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Preface / Introduction
"what is the struggles of living life" I have never asked myself that question nor slightly thought of it. It's a question someone would ask themselves when living their life in the reality, the everyday struggles of financial worries, health problems, aging etc. Some may think that just by waking up in the morning is a hassle to face those everyday struggles and actually facing reality. " Another day of living" it just an awesome feeling to just wake up and knowing were still here another day. I dedicate this book to all of you.
Table of Contents
1. 'Nobody wants you when you're old and gray.' On the matter of turning 65... and other outrages. 2. 4 Tips for Choosing your Corner TV Furniture 3. Sugar, sugar, or how we're digging our own graves bite by bite. One man's helpful tips for saving your life... starting this very minute. 4. Committed Relationship-There Comes A Time When You Need More 5. 'And a single ray of sunlight/ Reaches down to touch the golden boy.' Another university, another day, another sex scandal, all because boys will be boys. 6. Know Face Wrinkle - Anti Aging Help Can Stop Premature Aging 7. Looking Ageless Is Within Your Reach 8. Make Up For Dark Circles-Tips To Cover Them Up 9. Male Pattern Baldness - Causes, Symptoms Treatment 10. Mary Kay And Generations Of Makeup 11. Men And Botox-Males Need The Nice Face 12. Natural Remedy For Dry Skin - Finding The Right Remedies For Your Dry Skin 13. Natural Therapy For Relief From Insomnia 14. Natural Therapy To Relieve Insomnia 15. Natural Ways To Relieve A Headache 16. Neck And Throat Muscles Show Age Faster-Exercising Them Can Help 17. Oily Skin Treatment - Its Not As Hard As You Think 18. Online Dating Advice For Men 19. Organic Green Tea 20. Physcian Approved Botox A Common Non Surgical Procedure 21. Plastic Surgery VS Botox -Simple Injections And No Recovery Time 22. Pressure Points To Relieve Headaches 23. Questions Relationship 24. Relationship Break Up Advice 25. Relieve Stomach Gas-Pay Attention To Your Habits 26. Remedy For Dry Facial Skin - Discovering The Right Way To Treat Dry Skin 27. Remedy For Dry Skin - Overcome Your Dry Skin 28. Reversible Sun Damage Treatment Advice 29. Romantic Gifts-Buy Gifts That Make Your Loved One Feel Special 30. Romantic Ideas-Personalize Your Ideas 31. Romantic Weekends- Location Location Location 32. Rosacea Medicine Find What Might Help You 33. Saving Marriage In A Culture Of Throw Away Relationships 34. Say Good Bye to a Dry & Dull Skin? 35. Sciatica Pain Relief - Help For That Shooting Pain 36. Sciatic Nerve Pain Relief-Get It Fast 37. Self Help Debt Reduction - You Can Do It 38. Senior Dating During The Holidays 39. Sensitive Skin Care Products Can Help Or Not 40. Serious Skin Care Products And What They Can Do For You 41. Shopping For The Lady In Your Life-Gifts For The Holidays For Your Love 42. Should You Open A Money Market Savings Account 43. Simple And Fast Shingels Pain Relief
44. Simple Home Remedies for Gout Sufferers 45. Six Chronic Back Pain Relief Options 46. Slowed Metabolism As Women Get Older- Creeping Scale Dial 47. Social Anxiety Disorder - The Basics 48. Spice Up You Sex Life With Levitra 49. Spiritual Abundance Are The Modern World Struggling 50. Starting Over With Retirement Plans 51. Start Planning For Retirement Today-Economy In Free Fall 52. Stolen Wallet What To Do-List Of Immediate Actions To Take 53. Strength Training And Nutrition Tips For Staying Healthy 54. Stressed Out & Loveless- Try Cialis 55. Stress Relief Is Available=Learn To Deal With It Effectively 56. Sudden Hair Loss ? Is stress is the cause?? 57. Suns Aging Effects-Everyone Wants To Look Their Best 58. Sun Skin Damage -Sunscreen And Lots Of It 59. Take Viagra Save Species in Jeopardy 60. Ten Free Dating Women Ideas And Romance 61. The Drug Propecia and Hair Loss 62. The Fat Loss Secret You Never Knew About Eating 63. The Home Remedy Ear Infection Prevention 64. The Male Enhancement Market Today 65. Thyroid Self Test And Hypothyroidism 66. Tinitus Retraining Therapy And Other Treatment Options 67. Tinitus Treatment Made Easy 68. Tips For Fixing A Broken Relationship 69. Tips On Mens Skin Care-Not Just Girly Stuff 70. Tips On Strength Training To Stay Healthy 71. Todays Economy And Retirement-When Its Your Time 72. Top Nutritional Tips to Support Healthy Hair Growth 73. Twelve Alcoholism Signs You Might Need A Twelve Step Program 74. Victim Of Identity Theft-The Good News And The Bad News 75. Vitamins and Hair Loss 76. Vitamins And Menopause-Minimize Unpleasant Effects 77. Vitamins To Relieve Menopause Symptoms 78. What Are Holistic Practitioners 79. What Is Holistic Medicine 80. What Is Hormonal Hair Loss? Can It Be Controlled? 81. What Is The Most Common Attention Deficit Disorder Symptom 82. Women Can Relieve Stress-Find The Information On How 83. Women With Attention Deficit Disorder - Is This Me 84. Yoga Exercise For Weight Loss Does It Work 85. Your Guide On How To Be Debt Free 86. 'But there are dreams that cannot be And there are storms we cannot weather.' Of Aaron Swartz, 26, Internet visionary. Dead by his own hand, January 11, 2013. 87. U.S. Presidential Libraries. Time for radical rethinking as "Hail to the Chief" gets way out of hand. 88. 1965. My year in the heartland. 'It's still not too late to leave, Laddie.' 'Count me in.' 89. Super Ideas On How To Handle Back Pain 90. Use This Information To Rid Yourself Of Allergies 91. Your Back Will Feel Better With These Techniques 92. Beauty Tips To Help You Improve Your Looks
93. Depression And Lack Of Sleep Will Undermine Any Beauty Regimen 94. Herbal Teas And How They Can Make You More Beautiful 95. Gourmet Coffee Beans And The Magical Flavors To Experience 96. Spring Time And Flowers For Fragrence and Color 97. Vacation For Spring Break-Not Just For College Kids 98. Warehouse Clubs Are The Place To Buy Coffee For Less 99. Important message from the IRS to all taxpayers, 'tonight we're gonna party like it's 1999! You pay for everything but you can't come! Enjoy!' 100. Thoughts on colonoscopy, homage to one of the greatest researchers, Marie Curie, and the colossal mistake the U.S. federal government is making in reducing the funding that improves life and enhances our planet day by day, discovery by discovery. 101. 'For your age...' A look beyond the complaints and pains to the undoubted benefits and joys of being a senior citizen. Very candid thoughts indeed.
'Nobody wants you when you're old and gray.' On the matter of turning 65... and other outrages.
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author's program note. In 1921, that sultry chanteuse with a silken voice seasoned with a touch of honky-tonk and life's deflating experience -- Ethel Waters (1896- 1977) -- got up before the microphone one fine day and belted into history a little ditty by Billy Higgins and W. Benton Overstreet. It was a swinging song with attitude... and, it turned out, with "legs", too; a song so potent in its magic that over 50 major recording artists couldn't wait to get their vocal chords around it. It was "There'll be some changes made", and it included the resonating line that made us all queasy... "Nobody wants you when you're old and gray"... the line that justified an ocean or two of wild behavior, the wild oats you'd better indulge in when young and limber... before the Grim Reaper stamped your forehead with the iconic number 65 and measured you for eternity. Go now to any search engine, review your recorded choices; then "choose your poison" as Grandpa Walt used to say... but, whoever you select, take time to pay homage to Miss Waters, for she was a game old bird and after all was the first to urge us to approach olde age with dignity, composed, resigned, withered hands folded gently in your lap, glass for your false teeth at the ready -- not! Oh, no, Miss Waters celebrated not just the "you" you were... but the "you" you could be with a few deft changes, tweaks and tucks... all necessary so that your "golden" years are even less demure (by a long shot) than your early days; that you don't just read your Browning -- "the best is yet to be" -but live him, with plenitude and a "hey, look me over" edge, your original and unique cocktail of defiance, insight, and allure. Step-dad Jack and the chocolate box. He was shrunken, smaller than he had been in life... in form that is, never in spirit. And he asked me --before "forever" took him -- for chocolates. He craved them. I didn't have to think twice about what to do. I was on the phone at once and ordered him an exuberant chocolate feast of Godiva's best, the kind of assortment that a boy bent on the delights of love gives to the girl he wants to wash his shirts and cheat on for life. Yes, it was that big. And when I called to make sure he had the package... I was informed this man I hardly knew... had the box open, a few already nibbled, sampled, so he could make the best selection. And he was smiling... But that's only a part of this tale... The instant she heard ol' Jack talking to me, my mother, that force of nature and approved behavior, grabbed the phone and Let Me Have It. Jack was ill, she said; Jack was dying, she said; Jack could die at any moment, she said, and face his Maker, as quick as you could say "Jack Robinson." What did I mean by giving him, and on his death bed, too, the rich seduction that was chocolate, a food that could not be found amidst his recommended dietary choices, unappetizing all. Why, didn't I know that could kill him....? Moreover, there was no mention in Emily Post sanctioning death-bed chocolates... and thus they could not be approved, unfitting objects as they were for such an event and its high mysteries and profound enigmas. "But POM (Poor Old Mother)", I said. His cancer is terminal, he could indeed die at any moment; every doctor said so, and at such a time if there's a dance in the old galoot yet he ought to dance it... he ought to have what he wanted, the savor of life, not another moment of the semblance of life, measured out by tea spoons of this medicine, tablets of that. In short he wanted, with an insistence http://www.EarnAtHomeForLife.com Copyright Ardith Richardson - 2014 6 of 143
LIVING LIFE: Everyday Struggles with the Aging Generation that comes when time is almost gone, one of life's pleasures, not another indication and token of life's finality. ... Jack died just hours later... ... POM became the Ice Queen to me for too long... But I was the gainer here... for Jack had reaffirmed a profound truth we cannot hear and contemplate often enough... that life is for the living, that life must be lived, exulted, extolled, celebrated and savored... and that at the end, if you want chocolates, the very best chocolates (or their equivalent) no one -- not even the well-meaning wife and scold -- should be allowed even a moment of jeremiad, pontification, finger-pointing and condescension... "Proper behavior" be damned.... Easy to say, difficult to do. Now, one can damn, and so easily, too, the bug-a-boo of "proper behavior", but the truth of the matter, an independent course is difficult to pull off. Witness my darlin' mama's frosty reaction on the matter of chocolates an instant prior to demise. We geriatric life-savors need to face up to the shibboleths and prejudices of our rigid adversaries... and become as shrewd as we are aged. Thus, start from the proposition that for the bulk of the world... but never for ones as wicked cool and winsome as we are, Age 65 is regarded as the gate through which one passes, inexorably, inevitably, slowly on account of rheumatism, arthritis and assembled other maladies attendant upon bigger and bigger birthdays; the gate through which we enter aging... through which we depart dead... truly an inviting scenario... if you're into the macabre pictures of Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) and other mediaeval horrors. . But Hieronymus and his scarry ilk have never been my cup of tea, perhaps because of their unremitting focus on the darker side of life, its miseries, regrets, loneliness and angst about the eternity into which each of us must enter, like it or not. I am a creature of life and light... and aim to live my credo to the very last moment... for all that I may be able to do nothing more at that unique moment of finality than nibble a chocolate. Even that is enough to reaffirm my adamant belief in life, not life's restrictions. Yet these restrictions are everywhere, built into the very heart of our youth-centered culture. Folks over 65 are lesser beings, unable to do this, incapable of doing that; past it in ways as diverse as eating corn on the cob or satisfying even the least demanding of lovers. Even more than a baby (which after all does not know better) we are held thrall to the do-nots, the should-nots, the could-nots, instead of enjoying the thrills and growth of the why-nots. But we are not, we crew of 65 plus, babies to be protected and instructed. We are people who have lived life -- and often riotously too -- with gusto and a zest that only begins when you realize that the life force within you is not unlimited or inexhaustible. It is its very limitation that makes it precious... and which drives us to use it... all of it ... never letting a drop of it... any of it... drip away unused and unregarded. We know the pleasures of life... and intend to explore each and every one of them until the engine that drives our magnificent being can do absolutely nothing more. That's why I tell you this: Miss Waters sings her song not for you and me who seize and savor life. For we do not need to make changes... Rather, these changes must be made by the folks -- "age-ists" every one of them -- who want us to stop living before our time, pushing us out of life, anxious to get what we have had. These folks are in the business of denial, living to block us, restrict us and chide us for ideas, thoughts and actions they deem unsuitable to our age and station... They are the ones who would remove us from life, not help us engage it. http://www.EarnAtHomeForLife.com Copyright Ardith Richardson - 2014 7 of 143
LIVING LIFE: Everyday Struggles with the Aging Generation It is for these folks and their disapproval and disdain that Miss Waters sings her song, for they cannot be reminded often and enough... "You're here today and then tomorrow you're gone" ... Thus I shall live my life while there is a crumb yet to enjoy. And if that bothers you or anyone, get over it... and make the changes which must be made today... for you have far greater need for them than I do... Envoy Dr. Lant turns 65 February 16, 2012. *** We invite your comments to this article.
