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Provided below is practical marriage advice from relationship expert and licensed marriage and family therapist who since 1993 has been and continues to provide counseling for couples, individuals, and families. This nationally known relationship, marriage, and parenting expert; Dr. Karen Ruskin (that?s me) shares concrete insights and techniques to help the couple relationship dynamic be all that it can be. Whether in my office, on national or local television as a Psychotherapist media guest expert, radio, as a source for print media, or on my blog, my goal is to offer real solutions for real life relationship problems. Do note: whether you are married or not married, either way ? if you are in a committed relationship, the following tips apply.

The key to a healthy, happy, loving, connected, bonded, lasting, and successful marital relationship is to water the plant of marriage each day.

Make the time and take the time and do not take your marriage for granted.
Make the time and take the time and do not take your spouse for granted.
Make the time and take the time and spend quality time with your spouse.
Make the time and take the time and get to know your spouse throughout your marriage.
Make the time and take the time and pay attention to your spouse.
Make the time and take the time and be supportive of your spouse.
Make the time and take the time and be a dear friend to your spouse.
Make the time and take the time to behave in a manner that is trustworthy, reliable, and responsible.

In many marriages over time the relationship becomes a business partnership. Make it a point to pay attention to the friendship, nurturing, and passionate side of the marriage while balancing the business side of marriage.

It is far too common for many marriages over time to gradually lose the loving, nurturing, passionate interaction they had in the beginning years. It is far too common that the interest in one?s spouse and the many ways in which that is displayed in words and actions becomes void. The caring and giving behaviors far too often declines over time. It is quite often that spouses report they do still love each other, the love is not in question. Yet, they do not feel very loving nor feel they are the recipient of attention and affection the way in which they would have expected marriage to be. One of the top reasons is that the business partnership that occurs in many marital relationships takes over. The business partnership includes taking care of all of the many responsibilities that occurs in marriage (e.g., bills, children).

Having a business partnership in and of itself is normal, and quite necessary. The key is not to lose the passionate side of the marriage and have the business partnership take over. If the marital identity has become ?business?, then the marital identity is just that ? business, thus the ?other? side of the marriage experiences duress. Rather, the intent and focus must be to have a healthy balance of business and pleasure.

A helpful technique from me; Dr. Karen, to you that you can start using today is:

Every morning when you wake up ask yourself:
1. What is one thing I can do today to help enhance my marriage?
2. What is one thing I can do today to help my spouse feel loved, valued, appreciated, and special?
Make sure to implement your answer to your questions that very day.
Every night before you go to sleep ask yourself:
1. What is the one thing I did today to help enhance my marriage?
2. What did I do today that helped my spouse to feel loved, valued, appreciated, and special?

If you did nothing today in your answers to the aforementioned, take action right now! Do not wait for your spouse to be the one to take ownership of enhancing the marriage ? take action.

The communication pattern between couples is exactly that ? a pattern.

It is the unhealthy communication pattern, that very dynamic that overtime chips away at the couple. Take notice of the role you are playing in this negative pattern. Each day chose to make an active effort to interact in a healthier way, a different way. It takes one person to be the difference that makes the difference to break an old pattern and thus emerge a new communication pattern.

It is my opinion that there are 3 legs of marriage that must be paid attention to if you hope to experience a successful, healthy, and bonded marriage throughout time. It is these 3 legs, the 3 keys that are?imperative.

There are 3 key pieces you must spend effort and energy to attend to if you wish to remain feeling truly connected to your spouse and your spouse connected to you. Most relationships start out feeling joyous and building in connection. As time passes it is not uncommon to feel disconnected from your spouse, it is your job to create connection, ongoing connection. It is your responsibility if you wish to have a healthy marriage.

The plan: play an active role in the ongoing development of having a healthy, happy, loving, and bonded relationship.

The 3 legs of marriage/3 key pieces include:

Emotional Intimacy
Physical Intimacy
Sexual Intimacy

Intertwined within the 3 legs of marriage/the 3 key pieces as discussed above, you must have?active healthy communication?with your spouse.

Intertwined within the 3 legs of marriage (emotional, physical, and sexual intimacy) and the overall umbrella that surrounds these 3 key pieces is: healthy communication! Without healthy communication within each of these 3 key pieces the relationship declines over time.

2 concrete examples of healthy communication includes:

Each person feels they have a voice in the relationship and that voice is heard.
Speak with your spouse not at your spouse.

