Eating Healthy On A Budget If you have problems serving healthy foods because of the prices, you'll find these tips to be just what you need to eat healthy on a budget. 1. Eliminate junk food Doing your shopping on your own is the easiest way to shop, as children and sometimes spouses are usually the ones requesting junk food. Shopping alone will prevent this, and ensure that you only buy the foods you need. 2. Water or milk instead of soft drinks You can still enjoy your favorite drinks at a sporting event or night out, although you should stick with the smallest size when shopping to save money and calories. Children and even adults need milk or milk products on a daily basis. Milk will also help you get strong and provides calcium for healthy bones and healthy teeth. 3. Buy fruits in quantity Whne they are in season, buy fruits in quantity and freeze any extras. You can buy several pounds this way, and freeze extras to have them when the fruit goes out of season. Wash the fruit well, remove any spoiled pieces, dry thoroughly, then freeze in plastic zipper bags. 4. Meats and beans Meats and beans are the best sources for protein. Lean meat is more expensive than meats with a lot of fat. Canned beans are a great deal as well, as they give you protein at a great price. 5. Beans as a substitute You should use beans a substitute for meat on a frequent occasion. There are several varieties, so you can prepare them in a crock pot, so when you return home they are ready to consume. The USDA recommends eating beans at least 4 times per week. If you experience gas after eating beans you should try washing them, covering them with water, bringing the water to a boil, then draining it off and refilling the pot. 6. If you live in a coastal area or an area where fish are around, make that an integral part of your diet. You can catch them from the lakes or rivers, saving money in the process. 7. Peanut butter is great for those on a budget as it's popular with almost everyone. You can use it for sandwiches instead of eating hot dogs. It does need to be refrigerated, although bigger jars can last you for weeks. 8. You should fill up with foods that have a high content of water. Watermelon, salads, and even sugar free gelatin are all great examples. Eating healthy is always something you can't go wrong with. You can eat healthy for just a few bucks, which makes it perfect for those on a budget. Now, you don't need a lot of money to have the lifestyle and health you've always wanted. (word count 460)
Copyright 2006 Paul J. O'Brien Yes, Yes you can. In this article I am going to teach you the secrets to building the big guns - Bulging Biceps. What is more I shall also simultaneously increase your lifts by and average of 100 % (all though in some cases ad much as 250%) on the major lift for this muscle group. So how am I going to support my fantastic claims? I'm going to give you a incredibly intense three minute arm routine unlike ANYTHING you've ever experienced. You will feel every muscle fibre contract and fatigue. You will felt he rush of power and strength as you break every physical barrier you thought you had. You are going to experience Isometrics! Isometrics is not a cutting edge new discovery for gaining mass. It's not a supplement. It is in fact one of the oldest methods of strength training devised, forgotten until now. It is the contraction of a muscle without the shortening of a joint - In other words, tensing the muscle as hard as possible without moving. I'm going to show you how to apply it to three major lifts, 1 for the biceps, triceps and forearms. You'll need a smith machine to perform these exercises safely. Bulging Biceps Warm up your biceps with a few light dumbbell or barbell curls. Nothing too taxing just enough to get them nice and warm, the blood flowing. You're going to need it. 1. Stand in the Smyth Machine. 2. Place an empty Bar at about shoulder height (you may have to vary this to ensure the maximum effect). 3. Bring your hands up to the bar as though you have just reached the top of a barbell curl. Set it an inch below. 4. Keep you back straight, your abs tense. 5. Your biceps should be close to fully flexed at this stage. Relax, we haven't put any weight on the bar yet. 6. Load the bar with a LOT of weight. Don't underestimate your self. To give an example, a friend who routinely curls 6okg on a barbell recently did this for the first time, he lifted 260kg his first attempt. 7. The object of the exercise is to raise the bar a little more than an inch. That's it. Just an inch and then hold it there for 7 seconds. 8. If you can hold it longer than 7 add more weight. Anything less, take some weight off. 9. All you are doing to raise the bar is contract your biceps as hard as you can. At no time should your elbows be directly beneath the bar. 10. Really tense your biceps and forearms for all they are worth. 11. You will feel the blood rush, the muscles scream and an intensity few will ever experience. 12. Then rest. Take a week off training the biceps. 13. Buy some new shirts. Have fun showing them off ;-)
If you've got a lot of clutter in your house, you're not alone. Millions of homeowners discover this either when they're getting ready to move or at the start of spring cleaning. In the past, clearing out homes resulted in low-revenue garage sales and multiple trips to the consignment store. But today, the latest trend in home organization is to clear out and cash in by dropping off unwanted items at eBay drop-off stores. Organizational expert Peter Walsh, from TLC's "Clean Sweep," confirms the trend. "eBay drop-off stores like iSold It are really the hot new trend in home organization," he notes. "For occasions such as that yearly cleaning, they provide an easy way for you to get that clutter out of your house and earn some extra cash." According to a recent PEW Internet and American Life Project survey, only 17 percent of online American adults have used the Internet to sell items. For the other 83 percent, eBay drop-off stores offer a fast and easy way to sell online. eBay drop-off stores professionally photograph the item, write descriptive copy, list it online, collect payment and then pack and ship the item. Once the transaction is complete, the seller receives a check in the mail. For many drop-off stores there are no up-front charges; instead, commission is charged once the item sells. Here's a typical reaction from a customer when dropping off items. "I was determined to clean out my garage-I had old car parts, a vintage train set, you name it," said Bernie Dodyk, Novi, Michigan customer. "I took the whole lot to a drop-off store and made over $5,000. Now I can park my car in the garage again." As the world's leading drop-off store, iSold It provides customers with an easy, hassle-free way to sell items online.
