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If there should be one lasting message that we should learn from the current economic crisis , let it be that the medical care industry in the United States is not well . Three of the most iconic corporations in our history, GM, Ford, and Chrysler, are on the verge of liquidation not because of stock market high jinks but rather because they can no longer remain solvent while meeting their duty towards their employees’ health coverage obligations .

In fact, for every car or truck that GM builds, more than $2000 goes directly to the fund that the carmakers have set up to deal with the growing expenses of providing health care to their employees , present and past . And you just thought it was all about subprime loans .

As I write this, at the end of 2008 , the health care industry is the single largest industry in the country’s economy, as measured as a percentage of the GNP , or Gross Domestic Product ; in fact, medical care represents roughly 16% of our GDP, more than military , more than automotive, more than IT , more than any other industry you can think of. And it’s not close.

Any that will change medical care must make an allowance for the expansion of new industry jobs, which will have an impact on the overall economy, as more folks who find themselves unemployed or under-employed at the moment can be trained to work the good, lucrative medical care jobs of the future ; such action would have long-lasting impact not just on the broad economy and the individual men and women who will take on those lucrative positions , but also on the treasury and our country’s budget , as those new jobs will generate tax revenue that will help reduce our shocking deficit and lower the national debt.

And this is where universal medical coverage comes into action . When you consider that over 46 million Americans lack health insurance of any kind today, it is easy to see that by bringing these folks into the system will only grow the scope of the medical care industry, an industry which, as I pointed out earlier, is almost entirely domestic. By giving these countless people a method to acquire their own medical coverage , we can help create those better paying positions , while improving the quality of life of the currently uninsured , and eliminating the wasteful expenses associated with caring for the ill indigent by hospital emergency rooms (the doctors of last resort for millions) and other inefficiencies.

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———-Jonathan Krakowski, the author, writes regularly for Life Insurance In-Depth and Auto Insurance In-Depth .

Oakley sung glasses have a long history. It was in the mid-18th century when James Ayscough began experimenting with tinted lenses in spectacles. He believed that blue- or green-tinted glass could correct specific vision impairments. Incidentally, protection from sun’s rays was not a concern of his. Sunglasses as such were introduced by Sam Foster in 1929 when he found a ready market on the beaches of Atlantic City, New Jersey, where he began selling Foster Grants from a Woolworth on the Boardwalk. Oakley sung glasses however, are special.

It is now well known that UV exposure predisposes people to premature cataract, age related macular degeneration, pterygium and UV keratitis. These health-risks instigated the patenting of the Polaroid filter by Edwin H. Land in 1936. Why all these facts? Because, if you talk about the whys and hows of Oakley sun glasses today, you will surely miss out these historical facts. For today, an entire generation has become polarized to sunglasses for an entirely different reason - they have been transformed into a virtual fashion statement! For the last 26 years, Jim Jannard and his brainchild Oakley have been reshaping conventional wisdom, transforming everyday products like sunglasses, prescription glasses, goggles, clothing, hats, shoes, and even watches into functional works of art.

Make hay while the sun shines - literally!

It all started in 1975 with an inventive salesperson, a funky-looking grip called Unobtanium and a dog named Oakley. Jannard introduced his wild sunglass design to the world but realized its potential only when he received an inquiry from no less a celebrity than the legendary cyclist, Greg LeMond. And the rest is history! Today, Oakley sells so many Oakley sun glasses, it goggles the mind! And, not without reason. Every model is upped with the most revolutionary technology. Consider the exceptional Plutonite and Iridium lens coatings, the do-it-yourself custom-made glasses, and the mind-blowing Thump MP3 Sun Glasses (Your ears are on your head, so why should your music system hang on your waist? - avers the punchline). No wonder then that the market is flooded with replica Oakley sun glasses and fake Oakley sun glasses (Foakleys as they are popularly known.) - Imitation is the best form of flattery you see.

So indulge in this ultimate fashion statement, while simultaneously being gentle on your eyes. And don’t forget to take your bank with you - for Oakley sun glasses don’t come cheap; but then, neither does the reputation of the wearer!

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1. Experience

Do you ever find yourself stuck in a rut of anger, wishing you understood a bit more about anger management?

Recently I worked with a client who stated she had a lot of unresolved anger. When I asked her what she meant, she said she often blew up at people, even when she knew expressing anger was not the best response. She quickly named several scenarios when this had recently happened. She talked about situations at work, with her husband, and with her children. In the process of telling me about her anger I could see that she was getting rather upset.