With healthy marital communication you open the door each day to a relationship that has the opportunity to grow in each of the 3 important marital areas of intimacy (emotional, physical, sexual).

Do you want to have a healthy marriage? The answer most likely is yes. Here is how:

Think about what a healthy marriage looks like, feels like, and acts like. Then, each day be mindful of acting like you have a healthy marriage, make choices for interaction verbally, physically, and sexually for what having a healthy marriage looks like and what you envision a healthy marriage to be.

If you think and act like you have a healthy marriage, if your spouse thinks and acts like you have a healthy marriage ? what do you think this relationship dynamic has the potential to become? Answer: a healthy marriage.

Want some more practical marriage advice to have a healthy marriage?

If you enjoyed this blog article and wish to learn more practical techniques, doable strategies, and increase your understanding of what his needs and her needs are in a marital dynamic, take a sneak peak into Dr. Karen?s marriage guide. My cutting edge book provides assignments and states specific must do?s to have a healthy and successful marriage at any phase and stage of the marital/relationship journey. Check it out, it?s an easy read!?Dr. Karen?s Marriage Manual?provides practical marriage advice.

Written by Dr. Karen Ruskin

Follow Dr. Karen on Twitter or Facebook. Media Psychotherapist Guest Expert; Relationships, Parenting, Hot Topics In The News. Appears on: The O?Reilly Factor, FOX & Friends, FOX & Friends FIRST, America Live, Hannity, regular go-to for FOX Boston, and more. Can be heard on Radio: FOX News, 96.9 Boston Talks, and more. Columnist, quoted in various print media: FOX Business, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Care.com, USA Today, Parents, TIME, Woman?s Day, and more. Owner/Director of Dr. Karen Ruskin & Associates, Inc. Based in Massachusetts. Author of: 9 Key Techniques For Raising Respectful Children and Dr. Karen?s Marriage Manual. Copyright 2012.

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Musician Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters perform at the Global Citizen Festival in Central Park on Saturday Sept. 29, 2012 in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Guitarist Dan Auerbach, right, and drummer Patrick Carney of The Black Keys perform at the Global Citizen Festival in Central Park on Saturday Sept. 29, 2012 in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Guitarist Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys performs at the Global Citizen Festival in Central Park on Saturday Sept. 29, 2012 in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Musician John Legend performs at the Global Citizen Festival in Central Park on Saturday Sept. 29, 2012 in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Actress Olivia Wilde speaks at the Global Citizen Festival in Central Park on Saturday Sept. 29, 2012 in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

NEW YORK (AP) ? A crowd of about 60,000 music fans packed Central Park on Saturday night for the Global Citizen Festival, a free concert aimed at calling attention to worldwide poverty and featuring John Legend, Foo Fighters, Neil Young and other performers.

The concert was scheduled around the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week. The festival's organizers used a social media campaign as a means of helping educate concert-goers about global issues including child mortality, polluted drinking water, malaria and other ills that confront the world's poor.

Here is a gallery of photos from the show.

Associated Press

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Do you want to help shape the mobile app industry? Do you want to work with a focused, talented and highly motivated team of engineers tasked with creating Microsoft's next generation platform for creating rich multimedia experiences on mobile devices? Do you want to impact hundreds of millions of Windows Phone users and mobile app developers? If yes, then come and join the Windows Phone Developer Platform XAML team, and help shape an industry.

As a member of the team, you will work closely with an extremely strong PM and Dev team, gain expertise in testing a developer platform and tools, master UI-level and API-level testing, and get a chance to leverage different testing methodologies.

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LONDON (Reuters) - President Francois Hollande's Socialist government unveiled steep tax hikes on business and the rich on Friday in a 2013 budget aimed at showing France has the fiscal credentials to remain at the core of the euro zone.

Following are analysts' reaction to the draft approved by the cabinet.

PHILIPPE WAECHTER, ECONOMIST, NATIXIS ASSET MANAGEMENT

"What raises a few questions for me is how will the conditions arise to reach the 3 percent (deficit-to-GDP ratio) with an optimistic growth forecast."

"The ambitions that were flagged are very audacious ... I have a hard time seeing the story how we're going to find the necessary growth in 2013 and afterwards... So far we have a lot of numbers and not the story."

GILLES CARREZ, CONSERVATIVE CHAIRMAN OF FRENCH PARLIAMENT'S FINANCE COMMITTEE

"Never have households and companies been subjected to such a fiscal shock. It's a very bad choice. More savings should have been made...