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Sugar, sugar, or how we're digging our own graves bite by bite. One man's helpful tips for saving your life... starting this very minute.
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant. Author's program note. This is a broadside from a man whose once unhealthy life style can be glimpsed every single day, on every street, in every town, in every nation on Earth. This person was a textbook perfect example of how to destroy himself simply by opening mouth, shoveling in garbage, expanding waistline, and reaping the inevitable whirlwind that these days goes by the name of Diabetes Mellitus Type 2. Let's call this man Jeffrey Lant... for that is his name... though it could very well have been your name, for all the multitude of bad nutritional, dietary, exercise and life style habits are very likely yours. And you know it. So to begin this article I want to ask each of you readers the question my long- time physician Dr. Joseph Zorn put to me the day many years ago he gave me notice that I had diabetes. "Do you want to die early?," he said. "Or do you want to die later?" When you first hear this question, you may suppose it is about death... the unwanted event that comes too soon for each of us no matter when it comes. However, in truth, this question, completely focusing attention, is about life, about deciding how much of it you can literally give yourself and what you will do to make sure you get every single minute of it you can. The question is about what you will do to stay alive, stay healthy, and garner maximum joy before the Grim Reaper takes you along with everybody else. Death, you see, is certain. Life is most assuredly not. My answer was resolute, resounding, and certain. "I choose life." Sugar, in all its manifestations, suddenly seemed less important than it had been just a moment before. Life, with all its myriad of cares, problems, troubles, and perplexities suddenly seemed very important to me... as I hope after reading this article it will seem to you... important enough to make some timely and fundamental changes... while you still can. Facts about diabetes. Diabetes is one of the first diseases we humans ever knew we had. It is first described in an Egyptian manuscript dating from 1500 BC. In that document it was called the "great emptying of the urine"; that being one of its tell-tale signs. All the great cultures thereafter -- the Greek, Roman, Indian, Chinese -- knew about it, described its symptoms, and faced its incurability... and its rarity. For it was in those early days uncommon, not least because folks got more exercise than they do now and ate less of the "junk food" that defines our supposedly smart society where we by the millions hourly do not just select but blissfully embrace the worst of all options; the option whereby we pay for our ever advancing death date. Uncommon no longer. If the essence of diabetes has not changed since Appollonius of Memphis first used the word in 230 BC, one thing is very different: the number of people who have this disease... and the even greater number projected to have it in the next few years. Globally as of 2010 it was estimated 285 million people had Type 2 diabetes. This is equivalent to about 6% of the world's adult population. This number is dramatically different from as recently as 1985 when it was estimated some 30 million people were affected. The projected increase over the next decade is even greater. As such the World Health Organization now calls this a global epidemic. I go even farther than that. When you consider that each affected individual will in time suffer from a string of disabilities and http://www.EarnAtHomeForLife.com Copyright Ardith Richardson - 2014 10 of 143
LIVING LIFE: Everyday Struggles with the Aging Generation disfigurements including blindness, cardiovascular effects and neurological problems and will lose up to ten years of either his or her already too brief life span, this situation is more than an epidemic. It is a tragedy, made worse by the knowledge that much of this pain and suffering is avoidable, inevitable only if we do nothing to save ourselves. One man's recommendations. I decided to write this article after my most recent series of tests, tests that provide a detailed snap shot of my individual situation. My results were the best ever: body mass index 24.57/kg (goal is 25 or less) LDL 53 (goal is less than 100) blood pressure 128/70 (goal is less than 130/80) And the big one, Hemoglobin A1C 6.7 (goal is less than 6). "Keep up the good work" Dr. Zorn wrote on my "report card"... and I felt a surge of achievement. I had chosen life when he asked me... these numbers checked every 6 months showed that I was serious about achieving this objective. The battle wasn't won yet... could not be won in the sense of complete and total eradication.... but progress, real progress, was being made. He told me I could feel a sense of pride... and I did! Now I wish to share with you key insights into how it happened and how you might do it. In sharing this intelligence with you I want you to know that I am not a physician, not an expert in diabetes, and I make absolutely no claim that if you do these things you will cure your diabetes. I simply want to tell you what worked for me, things that produced proven results, and which should be considered by other diabetics. What worked for me. 1) stop thinking in terms of sugars. Call it instead "battery acid." If someone told you your favorite drinks, your favorite cakes, the ice cream you love had battery acid in them that would corrode your insides, would you be quite as enthusiastic about gorging yourself on them at will? Your first objective is to persuade yourself that what you are eating is often poisonous for you. When you give up the sweetness of sugar and regard it as battery acid, you're on your way. 2) Don't worry about failure. Every diabetic since 1500 BC has had days when you are determined to eat the wrong things, in the wrong proportions. When you do this (because you will do this), don't beat yourself up and fall off the wagon. Simply resume your better habits as soon as possible. Do not use occasional lapses as an excuse for total failure. 3) Don't use food as merit pay or consolation prize. Far too many people are either using food when they don't get something they desire... or when they do. Instead of regarding food strictly as a nutritional matter, they use it whenever they want TLC, whenever they need to "feel good." 4) Substitute water for juice and even diet drinks. I used to hate drinking water; no flavor, no sugar high. I have made vast progress here... and so you will. One part of your diabetic solution is as near as your kitchen faucet. Think about it. 5) Eat 6-8 small "meals" during the day. Give up full meals. "Graze" instead. My "meals" nowadays consist of raw fruits, nuts, carrots and lots of other vegetables. (I particularly like celery). Except for the big holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas when I let myself go, I eat little and often, never feeling hungry and maintaining my good test results. 6) Eat what you want. Too many diabetics think in terms of deprivation rather than in terms of http://www.EarnAtHomeForLife.com Copyright Ardith Richardson - 2014 11 of 143
LIVING LIFE: Everyday Struggles with the Aging Generation 6) Eat what you want. Too many diabetics think in terms of deprivation rather than in terms of additional time on this planet for good behavior. Here is the key: eat what you want so that you don't feel like a prisoner in your own body. But NEVER gorge yourself on the battery acid foods. 7) Don't worry about losing weight. When I was first diagnosed as a diabetic I weighed in at an uncomfortable and dangerous 210 pounds. How did I lose the weight? Read 1-6 above. Your body knows your ideal weight and will move you in the right direction if you'll do your part. Thus without dieting a single hour, my weight went from chunky 210 to svelt 162. I actually get compliments now for looking good... and I am vane enough at 65 to enjoy them. 8) Walk. See the world. Increasing the exercise you do is crucial for yourself. Personally, I walk. And because I cannot just walk aimlessly, I walk to places where I have errands to do... or brainstorm articles I am working on. In other words, I don't just walk.... I think when I walk and kill two birds with one stone. I like that. 9) Keep your old clothes. Try them on. Try them out. I like to astonish my neighbors when I tell them the trousers I am wearing I wore in graduate school 40 years ago. They are always amazed... I like that, too. 10) Don't go into a frenzy about test strips and meters. I stopped taking my blood sugar years ago. You see, your body lets you know if you're eating sensibly and managing your condition properly. My sugar levels went down as soon as I stopped fretting and driving my stress level through the roof. Last Words. There was once a time when I considered my diabetes as a death sentence and acted accordingly. But that day is long gone. I am not, of course, jubilant about having this disease, but I am no longer dismayed or hopeless. You see, I have a full life to live and I want back those precious days and hours diabetes holds in escrow for me. They are mine... and I intend, over time, to live them all, every single one. You need to make this vow, too... and keep it. "Short and sweet" is fine for letters, but will not do at all as a diagnosis for life. As I told you: I chose life that day of diagnosis many years ago. And I mean to have it, all of it! And so should you.... Final program note: for the music to accompany this article I have selected Wilson Pickett's bubblegum song "Sugar, sugar" first released in 1969. Go now to any search engine to find it. Remember, if you keep your sugar usage to peppy lyrics you'll live longer... and dance better! "Sugar, Sugar/ Ah honey, honey/ You are my candy girl / And you got me wanting you."
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'And a single ray of sunlight/ Reaches down to touch the golden boy.' Another university, another day, another sex scandal, all because boys will be boys.
