<?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-5667749585862977204</id><updated>2012-02-16T18:25:33.994-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Sna</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5667749585862977204/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>goglccwwjo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12931585443290031161</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>54</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667749585862977204.post-1746960571315741030</id><published>2008-09-12T12:12:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-12T12:12:00.988-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Simple Ideas For Your Simple Small Bathroom Remodeling</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;If you're combating a cramped bathroom, then it may be time to clean house. 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Second, Internet adoption rates in the English speaking &lt;br&gt;countries is slowing. With less new users coming online each day the pool of &lt;br&gt;Adsense neophytes is shrinking. Every day a larger percentage of users become &lt;br&gt;desensitized to the presence of Adsense and that Google tag on the corner of each &lt;br&gt;panel. Finally, as I previously mentioned, if you provide high-value content your &lt;br&gt;readers will return and the more familiar a user is with your site, the easier it is for &lt;br&gt;her to filter your Adsense ads.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What can be done to turn the tide back in the favor of the humble website owner? &lt;br&gt;Dont be afraid to experiment with Adsense. While the panels remain relatively static &lt;br&gt;you can vary colors and borders. The key with experimentation is to make subtle &lt;br&gt;changes. Your Adsense panels should continue to blend with your content overall. &lt;br&gt;Well blended content captures new readers every time. What you want to do is &lt;br&gt;create a situation where the user, especially returning readers, stop and process &lt;br&gt;your changes. You want her mind to note that the Adsense panel is different but &lt;br&gt;only slightly. Those borders that everyone matches with the pages background &lt;br&gt;color can be made to be slightly darker or lighter than the page background color. &lt;br&gt;Nothing too garish mind you - just a slight difference that makes the reader pause &lt;br&gt;and consider what she is being presented with.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The same approach can be applied to text color and link color. Subtle changes can &lt;br&gt;work wonders for improving click-throughs. The idea here is that we have trained &lt;br&gt;the readers mind to expect Adsense panels to be blended very deeply into our &lt;br&gt;content. Now, their mind is presented with panels that are standing out just a little &lt;br&gt;more than usual and once they notice this, they will process the Adsense text and &lt;br&gt;hopefully click-through.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Varying the panel type and size you are using can also help to improve your click-&lt;br&gt;through ratio. Every change you make to your site layout causes readers to work at &lt;br&gt;processing the changes this requires attention. This simple act draws the readers &lt;br&gt;attention to the panels and hopefully creates a click event. The key to sucessful &lt;br&gt;testing is to make only one change per day so that you can effectively assess what &lt;br&gt;effect the change has. If you make two or more changes you will have no clue which &lt;br&gt;change caused your readers behavior to differ from the past. My Adsense resources &lt;br&gt;page listed below has some great pointers concerning how to effectively test &lt;br&gt;changes to your Adsense panels.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My next suggestion will shock and anger many - heresy some will claim but I stand &lt;br&gt;by it nonetheless. There are other options! Adsense isnt the only game in town. In &lt;br&gt;fact, there are thousands of other fine affiliate programs that you can join and &lt;br&gt;integrate into your content right along with Adsense. Granted, you will have to work &lt;br&gt;a little harder and this is the true evil that Google has perpetrated upon us. Adsense &lt;br&gt;is so easy that we have become lazy in matters of monetization. Break the Google &lt;br&gt;chains that bind you! Do some research. Yes, work and find an affiliate program that &lt;br&gt;matches your niche and promote the hell out of it. I suppose if you are happy with &lt;br&gt;your Adsense earnings you can stick with Google solely but consider the money you &lt;br&gt;are leaving on the table.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Almost any piece of great content can be matched with a suitable affiliate offering. &lt;br&gt;There are literally thousands, perhaps even tens of thousands of affiliate programs &lt;br&gt;available. Find one or two that match your niche and give them the same billing you &lt;br&gt;give Adsense on your website. You might just be surprised. A quarter-per-click is &lt;br&gt;nice when coupled with a conversion rate of 1.5% and some decent traffic but &lt;br&gt;consider a $5 or $10 affiliate commission that only converts ten percent as often. &lt;br&gt;You will quickly discover that adding a program or two has no effect on your &lt;br&gt;Adsense earnings but does provide a welcome new revenue stream!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;BW Griggs consults and develops but rarely sleeps. He is the author of Affiliate Success: eBay, a nifty piece of software that has nothing to do with teaching people how to become eBay super-sellers but rather, enables people to create a new, powerful income stream by displaying eBay auctions on their websites in much the same spirit as Google's Adsense program but with suprisingly better results!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; www.shrubsoft.com/ase-details.php"&gt;www.shrubsoft.com/ase-details.php&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For additional resources concerning how you can defeat Adsense blindness, visit:  www.shrubsoft.com/blog/affiliate/adsense-blindness-resources/"&gt;www.shrubsoft.com/blog/affiliate/adsense-blindness-resources/&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5667749585862977204-1528945708152733146?l=tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com/feeds/1528945708152733146/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5667749585862977204&amp;postID=1528945708152733146' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5667749585862977204/posts/default/1528945708152733146'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5667749585862977204/posts/default/1528945708152733146'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com/2008/09/adsense-blindness-how-to-beat-it.html' title='Adsense Blindness - How To Beat It!'/><author><name>goglccwwjo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12931585443290031161</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667749585862977204.post-2254589980233697119</id><published>2008-09-09T06:33:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-09T06:33:23.240-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Tips on Clothes Cleaning For People With Allergies</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;For people &lt;a href=http://www.shop24-7-365.com/Insurance/Car-Insurance/car-insurance.php&gt;compare car insurance&lt;/a&gt; allergies, there are two main considerations when it comes to doing the laundry. The first concerns symptoms (respiratory or skin) that are made worse by contact with mite allergen; the second concerns eczema, dermatitis, or urticaria that caused or made worse by some washing products.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;House-dust mites can survive washing temperatures up to 56C/133F. Although the mite allergen will be washed out at lower temperatures, the mites themselves will cling to the fabric using suckers &lt;a href=http://www.bubblegum-cards.com/Odd-Rods/index.html&gt;Odd Rods&lt;/a&gt; their feet. This is why all bed linen (sheets, pillow cases, duvet covers, and so on) should be made of cotton, which is washable at the temperatures needed to kill the mites outright.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, you can add a dilute benzyl benzoate solution to a lower-temperature wash water used for bed linen. The benzyl benzoate kills mites, which are then washed out along with the allergen. Make sure that you follow the manufacturer's recommendations regarding quantities to use.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Benzyl benzoate is generally considered to be safe, but little is known about its effects when used long-term as an acaricide. If you do use it for cleaning bed linen or clothes, you may want to program your washing machine to give extra rinses. Alternatively, you could replace your bed linen with cotton items and reserve the benzyl benzoate for use with items, such as curtain, that are not in constant, close skin contact.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;By a process of &lt;a href=http://www.shop24-7-365.com/Finance/Student-Loan-Consolidation/student-loan-consolidation.php&gt;student loan consolidation&lt;/a&gt; and error most allergic people discover which washing product best suits their skin condition. Whichever it is, try not to use too much, and rinse thoroughly to avoid any potentially irritating residues. If you are experimenting with different products to discover which ones are suitable, remember to rinse your washing machine out thoroughly to remove all traces of the previous one. It is also wise to try any new product on just one or two items first, particularly if the allergic person has very sensitive skin.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Biological washing products contain enzymes to break down proteins, such as milk or blood, that cause stains. People with eczema may find that their skin condition is made worse by exposure to these enzymes (which may also cause respiratory symptoms), and often find non-biological products more acceptable. However, if these also cause irritation, then products labeled as suitable for "sensitive skin" may be a better option, or you could even try old-fashioned soap flakes. Sensitivity to every type of washing product is rare, but if this should occur, try using one tablespoon of washing soda, sodium bicarbonate, or borax per washing load. 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I &lt;a href=http://www.shop24-7-365.com/Finance/Student-Loan-Consolidation/student-loan-consolidation.php&gt;college loan consolidation&lt;/a&gt; let you decide yourself, after reading this article. By the time you finish this article, you should be able to know which names are favorable to you and which are not.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you happen to be setting up a company, you will learn how you can use a name favorable to you, thereby raising the success rate of your business. If you happen to be an author, this might help you to name your books so that they become a success.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let me give you a little background on how to choose a favorable name. Names are also represented by the 5 elements of Chinese Astrology, which are Wood, Earth, Water, Fire and Metal. Your name, or your company name should contain your favorable elements, so that your luck cycle will be good and your company will be successful.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now, you will look at the first real life example of a successful name.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you are into Law of Attraction, Copywriting and Internet Marketing, you are &lt;a href=http://joipnvushidjlb.blogspot.com&gt;Joipnvushidjlb&lt;/a&gt; very familiar with Dr Joe Vitale. Dr Vitale actually has a nickname. He is also known as Mr Fire. If you go to his website, you will see a lot of Fire colors there. Orange and red. After he used the name Mr Fire, his success came one after another.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now, what will happen if he uses the nickname Mr Water instead of Mr Fire?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let me explain using Chinese Astrology. Dr Joe Vitale is born on 29th December 1953.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Looking at his elements, he is born on a Wood day, in a Winter(Water) month. In order for Wood to grow, you need sunlight, which is Fire. The Wood in Winter is frozen and unable to grow.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, from here, we can see that Dr Vitale's favorable element is Fire. By using the nickname Mr Fire, he is able to become successful. In which he already is very successful. Let me tell you a little secret here. . . all the articles and newsletter that I wrote were based on his copywriting techniques.