This Just In – 7 Reasons You Might Not Want to Be Ready For Dancing With the Stars to Get Married
We’ve all seen them: youtube recordings of wedding dances with more moving parts than a power plant. We’ve seen the congregations (uh, audiences?) wowed and laughing. We’ve seen wedding parties boogaloo down the aisle, while the celebrant shifts nervously from foot to foot with a pained, panicked look that says he’s lost control of the ceremony. What talent! What poise. What do you mean it’s a wedding? It looks like a talent show! Prize to the couple with the tux and the fluffy dress! Or the two tuxes! Or the two fluffy dresses.
While these elaborate choreographies can provide an interesting note, they actually might not do much to keep you or your community focused on what’s really happening on your wedding day: which is that you and your beloved are making wedding vows that you plan on keeping for the rest of your life. Let’s keep that in mind. Maybe I’m a fuddy-duddy or a killjoy, but I think there are good reasons to save your dancing prowess for another day.
- You actually don’t need any extra stress on your wedding day or during your wedding planning. Let’s see: you’re getting married; entering into a relationship you want to last forever. You’re pulling off a larger and more elaborate party than you may give for the rest of your life. And now you want to add, choreographing, learning and performing a 5-minute dance routine? Trust me, there are already plenty of details to struggle over! Save your struggling for something that matters!
- You may actually not be tremendous dancers. So why would you choose this particular time in your life to learn an absolutely new skill (that might not be all that fun) simply because other people are doing it? Answer: I don’t know!
- Dancing may not be the skill you will need most at your wedding. What you need most at your wedding is to be present to the momentous steps you are taking and to the incredible community that is supporting you.
- Dancing may not be the skill you will need most in your marriage. While it’s not as much fun, you’re going to want to spend some time on developing your skills in problem resolution and financial management. (Maybe we need to award prizes for weddings coming in under budget and with closer family ties.)
- Your community wants to support you in marriage. They want to witness your promises and see/feel/understand how much you love one another and how you’re going to make this whole thing work.
- The focus of your wedding is actually your relationship. You can argue that dancing is a metaphor, but then you wander onto shaky ground – do you really always want to work that hard and worry about whether your foot is perfectly placed in your marriage? Marriage is hard work, but it can also be sweet and simple and easy. That might be an easier metaphor to pull off and might not distract folks from what’s at the heart of the work of your wedding.
- A wedding isn’t a talent show. It’s the unrehearsed moments and the un-programmed interactions that come from the careful planning of the wedding ceremony and wedding that will be the sweetest and, perhaps, the most meaningful. You want to find ways to help your community participate in your lives, not watch you perform.
So give yourselves a break. Work on your wedding ceremony, simplify your party, have a wonderful wedding and a sweet, long life together! Dancing is a blast, but sometimes it’s optional!
Tips For Enjoying Your Apple iPod Touch
The iPod Touch Apple is one of the greatest portable entertainment devices that has been released. Personally I would liken it to having a similar impact to that of the Sony Walkman of yesteryear. My own iPod Touch gets a great deal of use every day, and not just as a music player. I also use it for enjoying podcasts, TV shows, films, games, books, and of course as a web browser and GPS device. Once you’ve purchased an iPod Touch is very important that you know how to get the absolute most out of your device. There are easy ways to do this.
Music
Make sure you have a good selection of music on your iPod, from a range of genres and to fit a range of moods. To save space on your iPod Touch for other things, you could select favourite songs from various albums instead of the entire album.
Podcasts
When syncing podcasts to your iPod, it may well be a good idea to set iTunes so that only the most recent unplayed episode of each podcast is synced to your device. This stops your iPod Touch becoming clogged with unplayed podcasts, leaving little room for anything else.
Apps
It’s very tempting to download loads and loads of apps for your device (I have a fair few myself), but again these can be a drain on resources. If they are out to you aren’t using much any more if at all, you can easily delete them, either via the touch screen itself or via iTunes.
Photos
It’s very easy to let your iPod be filled with photographs you’ve saved from the Internet or from your own computer. It’s cool to have a good selection of them there, just be aware of how much memory those photos take up.
Web browsing
Bear in mind that if you surf the web with your iPod Touch, you may very well open up several Safari windows. This can slow down the performance of your iPod Touch. If you have unnecessary windows open, close them down. If those pages are important, you can of course bookmark them before you do so.
Syncing
When syncing your iPod Touch via iTunes, be sure to check how much space you have left free on your device. Make sure you leave some space free for downloading things on the go, such as photographs, new episodes of podcasts, or apps from the app store. Personally I try to leave half a gigabyte free.
