Which way should you go in the 21st Century,
the purposeful way or the purposeless way?
Best selling author Rick Warren asks in his book,
“The Purpose Driven Life,” this question: “What
on earth am I here for?”
Do you ever wonder about that, too? Can you
you answer Warren’s question simply and directly?
Over 20 million people wanted to know, since
Warren’s book topped all records for a non-fiction
book published in the United States, selling
20 million copies.
However, searching for our purpose or meaning in life
is not new. It has been a characteristic of Western
Civilization for thousands of years.
Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher, 350 B.C,
placed heavy emphasis on finding your life’s purpose in his “Nichomachean Ethics.”
Aristotle believed that everything had a purposeand
that values and life choices were very important.
Domincan priest Thomas Aquinas (1225 to 1270 A.D.)
wrote the “Summa Theologica,” a synthesis of
Aristotelean ethics and philosophy blended with
Christian doctrine.
Aquinas focused on the nature of God, proofs of God’s
existence, and the logically-derived natural law.
Years after the Reformation, the Roman Catholic
Church declared in 1879 that the “Summa
Theologica” was official Catholic doctrine.
The search for meaning and finding one’s purpose
continues to this day-and not only in Rick Warren’s
writings.
Author James O’Toole takes a fresh look at Aristotle’s
ideas in his book, “Creating The Good Life: Applying
Aristotle’s Wisdom To Find Meaning and Happiness.”
O’Toole uses Rudi Guiliani, Bill Gates and Michael
Jordan as great examples of those finding and
maximizing their purposes. O’Toole asks five
questions:
1. How do I find meaning and satisfaction?
2. How much money is needed to be happy?
3. What is the balance of work, family and leisure?
4. What are the responsibilities to my community?
5. How can I create a good society in my company?
Clearly, there has been a strong desire for people to
find meaning and purpose in their lives from 350 B.C.
to the present.
The abrupt, radical, often painful transition
from the 20th Century and its Industrial Revolution
to the 21st Century world with its globalism, Internet communications, “icon toppling” of companies with
broken business models that cannot be fixed, and the
huge global shift to self-employment-all these factors
place new emphasis on Warren’s “what on earth am I here
for?” question.
But even when you find out “what you’re here for,”
you also must learn how to accomplish it in the
entirely new and totally different business
environment–the 21st Century. What worked
in the previous century is largely irrelevant now.
Advice on how to succeed in the 21st Century is the
responsibility of progressive thought leaders-business
authors, academic visionaries, savvy self-help and personal development gurus, futurists, preachers and professional speakers.
Unfortunately, many experts “don’t get it” when it comes to letting go of the the 20th Century and its business realities.
Their 20th Century “wisdom,” now outdated, is an expensive exercise in nostalgia.
If followed by you, it could take you nowhere fast.
Don’t be left behind by taking advice for your future
from anyone living in the past.
The 21st Century–and your future–include a world of
widespread self-employment, rapidly increasing globalism, worldwide network marketing, China and India (along with the USA) as superpowers, and disappearing lifelong employment combined with increasing and intense employee dissension.
The 21st Century isn’t scary. It’s thrilling. Incredible
possibilities never before imaginable exist. You
can operate a global business from your home using
your computer and the Internet, earning money
four times faster than in the last Century.
What on earth are you here for? If you know your purpose,
do you know how to achieve it in the 21st Century?
Which way will you turn in the 21st Century–back to
the deceptive “comfort zone” of the 20th Century or
fast forward into the 21st Century?
The choice is yours. Your choice is either to be
puposeful or purposeless. Choose wisely.
John J. Alquist is owner/operator of Alquist Enterprises,
a firm which advances self-employment in many ways. Visit
John online at his website, http://www.tell-it-well.com or email
him at john@tell-it-well.com
What are the advantages to you when you get a Platinum Master Card? Every time I get a credit card, or consider getting one, I ask myself a question. I ask myself what the advantages are and whether or not it is something that is worth my time. You should do the same thing. A Platinum Master Card has certain advantages to it that will likely make it a worthwhile card for you to have in your wallet on a day to day basis. It is useful, inexpensive, and will accommodate your spending needs no matter what.