Businesses are the life and soul of any economy; the more the businesses flourish, more the economy of that country flourishes. We can say that they are directly proportional to each other and realizing that we see the businesspersons being offered more and more secured business loans. Secured business loans are offered to businesspersons or people who want to enter the business arena. The requirements that a person may have for which he may have to take secured business loans are: •For a new businessperson, the secured business loans provide him with an opportunity to launch a new business. •Secured business loans are ideal for businesspersons who want to expand their business profile. •Secured business loans are also available for businesspersons who want to buy machineries or other assets, which may help them in enhancing their businesses. •Other uses of the business loans include buying from auction, sale or even use them as bridging loans, as many businessmen do. Apart from these, other specific issues relating to business finances can also be sorted out with secured business loans. Before applying for the secured business loans, it is important that a businessperson should understand the various subtle nuances of the secured business loans and the challenges and the opportunities that it presents to the people who apply for the following. Secured business loans are available to people of all the profiles; thus, it could be a person with good credit history or bad credit history. These loans can only be used for business purposes and not for any other purpose. Once the fundamentals of the secured business loans are clear, any businessperson can apply for the secured business loans. Another step that the borrowers of the business loans have to keep in mind while applying for the secured business loans are the documents and the eligibility criteria of the loan. The borrower should provide the following documents before the loan processing can begin. The documents are: •An income proof •An age proof •A residential proof •Documents related to facts and figures of the business. •Documents related to the security that is being offered as security •In case of a person with bad credit history, the credit report There may be need of other documents which could be subject to the profile of the person who takes the secured business loan. Once all the formalities are completed, the last step in the process would be the application made for the loan. Once that is submitted, the loan is generally approved in a few working days.
Trademark experts strongly emphasized the responsibility of American businesses to register immediately their names in China in order to avoid becoming the preys of brand squatters. They said that U. S companies, regardless whether they have future plans for expansion in the Asian country or none, need to enlist their names as quickly as possible. This action is necessary in order for them to avoid losing their business name for other local industries in mainland China. Stephen Baker who works at Baker & Rannells as a trademark lawyer, stated that international brand name squatting is very similar to domain name squatting. The attorney added that cases of name squatting in the internet have increased as with the growing fame of the web and online businesses. He noted that businesses that did not immediately register the name of their company as their web address usually found out that another online industry was also sharing the same trademark with them. Surprisingly, some of these brand squatters even successfully obtained a huge amount of cash from individuals or big time companies that sought to maintain and fully own their web domain name. Baker commented that trademark squatting works in similar manner. There are opportunists who think that they could earn plenty of cash by using and registering the brands of popular and successful international or U. S businesses in their own country. China is particularly cited as a place where numerous cases of business name squatting takes place. In fact, the lawyer mentioned that his law firm currently handles several cases of brand name piracy most of which relate to China. At present, his law firm is involved in a cancellation case wherein a Chinese business attempted to enlist a name that pertained to a liquor company that is popular both in the United States and Europe. The attorney said that the alcohol industry's U. K branch went to China in order to enlist the business. But the company was surprised to discover that a local business had already registered a similar trademark. In order to avoid cases of trademark squatting, which can result to huge losses, large industries in the U. S are advised to quickly file their company brand especially in the regions where cases of business name squatting are prevalent. Owen Smigelski, another trademark legal counsel, commented that in the past few years, their cases of trademark squatting increased and most of which are connected with Asian nations in the southeast region. He commented that while the litigation procedures could amount to thousands of U. S dollars, it only costs barely $1,000 to enlist a brand name.
