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Online Shopping's Pros and Cons
Why buy online? Why not buy online? Have you ever considered the pros
and cons to shopping at a retail store vs shopping online? Let's take
a look at the advantages and disadvantages of purchasing online...
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How to Avoid Conflicts at Work and at Home
There are times where we may find it difficult to avoid a disagreement
in the workplace, or even a conflict at home. Here are some things
to think about as you work toward a peaceful resolution...
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Money - The Currency of Unhappy People
Happiness and success have nothing to do with money. When will all
these self-styled personal development and self improvement gurus
get that into their head? The modern obsession with money is actually
leading people away from a life of happiness and success into a
life of goal focused constant anticipation which takes us away from
the here and now - the only place where life is lived and the only
place that you will find happiness and success…
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An Assets Investigation: Several Tips
Conduct an assets search to ascertain what assets and income your
subject has, and to make sure the assets will be available should
you win a judgment, and before taking possession of an asset - like
an automobile or a boat - with a lien against it…
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RAW, JPEG or TIFF - Digital Photography for Beginners
In this Digital Photography for Beginners article we are looking
at file formats. In the "old" days, photographs would be captured
onto light sensitive film. Then, after development, a negative would
be produced. With digital photography, images are stored as a digital
file. For viewing, the file is decoded - and there are 3 main types
of file used - JPEG, TIFF and RAW…
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6 Mistakes When Moving Overseas
Moving overseas is generally a very exciting time in your life.
However, you know that it's not going to be an easy job. Considering
how many things need to be done and the huge change to your life,
it's certainly worth taking the time to think about what to realistically
expect…
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How to Minimize the Risk of Getting Serious Diseases
The Holy Bible, teaches us how to be healthy, live a healthy lifestyle
and avoid disease. Therefore, diseases such as cancer, heart disease,
diabetes, obesity, HIV aids, and so on are caused by us not heeding
God's Word. It is interesting to note that in the beginning He created
a world that had life giving health in all the food man ate…
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How You Can Recycle Your Cell Phone
Cellular phones and other mobile devices often contain toxic materials
that can pollute the environment. The chemicals contained in the
cell phones and electronics are harmful to the health of both humans
and animals. Cell phones and their accessories contain a large number
of hazardous substances known as Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and
Toxic Chemicals (PBTs). Some of the chemicals contained in the PBTs
have been known to cause damage to nervous systems, reproductive
systems, and developmental systems, as well as causing cancer…
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Saving not spending, can save the economy
As soon as we can stabilize housing, all of our troubles will be
solved. This is the mantra we hear night after night on CNBC. The
chart below unmistakably paints an abnormal picture of home prices.
Karl Case, an economics professor at Wellesley College whose name
adorns the S&P Case-Shiller home-price indexes, has studied
U.S. house prices going back to the 1890s. Over the long run, he
says, home prices tend to increase on average at an inflation-adjusted
rate of 2.5% to 3% a year, about the same as per capita income…
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Brave New World Revisited
Aldous Huxley wrote the dystopian novel Brave New World in 1931
at the inauguration of the last Crisis period in America. Dystopia
is the often futuristic vision of a society in which conditions
of life are miserable and characterized by poverty, oppression,
war, violence, disease, pollution, nuclear fallout and/or the abridgement
of human rights…
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How to Be Green in Your Business
A business that makes the decision to be environmentally-conscious
will often promote goodwill among potential customers, while making
the world a better place for future generations. Many businesses
hesitate to adopt green practices because they fear it will hurt
their bottom line and negatively impact profits…
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Be Healthy Consuming Only Natural Foods
We destroy our lungs with cigarettes, feed our kids fast sugars.
trans fats, salt, artificial flavors and colors, chemical sugars,
vaccines, etc. Then we wonder how it is that an increasing percentage
of the population develops chronic diseases such as asthma, allergies,
diabetes, cancer, food intolerances, skin problems and bowel problems…
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How to Naturally Cure and Prevent a Cold
When I was a child, I remembered I would occasionally catch a cold
and spend about two weeks lying in bed, suffering. My joints and
muscles would ache and, although I received better treatment, being
served meals in bed and having a TV in my own room, it was still
a very unpleasant period…
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How to Perform a Healthy Fast
One of the most important points of a fast is to go into and out
of it slowly, and properly. During a fast your body truly does enter
a different regime. Your stomach and intestines don't work like
they usually do, and the last thing you want to do is to come in
and/or out of such a different mode with any sort of shock…
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How to Be Healthy
The Bible says that our body is a temple of God, and that we should
treat it that way. Well, a lot of people don't believe in God, but
rather worship themselves, and want to look beautiful for selfish
reasons. Whatever your motivation, a healthier and cleaner body
will allow you to live longer, fuller, with greater vitality, and
enable you to enjoy your life more…
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The love of money is the root of all evil
Money doesn’t grow on trees for most of America. We sit down at
our kitchen tables and write out checks to the phone-company, electric
company, credit card-company, mortgage-company, and auto finance
company every month. We clip coupons and go to the grocery store
every week to put food in the mouths of our children. This is what
our parents did before us. We work 40 to 60 hours a week to pay
these bills and feed those mouths. It’s not easy…
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Brain Gets Smart but Your Head Gets Dumb. Stop Borrowing!
