drinks can do more harm other than just getting you intoxicated and embarassingly uninhibited! Did you know that these drinks contain an incredible number of calories? In fact, alcohol is the number two most energy-dense food, losing out only to fat.  Fat has 9 calories per gram, and alcohol comes in a close second at a whopping 7 calories per gram. What this means is that each alcoholic drink you consume will cause you to take in an alarmingly high number of calories. Here's a sample of some of the more popular drinks, together with their calorie counts... 1 glass of Bailey's lrish Cream - 468 calories &lt;br /&gt;1 glass of Margarita - 453 calories &lt;br /&gt;1 glass of Martini - 413 calories &lt;br /&gt;1 glass of Pina Colada - 297 calories &lt;br /&gt;1 glass of Vodka Cranberry - 250 calories  &lt;br /&gt;1 glass of Rum &amp; cola - 240 calories &lt;br /&gt;1 glass of Screwdriver - 200 calories &lt;br /&gt;1 mug of beer - 150 calories &lt;br /&gt;1 glass of white wine - 120 calories &lt;br /&gt;1 tequila shot - 100 calories To put those calorie counts into perspective, I'd like to just point out that 2 glasses of Margaritas would have given you about _half_ of your daily calories requirements.  Yes, 50% from just 2 drinks. And we have not even included the calories from the food, nuts and snacks yet!  Once we add those in, can you see how easy it is for you to go over the daily calorie requirements, and start piling on the pounds? Now, this doesn't mean that you should stay away from the alcoholic drinks.  It's just that when you drink, you should keep in mind the huge amount of calories in the drinks. I want you to have fun this holiday.  So, if you are the sort that enjoys a drink of two at your parties, I want to leave you with a couple of useful tips to help to reduce the "guilt factor". - Fill up your glass with lots of ice cubes.  You'll not only get a nice cold drink, the water from the melted ice has zero calories too. - Use soda water to dilute your drink.  This helps to fill you up quicker, and it means you won't get tipsy too quickly. - And probably the most important tip... Do not use the alcoholic drinks to quench your thirst.  Remember, you should be drinking these party drinks for fun.  After the heavy meal or when you had too much salty snacks, go drink a big glass of water first to quench your thirst.  Water works better for this, and it has zero calories! I hope you have loads of fun... and Happy Holidays! Copyright 2005 Tracy Lee Tracy Lee is the owner of the "Weight Loss for Women Over 40" site.  Get the latest news, tips &amp; tricks that can help women over 40 to lose weight safely and permanently, and your complimentary copy of our Special Report "9 Little-Known Insider Weight Loss Secrets To Help Women Over 40 Make Those Extra Pounds Disappear" instantly here:&lt;br /&gt;http://www.weight-loss-for-women-over-40.com/insidersecrets/ This article is available for reprint in your ezine, website or e-book. You MUST agree not to make any changes to the article and the RESOURCE BOX MUST be included WITH A LIVE LINK back to our website. Otherwise reprint is prohibited. 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It is well known to be one of the healthiest eating regimes known to man as well as an effective and powerful deterrent against heart disease, cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. What you might not know is that if applied in the correct way this type of diet can also be used as an extremely effective means of losing weight - and a lot of it!! Losing weight AND improving your health at the same time? Unheard of - until now! Unlike 'fad' diets which are primarily designed for extreme weight-loss, the Mediterranean Diet actually works WITH your metabolism to achieve long-term and permanent results. The speed that you lose weight could be slightly slower but the end result is MUCH better. Diets such as the 'Atkins' or the 'Cabbage Soup', apart from being dangerously unhealthy, have been shown to make the dieter lose water rather than actual fat - this can be extremely counter-productive. If weight is lost too quickly there can be up to a 6% loss of muscle tissue as well as any fat or water lost. As a result, when the weight eventually returns - and it always does - more fat actually replaces the lost muscle which means the dieter will end up being fatter than he was before!! To lose weight effectively, the method has to be realistic and according to research carried out by Harvard University, the Mediterranean Diet is the solution. To learn exactly how to achieve permanent and healthy weight-loss visit: http://www.mediterraneandietsecrets.com Anthony Glassman - co-author of Mediterranean Diet Secrets Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Tim_Godfrey http://EzineArticles.com/?A-Successful-Weight-Loss-System-Researched-By-Harvard-University&amp;id=129975 &lt;a href="http://prrd.net/moodle/user/view.php?id=2575&amp;course=1"&gt;ambien multiple sclerosis encyclopaedia keyword keyword&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.catedu.es/aramoodle/user/view.php?id=1953&amp;course=1"&gt;ambien rx sleeping pill&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.watraininginstitute.com.au/minesite/user/view.php?id=73&amp;course=1"&gt;ambien pillow&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://ecbsonline.org/user/view.php?id=25&amp;course=1"&gt;ambien-cr&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/68278468896962001-4159259409554847408?l=schmitigalhildy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/68278468896962001/posts/default/4159259409554847408'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/68278468896962001/posts/default/4159259409554847408'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://schmitigalhildy.blogspot.com/2008/03/successful-weight-loss-system.html' title='A