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dr Vitale has a lot of fans around the world. You are probably one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let's compare the real scenario with the calculations. Basing on Dr Vitale's luck pillars, from age 27 to 46, he was going through 20 years of Metal. Metal produces Water, which is unfavorable to him. If you read about his story, it was during this period of time he was homeless. However, from age 47 onwards, that is year &lt;a href=http://www.pharmacy.shop24-7-365.com/Prozac-Fluoxetine.php&gt;Prozac online&lt;/a&gt; onwards, he is starting to go through the Fire pillars.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I do not know when he started to be known as Mr Fire. But I believe it is somewhere around this period. Year 2000 was the turning point of his life. If he was known as Mr Water, then the results would have been different.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you are born in Winter(8th November to 3rd February of the following year), you might want to call yourself Mr Fire, or Miss Fire, or name your company Big Fire, Deep Fire or anything that has to do with Fire. Towards the end of the article, I will share with you the names represented by the different elements.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now, let's look at the next live example. This time, it is about the famous comedian cum director cum actor from Hong Kong, Stephen Chow. Recently, he released this movie CJ7. It is about this little boy named Dicky who discovered an alien from outer space. This alien became his pet. It helped him with his school work and physical education lessons.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Back to the impact of the name of this movie. Let's look at Stephen Chow's date of birth first. He was born on 22nd June 1962.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stephen Chow is a Metal person born in a Fire month(Summer). Fire destroys Metal. Water and Metal are both his favorable elements.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now, let's look at the name CJ7. CJ7 is actually an acronym for Chang Jiang 7. Chang Jiang actually means the Yangtze River in chinese. Stephen Chow's favorable element is Water. The first part of the name is favorable.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Number 7 actually represents Metal. 1 and 2 represent Wood. 3 and 4 represent Fire. 5 and 6 represent Earth. 7 and 8 represent Metal. 9 and 10 represents Water.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The whole name of this movie, CJ7 contains both Water and Metal. As a result, this movie is quite successful. When I am walking along the streets, I see a lot of teenagers and kids carrying the soft toys or handbags of the alien from CJ7.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another interesting point to note though, the alien in CJ7 looks a little bit like a chicken. Chicken represents Metal, which is favorable to Stephen Chow.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;These are &lt;a href=http://www.pharmacy.shop24-7-365.com/&gt;drug interactions&lt;/a&gt; 2 of the numerous examples that I have, that names do play a role in success. Therefore, choose them correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the next part of this article, I will share with you the names that represent the various elements. . .&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wood - Anything with East, Wood, Flower, Orient, Green, Garden, Park, Rabbit, Tiger.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Water - Anything with North, Water, Ocean, Sea, Pool, Blue, Fish, Mouse, Pig.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Metal - Anything with West, Gold, Silver, Gray, Metal, Iron, Hardware, Rooster, Chicken, Monkey, White, Jewellery.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fire - Anything with South, Red, Purple, Orange, Fire, Horse, Snake, Cars, Volcanoes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Earth - Anything with Yellow, Brown, Earth, Soil, Mud, House, Mountain, Ox, Cow, Dragon, Sheep, Dog, Antiques.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let me also give you a generalized way of knowing which is your favorable element. It may not be 100% accurate, but it is at least 80% accurate. For it to be 100% accurate, I need to know your exact date of birth. But just use this as a guide.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you are born in Spring (4th February to 5th May), your favorable element is Metal.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you are born in Summer (6th May to 7th August), your favorable element is Water.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you are born in Autumn (8th August to 7th November), your favorable element is Wood.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you are born in Winter (8th December to 3rd February of the following year), your favorable element is Fire.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now, let me give you an example. Let's say you are born in Autumn. Your favorable element is Wood. You might want to name your company Great Eastern, or Eastern Oriental.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you are born in Summer, you favorable element being Water. You might want to name your company Deep Blue, or Big Pool, or Blue Pool, just to give you an example.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I hope you will benefit from this information. I wish you the best of luck and success.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Marco Chong is the author of "The 58 Secret Keys To Home Feng Shui That You Must Know".He practices Flying Star Feng Shui and specializes in home feng shui. Marco has been practicing feng shui and Chinese astrology since 1992.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For more information,visit  www.58fengshuisecretkeys.com"&gt;www.58fengshuisecretkeys.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5667749585862977204-3360095648524748426?l=tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com/feeds/3360095648524748426/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5667749585862977204&amp;postID=3360095648524748426' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5667749585862977204/posts/default/3360095648524748426'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5667749585862977204/posts/default/3360095648524748426'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com/2008/09/what-do-names-have-to-do-with-success.html' title='What Do Names Have to Do With Success'/><author><name>goglccwwjo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12931585443290031161</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667749585862977204.post-8760883871412310712</id><published>2008-09-07T07:42:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-07T07:42:57.950-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Is Your Home Office Full of Distractions?</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Do you work from home? Do you find it difficult to stay focused and on task? Do you waste time and get sidetracked easily?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Most people that work from home will answer yes to the above questions. Why? Because a home is filled with distractions. And without strict discipline time will just fade away.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Getting organized is a long and constant process. But the first step &lt;a href=http://www.shop24-7-365.com/Finance/Student-Loan-Consolidation/student-loan-consolidation.php&gt;consolidation loans&lt;/a&gt; that goal is to arrange your physical space in &lt;a href=http://jekhsndrz.blogspot.com&gt;Jekhsndrz&lt;/a&gt; a way that distractions are minimized.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What does this mean? Well, a home office is often much more than that. It is a place where personal work and business work converge. And sometimes a home office doesn't even really exist - unless you call the kitchen table the office. This is a formula for disaster. It is imperative that you carve out a bit of space for your business. You don't have to have a dedicated room for the "office" but you should separate your work space from your personal space.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This can be done in several &lt;a href=http://www.viaggra.org/viagra-FAQ.php&gt;questions about Viagra&lt;/a&gt; ways. If you are fortunate enough to have a separate room then your work is done, figuratively speaking. But if you must use a portion of another room for your work space then you have to be a bit creative.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Often you can section off a part of a room just by positioning furniture strategically. A corner can be blocked off by a sofa or a credenza. A free standing screen can offer some much needed privacy. And don't forget about lighting. By illuminating your workspace when you are working and the rest of the room when you are "off" you have created a visual sectioning of your room.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once you have determined what area you will use for your home office you need to establish certain rules for that space. If other family members will be using the same space then you must make sure that their personal items don't encroach on your productivity. Children may use your office space to do homework or use the computer, but if they leave a trail of folders, books, and toys behind then that will distract you when you sit down to work the next day.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, watch out for your own personal clutter. Photographs, bills, and coffee cups have a way of stealing desk space. 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What does it mean? We live around the world, obtain citizenship in western countries, and identify ourselves with Western cultures.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What does it mean?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When our children ask: who are we, where do &lt;a href=http://www.shop24-7-365.com/Insurance/insurance.php&gt;insurance qoute&lt;/a&gt; belong, what is my true nationality, we usually have &lt;a href=http://www.bubblegum-cards.com/Green-Berets/index.html&gt;Green Berets&lt;/a&gt; silent sigh before we answer this hard question. Identity for people is what culture is for the sum of who we are. We have to identify ourselves with places, people, environment, and objects in order to find meaning for our lives. We &lt;a href=http://randyfuchs.webhost-blog.com/&gt;Randyfuchs&lt;/a&gt; lost our identity many years ago, however we are survivors and still we try to make sense of the pieces of our identity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If we could put an advertisement in the wanted section of a newspaper we could formulate ourselves as: Healthy Identity is being sought more than ever or we buy healthy identify for any price.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Trauma after trauma hits our true self. One disaster after another threatens our being and our becoming. We have an unconscious defence mechanism that helps us to survive; we as a nation have survived all these traumas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;That defence mechanism is our strong identity as being Iranian. Now, depending on our citizenship documents, we can add the newly obtained identity to the equation. I am an Iranian-Canadian-Swedish. How about that?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What do I mean by conversing about this topic? I am not questioning whether we have an identity or not.I am inquiring about how our sense of being could be healthy and how these healthy identities look like.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;National Identity is not a noun, it is not a verb and it is definitely not an adjective. Identity is a discourse, a concept that pertain our essence, our source, our roots, and our belonging. It also involves our style of life, our habits, our behaviours, and our coping mechanisms.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Identity is about our past, present, and future. If we do not like to dig into the past, how are we able to focus on our becoming? Once we were a kid, we were asked how we wanted to be when we grow up. We would then name those ideas that were put into our mouth. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We never could think of saying, I want to be myself, I want to be an Iranian, I want to belong to a group of people, or I want to feel happy about who I am.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What did we like to become or to be when we were a kid? What did we want to become? Identity follows our dreams to become and identity is part of our becoming.