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Monday, December 31, 2012
Texas health program can exclude Planned Parenthood: judge
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - Texas won a court victory on Monday in its effort to stop state funds under a health program for low-income women from going to clinics affiliated with Planned Parenthood, a group that provides abortions at some of its facilities.
A Texas judge allowed the state to go ahead with a revamped program for poor women, the Women's Health Program, that does not include Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood said it does not provide abortions at clinics that participate in the state women's health program. But it is the nation's leading reproductive health and abortion provider and the state objects to its affiliations with clinics that do provide abortions.
"The court does not find that an irreparable injury will occur to Planned Parenthood," Visiting State District Judge Gary Harger ruled in a one-page order released Monday following a hearing last week. Harger said this would not be the last word on the case, with another judge set to take up the issue again in less than two weeks.
"We are pleased that the court rejected Planned Parenthood's latest attempt to skirt state law," said Lauren Bean, spokeswoman for state Attorney General Greg Abbott.
"The Texas attorney general's office will continue to defend the Texas legislature's decision to prohibit abortion providers and their affiliates from receiving taxpayer dollars through the Women's Health Program," Bean said.
Monday's ruling will allow the state-funded Women's Health Program to begin operations Tuesday as scheduled. The program will have more than 3,500 doctors, clinics and other providers, according to Linda Edwards Gockel, a spokeswoman for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.
"We welcome Planned Parenthood's help in referring patients to providers in the new program," she said.
The case dates back to 2011, when a Republican super-majority in the Texas Legislature voted to refuse to allow any organization that provides abortion services or is affiliated with doctors who provide abortions from receiving taxpayer funding. But the state program was largely funded by the federal government.
When a federal appeals court ruled last summer that the so-called "affiliate rule" is unconstitutional, a "poison pill" inserted by the legislature ended the state's participation in the Medicaid-based program which used largely federal funding. It created the Women's Health Program using only Texas state funds, specifically outlawing funding for Planned Parenthood.
"I vehemently disagree with the state's efforts to blacklist a qualified provider and, thereby, interfere with a woman's right to choose her own provider," said Democratic state Rep. Donna Howard, a supporter of Planned Parenthood.
Sarah Wheat, interim co-CEO of Planned Parenthood of Central Texas, said the program was a lifeline for low income women to receive lifesaving health screenings.
"For sixty years this program has provided health screenings to women who otherwise would not have it, it has been a great federal-state partnership, it has saved taxpayer dollars, and Planned Parenthood has been a key part of this program from Day One," Wheat said.
Planned Parenthood says it has never used state tax money to pay for abortions, and using taxpayer money to fund abortions has been illegal in Texas for decades. But Howard says "extremist political influence" led to Planned Parenthood's exclusion.
Planned Parenthood said dozens of clinics across the state have been forced to close due to the ongoing tug-of-war over abortion.
Wheat says in many rural and inner city areas of Texas, Planned Parenthood operates the only clinics which provide basic health services for poor women, and excluding the group will mean that tens of thousands of the estimated 110,000 low-income women the new program aims to help will not be able to find an alternative provider.
Gov. Rick Perry, who fought for the bill excluding Planned Parenthood from the program, praised Monday's ruling.
"Today's ruling finally clears the way for thousands of low-income Texas women to access much-needed care, while at the same time, respecting the values and laws of our state," Perry said in a statement. "I applaud all those who stand ready to help these women live healthy lives without sending taxpayer money to abortion providers and their affiliates."
(Reporting By Jim Forsyth and Corrie MacLaggan; Editing by Mary Wisniewski and David Gregorio)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/texas-health-program-exclude-planned-parenthood-judge-220659835.html
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Sunday, December 30, 2012
United States Must Destroy All Obama Legislation?Like Rome?s Damnatio Memoriae & Bring Them To Justice!
A Public Condemnation of Barack is Needed to Set America Back on Course
United States Must Destroy All Obama Legislation?Like Rome?s Damnatio Memoriae
By?Kelly O?Connell
What in the name of Zeus does the GOP think it?s going to achieve by bargaining with Barack Obama and his socialist posse? Instead of pretending we have much in common, why don?t the Republicans get a clue and listen to the results of the last election, and heed Conservatism?and allow liberals to keep?listening to Prozac? It is time to use the ancient Roman act of?Damnatio Memoriae, or public condemnation, to bury old Barack along with all his self-indulgent and imbecilic decisions. The following article explores this option.
I. RomanDamnatio Memoriae?Act of Permanent Political Removal
The phrase ?Damnatio Memoriae? means ?posthumousdenigration.? It is a Latin phrase which loosely translates to historical censure, or to be blotted from the official record. The Romans did this punishment to the emperors they considered to be truly abysmal and worthy of the worst ends. This execration was more lowly than death because of the high esteem Romans paid to fame and immortality achieved through noble deeds. Egyptians also practiced a similar kind of posthumous denigration, as well as the?Holy Roman Church. The USSR also practiced this art with great vigor.
Classicist N.S. Gill?writes about this practice,
The Latin term?damnatio memoriae ?condemnation of the memory? is modern, but is used to describe a variety of ancient Roman processes dealing with individuals judged unfit to be members of a community. Such undesirables include traitors, would-be tyrants, and individuals who were enemies of Rome, according to Harriet I. Flowers. This posthumous dishonor was considered the worst that could be done to a former senator.
This act was done by an official vote of the senate, or also unofficially by another emperor?s whim, and then fulfilled through every manner available. For the person posthumously denigrated, their statues would be?destroyed or defaced, their?coinage melted down, paintings desecrated,?inscriptions from across the Empire defiled, and their?name blotted out of historical records.
