Every time you prepare a dish in Cafe World, your main objective should be to make the customers who purchase it satisfied and happy. This is how you can keep your Cafe ratings high. Higher buzz ratings mean more customers, more experience points, and more cafe coins to spend. You should know how to maintain your high buzz ratings to reap these rewards as you go play Cafe World and level up.

All you do in your cafe should be focused on customer service and customer happiness. For you to make that easily, there are different things and tips to take note of for your cafe as you play and go forward.

Prioritize Service

The objective of Cafe World is to cook dishes and serve them to your customers. If you do not exert effort to do this, you are just wasting your time. You should not spend too much coins and time on decorating your cafe. Only make minor changes to your cafe if it is required to get more customers coming to your cafe - besides that, just pass up and save your coins. The new tables and decorations may look really enticing but if it will cause your rating score to go down by five points, it is no good.

Increasing your Buzz Rating

The number of thumbs up you receive, also known as buzz rating, can be seen on the top right corner of your Cafe World screen. It is a significantly important factor to any restaurant. If that number goes down, it means that your customers are not happy with your service. If it goes up, then everything is in place and you have done something right. There are times that your buzz rating goes up as you increase your level - do not worry about this. You just have to make sure that your rating will never go down without any reason at all. Keep your buzz rating going up as you level up throughout the game. This will help you increase your coins and experience points.

Serving Food

You want to make sure that your customers will get their food as soon as possible. This is why you have to ensure that your cafe is ready for the customers by the time you have logged on to the game. If you have cooked a dish that takes twelve hours to be ready, go on line within thirteen hours so that you can remove the food from the stove and serve these hot off the stove dishes to your hungry customers. Moreover, you should increase the speed of your serving time. Try putting serving tables next to your customers’ tables and employ as much servers as possible. The better your serving process is, the happier your customers will be with the kind of customer service you are giving them.

The main goal of Cafe World is to make and keep your customers happy. If you are able to do that, you are sure to succeed in creating a successful cafe that anybody would love to visit. Make sure that you have fun while you play.

Did you think putting up an Internet Cafe was difficult? Well, here are my personal tips on doing so.

Firstly, Location. It is imperative that you decide on a strategic location for your Internet Cafe. I recommend an area where a sizable crowd pass by on a regular basis; close to a school or a heavily populated residential area is best. As a pro gamer, I would like to find my preferred cafe close to a school exit so finding it will be easy. Placing it close to some eateries or “carinderia” is helpful (discard this if you plan to serve “real” food to your clients, see bottom for further details). Most pro gamers would want to eat at a place just outside or near their Internet Cafe.

Next, make up your mind as to how many computers you want. My guess would be around 15-20 for beginners. You might also want to put in fewer weighing in your cafe’s space and starting capital. More personal computers may translate to higher income; which can be assured if are the only caf? owner in a residential/commercial area for a few blocks.

Computer Specifications. Being a gamer myself, I would like to play without the annoyances of lag or slow start up. Every second matters when you play MMORPG’s, especially during guild wars or other vital regular events. I would recommend on going for the most recent specs, to give you an advantage on other internet cafes. High-quality specifications allow you a bit of breathing phase before you would need the next upgrade. Owning a technology receptive business means that in the succeeding months, a brand new hardware would be released to make yours the not-so-new in the line. So, investing on those well performing hardware are really a gain.

On the other hand, if you intend on renting your computers to a market made up of students who only want to type their projects, work on the internet, and the like, you can go for basic hardware.

Please remember that the key in this sort of business is decent service. You must have your clients keep returning for more. Maintain your computers by keeping them up to date with first-class computer specs. At present, having a dual core processor is ideal. Along with respectable RAM (1Gb to 2Gb is best), and a high performance video card of 256Mb-512Mb will make a good rentable computer. You could do without an optical drive and a floppy disc drive (which already appear to be outdated with the launching of USB mass storage devices). You can have a CD/DVD writer combo on the server so CD’s can be regulated and monitored before they are used. In addition, you can also add cd/dvd-burning to your list of services.