Successful Weight-Loss System Researched By Harvard University'/><author><name>schmitigalhildy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08454871077771720531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68278468896962001.post-8961588759941639725</id><published>2008-03-01T19:24:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-03-01T19:24:21.827-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Origins of Spurious � The Un-Intelligent Design of Darwinism</title><content type='html'>By Michael Bresciani The basis for this article is connected to a well known Bible verse from 2 Thessalonians 2:11. It is important to keep this reference in context with the surrounding verses. The entire chapter is the best context here as it seems to be centered on this one single idea, namely that Christ will not return until the Anti-Christ appears and finishes his brief but horrific rule. Jesus said that the truth would make us free John 8:32. Conversely, it can be said that lies will bring us into bondage, the very opposite of freedom. As Satan goes out with great fury in these last days to deceive and destroy he is carrying with him many entanglements and heavy bondage for unsuspecting believers as well as unbelievers. Staying free, unfettered and useful to the kingdom of God will not be quite as easy as we approach the second coming. Satan has a huge arsenal of lies he will lay on this generation but we will peruse only two of them here. These two deceptions are the most powerful lies Satan has ever gotten any generation to accept wholesale. Once you understand his purpose for putting forth these two whoppers you will better understand how he has deceived not a few but an entire generation. In fact the anti-Christ wouldnt dare to show up until both of these lies are universally accepted. Most scripturally grounded believers already know of these deceptions but the numbers of deceived are growing daily. Even worse is the fact that very few believers know how to answer or uncover these falsehoods for themselves or others. Even a child knows that the primary purpose of a lie is to deceive or cover something. A mature adult knows that lies have several more complex purposes. Satan who the bible calls the father of lies John 8:44, knows far more advanced purposes for lies. His purpose is not just to cover the truth or misguide someone for a while. His purpose involves the deception of the whole earth and in the last days the deception of an entire generation. That purpose is ultimately the destruction of Gods chief creation, man. He can deceive one man at a time but in the last days he is in a hurry because his time is short Revelation 12:12. In the last days he cant take down only one or two people at a time, he must seek to bring down a whole generation. Anyone who has ever thought to murder someone has had to consider how to remove the evidence from their plan in order to cover their path. Even if they plan to kill and make it look like suicide there is much evidence to be removed. In the less sophisticated type of murder the perpetrator must at the very least remove himself very far away from the crime by running away. What if they could convince someone to do something very life threatening without arousing any suspicion at all in the mind of their victim? What if they only had to suggest that their victim do something they had done a thousand times before, something that no one would think of as unusual? Here is an example. A man who wants his neighbor dead realizes that the bridge over a very deep ravine leading to his neighbors house has been washed out by a furious storm now raging. Knowing his neighbor stops off at the same newsstand every day to pick up a paper and then rushes home down the same dark country road every night, he sees his chance. Casually he waits at the store perusing through the shelves as if looking for something in particular. When the neighbor comes in he engages him in conversation about the severe storm at hand and the best of several available routes by which to travel home. He assures his neighbor that the regularly traveled road over the bridge is fine and that he just came that way himself. With this information in mind and nothing to arouse his suspicions, the victim barrels ahead with confidence only to plunge to his death in the ravine. The malicious neighbor who caused this death need not remove any evidence or himself from the crime. Nothing unusual has taken place and clearly nature will not be indicted in this case. He clearly allowed his neighbor to kill himself in the pursuit of his everyday activity. One could almost say his death was caused by his own mindless habits. He always did it that way! Simply put we are all in a storm and as the last days arrive that storm is raging and Satan knows the bridge is out. Suggesting that you take the path that you and all your neighbors always take is a device. But devising ways to destroy us by keeping us on the road most commonly traveled is only the method of his deception, the purpose for his deception is the most sinister of all, it is your destruction Regardless of any questions we encounter in life there are always two that are more universally asked than all others. Where did we come from and where are we going? These questions are not just the sign of a healthy curiosity but rather they are a deep desire placed in all men by the creator. The desire to ask these pertinent questions is given to us by God himself. To ask these questions honestly is true seeking and will often be our first steps to