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Monthly Archives: January 2005

Useful Tips To Enhance Your Cruise Holiday

Whether you are a first-timer or an old hand, here are some useful tips to enhance your cruise: For port visits you can order a “box lunch” to take ashore. Ask what is available and discuss it with your steward. Take along some “wet wipes” to use before and after eating. When going ashore for several hours, take a bottle of pure ship water. (Bring the bottle and plastic cups from home as it is also handy to have on the plane) Never drink tap water or have ice in your drinks in Mexico or some Caribbean Purchase bottled or canned drinks ashore. Keep the daily activity (Read more)


Beauty The Effortless Way Through Ayurveda-Learn About The Tasty Ten Day Ginger Treatment

The skin is the largest detoxification organ of the body. If you look at the skin through a microscope you see a zillion little nerves. Each nerve is connected to a muscle. Think about when you get goose bumps and you see the hair on your skin stand up. The skin is the doorway of the body for communication.Go to www.drhelenthomas.com and download Effortless Beauty Ebook for all the recipies using common kitchen foods for skin and digestive health. Brajaka Pitta is the sanskrit term in ayurvedic science for the functioning of the skin in the role of the bodys’ physiology. The skin is (Read more)


How to Make a Really Creative Shoebox Diorama

A shoebox diorama can be much more than just a miniature scene. It can be a creative display that people are really amazed by. Here are some creative tips and hints on how to make your shoebox diorama really special. Select A Unique Housing for your Diorama When making a shoebox diorama the very first thing you should do is think outside the box! I mean this literally in that you really don’t have to use a shoebox to make your shoebox diorama. You can use any number of interesting containers to make a really unique diorama housing. But I recommend you take this thinking to a second (Read more)


Why Publish Your Writing In A Printed Book

Like it or not, a lot of people still prefer printed books to eBooks. They like — no, they love — the feel of a printed copy in their hands. It gives them a sense of well-being and solidity, to have a physical work they can carry with them and put on their bookshelves. They’re “old school” and they like it that way. Or, they just never warmed up to eBooks or digital media. I had a conversation with an international television reporter about one of my books that was coming out soon — I didn’t yet have the printed version in my hands, but I had a PDF (Read more)


What to do SEO or Redesign Website - SEO Tactics

Another question that comes to mind is “Should we Redesign our website?” I once talk to an owner of a domain and he pretty much stated that if they do not get the activity they are looking for then they redesign the entire website from top to bottom. No stone is left unturned. So obviously, my next question was “How do you know that it is not being effective?” The response was, “Our phones are not ringing.” WOW! He must have seen the shocked looked on my face and he enquired further as to what I would do differently. I explained to him, without (Read more)


Discovering the Healing Reiki Touch

Can Reiki Heal Me? In one word, no. Reiki does not heal anyone. It can, however, help you connect to the healer within. Energy is always flowing within you. There is a mind body connection and Reiki is a form energy healing which can bridge the gap between mind and body so that you can harness your energy to help heal yourself. Reiki as a Complement, not a Replacement If you have a serious illness, please seek traditional medical attention as well as pursuing an alternative therapy such as Reiki. There is a place for both Western medicine and therapies that focus on healing energies. (Read more)


Things to Consider Before You Turn Your Ebook Into Print

Creating a printed book is somewhat different from cranking out information products, because there are certain time-honored conventions to laying out and structuring a book. First of all, you’ll need to be cognizant of your page numbering and what pages your chapters begin on, you’ll need to pay attention to things like “widows” and “orphans”, and you’ll have to pay attention to how your pages flow within the context of your book. For example, it’s customary to have all first pages of new chapters begin on the right-hand (odd-numbered) side (Read more)


File Sharing Ethics

Ever since the invention of the internet, people have used it to share files. Be it music, movies, video games, and other copyrighted and non-copyrighted electronic material. This has raised some interesting ethical issues. The debate over whether file sharing is legal and right is one of the most important issues dealing with the internet right now, and has sparked many lawsuits. Some of these lawsuits have even reached the United States Supreme Court. Today we’re going to be looking at both sides of the coin, the case for file sharing and the case against file sharing. You may (Read more)


Improvisation in Music: Is that What Your Soul is Saying or are You Just Regurgitating?

As a fan of all kinds of music, I’ve seen a fair share of concerts ranging from the heaviest metal to the quietest folk to the funkiest jazz. I enjoy all kinds of concerts but there are always certain ones that stand out as extremely compelling and exciting. These concerts are the ones that involve a lot of improvisation. There is something significantly more exciting about a dynamic show that is ever changing than a show where you know the band probably played it nearly the same, note for note, the night before. I believe that without improvisation we’re missing the point (Read more)


Is Publishing A Printed Book Really Worth The Time And Effort

Unlike eBooks or white papers or other digital information products, designing, publishing and promoting printed books can be a “stuffy” and time-consuming process. Thanks to centuries of publishing practice and establish standards, printed books have a set, defined structure, which you’ll need to follow, if you want to be taken seriously as an author and a publisher. Yes, preparing your information for the print world can be a real pain, at times. It takes days, even weeks, longer than cranking out digital products, and you may not make as much money on the finished (Read more)