The first advantage to a Platinum Master Card is that there is no annual fee. An annual fee for a credit card is the amount of money a company charges you each year to carry the card. For the most part, there is no reason to have a card with an annual feel because so many are available without it. If you are looking at a card that offers airline miles or something of that sort, then it might be worth an annual fee, but for the most part you should stick to free cards. Since a Platinum Master Card does not have an annual fee you shouldn’t feel obligated to use it more than you want and will thus control your spending just that much more.
The second thing to consider about your Platinum Master Card is that it can be used most anywhere. With some other credit card companies you will run into places that take credit cards, but not that specific credit card type. The Platinum Master Card is pretty universal and you will find that most any place that does accept credit cards will accept it. That can go a long way in making sure you can spend where you want when you want. In fact, any time you are looking to a credit card of any brand you should make sure that it is going to be accepted in the places you frequent the most as well as places you will need to go in case of certain circumstances.
Thirdly, if you qualify for a Platinum Master Card, you will qualify for a significant monthly limit. You never know when you are going to want to or need to make a large purchase and it sure would be good to know that your card will accommodate the amount you need to spend. Most Platinum Master Cards have fairly high limits and should be able to help you in most any spending situation. That makes it a versatile and worthwhile card in itself.
Getting the right credit card is confusing at times since there are so many available out there. The Platinum Master Card should at least get a look from you for its usefulness, inexpensive or non-existent fees, and high limits. Those three factors mean that you will be able to use it when you want and that with it in your wallet you will have peace of mind. Given the chance, a Platinum Master Card just might be the right card for you.
If you would like to find more of my personal articles on credit cards please check out my website on online credit applications!
Mother’s Day is, in many countries, a day for celebrating motherhood and thanking mothers. Mothers often receive gifts on this day, and it is a huge time of year for mail. In 1973, the U.S. Postal Service was held up for 8 days because of the constant flow of letters and cards.
Origins
Mother’s day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mother’s day has different origins in different countries and therefore occurs on different days in the year.
One school of thought claims that this day emerged from the custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus, was held on March 15 to March 18 around Asia Minor. They insist that this custom spread around the world.
Mothering Sunday is the celebration of motherhood in the United Kingdom. It takes place on the fourth Sunday of Lent. This Sunday is also known as Mid-lent Sunday, Rose Sunday and Laetare Sunday. Traditionally the children will bring gifts of flowers and chocolates to their mother. Breakfast in bed is also an expectation, as is a relaxing, carefree day. It originally comes from the Victorian practice of allowing servants to return home to visit their mothers on this day.
United States Origins
Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 - October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. Howe’s Battle Hymn of the Republic was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs for the Union during the American Civil War. After the war she focused her activities on the causes of Pacifism and women’s suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mother’s Day, with her Mother’s Day Proclamation.
Anna Maria Reeves Jarvis (September 30, 1832 - May 9, 1905) was born in Culpeper, Virginia. Jarvis worked around what is now West Virginia to promote worker health and safety concerns. During the American Civil War she organized women to tend to the needs of the wounded of both sides. After the war she became active in the promotion of Mother’s Day, a holiday at that time involved with the causes of pacifism and social activism. She organized meetings for mothers of soldiers on both sides of the late war.
Her daughter Anna Marie Jarvis (May 1, 1864 - November 24, 1948) of Grafton, West Virginia held a memorial to her mother on the second anniversary of her mother’s death (1907) and then went on a quest to make Mother’s Day a recognized holiday. In 1908 formal observances were held in churches in Grafton and Philadelphia. By 1911 every state celebrated the occasion on the second Sunday in May. President Woodrow Wilson, in 1914, made the official announcement proclaiming Mother’s Day as a national holiday and ordered the United States flag displayed on all public buildings.