Gill continues,
Acts subsumed under the rubric of ?damnatio memoriae? include scratching names and titles from inscriptions, defacing likenesses, banning the condemneds? wax masks from funerals, confiscation and destruction of the condemned man or woman?s writing, annulling of wills, marking the birthday of the condemned as a day of ill-omen, marking the anniversary of the condemned?s death with thanksgiving, mutilation of corpses, and more. The condemnations could be started by the Senate, the emperor, or the army.
Emperors who were historically?blotted from the official record included Caligula and Nero.
This?historical scrubbing of figures out of the public record was done by the USSR, not surprisingly. If a politician or military figure fell out with Stalin, or another leader, he could be totally?removed from every photograph or official record. This then?happened to Stalin himself, and Lenin?who had their statutes removed from many public places.
A very recent example of this type of historical censure have been seen in Canada where the?top Canadian military commander, Colonel Russell Williams, was found guilty of murdering two women, and abusing 88 others. The Canadian military decided not to simply recycle his old uniforms but?to burn them so as to never be worn by any other member. His crimes were of a?sexual fetishist nature, bringing great shame upon the military.
II. Purpose of Historical Erasure
Why was this historical censure done upon Roman emperors, the most powerful men in the ancient world? Classical Rome was a place which took great pride in doing things the right way. Public service, and especially elected office, was considered the high point of Roman existence, before the Empire was established. But to do things the wrong way was shameful and society felt a need to publicly address these evil deeds.Damnatio Memoriae was officially established after the Republic ended, but the idea behind it was in keeping with republican principles. The theory was that no scoundrel or criminal should be honored by history who attacks the very country which gives him fame, honor and sustenance. So let it be for Obama.
III. Damnatio Memoriae?of Obama: Ten Criteria
Principled reasons for canceling and reversing Obama legislation ought be done on the following grounds:
First, those decisions made against our Declaration and Constitution and laws.
Second, those choices?made in opposition to the?obvious will of the people, since ourDeclaration condemns this practice: ?Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed??
Third, acts which clearly go against the best interest of all Americans.
Fourth, choices aiding foreign governments at the cost of America or her allies.
Fifth, commands which elevate Islam over other religions. Let?s not forget we are at war with its radicals.
Sixth, acts which are simply unpatriotic.
Seventh, legislation which undermines our capitalist form of economy.
Eighth, choices that harm our armed services.
Ninth, declarations or acts that denigrate America.
Tenth, legislation which weaken America?s sovereignty in the interest of world bodies.
Following is a truncated list of laws and decisions by Obama & Administration that ought be stricken from the record. Plea feel free to add to this short number, as there are hundreds more.
Obamacare
A large majority want this bill completely eviscerated.?It is unconstitutional and willbadly damage the quality and access of American healthcare. A shocking?74% of doctors may quit medicine because of it.
TARP
TARP was an?unconstitutional taking of American funds, arbitrarily given to businesses without any accountability.
Detroit Bailout
Detroit car maker?bailout was an illegal buying of?private businesses with public fundswhich created de facto socialist results.
Stimulus
The Stimulus bill was?wasted funds not even invested in infrastructure, but doled out as tasty pork medallions to countless Democratic constituents, while a trillion dollars drain from our money supply.
Global Warming
Despite the science behind this idea being?utterly exposed as fraudulent, Obama resolutely still attempts to address it legally. He might as well demand laws to protect Little Bo Peep, while he?s at it.
Cap & Trade
This legislation would?wildly prune America?s economy, done in the name of an already failed Global Warming theory. It is really a?global Marxist ruse to redistribute wealth. The?UN admits it?s socialism.
Cancels NASA?S Mission Then Dedicate it to Islam
Why fly to the moon when you can?advertise for Mohammad, instead?!!
Suing States While Ignoring Border Chaos
Who?s more dangerous to America?armed illegals or the?states trying to stop them?
Obama Attacks Our Allies & Helps Our Enemies
Hating on Britain while?turning a blind eye on Iran.
Absurd Decision Making on Gulf Oil Spill
Obama disappeared when crisis came. But that?s OK?it?s his MO!
Disappears While WikiLeaks Hemorrhages State Secrets
Obama can?threaten to kick BP?s ##### but not?little Julian Assange? Clueless!
Insulting America in Foreign Countries
America is so bad?Barack must escape the continent to then?rat us out to other countries.
Taking Great Pains to Honor Islam
Obama apparently loves Islam, but need he?shove it down our throats?, including the9/11 Mosque?
Huge Mistakes With the Housing Crisis
When it came to the mortgage crisis,?Obama made it worse.
Inexplicably Setting a Course for Years of Ruinous Deficits
Obama does not understand economics, proved by his?choosing decades of trillion dollar deficits.
Picking Winners & Losers Between Loyal Americans
Obama told Hispanics that?Conservatives are their enemies and so must be punished.
Insisting America?s Time of Greatness is Over
So Americans elected Obama to fly around the globe announcing?America?s best days are behind us?
Trying to Establish a Foundation for a Socialist Country
Has there been any decision by Obama that has not involved spending more money orgrowing the government larger?
Many Broken Promises
Here are a few?
IV. Good Effects of Obama?s Historical Public Damnation
We cannot wipe out anyone?s existence in the US like was done in ancient Rome, or during the communist regime of the USSR. But we can decisively repudiate the lawless reign of tin-horn tyrant Barack Obama by canceling all of his horrible legislation.
But is this really necessary, anyway? Wasn?t Obama chastened by the last election results? In a word, No! Contra?because, at some level?to save the standards in this country, a public repudiation must be done in some manner, to reestablish democracy, capitalism, the Bill of Rights, and American sovereignty. In other words, teaching future would-be tyrants that America is the land of the free and home of the brave; not the place of brainless imposters who would be depots, is a lesson we desperately need to establish today.
V. Condemning Obama?s Particular Sins
In particular, the Obama legacy must be challenged, including running a campaign that received hundreds of millions in anonymous global funds over the Internet, a tawdry fact never investigated. Campaign irregularities involving ACORN were also observed across the US, some of which helped catapult Al Franken into office for Barack?s supermajority, used for Obamacare. Obama also employed a remarkable barrage of lies to help himself enter office, Chicago style.