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We are who we are now because we did not wish for anything better, not that our dreams or wishes could always come true. No. Neither we did have any contemplation about what a healthy identity could look like, nor did our parents.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We just wished to become doctors, engineers, pilots, lawyers, and all those high status positions that our parents wanted us to be. We were not told to become human being who could contribute to our communities and to improve our situations.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We were not told that it is up to a community to raise a child and up to a community to build a notion of identity, a healthy one. However, what happened to the true self that wanted to become something else? What happened to our identity asnot only as Iranian but also as a diverse group of people with numerous religious identities and cultural background?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I guess the identity of being gay or having various sexuality preferences, are not even close to the Iranian version of our identities. We are far behind this proclamation of rights, at least not that I can think of.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it did not happen before, now it is time.We can not escape this reality. The question is now where do we find our identity? Where is it? What pattern it has? What colour would that be? What we recognize for sure is that we should proclaim our identity as who we and what groups we belong to.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What do I mean by proclaiming? I mean certainly to recognize our roots and to be proud of our diversities, to be able to find a common ground while respecting one another for the diverse backgrounds we have. We are getting better; still we have a long way to go.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We come from various beliefs, values and practices. We have to appreciate the fact that we are this rich people with all the different style of life. We can not afford to censure ourselves more than we have done until now. We should learn to find our true identities, whatever we like to be or whatever source we realize we are part of.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We need to prevent more harm, prejudice, racial biases and preconceived notion of who we are, by acknowledging our ethnicity and individual identity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We should remember that our experiences are subjective, embodied, and real for us. We have to realize that every single experience is important and make a difference. It has to be understood that the complex situation back home and the mass immigration of our Iranian peopleare indeed painful.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Today, we Iranian live in a more multicultural world, a reason for us being able to integrate and melt much easier. The other reality is that today people move easier than before which is another factor for us Iranian search for our dream life wherever we find it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Many times there are unbearable and overwhelming situations that many men and women from our communities are dealing with, all in all, leading to various aspects of psychological disturbances.&lt;br&gt;This mass immigration has its own dark sides: Isolation, separation, addiction, destructive lifestyles, and loss of identity as only some of the issues we Iranian deal with. Deep down we are not happy about not living in our home country. We may be happy not having to deal with the inconsiderate and inconsistent reality back home.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Still we always look back. It looks like that we have our eyes on our home land every single day. Now that the drums of war are being played, we are scared more than ever, at least those of us who care.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dislocation is a heavy weight on our &lt;a href=http://echoes.unblog.fr/&gt;Echoes&lt;/a&gt; heavier than the rainy sky, and heavier than our pains.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sometimes we have to manipulate our thoughts to get back to the concept of here and now mood.&lt;br&gt;We Iranian have been persuaded for decades and centuries to be something we are not. However we tend to have good grasp of our rights in the countries we live in. Not forgetting that in our own home country we have no rights to claim, at least it is not easy to claim any rights back home.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sense of community and social identity are two major concepts that rarely exceeding the cohort of family members, relatives and people from same community.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In our very recent years we are getting into some social groups, to talk, to breathe, to think, and to reflect our own situation.The life in migration means that people have to find companionship in social occasions while trying to maintain the contacts with the old group of acquaintances.&lt;br&gt;Psychology is becoming the topic of interest for many Iranian women and men out there in the world. Identity and sense of belonging is certainly one of the areas that are reflected in all our literature, poems, songs, and entertainment industry.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Identity takes us a long way in life. We should have a good ride and enjoy the views. Once our children know who we are they have a bigger chance to integrate and succeed as a human being and as a citizen everywhere they are.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Note: using the pronoun we refers to we as Iranian, as human beings, as people who identify themselves with Iran. This notion of we is a discourse and it is a broad area where many people can identity themselves with.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Poran Poregbal Vancouver, B.C. July 11, 2008&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My name is Poran. Past 23 years of my life of Iran, I have always had an extra interest for any news, any project, or any research about how our immigrating lives compel us to do or be. I have rarely found researches that have been looking into our Iranian way of living and how we deal with mental health issues. My writing is about exploring new ideas within the old ideas of our Iranian life. My writing is about to embody our true self that has been neglected, ignored, and rejected forever. Now it is time for us Iranian to find our true self and get to know our self. Let me introduce us to us.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5667749585862977204-905724438514383371?l=tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com/feeds/905724438514383371/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5667749585862977204&amp;postID=905724438514383371' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5667749585862977204/posts/default/905724438514383371'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5667749585862977204/posts/default/905724438514383371'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com/2008/09/defining-our-healthy-identity.html' title='Defining Our Healthy Identity'/><author><name>goglccwwjo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12931585443290031161</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667749585862977204.post-2375647884711510226</id><published>2008-09-05T06:06:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-05T06:06:19.724-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Critical Analysis: Liberty Leading The People, A Painting By Delacroix</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863), a French painter of romantic period known for his exuberant colors and radical themes. His painting Liberty Leading the People is one of the most famous and radical picture of its time. It is a sort of work that in very first glance &lt;a href=http://www.shop24-7-365.com/Computer/Web-Hosting/web-hosting.php&gt;midphase web hosting&lt;/a&gt; capture the viewers eye through its dynamic subject. This painting was produced in 1830 with a size of approx. 8 ft 6 in x 10 ft 8 in. The medium of this work is oil on canvas rendered in Romantic style. The subject of this work is derived from the world famous French Revolution that began in 1789 when common people or bourgeois stood for their rights.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This painting is a connotation of strides for uprising, focusing on the determination, commitment and intellectual strength that forced the working middle class of France to get their destination by changing their destiny. We will analyze this work formally as well as contextually by keeping in view the elements and form of the work as well as the historical, psychological and social grounds.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Most of Delacroixs canvases are dark in background against which he put the vibrant colors to get the desired, visually stimulant effect. This painting is very strong triangularly composed work with figures put mainly in two categories, the figures just lying dead in the foreground in the left-lower triangle of the canvas and the dynamically marching figures on the top-left triangle. Apart from this division, the main female figure is composed just right to the center of the painting with French flag poised exactly in the middle of the frame. This composition itself denotes the main figure with the flag, the determination of the cause; the uprising and the struggle to achieve it, shown by the strides forward, which have placed her high in the picture. 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The contrast of dynamic and static lines has put an interesting study in the painting as the foreground with people lying dead represent the horizontality of the area which is without any movement and providing space to the main female figure, who in curvy, live and vertical linear representation portray the energy and effort she is putting in. but the upright posture again manifest the straightness and affirmation of the intention behind the effort.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The flag and the clouds are treated in the same wavy outlines giving a sense of movement, as flag and clouds are linked here for the representation of the liveliness and protectiveness of the cause. The total environment of the painting suggests the change from static, mournful and depressed life to lively, colorful and energetic one. The upper portion of the painting physically stands for the goals that are to be achieved after all the effort. The uprising is rendered physically by upper portion and the deteriorated condition from which the revolt erupted, is denoted by lower dark part of the frame.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Colors used in the painting correspond to the dark foreground with dead bodies and as we go upward, there is light, brightness and sharpness in hues. This treatment of colors is representation of an uprising as darkness represents the gloomy, sorrowful and regretful attitude towards life while the sharp and bright colors on the upper portion suggest the change or hype; all the efforts have been put forth for. &lt;br&gt;Although Delacroix has treated all parts of the canvass with same technique and the texture of the painting is evenly uniform but he has, by showing clouds and flag moving, created a visual texture to signify the change. The dull and dark lower part has darks and lights but the upper part has got texture within the brightness caused by the smoke of a cannon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This brightness put against the darkness of the bottom part of the painting, creates chiaroscuro, an optical element that can add movement to any painting, but here keeping in view the French revolution and the efforts for uprising by the middle-working or bourgeois class, the chiaroscuro presented in the painting diagonally, put emphasis on the expedition from darkness towards light. In this painting the presence of dark and light actually refer to struggle for change from low, gloomy and stingy condition to high, bright and satisfied state; an uprising, for what all the people of working middle class gathered and got out of the darkness of mind as well as of fate. The light on the upper right corner of the canvass advocate the shift or swing of the collective as well as the individual psyche of the people that caused them to stride for uprising.