Internet has become very useful now-a-days and every person today has an internet facility where one can browse and search almost everything possible. There is a possibility where you might have always thought of starting with your own personal website. Your search ends at a click of a button and surprisingly you get a wide choice to search from the list displayed for Free Web Hosting Services. Here the question comes to how wisely you choose the site and how efficiently will it help you? Web hosting services allows to cerate your own website, be it an organization or an individual, accessible through World Wide Web (www). A free web hosting service, as the name implies is free service but generally supported by an advertisement. But it is not sensible to accept whatever comes for free, just blindly. While choosing any Web Hosting Services that are free or charge you minimum you need to consider certain things that might be very important and helpful while choosing any site that offers you this service. There are several limitations that one comes across while choosing a site that offers a free web hosting service, clarify this and proceed. Firstly there is a limitation on the size of every file that is to be hosted and the bandwidth offered is comparatively smaller, moreover restrictions on certain files like MP3, ZIP etc, some free hosting services may make it obligatory for banner or pop ads in all the links, no uptime guarantee, limitation of custom URL, no pornographic allowed, immobilizing hotlinks of file, no advertising on website to be installed by customer. Keeping all these limitations in mind one should wisely choose a web hosting service that puts minimum restrictions for the owner of the site. Even if it is a paid up web hosting there are certain limitations that you may come across or the web hosts may charge you some extra amounts in order to act upon your will. A person who wants to have a website done for him needs to go through a lot of websites that offer him the web host services but has to keep in mind to consider the limitations laid on him or the services provided by them. It is not only there are limitations to be considered but a lot of sites provide some extra features that these web hosting services may offer, which may attract several individuals or organizations who want a website done for them. The attractive features and the benefits usually one gets while getting a website for him are many like a great storage, a control panel strictly a web based, free sign-ups or email accounts for the domain, drafting language like PHP, Perl etc., File transfer, providing MySQL, chronograph, guestbooks, free graphics, resources for community and forums, reward systems, unlimited space with no data limitation etc. These are certain features that a person might get attracted and choose a website. The more the benefits it provides, the better is the opportunity a person to choose that particular website to do the web hosting service for him. The websites who offer the web hosting services fro free or very less prices can recoup their costs either ways, by selling advertising on the consumer website or through referrals that means the free sign-ups are asked to refer this to a number of friends, lastly if the website hosting company is not doing good it can resell the hosting company to someone else by attracting a lot of customers. Thus keeping all the advantages and disadvantages in mind, one should wisely choose a web hosting company by which he gets the most out of it for free or for a minimum charge. Think about the one which has lesser limitations and at the same time offers the maximum number of benefits.

jamiehanson
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Cruise travel from ports close to home is what passengers want now. In almost all of the cruise reviews, cruise travelers have expressed concern with long airline trips to distant lands. Now they want to cruise from ports that are close to home to enjoy a less stressful cruise vacation. The cruise lines have caught on to this trend and are now positioning their ships up and down the United States East and West Coasts and along the Gulf of Mexico. Let’s explore the ports of embarkation on the West Coast starting in Southern California at the port of San Diego and go northward.

If you can take the time before or after your cruise travel, spend some extra time in San Diego. The city of San Diego is blessed with year round warm weather and seventy miles of Pacific Coastline. There are many activities to enjoy while in the city. They have a first class, world famous zoo in Balboa Park. At Old Town State Historic Park learn about the History of California. Near the downtown area there are 15 excellent museums and gorgeous gardens.

A little further up north is Long Beach just 20 miles south of Los Angeles. Here is where the Queen Mary retired to in 1967 and is permanently docked serving as a Hotel. With more 12,000 sea creatures the aquarium is a delightful spot to spend a couple of hours.

If you plan to take your cruise vacation out of Los Angeles there are plenty of sights to see. A pre or post cruise package from the cruise lines will allow you to see the many cultural centers or drive by the star studded neighborhoods of Malibu, Bel Air and Hollywood. Be sure to see Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Chinatown and the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Visit funky Venice Beach and dine in the many excellent restaurants. And don’t forget to at least window shop on Rodeo Drive.

The dazzling Golden Gate Bridge will be what you sail under on you cruise vacation from San Francisco. Many cruise reviews have mentioned this city as one of the favorites from which to start a cruise. You may opt to take a side trip to the vineyards of Napa and Sonoma Valleys for a day. While in San Francisco check out Fisherman’s Wharf, or take a cable car ride through the city. In this city there are numerous excellent restaurants. There is a ferry that will take you over to Alcatraz Island for a glimpse into the life of the prisoners.

Perhaps you have chosen Seattle, Washington as your embarkation port. The lovely Puget Sound area is rich with history of the maritime industries. The Olympic Mountains will leave you feeling awed when viewed from the Space Needle that is 607 feet high. For fun don’t miss the Pike Street Market for fresh seafood and produce. There are many fleets of sport fishing boats for fishing or for whale watching.

Even further up the coast you are now in Alaskan territory. Fairbanks, which was once a booming mining town, is the entrance to Alaska’s interior. If you stay here for a day or two try a really Alaskan adventure and go dog sledding. Maybe you would like to pan for gold, another part of Alaska’s history. If you want to see the Northern Lights plan your cruise vacation for late August or early September.

