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Billboards: Modern Counterparts of Van Gogh and Da Vinci

Taking a drive down an unfamiliar road, or simply driving to and from work has become nowadays more pleasurable and less stressful. What with the multitude of billboards plastered all over the city and suburbs, they have become a wonderful centerpiece with the backdrop of heaven and earth.

Have you ever imagined what life would be like without these big, larger than life posters and signage to aesthetically improve our place? Are you not amazed at how great the quality and colors are? Are you not struck with the brilliance and true-to-life depiction of the images in each of these billboards?

When billboards were first posted, they not only expressed artistic creativity, they also were medium of information and reminders for people of current events and new products. The people then were not yet attuned on billboards being very powerful tools in helping others in ways that they have never imagined before. Fortunately today, we have learned of its uses and are utilizing them in several ways.

Billboards are the cheapest and it reaches more people than any other form of advertising. Thus, many small businesses, and even some of the big corporations for that matter, utilize this form of media because television and radio commercials are more expensive and costly.

One state in fact used billboards to improve the visual quality of their community, and also serve as tools to reduce alcohol consumption by minors. Still another state made several billboards to try to convince people to stop smoking, to prevent the spread of AIDS, and to offer pregnancy support.

However, despite its practical uses, billboards first and foremost are works of art in the modern sense. Its production process, from conceptualization to posting, is definitely a designer’s and artist’s imaginations put to life.

When designers are put to work to create these magnificent billboards, they do not see their assignment as something corporate or practical. I mean, sure, they see also the numbers in every assignment. But let’s face it. Within each of these designer and artist, the billboards are their next work of art. With every billboard assignment, they see themselves as the modern Leonardo Da Vinci and Vincent Van Gogh.

According to one review, Van Gogh’s most searching artistic analysis was of himself. This is shown in his famous self portraits. However, Van Gogh was also very appreciative of the profuse of colors found in nature. In fact, one of his very famous paintings was the Irises. Similar to his self portraits, Van Gogh’s Irises are carefully studied with the same sincerity and precision. The elements of colors- like the greens, red, yellow, orange and white, and the different ranges of blues- all made the painting look luxuriant and produce a gay colorfulness and richness.

Leonardo Da Vinci also recognized the importance of painting scenes that are very close to reality. He was keen to observe with great care how animals, people, and landscapes really looked. He was also careful to notice the differences on how an object looked when it was close by and when it was farther away, and when it was seen in bright light and in dim light. He turned his attention to nature during long walks. He wrote detailed notes on his observations and made sketches of the things he saw in his notebooks throughout his life.

Whether its Van Gogh or Da Vinci, designers and artists are sure to emulate what they have done. Thus, billboards are most likely to reflect reality and life. What you see in billboards is what we have of life- big reflections of us and our world.

And with the advent of computer technology, we have programs, softwares and equipment to help our artists and designers come up with brilliant, full color and striking images and designs that are sure to stand out. You’ll be amazed at the technology we have now that keeps these billboards fresh for the longest time that they have been exposed. Several manufacturers and developers managed to produce high grade materials and machines that could make the pictures and prints true to its original. Xerox, Adobe’s Creative Suite, Corel, Epson- these are just a few of the names that are there to help make their lives and work simpler.

Whether it’s film making, game development, commercial design, or even fine arts, every creation and output are worthy of praise. There is only one big difference- creating works of art now is faster and easier, thanks to advanced technology. Combined with the power of modern technology of digital media, natural talents and techniques obtained during the formative years can create breathtaking works of art that are at par, if not better, with those of the grand masters.

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Cyberspace Sports Gambling Keeps Gaming Afficionados Safe Indoors

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Umpteen gamers may have stumbled upon the caption “offshore sports betting” in recent months, though a few maybe aren’t altogether assured what that signifies. An offshore betting web site inherently operates extraneous to the legal power of a distinct state on the other hand it can mean a machine-accessible gambling web site which deploys its servers inside the borders of a land where online sports gambling is not currently illicit. Succinctly then, it can be defined as a wagering business working extraneous to the nation of the betting devotee. Machine-accessible gaming web sites are currently governed by means of three agencies. These are OSGA (the Offshore Gaming Association), IGC (Interactive Gaming Council) and the Fidelity Trust Gaming Association (the FTGA).