These are just some of the ways that you can further enjoy using your Apple iPod Touch and get better performance. Basically, be mindful of what you’ve got on there, and remove anything you don’t really use, and above all have fun with it!
Can You Tell That He Really Loves You Or Not? 3 Ways to Know For Certain
Are you aware of how to tell that he really loves you? Has your boyfriend ever confessed to you about his love for you but you are not sure whether he was sincere? Are you interested about avoiding future stress or heartbreak by determining your boyfriend’s true intentions? If your answer happens to be yes, sit, relax and listen keenly. Below are comprehensive ways to use and get a true answer as to know how to tell that he really loves you.
What Entails Your Relationship?
To determine perfectly whether it’s true your guy is not playing around with your feelings, you should start by getting to know who your relationship entails. Does it cover for his wants only or yours as well? Something of great importance to note is that even if a guy is so much willing to be with you at all times, that does not necessarily mean an obsession. He might be using you to relieve his problems and issues affecting him. I am sure by now you must be wondering how to tell such a thing. It is easy, be keen to get every word of your conversation. If he only talks about himself without getting to know anything about you, then you are in for a rude awakening.
How Caring is Your Guy?
Getting to know how to tell that he really loves you is not rocket science. It is something very easy to understand. In your bad and unlucky days when you are faced with problems and distress, is he a companion? Is he a friend in need? A guy who will only come and laugh with you and go is only after a casual relationship. The worst mistake that you can do is to try and expose your weakness to him. He will leave and desert you in broad daylight. To the contrary if your guy has a real affection he will stand by you, cry with you, wipe your tears and ensure you are back to calmness.
Is Your Guy a Freak of Commitment?
A guy, with whom you are in a covenant of love with, is yours; be rest assured of that. That simple but significant commitment is nothing but a hook. Nature has it that a man is quite vulnerable especially if he is of the “beautiful ones are not yet born” school of thought. He will have a piece of his heart for you and the rest in anticipation of a new one to be born. My good girl, you can now know how to tell that he really loves you.
Tips For Choosing the Right Flooring For Your Bathroom
When redecorating your bathroom you are going to want to give special consideration to your choice of flooring. Choosing the right type of flooring for your bathroom is going to make a big difference to the health and safety of your family as well as to how much you could pay in the future for costly repairs if you choose the wrong flooring. Here are some tips on things to look for when choosing the right bathroom flooring for your family.
Safety
More serious accidents occur in the bathroom than in any other room of the home. Both children and adults are susceptible to falls caused by slippery floors. For that reason you are going to want to a floor that is as slip resistant as possible. While you may not be able to prevent all accidents that occur within the bathroom you can greatly reduce them by providing the most slip resistant floor possible.
Health
All bathrooms have three characteristic in common. They have wet surfaces, high temperatures and even higher humidity. These three characteristics make the bathroom a breeding ground for molds and other fungus that may be detrimental to your families health. Therefore it is essential to choose a flooring that can be sealed tightly to prevent water from getting into small cracks and that is easy to keep clean and fungus free.
Ability To Withstand Wear and Tear
You are going to want to choose a flooring that has the ability to withstand years of wear and tear under normal use. While most bathroom flooring has the ability to withstand such wear and tear, not every type of flooring is suitable for every kind of bathroom. For example, although tile floors are extremely durable they can break easily under normal every day traffic if they are installed on a floor that has bumps or holes in it. Likewise, since laminate flooring uses a floating floor it may be difficult to use this material in certain bathrooms due to the toilet and the sink.
Looks
Let’s face it no one wants an ugly bathroom. You are going to want a floor that is not only durable but looks good as well. Finding a type of flooring that you are going to be contented to look at for the next several years simply has to be something that is considered when choosing the right flooring for your home.
Ease of Installation
If you are going to have a professional install your new bathroom flooring this may not be a consideration, however, if you are installing the flooring yourself you are going to want to consider how easy that new flooring is going to be to install.
Cost
Cost is also going to be a huge consideration when choosing the right flooring. If you have a limited budget there are going to be some flooring options that are simply out of your spending range. So figuring how much you can afford on flooring cost before shopping can save a lot of headaches when you actually go looking for that new flooring.
Knowing what to look for when choosing your bathroom flooring will guarantee that your search will meet with success.