The 1970’s were a simpler time. As kids, we listened to All The
Young Dudes by Mott the Hoople on our portable record players. We
would cut Monkees’ .98s from the back of our Raisin Bran cereal
boxes. There were maybe ten TV stations we could watch. For entertainment
we would play board games like The Game of Life, Monopoly, and Risk.
I remember having a two day Risk match with friends from our neighborhood.
Our parents didn’t smother us with attention. We created our own
fun. We organized our own roller hockey league with games played
in our back alley and on the side streets of our neighborhood…
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Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children
of God
You know civilization is in danger when I find more wisdom in the
words of Ozzy Osbourne than in the words of any elected U.S. official.
The U.S. war machine keeps turning. As we enforce our will on foreign
countries, we produce more people who hate us. Just when you think
the U.S. government is beginning to make sense by withdrawing troops
from Iraq, they make the terrible decision to shuttle 21,000 more
troops into the Afghan calamity…
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How to save the US economy?
David Walker served as Comptroller General of the United States
from 1998 through 2008. He is now the CEO of the Peter G. Peterson
Foundation and leader of the Fiscal Wake Up Tour…
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Stairway to Retail Heaven (or Hell?)
She was buying the stairway to heaven using her home equity line,
but now that she is underwater on her mortgage she tried to pay
using her Amex card, but her credit score had dropped to 600 and
they cut her credit line in half. The stairway to heaven isn’t as
easy to achieve as it used to be. Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi
feel bad for the lady. They are going to borrow against your children’s
future tax dollars and give them to the lady, so she can buy that
stairway to heaven…
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Bottled Water - An Environmental Disaster
Do you wish to live in a way that protects our children's future?
Do you want to live in the greenest world possible with a conscience,
respect and appreciation for the environment?…
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When United States ruled the world
America has squandered the human sacrifice, blood, sweat and tears
of two generations in less than seventy years. We have been an independent
country for 226 years. From 1783 until 1946 was an unrelenting upward
trajectory for the beacon of the free world. With the end of World
War II, America was the last country standing. Germany and Japan
were in shambles. Russia had lost millions of citizens, with Stalin
about to murder millions more…
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Public Speaking - 5 More Tips
Know that public speaking is the number one human fear. So if you
have ever been or are a bit nervous about giving presentations in
public, realize you are not alone. Most people have the same problem.
Continued below is our Top 10 tips to making presenting easy and
comfortable for both you and the audience…
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Public Speaking - 5 Tips
Know that public speaking is the number one human fear. So if you
have ever been or are a bit nervous about giving presentations in
public, realize you are not alone. Most people have the same problem…
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5 Tips How to Start Living Green on a Budget
5 simple steps you can take today to reduce your carbon footprint
with out spending much money…
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The Federal Reserve - Grand Illusion
The whole world is in a state of complete confusion. Americans are
coming to the realization that their lives have been a grand illusion.
You thought your neighbor had it made. They were driving a Mercedes,
spent $40,000 on a new kitchen with granite countertops and stainless
steel appliances, sent their kids to private school, had a second
home at the shore, and took exotic vacations all over the world…
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Financial Crisis: How to Save the Economy.
Every day seems worse than the previous day. Five hundred thousand
people are getting laid off every month. Our banking system is on
life support. Retailers are going bankrupt in record numbers. The
stock market keeps descending. Home prices continue to plummet.
Home foreclosures keep mounting. Consumer confidence is at record
lows…
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How Parents Can Save Some Money
Times are tough right now especially for parents. It can be hard
to know how to cover things like constantly increasing energy bills
and the high cost of fuel. It can be easy to become discouraged
and think there is no way I can save money right now, however there
are a few changes you can make in your everyday life that will make
a huge difference…
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What Happened to the American Dream
Solar photovoltaic cells convert sunlight into electricity and many
solar photovoltaic power stations have been built, mainly in Europe.
Several large photovoltaic power plants have been completed in Spain
in 2008…
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Photovoltaic power station
Solar photovoltaic cells convert sunlight into electricity and many
solar photovoltaic power stations have been built, mainly in Europe.