Next in line are good cafe softwares. You can choose free cafe management software like HandyCafe. They permit the administrator to take control of the internet cafe via functions only available to the server. You can limit the rental time for each client and regulate the bandwidth when heavy downloading affects the entire network. Cafe management softwares often have billing functions that automatically calculate what you should charge your customers. This is a nice feature to use particularly if you want to manage the cafe by yourself.

Food. Most gamers spend less time eating whenever they go online. It is difficult to break the concentration of a playing pro gamer. However, they are people, and people do eat. Whenever they feel the urge to revitalize, you can offer them quick preparation food like instant noodles. But, if you wish to enhance your Internet Caf?’s income scheme, you can offer “real” food to your customers. This would mean that they won’t have to go look for a restaurant and leave your cafe, thus remain in it while on their favorite games.

Comfortable chairs. I, for one, spend most of my time in from of my laptop or PC. I want to feel snug and comfy in my seat. Long hours in an uncomfortable chair can be exhausting. Consequently, I believe it vital that next to good service, customer comfort ought to be taken into account.

Games and Wordprocessors. After you have everything ready, you can ask your technician, or if you are capable yourself, install all the games and word processing applications on the computers. You opt for OpenOffice applications in place of Microsoft Office if you have a strict budget. Purchasing the licenses for these applications can be very pricey, particularly their operating systems.

I hope you find my guide to putting up your own Internet Cafe useful.

Cafe world has become one of the most successful apps ever released on Facebook. Within it’s first week it attracted over 10 million players, and that number continues to grow. I’ve been playing for a couple of months now, and it has become obvious to me why this game is so addictive. Many of the online games that are available these days are overly complicated and take quite a long time to get the hang of. However, with Cafe World it is really easy to get a handle on the basics of gameplay and start enjoying your self.

That said there are some parts of the game that are extremely frustrating and can cause people to lose interest, it is because of these parts that many people start scouring the internet for cafe world hints to rapidly boost their points or cafe cash! If you have been looking for cheats you will know that there are several complicated and dodgy hacks that can be carried out to help you advance, however, these are not guaranteed and quite often Zynga (the game creator) will find a way to close the hacks before you log in again tomorrow, I do not recommend that you try to use any of these.

The hacks also require you to download software which can be dangerous for your PC. If you want my advice steer clear of any hacks, and instead follow some simple rules.

1 - Play the game regularly, the more you play the game the better you will become at it, and you will learn how to earn cafe cash faster.

2 - Cook a variety of food, I know it might be easier to cook thousands of burgers a day, but this is not always the best way to increase your points, as your customers will be come disinterested and not sit down. Try cooking roasts, desserts, and any seasonal food that comes along.

3 - Always make sure you have enough tables for your customers, if they cannot sit down you will lose buzz points.

4 - Ensure that the waiters have access to every table, if a table is blocked by a chair or a counter the waiter cannot serve food and the customer can’t eat.

These are fairly basic rules that should be followed to ensure that your cafe is ticking along nicely. If you can increase your thumb points then you will get more customers coming to your restaurant and you will earn more cafe coins.

Out of copyright prints are in high demand especially if mounted ready to frame. Some subjects are more popular than others, notably dogs and cats, sporting subjects especially golf and cricket, topographical (named place) subjects.

I’ve seen really high prices paid for well illustrated items on eBay and also on some outside web sites.

But there’s something I discovered just recently that’s even more amazing than selling your prints on eBay and it’s somewhere you can have hundreds of different products created for you from your original or reprinted illustrations. It’s called Caf? Press. You start by uploading your illustrations to your own free shop at cafepress.com and have the company create hundreds of different items for you to sell and for other Caf? Press members to sell on commission.

It’s the closest thing to the perfect dropshipping model you are ever likely to find and it lets you list hundreds or thousands of Caf? Press items on your own site, on eBay if you like, and have the company deliver on dropship directly to your customers. Go take a look, you’ll see what I mean.