Mobile Review – Sony Ericsson Elm
Sony Ericsson’s Greenheart program is more than just an internal standard; it is a very important ideal that many other companies should learn from. Greenheart is not the only eco-friendly standard that the company is implementing. Sony Ericsson has a very strong stand regarding proper use of energy, eliminating unwanted substances in the manufacturing of products and to achieve sustainability in aspects that many other companies ignore.
The Greenheart series is among the fruits of this noble endeavor. The Sony Ericsson Elm is the going to be the first Greenheart device for 2010. This candy bar phone may initially not seem like much; but it has some pretty impressive features, it looks rely good and most of all, the device is environmentally friendly.
Overview of Device Features
Sony Ericsson’s biggest success with the Elm is that fact that it combines green engineering with excellent features. After all, when you have a mobile phone made out of recycled plastic and controlled materials, you would think that there is a little compromise in functionality when in fact; this phone has everything you would need. Connectivity is handled by the integrated email and Facebook applications, giving you a chance to choose between work and play depending on what you need. The device also has media playback capabilities for both videos and music, keeping you entertained throughout the day. For voice calls, the new noise shield system promises to filter out all the background noise so that you never have to shout when you are in a busy place.
Other Features
One of the best features of the Elm is that you can customize the widgets that appear in your standby screen. This means you get to save a lot of time by having the phone display only the information you need at a glance. No need to press any buttons just to see that there is nothing new for you to check. Thanks to the widget manager, placing in your Facebook, Twitter and MySpace accounts for instant access is quick and easy.
Speaking of easy, you can take images, geo-tag them and easily upload the files to your social networking accounts. Thanks to the Elm’s built in GPS capabilities; you can geo-tag your photos and of course find you away around new places.
Camera Features
If you love taking images for either personal use or sharing with friends, you will enjoy the camera features on the Sony Ericsson Elm; the phone comes with both auto focus and flash allowing you to get excellent quality photos regardless of background detail or bad lighting conditions.
The camera also gives users a face and smile detection, making that perfect portrait shot a lot easier to do. Once you have taken the images you need, you can geo-tag the files (thanks to the phone’s built in GPS hardware) and send the images straight to the web for instant uploading and sharing with your friends. You can send the images to your Facebook account, your website or even your online blog site.
A Blog! Important Or Not?
What is a blog?
Why do you need one?
Why is its value critical?
What is a blog?
In simple terms it is a type of website…Where you can add your own personal events, thoughts, views, news, photos, videos, “how to” info…For everyone to see and comment on.
But it’s also much more…You can advertise, you can sell your own things and other peoples’ and companies’ products…To make an income from anybody on-line and from across the world…..All for free.
Your blog must be? You? All over it, you are the one of interest to your visitors, so don’t disappoint them by not being genuine, unique and don’t be someone else!!
Your blog can contain all of your articles you ever created in its archive, so stand out from the rest with your blog and be different! Be original!
To easily set up a blog if you don’t already have one, I would go for a WordPress blog and get it hosted off site of wp with a hosting company like hostgator or similar, so that you have your own site. Don’t have a url like http://www.Yourname.Wordpress.Com. Preferably your blog url should look like this http://www.Yourname.Com, while you are setting up your blog go download the “flexability2 theme” free for the theme of your blog, its got a excellent design which is not too difficult to work it out.
Why do you need a blog?
Your primary goal for having a blog, would be having it as your central hub for all your outside efforts to invite traffic, the traffic comes through your blog ( hub ) from sites like Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Squidoo, Google and yahoo into your sales funnel then automatically contacts them back with autoresponder emails to help cultivate them into prospects while all the way offering helpful essential affiliate programs, earning you money while freeing up your time to grow your business attracting more leads. If you don’t have a small business blog – start one today.
Blogs value on-line?
search engines love blogs! Why? Because people love blogs. People will read a blog post quicker than most other types of content on-line. This allows you to target keywords and phrases, dominate market niches, and take your MLM advertising straight to the people. Learn how to setup a profitable blog correctly. Learn how to earn from your blog. Study some of the top earner blogs out there and apply what you see in you’re own business -it will give you great results over time.
Importance of Domain Name Hosting
Domain names gained primary importance and became increasingly valuable as the years gone by. Better domain names have been registered online but the most important thing to consider is that buying a domain name is for protection of your identity so that nobody will use it in the future. Indeed what is the importance of domain name hosting?
To better understand how domain name hosting works one must know the distinction between web and email hosting as to domain name hosting. Each of the three terms has distinct meaning of its own. Registering a domain name must be done first before setting up an email or hosting a website. To make use of your domain as website or email it must be hosted first. It will expose the unseen beauty of your website to the world.