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As the main figure of half-goddess, half-human is leading people or showing them the way to uprising, Delacroix has put volume to her figure. She is not a soft skinned, fragile looking semi nude as most of the Rembrandts or Renoirs figures are in keyhole or bathing paintings, but a very strongly built, motivated woman with solid body from caped head to firmly striding toe, showing her stance for a certain cause. Apart from her, no one else has got this quality of solidity. The detail of her anatomy, the folds of her dress and the flying tricolor add to her personality massively. The other massive thing is smoke that is painted significantly to show the complete abolishment of the royal rule. Therefore, the volume of smoke is referring an end while the solidity of the female figure represents the beginning of something high and grandeur.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The idea of uprising is so importantly portrayed in this picture, that everything behind has been put ambiguously in the smoke, so we can say the element of perspective is not precisely created, although not neglected. The sole architecture of the Norte Dam on the right suggest the depth or a feeling of distance, or the obscurely painted swords and rifles with emerging heads of few figures from thick smoke of guns or cannons behind the main figure of Liberty suggest a sense of perspective. Otherwise, everything is unclear in the background, which may be intentionally done by the painter, as his main concern is to focus the marching strides towards a destination of uprising, as the entire revolutions do, leaving everything behind.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The plan for this painting is quite symmetrical with lines from both lower corners, going towards a high point in the top middle of the canvass where the tricolor is flying, generating a close composition. The main figure is slightly right from the middle of the canvas while flag and the rifle in both hands imply a sense of triangular symmetry. Basically this painting is on triangular plan, divided further diagonally into two right angle triangles. So it could be said that the painting is balanced due to the fact that the middle figure along with three other marching figures representing the uprising, make a triangular composition. The light and the dark areas also render two triangles; moreover, the canvass is divided into two horizontal rectangles consisting of lying dead bodies and active human beings respectively. Since the space is divided into triangles and rectangles which are balanced geometrical shapes, we can say that the whole composition is balanced and symmetrical.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;All the elements of the painting let the viewer to focus on the main figure and her activity that leads to understand the importance and the fatality of the cause; the uprising, for which all the working middle class struggled hard. This struggle has made the whole painting revolving around the main female figure; her body is presented standing high and firm in proportion to the high erected building of the Norte Dame on the right side. Apart from these two elements, all is in supportive proportion. All other figures, background elements, foreground corpse and the centrally placed tricolor (the French Flag) all the elements are suggesting an upward sense which is synonymous to uprising.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are two focal points juxtaposed close to each other, denoting the struggle and the objective, the uprising would carry about. One is the flying tricolor flag and the other is just beneath that; the exposed upper body of the main figure. Viewers eye is on the move from one to the other, causing an upward motion towards the flag; the symbol of successfully achieved goal and the revealing shoulders and breasts of the Liberty; denotation of the sacrifice and struggle the nation has put forth. But at the same time the sympathetic focal point may lay on the central figure with everything live or dynamic behind her. Only the tricolor flag is above her which shows the importance of the flag to fly high as a symbol of the developed mental and social condition of the bourgeois class.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In order to value the strides for the uprising the number three is another dominating factor in the painting. The main active figures other than the main figure are three in number relating to the three color French flag. There are three lying figures in the foreground as well, two dead ones and one alive. The composition of the painting is in triangular pattern, and there are three guns visible in the hands of the activists. The wooden pieces lying on the right side of the painting are also three in number which also bore the name of the painter and the year of the painting. So, there is a repetition of three that may also relate the revolution as a sacred activity to the concept of trinity in Christianity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As the revolution and the relevant struggle were towards a certain goal of uprising, there is not mach variety present in the subject as well as in technique. All the figures and the background represent a radical mode. So there may be found repetition in all the elements but not variety except the light and dark parts which are more to create chiaroscuro.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It could be said that this work is a close composition with central female figure representing the struggle or strides for the uprising. The tall, marching forward female has got the highest point with head turned towards her right shoulder making a connection to the past or people following her. All the other elements in the painting are on both side of the main figure and lesser in height that marks a close composition in a triangular plan. This close composition is actually forcing the viewer to lead to the focal point to imply the importance of the cause, the revolution was all about. Therefore the unity in composition, keeping in consideration the close composition, is a vital factor. This quality is usually present in all the Delacroixs work since mostly his subjects for paintings are from mythology or deducted from literature. Therefore, he has to consider the unity of composition for the expression that may always be within the limits of his comprehension and its interpretation through painting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This work of Delacroix is definitely his contribution towards the French revolution, which is also visible through the three wooden pieces lying on the lower right corner of the frame, on which he has put his signatures and the year of the painting. Some critics have suggested that the figure with top hate on, (to the right of the main female figure) is actually the painter himself, but as a painter he is more concerned about his activity as an artist rather than his mere presence in the frame.&lt;br&gt;On October 12, 1830 Delacroix &lt;a href=http://www.food.pop-cult.com/chocolate.html&gt;Chocolate&lt;/a&gt; to his brother Charles,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have undertaken a modern subject, a barricade, and if I have not fought for &lt;a href=http://www.toys.pop-cult.com/colorforms.html&gt;Colorforms&lt;/a&gt; country, at least I will paint for her.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In my personal opinion; this is very much the case. The passion Delacroix has put in the dynamic atmosphere of the painting is not just for the artistic requirements. But it was due to the fervor and force, which was behind the revolution, which inspired all the people who had got some sentimentality. Since the artists were also very active along with the writers, one can assume the true sense of participation in the activity. Delacroix was very romantic in his approach towards choosing the subjects of his paintings as he always looked upon mythology, history and literature. He was very much inspired by the dramatic subjects of Shakespeare, so a real drama in the form of revolution should always inspire him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This work is basically in a romantic style as the idea or the concept is very romantic. But the whole technique of the painting from dynamic lines to chiaroscuro, from triangular closed composition to the mist of smoke, every thing is under a certain peculiar style which is as real as a historically rendered document could be but, at the same time, it is very romantic in its concept and the theme. The semi nude representation of a female figure as the chief character, which seems half-god and half-human also suggests the romantic spell the painter is under while painting this work. The way Delacroix has signed this canvas by putting his name on the wooden pieces shown in the right corner of the frame is also of the same nature of portraying internal feeling of the artist towards the revolution.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To me, at first glance, this painting is like other works of Delacroix but after the detailed study, I would say, this painting is more of an elaboration of Delacroixs personality, his emotional association with the desired change and the efforts for attaining it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Although this work intrinsically is a connotation of human emotions and his struggle for the identity, but at the same time, extrinsically this work lies in the romantic time period as well. Therefore, the combination of concept along with form with a sense of dynamism within the canvas and within the subject as well make this work a true picture of the political, social and psychological growth, the French middle working class was experiencing at the time of revolution. 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Make light of people that can't even breathe in peanut aroma all &lt;a href=http://www.saturdaymorning.pop-cult.com/american-bandstand.html&gt;American Bandstand&lt;/a&gt; want but those who have serious allergies know that they're not just unpleasant; they can sometimes be downright deadly. Coconut allergies are no exception to this rule. While they are very rare they can be very upsetting and difficult for those who have them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some assume that if they have an allergy to peanuts then they are more likely to have coconut allergies, but there really &lt;a href=http://www.shop24-7-365.com/Finance/Student-Loan-Consolidation/student-loan-consolidation.php&gt;student loan debt consolidation&lt;/a&gt; not a connection between the two. Food allergies are very particular and difficult to pin down; there isn't always any rhyme or reason as to why a person has the particular allergies they have. Some people have many allergies and some have only one or two. 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And these products may not necessarily smell like coconut, since the oils are not that concentrated and are contained in only small amounts. This too contributes to the problem of people not realizing that their skin breakouts and dermatitis are being caused by coconut allergies.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you suspect that you have coconut allergies, you should check all topical items you use, from your shampoo to hand creams and anything else you put on your skin. The ingredients should list coconut oils if the product contains it. Try switching to a product that is without coconut oils and see if this doesn't help your dermatitis.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And if your doctor tells you that you have coconut allergies and you have tried eliminating the use of all products that contain coconuts, ask your doctor for some topical ointments or other treatment options. 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It is our family's favorite summer holiday and always a reason for a celebration. Like an open house, we all invite whomever we see. Everyone brings a dish.. we supply the beer, soft drinks and burgers! I have said many times, at our house we do not FOCUS on food but rather FUN! There's always plenty to eat at our parties..but that's never the focal point nor what we all remember years later. So follow along and feel free to recycle our 4th of July Party Ideas!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Step 1&lt;/b&gt; Invitations? Not with our crowd. It's word of mouth and phone calls on this event. We want to save our money for the light up party favors! Seems like everyone stops by after the parade and town picnic. &lt;a href=http://neoaosyrxvjk.blogspot.com&gt;Neoaosyrxvjk&lt;/a&gt; are all ages here from 8 months to 80! One word of caution. RAIN DATE, RAIN DATE, RAIN DATE.. make sure you tell you your friends when you will re-schedule if it is pouring!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Step 2&lt;/b&gt; Decorations: We adorn our porch with bunting, have our flag proudly displayed and pick up red, white and blue paper goods. Don't spend extra for ones with the 4th Of July designs! They are way more expensive and the plain colored ones do just fine to get everyone in the spirit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt; Step 3 &lt;/b&gt; Food: It couldn't be easier. Everyone brings something like an old fashioned picnic. We do the burgers and the drinks. Just beer, wine and soft drinks plus tons of water.