* So Many Things Caf? Press Can Create From Your Vintage Prints

Here are just a few:

T-Shirts ….. Hats ….. Bags … Prints ….. Stationery ….. Stickers ….. Buttons ….. Books ….. CDs ….. Bathroom Tiles ….. Bags ….. Tote Bags ….. Mugs ….. Glasses ….. Table Mats ….. Decorative Accessories ….. Wall Plates ….. Wall Calendars ….. Mouse Mats ….. Dog Coats ….. Dog Blankets ….. Dog T-shirts ….. Greetings Cards ….. Coasters ….. Bed Throws ….. Magnets ….. Golf Shirts ….. Hoodies ….. Babies’ Body Suits & Pyjamas

* Neat Idea

Consider having products made at Caf? Press to suit a specific niche market on eBay, such as Freemasonry, Scuba Diving, Topographical Views, etc. Pack your eBay shop with different items and lots of different views.

You can also sell your Caf? Press products on eBay and have Caf? Press fulfil orders directly to your customers. It costs so little to keep an item in your eBay shop for the entire month but shop listed items are less easily found by potential buyers than auction listed items. Overcome this by having one or two items listed at auction and use them to attract visitors to your shop to acquire your products ‘Buy It Now’ and also to generate hectic bidding that might even find your products fetching really high prices with lots of Second Chance Offer potential.

* Caf? Press will even create bound books from your text which can also come from the public domain.

Even if you’ve never been to Paris, you’ve probably seen them in movies or magazines: those colorful little French caf? chairs and tables that have been the hallmark of the Parisian cafe for over a hundred years.

And you’re probably aware of the part they played in the history and culture of the last century, when the likes of Hemingway and Sartre, Fitzgerald and Picasso sat in these very chairs at these very tables, defining the art and literature and philosophy of the Twentieth Century.

Serious stuff.

But there was a lot more going on in Paris a century ago than just philosophical discussion.

A lot more. And a lot wilder!

And it was happening right there amid the chairs and tables of the French bistro!

Oh, to be sure, to the untrained eye (or mind), caf? chairs and tables certainly look exactly like bistro chairs and tables.

However, French caf? chairs and tables signify coffee, croissants and philosophical debate; French bistro chairs and tables are more about wine, music and romance. That magical La Vie En Rose.

For rather like werewolves of French furniture, the cerebral caf? chair is transformed into the exotic bistro chair when the Parisian sun goes down.

And the names that come to mind are less Hemingway and Sartre, more Josephine Baker and Bricktop.

Which is not to say that never the twain shall meet.

For if Hemingway eschewed the bistro for the caf?, he apparently took a peek every now and then. He is purported to have said of Josephine Baker that he considered her to be “the most beautiful woman there is, there ever was, or ever will be.”

And Josephine Baker said, “I wasn’t *****. I simply didn’t have any clothes on.”

But she also said, “Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one’s soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.”

Hmmmm. Could it be that the legendary Josephine Baker, toast of the Parisian bistro, was, at heart, actually a caf? philosopher?

Often times, when you hear people talking about remodeling and decorating, the most talked about area of the home is the kitchen. People often redecorate their kitchen more than any other area of the home, which is understandable, simply because you spend a great deal of time in the kitchen. When it comes to decorating a kitchen, there are many themes you can choose, but one very popular theme is the cafe kitchen because it is unique and lighthearted.

When decorating your kitchen with the cafe kitchen theme, you will want to make sure you have the appropriate accessories. One great accessory for any theme are bar stools. Think about the cafes you have been too or seen pictures of, what do you most often see? You generally see bar stools around a relatively small table. When people think of bar stools, they typically picture the pub type, you know the ones, they are big, clunky, and extremely heavy. These really have no place in your kitchen, we can almost read your mind.