Choosing a cruise vacation out of Whitter, Alaska will allow you to go whale watching, and look for sea lions and bald eagles. This is a small quaint town that really lets you feel what Alaska is all about.

You will fly into Anchorage for departure from Seward, Alaska. Try to stay a few days to explore the riches Anchorage has to offer. There is the beautiful Denali National Park, where Mt. McKinney offers spectacular scenery. In Seward you can take a cruise to the Kenai Fjords as a day trip.

Any of these cruise ports will make a great start for your cruise vacation. So when planning any cruise travel pick a port that’s close to Home and leave some time for exploring the town of embarkation.

Happy Cruising

Copyright © Mary Hanna, All Rights Reserved.

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Mary Hanna has traveled the world by Air and Ship while writing eBooks, Software Reviews and Practical Articles on Internet Marketing, Cruising, Gardening and Cooking. Visit her websites at: http://www.CruiseGold.com http://www.CruiseTravelDirectory.com and http://www.CruisingTips.com

Mary Hanna
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The popularity of mobile homes is increasing, and more people have been considering the idea of owning one for themselves. While the space may not be that wide like traditional homes, you can Travel to other places with your mobile house. Think of it, where else can you visit other places while you bring your house along with you? You can assure yourself that your properties are safe-because you will be able to watch over them as you journey on the road.

Usually, mobile homes are bought by people who are just starting out, and they want to have their own home despite a small income. Over time, they may be able to save up on money and they may want to move out from their mobile home. When this happens, they sell it and look for another place to live in. If you are also thinking about putting up your mobile home for sale, you have to come up with marketing strategies to sell it effectively.

Stage Your Mobile Home

It is inevitable for a mobile home owner to move out and buy another home. While there are owners who give it to another family member, most owners sell it. If you want to sell your mobile home, you have to come up with strategies so that you can sell it right away. Your home is just like any other traditional home-it sells quickly if it appears desirable and tempting for buyers. But if they think that your home is not worth their money, then they will not bother transacting a deal with you. One way of making your mobile home desirable for potential buyers is to stage it. You may think that staging is not applicable for such a small home like your own. However, you also have to put into consideration that if you show your home to interested people without improving it first, they will lose their interest.

When you stage your mobile home, you enhance its appearance with beautifying methods. If you have a landscape surrounding your home, you can improve this by putting in flowers. If there are trees, check for dead branches and twigs and burn it if there are any. Make sure that the whole view of your home is not blocked by overhanging branches, cut those which hide some parts of your home, like your window.

Another thing which you have to put into consideration is the interior of your home. Make sure that it is not cluttered and messy. Keep away books and magazines, and clear the counter top from unnecessary things. If the lighting fixture of your home is dim, you have to change it with new ones. Most people like their homes to look cheerful and bright, and dim lights do not make this possible. You may also have to keep away extra furniture that make the space of your home very limited.

Advertise Your Home

Home staging will be a waste if you will not advertise it. Make sure that you will not forget posting it in newspaper ads or in fliers. This way, people will be able to know that you are selling your home. If you want, you can post it over the Internet also. A lot of people search for information here; there will be a great possibility that they will be able to chance upon your home.

Scott Krager
http://www.articlesbase.com/real-estate-articles/sell-your-mobile-home-effectively-150790.html

Many people are looking for a more holistic health approach to meet their health care needs these days, but don’t quite understand what it means or how it will benefit them. More and more consumers are becoming aware that our current health care system is failing us in more ways than one and some kind of action is required, but get frightened or diverted by other’s negative perceptions and skepticism of natural health which is really based on misinformation and lack of understanding.

Most skepticism of alternative health modalities is fueled by the unfortunate fact that modern medicine tries to discredit alternative means of healing because it is much more profitable for them to use surgery and pharmaceuticals, not on any real grounds for concern. The topic of alternative health always brings out the doubting Thomas’s who scream quackery and voodoo. You may hear that they tried a holistic method without any success or that they had some weird side effect or even felt worse.

Here’s a couple important points to keep in mind. Their experience may be true but that does not mean it is true for everyone and there could be other reasons that contributed to their experience. We can very easily find another group of people who had great success and no side effects with the exact same treatment method they used.

This is because not everyone’s body responds to a particular treatment or healing approach in the exact same way. Even though you may share the same health condition with someone else, each of you has a unique body chemistry and genetics and the same disease can have a different process or impact from person to person. Each of these factors influences the results that will be achieved. In addition to that, someone with a liver, lymph system, endocrine system or other organ or system that doesn’t function optimally may have a very different response than someone who has healthier organs and systems.

Just because one treatment approach is ineffective for one person, does not meant it will be ineffective for you or others and that doesn’t mean that “all” holistic health care is ineffective. Results can be completely different from individual to individual. A lot of times it requires some trial and error to find what works best with your biochemistry and specific circumstances.

Additionally, this is true whether we are talking about a holistic health method or traditional pharmaceuticals. Regardless of whether we’re talking about natural remedies or prescription drugs, what is effective for one may not work at all for another, but overall holistic health is much more effective and a lot safer. We can find hundreds of thousands of people who have severe side effects, get worse, develop more serious health conditions or even die from prescription drugs. On the other hand, these events are rare within the field of natural health.