Barack must also be condemned for his insipid ?Cabinet,? a staff of leftist toadies nearly as incompetent as he. Elfish Tim Geithner is a prime example, as well as the rodent-like and spectacularly condescending David Axelgrease. Add ham-fisted media-bear spokesperson Bobby Gibbs, and Rahm ?Ram-Beau? Emanuel, ballet student turned politician. All of these come to mind as outlandish misfits. Too bad town square stockades and public floggings are out of style.
Three major flaws of Obama?s present themselves when considering a need for public censure of this colossal misfit: Honesty, Competence and Orientation. First, Barack has such a problem telling the truth that at some point we must suspect he probably doesn?t understand the concept, for starters. For this he needs psychiatric evaluation.
Second, in no possible universe does Barack even begin to measure up to the most basic level of competence for his role as leader. So the 900 pound donkey in the room is?Why did Obama even decide to run for president??Even he admitted he was utterly unqualified by reason of education and experience. Not only was Obama unfit to lead when elected?doesn?t it seem like he has actually devolved since his ascension? It?s time to put down the golf bag and basketball and start studying world history, economics, American constitutional development, and many other subjects for this lazy vagabond of a POTUS.
The most worrisome aspect of Obama?s worldview, believe it or not, is not his dishonesty or incompetence?but his political orientation. Why does everything have to be leftism, socialism or communism to slake his avaricious leadership style? He?s like a robot programmed by Marx, used to deliver pamphlets for the ACLU.
CONCLUSION
Let?s throw Obama out of office and begin the enjoyable task of a total repudiation of his Marxist agenda. If anything will get the attention of progressive Americans who are bizarrely trying to torpedo their own ship, this action will do the trick.
Every one of the above bad laws and decisions was fomented by obdurate Obama, either through ignorance, ill-will, or red-eyed Marxist fervor. There are so many bad decisions by Barack, and so few good, he cannot simply be treated as another failed leftist president. He must be singled out as almost uniquely wicked, publicly condemned and shamed into permanent exile. Otherwise, how else will our children learn to oppose misuse of public offices and funds, while detesting smooth liars?
Publicly condemning Obama is no different than any other kind of calling out wickedly unacceptable public behavior. Barack needs to be disciplined and put in his place just like the bully on the block collecting other kid?s lunch money. Unless the bad politicians of America see Obama put in his place decisively after his giant folly, it will only embolden them, and then we truly will have hell to pay.
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Top 10 Reasons To Hire a Personal Trainer | Personal Training ...
Dec 30th, 2012 by Jay Scott
Lexington KY?s Top Personal Trainer Jay Scott lists his Top 10 Reasons To Hire a Personal Trainer! Personal Training is all about helping you succeed ? so read on and find out exactly how a Personal Trainer can help you achieve your goals!
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When I sat down to make a list about why you should hire a personal trainer, it quickly became obvious that there are a lot more than 10 reasons to do so. I have a full schedule of clients here in Lexington KY, and plan on eventually growing my business in other cities as well. Why do I have these clients? Because they realize that the majority of the 10 reasons I have listed here are true and that they apply to them.
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I hope you enjoy this list, and I hope that it helps you to realize that personal training isn?t just a passing fad, it?s a life altering experience that will not only give you a much greater quantity of life, but also a much greater quality of life.
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Years added to your life, and life added to your years. Enjoy the list.
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10.? ?Love? Osmosis ? This one may sound strange, but in fact it is a great help in achieving your goals. Not everyone ?loves? fitness and nutrition ? if they did it would be a very different world ? and probably one you wouldn?t want to live in.
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Those who love working out and fitness have a very unique disposition, and that disposition comes with its own unique set of problems.
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Everyone has a skill-set; yours may be baking, accounting, working on cars, or being a housewife. My skill-set is fitness and nutrition. I love talking about it, teaching it, and living it every day.
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When you come into contact with me (or a good personal trainer) you will notice that they have a certain ?aura? about them ? that aura is the love of fitness. You will actually feel it in the room and be able to absorb some of it.
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You will gain motivation and dedication from that aura of love, and it will propel you towards your goals.
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9. Avoid Fads, Gimmicks and Gadgets ? Every week someone comes out with a ?diet? book, ab machine or some other fly by night gimmick. It?s a sad but true part of this world.
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Everyone wants an easy fix, a pill, a potion, an ab machine or easy to follow diet plan. Unfortunately there isn?t one.
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But don?t be disheartened ? at CE-Fitness I teach you the truth about diet and exercise ? some you will probably consider good news and some bad ? but regardless it is the truth.
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I teach you how to adapt to that truth mentally and absorb it into your life. No longer will you think that you need the food of two people to survive (it?s almost always shocking to see how many calories are in most of your daily foods). No longer will you think you have to work out hours on end to get results.
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With CE-Fitness you will avoid all of the money consuming, time wasting, and probably most importantly; self-image destroying gimmicks that flood the airwaves and media.
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Indeed you shall learn the truth and the truth shall set you free!
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8. Respect ? I know this is a strange one to have on the list ? but being in shape gives you respect from others.
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Being fit is an outward manifestation that shows that you have discipline and self-control.? It shows that you dedicate time to working out ? and it means that you are able to control the natural urge to eat everything in sight (trust me we all have it).
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Sometimes it takes some time to overcome this tendency to do as little as possible and eat as much as possible ? but at CE-Fitness you will work to become a master at denying those natural human instincts.
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When you are slim and fit it will become apparent that others ?know? that you put the time in to maintain a trim, healthy body ?? and they will give you more respect.
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Honestly I feel like I talked too much about the respect of ?others? above. So now let?s cover the most important aspect of respect ? you will respect yourself much, much more as well when you have control of your food and lifestyle. And that is the ultimate form of respect.