"There are no structural measures. Therefore, it's a short term-focused budget with no vision. There's nothing about the competitiveness of companies whereas that should a major priority."

PATRICK JACQ, RATE STRATEGIST, BNP PARIBAS, PARIS

"The important thing is that the deficit target can be achieved even if there might have to be some adjustments in a mini-budget next year."

"The gross debt supply should be lower than this year's and this should be positive for bond markets."

ERIC CHANEY, CHIEF ECONOMIST, AXA

"The government has understood that the increase in the public debt has got to be halted but the way that they are doing it is not the right way. It amounts to strongly increasing the tax burden on companies, their shareholders and executives, in other words those who create added value."

"It will lead to an even bigger loss of competitiveness and so a reduction in long-term growth. That will in turn keep the deficit and debt from being reduced over the long term."

(Reporting By Paris bureau and London markets team; Compiled by London editing desk)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/instant-view-reaction-frances-2013-budget-105028544--finance.html

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The first impression of as house can be formed by looking at the Gate of a particular house or property. A Gate is as important to a house or a building as are the rooms, doors, windows and ceilings.? Gates provide security to any space where they are installed. Also, they are useful in completing the structure of a house, providing a proper entrance and an exit to the house. Gates are mostly installed in houses that can be directly accessed, without going through stoppages in the form of stairs or galleries. However, Gates could lead either of these. Gates are installed at the entrance of houses, buildings, driveways, pools and even factories.

Gates are not merely means to enclose a particular space; they also mark the boundary of that place and regulate the entry of unwanted elements. Today, there are several types of Gates that people install in their houses. These Gates differ in size, operational mechanism and the material they are made of. A few variations of Gates usually installed today are:

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<li>??? Gates differ in sizes, meant for constructions ranging from one?s mansions, bungalows, apartment buildings to farms and parks.
<li>??? Different Gates have different shapes depending on the style of designers and manufacturers. They could alternately have simplistic, modern or classic designs. These days, designers indulge in incorporating art into the designs of Gates.
<li>??? Gates can be installed singularly or in pairs. There are different sizes of Gates available depending on how they are meant to be installed.
<li>??? The Gates can be made of wood, steel, wrought-iron or aluminium. Gates are usually installed according to the style in which the house is built; keeping in mind the d?cor and ambience of the house or concerned space.
<li>??? Gates differ in mechanism they operate on. In other words, Gates can either be sliding Gates, or Swing Gates. This alteration brings in the need to consider other Gate-related specifications like handles, latches, knobs and locks.
<li>??? Gates can be either manually operated, or with the use of electric current. The latter option is helpful in saving time and effort.</ul>

Fenceworks, an established Supplier and Contractor of Gates and fences, offers buyers a huge variety of Gates to choose from. This variety is available with them in the form of Aluminium Gates, Steel Gates, Wrought Iron Gates, Aluminium Slat Gates, Colorbond Gates and Glass Gates. To know more about the company, log on to:? <a href=?http://www.fenceworks.com.au? target=?_blank?>http://www.fenceworks.com.au</a>.

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Dear Friends,

Yesterday was a sad and tragic day for the Humboldt State University community.

Suzanne Seemann, an instructor in our Department of Geography, was killed by an automobile while she was out on a morning run. Two others who were running with her were critically injured and hospitalized, and one jogger's dog was struck and killed.

This is a terrible loss for our University. On behalf of our entire community, I would like to express our deepest condolences to Suzanne's family, her friends and her students. Our thoughts are with them at this most difficult time, and we are here to support them in any way possible.

Suzanne joined our faculty in 2011, after previously teaching at College of the Redwoods. She held degrees from Princeton, University of Wisconsin and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was a specialist in oceanic and atmospheric sciences.

Suzanne's colleagues in the Department of Geography have shared with me their keen sorrow at her loss. They describe her as an extraordinarily talented and popular instructor, one who will be sorely missed.

Family members, colleagues and students were being notified throughout the day yesterday. Counseling and other services have been offered, and anyone seeking support may contact the Counseling Center on campus at 826-3236.

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Three out of four Illinois voters now support legal recognition for gay and lesbian couples. That?s according to a new poll (PDF) from the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. Brian Mackey has more:

Charles Leonard, a professor at the institute, says support is edging up. He says he suspects people who might once have opposed civil unions have moved to supporting it, while people who only favored civil unions are now OK with gay marriage.

LEONARD: ?I suspect the civil union bill having passed in Illinois and the sky having not fallen may account for some greater acceptance.?