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author's program note. You're beautiful. You're young. You've got hormones to die for... and you know how to move a puck, no one better... one with the swiftly moving hard disk.... skating like God Himself... dazzling... thrilling... the crowd on its feet for you, always on its feet for you. And in the adoration of multitudes you know nirvana... You are the hero... and everything, everyone is yours. "He can see the goalkeeper's eyes/ There's a magic to his feet." Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians, with their inimitable 1920s sound, had the first crack at a tune that summarized everything you need to know about adulation, America, and the big game. It was called "You've Got To Be A Football Hero"; its punch line, "to get along with the beautiful girls". Written in 1933 by Al Sherman, Buddy Fields, and Al Lewis it's the most widely recorded and performed American football anthem of all time. Warring's version is prime; Tuxedo Junction's much later 1970s version is sultry, seductive... and of course Olive Oyl in the 1935 cartoon film "Popeye" does what girls are supposed to do when confronted with so much eye-popping male pulchritude... she ogles, she pinches, she's his. The song, which you can find in any search engine and which you should hear before proceeding, is obviously for the gridiron, but its deeper message pertains to any sport; like hockey, the subject of today's newest scandal. For every sport idolizes the glorious life of the hero... so fast-moving, raucous in its manifestations, lyric in its language of physical perfection. We would all like to be this hero, to get along with the beautiful girls. But if we cannot be that hero, we want to be as close as possible to his sublime perfection... and to get this thing of such acute desire, we would give anything, everything; our love, our soul, our self esteem, our body. And therein lies the rub... Boston University, a tale of hockey, seamy, meretricious, riveting, delicious. The problem with humans and our culture is that the absolute certainties of yesterday become, in due course, the rudely derided and debunked falsities of tomorrow. In the process fortunes are made, fortunes are lost. Nimble footwork, a golden tongue, and the luck of the Irish are necessary to avoid being crushed and cast out with the much valued cultural bearings in which we once believed but believe no longer. But changing from one set of values, one set of cultural absolutes to another is not a crisp, efficient business. Oh, no. It's messy indeed, not least because many adherents of the old regime, the regime being displaced, refuse to go gentle into this good night. They like the verities of old.... and will do what's necessary to maintain them, for to give them up would be to give up on a hearty measure of life's deep joys... and that is unbearable. Thus what once was public and done in the light to save itself now takes place in utmost privacy and unannounced, secret, discrete, known only to the cognoscenti and loyal. It is an imperfect system... but better than losing the complete happiness of their greatest bliss. "A culture of sexual entitlement." http://www.EarnAtHomeForLife.com Copyright Ardith Richardson - 2014 14 of 143
LIVING LIFE: Everyday Struggles with the Aging Generation Wednesday, September 5, 2012 Boston University released the details in the latest of our fast-lengthening list of collegiate pranks, hijinx and luridities, the must-read details of sexual debaucheries. Painful though it must be, even the most prim, proper and chaste must read these details; purely in the interests of science of course and to know the facts, ma'am, and nothing but the facts. Prurience has no place amongst these researches; they are undertaken only to understand the lubricious evil which must, and not a day too soon, be cleansed from our once pristine and Godly land. And so the cultural teeter-totter moves up daily up and down. Those in the saddle have their way and so affront, insult and outrage those who, in the fullness of time and political wiles, move up and, having achieved their moment in the sun, proceed to affront, insult and outrage the very people who were just moments ago affronting, insulting and outraging them. Both sides use the unyielding language of profound morality. Neither gives quarter to the other; neither expects to be given such quarter. Internecine cultural wars are always the most ferociously fought, for those in control know what they must give up if they fail; while those striving for control are empowered by the sweet privileges and entitlements of victory to come and the heady delights of recrimination, retribution and revenge. Nudity on ice; a memorable party at Agganis Arena. Dear friend, neither you nor I was invited, and to admit this is most galling, so we recall with particular distress and mortification a late night 2009 NCAA championship party. Here dozens of the buff and beautiful (and the hangers on who dote upon them) drank from kegs in the locker room showers and took to the ice naked as God made them to do what God so enabled them to do better than anyone alive, to shoot pucks. Of course girls were present and of course there were peccadillos and rampant indiscretions, up to and including what 18th century gentlemen accounted the "last favors", though it must be admitted the asking and granting of such favors was done with the most coarse and inelegant language and in such conspicuous places as the nets where the team's ability to score was already notorious. Oh, yes, what a grand party.... Only the right people were invited, in the know, and this did not include campus police, BU administrators, trustees or One World pinko Communists. These and all the less talented students were firmly kept in the dark and so came to learn, too late, the shocking details of the Best Party Ever held in Greater Boston. Even celebrated hockey coach Jack Parker was not in the know, although this did not protect him from widespread criticism. Why didn't he know and take appropriate action.? Thus was a thorough investigation launched and its instigators found to their horror and dismay that boys with sublime gifts, including the gift of victory, having been catered and kow-towed to by all from the first minute this talent was observed had come to see themselves as God's gift to the world... acting accordingly at all times and in every situation. Thus did indulging these paragons became the part and joy of all, while the gods of ice enjoyed it all and fervently, not least from the painful recognition that their time in the sun would be brief indeed, as it always is. And this is God's exquisite punishment, given only to those who dared approach in their sublimity and awe to His perfection, succeeding for a moment, forced to the bittersweet remembrance for the rest of life. Can't wait for God's punishment. But, of course, the moralists in power for the moment would not wait for God's good judgement. They needed their sanctions and penalties to be savored and set at once. And so a great report was http://www.EarnAtHomeForLife.com Copyright Ardith Richardson - 2014 15 of 143
LIVING LIFE: Everyday Struggles with the Aging Generation created; 11 pages of charges, evidences and explicit details Item: How the boys assaulted co-eds with impunity. Item: How a "celebrity culture" around the team had fueled a "permissive attitude of sexual entitlement" among players. Item: How supervision of the players too often fell to the coaching staff rather than to university administrators, and how these coaches cared for one thing and one thing only: victory, great victory, stupendous victory. Item: How the team's star culture is "actively supported by a small subset" of undergraduates, including women who pursue players romantically and do whatever it takes to please them. Item: How players are allowed to compete despite dismal academic records and constant coddling on the active principal that gods don't need degrees, when they have everything else. After exhumation, promises, and tardy pledges things will improve. Now an abashed administration, red-faced and apologetic, headed by Boston University president Robert Brown is bending over backwards to make amends to the outraged, the politically correct, and those who have waited a lifetime to rein in the randy ice kings and their thoughtless regime and animal behaviors. Will this solve the problem? Doubtful. It may quell it, diminish it, take off the immediate edge and lower current outrage. But as long as the beautiful girls like the agile celebrities of ice and turf, there can never be a "final solution." And that's why I propose to go to any search engine and hear Fred Waring's great song again and again. For this is as close as I shall ever be of becoming a football hero or anything like it. It'll just have to do.
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Know Face Wrinkle - Anti Aging Help Can Stop Premature Aging
Face wrinkles are delicate creases which are particularly visible on the face, neck and hands. They are caused by thin, sagging skin. When the collagen and elastin present in the connective tissue of the skin weakens or decreases in number, there is an appearance of wrinkles. The skin where there is an appearance of wrinkles appears thinner, loses fat content, elasticity and smoothness. A face wrinkle commonly appears during the aging process but premature appearance of face wrinkle is a matter of concern. There are several common causes of wrinkles. Some of them are overexposure to sun, pollution, smoking, drug use, weight loss, stress, loss of vitamin E and other factors. Lessening of face wrinkles can be done by lifting of the skin. There are several anti-aging creams, topical medicines, cosmetic procedures and surgical procedures which can be used to reduce the appearance of skin lines or even eliminate them. There are many wrinkle reducing agents and procedures which give positive effects. But both surgery and high quality anti-aging creams are quite expensive. However this does mean you have to break your bank to get help. The following suggestions will help you save money and slow down the lines on your bodies skin. Face gymnastics can be practiced. Face exercise can help improve the circulation and helps in toning the muscles. Stretch the muscles to keep them healthy and strong. Exercise helps in enhancing the elasticity of the skin. Face lift exercises help decrease the depth of the face wrinkles. It can help reduce wrinkles around the forehead and lips. Anti-aging creams and topical medicines containing Alpha Hydroxy Acids, Antioxidants and Vitamin A Acid are used in treating face wrinkle. Cosmetic procedures such as Chemical Peels, Dermabrasion, Non-ablative Laser Resurfacing and Laser Resurfacing are practiced. There are many home made natural anti wrinkle treatments available. Some of them are as follows* Mix the pulp of a ripe papaya together with half a teaspoon of olive oil, apply it and leave it for half an hour before washing. * Almond oil is a good natural overnight treatment for face wrinkle. * Mix equal amounts of honey and rice powder together, put in the fridge for half an hour, then smoother the wrinkles with this paste, leave it for half an hour and then wash your face gently. * Mix 1 tsp honey with 1 tsp of milk cream. Apply and then wash after 20 minutes. * Cut open a Vitamin -E capsule, add tsp of glycerine and apply. Wash after 15-20 minutes. There are numerous steps which you can take to help prevent face wrinkles: 1. A diet rich in fresh fruits, vegetables and whole grains should be consumed. 2. Use a good quality sunscreen lotion whenever you go out in the sun. 3. Use NATURAL moisturizing creams and lotions regularly. 4. Light massage with cream or lotion should be done every night to keep your skin soft and supple. 5. Avoid smoking and 2nd hand smoke. 6. Get plenty of exercise and the appropriate hours of sleep your body requires to stay healthy. 7. Drink alcohol in moderation. Hey! lets face it. One of the biggest things that will keep your face wrinkle free is good common sense. Simply following the suggestions above will help in your anti face wrinkle campaign. http://www.EarnAtHomeForLife.com Copyright Ardith Richardson - 2014 17 of 143
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Natural Remedy For Dry Skin - Finding The Right Remedies For Your Dry Skin
There are a wide variety of different options that are available when it comes to finding the right natural remedy for dry skin. If you are dealing with dry skin, then finding the right natural remedy is vitally important. It will help you overcome your dry skin, returning its natural moisture so that you can look and feel younger. There are a number of natural remedies listed below for dry skin. Try combining different natural remedies for dry skin until you find the combination that is going to meet your needs the best. - * You can try mashing up half of an avocado, mixing it together with a couple of drops worth of the juice from a fresh lime. Spread this well mixed paste over your recently cleansed skin. Allow it to remain on your skin for between 15 minutes and 20 minutes. You can wash your skin off alternately using cold water and warm water. This is an effective skin care home remedy for you to consider. - * Another excellent home remedy is for you simply to consider eating more fresh fruits and vegetables. This is because fruits and vegetables are often very rich in Vitamin B and Vitamin A, and both of these vitamins are especially helpful in keeping your skin feeling young, healthy and moisturized. - * When it comes to washing your face, if you want your face to be young feeling and moisturized, then you should be using mineral water rather than tap water because it puts more healthy minerals in your skin rather than taking minerals out. - * Here is another worthwhile natural remedy for dry skin: Try mixing between 2 tablespoons and 5 tablespoons worth of raw peanuts with milk and mash them together until you have crafted a fine paste. Now add in a teaspoon worth of raw honey into this mix. Apply the paste to your face and other places where your skin is dry and allow it to completely dry. Wash it off using cold water after it has completely dried. This is another excellent way to perk up dry skin. - * Before you go in for a bath, try adding between 5 drops and 6 drops worth of lavender oil or oat extract to your bath water. When your skin soaks up the water and becomes soft, it will also soak up the extracts or oils in order to improve upon your dry skin. - * Having a milk bath once every month is another excellent home remedy for dealing with dry skin that is well worth your consideration. You can try this more often if it seems to be having a positive effect on you. Try out different home remedies for your dry skin problems until you are properly satisfied with the results that you obtain. Experiment with different dry skin home remedies, and combine different remedies to create a dry skin care regimen that suits you.
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LIVING LIFE: Everyday Struggles with the Aging Generation It isn?t always easy to relieve insomnia. Once you have dealt with it for awhile, you may think it is just something you have to live with. But with some natural remedies you may be able to achieve a good night?s sleep again and have an easier time enjoying your days.
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Neck And Throat Muscles Show Age Faster-Exercising Them Can Help
Over time facial muscles lose elasticity creating wrinkles and age your appearance. Throat and neck muscles show age faster than the muscles on the face making it more challenging to treat those areas. Many people will have expensive and painful face lift surgeries to reduce the sagging areas. For a cheap and pain-free face lift, you can perform regular stretches and facial exercises targeting the areas. Here are the facial exercises to help tone the neck and throat areas of your face. Sit on the floor with your legs folded comfortably. Keeping your spine straight, tilt your head slowly backwards. Hold this position for the count of ten. Return your head to the upright position. Repeat this for five sets. You can feel the stretching in the jawline. While in the same position, relax your shoulders look straight ahead. Slowly turn your head to the right so your chin is even with your shoulder. Hold this for the count of five. Return to facing forward. Slowly turn your head to the left so your chin is even with your left shoulder. Hold for the count of five. Return to facing forward. Repeat this for three sets on both sides. In the same position, keep your head facing forward and keep your shoulders relaxed. Tilt your neck to the right side. Hold for the count of five. Do this to the left side. Do this for both sides for three sets. You will feel the stretch in the neck areas. While still on the floor, switch to the position of being on your hands and knees. Drop your head towards the floor keeping your neck, spine, and elbows straight. Inhale slowly. As you exhale slowly, curve your back downward while lifting your head upwards. Repeat these five sets. Sitting on the floor in a comfortable position face forward. Tilt your head backwards slowly. Move your jaw up and down. Hold this position for the count of ten. Return to facing forward. Do this for three sets. Use these exercises to tone and tighten the muscles in your neck and throat. Do them every day to build stronger muscles to create a younger appearance. You will see results with a few weeks when you are dedicated to performing the exercise daily. To help increase the enjoyment of theses exercises, add soothing music and burn incense or candles. The calming effects of the aroma will add to the calming affects to your mind and spirit. When your body and mind is calm, you receive a higher level of benefits from all exercise. Think of the healthy benefits the exercises and the calmness will provide you. You will feel younger the more you take care of yourself.