Remember to tell your mom how much you appreciate her by going to see her, calling her, or sending her a gift. Mothers deserve at least one day a year to feel special.
sources - wikipedia.org and Compton’s Interactive Encyclopedia 1997
Patricia Fason is a writer and poet. To see more of her work visit Sites O Web Romances You. For suggestions on what to get your mom this year for Mother’s Day visit The Gift Boutique Mother’s Day Section.
Constructs? World is formed of such vastness that it is said in the movie Excalibur by Merlin to Arthur of the Dragon “…..if you would be able to see it and grasp it whole it would burn you alive!” So there is a natural need to limit and define the world for what is only called for by a person or society. Aldous Huxley mentions what he calls a reducing valve is what is needed in the brain for its survival of this influx of information. Imagine hearing the grass grow, every molecule split, all atoms spinning, every ones thoughts at once, or for that matter all sound. Like a chef, we follow recipes to put certain amounts of ingredients unto our food. For taste is dependent on the person and society. Nobody just throws every thing into the mix and expects it to be delectable or even healthy for you. Discernment happens so that certain goals are reached. This is what the reducing valve does.
Another point is that we adjust to the reality of other minds and not the world. The world is only the raw materials to construct the matrixes that society follows and believes as reality. We in the western world stomp a child’s instinct to create imaginary friends, create other worlds, or fix themselves with magical powers they only see. In Hindu culture, adults take on the practice of making Tulpa’s; imaginary friends. With constant thinking of these personalities, in time they and other people will see these beings. After they are created they become very resistant to being removed from reality.
Then In the Movie Erik the Viking, when the longship is attacked by the serpent of the north sea, only the Christian monk does not see the serpent that the pagan Vikings do. He was of another world and its constructs. In Bali the initatory rites into adulthood consist of walking on fire that registers a thousand degrees. After some preparatory praying and fasting, most of the youths walk unscourged by the fire. A Baptist from the west tried to show his faith in his God was just as strong nearly burned his feet off. Why, these youths have been watching people walk on fire their whole lives. I always thought if a child was raised in a society in which every one flew, he would do so. Even if the rest of society hid the fact they were using jet packs. In the country of Senegal my friend was raised in a society that still had medicine men. One time one of his friends broke his arm, with a severe bent to it, playing soccer. He went unto the medicine man, who snapped a stick and laid the two pieces apart next to the broken arm and carefully merged the splinters back together again; the arm was healed. He had also had seen the God of the field who walked up to his crow tower three times assuming the size of a giant each time. His society was of a world of constructs that fostered these ideas since infancy, where we are like the Monk who can not see the serpent sinking the ship. People falling in a dream who see themselves hit the ground are thought to die in real life as well. In the movie Dreamscape, an assassin would kill people in their dreams. The constructs or reality were so strong that the people would die in real life.
“You must give up your life to find greater.”Jesus
But what does all this magical gobbly-gook have to do about bringing change into your life? Everything. In the world you want to bring change to; either it being leaving a spouse, a job, or quitting an addiction. You must change the constructs first. When one leaves prison he is advised not to see certain people or visit certain environments. Same with an addict, it would be harmful for him to enter a place of active users. People in the old world need you to justify their choice in society. No one wants to accept that their world has been a lie. They rather perpetuate their thinking forever if they could. Why because they are helpless to the fear and desire circle. Sometimes they are jealous. Parents scorn their children for their creative thinking that is not concrete. Either it be the magic and fun created by the imagination or doing those professions they did not have faith to try themselves. We force our children to verify our world and our views. But why are we so admiriant about it, because we know there is another way. Either we push our children to breaking point to bring us out of our reality, or hem them in so we do not have to change. First rule of control in Herbert’s Dune series is; scorn all those who are different for they may see change is possible. Also a heretic is said to be one who sees with their own eyes open. The Indonesians believe the shadow cast by their puppets to be of the real world and ours but the true play. Shakespeare had said all the world is a play. When one consoles a friend when their father has died, he merely apologizes for his father playing dead. Life is what you make of it.