recognition of God. Satan does not want any man or women to seriously ask either of these questions. He will do anything to keep them from being asked and has made provision to supplant the real answer with a lie if he cant circumvent our asking. The reason he has gone to such great lengths to quiet these quests is because if we accept the correct answer we will ultimately become accountable to God. If we believe we came from God and that he is the creator and also that one day we will stand before his judgment we then must become accountable to God. Perhaps a verse from a country music favorite, The Baptism of Jesse Taylor says it more succinctly. They baptized Jesse Taylor in Cedar Creek last Sunday, Jesus gained a soul but Satan lost a good right arm. In the last days Satan provides side roads for people to take in their beliefs. Diversity itself is touted as the great attraction even if the answer is incorrect. Open minded or broad minded people are often found on the broad road of destruction Jesus warned about. They dont just travel the broad road but have made it a matter of pride. The modern psyche frowns on narrow mindedness which is seen as a lack of intelligence, independence and suave. Within this framework Satan provides an endless melee of options for answering the two big questions. Perhaps it might be an ancient religion, a philosophy, science or just good old personal reasoning. But even this extensive list is not enough to usher in the rule of the anti-Christ. In the last days Satan provides a more pervasive and universally acceptable answer. Christ said a house divided against itself cannot stand Mt 12:25. Satan needs unity among the unbelievers in the last days to ensure he will gain his seat of authority. Thus he provides them with two large answers to answer the two largest questions of life. Universal acceptance of these answers is essential to rally everyone to his final purpose. What are Satans answers to these two great questions? In answer to the questions of our origin he has provided this generation with the evolutionary model formerly more commonly referred to as the theory of evolution. To the question of where we are going collectively or individually he has provided an answer that is now almost totally accepted the world over. From the school child to the aged it is generally accepted that we are eventually going out among the stars to carry our civilization into inter stellar space. Neither of these answers seems too hard to take and they look generally believable. It would seem that even if they are not true that the damage done would be little. The truth is that to believe these lies strikes at the very heart of the welfare of the entire human race. In the simplest of words if we didnt come from God and are not going to God then we dont have to answer to God. All accountability is now a washed out bridge. In Shrewsbury, England February 12, 1809 Charles Robert Darwin was born the fifth child in his family. He was destined to become the most noted among his siblings. Darwin was a naturalist and traveled aboard the HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836. As a scientist he made careful observations of plant and animal life in the Pacific Ocean. When in the Galapagos Islands he noticed certain similarities between the flora and fauna there and those of South America. After returning to England he reviewed his notes and came to a conclusion that would change the shape of the modern world. It was believed then and still is by some today that since his own notes were all he had to review and because speculations about what took place over millions of years of time is not true empiricism, that Darwin didnt just come to these conclusions but rather he jumped to a conclusion. True science or the empirical method of deduction is limited by its own definition to conducting, observing and recording repeatable observable phenomena. Darwins conclusions were not repeatable since time has passed, and not observable because neither he nor anyone else living has seen it, thus everything he put forth passed into an entirely different realm.  His conclusions were now in the realm of prior philosophic postulation. He and the world were satisfied at the time to overlook this small problem by referring to his conclusions as a theory. When a theory has had ample time to be repeated and observed under the empirical or scientific method it is then called a law. In the case of Darwins theory just a general acceptance of it by the public seems to have substituted for empirical truth and it is now accepted the world over as a law. No one seemed to notice that mindlessly accepting a prior philosophic postulate is the equivalent of accepting something by faith. Believing in Darwins theory takes faith just as much as it does to believe that God created everything. At least in the gospel message there were twelve witnesses who could give an accounting, which is twelve more than witnessed the origin of species. In his famous book The Origin of Species Darwin put forth that all living things originated from a single fundamental source and evolved in a process he called natural selection. He believed that this natural selection occurred randomly over millions of years in order for each subsequent species to adapt thus insuring its own survival. When his theory was first put forth it was vigorously welcomed by the people in academia and the secular world, many who were at that time prideful and bent on being the people of the new enlightened age. There wasnt much to refute his theory at the time but that is no longer true. Since his death in 1882 Darwins remains lie in the Westminster Abbey in England but the effect of