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Questions Relationship
If your relationship needs work and you have questions relationship counseling may be able to help. Before we get into all that though, take a minute and read this article. I will give you some tips on how to improve your relationship. The first thing I can tell you is the two of you need to sit down together and talk. Make an appointment with each other if you have to and do it when you will both be home and can take an hour, or maybe two, with nothing else on your plate. Give each other your undivided attention so you can work everything out. Send the kids out with grandma and grandpa for the evening. Start by making a pact that neither of you is allowed to get mad at what is presented at this meeting. Now, each of you list what you each think is good about your relationship and what things could use some work. Make this list as complete as possible but don't get caught up in the minutia. You do not have all night and need to try to get at least some of the questions relationship answered. Beside each item on the list under the heading 'improvement needed', come up with ways to make each item listed better or go away all together. Be creative with your ideas, if you both end up laughing during this session so much the better. Make a commitment to each other that you will both do everything you can to make your relationship a better one. This is the first step in relearning how to work together on your relationship and before you know it everyone concerned will be happier than they have been in a long time. Even your kids will notice a difference in how you are reacting to one another. Get back to doing little things for each other again. When was the last time you wrote him a note and put it in his lunch or you told her she was the love of your life? It is just too bad that we all get complacent and stop doing the things that make relationships special when they were all brand new and we are just getting to know one another. If that love is still there, then there is hope for the two of you and your relationship. If you do not already have one, choose one night of the week for a date night. Go to your favorite restaurant each week or make it a little more interesting and adventurous and choose a different place each week. It doesn't matter where you go just as long as you keep talking and keep the relationship fresh and exciting. Along with these tips, it couldn't hurt to check into seeing a relationship counselor. Someone well versed in helping couples stay together by putting their relationship back together when it starts to crumble may help. Where there is love there is always hope. If there are issues that the two of you cannot work out by yourselves this is the best option to make things better. A good counselor will work with both of you, separately and together, to come up with ways to compromise that are acceptable to each of you. If lack of communication is an issue in your relationship the counselor can show you better ways to communicate with each other and give you exercises to do at home so you can practice. No one is born knowing how to communicate effectively, you have to learn it. So do not feel bad by having to ask for help if your questions relationship need answered, feel good that your marriage will not become just another statistic.
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Remedy For Dry Facial Skin - Discovering The Right Way To Treat Dry Skin
Dry facial skin refers to a situation when you are not producing enough oil by the oil glands in your face, and so your skin is not as soft or as moisturized as it is supposed to be. Dry facial skin is a serious problem when the humidity in the air goes down, especially during the winter months. Although the face is one of the most common places where dry skin exists and needs to be treated, there are a number of other common areas where skin can be affected by dryness. These areas include the lower arms, the thighs, the chest, the abdomen and of course the face, especially around the eyes and the cheeks. When you are dealing with dry skin, finding the right remedy for dry facial skin is important. Dry facial skin can make your skin feel tight after you wash it, and it can also cause cracks in the skin as well as scaly feeling in severe cases. This is a common condition that can affect many people. The right way to treat dry skin is to understand what things actually cause dry skin. Finding the right remedy for dry facial skin means understanding what is causing your dry skin problem in the first place. The various causes behind dry skin include environmental factors, nutrient deficiencies, skin problems and a lesser supply of oil. - * There are a number of environmental factors capable of leading to dry skin problems on and around the face including less humidity, excessive use of makeup, cold, too much exposure to the sun, pollution and use of harsh soaps or cleansing products. - * There are a number of nutrient deficiencies that are capable of leading to dry skin problems on and around the face, and these include a Vitamin E deficiency, a vitamin A deficiency or a vitamin B deficiency as all are capable of causing dry skin. - * There are a number of skin related problems that are capable of leading to dry skin problems on and around the face, and these include eczema, psoriasis and dermatitis. - * There are a number of skin oil related problems that are capable of leading to dry skin problems on and around the face, including but not limited to instances where the oil glands on the face are not producing enough oil. The best way to treat problems relating to dry skin is to address what the primary underlying cause is for the dry facial skin that you are experiencing. Once you have a grasp on the dry skin problems that you are personally dealing with, that is when you can take the right steps toward fighting back. There are a wide variety of different dry skin remedies in existence, each providing a unique solution to a unique problem relating to your skin. The best way to cure your skin is to choose the right remedy for the right problem.
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Romantic Gifts-Buy Gifts That Make Your Loved One Feel Special
If you have been in a relationship for some time buying romantic gifts should be pretty easy for you. Knowing what to buy someone to make them feel wanted in that special way is an important part of any relationship. Romantic gifts come in all shapes, sizes and price ranges. From "diamonds are a girls best friend" to sexy lingerie, you really can't go wrong. Just make sure you know what she wants and likes. If you plan on popping the question this holiday season then make the ring you pick out fiery and brilliant. If you are buying for her make sure you 'get it' when it comes to how she feels about romance and what types of things are romantic to her. She may feel completely different than anyone else you have ever been with so do not make the mistake of going by what an ex girlfriend would have wanted. make the gift specific to who you are seeing now. The best way to figure out what someone wants and thinks is romantic is to listen to them when they talk about things they like and do not like. If this is still a bit complicated then do not be afraid to come right out and ask what types of things she considers romantic. She probably has a laundry list of things she would like to see you doing in the relationship to keep things spiced up. If you are buying for him then try to figure out what he likes and thinks is romantic. He may think you are trying to be romantic if you do something as simple as hand him a beer when he comes home from work. Some guys might be a little more sensitive than that but I was married to one of those guys so do not think I am being rude or mean, I lived it. Some other suggestions for gift for her would be buying her a bottle of her favorite cologne or perfume or maybe a new handbag she has been dying to own. Another great idea is to personally put together a gift basket with all of her favorite things in it. Buy a nice sized basket and fill it with soaps, candles, bath salts and bubble bath. Throw in a bottle of wine, a new wine glass, a book from her favorite author and maybe some chocolates so she can use all of those things to relax in a nice warm tub for hours while enjoying your gift to the fullest. Do the same for him only include his favorite after shave or cologne, maybe a new razor or shaver. Go all out and buy him the old-fashioned double edged razor or straight razor to learn to shave with. Some of the sets are pretty nice and include the shaving soap, brush and stand for the razor. Romantic gifts do not have to be hard, or intimidating, to shop for. As long as each gift you give comes from the heart then each gift will be received with appreciation and joy this holiday season.
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LIVING LIFE: Everyday Struggles with the Aging Generation When these are under control, put that extra cash back into making some extra payments on your consolidation loan to help reduce that balance as quickly as possible. While self help debt reduction takes time, learning to take responsibility for your own financial situation can be a vital lesson to learn. After all, it took you time to get into debt so be patient while you spend some time getting back out of it again.
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Serious Skin Care Products And What They Can Do For You
If you are looking for serious skin care products to help clear up acne or just make your skin look it's best, you'll be happy to know that you have many options to choose from. Today we have everything from lotions and creams, to somewhat more invasive techniques besides cosmetic surgery, all the way up to full surgical procedures. Many people would rather start with some more modest skin care regimes such as lotions and creams. This article will help you find the right skin care regimen for you and show you the best way to take care of your skin for a lifetime of beauty. One thing you cannot overlook is your diet. This may sound like an odd thing to talk about in an article about skin care but the reality is that good skin starts on the inside. If you aren't providing your body with the proper nutrition than there is no cream in the world that can give you healthy looking, glowing skin. Many people have heard that eating greasy foods can contribute to acne, but that is only the tip of the iceberg. It's not just about what you eat, but what you don't get enough of. Your diet should be filled with foods rich in vitamins, minerals, and anti-oxidants which can stimulate collagen growth. You also want to make sure your body is properly hydrated. As with your diet, moisturizing your skin starts on the inside too. Don't forget about exercise. This too can help give your skin that healthy glow. Exercise will improve your cardiovascular system which will improve circulation and increase blood flow to every part of your body, including your skin. Now that you know that skin care stars on the inside it's time to concentrate on those things we need to do on the outside. Most people know that they should limit their time in the sun. If you have to be outdoors wear a hat and sunscreen. While many people think they look healthy with a tan, the reality is that you are causing serious damage to your skin. It's easy to ignore this since the damage won't show up for decades, but when you're 40 or so you'll be very glad you took care of your skin when you were younger. To properly care for your skin you have to use common sense when wearing makeup. You should never wear your makeup to bed. Sleeping with your makeup on for just one night ages your skin 7 days. That can really add up. Finding the right products to use on your skin is very important. If you want to only use the best products you should only use lotions that contain anti-oxidants. This will encourage the repair of free radicals. When you wash your face make sure to use a mild, preferably organic, cleanser. After you've washed your face make sure to apply moisturizer right away. I hope this article has shown you that serious skin care products are readily available and while they can make a difference they are just part of what it takes to keep your skin beautiful now, and in the future.
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Shopping For The Lady In Your Life-Gifts For The Holidays For Your Love
The Christmas season is here again and you will no doubt be shopping for the lady in your life. Depending on where you are in your relationship will determine the type of gift you buy. The gift you buy will also depend upon the type of person she is and what her interests are. Make sure you know who she is before you try to buy her a gift. Shopping for the lady in your life does not have to be hard. She will appreciate the thought no matter what the gift is but if you take into consideration the WOW! factor then she will love the gift even more. The gift that will most likely elicit the WOW! response from her is...jewelry. Every woman loves to receive some special gift in a small, nicely wrapped box from the jewelry store. If you have not asked her to marry you yet and think that this Christmas is the right time to ask her then, if you haven't already, start shopping now for the perfect solitaire to put on her finger. If you are not quite there yet but want her to know that she is the one you hope to marry someday then go for a nice necklace and earring set with diamonds and maybe her birthstone set in 14 carat gold or sterling silver. Check to see what her present jewelry collection consists of and either keep to the trend that she has going or buy something completely different so she will think fondly of you every time she wears it. If she has mostly sterling silver then buy her some yellow gold or vise versa. Do not be afraid to spend a little extra to get something you know she will love. On the other hand if you have no idea what kinds things she likes then as to meet her best friend for lunch or coffee and ask her to go with you to the jewelry store to pick something out. If for some reason jewelry is out of the question then get her something like tickets to a show or concert. You know what kind of music she likes so buy the tickets and wrap them up in nice paper and put them under the tree. If concert tickets do not work either then maybe you could make her something if you are so inclined. A nice collage of pictures that you both took on that summer vacation you went on last year might just melt her heart at Christmastime. Put it all together and then get it framed by a professional to give it that extra special touch. If you are able to put a decent sentence together you might also want to include a little note or even a poem about the whole experience and how you feel being with her. Poems do not necessarily have to rhyme so just try to get some nice words down on paper and she will think you are the most romantic person she has ever met. See, shopping for the lady in your life isn't difficult at all. All you have to do is let her know that the gift you chose came from the heart and she will treasure it always.
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LIVING LIFE: Everyday Struggles with the Aging Generation These are the best ways to combat slowed metabolism as women get older.
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LIVING LIFE: Everyday Struggles with the Aging Generation will ever care about your money as much as you do.
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LIVING LIFE: Everyday Struggles with the Aging Generation move it to another form of investments. That way, they can keep their money in a safe haven during the crash. So instead of having to recoup their investments, they've lost little or none of the investments in the first place. Not only that, but in many cases their investments continued to grow during the market crash! So while millions are scrambling and hoping they can recoup what they've lost ( a process that may take years) savvy investors are actually making money during the down market. Keep all this information in mind as you start planning for retirement today.
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LIVING LIFE: Everyday Struggles with the Aging Generation told that eating a ton of protein or taking protein supplements will help them gain muscle weight. People starting fitness regimes are often lured into buying protein powders or bars. However, the true secret to building muscle is training hard and consuming enough calories. While some extra protein is needed to build muscle, most American diets provide more than enough protein. Between 1.0 and 1.5 grams of protein per kilogram body weight per day is sufficient if your calorie intake is adequate and you're eating a variety of foods. For a 150-pound athlete, that represents 68-102 grams of protein a day. Calcium is needed for- strong bones and proper muscle function. Dairy foods are the best source of calcium. However, studies show that many women who are trying to lose weight cut back on dairy products. Women who don't get enough calcium may be at risk for stressfractures and, when they're older, osteoporosis. Young women between the ages of 11 and 24 need about 1,200 milligrams of calcium a day. After age 25, the recommended intake is 800 milligrams. Low-fat dairy products are a rich source of calcium and also are low in fat and calories. Strength training takes energy and that energy comes from your intake of healthy calories, which of course come from the healthy food you eat. By following the above tips, you will be able to maintain your strength training at it's most effective level.