Several large photovoltaic power plants have been completed in Spain
in 2008…
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Motorcycle Safety
In many important ways, operating a motorcycle is not like driving
an automobile. So you have to change your way of thinking and your
way of driving when you ride your motorcycle. For example, to turn
a motorcycle left or right, it’s not just a matter of turning a
steering wheel…
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How to choose a worthwhile charity and get involved
The call to make a positive difference in the larger world around
us is heard by millions of people every day. Most of us just put
it off because we are understandably busy with our day-to-day lives
of surviving and thriving…
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Moving abroad
"We're moving to Finland," says my husband. "What? When? How?" say
I. "We don't want to move out of the country," scream my children.
"Wait, let me get on my breathing machine," says my mother. "Don't
do it," says my father-in-law. But my husband can't help but get
excited…
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Giving Up Cable Television
My children cried when they realized they could no longer watch
their favorite television shows, but soon learned that wholesome
videos can cure their withdrawals in a moment's notice. But more
importantly, they've gotten off their butts and started enjoying
more physical and bonding activities…
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Renewable energy
Renewable
energy is energy generated from natural resources—such as sunlight,
wind, rain, tides and geothermal heat—which are renewable (naturally
replenished). Renewable energy technologies include solar power,
wind power, hydroelectricity, micro hydro, biomass and biofuels.…
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Solar Energy... When will it be affordable to the average homeowner?
A
discussion of the origin and development of PV solar generated electricity.
The physics, materials and growth of the technology is discussed.
Examples of acceptance by big business are discussed. A model on
how to pay for the technology is given.…
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Geothermal Generated Electricity - Is It a Viable Energy Option?
Geothermal
renewable energy is not as widely discussed as solar or wind energy
for replacement of fossil fuels. Geothermal energy is in wide use
in many countries and is quite advanced in it understanding. It
is a third leg of a tripod of renewable energies…
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Recycling plastic and glass - why it makes a difference
With
a little understanding of the issues involved, we can re-use or
recycle most of the masses amount of waste we produce from plastic
and glass and at the same time we can reduce costs, save energy,
protect the environment and even create new jobs…
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5 Major Ways to Save Money on Gas
Gas
prices never seem to go down, do they? It just keeps getting more
expensive to buy gas. Here are 5 major steps you can take to save
money on gas…
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Greenovation Saves You Money Now And Later
We’ve
all heard often enough that it’s time to start thinking and acting
green. We’re depleting the Earth’s resources in record amounts,
and it’s becoming more and more clear that we need to start thinking
in terms of protecting and preserving the Earth and her resources
when we build…
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50 Ways To Conserve Water At Home
With
many areas of the country in drought conditions, all of us could
use a reminder list of ways to cut back on our water consumption
around the house. You can go three weeks without food, but only
three days without W.A.T.E.R.…
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A Mouthful That Saves The World
Let's
start with a question. How can we improve the quality of life by
say 25% this year? If you're like most people your thoughts might
immediately turn towards having more of certain things…
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Living A Greener Life On A Shoestring Budget
It
doesn’t take a big investment to reduce your impact on the Earth
– just a little bit of forethought and attention to the choices
that you make. Here are fifteen simple things that can make a major
difference in how much energy your family uses around the house…
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Looking at Debt Backward: An Interesting Approach to Financial Freedom
Most
people feel that the way to financial success is to earn more. However,
we have far less control over what we earn than what we spend. By
reducing our spending, we can more reliably and predictably increase
the amount of our paycheck we actually get to keep. What's more,
there are plenty of ways to trim even up to 10% out of your household
expenses without feeling the pinch. You may even start to feel smarter…
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New Zealand in Translation: Presenting a Country's Image in a Government
Website
In
this article, we examine how the image of New Zealand is presented
in the Chinese translation of a press release titled "Film spotlight
spawns hot Kiwi destinations," which is available at the website
of the New Zealand Embassy in China. The differences between the
original and the translation reveal that the presentation of New
Zealand's image is driven by the purpose of promoting NZ as an exciting
tourist attraction…
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Going Green In Home Renovations
It's
hard to pick up a newspaper today without reading another alarming
headline about the impact global warming is having on our planet.