In your kitchen, if you are going with the cafe kitchen decorating theme, you want something airy and light. You could choose bar stools created with a style of wrought iron. Add some pizzazz to your kitchen with backing in a really fancy and fun design. If you want to go all out in your theme, match your table with your stools. Round tables are the perfect fit within the cafe kitchen decorating theme, you can choose an elegant glass top or a solid table top, the choice is yours.

Figuring out the type and style bar stools you want for your kitchen is the easy and fun part, now you get to start with the harder aspects of decorating, actually finding the bar stools. Finding stool is not the hard part, the hard part is finding something that matches your table or counters, as well as carry excellent quality that fits your budget. If you really want to make things easy on yourself, consider purchasing a set of table and stools together.

How many bar stools will you need for your kitchen? Well, lets find out. Get out a measuring tape and measure the table. Now, after measuring divide that number by 28, which is about the inches you will want from the middle of the first seat to the middle of the next seat. After dividing the number you come up with will be the average number of chairs that will fit well within your area.

Just when you thought the measuring was over, you will need to measure again. This time, you are looking to make sure you purchase bar stools that fit correctly under your table. To do this, go to the area in which your stools will be, under a counter or table. Measure the height from the floor to the bottom side. For comfort, it is necessary to have somewhere between ten and thirteen inches between the bottom of the area and the top of your stool.

It is important to understand your area, how much room you have, and what works best before purchasing. This will allow you to make the right choices the first time, instead of having to be stuck with something you cannot use or take it back for an exchange. After this, you will have the great opportunity of enjoying your cafe kitchen every single day.

Nibbley’s Cafe in Klamath Falls is home of the famous Oatcakes. Having tasted them for breakfast, we can see why they are famous. Debbie Caldwell and her staff do a phenomenal job.

When you walk into Nibbley’s, you are in a warm, friendly atmosphere. As you enter the dining area, you pass wonderful pastry cases filled with treats that are difficult to pass up. Walls are adorned with a collection of quilts that tell many stories which Debbie is happy to share. Debbie is quick to say, “Do what you love, love what you do and the money will follow.”

How difficult is it to order breakfast? In this case, it was incredibly difficult. There were so many choices, it was a challenge to select. Our group ordered a variety: Corn Beef Hash, homemade corn beef tossed with bell peppers, onions and country potatoes, served with two eggs and toast; Breakfast Burrito, bell peppers, onions, potatoes, sausage, bacon, ham and eggs scrambled inside a warm tortilla, jack and cheddar cheese and salsa on top with guacamole and sour cream; Mexican Scramble, corn tortilla strips, eggs, green chilies and onions scrambled with melted jack cheese, topped with sour cream and salsa and served with fruit; and of course, Nibbley’s Hearty Oatcakes with a touch of cinnamon. Norm had no idea of the size of the oakcakes and ordered three. Needless to say, he ate about half. I had mine as a side instead of toast with my Mexican Scramble that I was sharing with a friend. It was plenty and delicious. When I return, I’ll probably just have the oakcakes.

Our breakfast fare barely scratches the surface of what Nibbley’s has to offer on its menu. They feature items for the carb conscious, as well as tofu and just about anything you desire. Nibbley’s fresh baked oat bread, wheat bread, cinnamon rolls, muffins, and many other goodies are prepared fresh daily in its own kitchen. Prices are reasonable and the value is tremendous.

Debbie was nice enough to share a recipe for her Chocolate Mint Squares.

Chocolate Mint Squares (Brownies)

Brownie
2 cups margarine
8 ounces baking chocolate
8 eggs
1 tsp. peppermint extract
4 cups sugar
2 cups flour
2 cups chopped walnuts

Melt chocolate and margarine in microwave until melted, stirring occasionally.
Mix together eggs, extract and sugar.
Add flour then beat in melted chocolate mixture.
Fold in chopped nuts.
Divide mixture evenly, between two well greased non-handle baking pans.
Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. Cool.