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LIVING LIFE: Everyday Struggles with the Aging Generation active ingredient from a broken tablet. She, or the baby, won't be harmed when her partner is taking it. However, given that in some men propecia affects the amount of semen produced, if you are trying to conceive this may pose a problem. This side effect does not affect all, or most, men. But check with your doctor if you think this may be a concern.
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LIVING LIFE: Everyday Struggles with the Aging Generation zero while still growing that money at above average rates. It's true, and that's what the real experts do with their own money every single day. So, Todays Economy and Retirement don't have to be working against each other. Just become an educated and proactive partner in your investments and you will most likely see that you are earning more than ever!
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LIVING LIFE: Everyday Struggles with the Aging Generation - Modern farming methods may deplete the nutrient quality of food. - High stress levels may diminish nutrients in your body. - Dieting may affect nutrient levels. - Aging reduces the ability of our bodies to utilize certain nutrients. - Exercise can deplete some nutrients. It may be sufficient to supplement with a well-balanced multi-vitamin / mineral product but a number of products are available that specifically cater for the requirements of healthy hair.
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LIVING LIFE: Everyday Struggles with the Aging Generation This is not an exhaustive list of symptoms by any means, but it can give you an idea of what to look for. If you can honestly look at yourself and see some of these traits then you need to do yourself a favor and get help.
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LIVING LIFE: Everyday Struggles with the Aging Generation serious side effects. Depending on your doctor, you may not want to ask them if you should take natural supplements but only if it would be safe with what you are already taking. The reason I say this is that many western doctors simply don't believe in the thousands of years of anecdotal evidence that these natural remedies work. They are often very dismissive and would likely just tell you they don't work... period. And while it may be true that they won't work for you, as long as there are no interactions with other things you are taking, what have you got to lose? Vitamins and menopause can go hand in hand, just find out which ones are best for you.
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LIVING LIFE: Everyday Struggles with the Aging Generation woman's doctor can say more definitively.
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'But there are dreams that cannot be And there are storms we cannot weather.' Of Aaron Swartz, 26, Internet visionary. Dead by his own hand, January 11, 2013.
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant. Author's program note. Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman and Aaron Swartz had been an item for 18 months or so. She was sharply aware of the dark melancholy that could come at any time out of nowhere, seizing him, casting him into a despair without end, without mercy, without reason and with utterly no hope whatsoever. It was always frightening for both of them because it left both exhausted, anxious, never knowing when it might return... only to stay forever, locking her out and him within, lovers separated by bleak futility. So were their young lives and love blighted and made uncertain. On Friday, January 11, Taren was up, getting ready for work. Aaron was still in bed. Instinctively, she knew that if she could get him up, entice a little food in him, put a smile on his pale face, he was better positioned to meet another day and his particular demons. And so as she told The Boston Globe in a telephone interview, "I really tried everything I could think of to get him out of bed. I opened the curtains, played music, tickled him, and eventually it got to the point of throwing water on him." Nothing worked. She was terribly worried... knew he was in a "really difficult place" with his trial dead ahead... didn't want to leave him, was already late for work. He smiled and told her he needed rest, that he'd be fine, that he'd stay in bed and sleep. Yes, he'd be fine, urging her on her way. Then he smiled again, perhaps the last smile of his young life. So she smiled and shut the door. He and the melancholy he called "Raw Nerve" were now alone together... together with God Almighty, omniscient, omnipotent, omniparous... Throughout the morning, Taren texted him with affectionate messages and the ideas he loved. There was no answer, no response at all to the concern of his beloved. Nor to anything else. Aaron, firebrand, computer prodigy, revolutionary, lover of humanity, seeker after truth... was already beyond the cares of men, free of even the miseries that had assailed him just minutes before, turning life into unendurable burden. At last, and by his own determined hand, he was at peace... the countenance of God lighting his way, lightening his load; inscrutable no longer but welcoming, accepting, the God of eternal love. "I Dreamed a Dream." For this tale of our wired times and one of its gifted creators gone awry, now gone forever, I have selected one of the greatest achievements from the fertile partnership of Claude-Michel Schonberg (music) and Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel (lyrics). It is "I Dreamed a Dream" from "Les Miserables" (1985). It is a tune that bites deep and makes the tears run hot and fast, for like Fantine we have all believed... and been disillusioned; loved and been abandoned; given and been spurned... ... oppressed by "dreams that cannot be And... storms we cannot weather." Thus we have all known our own particular version of Aaron Swartz' story... and can therefore attest to its validity... and its excruciating pain, searing, so fundamental a part of our human experience. You'll find many fine versions in any search engine. Go now... and let it move you. Aaron's story. Swartz was born November 8, 1986 in Chicago, the son of Susan and Robert Swartz. His father had founded a software company and from an early day young Aaron was obsessed by technology, http://www.EarnAtHomeForLife.com Copyright Ardith Richardson - 2014 113 of 143
LIVING LIFE: Everyday Struggles with the Aging Generation ardently studying computers, the Internet and its unique culture. When he was just 13, Swartz was a winner of the ArsDigita Prize, a competition for young people who created "useful, educational, and collaborative" Web sites. The prize included a trip to Cambridge, Massachusetts to the august Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Thus, unknowingly on both sides, did the protagonist of the tale, American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist and the "scene of the crime" come together in an uneasy embrace, from which even death did not part them. MIT, of course, citadel of America's technical might and constant innovation, knew prodigies of course; they were common along Massachusetts Avenue in the inelegant concrete bunkers which disdained any grace or artistry whatsoever. Harvard students, on the other side of Central Square, might sniff and condescend to the "nerds" but these nerds wore their social awkwardness and bad manners like the red badge of courage. They knew that the planet's future and the well being of millions would be shaped by them, however socially inept, ill at ease, unwashed and disheveled they might be. Swartz, slight, a wisp of a lad, looking like a child up too late, hair an outrageous mop, eager to know you, befriend you, learn from you loved the 24-hour-a-day, projects-always-percolating environment. Its high energy, high stakes, high destiny lifestyle grabbed him like fly paper. He was to this manner born... and it took him, quirks and all, to its ample and exuberant heart. Aaron was home... "I dreamed a dream in days gone by/ When hope was high / And life worth living" To understand what happened next you must know something of the Internet, something of the tech community and something about MIT, at once corporate giant and bubbling cauldron of constantly new and exciting ideas. It is a place of the youthful enthusiasm that only comes once in life; a place where the best and the brightest constantly advance, discuss, shape and discard ideas, all night, all day, thereby inventing our future. It is a place where change, transforming change, is the object of the day and the ideas of the past, no matter how serviceable they may once have been, are derided as old hat and unapologetically cast aside, only to be replaced in their turn. Swartz loved this culture and its unending focus on making the world, in every aspect, better and better still. He approached this objective from many directions for he was a man glad to share, hoping you'd share with him as people were generally glad to do. Sharing, not selling, information became his mantra... and his downfall; increasingly because what he "shared" did not belong to him, was not his to give. In late 2010 and early 2011, Swartz downloaded about 4 million documents from the JSTOR ("Journal Storage") archives. In the process he crashed some of JSTOR's servers. By now a host of people were involved in this matter, including officials at MIT, JSTOR... and the FBI. On January 6, 2011 Swartz got the knock on the door he must have hoped would never come. He was arrested and charged by Carmen Ortiz, U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, with wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer and recklessly damaging a protected computer. This was a felony charge; the kind of charge major criminals get. Not least the kind of charge which, if proven, would deprive Swartz of his right to vote, give him up to 35 years in prison and a million in fines. All of a sudden the world was a very different place, threatening, ominous, determined to crush and http://www.EarnAtHomeForLife.com Copyright Ardith Richardson - 2014 114 of 143
LIVING LIFE: Everyday Struggles with the Aging Generation obliterate. "I had a dream my life would be/ So different from this hell I'm living." Once Swartz was arrested all the characters of the final chapter began to assemble... Aaron's lawyers and supporters... prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's office and other law enforcement agencies... representatives of JSTOR and MIT... partisans of the prosecutors who wanted to "make an example" and his supporters who cited his previous squeaky clean record and willingness to sign an agreement not to do anything like this again. But perhaps most important of all there was "Raw Nerve" which wiped out all hope and exacerbated all despair until Aaron Swartz bore only a semblance to the high energy, far seeing, joyful reformer he had once been, and not so long ago. Now was the moment for humanity... to read Swartz the riot act for he had transgressed... but without locking him away for even the four to six months proposed; convicted felon; no right to vote ever again. Now was the moment for empathy... for understanding... for an appropriate deal; a deal that would admonish Swartz without destroying him... for the nation needs such audacious thinkers with their profound knowledge of the Internet, its technology, and its burgeoning uses. Where was this person? How could so many who knew Aaron and his plight see him and yet fail to perceive his need... how could this happen? "There was a time when men were kind/ When their voices were soft/ And their words inviting... /There was a time/ Then it all went wrong." No more so than with Aaron Swartz.. Envoi, Aaron's words, his timeless warning to us... "And it will happen again; sure, it will have another name, and maybe a different excuse, and probably do its damage in a different way, but make no mistake, the enemies of the freedom to connect have not disappeared. The fire in those politicians' eyes has not been put out." Thus does dead Aaron Swartz, far too soon taken, show us what we must do. Now we must do it and keep the faith.
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U.S. Presidential Libraries. Time for radical rethinking as "Hail to the Chief" gets way out of hand.
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant. Author's program note. I admit it. I am a presidential buff. I have been for all of my 66 years. I like reading about them, can't get enough of their early lives, campaigns, policies and peccadilloes, and the tragedies and obsequies which I regard with the same high seriousness and reverence as my own family's. For make no mistake about it, for most of us presidents are the Fathers of the Nation and deserve the admiration, consideration and respect we give our own fathers. And it is because of this admiration and respect that I advance the audacious proposals of this article, for it is past time to scrutinize and re-think the matter of the presidential legacies called Presidential Libraries and Museums. For you see they are, as they stand today, obsolete, expensive, white elephants, inconvenient, grossly inadequate to the task they must perform but cannot perform under the present inefficient system which has grown up like Topsy without vision, efficiency, sufficient financing, organization and maximum utility. In short the "system" is a mess, more muddled with each new president's addition of his library, the ultimate presidential "entitlement" of all. Here, now I draw the line: Presidential ego (none more bloated anywhere on earth) must give way to public instruction and utility. But before we begin, here's the peppy campaign song I selected to accompany this article. It appears in no presidential library because none of the three presidents mentioned in it have such libraries. And that, of course, is just one more reason why the present flawed, inadequate, incomplete system ignoring most presidents, must be reconstructed for the benefit, first and foremost, of the presidential institution; the executive branch of our tri-partite government. Such an institution must be a testament, an ornament, a monument to the presidency itself, infinitely more so than merely to the men who have, for a time, held the high office and wrestled with certain events occurring during their administrations, events which might very well have had, most likely did have their roots in earlier administrations and their conclusions still later, in others. Intricate problems, intractable, interminable, incontrollable demand the talents of many presidents; to truncate such matters into one administration, one president warps, distorts and misrepresents history. Events must never be boxed into terms for mere ease but must be presented as they developed through the several presidents involved in each. In such a way is history best served as well as the various presidents who had a hand, deft or otherwise, in making it. Now the tune... "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too", originally published as "Tip and Ty" was a very popular and influential campaign song of the Whig Party's colorful Log Cabin Campaign of 1840. With its catchy lyrics (and unlimited hard cider) it helped end the era of President Andrew Jackson and his hand-picked successor Martin Van Buren, ridiculed as a small man, effete, with small ideas, rumored to wear scent and a girdle. Find it now in any search engine and enjoy its infectious rhythms. "What's the cause of this commotion, motion, motion/ Our country through?/ It is the ball a-rolling on/ For Tippecanoe and Tyler too/ For Tippecanoe and Tyler too/ And with them we'll beat little Van, Van, Van/ Van is a used-up man." General William Henry Harrison won, thereby becoming the first Whig president. He got a burial place in Vincennes, Indiana and a modest house museum in North Bend, Ohio. But no grandiose http://www.EarnAtHomeForLife.com Copyright Ardith Richardson - 2014 116 of 143
LIVING LIFE: Everyday Struggles with the Aging Generation presidential library. His successor John Tyler became the first vice president to ascend to the presidency upon the death of the incumbent. He, too, warranted nothing more upon his death in 1862 than a respectable monument in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, engraved with suitably sonorous sentiments. His private residence Sherwood Forest is still owned by his family, who, from their own resources, make the nation's longest frame house open to the public. Because he died an avowed secessionist and supporter of the Confederacy, he was dropped from the honorable roll of American presidents, for all that he had tried, right into Abraham Lincoln's early days as president to preserve the Union. When Virginia seceded, he went with her and so became a traitor, and that was that. The man they defeated, Van Buren, ended up with an historic property called "Lindenwald" near Albany. It is thread bare and artifact-less to a degree. The day I visited with a friend, we were the only visitors. The park ranger asked if we might like to purchase Van Buren's heavily ornate early Victorian dining table. He wasn't kidding. It sold at auction in New York just a few months later! The administrators couldn't raise the few bucks needed to keep it in situ and so created another problem screaming for prompt resolution. With any luck one fine day His Excellency's dining table and chairs will return to Old Kinderhook. Brief history of the U.S. presidential library system. The presidential library system is a nationwide network of 13 libraries administered by the Office of Presidential Libraries, which is part of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). These are repositories for preserving and making available the papers, records, collections and other historical materials of every President of the United States since Herbert Hoover. Just 13 libraries, you say; what happened to all the other presidents? Good question; without a good answer. Some presidents (but by no means all) have libraries and museums operated by private foundations, historical societies, or state governments. The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is owned and operated by the State of Illinois, for instance. Thus some presidents are ignored, their deeds undervalued and forgotten whilst others reside through the years in elegance, luxury, their place in the nation's history secure and comfortably maintained. This is not right; it is not fair; and it does not do justice either to the presidents so poorly treated, if treated at all, or their individual and collective work. "Hail to the Chief has taken precedence over all and thus is the republic undermined and the imperial presidency built. It is time to take a new look at the entire business of Presidential Libraries and Museums, ob ovo, "from the egg." For each addition to the present system only exacerbates its inefficiencies and makes the inadequacies even more glaring than they already are. What needs to be done... and at once. First, President Obama, the next slated for elevation to library and museum sainthood, must say "basta" to the nation, that enough is enough; that he is willing, in the greater interests of the nation and his office, to forego perhaps its greatest perquisite... ... That instead, he will use his position, his clout, his undeniable fund raising skills to create a new kind of museum with the explicit role of explaining and exalting the presidency, not just the presidents, much less just a handful of them. This new institution, placed in a plum position in our great capital, would exist first of all to explain what our citizens need to know about the executive office and how it works. It is a scandal how little our citizens currently know about this essential function; a living, breathing, changing institution can change all that.