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt; Step 4&lt;/b&gt; Party Games: Always a must! This 4th of July party idea includes a game our son and his friends set up... a home-made Frisbee toss.. simple but fun. They set 16 oz. water bottles on top of ski poles and threw the frisbee in an attempt to knock them off! 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Discover more great tips on building your self-confidence at  affirmations-for-success.com/self-esteem-articles.htmlAffirmations For Success.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5667749585862977204-1750941160239626212?l=tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com/feeds/1750941160239626212/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5667749585862977204&amp;postID=1750941160239626212' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5667749585862977204/posts/default/1750941160239626212'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5667749585862977204/posts/default/1750941160239626212'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com/2008/08/5-highly-effective-self-esteem-builders.html' title='5 Highly Effective Self Esteem Builders'/><author><name>goglccwwjo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12931585443290031161</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667749585862977204.post-272806235444224257</id><published>2008-08-11T09:16:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-11T09:16:33.944-07:00</updated><title type='text'>History Of Prom Night</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Nowadays prom nights have turned into indulgent and expensive affairs. Teen students eagerly look forward to it and preparations begin much in advance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If we delve into the history of proms, we find that they were nothing of the grand and exorbitant affairs they happen to &lt;a href=http://www.shop24-7-365.com/Insurance/insurance.php&gt;free insurance quote online&lt;/a&gt; now. There was no flaunting of designer dresses, elaborate hairdos, and stretch limousines.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let's take a trip back in time to find out how proms used to be earlier:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;The History&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some historians believe that proms have existed &lt;a href=http://robotrench.tech-diary.com/&gt;Robotrench&lt;/a&gt; early as the late 1800s. The earliest mention of prom came in 1894, when the journal of a male student at Amherst College published a narration about his experience as an invitee to an early prom at the neighboring Smith College for women.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the early 1900s, prom was a simple affair where high school seniors wore their Sunday best but never bought new clothes exclusively for the event. In the 1920s and 1930s, students started arriving in cars, flaunted party clothes and danced.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As America's economy boomed post-war in the 1950's, proms developed into extravagant affairs. It was also during this time, that teenage girls started taking their prom dresses more seriously and shopped in search of the perfect outfit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As the competition for the coveted title of Prom Queen intensified, girls began to strive hard to get the most stunning dress, the best mode of transportation, and the hottest looking date. The title of Prom Queen was highly coveted and became a passport to fame and popularity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The event was shifted from high school gyms to huge halls and live bands were hired. As the decades passed, school proms evolved into big grandiose events in a student's life.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Today's Proms&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The proms of today are lavish, and an all night affair involving expensive ballrooms, live bands, DJs, ravishing dresses, and stretch limousines. Once dinner is over, the Prom King and Queen is announced, which is then followed by the dance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Girls prepare for days ahead of this mega event and fuss around with their shoes, their hairstyles, their prom dress and what not. They visit shops and browse online stores for that perfect formal prom dress. Boys are not too far behind if their expensive tuxedos are anything to go by.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Finding the prefect prom dress&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finding the perfect formal prom dress is a tough job. There are different gowns for different body shapes. So select the prom dress which flatters you the most rather than what looks good in a magazine. Check out an amazing collection of prom dresses online and pick the one which focuses on &lt;a href=http://www.shop24-7-365.com/Insurance/Car-Insurance/car-insurance.php&gt;solo car insurance&lt;/a&gt; assets while de-emphasizing your flaws.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once you have bought your chosen prom dress, find a charismatic date and you are ready for the most exciting time of your high school life...the prom night.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cynthia ford is a fashion journalist. She is also a qualified fashion designer who specialist in  samplegowns.com/product_details.php?product_id=211&amp;category_id=3Unique Prom Dresses and  samplegowns.com/ind_category.php?category_id=3Formal Prom Dresses.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5667749585862977204-272806235444224257?l=tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com/feeds/272806235444224257/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5667749585862977204&amp;postID=272806235444224257' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5667749585862977204/posts/default/272806235444224257'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5667749585862977204/posts/default/272806235444224257'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com/2008/08/history-of-prom-night.html' title='History Of Prom Night'/><author><name>goglccwwjo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12931585443290031161</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667749585862977204.post-7312733315807823406</id><published>2008-08-10T07:35:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-10T07:35:14.531-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Satellite TV For Your PC - More Channels Than You Can Imagine</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;As recent as 10 &lt;a href=http://kimcharlie.moviesbysmsblogs.com/&gt;Kimcharlie&lt;/a&gt; ago you would not have been able to take advantage of technology like this that allows you to watch Satellite TV on &lt;a href=http://www.shop24-7-365.com/Legal/Personal-Injury/injury-at-work.php&gt;injury at work&lt;/a&gt; PC. 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In fact, you are probably in danger of liking it too much.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To see more on  squidoo.com/watch-tv-on-satellite-tv-for-pcSatellite TV for PC all you have to do is  squidoo.com/watch-tv-on-satellite-tv-for-pcclick here now!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5667749585862977204-7312733315807823406?l=tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com/feeds/7312733315807823406/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5667749585862977204&amp;postID=7312733315807823406' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5667749585862977204/posts/default/7312733315807823406'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5667749585862977204/posts/default/7312733315807823406'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com/2008/08/satellite-tv-for-your-pc-more-channels.html' title='Satellite TV For Your PC - More Channels Than You Can Imagine'/><author><name>goglccwwjo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12931585443290031161</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667749585862977204.post-3828849480631658236</id><published>2008-08-08T21:01:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-08T21:01:59.439-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Easy to Get Credit Cards</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;There are many different credit cards and many different banks offering them. There are easy to get credit cards and then those credit cards that can be so hard you don't know why you would even apply. The thing about credit cards is that they can help or hinder &lt;a href=http://www.saturdaymorning.pop-cult.com/atom-ant-secret-squirrel.html&gt;Atom Ant Secret Squirrel Show&lt;/a&gt; life. So when you are trying to obtain a credit card there are some things you should consider, especially regarding the easy to get credit cards. Some of the easy to get credit cards are for bad credit, no credit, or just easy to get because the card company feels they need more customers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are fees, interest rates, policies, terms and conditions, and other things you should think about. When you try for an easy to get credit card you are usually approved within twenty minutes. This is what makes them extremely easy to get. They will take the application you have just submitted and review your income to debt ratio. 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The reason is very simple: many independent producers are choosing the web to put their content and many, many locals TVs from all over the world also get the opportunity to be broadcast worldwide. This is giving a completely different TV market than just a decade ago and amazingly enough, two guys on their garage can actually have exactly the same audience of a major network that spends billions of dollars every year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is by far the most beautiful and advanced feature of the Internet and everybody is fully take advantage of it. Being a producer or simply an audience, Internet TV stations are probably split in two. The first group is made of regular TV stations that broadcast or air regular TV shows and decide to grant their content to Internet-based websites. The second group instead is made of TV stations that are specifically designed for the Internet and do not even broadcast on regular TV.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Soon enough they will probably be about the same and the cost of the TV station will be replaced by the concept of websites, where Internet TV stations will offer the content and also at the same time, live and real-time interactions with menu items and all the other things that made the Internet famous and very popular. As the years go by, Internet TV stations will be the benchmark of our more media environment and most likely, all of us will turn to them without even realizing it and in no time, the old way watching TV will be gone forever.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The easiest way to watch  http://tvchannels2pc.com/Internet TV Stations is with the TVChannels2PC  http://tvchannels2pc.com/Web TV software. For a small one time investment you will have access to live sports, full episodes, movies, news, weather and much more. Why pay high monthly fees for satellite or cable?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5667749585862977204-5553089161559228383?l=tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com/feeds/5553089161559228383/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5667749585862977204&amp;postID=5553089161559228383' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5667749585862977204/posts/default/5553089161559228383'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5667749585862977204/posts/default/5553089161559228383'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com/2008/08/internet-tv-stations.html' title='Internet TV Stations'/><author><name>goglccwwjo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12931585443290031161</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667749585862977204.post-9100284835943840341</id><published>2008-08-07T06:13:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-07T06:13:45.400-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Credit Cards Or Debit Cards - What's The Difference?</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;It &lt;a href=http://www.collinwood.info/Fine-Wine/champagne.php&gt;Champagne&lt;/a&gt; so long ago &lt;a href=http://www.weird-encyclopedia.com/UFO.php&gt;U.F.O.