<?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-7515196025485624571</id><updated>2012-02-16T05:57:14.598-08:00</updated><title type='text'>tomassinazib</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tomassinazib.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7515196025485624571/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tomassinazib.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7515196025485624571/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>tomassinazib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00631722058627076327</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>126</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7515196025485624571.post-8288795160243665629</id><published>2008-06-16T02:08:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-16T02:08:23.703-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Relationships: Taking Care of Yourself in the Moment</title><content type='html'>By Margaret Paul, Ph.D. Maria consulted with me because she was frustrated about the distance she felt in her relationship with her husband, Carl. He wanted to be close to her, but she didnt feel close to him. I think the problem is that he often talks to me in a judgmental or condescending way. He sounds like a parent rather than a partner. I just hate being spoken to like that. How do you respond when he speaks to you like that? I asked. I withdraw and feel badly. Then later I sometimes try to talk with him about it, but he doesnt know what Im talking about. He thinks Im too sensitive and that I just want to blame him. How often have you had the experience of not knowing what to say in conflict? Later, after thinking about it, you think of all the things you wish you would have said. Then you go back to your partner to try to deal with the issue, only to discover that its too late - your partner doesnt understand what you are talking about. Maria, imagine that the part of you that hates being spoken to like Carl speaks to you is a small child. Would you let him speak to a child like that? No. Actually, I dont let him speak to our children like that. He speaks to them with kindness and caring because he knows that I will say something if he is mean to them. So you stand up for your children in the moment, but you dont stand up for yourself, for the child within you, in the moment? Yeah. I just never know what to say. What do you say to him later? I tell him I didnt like his tone of voice. But he isnt aware of it. Right. He will be aware of it only if you say it in the moment. Most people are not aware of their tone of voice. When you tell him about it later, he really doesnt know what you are talking about. You need to be responding in the moment for him to hear his own voice. You need to be saying something like,  Carl, I hate it when you speak to me in that judgmental, parental voice. I dont feel like being with you when you talk to me like that. You have a much better chance of him understanding what you are saying when he can hear his own voice in the moment. And you will feel much better when you speak up for yourself in the moment. You will not feel so much like withdrawing when you are not abandoning yourself in the face of his judgmental tone. While Maria certainly didnt like Carls tone of voice, her distance from him was more due to her self-abandonment than to his behavior. As long as she was being a victim and not taking care of herself in the moment, she was feeling badly. Its easy to blame Carl and think that her feelings are his fault, but her feelings were really the result of not taking loving care of herself around Carl. Marie started to speak up, not blaming Carl but just letting him know her truth. To her great surprise and delight, he finally began to understand what she was saying. He was actually a caring person and just didnt realize that he was being parental and judgmental. The more Marie responded in the moment and spoke her truth, the better things got between them. Carl wasnt perfect, but Marie found that when she spoke up instead of withdrew, they were able to deal with the issue in the moment. She also discovered that the more she took care of herself in the moment instead of being a victim  with Carl and with her friends and family - the more respect Carl had for her. Some of his judgment toward her was coming from his frustration over her not speaking up for herself with her family and friends! About The Author &lt;br /&gt;Margaret Paul, Ph.D. is the best-selling author and co-author of eight books, including "Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Loved By You?" and Healing Your Aloneness. She is the co-creator of the powerful Inner Bonding healing process. Learn Inner Bonding now! Visit her web site for a FREE Inner Bonding course: http://www.innerbonding.com. Phone Sessions Available. 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It is the most popular standard for mobile phones in the world. GSM differs significantly from its predecessors in that both signaling and speech channels are Digital call quality, which means that it is considered a second generation (2G) mobile phone system. GSM is an open standard which is currently developed by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). From the point of view of the consumer, the key advantage of GSM systems has been higher digital voice quality and low cost alternatives to making calls such as text messaging. The advantage for network operators has been the ability to deploy equipment from different vendors because the open standard allows easy inter-operability. Like other cellular standards GSM allows network operators to offer roaming services which mean subscribers can use their phones all over the world. To help you further understand, GSM is simply a standard used by phones to communicate with each other. It is a new standard that has been adopted to all new models of phones and is now so prevailant that it has become the 'norm' in the phone world. Now to answer your other question, with respect to locked and unlocked phones. A phone is locked when it is attached to network. For example if you go to AT&amp;T and purchase a phone from them then that phone is said to be locked unto the AT&amp;T network and as such it cannot work on another network such as SPRINT or NEXTEL. Thus an unlocked phone is a phone that is bought, that is not locked to any network. And as such it can work on any network. The network it will lock unto will depend on the SIM card you put into the phone. For example if you put a AT&amp;T sim in an unlocked phone then it will work on the AT&amp;T network. In the same way if you put a NEXTEL SIM card in an unlocked phone then it will work on the NEXTEL network. However if the phone is locked to a particular network, like say for example AT&amp;T then changing the SIM card in the phone to another SIM card from another network such as NEXTEL will not work. This is because the phone is locked unto to AT&amp;T network and as such will not work on any other network. Yes, you can use the prepaid SIM card on the phone once the phone is either unlocked or on the same network as the SIM card you are going to put into it. It should work just fine. Unfortunatly is isn't possible to have more than one phone on the same line. It is possible to have more to than one phone on the same account, in fact, some providers will allow many many lines on one account. The reason why your unable to do this is that your phone has a ESN (electronic serial number) that assoicated with that line. What this does is allow your network to send the calls to your phone. If there is more then one ESN per line then it will cause problems receiving calls. For example, I had a phone that i wasnt using anymore when i bought a new one, well my old phone was recieving text messages that my new one was supposed to get, but the new one would get all the calls. To resolve the issue that had to erase the programming on the phone. Victor Epand is an expert agent for [http://www.buycellularphones.info]BuyCellularPhones.info, a huge cellphone superstore featuring great prices and rebates on cellphones including [http://www.buycellularphones.info/manufacturer/motorola.html]Motorola, [http://buycellularphones.info/manufacturer/samsung.html]Samsung, Nokia, Audiovox, LG, RIM Blackberry, Sanyo, Sony Ericsson, and others. 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One of the study skills is quick and effective remembering of new phenomena. In order to get such skill one should apply study techniques such as improving memory, choosing his/her own technique of remembering (there are four of them: associative, sounding, moving and watching) and monitoring. So in order to get good memorizing skill a student should apply three study techniques. Study skill and study technique can be presented in chain like cause-effect where study technique is a cause whereas study skill is an effect. Cause-effect chain clearly defines the study techniques which are to be applied for each definite study skill. The above listed study techniques can be used for improving memory and developing memorizing skill. However, the above list is very common and each student and teacher should choose or create different memory techniques depending on students&amp;#8217; perception preferences and topics to be learnt.  Associative technique for memorizing is the most effective for humanitarian subjects while sounding and watching techniques are better to applied while learning physical, mathematical and other symbols which are difficult to be associated with some pictures or other words. Moving technique for improving memory can be better applied for art classes as it develops good techniques for expressing feelings, thoughts and emotions by body movements. Moving technique for memory can create students good actors! Fast reading and research are the other study skills which have their own techniques as well. For fast reading skill it is useful to apply such techniques as reading a lot and reading aloud. Both techniques can be developed through continuous practice only. Research skills apply numerous study techniques: summarizing, outlining, analysis, comprehension and fast reading, of course! All these techniques have different study methods to develop them. For example, summarizing technique can be developed through brief reviews and short description practice; teachers can ask students to describe briefly some news or events occurred at their homes, country or the world. Here the time limit should be (approx. 5 minutes) after which other students should retell what they have understood while their classmate was briefing. Outlining technique is a vital part of research skill, therefore it must be developed from the very young age. Teachers may ask his/her students to outline each lesson after it finishes and write this down with all corrections and additions which have been made by a teacher and other students. Teachers should help students develop their skills and techniques because class works with other students are easy to comprehend when a group of people with the same interests are striving to achieve the same goal and are willing to help each other. The article was produced by the writer of masterpapers.com. &lt;br /&gt;Sharon White is a senior writer and writers consultant at term papers. Get some useful tips for thesis writing and term paper writing . 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Read on if you need a reminder of the basic principles of exercise for weight loss.  Skip to the bottom to find a link to the whole article on Exercise. Aerobic exercise is fat burning exercise. As you do some activity using large &lt;br /&gt;muscles (legs, especially) that raises your heart rate but still allows you to breathe &lt;br /&gt;normally, your body will burn fat with the oxygen you're breathing. However, your &lt;br /&gt;body will only burn blood-sugar at first, because it's easily available. So, to get to &lt;br /&gt;the fat-burning stage, you have to exercise for at least 20 minutes, preferably 30 &lt;br /&gt;minutes or more. Walking and bicycling at a gentle pace are examples of aerobic &lt;br /&gt;activities.  Read more in my article on Aerobics. Anaerobic exercises are high-intensity exercises that get your muscles working &lt;br /&gt;hard, and you will have trouble breathing. The word "anaerobic" means "without air", &lt;br /&gt;meaning that you will be breathing fast, but still not getting enough oxygen to &lt;br /&gt;properly fuel your muscles. This leads to muscle strengthening, but it also means &lt;br /&gt;that you're burning blood-sugar only, not fat, and you end up with lactic acid that &lt;br /&gt;will make your muscles feel like they're burning. Weight training and sprinting are &lt;br /&gt;anaerobic activities. You can keep doing aerobic exercise longer than anaerobic exercise, and you'll burn &lt;br /&gt;about equal amounts of calories overall doing either. Aerobic exercise burns those &lt;br /&gt;calories from fat during the exercise. Anaerobic exercise only burns blood-sugar, &lt;br /&gt;but burns a lot of fat later (the rest of the day) to replace the energy. Is it possible to &lt;br /&gt;combine the two, so that you can burn fat while exercising, and keep burning the &lt;br /&gt;rest of the day? Yes, with Interval Training. How to do Interval Training The "intervals" in Interval Training are alternating periods of high-intensity exercise &lt;br /&gt;with low-intensity rest periods. This allows a person to keep exercising for at least &lt;br /&gt;30 minutes to kick in the effects of aerobic activity, but it is also intense enough to &lt;br /&gt;strengthen the heart and provide the long-term fat burning of high-intensity &lt;br /&gt;exercise. The idea is simple, but ingenious, and amazingly effective. You can do interval training using a time-measure or a distance-measure. If you &lt;br /&gt;prefer to run indoors in a gym's track, then there is probably a clock to watch while &lt;br /&gt;running, so time would be more convenient to keep track. If you prefer to train &lt;br /&gt;outdoors, it may be inconvenient to look at your watch every few seconds, so going &lt;br /&gt;by distance will probably be easier. If you use time, you should run as fast as you &lt;br /&gt;can for one full minute, then walk for two minutes. After that, run again for one &lt;br /&gt;more minute and rest by walking for two minutes. Keep repeating this three-minute &lt;br /&gt;cycle until 30 minutes have elapsed overall. If you prefer to chart distance, you will &lt;br /&gt;want to run about a half-mile, then walk for one-quarter mile, and keep alternating &lt;br /&gt;that. Benefits of Interval Training World-class athletes already know that Interval Training is the best way to improve &lt;br /&gt;almost every aspect of running performance. The fist effect is that high-intensity leg &lt;br /&gt;exercise, like running, will make your legs stronger. That means more muscle mass, &lt;br /&gt;and each gram of new muscle will burn that much more fat every minute of every &lt;br /&gt;day. The second effect of high-intensity training is what people call "cardio". That's &lt;br /&gt;short for cardio-vascular training, meaning that your heart as a muscle will grow &lt;br /&gt;stronger. This will prevent many forms of heart disease, as well as improving &lt;br /&gt;circulation, which has benefits for many aspects of life. The most important benefit of Interval Training is that it is the single best way to &lt;br /&gt;improve your VO2-Max. That is the volume (V) of oxygen (O2) that you take with &lt;br /&gt;your deepest breath (max). VO2-max is the best measure of fitness and endurance. &lt;br /&gt;Increasing your VO2-max with interval training will give you greater endurance for &lt;br /&gt;everything you do, and the higher your VO2-max, the less you will feel that heat or &lt;br /&gt;pressure on your lungs when you exercise. Believe me, after interval training for a &lt;br /&gt;week, you will know without a fancy test that your VO2-max is improving, and soon &lt;br /&gt;you'll feel the improvement with every training session. It's a great feeling. Improving Intervals Drink a little water during every rest period.  