Holistic health or alternative health has actually been around longer than prescription medication or so called “modern” medicine. Plants and herbs have been used successfully to heal by many civilizations for centuries and most pharmaceutical drugs have their roots in herbal medicine. For example, the common and popular aspirin originated from an herb called white willow bark.

However, a crucial fact that many are not aware of is that just because something is natural does not mean it will automatically be free of side effects, complications or risks. Many people doctor themselves before first doing their homework and having a thorough understanding of the method they are using.

Herbs, plants, vitamins, minerals, or any alternative treatment method can be just as potent as a prescription and requires a great deal of education and research to be sure you achieve the desired results. They should be taken or performed as prescribed by a knowledgeable health care provider. For example: some holistic remedies that are effective for depression can have a negative effect on someone with Parkinson’s.

Too much or too little of a particular herb can be ineffective, while too much of a vitamin or mineral can be just as bad as not enough. There can be complications or interactions even within natural substances, as one herb or even treatment modality such as massage or acupuncture may counteract or rev up another treatment approach and vitamins and minerals work in conjunction with one another

Additionally, herbs and other natural substances can interact with prescription medication and reduce it’s effectiveness and vice versa. Its extremely important that you consult with a holistic health care provider and disclose all medications and conditions prior to medicating yourself.

Another important issue that may impact results of a holistic health remedy is the quality of the product or service you use. It’s vital to do your Homework in this area as well and only use products and services from reputable companies. The natural health field is not immune to sales hype and scamming. You must be a diligent and informed consumer regardless of what path you follow.

Breaking free from the old way of thinking that conditions us to believe that drugs and surgery are the superior method of treatment can be frightening and difficult. It may seem foreign, threatening or strange at first, but when you get the facts about holistic health, you realize that it makes a lot of sense.

Holistic health offers us an abundance of wholesome, non-toxic, affordable approaches from herbal remedies and nutritional supplements to massage, acupuncture, yoga, detoxification, changes in lifestyle, environment and diet or colon cleaning, chiropractic manipulations, meditation and many more that attempt to not only restore balance and harmony in the body, but to society and the planet as well.

It’s an empowering approach where the patient works with the health care provider as a team and is encouraged to be an active participant in the health care plan, educate themselves about their condition and engage in a variety of self-care techniques and practices.

Unlike modern medicine, which only attempts to suppress symptoms, holistic medicine attempts to correct the health condition by finding the underlying cause. Instead of stuffing everyone in a cookie cutter treatment plan, holistic health care is a whole body/mind approach that is individualized according to each person’s specific needs.

The ultimate goal is to enable each person to reach their highest sense of well-being, function as optimally as possible and live life as fully as possible regardless of the presence or absence of disease.

Cynthia Perkins
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/understanding-holistic-health-725933.html

The Internet has had an enormous impact on the way in which information about gardening and horticulture is being published with more and more information being made available in the form of downloadable e-books. Let us look at why you should consider writing and selling your own gardening e-book.

If you have a good knowledge of gardening and you can write book providing helpful information to readers, then publishing it as an e-book is a great way to go. Electronic books or, e-books have changed the publishing world.

The Advantage of Gardening E-books

there are several advantages with e-books. If you write gardening e-book you can get it published far easier and in much less time than for a traditional print book.

Once you have created your gardening e-book once, you can easily copy and email it to your customers, or have them download it immediately following payment. That means almost zero costs for production, storage, and shipping. In other words, your gardening e-book will be a highly profitable product to sell.

Don’t forget that many people search for information online before even go anywhere near a bookstore. A few of the common gardening topics that people search for online include growing flowers, growing vegetables, growing herbs, organic gardening, trees and sustainable living.

How Much Do E-book Authors Make.

Some e-book authors make just a few extra dollars per month. Others make hundreds of thousands of dollars with a single e-book launch. Whether or not you can achieve that with your gardening e-book will depend upon many factors but one thing to keep in mind is that as an e-book author you will get to put more from each sale into your own pocket.

By comparison, readers readily spend around $25 for traditional gardening books such as, New Illustrated Guide to Gardening and The Complete Vegetable & Herb Gardener. But gardening e-books have good ticket prices too. Consider Organic Food Gardening Beginners Manual that sells at Click Bank for $24.

Many traditional book authors only earn a dollar or two for each paperback book that sells, but with e-books you will normally pocket 80% to 90% of the cover price for every copy sold.

Plus an e-book business is open 24 hours. As long as your web site is up, customers from around the world in any time zone can visit your store and make a purchase.

What Makes a Gardening E-book Sell.

Your gardening e-book will sell if it is well-written, if it is helpful to your target audience, and if you promote it effectively.

Be sure to know your target audience and provide information about gardening that is clear, concise and answers real questions that people want answers to.

And remember that your target audience is not limited to flower gardeners, it could also be vegetable gardeners and herb gardeners.

Ultimately sales of your gardening e-book will depend upon you actively and relentlessly promoting it. Use articles. Use advertising. Use a blog or newsletter. Do not let up and you will see sales of your e-book grow.

In closing, a couple of questions. Would you like to be recognized as an expert on gardening and horticulture. Would you like to be able to tell people that you are a published author.

You can take the first step today by deciding to write and sell your own bestselling gardening e-book.