his ideas still has a life of its own.. But new evidence is also alive and is available to anyone who wants to see it. There are many creation science institutions, publications and practicing scientists the world over who can offer argument and proof against the theory of evolution. Because creation science was not known in Darwins time and his theory was carried on the wings of its own popularity those who contested it at that time were made to look like a pack of Bible thumping fools. It was easy then to deride and demean the detractors of his theory as bible thumping and narrow minded people who refused to get onboard the lighting fast train of enlightenment. It was during this time of first confrontations the famous Monkey Trial took place in the summer of 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee. William Jennings Bryan a three time candidate for president represented the crusade to banish Darwins theory. The staunch agnostic Clarence Darrow was the head of the famous defense team. The jury had to decide if they would hold John Scopes accountable for teaching Darwins theory in his high school biology class. Since the outcome is well known we wont spend a great deal of attention to it here. Perhaps what should be noticed is the abundant attention paid to it by uncounted high school and college professors. They both teach it and enjoy the snickers and rolling eyes of students who think the bible believers were made to look more like monkeys than those they were now calling primates. The result of that trial looked like a serious blow to the veracity of the biblical accounting of the creation. If the serious Darwinist were to look at the discoveries in creation science since 1925 they would be made to concur about one thing, there have been no significant blows since then. If it were not for the momentum this theory has gained, it would have no life at all. But who is stopping to look at the new evidence? Some believers have even gotten caught up in the snowball. Those Christians have allowed for the idea that maybe God himself may have used evolution to produce all the living creatures and us. This compromise is referred to as theistic evolution. Without debating the consequences of calling God a liar it is even harder to imagine the level of stupidity in believing in a God who is a liar. Having faith in a lying God is incongruous; most of us lose faith in each other if one is known to be a liar. In some cases, especially among the intellectual set, Theistic evolution is tolerated because it tends to ease peer pressure. Who wants to be the odd man out? If most of academia is riding on the evolutionary model then why make waves. You wont get beheaded for believing in the bible but a little ridicule goes a long way. On second thought, as long as it is only unpopular to believe in the bible you wont get beheaded. But in the future when it is illegal to believe in the bible heads will fly, literally, see Revelation 20:4. Anyone who seriously wants to check what they have heard or what they have been taught could start with only a cursory examination of evolution's antithesis. Clicking the words "creation science" on any decent search engine will give you enough information to keep you busy for weeks. Volumes can be written on the errors and fallacies of the theory of evolution but few are addressing the product or fruit of this well entrenched fairy tale. What, is only part of the question, why is the rest of the story. Only man in his prideful self-will would dare to give God his walking papers. Satan knows that and has provided the manifest and the vehicle to do so in the name of science and enlightened progress. The desired effect is evident throughout the world. If men were truly compelled to be accountable to some kind of a creator, science would give them a single cell amoeba to pay homage to while Satan laughs all the way to the pits. Satan is a thief but there is nothing in this world for him to steal except the souls and futures of men. Everything else is already his. Luke 4:5,6 By removing any reason to answer to God Satan can work unhindered preparing the world to receive the last world dictator known as the antichrist. The same pride men raise to resist God would resist the antichrist as well if their minds were not carefully prepared to allow him to rule. That this deception will take place is part of prophecy but few know that the bible also prophecies that there must be an extensive and careful preparation to make his deception work in a worldwide or universal fashion. Revelation 16:13, 14 Although a bit over stated it would seem that the old cry to question everything and all authority has given way to believe what you're told and get back to livin and making bucks. Just as in those, exceptions that make the rule, questioning things doesnt establish or disprove anything. Only an unbiased examination of all the evidence can lead to a legitimate answer. Arent a couple of sound answers still worth more than a thousand questions? Now theres a question. Rev Bresciani has written many articles over the past thirty years in such periodicals as Guideposts and Catholic Digest. He is the author of two books available on Amazon.com, Alibris, Barnes and Noble and many other places. Rev Bresciani wrote Hook Line and Sinker or what has Your Church Been Teaching You, publisher, PublishAmerica of Baltimore MD. He also wrote a book published by Xulon Press entitled An American Prophet and His Message, Questions and Answers on the Second Coming of Christ. 