If you forget your water bottle one day, &lt;br /&gt;you will definately notice that you cannot run as fast or as long.  The difference is &lt;br /&gt;really remarkable. Using the time method is better than distance to keep yourself honest, because as &lt;br /&gt;you get faster, your half-mile will turn out to take less and less time. So, to keep &lt;br /&gt;improving your performance, and keep losing weight, you should either get a &lt;br /&gt;stopwatch, or else keep making your running intervals farther and farther (to make &lt;br /&gt;sure they still last a whole minute). As your VO2-max increases, you may be tempted to make your workouts last longer &lt;br /&gt;overall, or to make the high-intensity periods last longer. You should do neither of &lt;br /&gt;these things. Your goal should be to keep intervals of 1-minute of running &lt;br /&gt;separated by 2-minutes of walking, and keep increasing the intensity of each &lt;br /&gt;running interval. If you make every interval a sprint for one full minute, and keep &lt;br /&gt;that up for 40 minutes, you are already a superhero. Longer workouts risk &lt;br /&gt;breakdown of tissues and a high burden on your kidneys and other organs. And if &lt;br /&gt;you make each interval longer, you may not be pushing your speed the most you &lt;br /&gt;can, which is where the benefits are. At the other end of the scale, if you're just starting interval training, go easy. Too &lt;br /&gt;many men start off too fast and burn themselves out within 10 minutes. That will &lt;br /&gt;not benefit you. Warm up with a fast walk or a gentle jog for 10 minutes or so. &lt;br /&gt;Then, try your first interval. It should be for one full minute, but just try for a pace a &lt;br /&gt;little faster than a jog. Then walk for two minutes. For your next interval, just try to &lt;br /&gt;maintain that fast jog pace for another full minute. Then walk again for two &lt;br /&gt;minutes. Don't sit down or stop if you can avoid it, keep walking to recover. On your &lt;br /&gt;third interval, try just a little faster. If you can't make it for the full minute, you have &lt;br /&gt;just found out where your zone is. The key isn't to try to sprint right away and only &lt;br /&gt;be able to go for 20 seconds. You have to do the full minute at a constant pace, as &lt;br /&gt;fast as you can sustain for one whole minute. I guarantee that it will be pretty slow &lt;br /&gt;your first time. But try it again the next day, and you will be better. By the end of &lt;br /&gt;two weeks, you'll be amazed how much more fit you've become. I promise. If you don't think you're up for Interval Training yet, read my article on Exercise which you can find on the Mr. Weightless Site. 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A high resolution matrix color display enhances the pleasure one gets in using this sleek mobile phone from Nokia. An easy-to-use interface makes it possible for a user to access the interesting and fun options that are a part of this amazing mobile phone model - all at the click of a few buttons. Truly, the fun never stops with the 3120 mobile. There is an innovative camera integrated in the model, using which one can capture fleeting moments from life and build beautiful memories. The images can then be shared with others in the form of MMS messages; with the Nokia 3120 one could make friends and family privy to some of the most memorable moments of life. Not only that, it is possible to reduce the size of the messages by scaling down the images to a smaller size. Quite innovative, isnt it? The handset can be customized by downloading polyphonic ringtones, animated screensavers, Java games  one could then enjoy all these and more in the vivid color display. Color wallpapers and screensavers are pre-loaded in the mobile phone to initiate a user to this wonderful experience. However, it is not just fun that we are talking here. The Nokia 3120 also means business. Connectivity is comprehensive. The handset is capable of tri-band operation and can be used in Europe, Africa, Asia-pacific, North America and South America with compatible networks. Call management is easy with options that include speed dialing, call waiting, call hold, call divert and call timer. There is an integrated handsfree speaker for more comfortable use of the handset. The Nokia 3120 comes with an XHTML browser  so it is possible to use the handset for surfing the web. The graphics are richer and the experience highly satisfying! And the best part is the availability of attractive contract deals on this and other handsets from Nokia. 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I recently received a business card from a person selling local and long distance telephone services. His card held some really useful information. It held tips on how to answer the phone with courtesy. Instead of throwing his card into my deep pile, I pinned it on my wall with the tips facing me. The card is small enough not to interfere with all other documents I have posted. Using a business card in this manner was an excellent idea; you can expand on this by giving shortcut tips, faster ways to accomplish routine tasks or even a way to improve processes. I often use job-aids for such purposes and really appreciate it when I get some from my suppliers. Another unique item I received from a company called Total Rebound: Total Adventures was a year long calendar that had a peel off back so I could stick it to the bottom of my monitor. I have seen these in other places too, but it is such a short cut and time saver for looking up dates, and it provides me a way to increase productivity. Use your imagination to create information that will help your prospects or customers. Use these aids when networking to create a conversation piece, get people talking. Giving out pointers, tips, shortcuts, etc., is just another way to catch the attention of potential customers. It gives you (and them) an excuse to talk about what you do. Once the conversation is open, take time to set a first meeting and find out more. Bette Daoust, Ph.D. has been networking with others since leaving high school years ago. Realizing that no one really cared about what she did in life unless she had someone to tell and excite. She decided to find the best ways to get peoples attention, be creative in how she presented herself and products, getting people to know who she was, and being visible all the time. Her friends and colleagues have often dubbed her the Networking Queen. Blueprints for Success - Networking: 150 ways to promote yourself is the first in this series. Blueprints for Success Branding Yourself: Another 150 ways to promote yourself is planned for release in 2006. 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Signs of Depression</title><content type='html'>By Carl English For going on twenty years, I showed strongly, felt deeply, questioned, and tried to investigate what I didnt realize were what about 15 million people go through every year: the signs of depression that have now been researched, therapeutically investigated, and now have successful depression treatment.   Before I realised that ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) was the heaviness weighing me down exponentially every day, along with the symptoms of depression, I had a hell of a time staying on focused on the now in the real world.   I was dragging my (emotionally and physically) corpse out of bed, where I wouldve rathered stay.  Finding it futile to make my bed, as I would just be climbing into it again.  I found most outings and daily activitiesthose that used to inspire medull, useless and dead boring! Definite depression signs. I was moany and bitchy. Sometimes, more than a few times actually, I would reach the point of crying.  In fact I reached the stage that I would cry at least every day, and even every hour!&lt;br /&gt;The symptoms of depression became overwhelming and unbearable.  I would look in the mirror to maybe have a shave, and would hear the cold voices in my head, almost very confidently, straight to the point say, Well, you may as well do yourself in now, kill yourself, what else is left.   My manic depressive life was saying to me death was the ONLY option and solution available.  I had battled for years to exercise by powerwalking 5 miles a day; write, journal, help others, pray, meet people, diet, sleep it off, burn it off by not sleeping, go to twelve step programs, and visit a counselor or therapist. One of the first therapists, a brilliant doctor who volunteered at a clinic in the country, told me that while I pontificated over being clean and sober and not being medicated, I was like the person who walked through a rough part of town at three a.m., got stabbed, and stood there philosophizing about whether or not to get medical help.  He said, You have a hole in your heart; we need to fix it.  He prescribed Prozac. Carl English's Pen name is Dr. Happiness. He has been through the depths of Depression and now dedicates his time to helping others. For the rest of this article and plenty more stop by and Smile (if you can manage) to Signs of Depression. 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Signs of Depression'/><author><name>tomassinazib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00631722058627076327</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-7515196025485624571.post-8167417711801018052</id><published>2008-05-20T22:50:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-20T22:50:01.097-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Gain Control and Lose Weight with Lap Band Surgery</title><content type='html'>By Chris Robertson Many people want and need to lose weight but can't seem to make any progress. Having surgery to lose weight is good for seriously overweight patients who have tried and failed other treatments. Studies have shown that weight-loss surgery such as lap band surgery has helped patients to sustain their weight loss longer than non-surgical therapies. By having this surgery, you will be on the road to better health and improving your quality of life. What is Lap Band Surgery? The safest and least invasive weight-loss surgery is the lap band surgery. There is no stomach cutting, stapling, or gastrointestinal re-routing involved in the lap band surgery. This reduces post-operative pain and hastens recovery. The name "lap-band' comes from the surgical technique, laparoscopic, and the name of the implanted device. During the procedure, the lap band surgeon usually uses the laparoscopic technique. Instead of making a large incision, they make tiny incisions and use instruments to insert the lap band. There is less of a chance of side effects and nutritional deficiencies that are often associated with gastric surgeries. Lap band surgery involves placing an adjustable gastric band around the upper stomach to create a smaller stomach pocket. This limits the amount of food a person can consume at one time. With a smaller stomach, you feel full faster, and the food moves more slowly between your upper and lower stomach. This helps you to eat less and lose weight. Once the band is placed around the stomach, it is connected to an access port in the skin of your abdomen. The surgeon can then inject the inside of the stomach with saline solution. This adjusts the size of the stomach outlet to restrict the amount of food that can be moved through it. This process helps determine the rate of weight loss. It can be adjusted to individual needs as you lose weight or help speed up weight loss. It can be adjusted or removed without surgery. Learning to Eat After Surgery After surgery there are some dietary limitations that are advantageous for the patient. For the first three to four days following surgery, patients must have a clear liquid diet. This gives the patient time to adjust to the new stomach and avoid complications. For the first three months after surgery, no caffeine drinks such as coffee, tea, or soda are allowed. Carbonated drinks are not recommended because they can cause gas and bloating. They could also cause the stomach size to increase because of the carbonation. The next phase is a modified liquid diet that helps you adjust to eating small meals. You will be given instructions on how much protein and vegetables to eat. The lap band diet does not include most bread, potatoes or starchy foods. You will be encouraged to eat a lot of protein to avoid a deficiency and side effects. Lose Weight and Keep It Off After lap band surgery, you will learn to eat small bites and eat slowly. There will be some foods that will be ruled out to avoid causing digestive problems. As you begin to lose weight these adjustments in diet will become a new way of life. To save money, you can check on having the surgery in Mexico. There are websites that give information on doctors and clinics in both the U.S. and Mexico. There are new options available for people who cannot lose weight and keep it off. Find out if lapband surgery would work for you. Chris Robertson is an author of Majon International, one of the worlds MOST popular internet marketing companies on the web.&lt;br /&gt;Learn more about Guide for Lap Band Surgery or Majon's Health and Beauty directory. 