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Monthly Archives: February 2006

What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up

“What do you want to be when you grow up”? Monday 5 February 2006 From the desk of Julie McDonald Can you remember your parents, relatives or their friends asking you: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” You then probably cringed with this question. You looked up and saw they were waiting for your reply. You could have been thinking “Here we go again…..” or “I don’t know”, but you said “an astronaut, or a doctor or a scientist or a millionaire” Just to impress and watch them laugh and then they usually give (Read more)


Why Do You Need a Quick Guide In Planning Your Own Wedding

As more and more men and women get attracts to each, there will be more and more weddings occurring in your areas or other parts of the world. The thought of getting married is nice and sweet, but planning it would be a hassle to many men and women. In fact, there is nobody will ever have the courage to tell that planning a wedding is easy. Really, planning a wedding can be made easier if you organize everything well and start a few months before the event. What to expect in planning your wedding? If you are planning your own marriage, problems continue to arise. It is true that the amount (Read more)


Introduction For Chin Augmentation

Chin augmentation, also known as mentoplasty, is a surgical procedure to reshape the chin either by enhancement with an implant or reduction surgery on the bone. Correcting your chin will balance the relationship within the structure of the face. It requires good aesthetic eyes. Many times a plastic surgeon may recommend chin surgery to a patient having nose surgery in order to achieve facial proportion. For that you need to choose your chin augmentation doctor carefully. Things to do before and after the surgery: 1. do not’s when you get chin augmentation done: - Eat or drink (Read more)


Increase the Value of Your Home – Build or Extend

This article is part one in a two-part series on making home improvements. Once upon a time, investing in property was a sure-fire way to make money, but as the property market has slowed down over recent years, homeowners need to be wise about how they maintain and improve their property in order to make money from it as buyers are becoming more demanding. There’s a wide range of upgrades that can be made, from large-scale property development to a spot of DIY. A great deal of capital will be required for the former and isn’t a realistic option for many people, but self (Read more)


My 10 Triumphant Tricks to Permanent Weight Loss

Why can’t I stop eating the ‘wrong foods’? Why does my weight fluctuate? Why doesn’t this diet work? These are questions that I have been asking myself for over 25 years - and once and only once did I reach my goal weight…..but, I put it all back on - plus some! Actually, when I look back over my adult years, this seems to have formed a pattern! Loosing weight - then gaining it all back on, then usually more!!!!!!! I had tried almost everything on the ‘diet’ market to help me loose weight - from food delivered to my home to fad dieting to (Read more)


Stop The Agony Of Finding Products to Sell on eBay

Finding the right products to sell on eBay can be a difficult task for beginners and this applies to more experience eBay seller as well. However, this problem can be overcome if there is a constant stream of unique product to sell. The good news is that, there are in deed ways of creating unique products at low cost and profit from it. To be successful in eBay, sellers will need to have a product that has no competition and in demand. In addition, no one else muse be able to sell that unique products as well. Looking around at local flea market, wholesalers, drop shippers, backyards (Read more)


The Benefits of Blood Letting in Pain Management

So, hospitals have now using leeches in medical practice? There is nothing new in this. Bleeding using leeches was normal practice in western medicine in the 1830s until it was discarded for more sophisticated techniques. In fact, the medicinal use of leeches dates back to the beginnings of civilization with mention made of it in Egyptian tombs and in ancient Chinese writings. The principle behind the use of leeches is to drain off stagnant blood. Recently I have become particularly impressed with the great health results that can be achieved by blood letting (taking out stagnant blood). (Read more)


Wealth - Ten Highly SPECIFIC Reasons That Are the Cause of ALL Your Money Worries

Would you be surprised to learn that there are a LOT more people in your country and even your city who have money problems than those who do not? I attended a seminar recently where one of the speakers said that just by having a roof over your head, enough to eat when you are hungry and a fresh supply of drinking water puts you in the top 10% of wealthy people in the world. Now, I know that such a statement gives you little comfort or solace when you are finding it difficult to pay the rent, meet your monthly mortgage repayments or put fuel in your motor vehicle. But, hey, it sure does put (Read more)


Cycling Training Schedule- How to Create a Training Plan

1.-Have a clear goal of your aims. In particular you should be aware of what distance you will be racing at. If your maximum race duration is say 1 hour. It means you do not need to focus on too much base mileage. If you are wanting to take part elite road racing you have to be able to find time for weekly 5-6 hour rides. 2.-Split the year up into different sections. The style of your training should not be the same throughout the year. It is often helpful to split the year up into different sections. E.g. 3 months of winter base training. 2 months of interval training to peak for 2 months (Read more)


Are Your Kids Drinking And Driving?

Alcohol is not difficult for kids to get. Over 50% of eighth graders said it was fairly easy or very easy to obtain alcohol. When kids start drinking at an early age it is even more likely they will drink and drive as they get older. What can a parent do to prevent problems with alcohol and drinking and driving? If you have alcohol in your home keep track of it. It is easy to pay little attention to the number of beers in the fridge or the level of rum in the bottle. When you do not monitor the amount of alcohol in your home it is easier for teens to drink without you being aware of what (Read more)