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7. Become a ?Mythbuster? ? Myths are like great stories that we grew up on ? they are burned deep within, and they are hard to let go of sometimes.
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The myth of Spot Reduction (doing sit ups to remove body fat). The myth of eating 6 small meals a day. The myth of working out hours a day to get results. The myth of the Flying Mothman Sasquatch (OK, I made that one up).
You?ll have a better chance of finding this guy than losing belly fat from crunches alone?
But the truth is we have to let these myths go if we want results. Too many people search endlessly for the ?secret? method that all of the thin people know ? ?but has been kept from them.
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They want the secret that the movie stars have.
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Well let me tell you the secret: Reduce your food and increase your exercise. Emphasis on the ?reduce your food? part.
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If you think that movie stars have a secret pill you are sadly mistaken. If you think they cut out one food and instantly become slim you are mistaken.
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We are all in the same boat.
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The secret is to avoid those pesky myths like the plague, and waste no time on them. Learn how to eat less and workout more (and smarter) without sacrificing your lifestyle (this is what CE-Fitness is all about).
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If you do that, then I promise you will be busting other peoples myths when they ask you your ?secret?. And you will help everyone you encounter that is interested in a fit, healthy body progress and save time. Now that?s a good feeling.
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6. Learn to take time ? It?s really hard to teach people to take time for themselves. Everything is fast food, already prepared, quick and easy.
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But life itself is not quick and easy ? and it takes some thought to be successful at anything you choose to do.
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It?s the same with fitness ? you simply must take a few minutes to plan things out.
With exercise we take care of that immediately when you sign up for a CE-Fitness Program. You schedule your sessions and you are obligated to complete them in a given period of time. I?m there to walk you through the best thing to do for your particular body ? and I?m there to offer any help I can give.
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Then I leave.
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Sure I?m there for you with the phone, email or text if you need me ? but I?m not physically there to prepare your meals ? I?m not there help you out in choosing foods at restaurants etc.
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That?s why you must learn to take time yourself. With the addition of CE-Fitness Studios I have taken a step further in the education of my clients. Clients will now receive a complementary ?cooking and recipe class? that will show them exactly how to take the time for their meals.
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They will know exactly what to do ? but it will still require doing.
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So how much time are we talking about? Well, as for me personally ? preparing my meals requires sitting a bowl or plate on a scale and seeing how much I am eating ? and it requires looking at labels.
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I would say I spend an extra 5-10 minutes a day total preparing food than the average person (after all sometimes there are delays ? even at fast food restaurants).
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It may not seem like a lot ? but it can be overwhelming to make even a small change in daily life. With CE-Fitness Studios ? I?m working on pushing clients over the hump ? because once you are there you have won a major battle.
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5. Learn what to eat ? This is another one that CE-Fitness Studios is really going to help out with.
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What exactly do you eat?
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Well you have two choices ? eat high fat, high calorie foods ? and eat very little; or eat low calorie, high protein foods and eat a lot, lot, more.
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The reason for this is that you can fit a ton more veggies, lean meats, and low fat proteins in to a certain number of calories than you can high fat, high energy options.
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Calories are calories, but what you choose determines how much food can go into the stomach to keep you satisfied.
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4. Learn to accept yourself ? It?s hard to admit that you eat too much, exercise too little, or have any other imperfection.
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I know this because I have this problem as well. But in order to fix your problem you must learn to admit that you have one.
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The only people I can?t help are the ones who swear they are not overeating. It?s quite obvious when someone is eating too much ? so denying it is futile ? but it?s also a very natural ?defense mechanism?.
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I remember having countless excuses when my business was failing years ago. I spent about a decade wallowing in a moat of self-pity ? blaming everything from lack of popularity to the government for ?holding me down.?
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Then I finally let go of that ?defense mechanism? and literally had a serious talk with myself. I told myself I was not doing what was necessary to achieve success, and everything that had happened to me to this point in my life was my fault.
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I cried, screamed, and had a pity party ? then I emerged a new man. I began to go after my goals and put in the sweat equity ? and now I am very successful with many, many more aspirations and goals to achieve.
If you want to succeed, there is no substitute.
Learning that life lesson removed the ?cap? that was limiting me ? and honestly now I see very few limits. In fact, if I told you my future goals ? goals that I truly believe I will achieve ? you would think I was smoking something.
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The same happens with fitness. If you are trying to lose body fat/weight/inches and nothing is happening you are doing something wrong.
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And doing something wrong is FINE! Now you know what to fix. Let go of the need to be perfect and enjoy being wrong ? because that means you can now fix things and be RIGHT!
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Remember it?s not who is right, but what is right.
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3. Motivation ? In order to achieve anything in life you must have a goal, and you must be motivated to achieve that goal.
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A personal trainer can help you stay motivated ? through the ?love osmosis? we talked about earlier ? and also by reinforcing your goals. Repeating them to you and helping you to visualize the final product.
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A good personal trainer will not only show you the way, but they will also make you excited to get on the path!
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If you have a good personal trainer there will never be any doubt whatsoever that they care about you. There will never be a thought about whether they want you to succeed, and they will always treat you like a person ? never a pawn in their own game.
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A good personal trainer makes a living as a side effect of helping people ? they don?t help people as a side effect of making a living.
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2. Accountability ? This one almost made number one ? but I think you?ll see what it didn?t quite measure up in a minute.
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You simply must do what needs to be done to get to a goal ? and doing what needs to be done consistently is often the hardest part.
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You have a life ? you don?t want to set aside the time to work out, prepare a meal, or check your waist measurement.
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You have kids, work, relationships, family, and countless other responsibilities.
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CE-Fitness is all about keeping you accountable ? by looking at the scale, your current condition, what condition you are going for ? your measurements, photos, and more.