As I almost always do, I asked her at some point to slow down, take several deep breaths, and notice the physical sensations taking place in her body, as well as noticing me sitting in front of her, and the totality of the surroundings in my office. At first she seemed uncomfortable slowing down, and then after just a minute or two I felt that I noticed her emotional state change.

Looking at her softly and matching my breathing to hers, I asked her what she was feeling “at this very moment.” She said she was sad that she was not able to make better relationships with those she really cared about.

“So” I suggested, “Please correct me if you do not fully agree, but are you noticing now as you slow down, that in this instance your anger has changed to sadness?” As I spoke these words I also gave her an agreed upon hand signal to signify that she take a deep breath prior to talking. She took a breath, paused, and said “I often feel very separate from those I want to feel close to, and this makes me feel sad, and it also makes me feel very lonely and isolated.”

“So” I once again suggested, “Are you feeling your sense of sadness leads you to feel lonely and isolated?” She looked at me as her eyes began to moisten and said “Yes, I feel like people don’t really understand my feelings. I feel misunderstood and even that I am unimportant to others.”

I took a moment or two to breathe with her as I slowly nodded my head, and I gently said, “At times your anger leads you to feel your sadness, and your sadness leads you to feel your loneliness and isolation, which leads you to feel misunderstood and unimportant to others.”

She wept some and said, “Yes, I can now really feel my loneliness and that others do not really care about me.”

“Are you still feeling angry?” I asked.
“No.” she said, “I am only feeling sadness and loneliness.”

We sat there for a couple of minutes as we breathed together and both of us felt our full range of feelings.

At some point she looked at me and said, “It’s strange, but somehow slowing down and feeling my sadness and loneliness, somehow feels comforting. I think that normally, these are feelings that I try and stop myself from feeling.”

“Yes.” I said, “When we stop ourselves from experiencing a certain range of feelings, what usually happens is we get trapped in a seemingly opposite emotional state that is counterproductive.”
“It is not so much that your anger is the opposite of your sadness, it is more so that your sadness is connected to your anger.”
“As you allow yourself to feel your sadness, your anger dissolves, and you can feel the full range of your emotions, without feeling trapped or isolated.”
“When we don’t isolate or ignore any of our feelings, we don’t feel isolated from or ignored by others.”

2. Commentary
In Seishindo there are two models we often use to understand emotions.

In our first model we believe that any one emotion often exists as part of a larger cycle/circle of emotions.

Think of an old-fashioned vinyl record made up of four separate but related pieces of music. One piece segues into the next, and it is only in listening to the full recording that you can truly appreciate the work of the composer. If say at the end of the first piece of music there is a deep scratch in the record and the needle jumps back to the beginning. it would not take you long to become tired of listening, and you might even become annoyed at the repetition. This would tend to be especially so if the scratch existed just prior to the first piece of music being complete.

This is very much like what happens when we become stuck in compulsively expressing one segment of our full emotional range, at the expense of making good relationships and maintaining our overall sense of emotional well-being. At such times, instead of feeling the full cycle of our emotions, we keep on bumping ourselves back to the beginning of a single emotion. We thus lose the benefit of fully feeling and expressing our complete range of emotions. This is very often the case with people who tend to get angry easily. If we were more aware of our emotional state we would recognize that our anger does not exist “by itself.” We fuel and maintain our anger by bumping ourselves back to only a limited range of our memories and emotions. The more we feel “only anger” the angrier we become. On the other hand, when we can sense our anger is accompanied and organized in coordination with other emotions, we can feel all of what is driving our behavior, and it is this full range of expression that assists us in feeling complete and relieved in the process.

In our second model for understanding emotions, we believe the emotion that presents itself most strongly, is often covering up one or several other emotions.

How might you react as an adult, if you were taught as a child that anger was a totally unacceptable emotion to feel? Perhaps you would learn to smile and become sugary sweet, no matter how upset you felt underneath.

What might happen if you began to have a crush on a playmate at the tender age of twelve and your father gave you a harsh lecture about the dangers of intimacy, and how sex was only meant for the purpose of procreation? Perhaps you would feel that it was unsafe to ever express your love and physical desire to another, and thus every time you were beginning to feel love, you would harshly criticize yourself and the person you were attracted to.

Can you imagine how confusing your life might be if you were somehow always afraid to express what you felt, and thus attempted to cover up what you were feeling?