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There are only three things you can do with it: waste it, sell it, or invest it. As an entrepreneur or a service professional, what you do with your time acutely impacts how much money you can make. If this year you want to make clients come to you, earn a six figure income, become the expert in your chosen field, positively impact lives of many people, gain fame and earn respect of your peers  you have to invest your time into creating marketing assets! Just like the wealthy invest in assets that continuously appreciate and generate more money  like real estate, the savvy entrepreneurs invest in creating marketing assets that grow your business with no additional expense. What are those assets? Here is just a short list: Content &lt;br /&gt;Info products &lt;br /&gt;Referral partners &lt;br /&gt;Ezine subscribers list &lt;br /&gt;Customers list &lt;br /&gt;Incoming links to your website &lt;br /&gt;Testimonials &lt;br /&gt;Education  So if you want to become the top dog in your industry, you've got to start doing what the big dogs do. To begin investing your time into creating high leverage marketing assets use this short checklist: DON'T design expensive logos. While establishing your uniqueness is important, people will not do business with you because you spent money on a cute graphic! DO survey your ideal clients. Learning and understanding their needs allow you to offer them solutions they want  and that makes you incredibly attractive to them. DON'T place ads that feature little more but your logo, phone number and address. Stop kidding yourself thinking you are the next IBM or Coca-Cola and that merely mentioning your name will get people pounding on your door! DO create content that addresses the most pressing needs your prospects and clients are desperately trying to solve! Write articles, create special reports, publish an e-zine or e-book (or regular book), and record audio/video products. If you advertise  advertise those products not your services. DO take time to learn and leverage free publicity. Research media contacts, take time to understand what type of information appeals to them, and become good at presenting your information in the format they like best. DON'T attend every networking meeting you can find. Your time is much too valuable to try to attract business in one-on-one fashion. Contrary to the popular belief  networking isnt cheap! If you sum up the cost of your time, the price you pay to eat all that rubber chicken, and the energy to follow-up with people who will likely never do business with you  its a very expensive (and ineffective) way to find only a handful of qualified prospects! DO develop informative presentations. Find large gatherings of your ideal prospects and become good at getting yourself invited as a speaker. DON'T fiddle around adjusting the shades of colors on your web site! DO look for online communities that already attract your ideal clients and find a way to make them link to you. Ask them to post your articles. Make your site content rich so they will want to list it as a resource. Or sell an info product and invite them to become an affiliate. DON'T beg for referrals! DO create ways your current clients can easily give you away (like an article or an audio CD) DO build relationships with referral partners. Create ways in which they can introduce you to hundreds or even thousands of prospects at once! DON'T try to figure everything out on your own  thats a very expensive way to learn marketing and build your business. DO invest in knowledge products and access to experts. An hour or two with a knowledgeable advisor can save you th0usands of dollars in time and money wasted on wrong strategies and improperly implemented tactics. &lt;br /&gt;Providing people with easily accessible information about solutions will position you as a valuable resource and an expert. These tools will not only attract all the new business you want, but they will allow you to charge the money you deserve and create the lifestyle you desire. So stop wasting time eating all that rubber chicken and chasing people who will likely never do business with you nor refer a single client. Instead, start creating high-leverage marketing tools that over time will generate an avalanche of new business! (c) 2004 Adam M. Urbanski The Author, Adam Urbanski, the Marketing Mentor, helps Service Professionals and Small Business Owners attract more clients. 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Diluted oils that contain a high amount of sodium.   Too much sodium in the oils can ruin your batch of soap.  These oils cost less than the genuine undiluted oils. 11.  Using too much citrus oil.  Too much of this acidic oil will react badly with the lye and youll end up with curdled soap.  I use 35% or less citrus oil. As you can see from the list above, the most common culprit of horrible smelling soap is the fragrance used.  If you use a fragrance thats not suitable for soap making, youll more than likely end up with stinky smelling soap.  Before buying any fragrance, make sure its suitable for soap making.  One of the easiest ways of doing this is to buy from a retail soap making supplier who sells soap making ingredients. So now you know what to do fragrance wise, why not get started on your next batch of soap today? Jennifer Christine is a Super Soap Making Enthusiast!  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Why Does My Home Made Soap Pong?'