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Let me explain. When a traumatic event occurs to an individual the record of the event i.e. the memory with all of its elements (emotional and otherwise) becomes stored in the mind/body at all levels chemically and physiologically. That is because the mind/body duality which was once thought to exist exists no longer. That is an emotional event is essentially also a chemical and then ultimately a physical event (Please see Dr. Candace Pert's book "Molecules of Emotion") I would go further and say that there is a spectrum of homeostasis that I depict below diagrammatically: Thought  Emotion  Chemical (Includes DNA)  Physical In other words a change at any level in this spectrum will become reflected as a change in all other levels. So if we have say a chemical change i.e. as we might experience with the intake of a poorly tolerated food, this will usher in mental, emotional and physical changes as well. In the same manner a change in the mental/emotional dimensions will also become reflected in the chemical/physical dimensions of the individual. Hence as we accumulate in our so called "mind" (which as I said is no longer considered separate and indivisible from the body) our "life history" this history becomes reflected at all levels including chemical and physical. Therefore what is being said here is that our life history will affect the chemical and physical functioning and structure of our bodies. At the most significant level it will affect the structure and functioning of our DNA itself. In the same way the cumulative life experience of our parents and ancestors which became stored in their DNA is also passed on to us. In other words our life history makes us susceptible to becoming ill, aging and death as it becomes stored in our mind/body. This was shown to be the case in a case study I undertook over a year ago with a client who had developed Macular Degeneration of one eye. This individual had lost over 85% of his vision in that eye. Working with him with a new modality called the Mind Resonance Process(TM) (MRP) I was able to uncover and help him completely release the memories of the events that were related to the loss of his vision. As we did this his vision returned almost to normal in that eye and remained that way. The implications of this result in my view brings into question some of our beliefs about not only the nature of illness but also how we are treating it as well as the nature of evolution as we currently understand it today. Let me elaborate on the last point here. Evolution as espoused by Charles Darwin is considered to be a process that takes hundreds of thousands of years to manifest. I am proposing that in fact it takes much less time than that. One traumatic experience alone can do it. We don't see the kinds of species changes that one would expect from Darwin's postulates i.e. changes in physical characteristics but what we do see are those changes that we call physical or chemical malfunction that manifest as what we define as illnesses. In other words these chemical/physical changes are evolutionary changes that are occurring on a "micro scale" but are evolutionary never the less. Isn't it interesting for instance that one can develop an illness that was never seen in one's genetic pool or that new and strange illnesses are showing up every couple of decades? These are in my view evolutionary changes brought upon us by our ever changing life circumstances on this planet. What is important to note however is that now there is a way to stabilize and more importantly direct our evolution! Here I do not mean through the use of genetic engineering or nanotechnology. Rather I'm referring to the ability to access and release the negative conditioning stored as life experience in our minds/bodies once and for all employing MRP. It has been my experience working with clients with MRP that one can begin the process or restoring the "ecology" of the mind/body at all levels thereby reclaiming control over the direction of one's mental, emotional, physical and evolutionary health. If you would like to take charge of your health and evolution kindly visit the web link below and set up an Introductory Consultation. Dr. Nick Arrizza is trained in Chemical Engineering, Business Management &amp; Leadership, Medicine and Psychiatry. He is an Energy Psychiatrist, Healer, Key Note Speaker,Editor of a New Ezine Called "Spirituality And Science" (which is requesting high quality article submissions) Author of "Esteem for the Self: A Manual for Personal Transformation" (available in ebook format on his web site), Stress Management Coach, Peak Performance Coach &amp; Energy Medicine Researcher, Specializes in Life and Executive Performance Coaching, is the Developer of a powerful new tool called the Mind Resonance Process(TM) that helps build physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well being by helping to permanently release negative beliefs, emotions, perceptions and memories. He holds live workshops, international telephone coaching sessions and international teleconference workshops on Physical. Emotional, Mental and Spiritual Well Being. 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You know the rest of the story, and so do thousands of other photo centers &lt;br /&gt;around the world who copy this excellent promotion. STRETCHING DOLLARS A budget conscious market is always out looking for a free lunch.  For &lt;br /&gt;this reason, you can build a marketing system that self-liquidates its &lt;br /&gt;associated cost, distributing gift certificates that offer free this or &lt;br /&gt;free that - all the customer has to do is pay a minimal shipping and &lt;br /&gt;handling charge. FREE SOFTWARE In Las Vegas, I met a poker player who sells software he put together for &lt;br /&gt;$29 and higher.  To double the volume and reach other markets, he decided to &lt;br /&gt;repackage his software.  He gave it a new name, made a new disk label, &lt;br /&gt;and offered it at a ridiculous price: FREE To receive the software, all you have to do is fill out the gift certificate &lt;br /&gt;and send it back to him with $8.69 for shipping and handling. THEY WENT APE!   He was giving the certificates to schools, businesses, and &lt;br /&gt;stores who give away the certificates as their own promotional gifts to their &lt;br /&gt;customers. Because the cost to produce and mail this disk is 60 cents, he &lt;br /&gt;was making $8 with every certificate that was redeemed for the free software. $800,000 IN 27 WEEKS Take a snapshot of this picture:  Say, a total of 1 Million certificates &lt;br /&gt;were circulated.  Let's say you paid half a penny to print and distribute &lt;br /&gt;these million certificates.  Your cost is $5,000. If you generate a 7% &lt;br /&gt;conversion, you'll earn $560,000.00 NUMBERS GAME If you give other people permission to make copies of and give away your &lt;br /&gt;certificates, your cost to circulate 1 Million certificates will go down.  &lt;br /&gt;But your opportunity to make money remains the same. 1% response =           $80,000 2% response =          $160,000 3% response =          $240,000 5% response =          $400,000 10% response =          $800,000 THE INTERNET Now, if you do the same thing on the internet you will see similar results. One thing to note is that with the internet you dont have the cost of normal advertising and you have a vast array of advertising venues. Here are just a few of the advertising venues that can be utilized: Classified ads (free and paid)&lt;br /&gt;Pay per clicks (ie., Google adwords)&lt;br /&gt;Ezine advertising&lt;br /&gt;Co-op advertising&lt;br /&gt;Joint Venture advertising The possibilities are almost endless! Another point to consider about going the internet route is that you dont have to have an actual physical product to give away. Give ebooks, Special Reports, and the like that cost very little to produce or you can put the previously mentioned items on a CD and mail it to the prospect. If you plan to mail the item it should look very professional remember, your reputation is on the line. And last but certainly not least, your give away must have value, people do not want junk! Make sure your give away is valuable to the audience you have targeted. To Your Success, Ken Smith &lt;br /&gt;www.lessons4success.com &lt;br /&gt;www.powerteamsuccess.blogger.com I'm married and the father of Three. For many years I have searched for and tried many Home Based business opportunities. Some worked some didn't. Many claimed "instant success with no money", "start on a shoe-string", etc., etc., etc., I admit that many of the programs and ideas would and will truly work and bring in tremendous incomes but most required a lot of out-of-pocket expense which I didn't have at the time. I had almost given up on the idea of having a home-based profitable business that could generate enough income to release both me and my wife from the J.O.B. and then I met Chris and Julie Chojnowski. Call (212) 461-2595 for a quick overview or visit http://www.lessons4success.com Chris and Julie have built a team with the fastest growing internet business of it's kind. I have seen, in the past few days, internet "big dogs", names I have been seeing for several years, joining this business and taking off like a rocket. It's all about timing. and the time is now. 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The best man is a part of a wedding tradition that dates back centuries, to the earliest ideas of nobility and gentlemanly conduct. In very real terms, the best man is the individual chosen by the groom to act as his second, or chief of affairs, during the wedding preparation and during the ceremony. The best man helps plan the rehearsal dinner, coordinate the other groomsmen, troubleshoot all of the unforeseen crisis that arise up to the beginning of the ceremony, and then organizes the wedding procession. And being the best man sometimes literally means saving the wedding  and the marriage  before it has a chance to begin. I once heard of a wedding in which the groom got cold feet the morning of the big event. Panicked and feeling confined, he attempted to sneak out the back entrance of his hotel (the wedding was in the brides hometown) and steal away like a thief in the night. Luckily, the best man  his friend since high school  caught him in time and was able to soothe the grooms nerves, preventing certain heartbreak. So given all the pressures and responsibilities pressed upon him, you can see why the gift your best man receives should be a lasting token of your appreciation. Its not just a honorarium, and its not a token of your affection. The best man gift is for real, proof you know whats he put up with, what hes done, and what it means to you. As such, weve prepared three simple suggestions to help you make the best possible choice. Remember that these are guidelines more than rules, but that the closer you follow them,  the better off youll be when selecting a gift. 1. Make the gift personal. Giving a lovely gift is one thing, and bound to get appreciative gestures and vigorous thanks. But to make something truly unique, consider getting your best man a gift thats personalized, either with his monogram or initials. Such gifts might include a personalized beer stein or even jewelry such as a bracelet or ring. 2. Make the Gift Meaningful. Expensive gifts are nice, and personalized gifts are instant keepsakes. Be careful that your gift evokes the sense of familiarity and friendship thats as unique as your times together, though. For example, if you played chess together, a chess set would be a gift that evokes your friendship. If you two used to hit the town or even work together, a personalized money clip would make a great gift he can use for years to come. 3. Dont be Afraid to Spend Money. Exactly as it says, be generous with your gift, because the best man has spent a lot of his own money on your event. Remember that, and remember that the gift should last a lifetime. That might mean opening the wallet some. Mike Kabel is Creative Content Editor for FavorAffair.com.  Favor Affair has a complete selection of gifts and accessories for your best man, groomsmen, and wedding guests alike. For a complete look at their catalog, please visit their website here: http://www.favoraffair.com. 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Unfortunately, not all of those individuals and companies can actually be classified as professionals.  If you are interested in moving to or from the Houston area, you will need to find a professional Houston moving company to do business with.  When doing so, you may wonder what makes a moving company professional. When it comes to determining whether or not a Houston moving company can be classified as professional, there are a number of different factors that you will have to examine. Those factors should include the training that each employee undergoes, the amount of work experience each employee has, and the amount of time the moving company has been in business.  Unfortunately, you may not be able to find this information out on your own. To understand whether or not the moving company of your choice can be considered professional, you may need that moving companys assistant. To first determine whether or not you are about to do business with a professional Houston moving company, you will have to find a moving company do to business with. You can easily find a number of moving companies by using the internet or a local Houston phone book. Once you have obtained the contact information of at least one Houston moving company, namely their telephone number, you can begin to collect information. When speaking to a moving company representative, it is important that you ask about the company as a whole.  You will want to know how long the company has been in business. Professional moving companies, especially those that claim to have experience, should have been in business three to five years, at the least. You may also want to ask about the training that each employee receives, if any.  This training may be important to the safe handling of your belongings. In addition to examining a Houston moving company as a whole, you may also want to further examine each employee. This may be a little bit difficult because most Houston moving companies employ multiple individuals.  Even though you obtain information on a number of employees, it does not necessarily mean that you will get those exact same movers.  Despite the fact that the movers you inquire about may not be the ones that you get, you may still want to ask about their dependability and on the job experience. As previously mentioned, you can also use the internet to obtain the contact information of a number of different Houston moving companies. When using the internet, you may also come across company websites.  If a Houston moving company has an online website, it is likely that their online website will be filled with valuable information. That information may include the amount of experience they have, the services that they offer, and much those services cost. While doing research online is convenient, it is still advised that you directly contact each Houston moving company that you are looking for more information on.  This will prevent errors and outdated information. By keeping the above mentioned points in mind, you should not only be able to find a Houston moving company, but a reliable one.  When trusting all of your belongings to them, it is important that you only hire the best. Ted Garvin is a writer for Froggy Moving.com where you can find the best Houston Moving Company around, and other related information. 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Your kids and stepkids have had quite a &lt;br /&gt;year, preceding&lt;br /&gt;this season. Now, into the middle of a home still trying to establish some &lt;br /&gt;sort of&lt;br /&gt;familiarity, come the holidays. And, rather than coming as a &lt;br /&gt;break from&lt;br /&gt;the day to day tension, special family celebrations tend to &lt;br /&gt;add to the&lt;br /&gt;confusion and stress. Just when you thought you had some &lt;br /&gt;sort of routine&lt;br /&gt;worked out and that you had figured out this new clan, &lt;br /&gt;everyone goes&lt;br /&gt;completely nuts over a "joyous" occasion. Now you find that dynamite can indeed come in small &lt;br /&gt;packages. Such&lt;br /&gt;minute matters as ... * when to open presents  Christmas Eve or Morning, * who &lt;br /&gt;to buy&lt;br /&gt;presents for  immediate family or inlaws or &lt;br /&gt;exgrandparents, * what to&lt;br /&gt;fix for a "traditional" holiday family dinner  every family has &lt;br /&gt;its own&lt;br /&gt;special traditions that are most important, * or even which &lt;br /&gt;ornaments&lt;br /&gt;from which family get hung where on the family Christmas &lt;br /&gt;tree, ... can have normally civilized families (which leaves out &lt;br /&gt;many&lt;br /&gt;stepfamilies!) at each other's throats. Well, here are a dozen suggestions to help ease the way. &lt;br /&gt;(Sort of a "12&lt;br /&gt;Ways of Christmas.") These suggestions come from a &lt;br /&gt;variety of sources,&lt;br /&gt;including our own experiences and those of the hundreds of &lt;br /&gt;stepfamilies&lt;br /&gt;we've worked with. I'll aHave a Blue Christmas What is it about the end of year holidays  Thanksgiving, &lt;br /&gt;Christmas, and&lt;br /&gt;New Years  that cause so much insanity in so many &lt;br /&gt;people? Even&lt;br /&gt;welladjusted, normal folks seem to shut down their &lt;br /&gt;reasoning skills at these&lt;br /&gt;times. And that's the normal minority of families who aren't &lt;br /&gt;dealing with the&lt;br /&gt;added bonuses we stepfamilies enjoy. We get to sweat over the logistics and timetables of not one, &lt;br /&gt;but two&lt;br /&gt;households' holiday schedules. Just as you are frantically &lt;br /&gt;trying to&lt;br /&gt;coordinate everyone's schedule in your family, your ex &lt;br /&gt;informs you that&lt;br /&gt;he'll have to have the kids that same day for his time with &lt;br /&gt;them. And&lt;br /&gt;you have to go along, because the kids have to celebrate at &lt;br /&gt;their dad's&lt;br /&gt;house, too. We also are visited by Ghosts of Christmases Past, carrying &lt;br /&gt;bittersweet&lt;br /&gt;memories of other family celebrations. None of the &lt;br /&gt;memories are&lt;br /&gt;painless. Bad memories  of, for example, the year your &lt;br /&gt;spouse got drunk and tore&lt;br /&gt;open all the presents before the kids could get to them  will &lt;br /&gt;always be&lt;br /&gt;part of our internal photo album, which opens whenever we &lt;br /&gt;hear certain&lt;br /&gt;carols or smell egg nog. But the good memories of that happy former family  &lt;br /&gt;enjoying the perfect&lt;br /&gt;Christmas when the kids were so little and sweet  those &lt;br /&gt;can be just as&lt;br /&gt;painful and disturbing in the midst of the chaos of a &lt;br /&gt;blending family's&lt;br /&gt;labor pains. We Wish For A Merry Christmas So, the seasonal insanity of the holidays isn't the sole &lt;br /&gt;property of&lt;br /&gt;stepfamilies. As noted earlier, everyone seems to suffer &lt;br /&gt;from the virus,&lt;br /&gt;but holidays are much tougher on stepparents. So much &lt;br /&gt;tougher, in fact,&lt;br /&gt;that many civil courts make a practice of allowing extra time &lt;br /&gt;on their&lt;br /&gt;dockets at this time of year for the flood of custodyrelated &lt;br /&gt;cases. Harsh statistics reveal how hard the blending process can &lt;br /&gt;be. While many&lt;br /&gt;shake their heads over the nearly 50% divorce rate across &lt;br /&gt;America, most&lt;br /&gt;dont realize that the divorce rate for stepfamilies is closer to &lt;br /&gt;65 to&lt;br /&gt;85 percent for second and third marriages! I believe that &lt;br /&gt;holiday&lt;br /&gt;pressures contribute a great deal to that failure record. It takes a wholefamily effort to overcome the stigma and &lt;br /&gt;the hazards of&lt;br /&gt;blending two families with two backgrounds (which include &lt;br /&gt;failures and&lt;br /&gt;pain) into a new single family with a future. Some exfamily &lt;br /&gt;members&lt;br /&gt;never go away  nor should they. Holiday gatherings usually involve past relationships that &lt;br /&gt;many feel&lt;br /&gt;would be easier left in the past. It is vitally important though,&lt;br /&gt;especially for stepkids, to maintain contact with their roots. &lt;br /&gt;Stepkids&lt;br /&gt;suffer such disassociation with so many factors of the new &lt;br /&gt;life that&lt;br /&gt;grandparents, uncles and aunts, and cousins provide &lt;br /&gt;necessary anchors of&lt;br /&gt;assurance for them. However, right in the middle of a onceayear reunion, &lt;br /&gt;tempers can flare&lt;br /&gt;and old fights may be revived and more damage than good &lt;br /&gt;may result. It is natural that these pressures build. What is not natural is&lt;br /&gt;forgetting to care for your children's needs before your own. &lt;br /&gt;All&lt;br /&gt;stepfamilies experience tension, fears, frustrations, and &lt;br /&gt;sadness over&lt;br /&gt;unfulfilled dreams. Where the damage manifests itself during the holidays is &lt;br /&gt;when you either&lt;br /&gt;hold the pressure in until it explodes, or you withdraw from &lt;br /&gt;the world&lt;br /&gt;by natural or chemical means. If we don't deal with our &lt;br /&gt;wounds, they&lt;br /&gt;will fester and kill us. On top of the internal pressure is external conflict. Both &lt;br /&gt;stepkids and&lt;br /&gt;adults feel like outsiders in their own home because of new &lt;br /&gt;family&lt;br /&gt;members who are strangers. Stepkids are expected to &lt;br /&gt;develop an immediate&lt;br /&gt;family feeling for people they know nothing about. At best, &lt;br /&gt;many&lt;br /&gt;stepchildren at family gatherings are treated like honorary &lt;br /&gt;homeless&lt;br /&gt;guests invited in as a token of Christmas kindness. But what can you do? Have A Holly Jolly Christmas Here are some steps you can take to help your family and &lt;br /&gt;you have a&lt;br /&gt;more enjoyable holiday season. These ideas come from a &lt;br /&gt;multitude of&lt;br /&gt;sources. Some are things we have discovered in our own &lt;br /&gt;family. Others&lt;br /&gt;come from the hundreds of stepfamilies we have met with &lt;br /&gt;over the years&lt;br /&gt;in support groups we hold in person and over the Internet. &lt;br /&gt;And still&lt;br /&gt;others have been gleaned from emails sent to our web &lt;br /&gt;site&lt;br /&gt;(www.stepcarefully.com). On the FIRST day of Christmas: Begin your holiday survival plan by acknowledging to &lt;br /&gt;yourself, and for&lt;br /&gt;every member of your new family, that it's OK to feel sad &lt;br /&gt;during "happy&lt;br /&gt;holidays". Allow for some down time, but don't stay there. These &lt;br /&gt;feelings that&lt;br /&gt;we've discussed and which you are starting to feel are &lt;br /&gt;natural. They are&lt;br /&gt;shared by nearly every stepfamily around the world  over 20 &lt;br /&gt;million in&lt;br /&gt;America alone! Realize where you are in your life. This is a starting point to &lt;br /&gt;a whole&lt;br /&gt;future. Statistics show over and over that it takes an average &lt;br /&gt;of four&lt;br /&gt;to seven years for stepfamilies to blend. Too many couples &lt;br /&gt;enter into a&lt;br /&gt;stepfamily with unrealistic dreams that they will fall right into &lt;br /&gt;a&lt;br /&gt;happy home life in the first year  or the first months, even! Accept that blending two families is tough, everyone has the &lt;br /&gt;same fears.&lt;br /&gt;Then move on. This is just one holiday season. Get through &lt;br /&gt;this one with&lt;br /&gt;at least some good times, and the next one will be easier. On the SECOND day of Christmas: Develop flexibility in your holiday plans. Everything doesn't &lt;br /&gt;have to be&lt;br /&gt;perfect. Again, realize that this is one celebration out of &lt;br /&gt;many to&lt;br /&gt;come. Next year, everyone will be a little more familiar with &lt;br /&gt;each&lt;br /&gt;other, a little more accepting. This is just one step in the &lt;br /&gt;blending&lt;br /&gt;process, not the whole thing. Being in a stepfamily means dealing with multiple family &lt;br /&gt;plans. Your ex&lt;br /&gt; or you spouse's ex  will most likely have family &lt;br /&gt;celebration plans of&lt;br /&gt;their own, involving your kids. Naturally, it will be easier if you &lt;br /&gt;can&lt;br /&gt;work together in cooperation to coordinate both sets of &lt;br /&gt;parents'&lt;br /&gt;programs. Unfortunately, this doesn't happen very often. If &lt;br /&gt;your&lt;br /&gt;spouse's plans conflict with yours, you will have to find a &lt;br /&gt;way to&lt;br /&gt;compromise. More on this later. Remember that the purpose of family holidays is supposed &lt;br /&gt;to be for loved&lt;br /&gt;ones to gather and  well, love each other. If your family gets &lt;br /&gt;snippy&lt;br /&gt;about the seating arrangements around the dinner table, &lt;br /&gt;love them&lt;br /&gt;anyway. You are building a new family, with new traditions. &lt;br /&gt;Maybe one of&lt;br /&gt;those new traditions can be that little things don't matter so &lt;br /&gt;much. On the THIRD Day of Christmas: Keep a holiday journal of this, and every coming, holiday &lt;br /&gt;gathering. Without some perspective, you will likely feel that &lt;br /&gt;you are making no progress. But you will make progress. So, keep a journal. Record in it gifts given by and to whom, &lt;br /&gt;where you&lt;br /&gt;went, and some of the more notable things said and done. &lt;br /&gt;These days are&lt;br /&gt;valuable lessons, don't lose them. On the FOURTH Day of Christmas: Concentrate on making these Holy Days instead of &lt;br /&gt;holidays. Through the&lt;br /&gt;years, commercialism and frantic expectations have &lt;br /&gt;distracted us from&lt;br /&gt;the true reason we celebrate Thanksgiving, Christmas, the &lt;br /&gt;New Year, and&lt;br /&gt;Easter. Some families even hold birthday parties for Jesus! Rather &lt;br /&gt;than give all&lt;br /&gt;the gifts to each other, the best gifts go to homeless, poor, &lt;br /&gt;or sick&lt;br /&gt;families nearby. Whether you are a Christian, or you practice &lt;br /&gt;another&lt;br /&gt;faith, or none at all, this practice can move your holiday &lt;br /&gt;mindset from&lt;br /&gt;competition and frustration to reflection and patience. On the FIFTH Day of Christmas: Begin new traditions just for your new family. Every family, &lt;br /&gt;every clan,&lt;br /&gt;every culture has its own special traditions for holiday &lt;br /&gt;celebrations.&lt;br /&gt;You developed deeply rooted patterns in your former &lt;br /&gt;household, and so&lt;br /&gt;did your spouse's family. Many stepfamily conflicts involve &lt;br /&gt;couples&lt;br /&gt;trying to continue to do things the same way they always did &lt;br /&gt;them. This&lt;br /&gt;is a recipe for trouble! Far better, many believe, is to scrap all the old ways and find &lt;br /&gt;new&lt;br /&gt;traditions. Begin by letting everyone have a say about what &lt;br /&gt;they would&lt;br /&gt;like to do. You may have to push past some resistance as &lt;br /&gt;members try to&lt;br /&gt;hold on to old memories of what they did before. But it is &lt;br /&gt;important&lt;br /&gt;that everyone is part of the process. If one member tries to &lt;br /&gt;force their&lt;br /&gt;opinion or ideas on the whole group, it usually won't work as &lt;br /&gt;well. Keep&lt;br /&gt;a positive attitude about the process. Everyone can participate in passing out food or gifts at &lt;br /&gt;homeless&lt;br /&gt;shelters, orphanages, or halfway houses. Adopt a family to &lt;br /&gt;share your&lt;br /&gt;abundance with. Don't just give money; get the kids involved. &lt;br /&gt;Let them&lt;br /&gt;see how much more fortunate they are to live in your &lt;br /&gt;stepfamily! Have a cookout. If you live somewhere warm, that's OK, but &lt;br /&gt;this activity&lt;br /&gt;will be more of an adventure if there is snow involved! Roast &lt;br /&gt;hot dogs&lt;br /&gt;and marshmallows. Look at the stars in the crisp, cold sky. &lt;br /&gt;Tell&lt;br /&gt;Christmas stories. Carols are optional. The point is to look for new activities you can repeat year &lt;br /&gt;after year&lt;br /&gt;to develop a kinship between the new family members. The &lt;br /&gt;second, third,&lt;br /&gt;and fourth times you do this, it will feel more comfortable, &lt;br /&gt;and it will&lt;br /&gt;bring back memories of this family's holidays. On the SIXTH Day of Christmas: Exchange life stories. Have the whole family  as many as &lt;br /&gt;you can gather&lt;br /&gt;together, old and new  prepare a short description of their &lt;br /&gt;favorite&lt;br /&gt;memory. This story can be about a funny time, a painful time, a trip, a &lt;br /&gt;lost&lt;br /&gt;friend, etc. No one needs to comment on the stories. If the &lt;br /&gt;stepkids want to talk&lt;br /&gt;about old times when mom and dad were still together, &lt;br /&gt;that's OK. Spouses&lt;br /&gt;should refrain from that, though. As the stories are told, look for insights into the teller's &lt;br /&gt;personality&lt;br /&gt;and dreams. You may get a glimpse of how your stepkids &lt;br /&gt;really feel. Some&lt;br /&gt;games, such as LifeStories, can be useful here to help &lt;br /&gt;every one get to&lt;br /&gt;know one another better. On the SEVENTH Day of Christmas: Switch days to celebrate to ease the pressure. If your kids'&lt;br /&gt;noncustodial parent must (or just chooses to) have your &lt;br /&gt;kids on the&lt;br /&gt;holiday, you may want to consider this alternative. Many &lt;br /&gt;stepparents&lt;br /&gt;have found that having flexibility in this area makes everyone &lt;br /&gt;more&lt;br /&gt;relaxed. Tell them you want them to have two Christmases this year, &lt;br /&gt;one with Dad&lt;br /&gt;and one with you and stepdad. Then, don't scrimp on the &lt;br /&gt;festivities. &lt;br /&gt;Whatever new traditions you're going to practice, give them &lt;br /&gt;as much&lt;br /&gt;attention as your other activities. This brings up a very important point. The primary focus of &lt;br /&gt;most holiday&lt;br /&gt;celebrations is the children. However, in trying to give our &lt;br /&gt;kids the&lt;br /&gt;best holiday experience, we can get carried away. If your &lt;br /&gt;honest desire&lt;br /&gt;is to make you kids happy this season, then think of them &lt;br /&gt;first. Constant bickering, tension and pressure to be happy &lt;br /&gt;and have fun, and tug of wars over whose home, when will &lt;br /&gt;not produce the desired result. Compromise, then make up lost time when they come &lt;br /&gt;home. On the EIGHTH Day of Christmas: If your kids do have to travel to visit Dad, don't whine about it.&lt;br /&gt;Family ties are important to all children, but especially so for&lt;br /&gt;stepkids. After spending all year in a new home with new family &lt;br /&gt;members to adjust&lt;br /&gt;to, your kids probably will feel relieved to be back around &lt;br /&gt;familiar&lt;br /&gt;faces. Let them. Don't fret or obsess about their being gone. &lt;br /&gt;Enjoy the free time; find some time just for yourself at least &lt;br /&gt;every other day. When plans are being made for your kids' or stepkids' visit &lt;br /&gt;away from&lt;br /&gt;home, look for positives about the trip. Make sure you don't &lt;br /&gt;make them&lt;br /&gt;feel guilty about wanting to see their parent. It should go without saying (but I'll say it anyway) that you &lt;br /&gt;should&lt;br /&gt;take care to never  ever   put down your ex or your &lt;br /&gt;spouse's ex in&lt;br /&gt;front of their kids. Never tell your children how awful you &lt;br /&gt;think their&lt;br /&gt;Dad or Mom is! First of all, you wouldn't want them to hear &lt;br /&gt;the same&lt;br /&gt;sort of thing about you. And secondly, regardless of how you &lt;br /&gt;feel about&lt;br /&gt;him, he is still your kids daddy. To belittle him belittles them, &lt;br /&gt;in&lt;br /&gt;their eyes. On the NINTH Day of Christmas: If kids come to visit you for the holidays, don't neglect them. &lt;br /&gt;Whether&lt;br /&gt;they are your own children, for whom your spouse has &lt;br /&gt;custody, or your&lt;br /&gt;stepkids, make them part of everything that goes on. They are not ropes for a tug of war game. They are not &lt;br /&gt;enemy spies from&lt;br /&gt;the ex. They are children hoping to have some enjoyment &lt;br /&gt;during a special&lt;br /&gt;time of the year, in a place that is not their home. You have &lt;br /&gt;the power&lt;br /&gt;to make a positive or a negative impact on them. Children who visit their other parent's home seem to fall into &lt;br /&gt;two&lt;br /&gt;categories. They are either an extended part of the family, or &lt;br /&gt;complete&lt;br /&gt;outsiders. Kids who visit every other weekend or just twice a &lt;br /&gt;year&lt;br /&gt;deserve some permanent consideration. Make sure they &lt;br /&gt;are comfortable and&lt;br /&gt;settled. They're not pets dropped off on you for a kennel stay. (Can &lt;br /&gt;you say, "Grinch"?) They are children who are basically at &lt;br /&gt;the mercy of your courtesies. If you live in a small house and &lt;br /&gt;have little extra money, be creative. Save up and buy (or even &lt;br /&gt;borrow) some furniture  a bed, a chest of drawers  it &lt;br /&gt;doesn't have to be a lot. The&lt;br /&gt;point is to make an effort just for them out of love. These could be the kids who care for you when you are old! On the TENTH Day of Christmas: Wear thicker skin over the holidays. As the inevitable &lt;br /&gt;pressures build&lt;br /&gt;(in those unfortunate enough to have not read this book!), be &lt;br /&gt;prepared&lt;br /&gt;to be an example of patience and lovingkindness. Be careful that you don't lose control of yourself and damage&lt;br /&gt;relationships you have to maintain throughout the rest of the &lt;br /&gt;year.