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Doing this yourself is hard ? and let?s be honest ? do you really know what you are looking for besides a dropping scale number?
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The body gives messages that are hard to decipher and can quickly lead to your saying ?well, this isn?t working ? let?s go to KFC.?
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You need to know if what you are doing is working, and you also need someone to keep you from beating yourself up when results aren?t coming as quickly as you want them to.
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I could go on and on but accountability is such a vast subject we will stop here for now. There could probably be a whole book written on this.
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Suffice to say that a good personal trainer will keep you accountable without biting your head off if you have a bad week.
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1. Health ? This is the big one.
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You?ve probably heard ?If you don?t have your health, you don?t have anything? before. It?s true.
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Health is the number one priority and a personal trainer should be able to improve that exponentially with a good exercise program.
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There is nothing more important than your health.
In addition, a good personal trainer should be able to improve your health once again by giving you a scientifically backed nutrition program that you will follow.
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Notice I said ?you will follow?. The nutrition thing is really in the client?s hands ? once the Trainer walks out the door he or she has no control over the client?s nutritional habits.
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But if the plan is followed you should expect huge drops in blood pressure, amazing improvements in blood glucose readings, and an overall feeling of health and vitality.
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You can expect to be on the earth for more time, reducing risks for serious disease ? but more importantly you can expect more quality from those years.
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More running and playing with the kids and grand kids. More days that you feel like going out and enjoying this amazing planet, your family, friends and loved ones.
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Can anything be more important than that? I don?t think it can, and that?s why I?m wrapping this list up with Health.
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I hope you enjoyed my Top Ten Reason to Hire a Personal Trainer list, and I?ll be talking to you again very soon!
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I wish everyone a wonderful and safe New Year!
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nil desperandum ? NEVER GIVE UP!!!
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Jay Scott
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Owner: CE-Fitness Personal Training
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Lexington, KY
Source: http://www.cefitness.net/top-10-reasons-to-hire-a-personal-trainer
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Saturday, December 29, 2012
Animal rights group settles lawsuit with Ringling
WASHINGTON (AP) ? An animal rights group will pay Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus $9.3 million to settle its part of a lawsuit stemming from claims the circus abused its elephants.
The circus company's owners announced the settlement with the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals on Friday. The animal rights group was one of several that in 2000 sued the circus' owner, Feld Entertainment Inc., claiming elephants were abused. Courts later found that the animal rights activists had paid a former Ringling employee to bring the lawsuit and that the man didn't have the right to sue the circus.
The Vienna, Va.-based Feld Entertainment then sued the animal rights groups, accusing them of conspiracy to harm its business other illegal acts. Friday's settlement covers only the ASPCA.
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The full ensemble cast for "The Grand Budapest Hotel" has been assembled, and it's just as impressive as we've come to expect in a Wes Anderson movie. In addition to a cast of Anderson regulars, newcomers like Jude Law and Saoirse Ronan also are going to be featured. Anderson confirmed the array of actors in [...]
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Friday, December 28, 2012
How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown?
Since the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, we at Slate have been wondering how many people are dying from guns in America every day.
That information is surprisingly hard to come by. The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, for example, has a tally atop its website of ?people shot in America.? That number, though, is an estimate, based on the number of gun injuries and deaths recorded by the CDC in 2008 and 2009, the most recent years for which statistics are available. It seems shocking that when guns are in the headlines every day, there?s no one attempting to create a real-time chronicle of the deaths attributable to guns in the United States.
Well, someone is. Since this summer, the anonymous creator of the Twitter feed @GunDeaths has been doing his best to compile those statistics, tweeting every reported death he can find. He was inspired, he told us in a phone interview, by the Aurora, Colo., shootings and simply wanted to call daily attention to the toll that guns take. Now Slate is partnering with @GunDeaths to create this interactive feature, ?Gun Deaths in America Since Newtown.?
Deaths since Newtown:
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Each victim under 13 years of age is designated "child"; from 13 to 17: "teen"; 18 and older: "adult."
Of course, this data is incomplete. Not all reports get caught by @GunDeaths? news alerts or his followers. Suicides, which are estimated to make up as much as 60 percent of gun deaths, typically go unreported. Nevertheless, we at Slate want to assemble this data as best we can.
And the more people who are paying attention, the better the data will be. You can help us draw a more complete picture of gun violence in America. If you know about a gun death in your community that isn?t represented here, please tweet @GunDeaths with a citation, and he?ll add it to his feed. (If you?re not on Twitter, you can email slatedata@gmail.com.) His data feeds our interactive feature.
And if you?d like to use this data yourself for your own projects, it?s open. You can download it here.
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Thursday, December 27, 2012
Walmart 'Secret Santa' Pays Family's $211 Bill (VIDEO)
In Altoona, Iowa, Christmas came early for one local family.
Ruby Modlin was at a local Walmart with her family shopping for some holiday groceries when an anonymous man picked up their $211 bill, KCCI 8 Des Moines reports. Modlin had noticed the man following them around the store, but wasn't sure of his intentions until he stepped in to swipe his card at the checkout. The "secret Santa" handed her the receipt and wished her a Merry Christmas before leaving with his own family.
The holiday gift was particularly special for Modlin, who has been in and out of the hospital in recent months due to liver failure, according to KCCI 8.
When it comes to charitable giving, nothing trumps the holiday season. At a Walmart store in Hastings, Mich. last week, an anonymous donor wrote a $10,000 check to pay off 43 customers' layaway accounts. One woman fainted when she was told her bill was paid for.
In Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., another "secret Santa" similarly requested to donate $10,000 to pay for strangers' layaway accounts at Toys R Us.
Here's a roundup of some of our favorite holiday gift-giving stories:
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Russia's Putin suggests he will sign U.S. adoption ban
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he saw no reason not to sign a bill into law that would ban Americans adopting Russian children and promised measures to improve care of his country's orphaned youngsters.