It all started with music. Early on, sites like Napster made it possible to download songs without purchasing an album. The problem was that these services – at the time – did not take copyright into consideration. People shared songs they liked and built their music collection. And, as time went on, this started to change. Subscription services came about; so did the opportunity to pay to download one song at a time. Film lovers have started to see that this service should not be limited to music. In some cases, they recognize this because services like Apple's iTunes offer film in addition to music downloads. In other cases, people have gotten tired of trips to the video store or of waiting for films to arrive from a mail-based subscription service. And, from Amazon to CinemaNow and Vongo, it's becoming increasingly easy to find sites for downloading movies. But which are the best movie sites for downloading movies? That depends on what you are looking for. To begin with, are you looking for the best movie site for downloading recently released movies? If so, consider downloading movies from iTunes or from Amazon's Unbox service. With iTunes, you will have to purchase the movie in order to download it, but will be able to watch the movie on a Mac or Windows operation platform; downloading movies form Unbox will limit you to watching films on a computer operating Windows XP, but you will also have the opportunity to rent movie downloads. Other movie sites that will allow rental as an option when you are downloading movies include Cinema Now, which is among the best movie sites for downloading movies if you want to be able to burn the movie to a DVD to watch on players other than your computer. Aside from rentals and the ability to burn the movies that you've downloaded to a DVD, what other characteristics help to make a movie site the best? One characteristic is the variety of movies that the site makes available for downloading. If you will be downloading foreign films, you will want to make sure that the movie site has a wide variety of options available for you. Similarly, if you want to be able to access new releases, the best movie sites for you will have a number of current films available. In addition to having the films that you are looking for available to you, the best movie sites for downloading movies will offer you the ability to watch those movies on portable devices or with a player that you already have rather than requiring you to download their player. Not only will the best movie sites make watching movies a convenient experience, but also they will provide you with movies that have been sampled at a high bitrate so that you will be able to watch a film with a high quality picture. And, because you are downloading movies because you want to watch them, the best movie sites will also provide high quality downloads that don't take all day. In other words, there are a number of things to take into consideration when it comes to downloading movies. The first thing is the ability to download the movies rather than watching them as streaming content. The next is to be sure that you are downloading movies that you will be able to watch with the computer operating system that you have and that they will be of a high quality. When you find the best movie site for downloading movies, you'll know it: the site will provide you with everything that you're looking for.
: Lightweight backpacking or ultralight backpacking certainly enable you to travel more miles in a day. I can easily go farther in my running shoes, with my fifteen-pound pack on, than I could with heavy hiking boots and a forty-pound pack. That isn't all, though. Going light also means more comfort, more freedom and even more safety. Disadvantages Of Traditional Backpacking Less freedom. It isn't easy to take a side trip up that hill, just to see what's there. Do it without your pack, and you have to go back the same way to get your pack. More tiring. It's clearly more tiring with a heavy pack, and you probably won't enjoy yourself as much when you are tired. More Injuries. Blistered feet, sprained ankles, sore muscles, and back and knee problems are just some of the common consequences of too much weight on your back. More hassle. Removing and putting on a heavy pack quickly becomes a chore. Some backpackers start to leave it on during rest stops, just so they don't have to deal with it. Slower. Weight equals slower progress, meaning less access to wild places, since you can't go as far on a trip. It can also mean less time to for enjoyable activities, like a swim in a mountain lake, or a relaxing evening in camp. Riskier. Injuries are more likely with heavy packs, but that's not the only risk. The inability to move as quickly when a storm is coming or when an emergency requires you to get to a road, can be a real problem. Then there is the possibility of bad decisions due to tiredness. Lightweight Backpacking Advantages Safety. Have all necessary items, but bring lighter versions. Lighten the load, and you're less likely to lose your balance and fall, or otherwise injure yourself. You can also respond faster to iffy situations. Safety is also a matter of knowledge and experience. Expert survivalists are safer with no shelter than a neophyte with the best tent. Know how to use you equipment properly, or to read the sky for comimg storms, and you can go lighter and safer. Comfort. Does 18 pounds on your back instead of 50 sound nice? I completely stopped getting blisters when I started using running shoes instead of hiking boots. There's no sacrifice here. Eliminate twenty-five pounds of pack weight, and you can add back a heavier coat, or whatever you need to be comfortable. Speed and freedom. When I walk past overloaded backpackers struggling up steep trails, and I have an eleven-pound pack on, I remember being in their place, and I know I am enjoying myself more now. Lightweight backpacking allows you to move faster, but notice I say "allows." No requirement, just the option, and that means more freedom. Never yet have I met or heard about a person who tried lightweight backpacking, and then went back to a heavy load. This isn't to say it's for everyone. Some hiker's bad ankles may require heavy hiking boots, and some bad habits require a big pack to satisfy them. Still, even a backpacker who needs a pillow and big rectangular sleeping bag, can find these in lighter forms. Try it. You'll experience more freedom, more comfort, more safety, more enjoyment and less suffering. The first time you are fifteen miles into the day, and you realize that you can easily run up that hill - just to see what is there, you'll know you made the right decision. You'll love lightweight backpacking.