&lt;br /&gt;Someone has to be the adult, it might as well be you. And &lt;br /&gt;don't be a&lt;br /&gt;martyr about it, telling everyone how tough it is, just do it with &lt;br /&gt;a&lt;br /&gt;smile. Even if no one else appreciates your strength, you &lt;br /&gt;can feel proud&lt;br /&gt;of yourself on January 4th! The kids who come visit you may very well be less than &lt;br /&gt;gracious about your efforts to include them and make them &lt;br /&gt;feel comfortable. Never mind. It's not really important how &lt;br /&gt;well someone receives a gift from you. It's how you give the &lt;br /&gt;gift that matters. The visiting kids may have been "prepped" by their mom or &lt;br /&gt;dad to expect&lt;br /&gt;you to be a monster, so they are putting up the best defense &lt;br /&gt; a good&lt;br /&gt;offense. Well, you just prove to them what kind of a person &lt;br /&gt;you really&lt;br /&gt;are! And you will, good or bad. On the ELEVENTH Day of Christmas: Get back into your daily routine as quickly as possible. &lt;br /&gt;Children (and&lt;br /&gt;adults, too) thrive on consistency. Give them assurance that &lt;br /&gt;nothing&lt;br /&gt;major changed over the holidays, unless it was for the good &lt;br /&gt;by&lt;br /&gt;strengthening ties. Through all the families we've worked with, it has become &lt;br /&gt;increasingly&lt;br /&gt;clear that kids need order in their lives. They want rules and&lt;br /&gt;directions and security. Oh, they will deny it to the death! But&lt;br /&gt;stepkids who have opened up to me have by and large &lt;br /&gt;agreed that it makes&lt;br /&gt;them feel safe and cared for to know what the rules are and &lt;br /&gt;that they&lt;br /&gt;will be enforced regularly. This tells them that their parents &lt;br /&gt;are&lt;br /&gt;willing to make an effort to raise them. It's easy to just let things go. Its harder to insist on &lt;br /&gt;obedience. On the TWELFTH Day of Christmas: Keep your perspective. What's the bottom line in dealing &lt;br /&gt;with holiday&lt;br /&gt;madness in a stepfamily? The same three C's we teach in &lt;br /&gt;all our&lt;br /&gt;resources at STEPCarefully!  Caring, Consideration, and &lt;br /&gt;Common sense. ** Care for your loved ones. Care about how you are &lt;br /&gt;teaching them to be&lt;br /&gt;adults. Care about the reputation you will be carrying &lt;br /&gt;through life. ** Be Considerate of others' feelings. Show consideration &lt;br /&gt;and respect&lt;br /&gt;for your new family's need for a solid, peaceful home. ** Use Common sense in handling problems. Some of the &lt;br /&gt;battles just&lt;br /&gt;aren't worth the effort. Common sense means backing up to &lt;br /&gt;look at the&lt;br /&gt;larger picture. Is this particular old holiday custom worth &lt;br /&gt;fighting&lt;br /&gt;over? Or would you be better off letting it go and trying &lt;br /&gt;something&lt;br /&gt;else. For the sake of your kids, act like Christian adults! It's &lt;br /&gt;Christmas,&lt;br /&gt;don't blaspheme the holiday by destroying what you've &lt;br /&gt;taught all year&lt;br /&gt;long. By Bobby Collins &lt;br /&gt;Copyright 1999 ------------------------- &lt;br /&gt;[IMPORTANT NOTE: this text version is copied from our &lt;br /&gt;original resource by the name "Beat the Holiday Blues", &lt;br /&gt;which is copyrighted 1999, Bobby Collins, &lt;br /&gt;http://www.stepcarefully.com, and all international copyright &lt;br /&gt;restrictions apply. Please be careful to include  the copyright &lt;br /&gt;and contact information.] Bobby Collins is a stepdad first, then a minister, a certified &lt;br /&gt;family mediator, and founder of STEP-Carefully! for &lt;br /&gt;Stepparents!, the largest faith-based support organization &lt;br /&gt;for stepfamilies in the country. His articles have appeared in &lt;br /&gt;national publications and he has appeared on national TV &lt;br /&gt;and radio programs always teaching stepparents how to &lt;br /&gt;have healthier, happier families. His organization can be &lt;br /&gt;reached on the Internet at http://www.stepcarefully.com &lt;br /&gt;where visitors will find free articles, a free newsletter, and a &lt;br /&gt;book store with proven stepfamily resources for sale. &lt;br /&gt;Collins is best known for his private family mediation &lt;br /&gt;between husbands and wives, ex-spouses, and &lt;br /&gt;stepparents and their stepkids. With over a decade of &lt;br /&gt;experience, he has helped thousands of stepfamilies &lt;br /&gt;survive and succeed. 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Both Gerald Flurry, editor-in-chief of The Philadelphia Trumpet, and his son, Stephen Flurry were guilty of using the loaded term of "Palestine." Gerald Flurry quoted Shmuel Schnitzer lamenting the new Jewish people who are "preparing to deny our [Jewish] rights, both the divine promise and in terms of REFERRING TO THE LAND BY THE NAME OF ITS PEOPLE, "The Land of Israel' -- a land which belongs to the Children of Israel, from then and to eternity..." [emphasis mine] and then, himself, continues in "Israel's Lost Vision" blind to his own hypocrisy, "Let's look back at Palestine's recent history." Yes, let's look at what name GOD gave the land as an inheritance of all Twelve Tribes of Israel. GOD named it after our patriarch ISRAEL. Satan inspired the Romans to mock God and dishonor our Father by attempting to erase Israel's name off the map!  "They have said, 'Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more'" (Psalms 83:4). Why join with the enemies of God and Israel? Why give credence to an ILLEGITIMATE name? God forbid Israel ever becomes "Palestine"! Since I truly believe they wanted to go by the Bible, I encouraged them to do so and properly refer to the Land of Israel by its GOD ORDAINED NAME -- Israel! In fact, I made a public issue of it only after I saw they persisted in their error by writing "An Open Letter to Stephen Flurry Concerning 'Palestine'" in the November/December 1996 issue of The National Messenger. It appears they now refer to "Judah" or "Israel (biblical Judah)" instead of the accursed "Palestine." Hallelujah! Stephen Flurry and The Philadelphia Church of God The Great Mideast Commission: Reaching the Cities of Judah David Ben-Ariel is a Christian-Zionist writer and author of Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall. With a focus on the Middle East and Jerusalem, his analytical articles help others improve their understanding of that troubled region. 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Clay chimineas are a beautiful and affordable way to be able to enjoy your outdoor living space, even when the air is nippy.  By learning to care for your chiminea properly, you can ensure that it will have a long and problem-free life with your family. Transporting a Clay Chiminea &lt;br /&gt;A chiminea is made up of two parts  the bowl, where the fire is made, and the chimney-like neck.  The stack of a clay chiminea is usually attached to the bowl with only a thin layer of clay, which means that you should never lift the chiminea by its top.  You can easily break your chiminea in half that way.  Instead, be sure to always carry the chiminea around the base  or better yet, use a hand truck or cart to do your moving for you. Seasoning Your Mexican Chiminea &lt;br /&gt;If youve just bought a new clay chiminea, your first reaction might be to run home, build a big fire, and start enjoying it!  However, the clay of your Mexican fireplace requires seasoning to prepare it for a long life of cooking. To season a new chiminea, build a small fire with fat wood, and allow it to burn out on its own and cool completely before lighting another fire.  This hardens the clay gradually, sealing the inside of the fireplace and preventing cracks and hot spots.  Use this process for the first five to ten fires you light. Protecting your Chiminea from the Elements &lt;br /&gt;Chiminea clay is usually not fired, but rather simply painted.  This means that in its bare state, it is vulnerable to water.  In order to prevent rain damage to your Mexican fireplace, apply a sealant to the outside of your chiminea as soon as possible after purchase.  Acrylic floor finish and wood sealants are good choices that will protect both the clay and the paint of your fireplace. Clay chimineas may also crack or shatter if they are left out in the cold.  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Consider your budget and buying habits? How long will you keep  this machine? &lt;br /&gt;- 6 months &lt;br /&gt;- a few years &lt;br /&gt;- forever and a day When you answer these questions, you are on your way to making the right decision. Obviously if you are going to sew from the kitchen table, you don't want a machine with lots of accessories or add-ons that will take up too much room.  If you are doing repairs and alterations, you don't want a machine that duplicates the quilting stitch. If you have small children around, your machine needs to be tucked away safely. Just a few things to think about. Research is the name of the game here. Check out the latest consumer reports. Visit the forum discussions on sew-whats-new.com and see what the girls are using. They will gladly tell you what works and what doesn't. Another source is the well known sewing magazines. Sew News and Threads do comparison studies all the time. 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The partner is her/his own property and dignity that she does not want to loose. Her man for her is everything, whatever kind he is, she manages and sacrifices to get along as long as he is honest and dependable. Infidelity by her man is attack on her marital status and is suicidal for her:  She looses the trust and dependability; who would she trust when own man has cheated. She is devastated sensitively and mentally. She leads her tensed life with grieving emotions would be enough to develop mental and physical deceases.  Both partners believe sexual partner as a personal valuable asset that demonstrates dignity and pride. A sexual partner is most valued partner becomes own dignity thus loosing partner is loosing dignity.  Unfaithfulness of the partner is an insult to the personal values.  So the matter becomes unbearable and embarrassment if partners sexual attraction goes into others hands is shameful and loosing self-respect.  Her financial and other security is at risk. For a woman, her male partner is her security and safety. In addition, for a woman who is dependent, her man is the economic security. Her man shares her necessities, burdens, takes responsibilities of her, and kids. When he is there she is totally worry free.  Loss of the best and emotional friend/partner she got. She, as she wished could share with partner her sentiments, anger, sorrow and everything of her was for her mental relief, what she cannot share with unknown. So is an emotional attack on her.  For a woman it is pride when her man is around her. Absence of the partner results loneliness, which she would hate more than anything. Loneliness exists when is unable to share personal thoughts and sentiments with reliable person, is like killing self.  She/he is not worried of her/his relation out side marriage rather what worries him/her is loosing emotional attachment woven during the whole episode.   So more than the security she looses the emotional values she possessed and shared. Security is for survival and emotional attachment is for the energy she needs for existence. That is why women feel totally distressed when her man deceives.  For a man his woman is his dignity and for a woman her man is her dignity and identity. Her man is her identity as father of her children. Her man is her identity as her security. Living and sharing together is attachment of both souls they unknowingly build. Feeling of oneness contributes to energetic atmosphere. Feeling of meant for each other with who can fight, love, share, capitulate, expect, involve sentimentally and etc; all attachments are disintegrated when one cheats. Woman is more touching as uses heart more than the brain to visualize so is intolerable for her that her man shares his life with other woman too. Infidelity is psychological syndrome created by attraction of the opposite, genetic and discontented behaviour, unrelenting sexual and emotional craving. Infidelity is an outcome of fading ambience, dislike, despair, humiliation, loneliness and etc. No adult person can escape the attraction of opposite sex, it influences our mind to admire and capitulate towards the quality. Some attractions are too strong to influence us to get involved emotionally despite married life; this involvement of extra marital is named by the society as infidelity. Woman too is human, she too has feelings and her body chemicals too react by mental signals when comes in contact with attractive person. She too perceives the virtues of attraction and imagines relating with, but in many occasions her conscious prevents getting involved observing the danger of family and social consequences. In developed countries she has rights to leave the partner for better. But when she keeps two philanders simultaneously becomes offence and is extra marital relation. Most marriages in rural and urban developing countries are arranged by parents. Both would be partners are unknown to each other. In our religious fundamental world woman is a second citizen so has to live with the person loaded on her.  Womans role is to maintain home, taking care of children and at night to act as sexual toy, beyond these if she thinks is an offence which society can to tolerate. Woman has to accept all the terms and conditions of the male partner. If the partner is disgusting still she has to live under his cruelty, undependability and humiliation. She has no other choice as religious and social rights are curtailed; she suppresses her desires and dreams of married life and consoles as this is her fate. For her life on earth is the penalty for sins she committed in her previous birth. Even Government laws can not protect them as social and its religious laws are more effective. If she wants to live in the society she has to obey the social compulsions. She can not leave the unmatched and seek partner of own choice because it is religious crime. If likes other man of own choice the only way-out for her is to make affair in her dreams. Fear of repentance is so dominant that she is scared even to dream the liking person. If by mistake the pre marital love affair is disclosed becomes humiliating for whole life. It is beyond imagination of her man to accept as her past relation hurts his dignity and pride for not having virgin woman as a wife. She has to succeed the test of virginity in the first night of marriage. If she fails is either sent back to the parents blaming her impurity or left to suffer for whole life. 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She becomes evil and treatment is in accordance to her status:  First she looses is the emotional attachment in the family with whom she felt comfortable. In case she despised, she may feel internally punishing the partner but externally she is still helpless and needs a home to live, as she can not live alone in this unsecured world.  She suffers when the truth comes out to deteriorate her married life, makes her life hell.  She comes under threats, violence and humiliation from husband/partner.  Her secret love affairs for craving is unbearable to the religion so she is punished and desecrated to set an example so others do not go for such conduct.  Dependant woman looses her economic security and safety. Society and its religion quarantine her to discourage participation and involvement in social activities.  Suspicion of husband/partner as father of her children becomes humiliation to her. She suffers identity crisis.  