&lt;/a&gt; there were distinct differences between credit cards and debit cards. This was largely due to &lt;a href=http://www.shop24-7-365.com/Finance/Structured-Settlement/structured-settlement.php&gt;sell structured insurance settlements&lt;/a&gt; smaller numbers of banks that were regularly offering debit cards. Credit cards were in a league of their own, but not without consequences. As more consumers applied for credit lines the more misuse began to characterize the whole industry. Many people were left with enormous debts because by using credit they were using money they didn't really have.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Debit cards gradually caught on these same consumers were attempting to resolve their credit debt by living more within their means and using money that they actually had in their checking accounts. Debit cards or check cards as they're also called, function in basically the same way as credit cards meaning that you could make purchases but instead of drawing from an independent credit line, the card user would draw from the balance of their bank account, meaning they could only use the money they had and no more.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Debit differed from credit because you could also use them like ATM cards. Cash could be readily withdrawn or the card could be used at the counter to make purchases. This remained a firm distinction between credit and debit for a short time only. Credit card issuers saw the opportunity to close this gap and regain some of the market. 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The clear disadvantage is that you must have the money in your account to use it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Both debit and credit can be useful tools, both convenient, yet both have clear advantages and disadvantages depending upon your circumstances. If you can make reasonable use of a credit card, it can be great option to have available if an unexpected financial situation should arise. Debits give you access to your own money and keep you more responsible for properly using your finances.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Joe Kenny writes for Credit Cards Web, offering  creditcardsweb.co.uk/credit cards in the UK, visit them today for  creditcardsweb.co.uk/balance-transfers/0% balance transfers and grab a great deal today. 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If you sign up to receive her newsletter, not only will you get some free tips to keep your dog healthier, she'll give you a FREE ebook.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For more information, please visit:   www.DoggieHealthCare.comhttp://www.DoggieHealthCare.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5667749585862977204-6831324266925946567?l=tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com/feeds/6831324266925946567/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5667749585862977204&amp;postID=6831324266925946567' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5667749585862977204/posts/default/6831324266925946567'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5667749585862977204/posts/default/6831324266925946567'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com/2008/07/putting-stop-to-your-puppies-chewing.html' title='Putting a Stop to Your Puppies Chewing and Nipping Habits'/><author><name>goglccwwjo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12931585443290031161</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667749585862977204.post-4642981331348015450</id><published>2008-07-17T06:25:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-17T06:25:43.541-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Managing the Passing Parade - Getting the Right People to Spend Some of Their Life Journey with You</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Every person in your workforce is:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; On a constant personal journey from yesterday to tomorrow&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Pursuing unique personal dreams and goals&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Motivated by unique incentives and driving forces&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Each person plays a multiplicity of roles throughout &lt;a href=http://www.shop24-7-365.com/Legal/Personal-Injury/injury-at-work.php&gt;injury compensation claim&lt;/a&gt; 24/7 week, only some of which are work roles: They can sometimes be&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;a href=http://www.collinwood.info/Gourmet-Food/beef-a-primer.php&gt;Fine Beef&lt;/a&gt; salesperson / the customer,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; the boss / the subordinate,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; the parent / the child,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; the driver / the pedestrian / the cyclist.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; the leader / the follower&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; the student / the teacher&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;These are just a few of the roles we all play. 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Now ask someone what do you do for creation? i.e. what do you do to enable you to experience the joy of creatively expressing your true self in ways that make you come alive and unleash your natural talents.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Creative leisure interests, viewed in this light, become a key part of personal growth and development, with a purpose and value in enabling the individual to achieve their personal goals and dreams. They also help develop transferable skills that are so important in maximizing individual productivity at work.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You are invited to visit   www.workleisure.comhttp://www.workleisure.com for further information on Peter Nicholls' approach to lifestyle management affecting work productivity. 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Read These Important Facts</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Every day I get email from "experts" that want to sell me their system describing how I too can beat the slots. Some even suggest that I could easily make $1,000 per day. Well, I would love to make $1,000 per day playing the slots, but they are all scams to sell you worthless information. Sure, you "could" easily make $1,000 per day, but  you won't, and these con men know you won't, they are avoiding false advertising prosecution by using the word "could." 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In fact, only &lt;a href=http://www.comics.pop-cult.com/H-R/magnus-robot-fighter.html&gt;Magnus Robot Fighter&lt;/a&gt; of them even bothered to respond to my challenge and he told me that his system was just too valuable to waste his time on a doubter. Reading between the lines, this means, he had too many suckers lined up to buy his scam to risk me exposing him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think what these systems rely heavily on is that gamblers, particularly problem gamblers, believe there must be something out there that will give them an edge. They will buy these "systems" with the&lt;br&gt;hopes that the con man offering it was once in their position and made some kind of discovery that has been eluding &lt;a href=http://www.shop24-7-365.com/Computer/Web-Hosting/web-hosting.php&gt;managed hosting providers&lt;/a&gt; The reality is that the con men have only discovered a human weakness and they are preying upon it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Today's slot machines are built strictly on probability theory and the statistics &lt;a href=http://www.shop24-7-365.com/Finance/Student-Loan-Consolidation/student-loan-consolidation.php&gt;educational loan consolidation&lt;/a&gt; that in the long-run the casino will win. Sure, you can win, but if you play long enough, you will certainly lose. If there&lt;br&gt;were any kind of system that assured you of coming out ahead playing the slots, then both the statistics and the probability theory supporting the entire premise would be skewed in favor of the gambler and the casinos would be shutting down.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The slot machines are really nothing but computers playing a cycle of probabilities. If you win it is because you happened to play when the machine happened to hit one of the probabilities that results in a payout. These are always fewer in number than the probability that results in you losing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The next time you are in a casino take a look around. Each and every slot machine in the casino costs the casino several thousand dollars. Most casinos cost many millions of dollars to build, and some employ hundreds of people just to keep them going. Take a look at the ceiling and count the cameras, then multiply this number by a couple thousand dollars to see how much the casino invested in security. Look at the beautiful tiled floors, the lush carpets, the dining facilities, etc., then ask yourself if you really believe some low-life con man really has a system that would assure you of taking $1,000 per day from this place. Take it one step further and ask yourself why he would sell it to you for $29.99 when he could sign contracts with other people to work for him with a non-disclosure agreement and no compete clause. They could be his employees applying his "system" for $300 per day pay while turning over the other $700 per day to him. Why is he making his "system" available to you for $29.99? Because he can't make any money consistently playing the slots and he needs you to buy his "system" for the seed money to support his habit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you like playing the slot machines and do not mind losing a little money for the sake of the entertainment value, great. 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After the tenth one, names are assigned to the last four: Page, Knight, Queen, and King. In Tarot, each suit holds special meanings which are applied to interpretation. In time, and with practice, a reader learns these &lt;a href=http://www.shop24-7-365.com/Finance/Structured-Settlement/structured-settlement.php&gt;buy settlement&lt;/a&gt; meanings and is able to apply them to any spread, extracting answers from their placement within that layout.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What are the names of Tarot cards in the Major Arcana? There are 22 cards in this part of the deck, all different. The Major Arcana does not have suits, although different meanings may be indicated by whether the card is dealt upright, or upside down. When counted, the Fool is card 0, and the counts goes up from there, from 0-21. The Fool, The Magician, the High Priestess, The Empress, and The Emperor are the first 5 cards. After these, the next five are The Hierophant, The Lovers, The Chariot, Strength, and The Hermit. The Wheel of Fortune, Justice, The Hanged Man, Death, and Temperance are cards 9-15 (Remember, The Fool was card 0, not 1!). Following those, The Devil, The Tower, The Star, The Moon, and The Sun are listed. And finally, the last two are Judgment (which can also be Rejuvenation), and The World. It will be important that any potential Tarot reader understand these, as their meanings are crucial to understanding the divination of such a reading.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Katherine Heiden is a professional tarot card reader and clairvoyant. 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Download your copy of his e-book today at   www.25Ways.comhttp://www.25Ways.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5667749585862977204-1355218030657742556?l=tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com/feeds/1355218030657742556/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5667749585862977204&amp;postID=1355218030657742556' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5667749585862977204/posts/default/1355218030657742556'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5667749585862977204/posts/default/1355218030657742556'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com/2008/07/get-paid-to-write-online.html' title='Get Paid To Write Online'/><author><name>goglccwwjo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12931585443290031161</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667749585862977204.post-7824358841817727410</id><published>2008-07-12T07:21:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-12T07:21:46.851-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Theory of Everything Finally Revealed - Secret Relationship Between Gravity and Electromagnetism</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;The theory of &lt;a href=http://www.shop24-7-365.com/Computer/Data-Recovery/data-recovery.php&gt;data recovery raid&lt;/a&gt; (TOE) is a theory that fully explains and links together all known physical phenomena. Nevertheless, this theory hasn't been found yet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;After Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity was published in 1915, &lt;a href=http://www.shop24-7-365.com/Finance/Credit-Card/credit-cards.php&gt;send me the card&lt;/a&gt; search for the theory of everything combining gravity with &lt;a href=http://www.shop24-7-365.com/Insurance/Car-Insurance/auto-insurance.php&gt;affordable auto insurance&lt;/a&gt; began. Though Einstein thought it was possible to find such a theory, many physicists thought the task was impossible. The "doubting Thomases" continue to this day.