Technically, it works by attaching a specific code to the registered domain, then data files will be transferred to the server. The host server will then connect the web surfers to the domain information and because of domain name hosting your website will get much exposure and increasing its visibility to people.
In choosing your domain name hosting company it is advisable that you search on the special features and effectiveness of the service package because domain name is one of the most essential part of our website. A reliable hosting company should have excellent customer service, reasonable price, professionalism, great bandwidth and disk space. Look no further you can surely make your best choice.
Are You in Denial That You Need to Exercise?
Often when we see old people in a poor state of health it scares us and we fear getting old. We don’t want to get weak and helpless and you often hear people say “I don’t want to live a long life if it means someone will have to take care of me”.
But despite what you may have been told over the years, you do not automatically enter into a downward spiral of appearance and functionality as you get older. Physical degeneration and disease is not an inevitable part of the aging process.
The fact is most of us age at an accelerated rate and the shame of it is we are not even aware of it, we don’t even realize it. Therefore, we do nothing for ourselves to intentionally put the brakes on the ticking clock.
We forget that our ancestors had to perform hard physical work almost every single day just to feed themselves and acquire shelter and clothing. This was so right up until the 20th Century when the demands of daily life were rapidly replaced by automation. Changes in farming, transport and manufacturing meant that people no longer had to perform any demanding physical work in order to survive.
Alas that is what most of us do every day in our modern world, almost nothing that requires vigorous physical exertion. Many young people today have no idea even what hard physical work is and certainly do not know what it feels like. Many of them do not even realize that our easy and convenient modern day lives do not have enough muscle building and maintaining activity to keep our muscles and bones from shrinking.
The price is a high one for this physical inactivity as there is a detrimental result of muscle wasting causing functional disability. Adults lose around one half pound of muscle tissue each year until they reach around age 50 then the rate of loss doubles so it can add up to fifteen to twenty five pounds of muscle tissue lost – just wasted away.
This loss is responsible for an accelerated decline not only in health but also in the ability to perform the required tasks and activities of daily life. The price is not only high for the person that can no longer take care of themselves but the price is high for whoever has to take care of them – their family, their community and ultimately the world.
Somehow we have to accept the fact that the human body needs vigorous physical movement to stimulate the release of ‘growth and repair’ hormones that cause us to become and stay healthy and well. Without it there is a downward spiral of decline, deterioration and decay.
If this sounds far fetched take a look at the statistics. Fifty percent of people in our world today have at least one medical ailment and many have multiple health issues. Three quarters of us are overweight and many more barely have the energy to get through the day and feel lousy much of the time. Not something to be proud of really.
Yet so many people are in denial that proper exercise is critical to us humans. The facts are six out of ten people think they don’t need to bother with exercise and that it is some frivolous pastime or ‘optional’ extra.
Yet when they get sick somewhere down the road they are the first to say ‘why me?”
Don’t wait till that happens to you; get yourself started on a proper exercise program that contains mainly strength training exercise to put back the muscular activity that is vital to our health.
Seek the help of a fitness professional to get you started on the correct program. Yes, you will need to spend a little time each week and you will need to put a little effort into it to make it work. But the benefits you will experience will astound you as you gain strength and fitness and improve the quality of your one and only life.
Recipe For Riches – Money, Angst, Selfishness and Existentialism
What’s the deal with getting rich? It’s the American obsession (of course it extends to many other global locales). We’ve got money on the brain. We’ve got the angst to prove it. I suppose the reasoning may follow this line: if we are miserable enough about not having an adequate income, we’ll bust our humps to try and find a way to make it, that is, unless we’ve given up. But, making a fortune would sure be better, wouldn’t it? And, we’d like it to be easy, fast and simple. We all want to be lottery winners and we are just sick reading about some other schlep winning instead of us. Oh, but he’ll keep his day job. Yeah, sure he will. For about 3 days. Still, we want to be that guy.
Selfishness also plays into wanting to make it big, although these days, selfishness can also be portrayed as a vital necessity when jobs are lost and homes are on the brink of foreclosure. It’s the survival instinct in us all. When selfishness goes unchecked, it can be a runaway train of greed, as we have seen in our current economic conditions. When it defines governments and their institutional partners, the public does not figure into the equation much anymore. Rather, it’s at the public’s expense that this type of wanton selfishness thrives.