Although Putin said he would need to study the final text of the bill, the comments were the strongest indication yet that he will approve the adoption ban legislation, which has strained U.S.-Russia relations.
Parliament gave its final approval on Wednesday to the bill that would also bring in other measures in retaliation for new U.S. legislation designed to punish Russians accused of human rights violations.
"So far I see no reason not to sign it, although I have to review the final text and weigh everything," Putin said in televised remarks at a meeting of senior federal and regional officials.
"I am ready to sign not only the law ... but also a presidential decree that will modify the support mechanisms for orphaned children ... especially those who are in a difficult situation, by that I mean in poor health," Putin said.
Critics of the bill say Russia is playing politics with the lives of children. Child rights advocates say children in Russia's crowded and troubled orphanage system will have less of a chance of finding homes if the bill becomes law.
(Reporting By Alexei Anishchuk; Writing by Alissa de Carbonnel; Editing by Steve Guttermann and Andrew Osborn)
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Sonos Playbar appears at the FCC (update: WiFi explained)
Sonos is the de facto choice for multi-room audio, but even some of its biggest proponents will grumble about the lack of built-in WiFi -- going wireless in any way has meant tacking a Bridge on to the cost of an already expensive system. An FCC filing for an upcoming device, the Playbar, hints that common sense might have the upper hand. While there's few details of the audio system itself, there's explicit mentions of dual-band 802.11n WiFi inside. Just what that WiFi does is another matter. Sonos prefers using its proprietary network to cut back on lag and interference, so the Playbar's additional wireless may extend functionality rather than simplify our lives. With approval out of the way, there's a better chance we'll know the full story in the near future.
Update: We've done some digging, and the WiFi may be more innocuous: Sonos' proprietary network is actually WiFi that's just invisible most of the time. Android users have access to settings that expose Sonos' WiFi network and make it usable. As such, the Playbar may be more conventional than first thought, although its exact role in the home is still a mystery.
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Injured coral have less 'sex'
No one thinks damaging coral is sexy, but researchers from the University at Buffalo just made it official. Turns out, coral sex is dampened after injury from storms and human activity.
Their study shows that while coral adapts to injury events by initially growing back rapidly, reproduction rates are suppressed up to four years after initial injury. This is particularly alarming since size, rather than age, dictates coral's health and maturity, explained study leader Howard Lasker.
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Many coral have asexual and sexual reproduction, the latter usually a wild sex party of sorts, where corals release sperm and eggs into the water at a precise time. Those sex gametes hook up with each other, from different individuals, to produce free-floating larvae called planulae.
Lasker and his team studied coral colonies in the Bahamas that were being harvested for use in skin care products. They found that even years after harvest spermaries (coral sperm colonies) and polyps, where coral stores eggs, were underproducing.
"On the science side of it, this really raises the question, 'Well, what's going on?'" Lasker told LiveScience. "This is a healthy-looking colony, those wounds [from harvesting] are long, long healed, so what's different about it? And that's something we're still puzzling over."
Christopher Page, Lasker's co-author and now a staff biologist at Mote Marine Laboratory, believes that in the face of a changing environment coral's ability to reallocate resources after injury events shows promising adaptability.
[ Colorful Creations: Incredible Photos of Coral ]
"Coral are more adaptable than we may have thought in the beginning, but that doesn't mean they'll persist despite changes," Page told LiveScience.
When energy is given to one resource ? in this case, quick regrowth after injury ? it's taken from another, Page explains. This leaves more persistent effects than were previously suspected ? in this case, long-term, slowed reproduction.
The findings have implications for future coral health. While researchers had previously thought coral rebounded heartily after injury events, such as those incurred from hurricanes and other storms as well as human activity such as boating, this study reveals that populations cannot rebuild as quickly as hoped. But the most effective way to protect coral continues to be the cessation of injury events altogether.
"When there's damage, that damage has a longer-term effect than we may have initially envisioned, but the more significant factor is that initial damage," said Lasker. Coral is a particularly sensitive creature, affected by a host of climate change-related events from increased water temperature to more frequent and severe storms. And now, research reveals that it is difficult to predict how these marine animals will react to injury, since changing variables will determine their health and growth.
To conserve and protect coral, explained Page, we must both avoid their continued injury, and examine our restoration approaches to consider long-term effects of damage as well as the significant adaptability of these organisms. If a multifaceted and focused approach to management is taken, coral, threatened worldwide, may just be able to revamp its sex life.
Many corals are hermaphroditic broadcast spawners, meaning they release packets of sperm and eggs into the water.
Warming waters signal the coral that it's time to start producing sex cells, then a precise combination of daylight and moonlight trigger the sudden, simultaneous release of eggs and sperm.
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Anyone who loves to do a range of crafts and hobbies knows just how difficult it can be to find room for everything inside your home. Once you start developing hobbies, the materials and resources you have for that hobby just seem to manifold all on their own. And this makes it very frustrating for you and your house too. You love your hobby and can?t resist buying new things for it every time you come over great materials and sales, but your home is overflowing so much that you feel like you can barely walk nearby everything sometimes.
And this is where storage sheds can be a wonderful addition to your home. Using an outdoor storage shed for your craft materials not only opens up room in your home, it also gives you fullness of space to help keep all your materials more organized. There are many distinct types of hobbies we all have though, so here are any ideas for how a storage shed can help with one or more of your own, or your family?s beloved hobbies.
Whether you love to crochet, knit, sew clothing, create quilts, or embroidery, if you?re like the rest of us you have tons of extra supplies. It?s just not potential to resist a sale on beautiful yarns or fabrics, and you know you?ll use everything sooner or later, right?
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Well using a storage shed to keep these materials is an excellent way to keep it from over running your home, and it also does wonders for helping you to keep things organized. When you use a storage building to keep your craft and hobby materials, you can set up small bins on shelves to hold buttons, threads, and scrap materials for instance.