That is why it is most important for your parents to justify and reassure your life goals. They either help you preserve your construct or break them down like a house of cards. They can be your strong stone and mortar to follow your dreams. Like Pavlov’s dogs we respond to rewards and punishments to acquire our views of society that the whole agrees on. A child has greater needed to become part of a group than remain indifferent in its own world. Sometimes the group takes its constructs as holy and something that can not ever change. This leads to it strains and faults that are limited from repair within the system. But luckily the mind wanders away from this necessity whenever it can. It is for us not to scorn ourselves when it does. Nor should we let it get to far away from the group we intend to rejoin or even change.
Right brained conservative thinking is that of group thinking. Alexie Sherman in one of his short stories about a basketball player looking for pick up games had this commentary about Republicans and democrats. He would either play one on one with democrats or four on one with republicans. The democrat being more autistic left brained thinking could act independently, but the republicans needed the group to give strength to their opine or talents. The democrats are of the western thinking of the importance of the individual in society and the republicans are of the thinking of the east that sees more importance in the whole. They find the individual as a threat. For their egos act on the third chakra of self acquisition and not the fourth, so they fear themselves. In the army young men are taken out of the world of the individual to become a member of a team and then thrown back into the world of the me, me, me without the appropriate retraining. Someone said the real fall of man was the split between the thinking of the individual and that of the group.
All right you might think this is getting you no where and you would of been better off watching that final episode of Friends once more that you had taped from before. But wait; you do want to know how to bring change to your life and see where you are making mistakes that limit this from happening. It is all in the constructs.
In Joseph Chilton Pearce’s Crack in the Cosmic Egg, he describes Jesus as one who has seen the world not as a distinct mechanical unit, distinct from the mind of man. But a matrix for continual resynthesis which is an agreed and practiced upon construct in a continuum of possible worlds. In Quantum physics they have observed the Proton turn into a negative Phi meson, disappear, reappear as a Neutron, turn into a positive Phi meson, and back into a proton. They also have observed in their math that an atom has as any dimensions as it has electrons times by four. Only when one of the possible actions of the atom has been observed, is it limited to only four dimensions. But Pierce also says Christ perceived that no solitary reality can be communicable by others unless by agreement by the participant’s of the world. Only under special circumstances and for special goals would Jesus break from the old constructs upon the agreed upon world. He was there to restructure a specific problem area in an ordinary reality. He was able to look outside the box. His nonordinary states become shared ones by the constant needs of others, not only on his ego and its selfish goals.
To attain these non-ordinary realities it only takes three or four people to agree upon them. As an artist you need to do a couple of freebies that result in a printed medium or a piece that is hanged in a respected place for others to be willing to pay you. But it first starts by not saying you will be an artist, but by breathing as one as you say I am. For when you become your own ego it is like you becoming your own god. For Yahweh means, I am. But to share this reality you must agree that every one else is a god as well. But to do this, the only way of receiving our new worlds is by doing. Just do it, But the action comes through rigorous reality adjusting changes to your life. It could start by wearing new clothes, taking a new way to work, changing your hours, visiting new places, or changing some small habits. These things should be performed arbitrary with no set ideas of which ones to change. That will stimulate your left brained thinking. This will help you balance the art of your life with that that can only be felt with the concrete reality which can be touched and qualified. For no system is the last word to anything. So nothing should be held so sacred that it can not be brought to change.
For Brahma created the all that is, was, and will be. It is for Vishnu to preserve what is helpful and Shiva to remove what is not. The universe is like a box of paints of all the colors of the visible and not visible spectrum before any painting is created. At this juncture, all paintings exist. Once the frame is put on, we are limited to that one only until the paint box is opened once more. Idolatry to Jesus is holding any product of reality as absolute. For him the process is the only truth. When a teen thinks he wants to be a guitar god, but realizes he prefers after all to tweak the knobs and levers on a sound board; should he be ashamed? No music was only the way to his truth.