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Albert Einstein believed that a theory combining gravity with electromagnetism would have the ability to fully explain and link together all known physical phenomena. I agree.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sadly, Albert Einstein died trying to find such a theory. Though he never found it, he left behind a very valuable hint. The hint lies in his mass-energy equivalence formula. Using basic physics, I'll attempt to uncover the theory of everything (TOE) that's buried deep within Einstein's mass-energy equivalence formula.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;EINSTEIN'S MASS-ENERGY EQUIVALENCE&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In physics, mass-energy equivalence is the concept that mass is energy, and energy is mass. This relationship is expressed using the mass-energy equivalence formula&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;E = mc2&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;where&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;E = energy, &lt;br&gt;m = mass, &lt;br&gt;c2 = the speed of &lt;a href=http://www.tv.pop-cult.com/abc-after-school-special.html&gt;ABC After School Specials&lt;/a&gt; squared.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;NEWTON'S SECOND LAW OF MOTION&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;F = ma (force equals mass multiplied by acceleration) is the second law of motion proposed by Sir Isaac Newton.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;F = ma teaches us that accelerating or enlarging an object increases its force.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For example, a car hitting a brick wall while accelerating to 100 miles/hour hits the wall more forcefully than a car accelerating to 10 miles/hour, if both cars have the same mass. Likewise, a 10-pound bowling ball hits bowling pins more forcefully than a 1-pound bowling ball, if both balls accelerate at the same speed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;F = ma can be rewritten as m = F/a.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Therefore Einstein's mass-energy equivalence formula "E = mc2" can be rewritten as "E = F/a x c2."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Albert Einstein's equivalence principle states that acceleration and gravity are equivalent.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Two scenarios illustrate this.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;First Scenario: Let's suppose you're standing in your kitchen holding a cup of coffee. You release the cup. The cup falls to the kitchen floor, spilling coffee on the floor.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Second Scenario: Let's suppose you jumped out of a highflying airplane while holding a cup of coffee. You're free-falling weightlessly. You release the cup. The cup floats weightlessly next to you; spilled coffee floats weightlessly next to you and the cup.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the first scenario, you're under gravity's influence. You're gravitating instead of accelerating. In the second scenario, you're under acceleration's influence. You're accelerating instead of gravitating.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;By substituting for gravity, acceleration can cancel gravity's effects. In fact, acceleration and gravity are the same thing! Now you know why astronauts float weightlessly within an accelerating space shuttle orbiting the Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Using "g" to symbolize gravity, Einstein's mass-energy equivalence formula "E = F/a x c2" can be rewritten as "E = F/g x c2."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Electromagnetic energy is a specific type of energy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Examples of electromagnetic energy are radio frequencies, microwaves, terahertz radiation, infrared radiation, visible radiation (light), ultraviolet light, x-rays, and gamma rays.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Using "EM" to symbolize electromagnetic energy, Einstein's mass-energy equivalence formula "E = F/g x c2" can be rewritten as "EM = F/g x c2."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;THEORY OF EVERYTHING (TOE)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"EM = F/g x c2" combines gravity with electromagnetism, meeting the criterion for being the theory of everything. So we can stop rewriting Einstein's mass-energy equivalence formula. Since "EM = F/g x c2" focuses on electromagnetic energy and force per gravity, we can rename this formula "electromagnetic-energy and force-per-gravity equivalence."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This formula states that electromagnetic energy equals force divided by gravity multiplied by the speed of light squared. In other words, electromagnetic energy and force per gravity are equivalent - the same thing!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Theory of Everything: Electromagnetic-Energy and Force-per-Gravity Equivalence&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Formula: EM = F/g x c2&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;where&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;EM = electromagnetic energy, &lt;br&gt;F = force, &lt;br&gt;g = gravity, &lt;br&gt;c2 = the speed of light squared.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Notice that electromagnetic energy and gravity are inversely related. The stronger the gravity, the weaker the electromagnetic energy. The weaker the gravity, the stronger the electromagnetic energy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GRAVITATIONAL REDSHIFT&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You may be wondering, "Are electromagnetic energy and gravity really inversely related? And if so, why?" To answer your questions, we need to turn our attention to a phenomenon called gravitational redshift.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gravitational redshift occurs when electromagnetic energy such as a light beam escapes from a gravitational field. As the light beam escapes, its color shifts toward red. Red means that the light beam has lost energy, has a longer wavelength, and appears to travel slower in time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gravity's ability to stretch a light beam's wavelength, causing energy loss, and its ability to slow down a light beam's speed &lt;a href=http://www.tv.pop-cult.com/wonder-woman.html&gt;Wonder Woman&lt;/a&gt; make sense; because the speed and frequency of light can't be changed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In fact, gravity can't really slow down a light beam's speed and frequency - but it can slow down time related to the light beam! And that's exactly how gravity makes a light beam appear slower with a longer wavelength!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The phenomenon of gravity slowing down time is called gravitational time dilation. The stronger the gravity field, the more time is slowed down within that gravity field. The weaker the gravity field, the less time is slowed down within that gravity field.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So the stronger the gravitational field, the stronger the gravitational redshift. And the weaker the gravitational field, the weaker the gravitational redshift.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;SUMMARY&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In summarizing, the Electromagnetic-Energy and Force-per-Gravity Equivalence (EEFpGE) formula combines gravity with electromagnetism, giving it the ability to fully explain and link together all known physical forces. 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Here are some sneaky ways to grab those minutes for yourself without the kids thinking that you want to escape their desperate clutches.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Go to the Bathroom&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I know you don't have to be told to use the potty, but why not seize the opportunity for a quick break now and then? Take a cup of tea or coffee with you and a magazine, and a watch so that you don't let the time slip away from you. For about five or &lt;a href=http://www.pharmacy.shop24-7-365.com/Buproprion-Wellbutrin-Zyban.php&gt;Wellbutrin&lt;/a&gt; minutes, just sit and refresh yourself. At one time, I kept a pretty wicker chair in my bathroom just for this purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Go get Some Groceries&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;"Oops! We ran out of milk!" Sometimes, we just need to get out for a few minutes. Make these minutes count. Don't just run to the store and back, make it worthwhile. Take your favorite tunes with you to play on the way (for added points, you can roll down the window and sing along). Make a smoothie to drink while you are there, or buy a favorite tea or &lt;a href=http://www.shop24-7-365.com/Donate-Car/donate-car.php&gt;donate a car to charity&lt;/a&gt; and sip it while you shop. And if you happen to &lt;a href=http://www.shop24-7-365.com/Finance/Mortgage-Refinance-HomeEquity/mortgage-loans.php&gt;mortgage ccj&lt;/a&gt; for a moment to smell the candles on aisle twelve, then who is going to know?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Go for a Walk&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is a great solution because it's good for your mind and your body. As long as hubby is home, or maybe an adult friend who is doing you a favor, then go ahead and step out for a few minutes. Taking fifteen minutes to walk around the neighborhood will do wonders for you. Bring along your ipod if you like, or just listen to the sounds of life around you. A walk can center your spirit like nothing else.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Whatever you choose to do for some "YOU" time, the important thing is to take a break every now and then. Your kids need you whole and complete, not hanging on for dear life. There is no shame in taking a few minutes to rejuvenate, and you will be a better mom because of it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hannah Keeley is the founder of   www.totalmom.comhttp://www.totalmom.com and the mother of seven kids. She is the author of "Hannah's Art of Home" and "Hannah Keeley's Total Mom Makeover," and has appeared on the Today show, Fox and Friends, and the Rachael Ray show.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5667749585862977204-6509333422345617520?l=tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com/feeds/6509333422345617520/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5667749585862977204&amp;postID=6509333422345617520' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5667749585862977204/posts/default/6509333422345617520'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5667749585862977204/posts/default/6509333422345617520'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com/2008/07/mommy-time-little-bit-of-time-for.html' title='Mommy Time - A Little Bit of Time For Yourself Does a World of Good'/><author><name>goglccwwjo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12931585443290031161</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667749585862977204.post-2787107761339587090</id><published>2008-07-10T07:01:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-10T07:01:30.026-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Cappuccino: Monk's Hood or Just Good?