The OSGA are an autonomous institution which audits the current offshore gaming industry, they endeavor to deliver sports gamblers the facility to choose respectable organizations to play betting games with. The association works to guard the concerns of gamblers, also they do not demand any enrollment expenses. The association is a highly expert and non-biased third party company who reveal unbiased assessments, established on your evaluations, unprejudiced analysis, telephone calls, insider prompts and in addition dispenses industry information.

The Interactive Gaming Council are a non commercially influenced agency. The organization was created to supply a platform for concerned individuals to discuss matters and also to encourage progress in the domain of applicable worries in the international interactive betting industry, to establish just not to mention duty bound industry standard procedures and routines which aim to raise consumer certainty in world wide web based sports gaming products and functions, and also to be of service as the trade’s public procedure advocate and in addition the council provides an information clearinghouse.

The Interactive Gaming Council have built up a distinction for safety, integrity and also believability because of the ethical standards it establishes, and in addition its appeal to business enterprises of conscientious practise. The Interactive Gaming Council regulates overseas sports betting through using a unique ten step code of practise and in addition charges gaming web sites a fee to display the council’s logo. Unsatisfied betting fans may moreover state any of their challenges to the IGC.

The Fidelity Trust Gaming Association was established in order to create a standard which will upgrade the standards of live betting web sites. The IGC proposerealize that doing business entirely with businesses of honorable reputation, they can mold a union of the most honest and professional cyberspace gaming businesses internationally.

So, these are bodies who inspect the transactions of machine-accessible sports gaming and which should aid to relieve most of the apprehensions felt by many gamers. World wide web based sports betting websites are today actually dependable, now that individual data are not needed also the compensation and the odds are usually equivalent to your familiar Vegas-style bet. They cut down traveling, but nevertheless retain of a Nevada gambling casino, but today you can gamble in your own home.

Ark of The Covenant – explained

Hold on to your hat! Here comes one of the most, incredible stories of ancient technology, which ranks alongside the use of atomic forces and the ‘Lost Chord’. Needless to say the editors of Scientific American who denied the Wright brothers had achieved airborne flight for months after Kitty Hawk won’t or wouldn’t believe this ‘doozy’. I think it is a very good explanation that is part of something even more fantastic which explains the existence of accurate maps from over ten thousand years ago. But I also think these maps might have been the work of Mungo Man or the De Danaan they worked with.

The other possibility that would explain their existence relates to Lhasa and a spacecraft which Churchward as well as Brugger’s The Chronicles of Akakor recounts from such things as the Lhasa Record which may only exist in the Akashic. If you have a better explanation I’d like to hear from you. Is it not important to explain such proven anomalies? Especially when they integrate with things we don’t want to admit about man’s far more advanced nature in ancient times. If we have blown each other apart before or created hyperviruses such as what killed the Mammoth (A current research underway by the American Museum of Natural History thinks it can be proven such a virus killed many large animals and that humans were the carrier.); does it warrant asking our leaders if they knew these things or why they didn’t tell us? We are certain that our knowledge is not exclusive or even complete in these matters. Yet perhaps few people know how many disciplines and areas of how lives are under such oppressive control.

The maps themselves are dealt with under the Portolan Maps entry in greater detail and at this point we think it relevant to our discussion of the ARK to bring the Pyramid into the possibility of advanced prior civilizations on earth. Michael Bradley is a map expert and a good scholar whose work we have quoted before.

“Centre of the Earth’s Land Mass, etc.

This is an important concept and I will explain to the best of my ability. It will be easier to appreciate somewhat better the truly significant placement of the Giza complex.

First let’s consider two squares. One is 100 square units (miles, kilometres, or whatever) in area, the other twice as large, 200 square units in area.

{He illustrates two squares with pyramids on top from an overhead perspective with a line connecting the centre points or apex of the pyramids. Under the smaller square are 10 units and under the larger square is the figure 14.85 units. The 100 and 200 unit figures as mentioned are further repeated further under these two squares.}

We will find their respective centres by drawing diagonals. Where the diagonals intersect is the centre of each square. Together, these squares represent three units of the largest common denominator–100 square miles. So we’ll draw a line, divided equally into three parts, between the centres of the two squares. Since one square is twice the size of the other, we will mark off two of the equal parts towards the larger square. This is the centre of their combined areas, given their distance apart. If they were closer together, or further apart, the point would fall elsewhere. Please note that this point is above the centre of the small square but below the centre of the larger one. It is a true geometric centre of the two areas that are separated by this given and arbitrary distance.