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Neeraj Walia
http://www.articlesbase.com/ebooks-articles/you-can-write-a-gardening-ebook-sell-it-online-701227.html

Coffee, nice music and a tranquil ambience, definitely the perfect way to unwind and chill out after a stressful day. So where else would people want to go after work or school? You guessed it right, at the cafe. It’s no wonder why coffee houses never run out of customers.

A cafe is a nice place to hang out, meet up with friends and talk over cups of sumptuous coffee. But it can also be a place where you can spend some time alone, reading a good book or doing some thinking.

Venturing into this kind of business has proved to be lucrative for those who were able to run the cafe efficiently. But aside from proper management, another important factor that contributes to the success of a coffee house is the pre-opening preparations.

As with any Business, opening up a cafe entails proper and thorough planning. The objectives should be set clear, goals properly outlined with realistic timeframes, and finances properly prepared.

Aside from that, investments should be made on the right kinds of cafe furniture. But how does one know how to find the perfect furniture for one’s cafe?

Here is a list of some of the things you need to look for when buying cafe furniture.

1. High quality. Look for pieces of furniture that are of high quality. Purchasing furniture from reputable suppliers and stores is a good way to ensure that you’re getting every cent’s worth of what you paid for.

You may be tempted to buy cheap furniture as you want to save some cash. But you may end up spending even more for repairs or replacements with cheap and low quality pieces. It’s always more practical to be on the safe side by opting for high quality furniture.

2. Exquisite style and aesthetic appeal. As with quality, the form of the furniture is of equal importance. The furniture contributes greatly to the physical appearance of the cafe, which in turn attracts or repels potential customers. To put it simply, stylish and beautiful furniture will make the cafe more attractive and will draw more customers in.

Even if you have the best tasting coffee in town, if your cafe resonates ugly in every aspect, it’s a good bet that hardly anybody will try out your coffee. The physique of the cafe is indeed a crucial aspect to the success of the business.

3. Compatibility with the cafe’s theme. Make sure that the furniture you opt to buy will blend harmoniously to the color and design of the coffee house. For example, if your cafe has a rustic style, couches with floral and foliage prints will be ideal. Whereas if it exudes more of a contemporary style, black or red leather couches are the better choice.

4. Comfort. This is another essential factor to be considered when shopping for cafe furniture. Since customers go to your coffee house to unwind and relax, it’s very important that you provide them with furniture that will help them do just that. Even if you have the most beautifully crafted chairs, if they are uncomfortable to sit on, they are not worth buying.

5. Durability. The pieces of furniture in your cafe will be used for a long time by a lot of people, this is why they should be able to strong enough to endure the daily wear and tear. To make sure of their durability, carefully examine the parts of the chairs and tables to see that there are no weak spots.

6. Affordability. It is not only impractical but also unnecessary to spend an entire fortune buying furniture for your cafe. There are many furniture that are of high quality that come in reasonable prices. However, as mentioned earlier, your priority should always be quality over price.

Finding the right pieces of furniture for your cafe is one step closer to achieving success for your business.

Tony Nibbinsworth
http://www.articlesbase.com/home-improvement-articles/commercial-cafe-furniture-what-to-look-for-524000.html

If you find that you are allergic to certain kinds of beverages and foods, then you will have to exercise selective eating. Sometimes our body has a negative immunologic reaction in the presence of certain food proteins.

Today, several reading material is available on the topic of food allergy that can help you understand everything you need to know about food allergies. ” Five Years without Food” is one such book that helps you survive food allergies. This book will give you an overview on allergic foods as well as alternatives to foods that you cannot and can eat. In addition to all this, the book also suggests the necessary treatment for food allergy. Furthermore, the author makes a personal testimonial in the book making it credible.

Apart from all the information available in this book, there are some facts that you should keep in mind regarding food allergy.

Usually, adults develop allergies to food items such as tree nuts, eggs, shellfish, fish and peanuts. Kids, usually get allergies to milk, eggs and peanuts. If you suspect that you have food allergy, the first thing you need to do is gain as much knowledge regarding the allergy as possible. In doing this, you will be equipping yourself to recover and overcome such allergies.

At this point, we shall discuss some important food allergies, their symptoms, and the alternative foods corresponding to them.

Egg Allergy

Usually people suffering from this kind of allergies are hypersensitive to all Foods that contain components of eggs- the yolk or the white.

Usually, for a definite period of time, you will have to restrict the consumption of food items that contain eggs. Nowadays, there are many egg substitutes available in the market such as potato starch and tapioca. Another alternative is apple sauce.

Nut Allergy

Some people experience allergic attacks due to over sensitivity to tree nuts. Peanut allergy and nut allergy should not be confused for each other. They are different as tree nuts are actually dry fruits.

If you need to restrict tree nuts in your diet, you can try consuming food items made from soy nuts as an alternative. Soy nuts are not actually nuts; they are just soaked and baked soybean that is crisp.

Milk Allergy

Many people develop allergies when they ingest cow milk protein. This means that the individual is allergic to milk.

In order to make the best of your milk allergy treatment, milk allergens must be avoided entirely. The alternative foods that can give you the nutrition from milk include rice milk or soy milk.

Seafood Allergy

If your body reacts negatively to foods like flaky fishes or shellfish, then you suffer from seafood allergy.