But how do we get to bring change in our lives? It is in the gradual complete collapse of our certainty in every day life that will bring us into new realities as some ones new husband, a painter, a electrician, a plumber, or just as someone happy. This is the small death that William Blake calls for. It is the Ego Deaths, the Tower card, and Hagal’s Aett. The components of our regular reality can be denied for its restructuring. Jesus said we must give up our lives so we may gain a new. Was this not what Peter and Simon did when they left behind their nets and boats to follow him? But then again did they, for did they not become fishers of men. This is the leap of faith and the walk on the swords edge. But he got thoroughly pissed if you believed he was the truth and not the way. Buddha felt he could not teach illumination either, but only the way. For it is for your own little god to grow up and to take it’s place next to Christ at a large cosmos oriented round table with no center or head. Teachers want you always to surpass them. Pierce also says their is no being unless it is in the act of being.
No w he also mentions the fact it was the poor and the handicapped who heard him the most. For the scholar, the Pharisee,and the rich man held much desire. For they gained allot and feared loosing what they established as their reality. What did the poor have to loose, but being poor. It was easier for them to give up something that did not work, for nothing seemed to work as of yet anyway. Jesus said that the holy spirit is the leavening that creates the spirit to enter the Kingdom. That God was not the judging condition of which way is right, but only the provider of infinite paths. God only responds. Man judges.
Jesus did not break with logic, he just mentioned perfecting it in order to develop new constructs that bring new worlds of change. Change is a matter of choice and commitment. It is the person going back to the cave to tell the others about a world of light and what they fear is mere shadows of what is real.
In starting my career as a life coach, it was that of initiatory steps. It was no mere chance that my first client Kathryn was some one as well who was attempting to leave her career. For walking in the shoes of change, I would be able to pass them unto her to walk her path. This started by first making business cards. Then I proposed lectures to various churches so I could be accepted to speak in them. I then had brochures to be made for people to take home from the lecture. I hanged posters about the event. Adds were placed in local newspapers. Every one who read the posters, the adds in the paper or the people who had allowed me to lecture and place the adds; justified my being a Life Coach. I was in the process. It did not matter that no one showed for the first lecture and only four came to the second, for afterwards I made good money with my first client. I was being reassured and justified in what I am.
The hardest piece was leaving the job I was in. It was paying the rent and delivering the food that the other did not start doing as yet. Well it was because I did not ask the other to be the source yet. I was still in the other world. That world had strict limitations and they were growing. My shadow was acting up more. I was getting angina and severe anxiety. It was a good world for what I needed to learn, but I had to give it up for better. Now the time had come. The door was opening and the river was flowing out of it. I took a week off and did not care about the bills or the money I was loosing. Then I knew there was another world without that one. I did not starve or get kicked out into the street. I was OK. But I had to go back to make the transition smoother. But this only created more anxiety. I was to leave for good in the next month, or else the shadow would create more and more anxiety because it knew that the old world was only bringing unhappiness. No longer was it an environment for learning, but a world asking for change, it needed someone to not only go out of the world of that Job and my world of little concrete worth; but to go without so I may find how to bring change to the wasteland. In the Hero’s journey there is a calling, dissatisfaction with the old world, the entrance into the world of the mind, the challenge, the leap of faith ,giving up to something greater, the goal, and most important the return. Once I left the old world it was for me to interpret and justify other’s desires for change and show them the path to aspiration. The longer we lie to ourselves, the more we hurt some part of the world. For one not to bring change is to hinder the rest of the universe. So as I change, like an atom splitting, I change the world. A butterfly flapping its wings can create a tidal wave across the world. May we all be in front of this next wave.
But this only works in the spirit of all for one and one for all. To go to the seventh Chakra of the Holy Spirit and return to the fourth chakra where we find the self without opposition to others and the world. Only then will our universe grow. But what are other worlds, where is the goal? What are we leaving behind?
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Different leagues have different standards for baseball bats. Professional, adult leagues (the ones that hope to make it to the World Series) require classic, wooden baseball bats. But Amateur leagues allow for lighter, more powerful metal bats. When it comes down to equipping your child with the best bat they can possibly get, it takes more than just buying him any ordinary bat.