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LIVING LIFE: Everyday Struggles with the Aging Generation How? Look to the video games of our youngest citizens for inspiration. Their computer role plays, simulations, combats, interactions, holographics and strategies point the way to what must be done... and can be done if President Obama will lay down ego and take this opportunity to advance the greater good. He is now uniquely placed to make this decision and give the Great Republic a unique gift that will benefit the nation and all its citizens whilst giving him another historic role and feature. If he takes the long view, and not the selfish one, he will make the right decision....
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1965. My year in the heartland. 'It's still not too late to leave, Laddie.' 'Count me in.'
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant. Author's program note. I am still unclear even after all these years how I ended up at Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa (founded 1853). But it probably went something like this. My grandmother Lura Marshall Lant graduated from Knox College (founded in 1837) in Galesburg, Illinois; it was in the same Midwest conference of fine small liberal arts colleges as Coe (founded 1851) in Cedar Rapids, Iowa where my mother went. And Grinnell (1846), in Iowa, too, where I was advised to apply but wasn't accepted. So Cornell may have been chosen because they made my hard-working dad a better deal, which amongst other things included a job for me on the cafeteria clean-up crew (called "Slobs") paying some 28 cents or so per hour, maybe less. The summer of '65. Cornell was the kind of genteel institution of high standards and moral rectitude which expected you to read a series of improving books on timely topics before classes began; so you hit the ground running in September. In those turbulent days, the Great Republic's race relations were front and center, especially after the Watts section of East Los Angeles exploded into a galloping inferno; the summer reading list was heavily tilted to the bitter quandary of Black and White. Unexpected "expert". Because I had just graduated from University High School in West Los Angeles I found myself in the unaccustomed position of being sought out as an expert on the Gordian Knot of America's racial puzzles currently playing out in the dangerous streets of the City of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels where mayhem raged from August 11-17, 1965; 34 dead, over $40 million in property damage; the nation appalled, outraged, anxious, uncomprehending. I never said that I had not, to that date, met a single Black person and that my upbringing had been as lily white and unexceptional; as racially clueless as the rest. This silence was taken as evidence of a modesty so admirable in the young; that I knew more than I would say; and had been more affected by the horrifying events than I would admit. Thus did the silence of discretion bestow stature... which a shy, "ah shucks" smile and undoubted charm only enhanced. My byline on every door step. What enhanced it more was the fact that I was the only freshman whose name was known in advance to the entire Cornell community, thanks to my regular column in "The Cornellian". To get it, I sent Editor Marty Malin a raft of my columns from my high school newspaper "The Warrrior" of which I was sometime Editor-in-Chief. In the best traditions of Yankee journalism I was retained at once... copy needed at once for the frosh orientation edition.... delivered at once; ontime and length perfect, for these are marks of my pride and reliability. Thus I became the most well-known of students, even before my nervous classmates arrived for an orientation which I no longer needed. Their open papers with my new column prominently featured gave me a thrill I can acutely recall to this very hour and which has never lost its savor. But all was not smooth... The first fly in the ointment (and the insectile imagery is most apt) was my Guild Hall roommate; http://www.EarnAtHomeForLife.com Copyright Ardith Richardson - 2014 119 of 143
LIVING LIFE: Everyday Struggles with the Aging Generation (name withheld to protect the guilty). Per college directive, we exchanged "get acquainted" letters during the summer, the better to commence and build the cordial relationship alma mater expected from two bright young men carefully selected to room together in the Honor Residence for Men and so bond for a lifetime of fund raising pleas and auld lang syne events of the "gaudeamus igitur" variety. My mother, with her well-honed people-reading skills put paid to that notion: "He looks like a pompous twit fortified by bigotry". And of course she was right... The first thing this porcine paragon said to me, the very first, was "Los Angeles is today's Sodom and Gomorrah. So are its people scourged for their sins." And that was the high point of our "relationship." It says volumes that this allworthy became the first member of our class to become a Trustee of Cornell and to otherwise rise high amongst those of doctrinal certainty with direct pipelines to God. Of course this insufferable prig had to be punished... and by now I had a kindred spirit to help me dream up and administer suitable penalties, always designed for maximum impact and complete deniability. Lance Neckar. When you meet your kindred spirits the correct procedure is to whoop for joy and give them hugs of unstinting gratitude and glee. For make no mistake kindred spirits are a major reason why life is worth living, even at its most bleak. Kindred spirits, you see, need no introduction; no owner's manual. You understand them... they understand you... They are more precious than rubies, more desirable than gold. They must be loved, cherished and kept contented for the well-lived life always depends to a considerable degree on... them. Lance Neckar was a kindred spirit and I treasured him accordingly, not least because of his deft assistance with the plump bump who needed to be removed from the dormitory room he foolishly believed was half his, whilst I persisted in believing he was an unwanted (infuriatingly tidy) squatter whose tenure must be abbreviated and at once. Of course I applied to the necessary authorities who delivered the usual judgements; viz. that my esteemed roomie was a paragon; that such paragons were rare as unicorns and should be humored, embraced, deferred to, even adulated; not cast away by the likes of me. And, not least, that he and I were "brothers", hand picked by Cornell's administrators as certain future leaders, hence the adamant need to work together for the common good. Blah, blah, blah. It was clear extra curricular steps were necessary and at once. Thus Lance and I set to our work immediately and with a song in our hearts. About Guild Hall. Guild Hall, Honor Residence for Men, was not only unique to Cornell; it may very well have been unique to the nation. Whereas all other residences were monitored and guarded by old dragons called "house mothers", given the honorific "Ma" before their surnames; Guild had no such figure. Located off the campus, we were entirely self governing; a privilege bestowing pride and responsibility. It was an honor indeed. Whereas other boys might be boisterous and high spirited, prone to outbreaks of hormones and hijinx, all we young princes of the realm were always calm, respectable, causing absolutely no trouble whatever, just unadulterated good sense and reasoned measures. And as for brains, why the minutes of our monthly meetings were rendered in poetic pentameters. I am not kidding. That is why no one suspected us when from the large striped awnings of Guild Hall we launched Operation Eradication... Fueled by need and the desire to enter the annals of prankdom, we learned the secrets of lacing young Tauby's bed with ice cubes one night, warm water the next, foul smelling stink weeds, the http://www.EarnAtHomeForLife.com Copyright Ardith Richardson - 2014 120 of 143
LIVING LIFE: Everyday Struggles with the Aging Generation olfactory pride of Iowa, and fouler smelling wash clothes; the secrets of emulating the midnight yelps and cautionary shrieks of predatory birds... and shuffling up stairs sounding like ancient gents with a full agenda of ill will and ample malice. We even filed a report with the college on our firm belief Guild was haunted, perhaps with the uneasy spirits who had once, when Mt. Vernon was a rail stop and Guild its hostelry, brought so much loneliness and unhappiness along with their sample cases. Yes, their ghosts abided... Against such strenuous and inventive measures, my soon-to-be-ex room-mate had no chance... and soon my kindred spirit moved in, a million laughs in his suitcase. But this and all the other goodies which emerged from my short stay at Cornell very nearly didn't happen. "Count Me In." My grandmother Victoria Burgess Lauing, for all that she spent most of her waking moments as a haus frau, had, when needed, a sharp sense of style. And because she loved me so, she dressed to the nines in a tailored suite (color her favorite mauve), obligatory diamond broach, and ordered her brand-new Oldsmobile immaculately clean. She insisted on driving me to college, the 245 miles from Downers Grove, Illinois. It was a great honor and I regarded it as such. But it almost upended the apple cart. You see, the actual town of Mt. Vernon, Iowa (population just 2593 in 1960) was not impressive; in fact, if you blinked you missed it... and thus was born in Grammie's voice a distinct sense of apprehension. This got worse when we stopped at what seemed to be the town's only eatery, for which the words "greasy spoon" would be a compliment, dead flies, slatternly, perspiring waitress, food that would haunt you through many a rest stop. Then she and with anguish in her voice said, "It's still not too late to leave, Laddie," using my childhood name. "We can turn around now and go home..." perhaps forgetting for a moment my "home" was now in Los Angeles. She missed me so.... Sympathy in the porch swing. "Count me in." My fate was now in the balance and perhaps I wavered, I cannot say. But then the president of Guild Hall came out to greet, first, Grammie, for stylish ladies in diamonds are worth the most amiable of greetings; then me. Grammie, charming as always, worried about me asked if he had a moment to talk. And so the two of them sat down on the old porch swing to determine my future. In a moment they were earnestly engaged, going a mile a minute, her hand in his. Then they were done and she beckoned me and whispered, "You're going to like it here. This nice young man will help you." And the "nice young man" nodded that he would and was as good as his word. I remember Harvey well and can now thank you from the unimaginable summit of 66 years and by reminding you of Gary Lewis and the Playboys and their1965 hit "Count Me In" which wafted through Guild's corridors that August day so long ago. "If you need someone to count on, count me in/ Someone you can rely on through thick and thin." You were the first of so many Cornellians I met who helped make it all so very, very good.
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LIVING LIFE: Everyday Struggles with the Aging Generation As you can see, you no longer have to live a life plagued by allergy symptoms. There are many options at your disposal, when allergies are bringing you down. Try some, or all of the suggestions presented in this article and you can live a life free of allergies and their annoying symptoms.