It is possible to ascertain the area of an irregular shape, although it is much more difficult to do than using squares.

The largest continent, Eurasia, happens to be about twice the land area of the American continents. These continents are separated by oceans. One can divide the separation into three equal parts, just as above, and find the ‘centre of these two land masses.’

Taking this point, we can calculate Africa into the picture the same way. Africa is about 25% the area of Eurasia and the Americas combined. Therefore, the distance from Africa’s geographic centre to the Eurasia-Americas’ centre will be divided into five equal parts (i.e. the ‘4′ represented by Eurasia-Americas, and the ‘1′(25%) represented by Africa’s area). Marking off four of these five divisions towards the Eurasia-Americas’ centre, since this centre represents a combined land mass four times as large as Africa, will yield a new point, which is geometric, in this case ‘geographic’, centre of Eurasia-Americas-Africa combined. If we continue this process with the remaining large and small land masses–Antarctica, Australia, Greenland, New Guinea, Java, Sumatra, etc. –we will eventually arrive at a ‘centre of the earth’s land masses.’ It will be as accurate as our method, plus the arbitrary inclusion of ever smaller islands, will make it.

A meticulous calculation of such a ‘centre’ will result in a point directly on the meridian (longitude) of the Great Pyramid but 6′ (minutes) south of the Great Pyramid–but there’s only sand in that location. The Giza Plateau is the first solid bedrock on the correct meridian {And Archaeology Magazine had the temerity to suggest the builders were merely imitating natural landforms with the Sphinx and Pyramid in last months issue.}. It is 6′ in error from the true centre.

Sixty seconds of 101.3 English feet = l’ (minute) of arc, 6080 feet on the equator = 1 nautical mile, whereas one ‘common’ or ‘highway’ (’statute’) mile equals 5280 English feet. A nautical ‘knot’ is one nautical mile (6080 English feet) per hour of time; it is a unit of speed measurement, not of static distance.

Sixty minutes = 1 degree of arc, or 60 nautical miles at the equator. The Earth’s equatorial circumference contains 360 degrees or 21,600 nautical miles = 24,872.73 common or statute miles.

All this sounds deceptively precise! In fact, of course, standardization of the length of the English foot, and therefore of seconds, minutes and degrees of arc, was not accomplished until the 1750s–and the size of the Earth was not measured correctly at that time. Just as the French Academy made an error in fixing the length of the metre, which was supposed to be one ten-millionth part of the surface distance from the Earth’s equator to either pole, because they couldn’t measure the Earth accurately, so also the British Admiralty made inaccurate geographic measures. Nonetheless, these measures remain accurate enough for most practical purposes. Nowadays, units of measure are fixed by correlation to electromagnetic wave-lengths {Could the ancients have been able to attune with Gaia’s earth energy grid and send signals along it to record the time taken for a bounce back or echo?}. Since 1966, for example, the metre has been fixed as a division of the wave-length of Krypton 86.

A glance at the U. S. A. F. ‘Azimuthal Equidistant Projection’ Map of the world {see illustration in our section} will show that it is centred ‘near Cairo’–i.e., at the centre of the earth’s land masses, as calculated above, and precisely on the meridian of the Great Pyramid– but 36,480 English feet south of the Great Pyramid at the true centre, which falls in an area of sand. A property of Azimuthal Equidistant Projection is that a circle drawn around any given point will have a circumference incorporating points of geography that are truly equidistant from the centre of the circle–the airplane or ship. This is not the case with large-scale maps drawn on the common Mercator projection {John Dee studied with Mercator and achieved high status in this field.}, which gives accurate longitudes and latitudes of all geography but must distort the polar regions in order to do so. It is also not the case with the Phillips projection, used by the UN, which shows the land area of countries in true proportion to each other but must distort the longitudes and latitudes near the equator in order to do so. These distortions arise from the problem of transferring the curved surface of a spherical Earth onto a flat piece of paper–the best that can be done is to know, and to choose, the kind of distortion that best serves any given need.