/><author><name>schmitigalhildy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08454871077771720531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68278468896962001.post-6283565719197615635</id><published>2008-02-27T08:40:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-27T08:40:49.961-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Bottled Water Dispensers</title><content type='html'>By Elizabeth Morgan Bottled water dispensers are available on the market in two basic models, freestanding dispersers and the counter top dispensers. These bottled water dispensers are large and easy to use. They have push button faucets and removable drip trays for easy cleaning. Most of these dispensers have child resistant hot water faucet and come with a limited warranty. Freestanding bottle water dispensers are available in three varieties. The dispensers can be cold units, which can dispense only cold water; hot and cold units that can dispense both hot and cold water; and the latest variety of units that can dispense, hot water, cold water, water at room temperature. They have separate faucets for each of these operations. Bottled water dispensers are an excellent choice for homeowners, who prefer to own and not rent a water dispenser. Currently available are also the terra cotta models, stone ware and mini coolers with hot and cold faucets. All the customer needs is to buy 5 gallon bottles or fill them up at home if a purifier is available. These dispensers are also available in the portable or counter top models. One major disadvantage with the bottled water dispenser is the maintenance.  In the event the water cooler is not in regular use, or during summer months when the temperatures are higher, the clear fresh taste of bottled water might be difficult to achieve. Proper care of the bottled water and of the dispensers has to be a priority. It is advised to store the full bottles at a constant temperature and, if possible, in a cool area. This discourages the expansion and contraction of the bottles that can draw microscopic material into the bottles. This also helps in preventing the growth of algae. The person changing the bottle must wash the hands and wipe the top and neck of the new bottle with a clean sterile cloth. Bottled water dispensers must be cleaned at least once a month by removing the empty water bottle and adding 1 tablespoon of bleach to the water reservoir. Add sufficient cold water from the tap to let the bleach fill the tubing between the reservoir and tap and let the bleach solution stand for 5-10 minutes. 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Friendship gifts them a natural will power to stay beside and always generate a strong bonding through which they start understanding each other more closely. When it comes to a successful relationship for the lifetime, friendship is a most important part of it. Husband and wife truly become best friends at the twilight of their life. All other relations seem vain and only true partnership continues. That is the most ideal time when they really cherish the strength of the trust grown in between them. Its all about caring, sharing and loving each other, but at the same time it it about a healthy friendship. Friendship definitely grow spontaneously among lovers in any true love relationship. When your partner has started to understand words unuttered, began to read your mind as an open book... offer you help before you ask for it, and thus fulfill all the needs and limit, it is a result of true friendship. There are many famous couples who were friends at first and then started dating each other. When  friends become couples often their marriage last more than ordinary couples. The sense of aloofness and insecurity hardly come because friendship suffice the fact how better you understand and fulfill each other. Sometimes couples also become friends after marriage. And because of the strength of the bonding, their marriage lasts of a lifetime. These are some couples who are lifetime friends: &lt;br /&gt;1.Ulysses and Penelope &lt;br /&gt;2.Pierre Curie and Marie Curie &lt;br /&gt;3.Bill Clinton and Hilary Clinton &lt;br /&gt;4.Bill Gates and Melinda Gates &lt;br /&gt;5.David and Victoria Beckham &lt;br /&gt;6.Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi &lt;br /&gt;7.P B Shelly and Merry Shelly &lt;br /&gt;8.Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt &lt;br /&gt;9.John Travolta and Kelly Preston &lt;br /&gt;10.Ike and Tina Turner Research suggest that 66.54% successful married couples over the world are good friends. 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Nobody's going to see it for more than a few minutes anyway after it's brought out. As for speeches, choose about 3 friends and family members to make them.  This is what really makes a 21st birthday special.  Make sure you pick people who are not going to say anything inappropriate.  Make sure you've at least fed your guests the first course before starting speeches.  Nobody wants to listen to them when they're hungry. Choose a master of ceremonies to run the evening, someone with a good personality and sense of humor.  This will greatly help the evening be more enjoyable. Finally, there are going to be people who don't know each other so a good thing to do is have a few ice breakers so people can get to know each other and feel more comfortable there.  Make the ice breaker something that your guests will have to get up from their seats and mingle. 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When we speak of the "urinary tract" we are referring to the following:&lt;br /&gt;Kidneys - they take liquid waste from the blood and form urine&lt;br /&gt;Ureter - a tube or tubes that carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder&lt;br /&gt;Bladder - the vessel that stores the urine until it can be passed from the body&lt;br /&gt;Urethra - the tube that carries the urine from the bladder out of the body&lt;br /&gt;What are the symptoms of a urinary tract infection?  The symptoms of a UTI are many, but some of the most common include:&lt;br /&gt;A frequent urge to urinate.