Filling
2 cups margarine
4 teaspoons peppermint extract
12 cups powdered sugar
Milk to make easy to spread

Cream margarine and powdered sugar, add extract and enough milk to make spreading smooth and easy.
Spread evenly over brownie cake in the two pans.

Chocolate Glaze
4 tablespoons butter
4 ounces baking chocolate

Melt together in microwave, stirring until the mixture has a smooth consistency. Pour onto mint texture and tilt pan until chocolate is evenly spread.
Enough for two pans.

Chill thoroughly before cutting into squares. Nibbly’s are 4 x 5 but you can cut them any size. When cutting bars, dipping knife in hot water often works well.

If you’re in Klamath Falls (www.travelklamath.com), be sure to check out Nibbley’s at 2650 Washburn Way, #120, Klamath Falls, Oregon 97601, phone 541 883 2314. Nibbley’s is open from 6 to 11 Monday-Friday, 7-11 on Saturday and 8-2 on Sunday. By the way, its Oatcake mix is so popular, you can purchase and take it with you.

One of the best features of Zynga’s games for Facebook is that you can send gifts to your friends or anyone on your friends’ list for absolutely nothing! You can give or share gifts to them every single day that you log on and it is free. Moreover, you can send some items that are not available for purchase. There are even limited edition gifts that are only available during the holidays and other special events such as anniversaries, and so on. Meaning, you should maximize the ability and privilege to send gifts to your friends for free as it gives you an opportunity that may help you in expanding and upgrading your cafe.

Sending Gifts

Part of your game play in Cafe World is sending gifts. There is no purchase required nor any special task to fulfill for you to be able to give gifts to your selected Facebook friends. All you have to do is log in to you Cafe World account every day and send available items to your friends. However, there is a limit on how many friends can receive gifts from you every day. You can send cookies, appetizers, and drinks to your neighbors which they will find useful on their own cafe.

Moreover, you can also purchase stuff from the store which are not on the menu and give them as gifts. However, it is not necessary because your neighbors can also purchase those items using their own coins. Majority of them would probably prefer receiving gifts from the gift menu as these are not available for purchase on the cafe store.

Getting Your Own Gifts

Now, how are you going to turn this gift giving system to your advantage and receive your own gift items to serve or add to your own cafe? First, you have to send out gifts to your friends. Once they accept your gifts, they are prompted to send you back items. Let us say you sent someone a coffee drink, he accepted the item and he will be asked to give you something back. You do not have to ask for gifts personally. All you have to do is send gifts to others and wait for someone to give you back gifts.

A majority of the players would want to give back gifts to others because they would love to keep on getting stuff regularly from neighbors. One tip is to send gifts to everyone on your list of friends every single day you log in so that you can get gifts from them too. If those neighbors and friends in Cafe World log in each day, they will be able to give you gifts daily as well. Your objective is to send out stuff to other people and wait for them to return the favor.

Now, if you want to become one of the best players in the Internet to send and receive free gifts, you have to expand your network and add neighbors to your list so that you can send them items and receive from them too. This is one of the important parts of the game and you should keep this gift giving process in mind.

The latest of Zynga franchise follows hotly off Mafia Wars and Farmville. In just a week, Cafe World has already hit 28 million users in just over a month on Facebook.

If you have not played Cafe World, here’s the low down. It is kind of like an Iron Chef in a way where your mission is to cook, bake, and saute your way to the top in the culinary profession.

Before I reveal the results, I’d like to explain my logic. When it comes to making money you need to ask, “What dish can I cook that will make me the most profit over x amount of time?”

So I’ve come up with Profit Per Hour (PPH), which will be a close to accurate representation of how much money can be made cooking a dish over the course of an hour.

Example dishes are as follows:

The bacon cheeseburger costs 15 coins to make, but has an adjusted cost of 30 coins as a result of the cost of cleaning the oven after cooking. The time-to-serve on a bacon cheeseburger is 5 min, but we’ll say it takes 6 minutes to account for the slicing, dicing, shaping, and serving times.