The best way to prevent the attack of allergies is by restraining your consumption of shellfish and other fishes that you might be allergic to. Also exercise caution while purchasing pre packaged food items for many such products do not specify if its ingredients include sea food particles like fish.

You should rigorously exercise selective eating if you suffer from food allergies. Selective eating effectively eliminates any allergic reaction taking place in your system. In this way you will recover from and survive food allergies. This will also cease food allergies to a certain extent. However, selective eating varies. There are some food allergies that can be treated for a short period of time, while others have no treatment whatsoever.

Abhishek Agarwal
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/a-guide-to-food-allergies-surviving-the-reactions-708843.html

The internet can be used for a ton of different things and with new inventions popping up every day there are things that we can do online now that would never would have dreamed of doing just ten years ago. One of these things is online personal finance, the use of online personal Finance has skyrocketed since it was first developed and continues to grow as the economy changes. One of the things that online personal finance is known for is helping families create and maintain healthy budgets. The reason why they are so easy to create and maintain though the internet is because the internet makes it an easy and reliable service. All you have to do is input information about yourself and let the software do the rest of the work for you. During this hard economic time, many people are dealing with the stresses of how to save money, and where they can eliminate it in order to save more. This is where this tool comes in handy.

It is very easy to set up a budget with an online personal finance program. Many of these programs track your spending through your bank account and record where you are spending your money. With this information these companies can make graphs for you showing you where and what you are spending the most money on. This is particularly helpful when you are creating a budget because you will see where most of your expenses go and are able to see the areas where you can spend less money. The second reason why this software is so helpful in creating budgets is because after analyzing where you spend your money you can actually create a budget online. This is an awesome tool because you analyze how much you spent on any particular thing such as clothing. The software allows you to choose an amount of money which you feel is an acceptable amount to spend yearly on these goods and will help you create a 12 month plan of how much money you will be able to spend on clothing. The program essentially breaks down all of your spending in every area in order to help you maintain a stricter budget.

Another way that using Online Personal Finance software can help you maintain a budget is when you are shopping. With so many people using cell phones that have internet access today it is very easy for shoppers to log into the online financing program when they are in the store. This will give shoppers a brand new and up to date analysis about how much they should spend when they are shopping. This software will also allow you to see if you have exceeded any budgets you have set for yourself by showing you graphs of your typical spending. For example if you spend $200 more on groceries than you had planned, this software will allow you to see where you can cut back in other areas in order to stay within your overall budget.

Jeff Nelson
http://www.articlesbase.com/accounting-articles/online-personal-finance-can-help-you-maintain-a-budget-616065.html

Fashion is always changing and you sometimes end up not being able to catch up with it. How many times have you bought a new outfit and ended up just wearing it once because it was no longer in fashion? Were there times that you bought a lot of stuff that ended up at the back of your closet, never to see daylight again? Don’t you just cringe when you remember what you wore it once just because it was the “trend”?

With the way fashion changes in an instant, it becomes really difficult to distinguish which is fad and which is true Fashion. You most probably end up buying tons of stuff that you never get to wear the next year or worse, the next week, and thus, were not worth the money that you paid for them. Here are some tips to help you all along.

Know the Trend, Know Yourself

It is actually very easy to know what the next trend is going to be. You get a hint of this when you watch popular television shows and observe famous actors and actresses. Celebrities are usually the ones who promotes a new trend and if you don’t really like gossiping about their lives, then think that this is one way of finding out what the next fashion is going to be.

Finding what’s popular now is actually very easy. You will see images in magazines, designs copied in stores and the most telling part is when somebody you know is wearing them. The important question to ask yourself is, “Can I wear them?” and “Will I have the opportunity to wear it?”

Don’t just buy something because it is the new trend without being sure yourself that you can wear it. Don’t just stash it in the far corners of your closet thinking that you could probably put it to good use someday. There is really no point in buying something that you are not sure you could wear.

Keep Up with Fashion, Ignore the Fad

It is very tempting to buy the latest skinny jeans or indulge in a pair of espadrilles but you should stock up on the basics and classic pieces first. Classic pieces like the little black dress, black slacks, white button down shirt, jeans and a black pencil skirt are fashion pieces that never go out of style.

For example, leopard prints are the latest trend and you want to try the look out. Instead of buying every article of clothing that has a leopard print in it, why not buy a few accessory pieces or two just to satisfy your curiosity and give you that updated, new fashion look? You can buy headbands with leopard prints or pumps with leopard prints and pair those up with classic pieces like a pair of jeans and a white button down shirt.

Don’t get caught up in fashion to the point that you don’t get to decide yourself if you look good or not. Know yourself, know your body and decide to wear what you like and what looks great. Sometimes, fashion is just all about common sense.

Benedict Smythe
http://www.articlesbase.com/women’s-issues-articles/between-fad-and-fashion-know-the-difference-701669.html

The remarkable speech delivered by California’s Honorable Governor Schwarzenegger has turned the afternoon at the Georgetown University into an inspiring event.