In recent years, the field of reading education has changed dramatically and many reading instructors have divided it between phonic instruction and whole language. Various reading programs that fall into one of the two camps have spent millions advertising the relative merits of both. The simple truth of the matter is that the best reading instruction takes place using a combination of both strategies. And increasingly reading research has demonstrated that phonemic awareness, not simply phonics, is critically important to ensuring reading success–especially for students with learning disabilities. However what makes this so confusing for many parents and caregivers is that the term “phonemic awareness” is tossed around so often and in so many different ways. Phonemic awareness concerns the structure of words rather than their meaning. To understand the construction of our written code, words, readers need to be able to reflect upon the spelling-to-sound correspondences. To understand that the written word, beginning readers must first have some understanding that words are composed of sounds (phonemic awareness) rather than their conceiving of each word as a single indivisible sound stream. The development of this awareness cannot be accomplished in one simple step but rather over time. It is also important to note that these skills are actually pre-reading skills. Children do not necessarily recognize any of these elements on the page but rather by ear. The stages of phonological development toward the end goal of deep phonemic awareness can include: ~ Recognition that sentences are made up of words. ~ Recognition that words can rhyme & the ability to make rhymes ~ Recognition that words can be broken down into syllables & the ability to do so ~ Recognition that words can be broken down into onsets and rimes & the ability to do so ~ Recognition that words can begin with the same sound & the ability to make these matches ~ Recognition that words can end with the same sound & the ability to make these matches ~ Recognition that words can have the same medial sound(s) & the ability to make these matches ~ Recognition that words can be broken down into individual phonemes & the ability to do so ~ Recognition that sounds can be deleted from words to make new words & the ability to do so ~ Ability to blend sounds to make words ~ Ability to segment words into constituent sounds Phonemic awareness is more complex however than simple auditory discrimination, which is the ability to understand that cat and mat are different words. To be able to describe how they are similar and how they are different demonstrates a level of phonemic awareness. Young children are not normally asked to consider words at a level other than their meaning, although experience with rhymes may be the first indication for children that they can play with the structure of words. Learning to recognize and play with rhyme is often the beginning of phonemic awareness development for many children. To be aware that words can have a similar end-sound implies a critical step in learning to read. Sensitivity to rhyme makes both a direct and indirect contribution to reading. Directly, it helps children appreciate that words that share common sounds usually also share common letter sequences. Later exposure to common letter sequences then makes a significant contribution to reading strategy development. Indirectly, the recognition of rhyme promotes the refining of word analysis from larger intra-word segments (such as rhyme) to analysis at the level of the phoneme (the critical requirement for reading). Studies show a very strong relationship between rhyming ability at age three and performance at reading and spelling three years later. A number of studies have reinforced the value of such early exposure to rhyming games. Rhyming and phoneme awareness are related. Studies have shown that children who are capable of good discrimination of musical pitch also score high on tests of phonemic awareness. Since pitch change is an important source of information in the speech signal, it may be that sensitivity to small frequency changes, such as that involved in phoneme recognition is an important aspect of successful initial reading. Such results raise the interesting possibility that musical training may represent one of those pre-reading, home-based experiences that contribute to the marked individual differences in phonemic awareness with which children start school. So, what do you teach? Techniques that target phoneme awareness most frequently involve direct instruction in segmenting words into component sounds, identifying sounds in various positions in words (initial, medial, final), identifying words that begin or end with the same sound, and manipulating sounds in a word such as saying a word without its beginning or end sound. Most of the phoneme awareness activities should not take more than 15 or 20 minutes to complete. Although a particular activity can be selected well in advance, the specific words targeted for phoneme awareness should be selected from material familiar to your child — such as a book you recently read together or a game or a family outing. Phoneme awareness activities are a natural extension of the shared reading activities. A natural and spontaneous way of providing children with exposure to phonemes is to focus on literature that deals playfully with speech sounds through rhymes. Simple rhyme patterns are easily recalled after repeated exposure, and children will get the idea of creating new rhymes. In “There’s a Wocket in My