The location of the Great Pyramid at the centre of the Earth’s land masses, unless it is truly a coincidence, implies the following. First, its builders knew the geography and size of the Earth quite accurately because they could not otherwise calculate the correct centre of land – masses. Second, they chose Egypt because the centre is there {It would be quite coincidental that they were Egyptian as well.}, and this means that Ancient Egyptian civilization may have arisen because of lingering cultural influences as well as because of the supposed advantages conferred by the Nile. Third, the three pyramids of the Giza complex, including the Sphinx, were built by someone other than the Ancient Egyptians–unless we are willing to grant them advanced knowledge as well–but then we must contend with the various correlations at Giza that all point to 10,500 B.C. as the origin of the Giza complex {I’ll grant this date or 2,000 years later for the Sphinx, as well as the whole complex being designed at this time. I believe the capstones were used before the final Pyramids were constructed. It would appear there were other pyramids built to imitate this ‘GREAT’ pyramid. The issue of the Brazilian pyramids is yet to be determined, and it is possible they are even more ‘fantastic’.}. Either the three pyramids and the Sphinx were built by an unknown culture long before the beginnings of Ancient Egypt, now dated as about 3200 B.C., or the Egyptians themselves have a much longer history than we think.” (13)

Clearly there are many entries this impinges upon that we continue to develop. Before making another brief quote from his notes and then moving on to the ARK (An arc-transmitter that allowed large ships to send information back to the Pyramid for the mapping purposes.), I should address some other correlations with the Phoenician Pythagoras and his studies of the Pyramid. Some authors note the nautilus sea creature has a natural configuration of the mathematical concept or construct known as ‘phi’. This is encapsulated in the Great Pyramid with its two complete tetrahedra. (Read Bucky Fuller’s COSMOGONY or SYNERGISTICS for further insight.). Thales also had a Phoenician parent and he is credited by the Hellenizing Empire as the father of all sciences, but he studied the Pyramid and learned much about his limited knowledge from it. We have (and continue) shown the DNN of Homer and the Dana worshipping Scythians, Kelts and Iberian/Basque and Berbers are part of the Phoenician ‘Brotherhood’ that greatly pre-dates Pythagoras’ ‘brother- hood’ or any Therapeutae and Great White Brotherhood. We are sure Churchward’s Mu and the Mungo Man are connected with this conglomerate which will lead to Harappan and Easter Island connections to Kelts and many other enterprises from the Grand Canyon to the Great Wall.

“Pi is the ratio of a circle’s diameter to its circumference, 1:3.14 or 7:22. Phi is the ratio of a line divided so that the length of the shorter segment bears the same relationship to the length of the longer segment as the longer segment bears to the whole undivided line, 1:1.618. This ‘Phi’ is sometimes called ‘The Golden Section’ {Key Masonic concept attributed to Pythagoras.} because there’s something inaffably pleasing about the ratio. It was used by many Renaissance artists such as Poussin {Bradley shows how his art incorporated scenes and people of import and coded to give knowledge of when the family of Jesus or Merovingians were safely settled in places like Montreal and one might think another artist did the same when they were in America long before Columbus at Kingston where he has geologic core samples to show European influence.}, Michelangelo and da Vinci {An alchemist like his mentor – check ‘The Dictionary of Alchemy’ by Mark Haeffner.}; it occurs in abstract mathematics, as in the Fibonacci Series of numerical progression; it occurs frequently in nature, for example in the successive length of segments of the chambered nautilus.” (14)

When I made my brief interruption earlier in reference to attunement with the earth energy grid and ‘echoes’ I was not being facetious. The vision Napoleon saw in the King’s Chamber may relate to this through a time portal not unlike the ‘Stone’ that Michel de Nostradamus (who grew up near Rennes le Chateau) was able to glimpse the confusing potentials of the unsubstantial future we can change through creative, purposeful and FREE WILL. The king’s chamber and the delta wave forms that a pyramid creates are part of the time structure and helical nature thereof (according to Al Bielek who has a time machine which a friend of mine has seen – more later). The possibility of what Bradley is about to say may have seemed even more likely than what I just wrote until the NEC labs at Princeton demonstrated 300X light speed last year (2001).