43.6 percent of voters surveyed ? the biggest group ? say gay or lesbian couples should be allowed to get married. An additional 32 percent favor civil unions. Together that?s 75 percent of the electorate.

Just 20 percent of respondents say there should be no legal recognition of gay and lesbian relationships.

Civil unions have only been legal in Illinois since last summer. Advocates are already pushing for gay marriage. But there are others who want to amend the state constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman.

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It is when several families will get together at Zion Lutheran Church, park their cars in the parking lot, open up the trunks of their cars, and kids will come around to each car to ?Trunk-or-Treat? instead of going house to house to ?Trick-or-Treat.? Those who don?t have trunks (or cars) can also hand out candy by standing in-between the cars. People can even decorate their cars!

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

BlueStacks teams with AMD to optimize Android App Player for Fusion, Radeon chips (video)

AMD has a disproportionately large $6.4 million investment in BlueStacks, and now we're seeing one clear reason why. The two companies have teamed up to create a special version of the BlueStacks App Player that's tuned for AMD's Fusion-based processors and Radeon graphics cards, running Android apps with the full help of the chip desgner's hardware in Windows 7 and 8 PCs. Accordingly, over 500,000 Android apps are invading AMD's new AppZone portal without any needed tweaks of their own, giving the service a much larger catalog than if it had gone with Windows alone. Both companies have a clear incentive to this melding of desktop and mobile: BlueStacks suddenly gets exposure to as many as 100 million AMD-running users, while AMD can tout a giant app catalog that may be preloaded on future PCs using its components. We don't know if the world needs yet another avenue for playing Angry Birds, especially when many AMD-based PCs won't have touchscreens, but the BlueStacks partnership could be a strong lure for new PC buyers who'd like an instant software library.

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Obama ahead of Romney in Iowa polls as vote starts

Presidential and vice presidential candidate names are seen on a ballot at the Polk County Election Office, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012, in Des Moines, Iowa. Voting in Iowa, one of 32 states that allow early voting, begins Thursday morning. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Election clerk Karl Althaus sorts through boxes of absentee ballots at the Polk County Election Office, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012, in Des Moines, Iowa. Voting in Iowa, one of 32 states that allow early voting, begins Thursday morning. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ? Republican Mitt Romney is struggling in swing-state Iowa at a perilous point: just as voters here start casting early ballots in the presidential race.

President Barack Obama has a clear lead in Iowa opinion polls, helped by the fact that the state's economy is far more robust than other battleground states. The president's polling edge is so wide it has prompted grumbling among Iowa Republicans who fault Romney for failing to take advantage of Obama's standing, which had been weakened in the four years since Iowa launched his bid for the White House in 2008.

"There still is time to win, but we are in the fourth quarter," said Nick Ryan, a veteran Iowa Republican strategist who was a top adviser to Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum's caucus campaign.

Iowa is hardly the largest prize in the race for 270 Electoral College votes. But the six it offers could be pivotal if the race is close.

Iowans on Thursday can begin voting in person at early voting sites and returning absentee ballots they've requested by mail or in person. Iowa Republicans are mindful that the perception of Romney in deep trouble could sway voters already casting ballots ? or dissuade volunteers from encouraging backers to turn out at the polls.

The state knows Romney and Obama well; both competed here in 2008. And Romney came close to winning its caucuses in January.

"A lot of people I know are excited about Romney," said Susan Geddes, a Republican from Indianola, just south of Des Moines. "And a lot of people I talk to are like me, and just want it over with."

Since locking up the GOP nomination in the spring, Romney has visited the state six times and has poured $8 million into television advertising here. GOP-leaning groups have tried to help, spending $20 million in TV ads criticizing Obama. But Romney hasn't been to the state since Sept. 7, when he made a trip to the Republican-heavy northwest. And he has paid scant attention to the blue-collar voters along Iowa's eastern edge, where unemployment is running higher than in the state overall and where he needs a big turnout to overtake Obama.

The Republican's team insists that he hasn't given up on the state and that he and his running mate, Paul Ryan, plan to spend more time in Iowa in the final weeks of the campaign.

"You're going to see the governor and Paul Ryan talking a lot directly to voters, having more opportunities to do that," campaign spokeswoman Sarah Pompei said.

Aides argue that Romney has built a more sophisticated voter-contact system than Republican John McCain did in 2008, when Obama carried Iowa by 9 percentage points. And although Romney has only 14 staffed state campaign offices, compared with Obama's 67, Republicans say they have made more than 1 million contacts with voters by telephone and in person.