Pocket” (Seuss, 1974), initial sounds of everyday objects are substituted as a child talks about the strange creatures around the house, such as the “zamp in the lamp.” Children can make up their own strange creatures in the classroom such as the “zuk in my book.” Alliteration is the repetition of an initial consonant sound across several words, such as presented in the alphabet book “Faint Frogs Feeling Feverish” and “Other Terrifically Tantalizing Tongue Twisters”. Assonance, the repetition of vowel sounds within words, is often combined with rhyme, as in “It rains and hails and shakes the sails” from “Sheep on a Ship” or in humorous ways such as “The tooter tries to tutor two tooters to toot” in “Moses Supposes His Toeses Are Roses”. Some books include music to go with the rhymes, such as “Down by the Bay”, in which two children try to outdo one another in making up questions that rhyme, such as “Did you ever see a goose kissing a moose?” Spend some time in the children’s section of your library or browse through your child’s bookshelves at home to look for books that deal playfully with language. Read and reread the stories and comment on the language use then encourage predictions of sound, word, and sentence patterns (for example, “What sound do you hear at the beginning of all those words?”) and invent new versions of the language patterns utilized in the stories. Research has demonstrated not only a predictive relationship between phoneme awareness and reading success, but also a causal relationship. Phoneme awareness that has a positive impact on reading can be developed in children through systematic instruction. Early training in phoneme awareness should be a priority for those interested in improving early reading instruction and in reducing reading failure. Some other activities include: Making Word Families Charts: Charts can contain words from one story or a brainstormed list from the children. The children can dictate the words to be placed on a word family chart. As they begin to develop letter/sound knowledge, they can copy or write the words themselves. You can use magnetic letters to “create” words for a word family chart. Provide a rime of plastic letters (e. g., at) and have the children take turns placing different letters in the onset position to create new words (e. g., hat, bat, sat, rat). These charts can be used as reference charts (or the children can make their own word families reference book) for spelling and creative writing activities. Odd Word Out: Four words, three of which rhyme, are presented (e. g., zveed, bead, pill, seed). The child determines which word is the odd one that doesn’t belong with the others. The game of concentration or memory is a good practice activity for rhyme recognition. Alliteration: Sound personalities can be introduced naturally and in context by selecting a particular sound to talk about that is stressed in alphabet or other books that use alliteration. For example, presenting “smiling snakes sipping strawberry sodas” for the alphabet letter S. It is helpful to create or provide pictures that represent these sound personalities and to post them as each is introduced. A natural connection can sometimes be made between the sound and the letter, such as presenting a picture of “Sammy snake” drawn in the shape of the letter S or “Buzzy bee” flying in a pattern of the letter Z. Besides providing a label to facilitate talking about sounds, the pictures provide self-correcting cues for children engaged in initial-sound isolation and sound-to-word matching activities. Counting: To count syllables in words, activities can be used such as clapping hands, tapping the desk, or marching in place to the syllables in children’s names (Ma - ry), items in the immediate environment (win - dow), or words from a favorite story (wi-shy, wa-shy). Initially, two - syllable words can be targeted, building up to three. Sound Synthesis: Sound synthesis can be done using the following sequence: blending an initial sound onto the remainder of a word, followed by blending syllables of a word together, and then blending isolated phonemes into a word. Model this by blending an initial sound onto a word by using the jingle “It starts with /n/ and it ends with - ight, put it together, and it says night.” When they have the idea, the children supply the final word. An element of excitement can be created by using children’s names for this activity and asking each child to recognize and say his or her own name when it is presented - “It starts with /m/ and it ends with - ary, put it together and it says ———.” Context can be provided by limiting the words to objects that can be seen in the room or to words from a particular story the children just read. As the children become proficient, they can take turns using the jingle to present their own words to be blended. Sound-to-Word Matching: Requires that the child identify the beginning sound of a word. Awareness of the initial sound in a word can be done by showing the children a picture (dog) and asking the children to identify the correct word out of three: “Is this a /mmm/-og, a /d/d/d/-og, or a /sss/-og?” A variation is to ask if the word has a particular sound: “Is there a /d/ in dog?” This can then be switched to “Which sound does dog start with-/d/, /sh/, or /1/?” This sequence encourages the children to try out the three onsets with the rime to see which one is correct. It is easiest to use continuants that can be exaggerated and prolonged to heighten the sound input. Iteration should be used with stop consonants to add emphasis.