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Herbal Teas And How They Can Make You More Beautiful
When people think of someone that is beautiful, many times it is based on inner beauty as well as outer beauty. Both of these things are in your control to change. You really need to have both to look your best. Here are some tips to get you started on your own personal beauty adventure. Commit to drinking enough water every day. You need to drink eight to ten glasses a day for maximum beauty benefit. Being hydrated will help you look younger, and will also help you keep in better overall fitness. Do not neglect yourself and you will have great results from any beauty program. Always ask for samples of skin care products and makeup when visiting your favorite beauty supplier. Most major department stores have baskets full of samples that they do not put out because too many would take advantage. Customer service personnel are always happy to give samples to those who ask and the samples allow you to try before investing in the latest product. When you are on the go, be sure to pack a few Q-tips in your purse along with a packet of bamboo blotting sheets. This way, you can refresh the look of your makeup and preserve the look of your beauty. Blotting with the bamboo sheets removes excess oils that make you look shiny, and Q-tips can touch up your eye makeup or lipstick in a pinch. Everyone loves the way a perfect sheer nails look, with long and tapered nails, but this is very expensive to keep up and takes a lot of time and patience. For an elegant look without all the fuss of expensive and painstaking upkeep, try using a short, round, and dark nail shape. File the nails so they are in line with the tip of the finger and round off near the corners. If you are interested in speeding up your metabolism and losing weight as quickly as possible, you should make sure to include ginger in your diet. Ginger, in addition to fighting infections and detoxifying the body, warms you up and increases your body's metabolism rate. Try adding a few slices of ginger to your morning tea and see if it helps you to lose weight. If you love the brightness of red lipstick, but hate how it looks when it smears, then you should keep some makeup remover handy. If the dreaded smear ever happens, use a cotton ball or tissue dipped in makeup remover to erase the stain. Now you won't have to worry what color lipstick you choose for the day. Beauty is in the details, so you may have to spend a little bit of time on the small things that are often overlooked. This could mean using a good exfoliant in the shower or learning the correct way to shave your face or your legs. These small things add up to a much better you. Love the feel of waxing but hate the pain? When waxing at home, a half hour before doing the wax, apply a tooth-numbing cream to the areas that are going to be waxed. This will numb the skin temporarily and make the waxing much less painful yet will not damage or hurt your skin. You learned from the beginning of this article that is important to have both inner beauty and outer beauty to be considered truly beautiful. You may appear pretty at first, though if you have a bad personality, your beauty will wear off very quickly. Take the advice this article has given you to take your beauty to the next level.
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Important message from the IRS to all taxpayers, 'tonight we're gonna party like it's 1999! You pay for everything but you can't come! Enjoy!'
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant. Author's program note. I was thinking of the Honorable Barack today and of how chagrined and irritated he must be these days. After all, having enjoyed the good fortune of drawing the hapless and terminally awkward Mitt-ster for his presidential opponent in 2012 and so walzing into a second term, he has been stymied by events, unable to spend quality time on his Most Important Project, the creation of a suitably grand and gaudy (immediately outmoded white elephant) library and museum which presents him to posterity as a figure of cosmic reverence and importance, a bloated evaluation most of his fellow Americans discarded as excessive and even ludicrous months ago. He doesn't care about that very much, of course. A giant foot print in indelible eternity is what he's got in mind. Sadly, he is having oodles of trouble getting it. Three scandals roiling His Excellency's serene self-absorption. It is said that bad news comes in threes, and I imagine Himself would agree about now. First, there's the nasty business of how we let down our envoy and all our embassy personnel and other nationals in Libya, thereby awakening to the sickening photo of Ambassador Stevens, one of the best and the brightest, dead, overcome not just by smoke inhalation but by sloth, inefficiency and breathtaking irresponsibility. This incident makes us indignant; it also makes us ashamed, for we all suspect that we were not ready for the kind of purposeful malice and destructive mayhem our common sense told us was inevitable against our embassies. And herein lies the crux of this matter. Who was responsible? What did they do? And why did it so fail leaving the flower of our diplomatic corps at such naked exposure and deadly risk? Riddle me this, Batperson. You will recall that when the attack on the Bengazi consulate took place, September 11, 2012, the first reaction from the administration was that it was anything other than what it actually was, a calculated act of terrorism to further satanize that date of infamy, September 11. Ambassador Stevens knew it... and his last message, by cell phone, was "We are under attack!" But the president and his top diplomatic team deemed this outrage merely a spontaneous "demonstration" and acted accordingly pooh poohing its significance... taking their own sweet time to act... our people dying because those charged with their protection didn't give it.... then lied to cover up their torpid, lethargic, entirely inadequate response. This is why the Benghazi matter is a scandal... and why the Republicans in Congress smell blood.... and why they'll continue until they get it. And right they are. Yet another email scandal... with many more to come. Let's get something straight from the start. Email by its very nature can never be entirely secure... can never be entirely private... yours to share with and only with the people you wish to share it with. We are just beginning to understand that email can never be just yours, sacrosanct and that, therefore, anything you use email to transmit is, from the moment you hit the send key, an object which others can access for good... or (temptingly) for anything but. Which brings us to the latest email scandal. It goes like this...
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LIVING LIFE: Everyday Struggles with the Aging Generation The Honorable Barack pledges that his will be the most transparent administration in history, that all will be clear and plain, open to the good people of the Great Republic, blah, blah, blah. That was Barack #1. At the same time, Barack #2 was urging his friends, neighbors and political appointees to set up at least two email accounts, one suitable for the front page of The New York Times... the other, far more interesting and revealing, packed with the dynamite that makes Americans even more cynical about the government and its wayward ways and gives commentators like me our bread and butter. Enter two of the most important and potent letters on Earth, AP, the Associated Press. AP is arguably the most important news gathering service in the world, the people who do the hard work, the grunt work, the work that must be done to get the facts, ma'am, just the facts. People like me rely on them as the oxygen for keeping people up-to-date. Thus, when the Obama people decided to end run AP by setting up multiple email accounts they were not merely thwarting AP, they were thwarting you and me. But the folks at AP, the hero of this drama, are as tenacious and focused as they come. And when they got word that Obama appointees were being anything but transparent, they went to work with a will, using the Freedom of Information laws to open the secret accounts and bring accountability to all the poobahs who would only divulge under pressure. For of course when asked to open up, they hunkered down. After all, saying one thing and doing quite another is la specialite' of the (White) House. Why are the Obama people being so difficult, so obdurate? Not because evidence of any wrong doing has yet been found, for it hasn't. Rather, it's the principle of the thing: no one in the capital wants to be above board and honest; whatever they say. They come to win, not to get scout merit badges. Thus they reserve their God-given right to chicanery, skullduggery, and tergiversations great and small, in the process making a point of doing everything in their power to block the AP, the shining sword of a truth that is so often embarrassing to office holders who have very different agendas. That is why the Labor Department quoted AP a price of a cool million to research their records and turn over all email accounts of their senior officials. Stay tuned... there is much more to come in this matter... and as for the bomb shells to come from emails already written, I'm licking my chops for they will be rich and plentiful. You'll never get transparency from this or any other administration, but you can rest assured there will be one delightful email scandal after another, all cheap at a penny a dozen except the one blossoming at the Internal Revenue Service. And that'll set you back $50 million, give or take a buck. "So tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999." It must be fun to work at the IRS. At the Cincinnati office, for instance, you get to function like a petty tyrant, determining whether by ineptitude or political point of view, which organizations get crucial 501(c)3 tax-exempt status and which ones (strangely enough mostly conservative, Tea Party related,) don't. Ah, there's nothing like power to enliven even the dullest job. This is part 1 of the hanky-panky currently under investigation by a committee of the House of Representatives. Part 2 are those IRS party animals who between 2010-2012 managed to burn through $50 million at what must have been the best parties on Earth! And for this, we need music. We need party music. We need Prince and his strident, pulsating anthem, "1999". It came out in 1982 and the world was soon dancing to its insistent beat and acid lyrics now so apropos to the current IRS fiasco. "People, let me tell you somethin'/ If you didn't come to party/ Don't bother knockin' on my door." Find it in any search engine. Then let 'er rip to just the right music for this delicious indiscretion. Let's take a look at how well they treated http://www.EarnAtHomeForLife.com Copyright Ardith Richardson - 2014 135 of 143
LIVING LIFE: Everyday Struggles with the Aging Generation themselves, particularly at one incredible bash held in Anaheim, California in August, 2010. While the Great Recession was hitting hard, these guys were lavishing gilded TLC on themselves, to the tune of $4 million with nothing but the best the order of the day. Here are the facts as exhumed by Representative Darrell Issa's (R-California) committee. Item: The IRS didn't negotiate lower room rates, though that is government policy. But why bother to save? That's so middle class, dear. Item: Some of the 2,600 attendees received benefits, including basketball tickets and stays in presidential suites that normally cost $1,500 to $3,500 per night. Item: 15 outside speakers were paid a total of $135,000 in fees, with one paid $17,000 to talk about "leadership through art". One might well wonder what that was all about. Of course the muckety-mucks that made these decisions are long gone; the current muckety-mucks have pledged "never again". But we the people know better, don't we? We know that the next scandal will be deju vu all over again. "But life is just a party/ And parties weren't made to last." Except, of course, at the IRS.
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Thoughts on colonoscopy, homage to one of the greatest researchers, Marie Curie, and the colossal mistake the U.S. federal government is making in reducing the funding that improves life and enhances our planet day by day, discovery by discovery.