You can also have larger bins and packaging to hold your crochet or knitting yarns ? in fact you can separate yarns into bins based on projects, or based on colors, then just label the bins so you?ll be able to no ifs ands or buts find the yarns you want at any time.
Use other bins to hold your fabrics for sewing, scrapbooking or other hobbies too, and again separate these by color, fabric type, or scheme you plan to use them for.
Try putting in a filing cabinet, shelves, or small bins to hold your scheme patterns and instructions too. You could have individual binders on shelves for instance, which hold your crochet or knitting patterns, clothing sewing patterns, and Scrapbooks you create too.
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Good Web Design Followed By Search Engine Optimization Is A Must
By Liz Leask
When a company is considering web design, it is very important to follow this up with search engine optimization. Optimizing a website is a great advertising tool. Search engine optimization can be carried out to attract visitors to your website from you local area, or you can expand and target internationally or globally.
Most businesses have an advertising budget. Newspapers can be a very expensive way of advertising ,and for all the readers to be able to see your business advert, your advert would have to be quite big and in colour. Having a correct newspaper add will be expensive and not everyone that will see your advert will want to buy your goods or services. Most people nowadays lead a very busy life, and they will use the quickist and easiet option for them to purchase any goods. Almost all supermarkets nowadays will have a website that will display all their products which you can select and pay for online. The products that you ordered will then be delivered to yourself at your home address at a convenient time. More and more consumers are using this method as a way to buy food, clothing, gifts, toys, etc. etc. Not only will be a time saver, but it is a much more convenient way of shopping.
The internet is a growing market with more and more people having access to a computer. Everyone nowadays will have access to a computer at work, at home or even many shops will have internet access. The internet is not only good for purchasing services or goods, but is also good for comparing services and prices. There are many comparison websites online that you can compare where you can copare prices, and most will also have reviews of what other consumers thought of the product or service that you are interested in.
With the internet growing all business sectors should have a website that has a good design and with good content about the goods that you are selling. Having a website designed properly is very important for a business owner to have this done correctly, and designed professionally. A website is potentially the same as you having a front shop as this is the first thing that a prospective customer will see. Not having the correct web design and content will lead to the consumer clicking off your website, and then purchasing goods from your competitor?s website. Not only will you lose that sale, but they may not visit your website again as it was not engaging and entertaining. Having a properly designed website that has great content that is engaging and entertaining to the site visitor is crucial for any business website. You can purchase almost everything on the internet and any business that sells anything at all should have an attractive website online.
Once a website owner has a websiie the next step is to attract visitors to that website. To do this you have to consult a search engine optimization company. The price for search engine optimization is often far less than any kind of newspaper advertising. Carrying out a search engine optimization campaign is much more profitable for a business owner, as every visitor to that website has searched for the product or services that you are selling. This is not like newspaper advertising, as not every person who buys a newspaper in which you are advertising will see your advert and may not be looking for what you are selling.
Web design followed by a serach engine optimization campaign is a great tool for any business looking to expand in his local area or globally. The cost of search engine optimization is often less than what think. Search engine optimization will target a relevant audience that are searching online for your products. Therefore with good web design and skillful SEO, any company is in a winning situation.
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Tuesday, December 25, 2012
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Affiliate marketing is quite a fascinating area. Many businesses, both large and small, have benefited greatly from online forms of advertising. While this is exciting, it can also be stressful for the Website marketing beginner. Use these tips to get started with your website.
Technology moves fast, and if your company wants to keep up, you are going to have to take advantage of all the technology available for marketing success. Neglecting to remain current undermines your clients? confidence in your capabilities. If you want to gain respect and see more sales, you need to show visitors that you are up-to-date in your field.
Make sure you are very knowledgeable about the content on your site. This is vital not solely because it gains you credibility about your field, but it also prevents you from appearing dishonest because you don?t know what you?re talking about.
TIP! Solicit feedback whenever possible. This is very important to your business, as your perception of your prices and your site?s appearance might differ from the customer?s opinion.
Offer freebies that are branded with your company and submit those freebies to the websites that advertise those kinds of deals. If it is a free e-book, submit it to websites that offer free e-books. You can find many websites that are happy to list free offers.
Craft your banner ads so that they stand out from the other million banner ads on the web. The more appealing and original your banner ad appears, the more people you?ll have clicking on it.
TIP! Put some banners on your header, make sure they do not look like a banner. If they appear as clickable links, your customers will be more apt to use them.
People focus on website URLs. Make sure your website is easy to remember so that a customer will be able to quickly and easily access it whenever they desire. When you are setting up your company, you should always try to incorporate your brand name or company name. While customers can Google you, make it simpler by having an address they can easily remember and type into their search bars.
Study the most successful techniques that your competitors are using, then expand on them and use them with your website. If your competitors? websites make you want to buy something, analyze the techniques used to make you feel that way.
You possess the skills needed to be successful in online marketing. You don?t need elaborate software or a wild, far-fetched scheme, you only need yourself. You simply need a good strategy and a great work ethic.
TIP! The internet has turned business into an anonymous affair. Small businesses benefit from this the most as they rely on a more personal and relationship based strategy to help sell, and create a lifelong customer base.
Give your customers a reason to visit your website. You don?t need to create an entire encyclopedia, but having a good amount of information that your customers can easily access is important. Add reviews, articles and other content that will let prospective customers know that you are a business that knows your industry.
You can use online tools to determine the efficiency of your marketing approach; one option is to calculate the percentage of site visitors who ultimately end up making a purchase. Most major companies online offer various add-ons and trackers, which allow you to see the comparison of visitors to sales numbers and repeat customers.
A title often commands respect. If you?re a business owner, become CEO. If you are not the owner, you can still adopt an impressive title. When you write articles ensure you have a good title and sign it along with your name.