While the actual decorations and theme of a home theatre can run the gamut from old-time movie house to modern whimsy, there is a set pattern that should be followed in designing the room. Home theatre designs are patterned for a reason, and that's to ensure optimum viewing pleasure. Precision and even personal preference are key when putting together a design. When putting together home theatre designs, there are several major things to consider. These include: Room size: Having the dimensions of the room where home theatre designs will be brought into play is important for a number of reasons. First and foremost, the size will dictate the screen that can be used. A giant screen in a room that's 10-feet-by-10-feet won't likely look very good. In fact, the quality might be degraded since seating will be almost on top of the screen. A general rule of thumb to follow is the larger the room, the larger the screen can be to provide optimum seating for viewing. Screen size: As has been already stated, the room size and the screen size are fundamentally married in creating home theatre designs. This is so for a number of reasons. Take a look at a big screen or even projection screen television up close and the method behind the madness will be evident. Just make sure the screen size fits the room and provides for good viewing angles from every seat in it, or just about. Seating: Seating, too, is a big concern for those looking at home theatre designsfort is absolutely important, but so too is placement. A large room with a large screen won't work if the seats have to be placed right on top of the screen. Make sure when looking at seating that it fits the room and can be adjusted to work well for viewing. A good rule of thumb is to have the seating back as far as possible from the screen to ensure that every inch of it can be viewed with ease. There are formulas for this based on the screen size, but individual's eyesight might dictate some variations. All that really matters is that viewers are happy with the seating and the views. Sound: Most home theatre designs include a surround sound system of some sort. It doesn't matter whether that system is a $5,000 top of the line creation or a budget $300 package, setting it up right will be important. Make sure directions are followed to the letter to ensure the sound quality is the best it can be. Even a less expensive sound system can sound fantastic when the speakers are placed where they are meant to go. Putting together home theatre designs can be a fun undertaking, but there is a set pattern to how furniture, the screen and even the sound system should be set up. There are pretty precise formulas for these listed generally on manufacturer instructions. When these are followed to the letter, it's very easy to make adjustments to fit anyone's personal needs.
With the rise in popularity of credit cards and debit cards, over 40% of offline transactions are now conducted using plastic over cash. With this set to rise to over 2/3 thirds by 2012, the question remains – should I be using a credit card or debit card? For most, the answer is far from simple, and comes as a result of a number of factors, such as the size of a transaction, the transaction type and your current liquidity. With so much to consider, we have prepared this guide to ensure that you are aware of the factors that influence the fundamental choice – debit card v credit card. Credit Cards Advantages 1. Should you complete a purchase with your credit card, your credit card company will provide a dispute resolution service should things go wrong. They will actually refund you in the interim until they are able to find evidence to suggest either party was correct. 2. Strapped for cash? If you are unable to finance a purchase, but will have the capital in around 1-8 weeks, then a credit card could be for you, if you are aware of the costs that you will incur for borrowing. Credit Card Disadvantages 1. The inherent disadvantage in credit cards is that it is all too easy to get yourself in a mountain of debt. To avoid this, you must only spend with a credit card, what you know that you can afford. 2. Credit card theft and issues relating to this are on the rise. Although you may be covered for a large amount of the transaction, this can cause worry and stress to credit card users. Debit Card Advantages 1. You can only spend money you have. With a debit card, you will not be able to spend money that is not available in your bank account, this means that you will never be in red, and therefore the risk of debt spiraling out of control, is less of a worry to you. Debit Card Disadvantages 1. Should you complete a purchase online and things go wrong, you will have nowhere to go apart from the merchant. That is why it is strongly recommended that a credit card is used for large scale, online purchases. 2. If you do not have the cash upfront for a purchase then you may find yourself unable to finance a transaction. If you had a credit card then you would be able to do this.