In our work in Seishindo, we often encourage our clients to ask themselves the following questions:

“What other emotions might exist to support or round out the one I am expressing now?”

“What emotions do I believe might be getting covered over or neglected by the emotion I am expressing now?”

“What is the one emotion I am the most likely to not feel, when I am feeling like I am now?”

“What might I be feeling if I was not feeling like I am now?”

Whenever you find yourself getting stuck in any one emotional state, we suggest that you breathe deeply and ask yourself the questions above.
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The annual yacht show in Monaco always guarantees Europe’s second smallest country’s hotels are full, and this year will be no exception.

The show has grown in popularity over the fifteen years since it began, and this year will see Monaco’s Port Hercules play host to over ninety of the world’s finest yachts and five hundred of the world’s best yachting companies.

The luxury yachting market has tripled in the last eight years, and helped along by orders from Russia’s ‘nouveau riche’, the industry has seen an increase in orders of over a quarter in the last year alone.

But while luxury and Monaco are often associated, poor sales and a possible drop in property prices haven’t been seen in the Prinicpality’s real estate sector for over a decade.

Monaco Real Estate

In contrast to the highly successful Yacht Show, property sales in Monaco have been unusually slow in 2005. Although only a square mile in size there are over a hundred estate agencies battling for buyers to choose their services, and at times it seems that every third or fourth retail unit has been commandeered by a property company in Monte Carlo, the best known and most sought after area of Monaco.

According to Monte Carlo property specialist Henri Boulanger some estate agents are being squeezed, and are viewing the yacht show as the last opportunity to turn a dismal year into a good one.

‘The yacht show attracts a wealthy clientele in considerable numbers, and the type of person who might be buying a luxury yacht might well be thinking about buying a property in Monaco as well.

While it wouldn’t be etiquette to actively pursue buyers, many estate agents in Monaco are desperately hoping to see their doors open and for one or two potential buyers to call into their offices.

With good two bedroom apartments starting at over a million Euros, and penthouses with Mediterranean views often over five million and some of them over ten million, it can take just one sale to turn a bad year into a good one.’

Monaco’s property price inflation has often risen by over ten per cent a year in the last decade, but a combination of events have conspired this year with a possible stagnation in prices for 2005, and potentially even a fall.

The passing earlier this year of the popular Prince Rainier, Europe’s longest reigning monarch, cast a cloud over the area which it is just emerging from, but economic factors have also played a significant role in the downturn of the real estate market.

‘The strength of the Euro against the American dollar has led many of our potential buyers from the US to delay their viewing visit from this year to next, and earlier this year another source of important buyers from the UK held back until after the election to see what the outcome would be’, explains Henri, adding ‘and now with the uncertainty of the economy after the recent tragedy of Hurricane Katrina it is quite possible that some US buyers will delay their visit even more, or possibly to cancel buying in Monaco altogether’.

Monaco Grand Prix

No surprise then that while the tourists will be in Monaco in the same and possibly increased numbers than last year, the prospect of several dozen potential property buyers descending upon Monaco and staying in her best hotels over a few days is seen as an opportunity not to be missed by the realtors.

But what is surprising perhaps is that the Yacht Show is viewed as a better opportunity than the Monaco Grand Prix for her realtors.

‘The Grand Prix attracts tens of thousands of people to Monaco every May’, explains Henri, ‘And every April we get a lot of new enquiries for property in Monaco, with the buyers asking to view apartments in Monte Carlo with views of the race circuit during the Monaco Grand Prix weekend. But what they don’t realise is that many of the apartments for sale have been rented out for the weekend, and viewing is impossible.

Even if an apartment hasn’t been rented out for corporate hospitality it would take all day to get from one apartment to another. The Grand Prix is a great tourist event for Monaco, and some of the estate agents go away for a few days. They won’t be doing that during the Yacht Show!’

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For a guide including a Monaco map, Monaco weather, direct contact details for hotels in Monaco including the Hotel de Paris and Columbus hotels and the Monaco Grand Prix can be found at http://www.yourmonaco.com

Details of Monaco Real Estate can be sent upon request at http://www.monacoproperty.net

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Do you have internal rules about how you expect the people in your life to treat you? Are you comfortable speaking up for yourself when someone crosses one of those lines? Are you able to say no when you don’t want to participate in something you’ve been asked to consider?