&lt;br /&gt;A reduced or restricted urine flow.&lt;br /&gt;Pain or a "burning sensation" in the bladder area.&lt;br /&gt;Discomfort or pressure above the pubic bone.&lt;br /&gt;Cloudy, milky, or reddish urine.&lt;br /&gt;If you have these symptoms in conjunction with a fever, the infection may have spread to your kidneys. What are the treatment options for a urinary tract infection?  The treatment options fall into two separate categories basically defined as "antibiotic" and "naturopathic". The antibiotic options include a myriad of prescription antibiotics that require a visit to the doctor's office.  While antibiotics are typically effective in treating the UTI, many times they are not.  And, unfortunately, the antibiotic option can cause side effects as detrimental as the UTI itself. Because the antibiotics are not discriminating, they kill any and all bacteria despite their purpose.  The human body utilizes over 1,000 species of "good bacteria" -- each with their own particular "job" to do.  Killing the "good bacteria" can cause a variety of unwanted and unpleasant side effects such as diarrhea, constipation, nausea and yeast infections. The naturopathic options include two principal options, cranberry and a simple sugar known as d-mannose (http://www.d-mannose-utislip.com/). The cranberry, or cranberry extract option, has been a staple of folk medicine for hundreds of years.  Previously thought to inhibit the proliferation of bacteria in the urinary tract by affecting the pH of the urine, it is now known that cranberry instead interferes with the ability of the bacteria to adhere to the walls of the urinary tract.  By doing so, the bacteria are literally flushed out of the system.  Recently, however, scientists have discovered a naturopathic alternative to cranberry that is between ten and fifty times more effective.&lt;br /&gt;The more effective cranberry alternative is a simple sugar known as d-mannose. D-mannose is a carbohydrate very similar in structure to glucose, yet it is not readily metabolized by our bodies like glucose.  It is this fact that makes d-mannose such a fast-acting treatment. When even a small amount of d-mannose is consumed, nearly all of it is removed from the bloodstream by the kidneys and deposited into the urine.  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D-mannose can be taken by the elderly as well as by children, as both age groups are susceptible to frequent urinary tract infections. How can urinary tract infections be prevented?  There are many simple things that can be done to prevent UTI.  Wiping from front to back after a bowel movement can prevent bacterial contamination of the vagina for women.  Using a bidet instead of toilet paper is also very effective.  Showering before and after intercourse is very helpful, as well as urinating after intercourse.  Drink plenty of water each day so that your body is able to produce plenty of urine.  Urinate when you feel the urge to do so and attempt to empty the bladder completely.  Finally, for those who experience frequent UTI, it is advisable to take a maintenance dosage of d-mannose in order to prevent UTI from occurring. Copyright  2005 Michael Callen All Rights Reserved Michael Callen is the author of the Weekly Weightloss Tips Newsletter (http://www.weeklyweightlosstips.com) and the Chief Technology Officer for http://www.WellnessPartners.com, an online retailer of dozens of health and wellness products. 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In the original Hebrew text, the 14th chapter of Isaiah is not about a fallen angel, but about a fallen Babylonian king, who had persecuted the children of Israel.  Later in the context we see he was a man, who died.  Now we often hear that this was a "type" but that's slippery ground mostly.  Metaphor maybe, but not a type, where we can change a man into a Lucifer and then Lucifer into Satan, never mentioned, and then the whole thing into how Satan came to be the God of this world so send in your tithes and be safe with us.  "In the Hebrew text the expression used to describe the Babylonian king before his death is "Helal, son of Shahar", which can best be translated as "Day star, son of the Dawn." The name evokes the golden glitter of a proud king's dress and court (much as his personal splendor earned for King Louis XIV of France the appellation, "The Sun King").&lt;br /&gt;{Craig Lyons-Bet Emet Ministries.}   The King here was a man, plain and simple, and for his cocky attitude, he got to die like everyone else. Lucifer means "Light Bringer" and is a term used by Roman astronomers to describe the planet Venus.  Venus has always been the light bringer as it always precedes the early morning sun.  It is very bright and very noticeable, such that it has been confused, as noted, for the landing lights of non-existent airplanes.  It is bright, but not as bright as the sun of course.  In mythology, humans noted this 'god" that preceeded the sun and seemed to be racing to the zenith, which in astrotheology is called the place of the "Most High" or plainly put for us today, NOON! Noon is God's throne in astrotheological terms.  In Isaiah, this "Lightbringer" went before God, the Most High-The SUN.  The highest point in the sky where the sun or anything that shines outside the planet can rise, from our perspective.  When mythology and even the Bible speaks of God as "the most High", one can see the deeper meaning that hints at sun worship.  The Bible promotes a similar yet different form of Sun/Son worship but that has been lost on most Christians today. The planet Venus proved to be an enigma for mankind.  It's job seemed to be to go before the morning sun and announce, if you would, it's coming forth.  