Here is the print version of the keynote address of Gov. Schwarzenegger (with the introduction part cut):

GOVERNOR: Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you, John, for the wonderful introduction, I appreciate it very much. And it is great to be here today at Georgetown University, also known in my house as the alma mater, because of course my wife went to school here, and she graduated here at Georgetown. (Applause)

So I want to thank my wife also for coming here today and sitting here in the front row. And she is, of course, the most terrific first lady that the United States has ever seen, so give her a big hand again. (Applause)

So I have to say that I am somewhat amazed to be here, and the reason is because three and a half years ago when I ran for governor I was followed around by environmental protestors with signs. They didn’t like my Humvees and Hummers, and my SUVs, or anything that I did. As a matter of fact, when I promised that I would improve the environment when I became governor, they didn’t believe that either. So here we are, three and a half years later, and I’m on the cover of Newsweek as one of the big environmentalists. Only in America, that’s all I can say. (Applause)

But let me tell you something; even though I love being on the cover of Newsweek, but there should have been some other people on that cover as well, and those are people that were my partners in the Legislature. They have worked very hard, they were incredible partners, and I’m talking here about, first of all, Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez and Senator Perata. I invited both of them to come here but they couldn’t make it, but I just wanted to thank them publicly for being such great environmentalists and such great leaders in the environment. So let’s give them a big hand, even though they’re not here. (Applause)

And I want to thank also someone that is here with us today, and this is Assemblywoman Fran Pavley. She has been such a great, great warrior. (Applause)

Let me tell you something; this is the real deal. This is the real deal. This woman has been fighting for the environment way before I ever became governor, and she has really been the author of these very important legislations, and she has worked with our office, and she is a team player. And this is, you can see here, she’s a Democrat. Also the Speaker is a Democrat. Senator Perata is a Democrat. So this is what I’m talking about, working together in a bipartisan or post-partisan way, and this is how we get things done, because we work what is best for the people of California and for America. So thank you again to Assemblywoman Pavley. (Applause)

Now, I know this is an environmental conference, but I do want to start talking first about bodybuilding. And the reason is because bodybuilding is another passion of mine, as you probably know, and it has similarities there. Bodybuilding used to have a very sketchy image. As a matter of fact, so much so that some people that worked out seriously and pumped weights didn’t admit they were doing bodybuilding. As a matter of fact, say in the old days, some of the very famous Hollywood actors like Kirk Douglas, Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson, and the list goes on and on, they all worked out with weights, but they never admitted it publicly because they didn’t want to be associated with the gymnasiums that were like dungeons and that had fanatics, and that had weird people training in there. That is the kind of an image that it had.

But we changed that, we consciously changed that. And what we did was, we came out with a book called Pumping Iron—I know a lot of you are familiar with that, especially the students—then the movie Pumping Iron, and that changed bodybuilding, the image of bodybuilding, dramatically. As a matter of fact, the perception of bodybuilding began to change and it became more and more hip and more and more attractive. And then all of a sudden, everyone wanted to exercise. As a matter of fact, today you can go to any place in the world and you will find a bodybuilding gymnasium or a place where you can do weight resistance training, and you can go into any gymnasium and you will find ordinary people talking about their abs, their lats, their deltoids, body fat, and all those kinds of things. So this is how much it changed. It became mainstream, it became sexy, attractive.

And this is exactly what has to happen with the environmental movement. Like bodybuilders, environmentalists were thought of as kind of weird and fanatics also. You know, the kind of serious tree huggers. Environmentalists were no fun; they were like prohibitionists at a fraternity party. (Applause)

So someone the other day just showed me a cartoon that was of a car salesman in a showroom talking to this couple. And the car salesman pointed at the car and said, “This car runs on an ordinary gasoline-powered engine, and then when it feels a little guilt, when it senses guilt, it switches over to battery power.” Now, that’s funny, it’s a cartoon. But let me tell you something; there’s a lot of truth to that. For too long the environmental movement had been powered by guilt.

But I believe that this is about to switch over from being powered by guilt to being powered by something much more positive, much more dynamic, something much more capable of bringing about major change. You know the kind of guilt I’m talking about; the smokestacks belching pollution that are powering our Jacuzzis and our big-screen TVs, and in my case powering my private airplanes. So it is too bad, of course, that we can’t all live simple lives like the Buddhist monks in Tibet. But you know something? That’s not going to happen.

So ladies and gentlemen, I don’t think that any movement has ever made it and has ever made much progress based on guilt. Guilt is passive, guilt is inhibiting, and guilt is defensive. You remember the commercials a number of years ago, the commercials specifically of a Native American who sees what we have done to the environment and then a year runs down his cheek. You all remember that? Well, let me tell you something; that approach didn’t work, because successful movements are built on passion, they’re not built on guilt. They’re built on passion, they’re built on confidence, and they’re built on critical mass. And often, they’re built on an element of alarm that galvanizes action.

The environmental movement is, to use a popular term, about the tipping point. It’s about to get to the tipping point. There’s a tipping point, and I believe the tipping point will be occurring when the environmental movement is no longer seen as a nag or as a scold, but as a positive force in people’s lives. Now, I don’t know when that tipping point occurs, but I know where—in California. In California, we are doing everything that we can to tip the balance on the environment.

Now, first, let me start with government policy. I don’t want to go into all the initiatives that we have passed and all the laws that we have passed, because that was already eloquently explained by John when he introduced me. But there are two things that stick out that have gotten us the most attention.