Therefore, we’re not making 12 bacon cheeseburgers in an hour (since it’s a 5 minute dish), but more realistically 10 per hour (6 minutes each). Believe it or not, this logic drastically changes the results.

The results:

If coins are what you seek, these are the top 10 dishes to cook in order from highest profit per hour (PPH) to lowest PPH:

1. 248 pph - Overstuffed Peppers
2. 245 pph - Kungpao Stir Fry
3. 243 pph - Fiery Fish Tacos
4. 224 pph - King Crab Bisque
5. 220 pph - Bacon Cheeseburger
6. 212 pph - Impossible Quiche
7. 191 pph - Powdered French Toast
8. 188 pph - Super Chunk Fruit Salad
9. 176 pph - Tony’s Classic Pizza
10. 166 pph - Grand Tandoori Chicken

If you’re after cafe points, the best dishes in order from most cafe points per hour (CPH) to lowest CPH:

1. 76.4 cph - Chicken Gyro and Fries
2. 70 cph - Bacon Cheeseburger
3. 60 cph - Powdered French Toast
4. 60 cph - Chips and Guacamole
5. 52.5 cph - Super Chunk Fruit Salad
6. 40.6 cph - Jumbo Shrimp Cocktail
7. 24.3 cph - Fiery Fish Tacos

I now have the largest possible cafe which is the Plentiful Cafe, the best decor, the highest buzz rating of 105 and the ultimate goal of cooking and selling the impossible quiche.

Bob Hamilton asked:




If you are about to start a dollar store business, it is important that every task associated with preparing and opening your business be completed on time. One of the best ways to handle this challenge is to manage the start-up of your store as if it were a project. Devote the time and effort to identify and classify every one of the critical tasks required to successfully start a dollar store business.

Start by documenting each every one of the critical steps involved in preparing for and opening your new business. Once everything has been documented, move on to create a complete project plan that you will use to start a dollar store business. Your plan needs to note each action from the beginning to the end of the start-up process. Double check, and be sure to include each and every action. If you forget even one, you will lose valuable time in the start-up process. Major omissions could even delay the grand opening of your business.

Next assign a timeframe for completion of each action. Some start-up tasks such as notifying the electric company that you are now the tenant may take minutes to complete. Other tasks such as repainting the entire store may take much longer. Often one task must be completed before the next task can be started. For example, floor coverings must be installed before store display fixtures can be installed.

Think of your start-up project plan as a blueprint for you as you start a dollar store. List each step in chronological order. Actions build on each other. As one action is competed, you are ready to move on to the next. Following that process ensures that as one step is completed you can successfully begin the next action.

Your project plan and the associated actions need to commence immediately after a location has been identified and all paperwork related to the lease has been completed and signed. When you start a dollar store the actual signing of a lease agreement sets off the preliminary actions such as turning on the utilities, completing your leasehold improvements, ordering store display fixtures and equipment, and completing and submitting all initial merchandise orders for example.

It is important that you monitor your project plan on a daily basis. Be sure that every step remains on-track for completion. If any are falling behind make course corrections to get everything back in-line and on-schedule. Follow up with vendors and others to insure they are delivering as promised. Remember, when you are about to start a dollar store even one delayed action can create havoc with your targeted grand opening date.

To Your dollar store business success!

Charles Lameet asked:




Owning an internet business can set you free from current financial chains and liberate you from your 9-5 job. With this great opportunity comes work and a slight learning curve. Anyone can do internet business but it’s up to you to decide if you’ll fail or not through the determination you have to succeed.

Avoiding Scams

Do not buy any internet money making system or internet cash business opportunity or offer. There are no systems that will magically make you money. Like everything else in life you need to earn it. Only buy resources that will actually give you knowledge to completing your own personal online business goals. Do not buy into a system.

Internet businesses are work. Do not let any internet guru or internet millionaire tell you otherwise. Sure people get lucky and strike it rich. However probability tells us that won’t happen to us based on chance. So what can you do to ensure your success? Start working towards your goals.