Here’s where existentialism comes into play. This philosophy associated with Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Gabriel Marcel, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Soren Kierkegaard, Feodor Dostoevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche and others, goes against the grain of rationalism and empiricism (the undo reliance upon one’s experiences). Rather, it is based upon the individual’s unique standing as the self-determining agent who is responsible for the rightness or “wrongness” of his or her own choices and decisions. Therefore, people are completely free and thus bound by any actions they take. But, with this responsibility comes profound anguish or dread. Haven’t we all felt the pull of existential thought, especially when the chips are down?
With total freedom of choice comes the difficult realization that you, and only you, have to live with choices, directions and actions you make and take. There’s a lot of opportunity for feelings of depression and despair here. It can either take you down to the ground, or it can become a launching pad for growth, change and success, how ever you choose to define them.
So, what is the conclusion? We are all saddled with making our life our own. There are many factors seemingly out of our control, but we still have the responsibility to carry on in light of them all. Then, how shall we proceed? Good question.
SEO Training Series – Traditional Forums May Be a Better Way to Get Those Links and Also Link Up
If you were to listen to commentators from the last decade then you would be forgiven for thinking that social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace were the only way people could communicate online. It almost seems that before these two sites appeared all we could do was send emails and phone each other. But this does the Internet a great disservice because way before social networking appeared there was already a huge, thriving network of like-minded people communicating and collaborating in many different ways.
One of the most common methods of interaction and one that is thriving today is the ‘forum’. Forums are essentially discussion boards where people can start a ‘thread’ and other people contribute to it, or just start a big argument about the subject at hand. Because of the massive variety of subjects in the world and the huge number of people with access to the Internet, there is an almost unlimited number of forums that you can be a part of, some being more popular than others.
Forums can be extremely beneficial to our search engine campaign because they can perform two roles in our quest. Firstly, they can be a great place to get links from (and links help our search engine ranking) and secondly, through social interaction you can potentially find new leads and new customers.
But adding links to your forum messages is generally a big ‘no’ in many forums, so much like social networking, you need to be a little bit clever about it.
One section of the site that most forums have in common is the ’signature’. This is a section of code that gets added to every post you make and in many cases you can add links to it. A word of warning though – some forums frown on adding signatures early on and it’s worth taking part in the forum first and getting a bit of a name for yourself before adding any. In fact, some forums enforce a rule whereby you have to have posted a certain number of comments before they will allow you to add any kind of signature to your posts.
What you need to bear in mind is that when you are taking part in any kind of forum, you are effectively a guest on their system and if you do anything that goes against their rules or ethics, they are quite within their rights to remove you from the server. There’s also something else to watch out for – the ‘no-follow’ tag.
The Internet world of forums is split pretty much evenly between those who love visitors and their links, and those who don’t. It’s a chicken and egg thing because those who would actively encourage you to post links on their sites will end up getting lots of visitors and therefore plenty of links themselves – increasing popularity, but they would also get an awful lot of spam.
But those who don’t like you leaving links, or just make it really difficult to do so will lose out on a lot of traffic. At the end of the day, it really depends on the subject of the site and whether it’s monetised in any way. Some of those that don’t like you leaving links will sometimes give each link an attribute that was introduced only a few years ago, the ‘nofollow’.
This attribute is entered as part of a standard link and is notified by the code rel=’nofollow’ near the ‘anchor’ tag. What this does is tell search spiders (the routines that search engines send out to examine the web) that the link it is about to look at should not be ‘followed’, in effect it should be ignored.
Now, many SEO experts disagree as to whether this actually means a link using ‘nofollow’ is completely pointless and some will show evidence that shows that it does actually make a difference and shouldn’t be discounted completely, however most will agree that if you’re going to look for links, make more of an effort on those that don’t use this attribute.
So now we just need to find out how to discover whether it’s nofollow or not and luckily it’s easy, you see the source of the page that you’re viewing will give the game away. If you’re using either Internet Explorer or Firefox this is easy, simply click on the ‘menu’ item and choose ‘view source’. You’ll be presented with what may look like a bunch of scary code but all you need to do is hit ‘ctrl-F’ to bring up the ‘find’ command and do a search for one of the links on the page. Then, simply look for ‘rel=nofollow’. If you find it and you’re just looking for links then you can move on, but if you want to stick around because you’re interested in the subject – check it out a bit deeper.
You see, it’s really not worth being too picky about these sites because those who don’t allow links probably have a greater value. They are less likely to be full of spam and therefore worth more in general social networking. Also, it could be that they allow links after you’ve given a bit back to the community.
So there you go, this link building lark isn’t as clean-cut and easy to quantify as many would have you think, but it is worth investigating and you could potentially get yourself not only some decent links to affect your rankings, but you may make a lot of worthwhile connections.