1. We passed a law to cap greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by the year 2020. That basically means we are rolling back the greenhouse gases to the 1990 level by the year 2020, and then we go 80 percent below that by the year 2050.

2. I ordered a 10 percent cut in the carbon content of transportation fuels.

Now, do I believe that the standards that California sets will solve global warming? Of course not. But what we are doing is applying leverage so that at some point the whole environmental thing tips. That’s what we are trying to do. It’s like a seesaw. You walk up to it and then slowly it tips the other way. That is what we are trying to do. California, as you know, is big, California is powerful, and what we do in California has unbelievable impact and it has consequences. As a matter of fact, when you look at the globe, California is a little spot, but the kind of power of influence that we have on the rest of the world is an equivalent of whole huge continent.

We are sending the world a message. What we are saying is that we are going to change the dynamic on greenhouse gas and on carbon emissions. We are taking actions ourselves. We are not waiting for anyone, we are not waiting for the federal government or for Washington. We are creating our own partnerships. We are partnering with Great Britain, we are partnering with provinces in Canada, with states in the United States, with the western states, with the northeastern states. And you know something? Every year we are adding more and more partners to our team. We are increasing the momentum for change.

Now, there’s a billboard in Michigan that accuses me of costing the car industry 85 billion dollars. They say because of our new carbon fuel standards I cost them 85 billion dollars. The billboard says “Arnold to Michigan—drop dead.” The fact of the matter is, what I’m saying is, Arnold to Michigan—get off your butt. Get off your butt and join us. (Applause)

In fact, California may be doing more to save US automakers than anyone else, because what we are doing is we are pushing them to make changes, to make the changes so they can sell their cars in California. And we all know—let’s be honest—that if they don’t change, someone will. The Japanese will, the Chinese will, the South Koreans will, the Germans will, they all will. So what I want to do is, I want to prevent that from happening. I want them to sell their cars in California. I believe strongly in American technology, and I think in the end it will be technology that will ultimately save Detroit.

Now, California, for instance, has already a car company that’s called Tesla Motors. Tesla Motors has just designed and produced a car that’s called the Tesla Roadster. It’s 100 percent electric. Now, why is it that a car company that has never produced a car before is already producing a car with zero emissions—zero emissions—and Detroit is still lagging behind? Now, this car, let me tell you something, is a very sexy looking car. It’s really cool. I mean, I test drove it. It goes from 0 to 60 in 4 seconds. It drives 130 miles an hour, and it has 250 miles on a charge, and then the recharging only takes 3 1/2 hours. Now, that’s what I call cool. And the car cost 100,000 dollars—to be exact, 98,000 dollars—and it is so popular, it sold out immediately. And now the second version is being produced, and that car, the cost will drop down to 50,000 dollars.

So we can see where that is heading, economics tells us where this is heading. It’s like the cell phones. I remember when I bought a cell phone, the first cell phone, which was kind of a radio phone, 20 years ago. It was 1,600 dollars. The next version I bought a few years later was 1,200, and the next one was 750. I just recently bought a cell phone for my daughter and it was below 90 dollars. Now, because of the costs that have dropped down, almost everyone can afford a cell phone, and the same thing is going to happen to the environmental Technologies in cars. Government can give a push by setting standards, so California is giving the nation and the world a push.

Now, beyond government policy, the second tipping factor is economic. California is the leading edge of what I call ‘the environmental economy’. The aerospace industry built the modern economy of southern California. The computer industry and the internet built the economy of Silicon Valley. And now the green clean technology, along with biotech, will be the next wave of California‘s economy.

Right now in California‘s university labs, corporate research parks, even in plain looking offices and in strip malls, something very exciting is happening—something very exciting. The nation’s brightest scientists and the smartest venture capitalists are all racing to find alternative or new technologies for alternative energy. It is a race that is fueled by billions and billions of dollars. Capitalism, interestingly enough, which was the alleged enemy of the environment, is today giving new life to the environmental movement.

Daniel Jurgen, the famous oil analyst, says that if this all-out activity continues, expect dramatic results. And the head of PG&E, California‘s largest utility, says that the energy industry is on the brink of a revolution. And you know something is up when General Electric says that it’s selling its plastic business because it sees more potential in growth and profits in environmental goods and services.

In an environmental economy the great thing is that we can do both; we can protect the environment and protect the economy, and that’s what I’ve been saying for years. Of course, people didn’t believe in it. People said that you have to choose between one or the other; we have to choose between the environment and the economy. And I said no, we can do both. We can protect the economy and protect the environment, and we have proven that in California.

Now, the third tipping point that I want to mention is the attitude of the people. I believe the environmental movement is in the midst of redefining itself as something more modern, more confident, and more positive. As governor, I talk to scientists in our universities, I talk to CEOs that run major corporations. And let me tell you, those are not wacky people. Mainstream scientists are convinced, mainstream CEOs are convinced, and if you look at the surveys, mainstream Americans are convinced that global warming and climate change is real and we have to do something about it. So who are the fanatics now? Who are the fanatics? They are the ones who are in denial. They’re in environmental denial, they’re in economic denial, and they are in political denial. Who are the fanatics when DuPont has hired the former head of Greenpeace International? Who are the fanatics when major companies are now demanding that the federal government once and for all passes new laws to set standards for greenhouse gas emissions? Major companies like DuPont, GE, Wal-Mart, BP and PG&E believe that the climate change is real. That is the mainstream speaking, that is the establishment speaking.