Furthermore, in high school leagues, baseball bats must be more than 67 millimeters in diameter, so it’s only suiting that the requirements for Little League baseball bats are just as stringent! This is no surprise considering the difference in size between adolescents, adults and children. The following requirements are typical and good to know if your son or daughter is thinking about joining a league and baseball bat shopping might be on the horizon.
Little League baseball bats cannot be more than 33 inches long or have a barrel diameter of more than 2 inches. Also, they must be taped around the handle. To understand how much a bat weighs, look at the negative number that it is associated with. If a baseball bat is 30 inches long and its number rating is -10, that means the bat weighs 20 ounces. Lighter Little League baseball bats are more powerful than heavier ones (and also will hurt a child a lot less if it accidentally hits them in the head, which is a good thing since there is no crying in baseball!), but they are also more expensive. The surefire way to zero in on the perfect little League Baseball bat for your child is to make some test swings before uou head to the counter.
Jeremy Tang likes to swing his baseball bat till the cows come home. Read more information about the subject by taking a peek at his pieces on youth baseball bats and little league baseball bats.
More and more people today are worried about the costs of long-term health care. They are worried if something happens to them they may run out of money and burn thru their reserves. The average nursing home stay is 2.5 years of care and the average cost is over $130.00 per day. That is the average yet in many areas with nursing shortages and higher income demographics the rates are more significant. It is estimated that more than 10% of us who reach age 65 will nursing home care for more than 5-years.
It is very important to have long-term health care insurance to:
Protect your assets
Provide peace of mind
Provide assurance of quality care
Provide choice and control over receipt of care
Avoid dependence
Receive tax advantages
Paying for Long-Term Care? Here is The Bottom Line:
Medicare - This program may pay for skilled nursing facility care for a very short period of time - but no longer than 100 days - and only when you meet all the Medicare requirements for daily skilled care.
Medi-Cal - This program, called Medicaid outside California, may pay for skilled, rehabilitation and custodial care that is not covered by Medicare, but only if you first “spend-down” assets to federal and state legal impoverishment level guidelines.
Personal or Family Assets - Most people provide for long-term care expenses from personal or family income, assets and resources.
Long-Term Care Insurance Programs - Specially designed programs to pay for long-term health care expenses. HIPAA defines Federal tax treatment of insurance policies that provide long-term care coverage. Policies that meet certain criteria are designated as “qualified long-term care insurance” and will receive certain tax incentives: the cost of coverage may be deductible and long term care benefits received will not be reported as taxable income. Please consult your tax advisor for information about your personal situation.
Play it safe and know your options regarding long-term health care and know protect your assets. Think on this.
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The domain name for your business is your online identity. You should be very careful about choosing a domain name that is memorable, scores quite well with search engine listings, has a trust factor attached to it, and commands a brand value. A domain name is quite important for your business correspondences and emails. A long one can cause problems in communication, especially if the domain name seems complex. Here are some tips in choosing a well-meaning domain name that captures the essence of your brand image or business:
1. Keyword oriented or a unique domain name? If your website is going to have a crucial role to play in your business, then it is important to have an adequately researched keyword incorporated within the brand name. Use the most searched-for term in search engine queries, within your domain name. Prior to launching your online business, you should do some research through website tools to find out which keywords register the most number of traffic during a month. For example, if you want to make a website based on advising people, you will find that the keyword help is normally typed in the search engine query window a lot more frequently than the word aid. If your domain name includes targeted keywords, than you will get higher rankings in the search engines like Google and Yahoo. You should bear in mind that, apart from having the targeted keyword in your domain name, you should also have keywords in other parts of your site as well.
2. Use a company name only if you are famous: That is right. If your company name overwhelms the basic product name, then by all means go for the company name as your domain name. For example, people normally use the term Xerox rather than photocopy and if you are Xerox, then you should go for Xerox as a domain name because of the sheer popularity of the brand name. This is usually not the case, so using a keyword-rich domain name is a better move for most people. To be on the right side of balancing your business well, you should buy a set of two domain names, one that represents your business/brand name, and another that represents keywords or key phrases.