Despite the fact that the commercial production of Titanium has only been possible in the last sixty years and then only by a complex and expensive process, it’s unique properties have resulted in advances in technology, aviation, marine, medicine and the many other applications that we now take for granted but may not have been possible or be as efficient by using an alternative. A promising new development known as the FFC Cambridge Process may result in producing Titanium at a lower cost than the original Kroll process that is still in use to this day. The Properties of Titanium Titanium is a chemical element with the symbol Ti. It has a silvery white metallic lustre when pure. It is as strong as steel but is only just over half its weight and is twice as strong as aluminium. Titanium based alloys have very high strength-to-weight ratios. Titanium is ductile, malleable, wieldable and easily worked. It is obtainable in a number of formats that include wire, sheet, rod, foil, granules, sponge and powder. It has an extremely low response to magnetism. Titanium has a very low electrical resistivity and thermal conductivity. Titanium is highly corrosion resistant, it is impervious to seawater, chlorine and a broad range of acids, unless concentrated, and alkalis. Titanium burns in air and is one of the very few elements to burn in Nitrogen (it makes great fireworks!) The metal is physiologically inert and non-toxic. i. e. it has no effect on the human or animal body. It is the ninth most plentiful element present in the Earths crust. It has been found in meteorites and detected in the sun and class M stars. Approximately 90% of worldwide usage is in the form of Titanium alloys or Titanium compounds Titanium Applications The Apollo 17 moon mission brought back rocks containing Titanium compounds. Titanium Applications. Titanium is recognized as a critical strategic metal for its’ importance to the military. During the cold war the Soviet Union, a producer of Titanium, used the metal and its’ alloys as the principal material in the construction of its submarine fleet as it is impervious to seawater. Russia made an attempt to corner the market in Titanium to deprive the US and its allies of the material. Titanium and its’ alloys are used in the manufacture of armored vehicles, military aircraft including stealth planes, naval applications, ordnance and spacecraft. Titanium Dioxide is widely used in paint, paper, plastics, toothpaste and cement for its intense whiteness, permanency, excellent covering properties and the ability to add strength to the product. It is recognized for its ability to alloy with other metals to improve their strength durability and lightness. Titanium alloys are an essential component in the skins of wide body aircraft, landing gear and hydraulic tubing. A Boeing 777 uses 58 tons of the metal and the Airbus A380 is projected to use 67 tons and a further 10 tons in the engines. Heat exchangers in desalination plants rely on Titanium for its non-corrosion properties and it is even used in heater-chillers in aquariums. It is an effective catalyst in a number of commercially important chemical processes. Because it does not react unfavorably with the human body and has a benign connectivity with bone that is not fully understood, Titanium is used for orthopaedic implants, artificial heart pumps, pacemakers, joint replacement and dental implants. Its use in medicine also encompasses surgical instruments and those used in image-guided surgery and magnetic resonance imagery. Titanium is used in some construction projects and associated applications such as the 150-foot high Yuri Gagarin memorial in Moscow, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain and others. The petroleum industry is a user for its off shore activities and pipe lines. On a more mundane level, the metal and its alloys can be found in many every day consumer applications including; - tennis rackets, golf clubs, camping equipment, divers accessories, spectacle frames (also shape memory frames), food processing, sky writing, artificial gemstones, sweet and candy coatings, bicycles, computer components, sports safety helmets, watches, jewelry and many others. There seems no limit to the future uses of this extraordinarily versatile metal, particularly if the FCC Cambridge Process successfully reduces the expense and complexity of producing the metal to add cost effectiveness to its’ recognized unique properties.
By now, you have heard of article marketing and how it can benefit your online business. If you are not familiar with article marketing, you should be! Article marketing can build traffic for a new business, breath life into a stale business and help establish a fledgling author as an expert in the topic field. Do a search on article marketing and you will find what you have been missing. As a business owner I'm sure you have had the thought, "What can I write about my business?" or "I can't write, what can I do?" I've been there and apparently a lot of other business owners have been as well, just do a search on free articles and you will find a plethora of articles available for the taking to add to your web site. Feel free to use free articles, but be sure to use them for their intended purpose ; to inform and to add related content to your site. Free articles have already been written by some one else and the author would be quite upset if you took a free article and called it your own; not to mention that is illegal. There are a host of "Ghost Writers" available for your use. A ghost writer is someone you hire to write an article for you that allows you to add your information as the author. It's like in high school when the jock would pay the brain to write his English paper for him; essentially you become the jock. Ghost writers vary in price, but can be found for a reasonable price, but remember, you get what you pay for. You can also consider using PLR (Private Label Rights) articles. PLR articles are simply articles that you buy the ownership rights to and can re-publish the articles as your own. PLR article are usually distributed over and over again and unless you re-write the article somewhat. Most if not all article directories check a newly submitted article against their existing database for duplicate content. The new article gets rejected if it is a dupe, so guess what, if you buy PLR article that have been around the web, you'll have a hard time submitting them as you own. Which, finally brings me to the point of this article; be original. Try writing a few articles of your own about your business. Once you have written a few, you will quickly find no one can write about your business like you can. If you are starting a business from home or even if you have been around the block a few times, you are now quite familiar with your business and your competition. You also have an idea of how you are different from the other sites out there like yours. If your site is unique, you have a perfect opportunity to tell the world about your business. Writing articles seems like a daunting task; but after writing a few articles, you will find writing more isn't so hard. As you go through your day and think about different ideas for your business, write the idea down on a notepad. Later, when you have a few minutes you can expound on your idea, in writing, and voila you have a new idea for your business and a new article to publish. Try it a few times and you will soon see, writing your own original articles can be fun and profitable.