If the polls are right, the GOP ticket has a lot of ground to make up.

A Wall Street Journal/NBC News/Marist Poll taken last week found Romney trailing Obama by 8 percentage points, a finding that mirrored recent internal polls from Democrats and Republicans alike. The poll also found that only 40 percent had positive feelings about Romney, down from 43 percent in May. Conversely, Obama saw his favorability rating improve to 53 percent from 48 percent over that same period.

Those figures illustrate why Obama's campaign is increasingly confident about its Iowa prospects even as aides say they expect the race to tighten somewhat as undecided voters focus on the election.

Democrats say Obama has benefited from his Iowa strategy of blanketing the state with eight presidential visits ahead of early voting. Obama hoped that his frequent visits, as well as constant appearances by Vice President Joe Biden and first lady Michelle Obama, would help him build a lead over Romney ahead of Election Day, when Republicans traditionally have had an edge.

Obama focused his attention on more populous and politically diverse eastern Iowa. The small and medium-sized cities, many with struggling manufacturing sectors, were friendly territory for Romney in the Iowa caucuses but now show him trailing Obama in internal polling. Obama's three-day, statewide trip in August touched down in less-traveled cities in north- and south-central Iowa. He also made a well-publicized visit to the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines.

The president also has run more than $20 million in ads, including many that characterize Romney and his positions as those of a wealthy, detached former business executive. Obama allies also have spent roughly $3 million in advertising.

Obama aides say Romney's criticism of Obama's handling of the economy has been less effective here than it has been in states such as harder-hit Florida and Nevada. In August, Iowa unemployment was 5.5 percent, up from July but far below the national average of 8.1 percent.

But Obama aides also say Romney hasn't made as much of an effort to build a personal connection with voters in a state where face-to-face campaigning is key, and they say his comment about 47 percent of Americans who don't pay federal income tax has been problematic.

"He doesn't think poor people are his problem," Oskaloosa Democrat Pam Douglas said. "They are his problem if he wants to be president."

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Associated Press writer Julie Pace in Chicago contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

US futures dip as European situation deteriorates

FILE- In this Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012, file photo, Warren Meyers, center, works with fellow traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. A quiet day on Wall Street turned Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012, into the worst sell-off in three months after a Federal Reserve official said he doubted the bank's effort to boost economic growth would work. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

NEW YORK (AP) ? U.S. stock futures slid Wednesday as the European economic crisis devolved into social unrest in the most vulnerable countries, such as Greece and Spain.

Signaling a broader instability in the region, Germany failed to raise sufficient bids for the country's benchmark 10-year bonds Wednesday as a rush for safe havens in a "very volatile market environment" drove average yields down to 1.52 percent.

Dow Jones industrial futures fell 19 points to 13,386. The broader S&P futures gave up 2.7 points to 1,434.50. Nasdaq futures slid 7.5 points to 2,795.75.

Developments in Europe overshadowed what is expected to be more evidence Wednesday of a U.S. housing market on the rebound.

The Commerce Department releases its new home sales report at 10 a.m. Eastern, and economists believe that sales likely rose again in August.

Sales of previously occupied homes jumped in August to the highest level since May 2010. Builder confidence is at a six-year high and construction of single-family homes rose last month to the fastest annual rate in more than two years. However, even with the gains, home sales and construction remain well below what could be considered healthy levels.

And the fear is that a broader recession in Europe could lead to a stall in whatever economic recovery is occurring in the U.S., where the housing market has been a major drag for five years.

Tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in Athens and Madrid, where they clashed with riot police ahead of a new round of spending cuts and tax hikes.

Police in Athens used tear gas and pepper spray during violent protests that broke out near the country's parliament. Protesters also set fire to trees in the National Gardens. About 50,000 people marched in central Athens on Wednesday, kicking off a general strike against new austerity measures.

The Bank of Spain warned Wednesday that the country is in a deep recession, one day after protests in Madrid led to at dozens of arrests. At least 64 people were injured.

In the aftermath of the chaos that erupted Tuesday, the central bank of Spain said country's economy continues to shrink "significantly." The main IBEX index in Madrid tumbled 2.6 percent.

Poland said Wednesday that its jobless rate had risen to 12.4 percent by the end of August, compared with 12.3 percent in July, further signs that the economic distress is spreading.

Germany's DAX fell 1.4 percent lower to 7,322 while the CAC-40 in France dipped 1.9 percent to 3,447. The FTSE 100 index of leading British shares fell 1 percent to 5,803.