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Mobile Broad Band will soon be the Turning Point to the Development of High Speed Connections

Mobile broadband has been announced as the latest achievement in the broadband world which is more and more looking like it the secret to the future of high speed broadband. So far, broad-band has been supplied on a traditional phone line, high speed connection, which brings internet access to a PC using an ADSL modem or router. WI FI high speed internet has become increasingly famous, whereby the fast internet connection is connected to the computer thanks to a wireless network, and as a consequence internet surfers are throwing away cables. But mobile broad band is pushing things one step further and offering another idea in the technology of internet connectivity; a broadband connection nearly anywhere without using a landline cable.

The concept of having a fast broad-band speed in any room is surely attractive for potential internet users, like those people who often connect to internet with their personal computer away from home. Business people who often travel for work are the obvious target for mobile broadband because they will surely love the idea of not having to search for a working WI-FI spot for a quite reliable connection. Mobile broadband is going to go further than that, and if fees soon begin to come down and connection speeds is faster we will witness most of broad band potential users applying for mobile high speed internet.

Mobile high speed internet works by connecting a modem to your laptop, which is referred to as a ‘dongle’, from where your PC is able to work with whichever mobile broad-band internet provider the internet users have subscribed for. Most companies are now supplying mobile ADSL offers and coverage of the networks, famous as 3G networks, which is now said to be nearly 90% of Great Britain.

Speed has been an important issue for any broad-band line and mobile high speed internet companies at the beginning struggled to convince users that mobile high speed connection could perform as good as traditional, ADSL landline high speed broadband. Internet connections are improving, with Vodafone reporting mobile broadband lines as fast as 7.3mb, similar to some of the traditional landline broadband. Most of the western countries, including the UK, are thinking to put huge amount of money in fibre optic cable networks, in order improve broad band line to up to 100mb.

In New Zealand, however, a leading telecommunications company has reported that mobile broad band networks are going to increase fast in the next few years and they have said that mobile high speed connection will soon deliver connections of up to 100mb by 2011, which coincides with when the United Kingdom’s fibre optic network is due to be completed. This will create a major turning point in industry thinking, with the discovery of a reliable super fast mobile broad band network with remarkable advantages over the installation of lots of Kilometers of fibre optic cables, not least from a practical point of view. Compare Broadband UK allows you to compare mobile broadband online.

Lowering Your Calorie Intake, Eating Healthier

The foods of the food pyramid are necessary for our optimal health. But in what quantities and which ones are the best? These are questions that must be tailored to our individual needs. And the answers will benefit our unique needs. Healthy for me, is not the same as healthy for you. Everyone’s nutritional needs are different, and everyone’s level of calorie consumption is different

As you study the food pyramid published by the USDA, we can examine some of the better foods, and try to decide what particular formulas make us the healthiest on average. The average person needs an hour of physical exercise, six to eleven servings of grains, two to four servings of fruit, three to five servings of vegetables, two to three servings of meat, two to three servings of milk, and enough water to make it all work.

The guidelines found on the general chart of the pyramid are as listed above, and this could be the formula for an eighty year old man, or a fifteen year old girl. The recommended daily calorie intake is just as vague and generalized as the daily food intake pyramid. Can you see how this might not work for either one? When a guideline published is this general, it is up to the individual to determine what food regimen will keep them at their healthiest, provide the caloric intake necessary, but not excessive.

According to the guides published by the USDA, calorie needs vary from one age group to another, one gender to another. So how do you determine what your individual needs are? You can setup a journal for recording your daily caloric intake for about a month. Make a note of your weight each day. If you don’t gain any weight during the course of that month, you’re eating your recommended calorie level in order to maintain your weight. Now, take that calorie information, use the food pyramid and comprise a combination of foods that will help you achieve this recommended daily intake, and still be enough to be filling and please the palette. You now have an individualized healthy eating plan.

If your goal is to cut calorie consumption, you would be among the latest wave of health conscious individuals who believe that a low calorie intake keeps us in our healthiest condition. There have been studies done with rats that lend credibility to this claim. Lowering the rat’s body weight by only 10% yielded a longer life; longer life spans were noted for up to a 30% cut in daily calorie intake. Anything past that point produced unhealthy consequences. Now, exactly how this translates into human life spans, we’re not sure.