TIP! Any online business plan and marketing strategy should include a fully secure ordering process. Guarantee the security of your customer?s information so they are not leery of sharing it with you.
You can?t succeed at Website marketing without a great website. Regularly test your site to make sure there are no broken links, missing images, or other problems. If your website proves to be full of mistakes or links that don?t work, then your potential customers will go elsewhere.
Tailor versions of your website to different audiences worldwide. Offer visitors the option of choosing their own language when viewing your site. With a more global approach, you will get a lot of traffic and a lot more customers. If a person can read your website in their preferred language, they will feel more comfortable, and you raise the chance that they will place an order with you.
Advertising is your best avenue to making your online business successful. Advertising can greatly increase the profits of your business. It helps to make new customers that may not have been able to find you otherwise.
TIP! A little sizzle in your website design can be good, but don?t overwhelm your readers with fancy tricks. You only have a few seconds to engage your potential customer and give them a reason to stay on your site.
Marketing online is like other markets in some ways; however, in other ways, it is very different. For example, what if search engines stopped emphasizing title keywords in their ranking systems? If this happens, you will have to adjust your marketing strategy.
Make a simple video where you demonstrate using the products that you are selling. That way the customer is going to see you use the product. Be sure to demonstrate any and all features and benefits that the product has. Upload this video to sites such as Youtube, and put it on your blog.
Marketing over the Internet is something that is filled with multiple strategies and it can be perceived as a gift or a curse. It is a good thing that there is a lot of room for customization, but that means it can be very difficult to make your choices. The following tips will make your journey into Web marketing a success.
TIP! Design an all-inclusive website with an emphasis on fresh, relevant content. Give knowledge to your customers in a short time, so they are informed prior to purchasing a product.
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Nasty storms blamed 1 death, make travel tough
This NOAA satellite image taken Tuesday, December 25, 2012 at 10:45 AM EST shows a low pressure system over the Southern Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley moving into the Southeast with rain and thunderstorms. Snow and snow showers over the Central Plains and Mid Mississippi Valley. Farther north, snow showers are seen over northern New England. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)
This NOAA satellite image taken Tuesday, December 25, 2012 at 10:45 AM EST shows a low pressure system over the Southern Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley moving into the Southeast with rain and thunderstorms. Snow and snow showers over the Central Plains and Mid Mississippi Valley. Farther north, snow showers are seen over northern New England. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? Freezing rain and sleet made for a sloppy Christmas trek in parts of the nation's midsection, while residents along the Gulf Coast faced thunderstorms, high winds and tornadoes that were doing damage in some areas.
Winds toppled a tree onto a pickup truck in the Houston area, killing the driver. Icy roads already were blamed for a 21-vehicle pileup in Oklahoma, where authorities warned would-be travelers to stay home.
Trees fell on a few houses in central Louisiana's Rapides Parish but there were no injuries reported so far and crews were cutting trees out of roadways to get to people in their homes, said sheriff's Lt. Tommy Carnline. Possible damage also was reported near McNeil, Miss.
Fog blanketed highways, including arteries in the Atlanta area where motorists slowed as a precaution. In New Mexico, drivers across the eastern plains had to fight through snow, ice and low visibility.
At least three tornadoes were reported in Texas, though only one building was damaged, according to the National Weather Service. Tornado watches were in effect across southern Louisiana and Mississippi.
More than 180 flights nationwide were canceled by midday, according to the flight tracker FlightAware.com. More than half were canceled by American Airlines and its regional affiliate, American Eagle.
American is headquartered and has its biggest hub at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
Christmas lights also were knocked out with more than 70,000 people without power in east Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana.
Meanwhile, blizzard conditions were possible for parts of Illinois, Indiana and western Kentucky with predictions of 4 to 7 inches of snow. Much of Oklahoma and Arkansas braced under a winter storm warning of an early mix of rain and sleet forecast to eventually turn to snow. About a dozen counties in Missouri were under a blizzard warning from Tuesday night to noon Wednesday.
Some mountainous areas of Arkansas' Ozark Mountains could get up to 10 inches of snow, which would make travel "very hazardous or impossible" in the northern tier of the state from near whiteout conditions, the National Weather Service said.
The holiday may conjure visions of snow and ice, but twisters this time of year are not unheard of. Ten storm systems in the last 50 years have spawned at least one Christmastime tornado with winds of 113 mph or more in the South, said Chris Vaccaro, a National Weather Service spokesman in Washington, via email.
The most lethal were the storms of Dec. 24-26, 1982, when 29 tornadoes in Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi killed three people and injured 32; and those of Dec. 24-25, 1964, when two people were killed and about 30 people injured by 14 tornadoes in seven states.
Quarter-sized hail reported early Tuesday in western Louisiana was expected to be just the start of a severe weather threat on the Gulf Coast, said meteorologist Mike Efferson at the weather service office in Slidell, La.
Storms along the Gulf Coast could bring winds up to 70 mph, heavy rain, more large hail and dangerous lightning in Louisiana and Mississippi, Efferson said. Furthermore, warm, moist air colliding with a cold front could produce dangerous straight-line winds.
The storm was moving quickly as it headed into northeast Louisiana and Mississippi into the late afternoon and early evening, said Bill Adams at the weather service's Shreveport, La., office.
In Mississippi, Gov. Phil Bryant urged residents to have a plan for any severe weather.
"It only takes a few minutes, and it will help everyone have a safe Christmas," Bryant said.
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AP Business Writer Daniel Wagner in Washington and Associated Press Writer Ramit Plushnick-Masti in Houston contributed to this report.
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Sunday, December 23, 2012
Video: Obama: Let's get the middle class tax component done
2012 was a dangerous year for journalists
The civil war in Syria, targeted shootings in Somalia and continued violence in Pakistan made 2012 a particularly dangerous year for journalists, with at least 67 killed worldwide in direct relation to their work, according to an organization that defends press freedom.
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