</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;"Wake Up And Smell The Cappuccino!" ~ The Dorfman Archives&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The two years I spent in Italy in the 1970s marked in some ways the best &lt;br&gt;times of my life. I was a student in a small Umbrian city, (Perugia, where &lt;br&gt;they make all &lt;a href=http://www.food.pop-cult.com/pop-rocks.html&gt;Pop Rocks&lt;/a&gt; wonderful candy that does all those not so wonderful &lt;br&gt;things to &lt;a href=http://www.shop24-7-365.com/Legal/Personal-Injury/injury-at-work.php&gt;injury compensation claim&lt;/a&gt; teeth, but who cares). There I learned more from living &lt;br&gt;each day than I ever gleaned from any version of Dantes Inferno and/ or &lt;br&gt;Paradiso. The ways of the world are universal; the human element &lt;br&gt;uniting all of us with a common thread. Italian men, however, represent &lt;br&gt;a particular work in progress I shall call the Peacock Syndrome. I wish to &lt;br&gt;acknowledge that this condition is often found in men of all ethnic &lt;br&gt;backgrounds, persuasions and nationalities as well, but in smaller &lt;br&gt;degrees. (Women, Italian and otherwise, have other problems). My point &lt;br&gt;will be illustrated with a picture that hopefully will neither need one &lt;br&gt;thousand words nor ignite the cosmopolitan masculine world against &lt;br&gt;me.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I will never forget a February morning in Perugia when I spied from my &lt;br&gt;warm perch a young Italian man sipping an expresso at a caf on the &lt;br&gt;towns main street, Corso Vanucci. (Maybe it was really anti-freeze he &lt;br&gt;was drinking. Who knows?) Anyway, it was a memorable sight because &lt;br&gt;he was seated directly opposite me, but OUTSIDE, despite the freezing &lt;br&gt;temperatures and chopping winds that ripped through the tablecloth. &lt;br&gt;Still, the handsome devil wore no coat. His shirt was open down to his &lt;br&gt;waist as if it were high August. Was he not the proud peacock showing &lt;br&gt;off so that passing women could not fail to notice the multitude of virile &lt;br&gt;hairs (peacock feathers) that had frozen upon his chest? That image has &lt;br&gt;never left me, nor has my love for Italian culture and cappuccino, that &lt;br&gt;frothy confection of milk and expresso topped with whipped cream and &lt;br&gt;sprinkled with cinnamon!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My adventures in this charming city were not limited to Italian men, &lt;br&gt;although I did experience la Dolce Vita in my own particular way. My &lt;br&gt;sense of bad timing originated here where I tasted my first cappuccino &lt;br&gt;some three weeks before I had to return to America. The latteria (dairy &lt;br&gt;store) was hidden behind a small narrow street (calle) that I discovered &lt;br&gt;one day completely &lt;a href=http://fashion-design.pop-cult.com/warhol-andy.html&gt;Andy Warhol&lt;/a&gt; accident. To make things worse, it was the best &lt;br&gt;cappuccino I ever tasted. The cream was scrumptious and I often had &lt;br&gt;two or three cappuccinos in one sitting just to down some more of it. I &lt;br&gt;even commented to a fellow student that I would have done just as well &lt;br&gt;plastering the contents directly onto my hips and thighs instead of &lt;br&gt;drinking it, as that was where it was headed anyway!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Where did this wonderful beverage come from? Coffee originated in the &lt;br&gt;Ottoman Empire and was first introduced to the West by Italian traders. &lt;br&gt;At first, Pope Clement VII was urged by his advisors to consider this &lt;br&gt;favorite drink of infidels a threat. After he tasted it, however, he &lt;br&gt;succumbed to a perogative that women have relied on for years: he &lt;br&gt;changed his mind. Pope Clement actually baptized the delicious drink, &lt;br&gt;making it an &lt;a href=http://www.toys.pop-cult.com/ants-in-the-pants.html&gt;Ants in the Pants&lt;/a&gt; Christian beverage. No one knows for sure &lt;br&gt;exactly where cappuccino came from, but there are a few sneaky &lt;br&gt;suspicions. The most popular belief is that the drink gets its name from &lt;br&gt;the robes and cowl of The Capuchin Monks habit. How so, say you? &lt;br&gt;Well, read on.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Capuchin order of friars played an important role in restoring &lt;br&gt;Catholicism to Reformation Europe. Its Italian name came from the long, &lt;br&gt;pointed cowl or cappuccino, derived from capuccio, meaning hood. &lt;br&gt;Capuchin was later used as the name (first recorded in English in 1785) &lt;br&gt;for a type of monkey with a tuft of black cowl-like hair. The first use of the &lt;br&gt;word cappuccino in English is recorded in 1948. Whether or not this &lt;br&gt;exquisite beverage was invented by the Capuchin monks is unknown. It &lt;br&gt;is a fact however, that a properly prepared cappuccino of expresso and &lt;br&gt;steamed milk leaves a brown ring along the rim of the cup much like the &lt;br&gt;edge of the monks cowl. (Does this mean there is still hope for the ring &lt;br&gt;around my bathtub to become famous?)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Have you ever wondered exactly how Cappuccino is made? Well, the &lt;br&gt;basis for any cappuccino worth its salt (or grinds) is a strong blend of &lt;br&gt;Expresso coffee with added milk or frothy cream topped with chocolate &lt;br&gt;powder. The correct proportions are 1/3 expresso, 2/3 froth. To produce &lt;br&gt;the froth, fill a small jug to 1/3 with fresh milk. Insert the expresso &lt;br&gt;machine-frothing arm to just below the surface and turn on the steam, &lt;br&gt;gradually lowering the jug but keeping the arm in place. Add half of the &lt;br&gt;froth into the expresso coffee and sprinkle with cocoa powder or grated &lt;br&gt;chocolate. Add the rest of the froth and top with more cocoa. (If you do it &lt;br&gt;right, the process might never end.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cappuccino is more than just a coffee or a flavor or a process. Now one &lt;br&gt;can find chocolate cappuccino cookies and even lollipops that can offer &lt;br&gt;an authentic cappuccino experience even to toddlers! Whether you the &lt;br&gt;drink fancy or plain, with chocolate or cinnamon experience even to &lt;br&gt;toddlers! Whether you take the drink fancy or plain, with chocolate or &lt;br&gt;cinnamon or just plain cocoa powder, cappuccino is a delight that &lt;br&gt;should be enjoyed often. It is unique to the Italian culinary culture and &lt;br&gt;cannot help but force even the most unimaginative among us to &lt;br&gt;contemplate misty Roman afternoons and at least one balmy bistro &lt;br&gt;night!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Courtesy of Dream Ship Coffees, Teas and Treasures&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Classic Almond Cappuccino&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2 ounces cold milk&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2 oz. hot expresso 1/2 oz. Almond syrup (orgeat)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ground nutmeg for dusting&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Steam the syrup and milk together and allow it to sit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Prepare the expresso and pour into 6-oz. cup.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gently add the hot steamed milk until the cup is about 2/3 full.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Spoon the light foam over the top of the hot cappuccino to form a peak &lt;br&gt;and dust with nutmeg.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Marjorie Dorfman is a freelance writer and former teacher originally from Brooklyn, New York. A graduate of New York University School of Education, she now lives in Doylestown, PA with quite a few cats that keep her on her toes at all times. Originally a writer of ghostly and horror fiction, she has branched out into the world of humorous non-fiction writing in the last decade. Many of her stories have been published in various small presses throughout the country during the last twenty years. 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She also writes feature articles for several local newspapers, and has written two books.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5667749585862977204-2787107761339587090?l=tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com/feeds/2787107761339587090/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5667749585862977204&amp;postID=2787107761339587090' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5667749585862977204/posts/default/2787107761339587090'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5667749585862977204/posts/default/2787107761339587090'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com/2008/07/cappuccino-monks-hood-or-just-good.html' title='Cappuccino: Monk&apos;s Hood or Just Good?'/><author><name>goglccwwjo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12931585443290031161</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667749585862977204.post-794478921789663144</id><published>2008-07-09T07:19:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-09T07:19:17.723-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Miniature Paintings - A Sublime Art</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;The art, culture and lifestyle of ancient and medieval &lt;a href=http://www.shop24-7-365.com/Insurance/Car-Insurance/auto-insurance.php&gt;auto insruance&lt;/a&gt; is best reveled through miniature paintings. The penchant for religion, divinity and regal aristocracy is ostentatiously illustrated in these paintings. Though miniature in form, the paintings had an innate beauty and distinctiveness that made them stand out of the crowd.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Crafted by the regional artists the miniature paintings narrate the stories of the bygone dynasties. Purely a brush work, these vibrant handmade paintings were the outcome of some dazzling minerals and vegetable colors. Gold and silver powders, conch shell powders and tiny pieces of semi precious stones were used in a miniature painting to make for the extra glow. It is for this luminous capacity, meticulousness and the universal appeal the miniature paintings are very popular even today.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The themes of the this class of paintings were generally &lt;a href=http://www.shop24-7-365.com/Computer/Web-Hosting/web-hosting.php&gt;web host asp net&lt;/a&gt; from the scenes of Indian epics and religious books like The Ramayana, The Mahabharata, The Bhagvata Purana, Git-gobinda, Surasagar, Rasamanjiri and more. Images from folk legends, classical music codes and royal court scenes were also beautifully illustrated in the paintings. &lt;a href=http://www.shop24-7-365.com/Finance/Mortgage-Refinance-HomeEquity/remortgage.php&gt;remortgage rates&lt;/a&gt; fabric, marble, paper, silk, velvet, leather and ivory panels generally served as the canvas for the paintings. Miniature paintings gave birth to some noted school of paintings namely The Deccan Schools, The Rajput and the Mughal Schools.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Rajput School of Miniature Painting imbibed inspiration from the Krishna legends. The emphasis was more on the man and woman relationship and paintings were aesthetic portrayal of their emotion, love and passion. The lovemaking scenes of Lord Krishna and Goddess Radha are some of the finest specimens of the paintings. The Mughal School of Miniature Painting had Persian influence on them. The painters focused mostly on court scenes, royal portraits, natural scenes and landscapes. The Deccan School of Miniature Painting &lt;a href=http://www.shop24-7-365.com/Finance/Mortgage-Refinance-HomeEquity/remortgage.php&gt;Remortgages&lt;/a&gt; a kind of hybrid painting form blending several styles of painting. The paintings manifested exuberant and bold themes influenced from Turkish and Persian paintings.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For comprehensive information on Miniature Paintings and related topics, please visit &lt;a href=http://www.weird-encyclopedia.com/out-of-body-experience.php&gt;Out of Body Experience&lt;/a&gt;  www.ethnicpaintings.com"&gt;Ethnic Paintings.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rajneesh Dubey is Content Coordinator for   ethnicpaintings.comethnicpaintings.com This website gives you comprehensive informations on painting history, development, trends, popular painting styles, great painters, famous paintings, painting galleries and museums, painting tips, painting classes. In other words, this website is a treat to painting freaks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5667749585862977204-794478921789663144?l=tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com/feeds/794478921789663144/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5667749585862977204&amp;postID=794478921789663144' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5667749585862977204/posts/default/794478921789663144'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5667749585862977204/posts/default/794478921789663144'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tinwikzmtm.blogspot.com/2008/07/miniature-paintings-sublime-art.html' title='Miniature Paintings - A Sublime Art'/><author><name>goglccwwjo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12931585443290031161</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