Your ability to speak up for yourself, and to say no are directly related to your ability to set boundaries. In this lesson, I’d like to explore what a boundary is, and identify where you may need to set and enforce boundaries in your life.

Boundaries

A boundary is a limit, or a behavioral line which cannot be crossed. The manner in which you allow others to interact with you is governed by the interpersonal boundaries you’ve defined in your life, and your enforcement of these boundaries is the primary way you protect your emotional self.

When I work with someone to establish a personal system of boundaries we focus on three areas of behavior. They include; the manner in which you are spoken to, the requests that are made of you, and the physical space surrounding you. Let’s take a look at each of these areas.

Word Boundaries

The manner in which another individual speaks to you is reflective of both the level of respect that person has for you, and the standard of behavior the person holds themselves to. While you cannot impact the standards of another person, you can require a standard of communication for their interaction with you.

I’ll use my own boundaries as an example in this area. I will not allow another person to raise their voice when speaking to me, to speak sarcastically or caustically to me, or to direct mean spirited teasing at me. I have clearly defined my parameters for acceptable behavior in this area, and I am willing to enforce them when necessary.

Requirement Boundaries

Requirement boundaries are applicable to the expectations that another person has about how you will allocate and invest your resources. When another individual makes a request of you which you’d prefer to decline, you’re in your requirement boundary zone.

I’m not suggesting that you shouldn’t support the people in your life. I am suggesting that in the event that you’d rather not participate in something, and you find yourself doing so out of a sense of obligation, you’re not being true to yourself It is in these instances that you may want to consider establishing clear boundaries.

Physical Boundaries

Have you ever had a conversation with an individual who continually moved into your space? Have you known a person who repetitively touched you as you spoke with them? These people lacked an understanding of physical boundaries.

A physical boundary supports your ability to create and maintain an acceptable level of space around you. Your boundaries in this area will govern how close someone may stand to you, and the physical manner in which they may interact with you.

Define Your Boundaries

You show people how to treat you every time you interact with them. If you allow someone to tell a joke at your expense, laughing on the outside while wincing on the inside, you’re teaching them they can bully you. If you allow your mate or children to leave their personal items all over the house, cleaning up after them as you move through your home, you’re teaching them you’ll clean up after them.

Take a few moments to decide how you’ll require others to treat you. As you do so, stay focused on the respect, appreciation, and consideration you know you deserve.

Enforce Your Boundaries

The successful enforcement of interpersonal boundaries requires clear communication. The five part model outlined below is used quite regularly in the coaching industry, and will support you as you embrace your own process.

Inform - Clearly describe the problem.

Define The Unacceptable -Let the other party now what about their behavior was not acceptable.

Share Your Emotions - Let the other person know how the situation made you feel.

Request The Solution You Seek - Ask the other person for the solution you seek.

Let Them Know Their Alternatives - Let the other person know what you plan to do if they won’t comply with your request.

The process of setting and enforcing boundaries is not an easy one, but it will be well worth your effort. Your ability to maintain space in your life - physically, emotionally, and mentally - will directly contribute to your developmental success. Your inability to do so will seriously detract from the growth you could experience.

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About the Author

Kimberly Fulcher is a professional coach, author and speaker, with twelve years of experience in human development. Her professional experience includes the co-founding and $ 38 million dollar sale of SkillsVillage.com, and her leadership of a leading Silicon Valley consulting firm, where she grew revenues from $3M to $25M in four short years. Kimberly sits on the board of directors for The Silicon Valley Coach Federation, and actively supports non-profit organizations that benefit underprivileged women and primary education initiatives. Kimberly offers group and individual coaching programs, speaks throughout The United States, and will publish her first book “Self Care For SuperWomen” in early 2004.

Force Decisions We Can Live By! Just another bumper sticker, or is it the New Age philosophy? It began as an overwhelming drive to express the lessons I have learned and the warnings I observe, in simple terms, easily understood by others. I don’t want fame, though I have made plans for fortunes I may never see. I just don’t want to get caught with a pile of money and no idea what to do with it, even though I don’t gamble or play lotteries. My great ambition was just to share ideas that could be useful to others and help them prepare for a violent future of sharply reduced expectations. I knew in my heart the writing on the wall has already become so much graffiti to be painted over.

I thought perhaps I could put a new face on the old writing and connect with some like minded people. In two years since the Al Qaeda attacks on Eleven September, the message remains the same. The U.S. Government is impotent to protect anyone from this new kind of warfare. Also, that the only effective defense is personal self defense; much of which should be obvious.