Now, some of you have maybe seen the cable TV show called Pimp My Ride. Have you seen that? Maybe not, maybe not everyone has seen it. But the fact of the matter is, it’s a real cool show. It’s a real cool show, and what they do is, they take old junk cars that we normally should crush, and they make them into lowriders and they make them into muscle cars. Now, my teenage son watches that show all the time, and sometimes I watch it with him.

As a matter of fact, I recently did a segment of that show that will air on Earth Day, and the reason why it will air on Earth Day is because we take this cool show and they did something, and added something that was environmentally hip. Here’s what we did. We took a 1965 Impala, and we made it into a lowrider, but not an ordinary low-rider. We dropped in an 800 horsepower engine, and that 800 horsepower engine goes from zero to 60 in 3 seconds. Now, you know how fast that is—in 3 seconds. But it is biofueled, and that means that it emits 50 percent less greenhouse gases and it goes twice as far. Now, that’s what I call cool.

You see, now we cut down on the greenhouse gas emissions, so we don’t have to really go and take away the muscle cars, we don’t have to take away the Hummers or the SUVs or anything like this, because that’s a formula for failure. Instead what we have to do is make those cars more environmentally muscular. That is what we have to do. Now, because of that, one of my Hummers now is running on biofuel, and another one of my Hummers is now running on hydrogen. So those are the kinds of changes that we have made instead of getting rid of the Hummers. (Applause)

So the new environmental movement is not about guilt, it’s not about fringe, and it’s not about being overwhelmed by the enormity of the problem, but it is about mainstream momentum, exactly what I talked about earlier with bodybuilding. We have to make it mainstream. We have to make it sexy. We have to make it attractive so that everyone wants to participate.

So finally, let me just say something about politics. Politics plays a big part in the tipping point here. If you are against taking action on greenhouse gases and common emissions your political base will melt away as surely as the polar icecaps, I can guarantee you that. You will become a political penguin on a smaller and smaller ice floe that is drifting out to sea. Good-bye, my little friend. That’s what is going to happen. (Applause)

Because the environment is a public value, and politicians who ignore it are doing so at their own peril. Now, privately I know many politicians have come up to me and said, “How can we do what you are doing in California?” And I tell them there are only two words that I have to mention, and this is mandates and markets, mandates and markets, like we have in California. And then I also added, I said, “And you have to have political courage.” I said, “Just remember that political courage is not political suicide.”

Now, some of my fellow Republicans, of course, are raising a very valid point. They say, “What good does it do if we do all of those great things for the environment, and in the meantime the developing world, where emissions are growing the fastest, doesn’t do anything?” Now, I believe in free trade, and I believe that it lifts everyone’s standard of living. But eventually, we will look at the countries that produce goods without regard to the environment the same way as we look at countries that produce goods without regard to human rights—and that means that those countries, of course, that I’m talking about are the ones that have sweat shops. My guess is that within the next decade or so if an economy ignores the damage that it’s doing to the environment, the civilized world will impose environmental tariffs, duties, and other trade restrictions to those countries. This is a matter of fair trade. Nations cannot dump products, nations cannot dump anything, and in the future they will not be able to dump carbon or greenhouse gases either, because this is an unfair trade advantage.

Now, ladies and gentlemen, in closing let me just say that there are still a lot of people that are pessimistic about how we’re going to deal with the environmental problems. I am optimistic—but I’m always optimistic—but in this case I’m very optimistic, and the reason is because I feel things tipping. I feel things tipping, I feel things moving forward. As a matter of fact, I say do not be downhearted about the environment, because things are about to tip our way.

Look what has happened this last month. A documentary about global warming has won the Oscar. You can today open up any newspaper and they’re talking about global warming and how we all can participate. Any television show, any radio show you can turn on, they’re going to talk about global warming and about the greenhouse gas emissions and green technology and so on.

Today I went to a magazine store, and in the magazine store I saw eight covers—eight covers. As a matter of fact it was nine, I found another one just an hour ago. Nine covers—nine magazine covers, all talking about green technology, about plug-in cars, and about Mother Earth, and Town and Country has a green issue, and it goes on and on. Including, of course, let’s not forget the best issue of all, Newsweek. You all saw that, right? (Applause)

So basically what I’m saying is, things are tipping our way. Thank you very much for listening, and I really appreciate you being here. Thank you very much. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you very much. And now, if you don’t mind, I’d like to bring over to the podium my friend and a great environmentalist, great leader, great warrior for the environment, Fran Pavley, our Assemblywoman. Please. (Applause)

It can be noted that the speech of California’s Governor is directed to US automakers asking them to be vigilant in helping to resolve environmental problems by producing environment-friendly vehicles. The most popular “green vehicles” employed in the US today are hybrid cars and most of the brands that we love have joined the bandwagon except for the iconic Jeep brand which has not yet turned “green”. But in fairness to the Chrysler’s iconic brand it has improved its auto components like for instance its Jeep Wrangler parts to reduce harmful emissions.

Lisa Ziegler
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