3. Keep your domain name short: The shorter your domain name, the more memorable it is. If your domain name has an every-day lingo, the better it is! More often than not, you may find that a simple two-word domain name is already taken. The alternative in this case, is to put a hyphen (-) to your targeted keyword and then add the other word. SEO experts are of the belief that hyphenating two or more words makes a long domain name more search engine friendly. The flip side is that people do not tend to write words with hyphens naturally, and there is a chance that if someone has recommended your site to a friend, the friend may find himself going to a competitor’s site. So one has to understand and undergo a lot of study while choosing a domain name. After all, it is one prominent thing that can dictate the flow of your business. Also, you should avoid putting numbers like 4 instead of for in your domain name. It will only lead to confusion.
4. Dot.com only: If you intend to have a website for commercial or business reasons, then by all means go for a website which ends in extension .com. The domain name companies will market other options like .org, .us, .net, etc. However, by all means try stick to .com for better mass appeal.
5. Register similar domain names: If you believe that in the future you are going to have a huge amount of people visiting your website through word-of-mouth advertising, then you should consider registering similar domain names that direct to your main URL (e.g. www.datinginformation.com and www.datinginfo.com). There are cyber-squatters who register domain names in the hope that they will be selling them for a profit to someone who really needs that domain name. Before they do this, you should register the domain names if you think that such a possibility can occur.
6. Be patient: You should not choose a domain name in minutes merely just to get it done and over with. A hasty decision may cost you a lot. It is better to invest time in research and arrive at the right kind of domain name. You should also discuss the comprehensibility and usage of the domain name with friends, neighbors and well wishers to find how simple and commonplace it really is.
Tanya Swithins, Website: www.pecdesigns.com Bio: Tanya writes for PEC Designs, a manchester web design agency.
A nonprofit corporation has the public’s best interest at heart. It may have an environmental, educational, religious, scientific, or literary focus (among others). In return for their services, the public can make donations to these companies and then deduct the amount from their federal taxes. In this way, it sure is a win-win situation.
Although it sounds pretty straight forward, a nonprofit can be a complicated entity. Therefore, it is wise to know where you can find answers to the many questions that are bound to crop up. The easiest place to uncover these questions is online because there are numerous websites that focus on the ins and outs of nonprofits.
For example, one place to start is by making sure you understand nonprofit language; in other words, the terms used when discussing a nonprofit organization. Check out this URL:
nonprofit.about.com/od/nonprofitstartup/a/glossary.htm
Once you feel comfortable with the lingo, it is time to make your nonprofit idea a reality. But before you get going, make sure you know about the different legal matters involved in this kind of company. For example, the company will not declare a profit because it puts all its earnings toward operating expenses and providing services to the public. And in order to do this, certain regulations must be met. To get a handle on these, check out sites such as:
nonprofit.about.com/od/nonprofitstartup/a/starting_faq.htm
www.managementhelp.org/strt_org/strt_np/strt_np.htm
www.drcharity.com/npstart.html
One of the main reasons people choose to be involved in nonprofit organizations is because it is a great way to share common interests with others and problem solve in a pro-active, positive way. In fact, nonprofits are encouraged to reach out to othersindividuals and corporationswho have similar goals. The following website lists 52,000 nonprofit and community organizations in 165 countries (you can add your company for free!):
www.idealist.org
Volunteerism exemplifies the spirit of nonprofits and is a big part of the nonprofit community. These sites focus on volunteer opportunities:
www.volunteermatch.org
networkforgood.org
www.volunteersolutions.org
If you have already established a nonprofit corporation and wish to attract more attention to your cause, nothing works better than a well-crafted website. But if you do not have the know-how when it comes to software technology, you will need some help. A web hosting company can save the day. What’s more, many web hosts offer discounts for nonprofit companies.
What would make an interesting, helpful, and fun website? With the help of a web host, you can include the following elements:
- links for locating other nonprofit organizations
- career fairs (by specialty or area)
- ideas for participating in your community
- various resource links organized by subject (teens, voting, environment, campuses, teachers, different languages etc.)