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Baby boomer nutrition: Health power to the (plant) people | Mind ...

By Stephanie Stephens on September 26, 2012

Mind Your Body TV Episode 42 with Sharon Palmer, R. D.

If registered dietician and food and nutrition journalist Sharon Palmer could be granted a couple of wishes, one would be that we all ?eat more whole plants.? The other would be that we read her terrific new book, ?The Plant-Powered Diet, The Lifelong Eating Plan for Achieving Optimal Health, Beginning Today.?

At 412 super-informative pages, Palmer?s book reminds us in accurate detail of the dangers of eating too much meat. Meat consumption has doubled between 1909 and 2007. Red meat represents 58 percent of the meat we consume, she says.

To begin to cut your appetite for it, consider the environmental issues that include ?antibiotic resistance, caused by overuse of antibiotics in farm animals, to toxic manure lagoons that pollute local waters and spread foodborne pathogens.?

Then consider these.

Top 11 reasons to cut back on (or cut out) meat

It?s ok to ?veg out? on these healthy food choices.

1) It can hurt your heart: People who eat red meat are more likely to have high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels.

2) It ups your risk of Type 2 diabetes: Enough said.

3) It may pump up inflammation: That can promote a strong of chronic diseases like heart disease, type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer?s disease, Palmer writes.

4) It raises your risk of metabolic syndrome: The term refers to a collection of unhealthy factors that include a large waist circumference, high triglyceride levels, lowHDLor ?good cholesterol,? high blood sugar and high blood pressure.

5) It may boost your toxin load: Cooking and processing some meats produces dangerous, carcinogenic compounds. Many toxins are also stored in the fat of animals.

6) It can promote antibiotic resistance: This is thanks to overuse of antibiotics in farm animals, as above.

7) It may escalate your risk of cancer (especially colorectal).

8) It can add pounds: Meats are higher in calories and fat than most whole plant foods.

9) It may cut your lifespan.

10) It magnifies your carbon foot print.

Eat more of these

These are your friends: vegetables, cooked beans and peas, fruits, whole grains, nuts, seeds. You can add them into your diet slowly, and soon, you won?t miss that meat. Bon appetit!

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Award-winning writer and author, Jennifer Quasha, shares 101 humorous and heartwarming stories about our dogs and cats in her latest Chicken Soup for the Soul Series dedicated to these lovable, goofy, and comical canines on FMMK Talk Radio.

The Strategy Sessions welcomes the publisher of Optimal Living Magazine, Tanisha Hopson, to talk about their new Purity Initiative and to give a behind-the-scenes look at the magazine?s latest edition.

18-year NBA veteran, All Star and Brooklyn Nets Guard, Jerry Stackhouse, will join Host Anthony Donahue to talk hoops.

Tune in as nutrition and fitness researcher Jonathan Bailor explains why eating less and exercising more is actually harmful! You?ll also discover healthy eating tips to improve your skin. Call in to get one-on-one advice and a chance to win Jonathan?s e-book, The Smarter Science of Slim.

Patrick Muldoon, multi-talented actor, songwriter and lead singer of The Sleeping Masses joins the show. He is best known for his portrayals of "Austin Reed" in Days of Our Lives, "Zander" in Starship Troopers, and "Richard Hart" in Melrose Place.

Silvio speaks with Ray Walzer of THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION about Colombia and the upcoming elections in Venezuela....

Tonight your hosts of PD RADIO, Ms. PD & Black, shines our CREATIVE ARTIST SPOTLIGHT on the musical genius and soulful voices of Teena Marie, Luther Vandross and living legend Stevie Wonder in a musical tribute of their poetic, creative and musical inspiration

VividLife?s Ed and Deb Shapiro welcome Marianne Williamson, a spiritual activist, author, lecturer and founder of The Peace Alliance to discuss her new project Sister Giant, the coming together of consciousness and politics

All Sports Program will have JMV from The Ride with JMV on ESPN 1070 The Fan. We will discuss and break down week 3 of NFL fantasy football. Tune in for any advice or help.

Anthony Hamilton?s voice just keeps getting better with time. The Grammy Award winner?s arresting voice?a favorite staple on the scene since 2003?recently provided the perfect accompaniment to Jill Scott?s earthy vocals on the captivating duet ?So in Love.?

Hey there! This is SP and I love to talk about sports. Join me and my co-host Devon Clarke as well as our analysts in our sports talk show, The SP Show, for the latest sports news with a touch of entertainment. Great stuff coming up!