Once the importance of a particular food plan is understood by us, it is a simple as learning our multiplication tables. We simply memorize the food requirements, and incorporate it into our daily intake as needed. As you take the time to incorporate a healthy food plan, don’t’ forget the necessity of exercise in our daily lives. In order to keep our bodies healthy and functioning as expected, we need to keep it fit. This comes through proper amounts of exercise

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Free DNA Testing

The majority of the companies offering DNA testing services provide DNA analysis and counseling for researching biological relationships. Most of these laboratories offer DNA testing kits at no charge for potential customers, in order to improvise on their database.

DNA testing, DNA typing or DNA profiling is one of promising techniques used to distinguish between individuals of the same species. The process uses samples of their DNA for identifying their genetics. In 1985, the process was publicly launched by Sir Alec Jeffreys at the University of Leicester. Genetic fingerprinting exploits highly variable repeating sequences called microsatellites in finding the differences between two human beings. The process states that two unrelated humans are likely to have different numbers of microsatellites at a given locus. By using PCR to detect the number of repeats at several loci, the process establishes a match that is unlikely to have arisen by coincidence.

DNA testing is subject to the legal code of the jurisdiction of the state where it is being undertaken. In most cases, testing is undertaken voluntary but incase of search warrant or court order, the testing is made mandatory. Several jurisdictions have now started assembling databases containing DNA information of convicts. The United Kingdom has the most extensive DNA database in the world, with over two million records by the end of 2005.

The companies offering these kits access an individual’s case to determine the type of testing best suited for him, i.e., either a personal DNA or legal DNA test. They also provide necessary materials for DNA collections, and the results are given to the person in three to five working days. Mostly, DNA reports produced by the testing are fully accredited by the law, because most of the companies comply by methods specifically drawn by the state laws.

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Dr. Paul Offit Becomes a Doctor

It has been said that people who are destined for greatness have had to endure some type of personal tragedy or struggle before they begin to live out their life’s purpose. Out of that tragedy or struggle triumph rises to make a difference in the lives of others. This may well be the case for Dr. Paul Offit, a pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases. At the age of five, Dr. Offit spent time in a polio ward while recovering from clubfoot surgery. His experience is what motivated him to become a doctor. He wanted to help children, whom he viewed as vulnerable and helpless. Dr. Offit received his bachelor’s degree from Tufts University, and his medical degree from the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

Dr. Paul Offit is an internationally known physician as an expert on vaccines, immunology and virology. He spent 25 years developing the rotavirus vaccine. Rotavirus causes gastroenteritis, and kills approximately 600,000 children each year throughout the world. He was inspired as a young pediatric resident who witnessed a nine month old baby’s death from rotavirus. Offit co-patented the vaccine, RotaTeq, which is currently manufactured by Merch & Co. RotaTeq replaced an earlier vaccine that was withdrawn from the market after rare cases of intussusception, a disease of the colon.

Are Herbs Weeds or Treasures?

Herbs or medicinal plants are often considered weeds – usually because they grow in undesirable places. Many herbs have been introduced into Australia and because they are not native plants, they have often few competitors for resources such as water, soil nutrients and light and have few predators. Subsequently, these plants can grow and spread unchecked, endangering native vegetation and even various animal species such as birds and insects. Weeds certainly can be a real threat to native flora, fauna, rain forests and even aquatic ecosystems.

Recalcitrant herbs are targeted by the authorities for eradication or sprayed on an ongoing basis, in an attempt to control their spread and protect sensitive ecosystems.

You don’t need to go to exotic places like the rain forests to find medicinal plants, they usually grow right at your feed; on footpaths, roadsides, garbage dumps, even in your garden.

Given that most medicinal plants are weeds and because weeds grow as prolifically as they do, they are often easy to cultivate – you will actually have more of a problem keeping them in a designated area, rather than a problem growing them.

Wildcrafted herbs are herbs gathered from the wild. The advantage of wildcrafted herbs is that these generally are very healthy and full of the desired medicinal properties. Wildcrafted herbs are usually native to an area and thus are not weeds. They often occur in clusters and grow in ‘ideal’ conditions under which they can attain their full medicinal potential.