Building a home business has innumerable advantages for those who cannot do a regular nine-to-five job for various personal or professional reasons. One can work and also look after his or her family at the same time, while building a business which can be operated from home. This will also enable you to be the master of your own time and space. No longer would you need to face the supervision of boss, or other hazards of an office atmosphere like the hassles of the employers’ union. The profit you gain is totally yours and you get to save the conveyance expenses as well. Before starting the home built business one should go for a thorough research as to which business should suit him or her best. There are several profitable online businesses that one can pursue: - #1 Free work at home option - Online marketing: This is one of the most promising home-based businesses. This is operated and offered on the World Wide Web. Becoming an associate with a business group can be a lucrative venture, as it virtually needs no start up money. But those who are interested in this kind of business should have a clear knowledge regarding computers and website building. A better website attracts more traffic which in turn generates quite a good sale. - #2 Free work at home option - Selling products online: In this business one does not need much money to start up. No cost of storefront is also needed. You can simply market anything (which is not illegal) over the net. With a shipping charge and the profit on the product, you can earn quite a handsome amount. The requirement for this business is just a computer and Internet connection. - #3 Free work at home option - Representative of companies: You can also start a home-based business by being the representative of a company. Most of these companies do not need any investment from the representative to start with. The companies will offer you a commission on the products that you will sell. You can do all these from the comfort your own house. Not only online businesses, there are several others forms of businesses that one can start with a little amount of money. But the most interesting part of work at home business is that one can work as well as can spend his or her time with family. But one should also remember that starting a home-based business is not that easy. It requires preparation and a proper planning. Depending on the availability of the resources and the amount of money one can invest, one must consider various options before starting the business. Certain factors also play a very important role as location, networking, money, expertise etc. It is true that the will to have a flourishing home business is not enough and one can face much difficulty. But you just need a strong mind and determination to start free work at home jobs.
These days, the Internet is chock full of money-making opportunities and ideas—new and old, legitimate and not-so-legitimate. If you type in “make money online” into a search engine, you’ll find a whole host of different types of income opportunities available online. You’ll come across a variety of home-based businesses, online typing jobs, affiliate programs, starting your own website, blogging, paid surveys, eBook reselling, and more. Some of these opportunities are little more than scams trying to dupe you into giving them $10 to $100 for “valuable information.” However, some online income opportunities are legitimate, and of these legitimate ones, there are some offers definitely more worthwhile than others. If you’re looking for an honest, well-paying, worth-your-time opportunity to make money using the power of the Internet, consider the benefits of residual income versus one-time payments offered by most online income opportunities, such as affiliate programs. Residual income occurs when you keep making money after just one initial effort. These recurring payments are made to you over and over again without any extra work or involvement on your part. Many workers choose a residual income-based opportunity in order to escape the 9-to-5 grind and to allow them to finally quit their day jobs where their hours are dictated and their wages are limited. But some people assume that just because they’ve figured out a way to work from home using their computer and Internet and managed to escape what they endured at the office (a boss to report to, set hours, fixed wage) that they’ve found the answer to financial freedom. But if your opportunity doesn’t follow a residual income pattern, then the money you make is still limited—based on how much work you produce. Affiliate programs, for example, only offer one-time payments for each customer that signs up or buys something “under” you. Just imagine a life where the money you make doesn’t depend on whether or not you “go to work,” or on how many hours you put in, or how much work you produce? Sounds heavenly, doesn’t it? But how do you find these residual income opportunities? One of the best residual income-based opportunities you’ll come across online is joining an established and reputable home-based business or company. Here’s an example of how residual income works with a home-based business. You join the business as an affiliate or member, and you promote the company’s products and/or services, as well as the money-making opportunity itself. If somebody signs up through your efforts, you make money off their purchases—over and over again. That customer becomes your customer, and there’s no extra work on your part. Further, if someone signs up to become a business affiliate under you, you earn a residual “commission” for all the business that customer brings to the company. If you’re not entirely sure whether the company is legitimate, do some research first. Find out what other sites and forums are writing about them. Join a forum and ask about the company in question. Make sure you conduct a background check—with the Better Business Bureau, for example. Of course, residual income opportunities are not just on the worldwide web. One example is the insurance agent who sells insurance to a customer one time, and without any extra work, gets paid every time that customer renews his policy. Published writers and musicians also make residual income. Every time someone buys their book or album (which they wrote or recorded once), they receive a royalty. Investors can also earn residual income with purchased real estate properties. The next time you’re tempted to quit your day job while you’re online soaking in the plethora of money-making opportunities, bypass the online income opportunities that seem like scams, and avoid the one-time payment plans of most opportunities, such as affiliate programs and paid surveys. Look for ways to make residual income instead. With residual income, there is no limit to how much money you can make.