Importance of Goal Setting

The difference between a successful internet business owner and an unsuccessful one is goal setting. You need something to achieve. Make a large goal and break it down. So let’s say you want to earn $10,000 a month working online. That’s roughly $330 a day. So start out by saying you want to make $10 a day online. Then double your goal to $20 a day online. Give yourself a time frame in order to achieve these goals. Once you have goals you can roughly know what you have to do in order to achieve those goals.

Fundamentals of Marketing and Business

It’s important you know internet marketing concepts in order to be successful online. In order to attract buyers to your offers to make you money you’ll need to create relevant traffic sources and offers. It’s important to understand the different ways to do this and experiment with them yourself.

Chris Malcolm asked:




“Free Scratch Tickets, Real Prizes! Click on the scratch ticket image to play your free scratch ticket for real prizes now! No cost, no registration! You must be over 18 years. This contest is VOID in any jurisdiction within the United States, Canada or elsewhere where participation is prohibited by law.” — MR FREE

The sound of the word “free” is tempting; and the sound of the phrase “real prizes” is even more appealing. What is there to lose? Anyway, it’s all free. The ad said it requires no information and all you got to do is to click the image to play your free scratch tickets. Everything seems like it’s a win-win situation.

You have probably just joined the thousands of people who could not resist scratching the card using the mouse and rubbing off the ticket’s covering… Congratulations you have won!!! Or, have you?

Free scratch tickets, instant win game, scratch off, free scratch cards, scratch and win, scratch ticket, scratcher, scratch to match, scratch2cash, scratch prize tickets, scratch off, scratch game - there are indeed a lot of names for these games. The common goal is to have anything from 3, 6 or 9 and the golden or silver panels are meant to be rubbed to reveal the symbols. Most of the themes are colorful and they range from pictures of pirates, cowboys, space, card symbols or even just anything under the sun. Surprisingly, almost all of the free scratch tickets always reveal winning symbols. Indeed, they’re free; but where is the catch?

Some websites will give you chances to play free online. They won’t ask you to register any information until such time that you would have to be notified if you’ve won the game. So after finishing the game, you would have to reveal your name and e-mail address. Other scratch cards websites are even more intrusive. They would even ask for your address, phone number, occupation, marital status, salary range, age, date of birth, and a lot more of information. In a way, it doesn’t seem free at all. You have given your information and that’s the payment for playing their online free scratch tickets.

And what happens to the prize? Certainly you are given the jackpot prize points that you can spend on their website. You can play more games that give you more chances of winning as you reveal more of yourself. During your visits, you are tempted to play more. You start to gamble and you get yourself in a situation that most internet gamblers are in. Your free scratch tickets have leading you to the road of online gambling. Months will pass and you would become an active member of the online gambling community. Sooner or later, you would find yourself betting more than you can afford.

Free scratch tickets definitely sound appealing. They would always persuade you to start playing and start winning. Nevertheless, as soon as you start winning; you start to keep yourself from resisting or from stopping.

H. Bernard Wechsler asked:




After fifty years of research by Western medicine, it is time to recommend meditating twice-daily for 20-minutes each - because it aids your longevity, healing and stress-busting.

The Hindus in India, Buddhists is Asia, and millions of Americans do a deep relaxation exercise that helps prevent many diseases from getting a foothold in their minds and bodies.

Meditation is used to accelerate healing, enhance health, and improve the function of our life processes. Research in August, 2006 - indicates that those who regularly meditate suffer
less common colds.

Han Selye

The father of understanding stress and the fight-or-flight syndrome was Dr. Hans Selye, a Canadian endocrinologist. He lived 1907-1982, and experimented at the University of Montreal, where he published 32 books on stress.

Today the AMA does not contradict his theory that Heart Disease, Cancer and Stroke are somehow introduced by chronic-stress. Meditation is on the verge of being accepted as an adjunct to surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy.