Do you want to begin cherishing your life right now, today?Join Kim as she debuts Cherish Your LIfe Today radio show where she will introduce herself and discuss the many healing modalities she has at her fingertips as well as talk with callers who have questi

Mark Becker is the founder of the NEWLIFE EXPO, the Yoga & Raw Foods Expo, NEWLIFE Cruise-At-Sea, NEWLIFE Magazine, NY Yoga Magazine and NY's first non-religious yoga center,Serenity, which Mark started in 1975.

Nicole Taylor is the host of the popular national radio show, Hot Grease on Heritage Radio. She has honed her skills as a successful terrestrial radio host and will be sharing tips on media kit development, guest management, production and marketing.

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Poor customer service is exactly what Brits deserve? | Business ...

So says leading customer feedback experts, Rapide, speaking out after receiving the shocking results of its latest research. Rapide has revealed that a staggering 91 per cent of people in the UK don?t always complain about bad service and yet 51 per cent don?t expect the service to improve if we don?t speak up.

The worst offenders in this nation of ?can?t be bothereds? are men. The boys win hands-down with a quarter of those who don?t always speak up saying it?s because they can?t be bothered to complain. And nearly half of us in the UK as a whole say we don?t try and pull businesses up by their boot strings as we feel there is no point ? businesses simply don?t care.

Rest assured we do still have a few grumpy Brits who are prepared to speak-up. You?ll find plenty of moaning coming from the South-East with results revealing 28 per cent of people here always or often complain. This compares to just 15 per cent ? less than one in six ? saying they often or always feedback after a poor service in both the East Midlands and Northern Ireland.

There is certainly a great British culture of non-complaining ? and more than half of those questioned agree that if we won?t speak up we?re getting the service we deserve. So what will persuade us to stop mumbling into our cuppas and start telling businesses what we think? An instant response, according to these recent revelations.

Nigel Shanahan, Managing Director at Rapide, says: ?The results are quite startling ? businesses are giving the impression they don?t care and consumers aren?t speaking up when there?s a problem ? resulting in a nation of people who think they receive poor customer service but won?t do a thing about it.

?Consumers want to know they have been heard and they want a response. We can all understand the frustration of sending a long winded email complaining to be completely ignored ? feeling like you?ve been listened to makes all the difference!?

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Top Software ? how to make fast money online ? 60 seconds

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Monday, September 24, 2012

Entrepreneurship Online eCommerce business start up help | Bnr.Co

Hello Guys, Hope you all are doing well. I have a software engineer and possess a good knowledge about website development. Now I want to setup my online product selling business. But confuse in taking the decision of market area or product, which are going to focus. Basically following things are most important to setup of any online business. 1. Setup online ecommerce store.- I am going to use eBay selling shop or setup my own ecommerce store. 2. Product to sale online- I am confused here; initially I like to go with a single product of any company. So whats next procedure I need to follow here? Lets suppose, I am going to sale Tupperware product online. So in that case, Can I need to become distributor of this product? Can I need to buy bulk in advance?Can I need to setup my shop or warehouse to store all items?Can I need to pay in advance?How can I link my online store with Tupperware product? etc? Etc?. 3. Shipping/Payment Which are the best methods to handle shipping/payment options? Your suggestions are always welcome. If you have any other better options then please share with me.

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The Honorable Ron Kirk to Join OFA-Florida for Roundtable Discussion on Education at Broward College

FORT LAUDERDALE ? Monday, Sept. 24, The Honorable Ron Kirk will join OFA-Florida at Broward College in downtown Fort Lauderdale for a roundtable discussion on education. (Broward College Board Room, #1208, at 111 East Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale)

Kirk will be joined by local educators and students who will talk about the importance of a skilled workforce to keep America?s students competitive and President Obama?s efforts to make college more affordable.

President Obama has a vision to create an economy built to last, where those who are responsible, work hard, and play by the rules can be given a fair shot at success, and this starts with education. Since coming to office, President Obama has been a staunch advocate for making education an economic necessity for our nation?s young leaders.

For Florida students, President Obama?s policies mean broader opportunities: new college tax credits for 717,000 Florida students, larger Pell Grant scholarships for 608,000 students, and more affordable loans for 453,000 hardworking students taking responsibility for their education.

From granting waivers on No Child Left Behind to creating the Race to the Top initiative, which Florida was crowned a winner for improving student outcomes by closing the achievement gap, President Obama knows providing a quality education will help this country achieve a full recovery from the middle-out and the bottom-up.