If you insist upon living and working in a known or likely target area, your odds of a happy, productive future, plummet like the towers. You become a volunteer for martyrdom; for what or whom? America decided the best act of defiance was to get back to business as usual. The idea that suing for peace at the start of a war, was a practical option, did not appeal to the public or leadership. A bad situation was made worse. Senator Joseph Biden recently summed up how it works. He does not regret authorizing an incompetent President to go to war. He only regrets the President is incompetent. You can’t be more double minded than that.

President Bush wants another five years to teach us that throwing all the money in the world at national security will make no difference, except to bankrupt Western Civilization. Since this is a stated goal of Al Qaeda, it’s clear we are all fighting a war against Western Civilization - and winning.

We all understand the huge gap between the people of the West and the rulers of the West. That’s why our global enemies sincerely tell us not to take it personally; that they only see one way to affect change in ruling policy. The question for the people of the West is whether they owe a duty to go down with the ship. Is it cowardice to survive the fall of Western Civilization? Is it dishonor to tend to one’s self and loved ones, when “leadership” just wants to get on with the fireworks?

Personally, I believe in survival. I want a shot at doing things right - next time. I’m searching for others who know or sense it is time to bail out of a ship, so low in the water, under fire, day in, day out, from without and from within. All the warriors know is how to make the holes bigger and they are hard at it. There is no wisdom in leadership today. Is there any left among the people?

Since I have no profession beyond the Christian faith, lifesaving can be no more than a hobby for me. The World Wide Web presents an opportunity for me to popularize this hobby. The potential is there to save millions of lives. Even as an amateur life saver, I am an unlikely candidate. I have a temporary visual impairment that prevents me from finding the places I could be posting my warnings, exhortations and encouragements, to take care of business; while there is still business to take care of.

My impairment has reduced my personal funds to a point I cannot hire help, before I recover. I’m not asking for money. I’m asking how much time we have to save millions of lives. It was eight years from the first attack on the World Trade Center. How many years will it be between the first attack on Washington D.C., till the next one? Two have already passed.

Do I believe weapons of mass destruction may be in place for remote detonation? If I believe anything can be planted anywhere, will you think me the fool? If the Capitol is destroyed as thoroughly as the Trade Center, what will life be like in the rest of the country? If two or three other cities are destroyed at the same time, what will life be like for the survivors? Is it all too horrible to consider? What will happen to first responders? What will happen to you and me and those we love? What should we be doing to prepare for what the leaders have made inevitable? I have published my answers to these questions. No one has contributed additional suggestions or ideas, although I don’t think I am the only one with these ideas.

I was disappointed that a small circle of friends had no interest in lifesaving. I can understand this. Alarmists have been shouting warnings for centuries, back to biblical times. Sometimes destruction came after the warnings. Sometimes it did not. What do you think of the odds today? Has our reaction to Al Qaeda’s attacks discouraged them? Has it prevented them from planning bigger and better things? Has anyone seriously diminished their will or capability? Why haven’t they deployed weapons of mass destruction yet? Have they misplaced them? Are they storing them near you?

I know there is tremendous resistance to thinking in a way that poses such questions. We have a guiding philosophy in the West that never SEEMS to fail us. Just pretend nothing is wrong. Even the leaders aren’t doing that anymore! In fact, it is that very philosophy which has perched us on the edge of the abyss. We can’t afford it another day more.

We plan our self defense. We plan for our survival. But we don’t wait for the situation to execute the plan. We ask hard questions. What would America be if it was simultaneously unplugged from its electrical umbilical and Internet communications, globally? We spread the word that a survival of the fittest situation is possible and probable. Who will prepare for the terror not yet imagined in a nation slated for destruction by those capable of success?

And why is it we want to survive, anyway? It is to help the others. Is that now a strange idea in America? Can this idea outlive government help? As America goes, so goes the rest. Can we possibly point America in a better direction? Does it all have to be destroyed before we can start over? We can start now. If we prepare for the end of Western Civilization (You have my word something better will replace it, when we LET GO) and all is wine and roses; were we fools? Not really. We learned things about us better known early than late. We learned a little independence in the land of the free. Who should be embarrassed?

If you want to take up the lifesaving hobby, just say and write the truths that can save lives. If you have no thoughts of your own, borrow some from others and pass them along. The idea is to spread the word. We are not trying to create a secret survivor society. We’d just like to see that everyone knows they have made choices. If poor choices have been made, new choices are in order. Last, but not least, why don’t I get feedback on the thoughts I share?