This growing concern has caused a number of our clients to ask how
they might be more environmentally-conscious in their home designs
and renovations…
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The Financial Equation That Can Change Your Life
Ask
a person what is the single most important thing that could happen
to improve his or her financial picture and the answer you'll get
- in various gradations - is a sudden influx of cash. Some of us
wish for pay raises, others want to win the lottery, and more indecisive
types just dream of a sudden windfall of cash…
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Top 10 Basic Errors Among Quarkxpress Users
If you have recently started using QuarkXPress, you may find yourself
making some of the errors outlined in this article. Take a second
to read through our top ten beginner pitfalls and spare yourself
a little frustration in getting to grips with your new software…
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How to Live Naturally
• Buy economic (fluorescent) lamps – they consume up to 5 times
less energy than regular bulbs.
• Don’t drive to close distances – better walk or bike.
• Set your tap water heater to lower temperature…
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Stump the Experts
McElroy invited people to join in our recent International Translation
Day celebrations by sending in cultural questions to try to “Stump
the Experts.” All those who sent in questions were entered into
a drawing for a chance to win a handsome gift box, Around the World
in 12 Coffees…
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Speed Reading Simplified!
Readers are leaders and in this article you will learn several simple
to implement Speed Reading Secrets that will assist you in efficiently
absorbing all that information out there…
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Great Technical Writing: The Two-edged Sword Of Reader Experience
When we write User Documents we rely on our Reader's/User's experience
to simplify our work. This can cause problems for the Reader. This
article will discuss the effects of Reader experience and how to
minimize the negative effects of incompatible experience, and how
to handle the writer's assumptions about the Reader…
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Kids
Can Learn Spanish
I
just got a call from my two year old granddaughter. She wanted to
sing "Los Pollitos" to me. You can find this children's
classic in most of the collections of songs that we are recommending.
It is perfect for hand gestures. These gestures are ideal for language
learning because they imprint the sense of the words as the child
recites…
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How To Get Your Kids To Speak Your Language
This experience had to
do with preserving Spanish for our kids but the principles are valid
for anyone trying to help their kids speak and preserve any language
and culture…
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the full article…
History
Of The World Intellectual Property System According To Me
The patent system, like all good things, was invented in what is
today Italy. A system for granting patents for inventions was first
introduced in the 15th century - the first known grant of a patent
to an inventor occurred in the Republic of Florence in 1421 and
an ordinance about patents was enacted in Venice in 1474, 18
years before Columbus discovered America…
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Inttranews
Special Report: the Deaf Culture
Many of us have friends or family who are deaf or hard-of-hearing,
and know how frustrating it can be to communicate under those conditions…
but what about the people with the handicap?
Kelli Deister is the new Deafness Editor for BellaOnline. She is
deaf on her left side, and hard-of-hearing on her right side, due
to an autoimmune disorder. She began to lose her hearing in late
1998, at the age of 35, as a result of domestic violence. Inttranews
decided to learn more about the Deaf Culture…
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the full article…
Translation
services:
Insider secrets for making an informed purchase
If your company is involved in international business, one thing
is certain – sooner or later you’ll need to hire a translation services
provider (TSP). Naturally, you want a high quality translation at
the lowest possible cost.
The quality of translation and target texts reflects your company’s
QA system, and above all, the translation should also be of premium
quality…
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J2450 Translation Quality Metric
The aim of the metric is to be “a consistent standard against which
the translation quality of automotive service information can be
objectively measured regardless of the source language, regardless
of the target language, regardless of how the translation is performed--i.e.,
human translation or machine translation…
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Inttranews Special Report: Birds, brains and learning
Language is presumed to be the most distinctive characteristic of
human beings, yet the capacity for communication by sound is far
from being exclusive to Homo Sapiens. Among the most familiar yet
least-known forms of communication in other species is that of songbirds.
Michael Beecher and Eliot Brenowitz of the University of Washington
have proposed that our understanding of how we acquire language
would be considerably enhanced by greater research into how birds
learn to sing. So is music truly the universal language? Inttranews
decided to find out more …
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Open for Business
May 1st, when the enlarged European Union comes into effect, is
a largely symbolic date. Businesses worthy of their name on both
sides of the geographic divide have long been aware of the issues
raised by EU membership …
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From the Top (Let's Embrace Diversity)
African-Americans, Hispanics/Latinos and Native Americans represent
more than 25 percent of the U.S. population. However, these three
ethnic groups represent less than 9 percent of nurses, 6 percent
of physicians and 5 percent of dentists, according to the Sullivan
Commission on Diversity in the Health Care Workforce. Of the 16,000-plus
students who entered medical school in 2003, only about 2,000 were
African-American, Hispanic/Latino or Native American …
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Achieving Cultural Competence: An Organizational Assessment
How culturally competent is your organization? Below is a series
of questions that can help determine your organization’s ability
to deliver culturally competent care:
- How does your organization involve senior management, front line
staff and members of diverse communities in cultural competence
planning and program development? …
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