Even though husband/partner forgives the infidelity yet the feelings and pain remains in the heart thus home is no longer sweet home to unfaithful wife.  Break from the existing home is anxiety which she has to carry whole life whenever her memory rebounds.  A child questioning her for loss of father is embarrassment.  She may be economically secured but not emotionally what she shared and stored. Link to this article:&lt;br /&gt;http://www.sadashivan.com/marriagedreamswhenfails/index.html Living and sharing together is an attachment of both souls they unknowingly build. Feeling of oneness contributes to energetic atmosphere. Feeling of meant for each other with who can fight, love, share, capitulate, expect, involve sentimentally and etc; all attachments are disintegrated when one cheats. Woman is more touching as uses heart more than the brain to visualize so is intolerable for her that her man shares his life with other woman too. 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Step one is education:  Visit the garage sales, swap meets and flea markets in your area.  Find out what's being offered for sale, what people are buying, and how the merchandise is being sold. Generally an item is tagged with a price, but the seller is open to almost any reasonable offer from the customer. Another thing you want to make mental note of is the way the merchandise is displayed, and how the customers are allowed to browse. You start your own garage sale by cleaning out your own basement, attic, closets and garage. Talk to your relatives and friends; tell them what you're going to do and ask them for donations of no longer used or unwanted items. It's here that you'll get your first experience in negotiating and finally, an agreement for you to display and sell other people's merchandise for a percentage of the sales price. You'll find people explaining that they really don't have a use for a specific item or they really don't want to keep storing it, but because of sentimental reasons just hate to give it away. Once you've had a little experience with this type of seller, you will be able to advertise in the newspaper that you&lt;br /&gt;buy garage sale items, or take them on consignment for a percentage of the final sales price. The advertising angle is really quite simple. Does your local radio station take calls for yard sales or for items for sale? Call them. You should run an ad in your area shopper newspaper for about three days in advance of, and up through the day of your sale. But in getting started, go with small classified ads simply announcing your garage sale, emphasizing major items with cost and major categories. To get ideas on how to write your ad, check your news paper and cut out all the garage sale ads you can find and tape them on a piece of paper.  Then, with a bit of critical analysis, you'll be able to determine how to write a good ad of your own by determining the good and the bad in the ads you've collected. Something to remember:  The bigger and better your sale, the bigger and better your "getting started" ads should be. And the secret to obtaining outstanding garage sale profits is in having the widest or largest selection of merchandise. You should have made an old-fashioned sandwich board sign to display in front of your house when your garage sale is open for business. This will pull in your neighbors, if you haven't already informed them, and attract the people driving by. Sandwich boards are sometimes set out at key traffic intersections not far from the site of the garage sale, to attract attention and point the way. (Check local ordinances to see if this is permitted in your area.) Be sure to check your local ordinances before you start nailing signs to power poles. &lt;br /&gt;Search out and use all the free bulletin boards in your area. It's better, and usually much more profitable, to take the time to make up an attention grabbing circular you can post on these bulletin boards. An 8.5" x 11" poster made on your computer should suffice. Always answer the questions where? what? when? Inside secrets for maximum profits. First, call attention to your sale. Don't be shy, bashful or self-conscious about letting everybody for miles about &lt;br /&gt;know that you're having a garage sale. Some sharp operators do the next best thing to having the Goodyear blimp overhead: They rent miniature blimps, send them up above the housetops, and tether them there on their sale days. Of course this giant balloon or miniature blimp has some sort of sign on the side of it, inviting people to your garage sale!  This is one of the strongest available advertising ideas for pulling "traffic" to a sale of any kind. For more details, write to Pie-In-The-Sky Company, PO Box 5267, San Mateo, CA 94402. Second, you have to give your sale some flair. Put some posts up across the front of your property and run some twisted crepe paper between them. Even better than crepe paper, run brightly colored ribbons. Invest in some colorful pennants and fly them from temporary flagpoles. And don't forget the balloons! Make your garage sale a fun kind of event with clusters of balloons anchored to your display tables and racks.  Be sure to "float" them well above the heads of your customers as &lt;br /&gt;they are browsing through your merchandise displays. Cover your display tables with colorful cloths.  Don't hesitate to use bright colors with busy patterns. Regardless of what you sell, effective display is still predominantly essential! Take time to organize your displays. You can't "dump" items haphazardly on a table, sit down, and expect to realize great profits.  The people doing the most business and making the most sales are the ones with interesting displays, action and color. Try to have as wide a selection of colors as possible in your clothing racks, and mix them for a rainbow effect. Make sure that your jewelry items shine and sparkle.  Arrange them in and with jewelry boxes, jewelry ladders and other items sold for the purpose of showing off jewelry while keeping it neatly organized.  (And keep your eye on it. There are thieves at every garage sell.) We know one lady that regularly arranges jewelry items in a battery operated lazy susan. Seeing this jewelry slowly turning on the lazy susan never fails to draw attention. Think about it, and then study the methods of display used by "rack jobbers" in the stores in your area. These are the wire racks that usually hold card-packaged items.  This kind of display rack would lend itself beautifully for anchoring a cluster of balloons. Keep these things in mind, and build your individual displays as part of the whole; make it pleasing to the eye as well as convenient for your customers to browse through and select the items that appeal to them. Get an eye grabber. Look for some kind of interesting and unusual item to call attention to your salesomething you can set up or park in front of your home during your sale. Some of the displays we've seen along these lines include a horse-drawn surrey, a restored Model T, and an old farm plow.  But anything of an unusual and interesting nature will do the trick for you. One couple we know put up a display using a mannequin dressed in an old-time farm bonnet, long dress and apron. The display depicted a farm woman of old, washing clothes with a scrub board and two steel wash tubs. You have to believe this drew crowds and made people talk! Try to be distinctive. Wherever your imagination takes you, you have to be different and distinctive, or you'll get lost in the hundreds of garage sales going on all around you.  If you'll take the time to employ a bit of imagination and set your sales up with the kind of flair we've been talking about, you'll not just draw the crowds, you'll end up being the one holding the most profits. Conclusion It's a compulsion of many women to go shopping, to search for interesting and sometimes rare and valuable items. This fact alone will keep you as busy as you'll ever want to be - staging and holding garage sales.  The market is so vast, and the appetite so varied, that anything from a brass bedstead to a used diary of somebody's long-for-gotten grandmother will sell, &lt;br /&gt;and sell fast at garage sales.  Put it all together, use a little imagination and you'll easily make all the money you want! End of Canned Article on Garage Sales Here's what I do when I have a yard sale. First, I make sure it is a good garage sale day with lots of garage sales around. That way, I don't need to worry about traffic. I put my junk out in the driveway and block my garage so that the crooks can't get in there without me shooting them. I take a big black marking pen and write "SALE 213" on a piece of cardboard. I tack that to a pole at the top of my street. Folks come up the street looking for "213." When the folks come, I sell! There are professional yard sellers in our town. I'm not one of them. But I like the fun of a sale. For The Children Paco looked out the window. It was a school holiday and it was raining. "Mom, what can I do? It's raining." His little sister, Regina, said, "What are we going to do, Paco? We can't go out in this rain." Mother came into the room. "Well, children, I have an idea. Why don't you go up to your rooms and get your old clothing and toys. Then go out into the garage and see what is there that we can sell at a garage sale next Saturday. We will take the money we earn and go out to dinner and to a movie. Won't that be fun?" This made the children very happy and they ran off to their rooms. Paco found an old train in his room that he never used anymore. Regina found a dress that didn't fit her now. The children gathered up the items and brought them downstairs. Then they went into the garage and found some more items they could sell, including some of Daddy's tools. When Daddy came home from work, he pushed the auto door opener and saw the  children in the garage. There were things everywhere and Daddy could not drive into the garage. He parked in the driveway and ran from the car into the garage. He was all wet and not too happy. He said, "What are you kids up to now? Clean this mess up so I can get the car out of the rain." Regina said, "Daddy, we are having a garage sale on Saturday. The car will have to stay in the driveway. It needs a good washing anyway." Father laughed. "So that's what you are up to! I guess that was your idea, Paco." Mother came into the garage from the house. "Actually, it was my idea. The kids needed something to do. We are going to take the money we earn and go out to dinner and to a movie." On Saturday, the sun was shining and many people came to the garage sale. Paco said, "What are we going to do with the extra money? We have much more than we need for dinner and a movie." Regina's big brown eyes sparkled. "I know what we can do with the extra money. We can buy some paint and paint Mrs. Green's porch. She gave me a cookie yesterday and said that she would like to paint the porch, but that she would have to wait until her ship came in. I don't think she has a ship. She just doesn't have enough money for paint." Mother beamed. "Why that's a wonderful idea, Regina. You are so thoughtful. Don't you think so, Daddy?" Daddy answered, "I'm  proud of you, Regina, for being so considerate. We will buy the paint and next Saturday we &lt;br /&gt;will paint Mrs. Green's porch. Won't that be fun, Paco?" Paco laughed. "Well, I was going to suggest that we buy a fishing boat." Daddy smiled. "That sounds like a good idea too, doesn't it Regina?" Regina gave them a look that would make an ostrich dig two holes for it's head instead of one. While Mother was laughing, Paco said, "Oh, we'll be painting Mrs. Green's porch next Saturday, Regina." Daddy said, "Well, we can have another garage sale some time for the fishing boat." The next Saturday, they painted Mrs. Green porch. Can you guess what color they painted it? Copyright2002-2005 by John Taylor Jones, Ph.D. John T. Jones, Ph.D. (tjbooks@hotmail.com)is a retired R&amp;D engineer and VP of a Fortune 500 company. He is author of detective &amp; western novels, nonfiction (business, scientific, engineering), poetry, etc. Former editor of international trade magazine. 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I am not proud of some of the things I have done or the close calls I have had, but I did learn a lot from those experiences.  I only had a real car for less than a year before I left home leaving the car behind.  I don't count that first junk car that I bought at the drive in theater and only drove twice while I was 15. Shortly after my 16th birthday dad took me up the car dealer and helped me buy a good running used 1950 Plymouth 4 door.  He even let me charge the gas until I ran the bill up too high.  I recall that I even had to drive myself the county seat to get a license and I was nervous that they might ask me how I got there.  Having a car meant that I now became more of a leader than a follower, very few students in school had cars.  You can do a lot of things with a car and get into a lot of trouble also.  I would stay out late at night, drive up town and find anyone who wanted to play poker, drive out to some lonely back road and play on the back of the seats under the dome light for hours at a time. Some of my friends approached me about a prank they would like to play of some of the older students and because I owned a shotgun and a car, I became one of the main players in the plot.  We started spreading the rumor about a woman whose husband worked the late shift and that she was entraining young men while he was at work.  Out at the end of Leaper Lane in Providence, Kentucky where we lived, there was an old abandoned house.  I would drive out just after dark and park around back, load up the shotgun and wait behind a tree.  The others that were in on the prank would gather up some of the eager students in their car and bring them out.  They would make us some excuse for parking on the road before getting to the house and have them walk the rest of the way.  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The word on the street is that brides are going to be wearing the soft, romantic look, with hair down, plenty of ringlets and curls, with a minimum of accessories. The emphasis is going to be the natural look, with any updos have some hair loose at the sides or the back for that softer look. The key to these wedding day styles will be using the right hair products to ensure that your look stays perfectly in place for the day. &lt;br /&gt;If youve got fine hair, test out a few products to give your hair body and stop it from becoming flyaway. If youve got curly hair, you may want to try out sprays to give you more control to hold those curls in place. If youve got short hair, but want that longer look for your wedding day, you can opt for hair extensions that look just like your own hair. Make sure youve found a hairdresser or salon stylist that you can trust and who knows your hair and what you like.  Treat yourself to a regular conditioning treatment in the weeks and months leading up to your wedding day.  To keep improving the condition, use a paddle brush and brush it well daily. On the day, use a shine spray or serum to give that extra special look and a hold spray to keep it in place. For further tips and ideas on creating  &lt;br /&gt;bridal updo hairstyles and  bridesmaid updos , visit  Updo Princess . 