But then, bright as it was and still is, it falls from the sky and descends into the ground, or in mythology, seems to be thrown down.  Strange!  Not knowing that Venus was an inner planet and all inner planets that rotate with the earth around the sun can never pass over us, east to west as do the outer planets and stars, they had to explain it.  Thus we have the the "fact" that this lightbringer, this Lucifer soon be called Satan, MUST have become discontend with just announcing the Sun God, so MUST have said in his heart, "I will become the MOST HIGH."  Well that was it for him!  The Most High, not willing to give up his throne to this usurper, simply threw him back down to the earth, or apparently so at least as we look on the horizon.  After that rather unsuccessful endeavor the dethrone God Most High, we get stuck with him as Satan compliments of the Church, who embellished the story and ta ta!...The mess the world in is explained and it isn't the fault of mankind for the most part.  Forever more, we can say, "Satan made me do it."  You know, the bright and morning star that tried to become God but lost. It was mostly the Catholic St. Jerome in the fourth century who mistranslated the Hebraic metaphor, "Day star, son of the Dawn," as "Lucifer," and over the centuries an evolution of ideas took place. Lucifer the morning star became a disobedient angel, cast out of heaven to rule eternally in hell mostly waiting for all Non-Catholics, but later all Non-Protestants too.  Now the Church had it's Prince of the Power of the Air, the Prince of Darkness, the God of this world, The Roaring Lion, the Fallen Angel, the former Day star (because if you know where to look, Venus can even be seen in the daytime)...gone bad. Interesting enough, even Jesus, well the Jesus of Revelation who bears no likeness to the Jesus of the Gospels, identifies himself as the morning star, a term used as a central theme in many Christian sermons. Jesus refers to himself as the morning star in Revelation 22:16:  "I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star." So here we have it.  Humans could never quite explain why this bright "star" we know as the planet Venus, preceeded the morning Sun as if to announce it's arrival, but then crashed back to earth.  Very strange!  Let's make up a story!  This bright light, an  Angel, the Lightbringer and minor deity compared to the SUN, really went bad and decided to knock the SUN GOD, and later the SON of GOD, off the throne, which is where the SUN rises to when it becomes the MOST HIGH at NOON.  God, not putting up with that, simply threw Lucifer, now Satan or the Destroyer, back down to earth where he belongs and humans can get stuck with him until the SON of the SUN God comes back to destroy the works of the Light Bringer now gone dark.  Great story!   In Isaiah 14, this haughty king was acting just like that in thinking he could knock Israel out of the picture, he lost, was thrown down and died, just like that planet Venus every morning.  So don't mess with God's chosen ones!19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet. In the real story of the real human king of Isaiah 14, we see he dies like all mortal men and is not well thought of for thinking he could challenge Israel. In verse 19  we read, "But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcass trodden under feet.  20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned."  Graves, carcasses, pits, burials and oblivion are all features of what happens to humans, not Angels or mini-gods. It's interesting, Venus also rises evenings wonderfully bright after the sun sets, and then falls back to earth too.  Perhaps Satan just coming out from the underworld of darkness for a peak and to let us know he still rules it before going back an hour or so later after "Sun Set" where even the Most High Sun goes every night, in Eqyptian history to challenge "SET" God of the Underworld.  Makes you wonder about stories about Sons of the Sun preaching to spirits in "prison."  But that's another story. So when you see Venus early in the morning when you drive to work and think either a train if low enough or a plane looking for place to land is coming right at YOU, know that's only the Light Bringer, Lucifer, later your arch nemesis Satan, announcing "But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall"  Malachi 4:2.  Notice it doesn't say "Son".  Think of wings more like rays and you'll get the picture. That planet Vensus, so beautiful is explaining a phenomenon that we take for granted to human beings long ago who feared such things and simply had to come up with a theology to explain it.  Now you can say you saw Satan fall as lightening from heaven too...how cool is that! 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That way you will not worry about the rings safety and your wont tip off your soon to be bride to whats about to happen. Lastly think about is space.  Yep space.   If youre somewhere that is tight on space you may have a problem.   I can see it now, youre in a small romantic restaurant but the tables are a little close together.    You decide the time is right and you squeeze between tables to get down on one knee, she gets excited and jumps up and her chair hits the table behind her spilling wine all over the people sitting there.   I think that would put a bit of a downer on the whole moment. So take the extra time to make sure you have enough space not only for YOU to propose but for HER to react and you will have a great moment you both will remember forever Charles Welf is the author of the a site full of Romantic Ideas. 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