The President?s vision is far different from Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan?s plan for education. Under the Romney-Ryan plan, Floridians would see Pell Grant scholarships cut and funding for K-12 and special education eliminated, leading to increased class sizes and fewer teachers.

The Romney-Ryan solution for students who are worried about college costs are to ?shop around? and ?borrow money from your parents.? Their policies would mean fewer Pell Grants, higher student loan interest rates, and the elimination of critical investments needed to ensure America?s students can compete with the rest of the world and secure jobs of the future.

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Sunday, September 23, 2012

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Are you having trouble managing all your social media accounts? With so many articles and special reports on the topic of social media marketing, you would think it was a complicated topic. But at its core, it's not really hard to understand at all. Using Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to find new clients is more like "old-style" marketing techniques of networking and word-of-mouth advertising than anything else.

When you think of them in that way, working with these sites seems less daunting. In fact, it seems more like the other things you already do to grow your company. To see what we mean, here are three easy ways to get more from social media marketing:

1. Have custom profile designs. In the old days of networking, having the right look and materials (a nice suit, good business card, etc.) was important. In the same way, having custom profiles designed for your Facebook and Twitter accounts not only makes an immediate strong impression, it helps you stand out in the crowd.

2. Post regularly to your social media profiles. As anyone who spent lots of time networking in the past can tell you, it wasn't something you did once and forgot about ? building relationships took lots of small efforts and gestures. The same applies to social media marketing, where posting regularly to your accounts and slowly building up a following is the name of the game.

3. Be friendly and funny (but still professional). Perhaps the biggest mistake people make on social media sites (at least professionally) is the same one they make when meeting other business contacts in the real world: finding the right mix between being personable and staying professional. If you struggle to locate the right style, begin by imitating someone whose social media marketing efforts you admire. Over time, you'll find your own voice.

These three tips might not tell you everything you need to know about social media marketing, but they'll give you a big leg up on your competitors. So, get out there and give them a try today.

Do you need a web design and online marketing partner who can help you make sense of social media? Contact us today and set up a time for a free consultation.

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Introduing Power Up! - Quirky Kid Clinic

While Australia?s elite sportsmen are aiming for top form in the footy finals, young Australians are also striving to achieve their best: It?s now the ?business end? of the year, when kids take to the field in sports finals, school students knuckle down to study for final exams, and young performers prepare for end-of-year eisteddfods.

But how to get the most out of high achievers without overdoing it? A new resource from one of Australia?s leading child psychology practices, The Quirky Kid Clinic? helps young people perform at their best, while maintaining balance and perspective, and not getting burnt out.

?Power Up!? is a step-by-step program that enables schools and clubs to adopt the type of performance psychology used by elite athletes, performers and musicians. Young people striving to perform at high levels in sports, performance, music or academia (including end of year exams) can benefit from these techniques. They include goal setting, self-talk, imagery, arousal regulation, focus and competition planning.

Quirky Kid Clinic?s principal child Psychologist, Kimberly O?Brien says: ?Know- ing how to reach your performance peak is more effective than endless hours of coaching. Power Up! is about avoiding burn out and enjoying what you do best?.

Power Up! will be distributed by the Australian Council of Educational Research. ACER?s National Sales Manager Eirini Lamni says the program is an ?innovation in the way we approach high performing kids. By focusing on the path towards goals rather than just the end-point, young people are armed with useful, healthy strategies to perform at their best. It?s a great resource.?

Power Up! will be launched on the 26th of September at the Sydney Academy of Sport and Recreation, in partnership with Football United. Football United organaises soccer matches, tournaments and camps, providing opportunities for young refugees, or kids from disadvantaged backgrounds to socialise, form networks, and to excel on the sports field.

More information about Power Up! is available at http://quirkykid.com.au

To register to a workshop visit our workshop registration page

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Mobile Miscellany: week of September 17th, 2012

If you didn't get enough in mobile news during the week, not to worry, because we've opened the firehose for the truly hardcore. This past week, Sprint hit more than one milestone that it just had to share and Nokia teased the latest app that's exclusive to Lumia owners. We then discovered a very rare BlackBerry and also learned of the latest city to get prepped for T-Mobile's LTE service. Hell, we even stumbled on a new smartphone for old people! These stories and more await after the break. So buy the ticket and take the ride as we explore the "best of the rest" for this week of September 17th, 2012.