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Appearing in the episode are Shirley O. Corriher as our favorite food scientist, Merrilyn Crouch as Alton Browns hoity sister, and of course Vickie Eng as the mistress of gadgets, W. Offering up the real facts on frying and why it doesnt have to be a dirty word makes this a must see if you love your fryer. The episode starts, as do most of them, with a premise and plot. This particular one starts off with Alton Browns sister going on about the evils of frying food. This is all despite the fact that, as AB points out, it is one of the best cooking environments in terms of texture, flavor enhancement, and efficiency. Aside for the overall recipe for fish and chips, there is one very important characteristic to this episode. The strength of it comes from the fact that AB explains, in great detail, how to fry properly so that very little of the fat is absorbed into the food. At the end of the day, absorption of fat is what makes people nervous about frying. The telling piece of evidence is that after the preparation of a great plate of fish and chips, Brown measures the oil from when he started and is only missing a couple of tablespoons for an entire plate of fish and chips. It is definitely both interesting and encouraging information. W, of course, leads us to the right tools for frying. The key, though, is that frying takes place somewhere that the temperature can be carefully monitored and adjusted so that the fat stays out of the food and cooks it. There are, as usual, some great trips into history and trivia with this episode of Good Eats. For instance, the French in French fry refers to the cut of the potato and not to the country of origin. That is something you can carry around with you, but the real star of this episode and what really makes it great is fat and frying. Again, Alton Brown shines by taking the every day foods we love and making them accessible. Tip of the episode: For perfect French fries, you have to fry them twice. The first time you fry them at a lower temperature to get the middle done. Then, after resting them to room temperature, you fry them again at a higher temperature to get them golden and crispy. Celebrity Chefs such as Alton Brown And Rachael Ray are becoming a staple in the diets of American TV Watchers everywhere. 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A contract can be many things: verbal, written, even action oriented. If you buy a dress, for example, you're contracted to pay the amount of the dress to the merchant. Our daily lives are full of contracts and agreements, some, like the dress, which we don't normally think about. What contract law does is protect, defend and examine contracts made between people, agencies, groups, organizations, etc. It falls under the civil law system and is considered part of laws surrounding obligations, or 'law of obligation.' Much of the time, the sector of contract law is concerned with breaches of contracts and solutions to the problems that accompany these breeches. What most people don't know is that, contrary to what they may believe, an informal contract (one made orally, even lightly) can still be as binding and legal as a written contract. Contract lawyers deal with everything from the formalities and details of a contract to its ultimate follow through.  A contract lawyer will ideally ensure that the contractual terms of the contract are complete and in no way uncertain. This is highly important because, if the terms of a contract are determined 'incomplete' or 'uncertain,' the contract is liable for severance. For example, if an agreement was made between two parties, and one party tried to break the contract, they might be successful if the contract is deemed uncertain or incomplete by a court of law. In order to obtain damages for breaking (breeching) a contract, a person may bring a suit against the contract-breaker by filing a civil lawsuit usually in a state court. However, it is within their rights to petition a private arbitrator to hear their case as well. This is best practice in the United States; other countries may have similar processes. Hiring a contract lawyer to help you out with this process is well worth your time, as they can help resolve any disputes you have with a contract and conversely, ensure a contract is solid and legal, without any uncertain terms that could be grounds for severance. MyAbogado.com is a popular legal directory that helps users locate legal professionals across the country while providing the legal community and litigation support providers with a low cost method to market their services to other professionals and members of the public across the country. 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The decision you make regarding a specific fabric type will establish the durability and lasting attractiveness of your patio or market umbrella and can affect the cost greatly. Be sure to consider how often you may be using the umbrella as well as whether you are going to store or utilize a protective cover when deciding how much you would like to spend. The following is general information about fabric offerings in order of strength and quality.Sunbrella Acrylics:  The preferred umbrella fabric 100% 8 to 9.5 ounce (or more) solution-dyed acrylic fabric with locked-in colors.Sunbrella offers both furniture grade and marine grade acrylic fabrics.  Furniture grade is usually a softer feel for cushions, while marine grade is usually thicker and a little rougher on the skin for awnings and commercial umbrellas.Sunbrella fabrics will stands up to sun, wind, and rain and outdoor environment without fading, retaining its original beauty for years longer then any other type of fabric on the market. Mildew generally will not grow on Sunbrella fabrics as long as there is no basic organic matter on the umbrella cover. Sunbrella umbrella fabrics have been time tested and proven effective to give up to 98% UV protection from the sun and have been given the "Seal of Recommendation" by The Skin Cancer Foundation, an international organization dedicated to the prevention of skin cancer. Sunbrella offers a Three-year warranty against fading. Olefin: 8 oz solution-dyed fabric. High density, light weight woven fabric. Holds bright colors well and resists fading better then polyester Very durable, easy to clean, stain and abrasion resistant. 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The vast majority of people refer to and umbrella with Sunbrella fabric as a Sunbrella Umbrella However, Sunbrella is only a fabric that is manufactured by a company named Glen Raven Mills, who manufactures many types of fabrics including, furniture grade fabrics, marine grade fabrics, awning fabrics, and specialty fabrics with graphics. Sunbrella fabric is highly regarded as the predominant premium quality outdoor fabric in the world and is the recognized leader in the industry.  If you are interested in purchasing a patio umbrella or outdoor cushions for your backyard, patio or pool area, we highly recommend considering Sunbrella fabrics.  With hundreds of outdoor fabric choices to choose from and a 3 year fade warrantee, you will not be disappointed. 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You already have a lead generation program in place. But is it working? Is it sufficient? Probably not, otherwise you wouldn't be reading an article called "turnaround tactics." So you have to stoke the lead machine. Step one is to decide what a lead is worth to you, so you can know what to spend on getting one. Do you know the lifetime value of your typical customer?  Do this calculating for revenue and profit: add the initial sale plus all subsequent add upsells, resells, back-end products, over the entire life of your customer. Average this across your customer base, and voila - lifetime customer value. Your fist sale may be $50,000, but with service alone over five years that figure will double. Throw in an upgrade, and two further product sales down the road, plus some consulting fees - the number could exceed $250,000. But don't use these estimates - do the math and find out. You also need to know your conversion ratios. How many suspects make a lead, how many leads make a new customer, and so on.  Break down your conversion ratios by lead source, as your customers from referrals will typically convert better than public speaking leads, which will convert better than trade show leads, and so on. Combine cost per lead and conversion ratios and you know what the cost of acquiring a new customer is.  Which tells you how much you can spend to get that customer, as well as which lead sources are most efficient.  Now you know what to do more of, and what programs to kill off. It's time to add new programs. In truth, there are a fairly limited number of ways to get new leads. 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Indeed, one with a large screen television would have a better view of what happened, along with slow-motion replays and zoom lenses. But we all agree it is not the same. Yet as sports figures salaries increase that means the cost of the tickets go up as well. These are issues for sports fans and this is without mentioning getting the SUV to the event considering the $3.00 plus per gallon. In fact one recent executive working for a large plasma screen TV manufacturing corporation said that for the price of two-visits to a sports game with your son, you could have already paid for the High Definition screen and the speakers to the surround sound. Of course if you live in New Orleans, Louisiana you could have picked on up for free recently? Okay bad joke. 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Job opportunities are found through the strategic use of the same steering mechanism that successfully sells products and services: Positioning, Exposure and Marketing. Seek employers needing solutions to their problems&lt;br /&gt;Change your career search strategy from hastily blasting resumes extolling your attributes to more thoughtfully approaching an employer with the idea of helping him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal. By doing so, youll leverage your competitive advantage. Youll then always invest your energies where you can obtain the highest return of time and energy because your initiatives will have a target or an intensity of purpose. Hot career tip: Deliberately design your career management campaign for success. There are nine angles to engineer a successful marketing strategy in a competitive hunt and each brings focus and clarity. 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Your success in turning a job search into a career find will be in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you are expected to do. Be absolutely clear about what you want, why you want it, when you want it and what you are willing to do to get it. Let your inner hamster escape off the mindless track of a career pursuit without purpose. Regain control of your job search. Grab the key out of the cage youve put yourself in by using the distinct marketing concepts of Positioning, Exposure and Marketing. Marta Driesslein, CECC (http://www.interviewing.com) is a management consultant for R.L. Stevens &amp; Associates Inc. For over 24 years R.L. Stevens &amp; Associates has been the Nations most successful privately-held firm, specializing in executive career searches generating quality interviews through both advertised and unadvertised channels. 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He produced this diet for his heart patients supported upon his work of scientific dieting inquiry. The South Beach diet is oftentimes falsely likened to the Atkins diet , which is mostly a low-carbohydrate diet. Dr. Agatston thinks that extra ingestion of supposed harmful carbohydrates makes an insulin resistance syndrome which is an symptom of reduced quality of the hormone insulin's ability to decently act on body fat or sugar. Also he believes, with most doctors, that overindulgence of bad fats adds to an gain in cardiovascular disease. To make impossible these two conditions, The doctor's diet downplays consumption of bad fats and bad carbs and promotes increased consumption of good fats and good carbs. The South Beach diet has three stages. In all stages of the diet, Dr. Agatston urges minimizing consumption of bad fats. In Phase I, enduring two weeks, people try to eradicate insulin resistance by staying clear from moderately high or high-glycemic carbs, such as candy, sugar, bread, fruit, potatoes,  grains and cereals. Throughout Phase I, Dr. Agatston states the body will lose its insulin resistance, and start to utilize excess body fat, getting the dieter to lose between 10 and 15 pounds. In two weeks, Phase II starts. Fruits and whole grain foods are step by step brought back to the diet, while in smaller amounts than were probably eaten prior to beginning the diet, and with a extended accent on foods with a low glycemic index. Whenever the dieter achieves the sought after weight Phase III starts. In Phase III the diet extends to add three portions of whole grains and three portions of fruit a day. The diet differentiates between good and bad carbohydrates, good and bad fats. 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In the day to day struggle to keep your company goals and objectives in sight, it is easy to allow the batteries in your smoke alarm to go down. How often should you check them and when do you know the alarm should be ringing loudly? Here are a few questions to reflect upon that will assist in this analysis: 1. In the last quarter or at least in the past 6 months, has my supervisor or manager spoken to me about my goals and objectives as an employee? It is critical for your supervisor or department manager to take an active role in your development as a team member. Managers should make it their responsibility to take the initiative to make certain their team or department members know what is expected of them in the short term and long term. Goals and objectives for each member should be laid out in plain and easily understood pathways for you to follow. If these are not being provided by your current supervisor or manager, you need to have a heart to heart talk with that person to make certain you are on the same page. Not being on the same page should trigger the alarm bells. 2. Do I have all the resources to complete my work objectives and goals? Many times, in companies where times are starting to get VERY tough and business is on a major down turn, the resources for fully and successfully completing your work objectives become suddenly scarce or difficult to come by. If you start to sense that this is the case, make inquires to your boss or department head. Find out if it is simply an issue of poor allocation or something more dire for the companys future. Should you be concerned that you were once able to fly out and meet clients for direct sales calls and business development and now each and every trip must be validated with a signed contract? Yes, because it takes money to make money and when things get so tight that standard business development trips are no longer in the budget, it time to start thinking about the root causes. If you, as a valued employee, do not have the resources or assistance of the company to complete the objectives outlined by your manager or group leader, then maybe its time to consider another career location. 3. Can I see a clear path to career advancement at this company? Take a look beyond the simple pay increase equation. Take a look at your co-workers and colleagues. Are they particularly interested in their careers or simply there punching the clock and taking the paycheck hoping their efforts are enough to keep them employed till retirement age. Do you see the company responding to the efforts you have made that are above and beyond the standard job description in your personnel file? Take a hard look at the company as an outsider? 