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant. Author's program note. It is 5:27 a.m. here in Cambridge, where the invention of the future via research is our product, our pride, our unmitigated purpose... a place of assiduous effort, often lonely, frequently inconclusive, a place where the glory lies not just in achieving a goal but in knowing this achievement will be overtaken by others who will thereby advance truth and progress by using the fruit of every prior effort and exertion, just as those following them will advance beyond everything and everyone which came before, no matter how celebrated or useful in its time. "If I have seen farther," Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) famously said, "it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." In that single phrase lies the reason why Cambridge and all its myriad educational institutions exists and why we must assist and not diminish them, for their work is vital, necessary, where the collective brain power and untiring effort move us appreciably, minute by minute, to the perfection which should always be our chief human objective and unceasing mission. Research, improved procedures, improved outcomes, the gift of health, even the gift of life itself. I am about to undergo a medical procedure called colonoscopy. It is the third time in the last 13 years that my colon has been scrutinized, first by sigmoidoscopy, which is a partial procedure done while the patient is fully conscious, thereby able to see the entire matter first hand; twice by a complete colonoscopy, ten years ago for the first; the second taking place at 7 a.m. tomorrow, just 24 hours from now. I am therefore at work preparing for this procedure, each aspect the result of teams of physicians and medical researchers who have, bit by bit, improved what is done and the medical skills and tools necessary to achieve the desired result: quality and longevity of the most important thing we each have -- life itself. Since this life is so important, the very basis for our existence on Earth, we must encourage, exhort, sustain and venerate those who advance it, in both length and utility, and we must oppose, adamantly, vigorously, energetically, unfailingly, anyone in any situation who does anything to diminish and destroy it. As the great humanitarian Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) said, "Ehrfurcht vor dem leben", ("Reverence for life") must be at the heart of who we are and our every endeavor, particularly of the researches we undertake. Homage to Madame Curie, (1867-1934), "haunted by dreams, invincibly eager". This poetic description of Marie Skodowska-Curie comes from the 1943 MGM film starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon (as her husband Pierre), a film whose world-famous subjects ensured world-wide interest and acclaim. Consider the date of the film. Madame Curie's native country, the homeland she loved with all the high ardor and profound devotion found in every Pole, was seething under Hitler's savage rule, his intent nothing less than erasing her land and every person therein. Her adopted nation, la belle France, writhed under the Nazis, too; abashed, humiliated, mortified by events, mortified more by the collaborators who stained the glory of France with treachery and abiding ignominy. http://www.EarnAtHomeForLife.com Copyright Ardith Richardson - 2014 137 of 143
LIVING LIFE: Everyday Struggles with the Aging Generation In such a situation, the powers at MGM, many themselves emigrants from Europe, lucky to be alive, decided to throw down the gauntlet, to tell a tale that would rekindle hope, pride, and purpose in those dark days when the future was anything but halcyon and joyful. And so Greer Garson, who had transfixed the world with her characterization of Mrs. Miniver (1942), a lady whose innate decency, courage, and grace reminded us what we could do, might have to do in this world at war to inch towards victory and humanity, was tapped to bring Marie Curie, titanic, brilliant, heroic, enduring, tenacious to life. The Nazis had nothing like this, either in film, or more importantly in fact. The film, of course, awards galore, did what it was supposed to do, not least enthusing multitudes of young people, including a record number of young women, to enter the hard sciences of chemistry, physics, mathematics and all the others once reckoned the sole prerogative of men. Indeed, it is not too much to say that Marie Curie was the godmother of generations of women scientists who thrilled to her message, her serious intent, and the good work she did, the discoveries she made, the lives she changed for the better, without giving up her femininity, spouse, or family. It was an electrifying message for millions. It remains supremely relevant today and is still by no means universally accepted. The music. It is now time to introduce you to the music for this article, the most apt sound imaginable: the score to "Madame Currie". Composed by master Herbert Stothart, probably best known for writing "The Wizard of Oz" in 1939, the music that edged out "Tara's Theme" in "Gone with the Wind", arguably the best known movie theme ever written, for the Oscar. He had his work cut out for him for he needed a sound that was as beautiful as the science Madame Curie venerated and served, a pristine acolyte at the forge of truth and knowledge. Go to any search engine now and let the soaring sound by a composer of renown lift you... just as science and unending research lift our species... if we will but let them. Sadly, alarmingly these are now very much at risk. The little men and women of the Capitol are seeing to that, to the general desuetude and disillusion. The fatal axe called "sequestration", the despair of scientists and researchers, their important work for the Great Republic and every citizen at risk; the risk that comes when the scientific progress we all have the right to expect is curtailed by our own failure to act and so nurture and sustain it. It is well known that the federal government needs $1 trillion in budget cuts. What is far less well known is the devastation, the destruction, the ruination this will cause the scientific and research communities. Listen then to Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, who called 2013 the "darkest ever" year for the agency, whose budget is at its lowest inflation-adjusted appropriations level in more than a decade with all that means for scientists laid off, scientists (including the vital supply of young researchers) not hired, bold projects unstarted, bold projects left undone, the nation at terrible risk. Here are remarks by Steven Salzberg, the director of the Center for Computational Biology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, a well respected biomedical researcher. "Less science is getting done," he said. "That means cures won't emerge. Five years from now, when your aunt gets cancer and you can't do anything for her, people won't stop and think, 'Jesus, if we only hadn't had the sequester!'" Does this make any sense at all, or are we so far gone as a nation that we simply cannot be bothered to save the science and research which have the potential to save us all? Que sera sera, whatever will be, will be? Colyte, all through the night. While the politicians diddle, dawdle and duck the tough decisions, their irresolution, cowardice and http://www.EarnAtHomeForLife.com Copyright Ardith Richardson - 2014 138 of 143
LIVING LIFE: Everyday Struggles with the Aging Generation indecision thereby clouding our collective future, life goes on, not perhaps as good as it could be, but definitely better than it will be, if the sciences and their researchers are so dismissed, devalued, disdained. And so I follow the procedural guidelines to the very letter, afraid that any departure will obscure the result, perhaps resulting in the tragedy I most wish to avoid. The Day Of Your Test. 4-6 hours before your arrival time. 1) Drink one 8-ounce glass of Colyte every 10-15 minutes until the remaining half of the Colyte is gone. You may have to get up in the night to take this dose. You need to do this for a good preparation. 2) Immediately after drink 2 to 3 8 ounce glasses of Gatorade (preferred) or any clear liquid. 3) Continue to drink clear liquids until 3 hours before your scheduled arrive time. Do not eat any solid food. 4) Do not drink anything, including water, for 3 hours before your arrival time. And then it was time to leave, on a voyage discovering myself, hopeful but understandably nervous notwithstanding. I must have looked pale and wan for when I got out of the car, my driver Aime Joseph hugged me and said "Courage, mon ami," something he had never done before. Then, promptly, efficiently, professionally my Endoscopy Center team went to work. Receptionist Louise, perky and soothing at 6:30 a.m. Followed by Jack, the first nurse, friendly, focused, a man of ease putting me at mine. Then nurses Kathryn and Pat, smiling, reassuring, glad they said to have a patient as well prepared as I was, thereby assuring my regard and gratitude; finally, Dr. Lopes, brisk, amicable, explaining all as we went, master of his craft and of practiced patient care; the physician who gave me the news, all good, no cancer, no growth, no troubling polyps, good to go for another decade and a day. That's good for me, of course, but with the sequester and further cuts, will you get care as good, thorough, and prompt? It matters. Colorectal cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer in the world, but it is more common in developed countries. It is estimated that worldwide in 2008, 1.23 million new cases were clinically diagnosed and that it killed at least 608,000 people. Do what's necessary to make sure you aren't one of them. Envoi. If you are a reader 50 and above, call your physician today and schedule your colonoscopy and while you're at it, give this article to a friend. It's an act of love.
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'For your age...' A look beyond the complaints and pains to the undoubted benefits and joys of being a senior citizen. Very candid thoughts indeed.
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant. Author's program note. It was Lisa Martiniuk, one of the hard-working Senior Monitors who are such an important part of keeping worldprofit.com going strong, who first, and with a dollop of insinuation and pleading in her voice, suggested I write something a little lighter than my recent fare. And so I switched from the killing fields of Asia and Super-Typhoon Haiyan and the continuing self-afflicted wounds of the Right Honorable Barack. I would write, I vowed, about being a (new) senior citizen and I would (unlike my carping colleagues) forego the cheap shots and wide-ranging irritants of every kind; instead to write an article of uplift and bliss about the phase of life where I now find myself and shall remain for the hourly diminishing -- and therefore the more precious --- balance remaining. To achieve this (frankly challenging) objective, I shall check the following words and attitudes at the door, along with my new cane. They may otherwise, you see, get in the way of my long-developing story. For whilst I am undoubtedly a new member of the club, I was not born yesterday. Without particularly noticing it, I have been studying senior citizens closely, ever since I had eyes in my head or the wit to discern what I saw... Now, here are the words and attitudes I shall forego (just for the present, mind)... ornery, stubborn, adamant, pigheaded, mulish, inexorable, not to be put down, inflexible, immutable, peremptory, always right, never wrong... Further, and as a notable mark of my bona fides, I am turning my striking "Don't Tread on Me" flag to the wall, but only for this single occasion, no precedent conceded or intended, buster. Have you got that? Music. For this voyage into the brand new land, I have selected a tune as quirky and idiosyncratic as most everyone is. It's the score from the 1989 film "Driviing Miss Daisy" starring Morgan Freeman as Hoke Colburn with Jessica Tandy superbly cast as Miss Daisy. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture (Tandy the Best Actress), it is a film every senior citizen should be compelled to watch over and over again, especially if we epitomize the words and attributes listed above, as all us old folks do, specializing in the surly, churlish, selfish and (never forget this) the faultlessly clairvoyant and omniscient. Go now to any search engine and find Hans Zimmer's theme, deceptively simple and artless. Such songs become, if we let them, our favorite and most evocative songs of all, as this one has surely become for me. When you find yourself whistling, you'll know it's captured your heart, too, no matter how irascible you are. Miss Daisy, after all, was supremely irascible, too, until she permitted herself to thaw and (literally) enjoy the ride. Driving Dr. Lant. I was never very interested in trucks, tractors, or cars, much less their labyrinthine operating systems, tailor made, so it has always seemed to me, for maximum confusion and epic sessions of punishing frustration. I have a mechanical aptitude at the 5th percentile; translation, I can hardly tie my shoe laces... and whilst this is a perfectly valid and understandable excuse, it is of limited utility in the face of boisterous adolescent masculinity and the screwdrivers they love of every diabolical kind and type. I can feel the unwonted sweat of those trying days still dripping down my baffled face. And that is why I have Ame Joseph as my driver. I invariably call him "Mr. Joseph." He calls me http://www.EarnAtHomeForLife.com Copyright Ardith Richardson - 2014 140 of 143
LIVING LIFE: Everyday Struggles with the Aging Generation And that is why I have Ame Joseph as my driver. I invariably call him "Mr. Joseph." He calls me "Doctor Lant." We have known each other for many years now, and so these formalities are these days a tradition, not a requirement. How we met. I am, like most people, afflicted with some degree of claustrophobia. Quite frankly, I intensely dislike being stuffed into anything, especially the back seats of taxis, which seem tailor made for panic attacks. Getting me into them, though I am the perfectly normal size of 5 foot ten inches and 165 pounds, often commands a shoe horn, with me twisting, squirming, unable to move. This, as you may well imagine, maddens and affronts me. It is, however, a stark reality for urban based folks like me who do not drive and rely on the never-clean-inside-or-out taxis with colorful names like yellow, red and green; the reality gray, mud spattered and grim. Thus, when fate intervened (it had to be fate not merely random chance) and I found myself getting into a cab at the Sheridan Commander Hotel, a cab that was clean, hardly a speck of terra firma traveling with us, even the windows washed to clarity, I didn't hesitate. "Give me your card, I shall be calling you again." And that is how God works in the city.... The narrowing of life, to be fought with rage and determination. Now... turn up that quirky theme music from the score of "Driving Miss Daisy," because you see, we are going out you and I... and Mr. Joseph is taking us, for of course you'll be traveling with me, my way... it goes like this. "Mr. Joseph, are you free in 20 minutes?" And thus begins that most important of travels... the one that whisks you to a new reality, comfortably, efficiently, with just the necessary touch of condescension, for we have earned that, haven't we, over these many years and the thousand roles we have played from the very moment of conception. Mr. Joseph calls me when he is 4 minutes away (note that precise number). I always say I am ready to go just then.... but I almost never am. There is just one more phone call to make... one more thing I really must peruse. But at last even I am ready, cap a jaunty angle, silver buttons gleaming on my coat... and the cane left behind, the cane I so recently acquired, have used not at all. Its time will come, even I know that... but not today, not today.... Today we have each other for I have ever been of an affectionate disposition, never hoarding that which exists to be abundantly, even profligately shared in the hope that such excess will be given to me... and I am glad to say it generally is. As we glide along the highly polished flagstone floor in the lobby, Mr. Joseph glides above, along the newly paved streets, brick sidewalks perfectly tailored, all marks that I live in that boom town of Cambridge, where being the hub of the Internet means citizens like me live better and better for less and less, an astonishing situation in this year of our Lord 2013, and one that makes me light up with smile and song with or without the slightest provocation... as when Mr. Joseph, suitably attired in black, is standing ready at the door of his Lincoln Town Car, prepared to supply supremely expert service. Thus is one of the great problems of aging, immobility and shrinking vistas, superbly solved. I can go hither and yon, the world still full of adventures large and small, still expanding, not closing in on me, prospects dwindling, the beginning of the beginning of the end. All this, too, has been postponed, perhaps forever and therein lies the greatest bliss of all, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness still my birthright and objective, eminently possible, not just memories of days long gone and bittersweet. Don't keep your future waiting... So, now get in. "The last of life for which the first was made" is waiting for you just around the corner. And despite every pain, each imperfection, whatever you have lost, whatever you fear losing http://www.EarnAtHomeForLife.com Copyright Ardith Richardson - 2014 141 of 143
LIVING LIFE: Everyday Struggles with the Aging Generation next you are still that charmer of old, an eye full of mischief, capable of astonishing capers.... the most outrageous and notable not even dreamed yet, much less exhausted. You, diminished as you claim to be, are still the radiant being who can, given your ardent permission, awe us all, and most of all awe yourself. Make today the day you do...it's been far too long since you recognized you are the finest creation of your life... and it's time the world got the privilege of seeing your masterpiece in every glorious aspect. Right now. Don't waste another minute... even if you have to use the cane...
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About the Author Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Services include home business training, affiliate marketing training, earn-at-home programs, traffic tools, advertising, webcasting, hosting, design, WordPress Blogs and more. Find out why Worldprofit is considered the # 1 online Home Business Training program by getting a free Associate Membership today. Republished with author's permission by Ardith Richardson http://EarnAtHomeForLife.com.
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