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Air purifiers have been around in various forms since the 1940s, when the first HEPA filter was designed to protect workers from airborne nuclear material. Since then, air purifiers have been used in hospitals, work sites, and homes to protect against viruses, mold, bacteria, pollen, pet dander, tobacco smoke, dust mites, and a great number of industrial and household chemicals. The people who stand the most to gain from air purifiers are those with allergies, asthma, and other respiratory ailments.

But everybody can benefit from having cleaner air in the home. The Environmental Protection Agency lists indoor air pollution among the top five environmental risks to public health. In fact, the inside of your home could well contain two to one hundred times more air pollutants than an outdoor urban environment.

Air purifier value varies widely. You can spend upwards of $1600 for the best air purifiers known to man, or you can spend as little as $70 for a good car unit. You can also spend an arm and a leg on junk if you’re not careful. One thing to keep in mind when buying an air purifier is unit-to-filter value. If your unit uses a HEPA filter, find out how much it costs to replace the filter. You may end up spending thousands on the filter alone. The question is, what kind of a machine do you want?

Home air purifiers use a number of technological approaches to cleaning your air so you can breathe more easily. They use HEPA (High Efficiency Particulate Air) filters; electrostatic filters, ion generators, ozone generators, ultraviolet light, and other methods to get rid of both large and miniscule particles. Some operate by drawing in air via a fan, cleaning the air, and re-releasing it. Others work by actually sending out “purifying agents” throughout the room.

Today you have two basic choices for home air purifiers: room air purifiers, and whole house purifiers. Generally speaking, room purifiers are better for air-cleaning efficiency and cost.

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Air Purifiers Info provides detailed information on home, ionic, ozone, and HEPA air purifiers, as well as reviews of the best air purifiers on the market today. Air Purifiers Info is the sister site of Air Filters Web.

Freedom for all species and people, and freedom of stress; is it possible? Could the Internet be a tool to getting there?

Freedom, what is it? I am an Internet writer whose job is to write about the Internet. Does that mean I am locked into this one area? Am I allowed to write about other things? Well today I am going to test out my supposed freedom, by writing about freedom. Some people say freedom is a state of mind, but I don’t know. What if you are a refugee locked away in a mandatory detention center waiting years for governments to process bureaucratic rigmarole? What if you live in a democratic society where you have to sign and have documents for everything from dog licenses to foreign visas? Are we really free, and if we are, how free are we?

Life on Earth for the privileged nations has become quite a comfortable existence. Or has it? Materially we have more than we could have ever imagined, but spiritually, how are we doing? If we are honest, each one of us has to live with the knowledge that for every creature comfort we have, someone in the world is having a little bit less; and then there’s the effect we have on the environment. So how free can we be with all this on our collective consciousness? The fact that we have more stress, anxiety and youth suicide today than ever before is a testament to the fact that life isn’t necessarily wholly better than our previous generations.

So why think of freedom? Why think of the problems of the Earth if I don’t have the answers. Everybody wants to hear solutions, but not many people are giving them. I once heard a guy called Professor Peter Sellars say,

“I’m now proposing the new period is the ‘Culture of Focus’, you find something that needs to be done and you do it.”

Could this be our ticket to physical, mental, emotional and spiritual freedom? If we focus our intentions as a society in an altruistic fashion, maybe all our strict social doctrines and rules will become less apparent in our minds and thus in our reality. If we are all thriving on the fact that we are doing our little part to make the world a better place for all concerned, maybe we wouldn’t be so obsessed with some of the issues that seem to pervade our minds today: war, greed, economics, racial and religious differences; all these may just become focuses of our past perception of reality.

I’m not pedaling easy answers and I’m not giving many examples of how all this change will come about; and I’m definitely not saying it shall be an easy task, nothing worthwhile ever is. The fact is, humans are always evolving and changing and it is easy to see that we still have a way to go before we live in a sustainable, positive global community. These thoughts are on my mind and I’m sure as I’ve spoken to many others, that it’s on a lot of our minds.

O.K., my job is to write about the Internet so I guess in the end I’ll follow orders. I mean hey, these words could incite a few positive thoughts out there in our collective community across the globe. The Internet is a pretty cool tool for communication across present borders and boundaries of our constructed systems. Just think about how much information and knowledge is now available at your fingertips. You can find out about nearly anything imaginable. For instance, if you did want to research the question about whether you are free or not, it’s the perfect place to start your search. It actually could take a large part in the development of true freedom for all species. That’s all I am going to say about that. Maybe we are already free, but could we become freer? Think about it my brothers and sisters.