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But, have not doubt, if you find any of the prior points are part of your current work atmosphere, perhaps the career smoke alarm is already going off. Check those batteries frequently, or at the very least every six months. Its always better to have fresh and alert batteries than be a victim. Executive recruiter William Werksman is a frequent columnist to job boards including http://www.NevadaJobBoard.com  addressing both the candidate's and employer's perspective. Werksman's expertise has been featured in business magazines, national newspapers and television news segments. His firm, Resource Partners, is recognized as the leading source of specialized and executive talent in the Casino and Gaming industry. He manages a staff of recruiters out of his firm's Las Vegas, Nevada headquarters. 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Permission is not required for the distribution of Pick Up The Pace articles as long as they are used in their entirety, are properly credited to Pick Up The Pace, and are accompanied by our website link: www.letspickupthepace.com. * The information in this article and on this site is for general reference purposes only and not intended to address specific medical conditions. This information is not a substitute for professional medical advice or a medical exam. Prior to participating in any exercise program or activity, you should seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health professional. No information in this article or on www.letspickupthepace.com should be used to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any medical condition. Tracie Johanson is the founder of Pick Up The Pace, a 30-minute exercise studio for women, focusing on fitness, health and nutrition for maximum weight loss. Please visit http://www.letspickupthepace.com for more information. 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If he hears you, you have gained your brother. Luke 17:3-4 (New King James Version) 3 Take heed to yourselves. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. 4 And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day returns to you, saying, I repent, you shall forgive him. So many times in the Christian life a person flesh can rise up or a difference of opinion or in teaching can arise and people can hurt each other. We are all works in progress and the enemy loves to have to brothers fall out of sorts with each other. May of us do not go back to the brother and take them aside and tell them how they hurt us. May of do not take the time to be honest with our brother and instead go and tell others what a jerk that person is and when people we tell agree we say in self righteousness that we have to forgive them, but we are not going to hang around them anymore because they have to learn a lesson. 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The Holy Spirit brings us conviction for sin and asks us to repent in private. Jesus does not go and blab to our pastor or other Christians of our sin but he approaches out hearts and asks us for an apology and for us to not do it again. Even when we fall again he privately comes and asks us to repent again.&lt;br /&gt;Christians have big gossip clubs and are forever talking about the sins of to others, when instead they should be going to the people that hurt them and asking for an apology and quickly making peace. When you have unforgiveness it dries up your walk with the Lord and your prayers stop being answered and when you continue in sin it brings sickness to your life. Jesus has commanded us to do so and we should do this from this day on. Today I have also had to rebuke a very dear friend of mine that I hope to be ministering with in the future. It was a very long email and it clearly laid out what I felt and what the person had done and asked for repentance to be forthcoming. 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Companies who make proper and judicious use of the information gathered as a result of a thorough background investigation typically reduce exposure to employee fraud, theft, embezzlement, turnover, unqualified employees, negligent hiring claims and violence in the workplace. The following are the most important aspects that makeup a background investigation. Additionally, how the information can be used to significantly reduce employee difficulties and employment litigation is also discussed: EMPLOYER REFERENCES- &lt;br /&gt;Checking past employers is used primarily to verify information provided by the applicant on resumes and applications such as dates of employment, job title, compensation, reasons for separation, and re-hire status.  With even a small amount of information provided by a past or current employer, you may be able to gauge an applicants skill, ability and honesty or perhaps areas such as attendance problems, violent behavior, and manageability.  Required element in the defense of negligent hiring claims (regardless of whether or not the reference shares information). EDUCATION VERIFICATION-  &lt;br /&gt;An important integrity check. Surveys suggest that as many as 1 in 3 resumes and applications contain inaccurate education assertions and that more than 500,000 Americans have bought their academic degrees.  This area contains the second highest rate of inaccuracy, behind salary. This check verifies education commiserate with position requirements.  This is one of the easiest checks to pursue.  This may include industry specific certifications and other non-degree-oriented training. PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES- &lt;br /&gt;Similar to screening employer references and great for gaining an insight into some personality traits of the applicant.  Addresses of friends and family that are in other states, or are otherwise a great distance away, may also indicate that the candidate had lived in that area. This is important regarding criminal record checks. DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLE REPORTS-  &lt;br /&gt;May verify the type, status, validity, and restrictions of the applicants drivers license. Can also be used to verify information provided by the candidate such as current address, date of birth and license endorsements.  Essential if the applicant will drive on company time or use company vehicles.  May indicate a history of substance abuse.  Required element in the defense of negligent hiring claims. SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER TRACE- &lt;br /&gt;A specialized report that may indicate a social security numbers validity or uncover aliases and other people using the same number. Generally includes a candidates current and previously reported addresses for comparison to an application.  Previous addresses should be used in the criminal history check.  Required element in defense of negligent hiring claims. CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS- &lt;br /&gt;Make a thorough criminal background check. It is not uncommon for employers to be sued for an employees illegal acts. Do not check arrest histories, only records of criminal convictions. Compare to application to determine a candidates honesty. You should not immediately disqualify a candidate for convictions, unless they are not included on the application. Convictions must recent and job related (i.e. driver applicant with a DWI conviction or a retail candidate convicted of shoplifting or theft). The criminal background check is essential in considering a candidates character, integrity, history of violent behavior, and suitability for the job. It is best to visit the appropriate countys Clerk of Court criminal records office in person but you can also reach them by phone, fax, computer or mail.  Past performance is indicative of future results.  Required element in the defense of negligent hiring claims.  If you should find information that causes you not to hire an individual, keep a copy for your records. PRE-EMPLOYMENT CREDIT CHECK- &lt;br /&gt;Also called a PEER report by credit reporting bureaus. This report is similar to a standard consumer credit report. It may contain secured and unsecured loan, revolving credit (credit card) and other debt information, as well as payment history. It may include information from public record sources such as judgments, liens, and bankruptcies.  Used to gauge a candidates fiscal responsibility and financial pressures.  May also include information from the less expensive Social Security Trace. FEDERAL AND STATE LICENSE VERIFICATION- &lt;br /&gt;Used when an applicant must have a license for the job. Verifies the validity, type and status of required licensing.  Complaints and administrative actions regarding licensed individuals may also be available.  Required element in the defense of negligent hiring claims. HONESTY, ATTITUDE AND PERSONALITY TESTING- &lt;br /&gt;Although not a background or reference investigation, these tests have a definite place in the pre-hire process.  These surveys measure a candidates attitude regarding honesty, ethics, substance abuse, reliability, work and supervisors.  These test typically cost between $6-$10 per candidate.  Over 45% of Fortune 100 Companies use profile testing at some level in their organization. DRUG SCREENING-    &lt;br /&gt;Again, tests for the use of illicit drug use also have a definite place in the pre-hire process. Many studies have linked drug use in the workplace to higher than average losses. According to one such study, the average theft incident per employee with a substance addiction is 6.3 times higher than to the average theft incident committed by a non-addicted employee. OSHA has recently re-released information indicating that employees in companies with drug screening programs are 4 times less likely to have job related accidents, equating to greater productivity and profits.  Required element in the defense of negligent hiring claims (especially when employees operate machinery, drive on company time or use company vehicles). Keep in mind, the results from these reports must be compared against provided information in order to measure an applicants honesty. Hiring a dishonest candidate is never a good decision. There are many more sources for background and reference investigations than have been included here; a licensed private investigation agency specializing in pre-employment investigations may be able to help you identify and obtain any additional needs. As in all aspects of the hiring process, federal and state laws may govern how you use or share information obtained while conducting these and other checks; always maintain documentation generated as a result of these reports. Furthermore, all positions do not require every check or screening process included; for example, a waiters position in a restaurant may not warrant the expense of a credit check, motor vehicle report or psychological profile testing. Some Important Considerations:  All employers should seriously consider a comprehensive drug-screening program.  Any time a state or federal license is required for the position, a license verification check must be completed.  Background investigations for jobs requiring access to cash, financial records, and valuable merchandise (jewelry, weapons, electronics, etc.) should include a pre-employment credit check, with check-ups performed semi-annually.  Department of Motor Vehicle Records should be checked semi-annually.  Criminal Background checks should be completed once a year.  Additional investigation components should be verified when an employee is promoted. There are many other checks and resources available to the public that can be used to uncover possible sources of fraud, theft, and dishonesty. The components listed above are the most common elements of a background investigation and are not meant to be an exhaustive study. The services of a competent investigations company should be sought to discuss additional options. L. Scott Harrell is the author of Truth or Consequences: Hiring for Integrity, a manual which completely and accurately describes proven pre-employment hiring strategies and interviewing skills developed from 14 years of experience as a private investigator and principal of CompassPoint Investigations. 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That statement holds true for job interviewing more than any other situation; but it is possible to prepare yourself for a stellar interview and to literally steal the job before youve even sat down for the interview.  Learn how you can increase your chances of landing the job of your dreams with some basic tips and advice. Firstly, know thy audience.  Do your research on the companys history and what products or services they offer.  Nothing genuinely flatters an employer more than to know that someone has taken the time to understand what his or her company is all about. Secondly, develop a very short commercial about yourself.  Put together a two-minute summary detailing your strengths, skills, and goals; then commit it to memory.  This brief infomercial that is all about you serves to effectively promote and sell you to prospective employers. A third tip that cant be emphasized enough is to practice, practice, practice your answers to possible questions. Not only does practicing ease anxiety and instill confidence in yourself, but it can also prevent you from going blank during the interview.  Some of the most common interview questions are: Tell me about yourself. &lt;br /&gt;What do you know about the services or goods our company provides? &lt;br /&gt;What are your short and long term goals? &lt;br /&gt;Describe your strengths and weaknesses. &lt;br /&gt;What is the greatest challenge youve ever faced and how did you overcome it? While on the topic of questions, develop a mental list of your own to ask the employer.  After all, this could be your future employer; therefore, you should demonstrate enthusiasm and interest for the job for which you are applying.  Some suggestions are: What are the key responsibilities of this position? &lt;br /&gt;What is a typical work day like? But no matter how tempting, do not ask about how much money you will be making! A fourth bit of advice is to bring extra copies of your resume and references with you to the interview.  This simple little step shows that you are conscientious; never take the chance of an employer not being able to view all of your hard work and accomplishments just because he didnt have a copy of your resume handy. A fifth step that is frequently overlooked is lining up your list of references before they are contacted by a potential employer.  Your list of contacts should be well-versed on your work skills and strengths and have direct knowledge of your job performance.  Guarantee that you receive glowing recommendations by informing your references in advance that they may be contacted by a potential employer. The following is a list of dos and donts to go over when preparing for the job interview. Do: Verify directions and parking before the day of interview. &lt;br /&gt;Go alone.  That means no Mom or your best friend. &lt;br /&gt;Arrive a little early.  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Its probably justified. Theres no doubt that true penny stocks are among the surest ways to lose all your money in the stock market. But, that being the case, why do so many investors love penny stocks? If you type penny stocks" into Google it spits out more than 8.5-million hits. If you do the same for blue-chip stocks" you get about half that number and if you type in dividend-paying stocks" you get about half that again. The folks at Fool.com reckon its because the world of pennies is inhabited by hardworking average Joes hoping to strike it rich, pumpers and dumpers, hypesters and scammers. In pennies, the logic and reason that applies in the rest of daily life is replaced by zeal and prayer. But there may be another reason. And that is that the rest of the stock market can be so utterly boring. Lets face it, unless youve got huge amounts of money on the line, how excited can you get when one of your blue chips has a really big day and moves up 1.5%? 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