- management tips for employers
- opportunities for volunteers
- legal advice
- current, relevant articles
Clearly, there are numerous benefits of a nonprofit corporation. Not only can one satisfy one’s longing to be involved in a worthwhile organization, but it also allows one the opportunity to look beyond oneself and give back to a community at large. And it is possible to do this without worrying about obstacles because it is possible to find reliable help and guidance online.
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Television or TV as we condense it to is a comprehensively used communications resource for distributing and receiving moving pictures and audio, or as we more traditionally know it as, telly channels. Commercially existing ever since the 1930’s the television set has developed into being an ordinary home communications appliance in homes and institutions, first and foremost as a source of entertainment and gossip. From the beginning of the 1970’s video recording on VCR tapes & later, digital playback devices including Digital Versatile Discs, have given the ability for the television to be used to look at pre-taped children’s television & other channels. Amazing prices on high definition televisions online at Digital Direct.
TV’ systems are built out of numerous parts so a television screen that does not have an interior tuner to obtain the broadcast signals is described as a monitor instead of a television. Because the future is now, televisions have developed on considerably & technology has advanced, tellies at present are assembled to receive several television broadcasts or video formats, such as high definition TVs regularly referred to as HDTV. Near the beginning when HDTV’s were first put on sale they were tremendously expensive, although, lately it’s not impossible to come across discounted televisions from most supermarkets. For example a 37 inch plasma television may possibly have one time have set you back one thousand pounds it is these days feasible to obtain 1 up for a vast amount lower than this, you will observe that generally Plasma widescreens televisions have fallen greatly in cost in contrast to a handful of years ago.
There are 2 kinds of TV’s these days, plasma & LCD both are some what exceptionally alike nevertheless, awfully distinct as well. Plasma is a class of flat panel screen that you will often only spot on large TV displays, which fundamentally highlights that you will not observe plasma in anything smaller than a 37″. Plasma screens in there straightforward form are just gas drums. You then have LCD displays which you can discover in numerous different resolutions & they can also be used as PC VDUs.
I have two cats and I can’t imagine that either of them would want to live without the other. They live like brother and sister. And I can’t imagine me living with just one cat either.
For those that love cats, having just one is never enough. Instead of having just one cat to call your own, you can have several. Those who have more than one cat realize that this is a good thing not only for the cat owner, but also for the cats as well. Cats like other cat company.
Are you considering getting another cat? Many people wonder if their cat would be okay with another being around. If your cat is alone for a long period of time, then he may like having a cat around. Older cats will often develop a new lease on life when there is a new kitten introduced to the home. Some cats do like their solitude though and territorial issues can cause a problem.
New kittens mean having to go through all the frustrations with training all over again. You’ll also need to consider the added expense of all the vaccines as well. IF you add an older cat to the home, this too can be a challenge because the cat will need to adjust to the new home as well as to develop behavioral or health related problems.
When choosing another cat to bring into your home, you do not have to choose a cat that is the same breed at the one that you have. You may want to take care to choose the right combination though. For example a Rex with his silly behavior with a standoffish Russian Blue may not be the right combination. Cats will similar traits can work well together. The Himalayan Persian and the Maine Coon breeds are so friendly that they are likely to adapt to any even some of the most demanding breeds.
Set up an area for that cat before bringing him home. He may do better if you allow him to stay in one area until he adjusts. Allow him to settle in for the day before you introduce him to the rest of your family.
You’ll want to allow the original cat some time to get used to having the other cat in his home. This may take some time. For a smooth transition, make sure he doesn’t have to share his own litter box, his food or his toys with the new cat. There are health reasons as well as feelings that should be thought of here. Cats who are forced to share a littler box may actually decide to create their own area for a private box.
There are many reasons to have more than one cat. For many of those reasons, you’ll be able to have that much more companionship with more cats.
Niall Kennedy is a lifelong pet lover and has worked in several pet sanctuaries. Best Pet Health Information is a resource that brings you information about many aspects of cat health and happiness. You will also find great deals on medication for cats such as Frontline, Advantage and Revolution. www.Best-Pet-Health.info
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