By Jesse S. Somer, M6.Net
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Jesse S. Somer is a human wondering when freedom will, if ever, reign supreme in our world and in our minds.

On the assumption that you haven’t mastered casino gaming, then you’re invited to learn more about it here.

A valid description of a gambling saloon is a building that accomodates card-playing. Paying Customers are expected to relax handling the one armed bandits or trying out alternate pastimes of chance. Casino games generally include absolutely determined balances informing them which maintain that the betting house possesses its superiority above the gambling fans.

A large number betting hall games can make you end up overly habituated swiftly. Let’s consider the famous 1 armed bandit, a coin operated machine with 3, sometimes more discs that orbit when a lever on the side is started. The appliance commonly recompenses with reference to a range of motifs displayed on the front of the machine. Deplorably, gaming room games allow the illusion of having the upper hand, thus hoodwinking the guest — the participant is presented alternatives, but these do not really level the player’s overall handicap. That is precipitated by the gaming establishment never paying the full amount as expected. This pattern is often seen at work in acclaimed casino games such as stud poker, dice games, roulette or blackjack.

Seven-card stud is really an incredibly trendy casino pastime. The visitors, playing with screened hands, place bets in a central pot that is finally awarded to the prevailing gamester possessing the winning hand. (Of course, the shameless bluffing hand may win too…)

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Analogous to stud poker, blackjack is also a very fashionable casino game. A sizeable amount of its is due to the mix of chance and competence and decision making, and a practice identified as card counting. This is an approach in which gambling enthusiasts are in a position to significantly shift the chances of the card game in their favor both by wagering & strategic decisions in correspondence with the cards shown.

“Craps” is another well-known casino pastime utilizing the roll of two dice. Patrons bet on the outcome of of 1 roll, or on a succession of rolls on two dice. In contrast to blackjack, there isn’t any available bona fide winning system you can put to use to bend the odds.

Roulette is an incredibly popular casino based game; here a croupier rotates a roulette wheel which holds a set of exactly thirty-seven (French roulette) or, alternatively thirty eight (American or Vegas roulette) independently marked slots in which the pellet will then come to rest, thereby announcing the final winning number and the other chances that go along with it. When a participant happens to place chips on a particular number which is successful, in other words it’s their lucky day, the set remuneration will be thirty five to 1, the initial pledge proper will be repaid. Accordingly in totality it’s multiplied by thirty-six.

Don’t take a part time job.

Start a part time business.

You can work from home or anyware that is convenient. All that you need is a computer and an internet connection.

You will have very low start up costs, in fact you can start with virtually nothing and work it up to a business that will provide you with everything that you would ever need.

There are just two important things that you must have.

No1- A goal.

No2- A plan.

If you are not sure as to what you are aiming at, how can you expect to hit it?

The plan is required to enable you to set out the steps needed to keep you aimed in the right direction.

Your business will need a name.

What are you going to call it?

How do you decide upon a name?

The right business name can make the difference between success and disaster.

Your domain name will double up as your business name.

It is the URL that your prospective customers will use to find you.

How do you decide upon a domain name?

When you are surfing the net, you type in a word or phrase that you think will bring up the desired results. The most obvious words are the ones that get the most use. These words are generally known as ‘key-words’.

You need to have some of these key-words as part of your domain name. One little problem. How do you find the best words to use for the type of business you are starting?

There is a company called ‘Overture’ where you can do a search for the most used key-words.

If you can pick out about five of the words from the top fifty that are relevent to your type of business and make up a name that incorporates at least three of them, you will be well on the way to achieving success.

No matter what type of business you are starting, it must have a name that is easy to find. If they don’t know that you are there, they can’t buy from you. It’s as simple as that.

If you are not sure what is it that you want to sell, check with ‘Overture’ for the top words that people are using and look at the top ten to see what are people looking for. It should give you some good ideas to get you started.

The above are the basic things to get right before you even think about building your website. Once you have these things in place, building your website will be a natural progression.

Remember. Do the first things first. The rest of it will fall into place quite naturally.

Don’t look upon it as a chore. Business can be fun. especially when the money starts rolling in.

Don’t hang arround. Give it a go.

All the best, …Bob…

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