A problem with wildcrafting medicinal plants occurs where there is little or no control over the amount that can be harvested at any one time or by any one person, at least this is the case in Australia. This can decimate a local population of wild medicinal plants. Taking of any vegetation is illegal without authorisation in Australian National Parks and protected areas for this reason. Some medicinal plants are actually becoming rare and endangered and the harvesting of these species should at the very least be regulated. Better still, organic farming of such herbs should be encouraged and promoted. This would provide struggling farmers with alternative cash crops during times when their primary sources of income are not performing well.

Weeds or Treasures – it really does not matter what you call them, the fact remains they are often very powerful medicinal plants that have the potential to address many of today’s major health problems and they have done so for thousands of years…

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Nadal, Federer Rewrites Tennis History

After beating Swiss tennis superstar Roger Federer in the 2008 French Open, “King of Clay” Rafael Nadal of Spain bested Federer once more, this time in the 2008 Wimbledon Open.

Federer was looking for his sixth Wimbledon title; one more and he would have beaten his and Bjorn Borg’s records of five consecutive Wimbledon championships. His age however, put him at a disadvantage. In the face of a younger and skillful Nadal, his experience was no match to the young Spaniard’s will to win, even if Nadal might have been oblivious that he was writing history himself.

With the win, Nadal became the first player since Borg to win both the French Open and the Wimbledon Open in the same season. To Nadal however, what really mattered was that he bested the world’s #1 ranked tennis player in his quest for his first Wimbledon championship. It was also Nadal’s first Wimbledon championship.

To top it all off, the match itself was historic: running for 4 hours and 48 minutes, it was the longest ever in a men’s finals.

But was it really the age gap that defeated Federer? Or was it Nadal’s ferocity to not give up chasing those balls? Yes, and more. Federer was defeated by extreme pressure. History put too much weight on him, too much pressure that even Federer could not bear it all.

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7 Stages of Potty Training

There are seven stages of potty training. They begin with showing signs of potty training readiness and conclude with being able to use the toilet away from home.

Signs of Readiness – The first stage of potty training begins when your child shows the following signs of potty training readiness:

  • Expresses an interest in using the potty
  • Irritated when diapers are wet
  • Pull pants up and down by him or her self
  • Stays dry for about two hours at a time
  • Expresses the need to go potty (or indicate that he/she just has)
  • Expresses an interest in cotton underwear
  • Has predictable bowel movements
  • Tries to imitate other family members

Introduction to the Idea of Potty Training – When your child shows a majority of the signs of potty training readiness, it’s time to introduce him to the concept of using the potty. This can be done by reading a potty training book as a bedtime story or watching a potty training video or DVD together. Purchase a potty chair and let your child watch you use the potty. Children will often imitate family members.

Sit On the Potty – When your child has been introduced to the concept of potty training, he will probably imitate family member and sit on his potty chair while you use the bathroom. This is a good time to teach good hygiene such as wiping and washing hands after using the potty.

Use the Potty Sometimes – Be sure to give your child plenty of liquids and take him to the potty every 30 minutes. This will help build muscle memory. The VibraLite watch can make potty training reminders fun for your child. The first time your child uses the potty, make a big deal of his huge accomplishment. A hug, encouraging words, or a small treat can be good motivational tools.

Use the Potty Alone – As your child gets more comfortable with the potty and his ability to control his bodily functions, he will go to the potty by himself. He will then come tell you about it. Again, this is a time for lots of praise and encouragement.

Transition to the Toilet – When your child is comfortable using his potty seat, it’s time to transition him to the toilet. Many children are afraid of falling in, so you may need to purchase a toilet seat adapter such as the Flip-N-Flush. This device reduces the size of the toilet hole, thereby making you child feel more secure.

Use Potty Away From Home – The last stage of potty training occurs when your child is able to use the potty away from home. Thankfully, there are many portable and disposable toilet seats available to keep your child from touching public toilet seats.

Some children breeze through the seven stages of potty training in a matter of weeks while other’s take several months. Your child’s progress depends on his or her stage of development, your potty training knowledge/actions, as well as the potty training products you have available.

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