How To Do It

Let us not get bogged down in the philosophy of meditation, but see it as the integration of our left and right brains toward creating a firewall against disease, and reducing or eliminating chronic-stress.

For detail medical data, Google Dr. Herbert Benson, Harvard Medical School. He offers a laundry list of mental and physical benefits from meditating.

Our personal experience over five-years is extraordinary, but we suggest you do your own research. It is not invasive, requires about 40 minutes daily, and offers everything to gain, and nothing to lose.

Start

One: sit with your eyes closed, feet flat, and hands on the top of your knees.

Two: prepare to repetitiously chant some simple words – a Mantra is Sanskrit, for Thought.

Three: focus upward toward your third-eye, the Pineal-Gland; it is situated between both-eyes in-line with your eyebrows.

Four: use your fingertips to rotate back-and-forth across both thumbs throughout each twenty-minutes of meditating.

The Mysterious Sounds

Indians claim up to 3,500 years of experience with the use of sound as a vibrational frequency to excite the healing processes and activate mind and body - for improved life and enhanced health.

We recommend two separate mantras to quiet your stream-of-consciousness and reduce chronic stress.

a) Sat Nam – remember it as Viet-Nam, but it is pronounced and chanted - But-Mom. Take a deep diaphragmatic breath and gently release the air as you chant in a loop, B-U-T - M-O-M, B-U-T - M-O-M, etc., for a total of a two-dozen times. Drag-out-the sounds of the four phrase mantra.

b) SA-TA-NA-MA is the second looped chant. Take a deep diaphragmatic breath and slowly exhale as you repetitiously chant SATANAMA twenty-four times.

c) Simultaneously focus on your third-eye, while rotating you fingertips across your thumbs. The sequence is inhale, chant, third-eye, and fingertips.

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Here is what advocates of Kundalini Yoga suggest:

These two chants link us to two different vibrations of intelligence.

Sat Nam pierces the universal veil, and permits us to reach Infinite-Intelligence and Cosmic-Consciousness.

The SA-TA-NA-MA meditation is to clean out the closets of our non-conscious mind. Do this daily to transform how our mind and body experience life. Remember – it is our right-brain (non-consciousness) – that produces choice and life decisions.

Change

We expect positive change in the future, and consider change a way to feel happier, and more peaceful. Simultaneously, we fear a change in our comfort-zone and the status-quo. Simply – it is a contrast between the known and unknown.

It is normal to want to be healthier, experience great relationships, and when sick, to be healed. Who does not want to be richer, get promoted and discover great meaning in our activities and behaviors?

We want to evict bad habits like smoking, overeating, anger and depression; and reprogram ourselves with self-esteem, more happiness and pleasure in our lives.

It is common knowledge even among twelve-year-olds that change begins with ourselves; others and our environment will not alter their systems and beliefs to suit us.

Is it a fact that when we change our inner-reality, our world becomes different?

Change your state-of-mind, beliefs and mood, and you control your life?

Think about this: the essence of all things is energy, electro-magnetic vibrations, but operating at different frequencies. Today, physics offers String Theory, 100 year old successor to Quantum Mechanics, to explain the universe.

Is it possible to alter our own vibrational-frequency to match what we want to attract? The answer may be in meditation through chanting because it raises our vibrations.

Endwords

Ignore these two meditations at your peril. Learn and use them and discover the enormity of your personal and potential gifts-and-talents.

We advocate chanting for health, healing and joy - for its own sake. In terms of speed reading – chanting (meditating), removes resistance to learning.

Do you rationalize, become resigned to the status-quo, become aggressively opposed, and retreat (flight), from self-improvement? It is fear of newness.

See ya,

copyright © 2006

H. Bernard Wechsler

http://www.speedlearning.org

hbw@speedlearning.org

Lena Leino asked:




If you are pregnant and past you due date, you are undoubtedly feeling the anxiety with waiting for labor to start. At this point, you may be searching for ways to start labor naturally. Many obstetricians today look towards medical labor induction when an expectant mother is past her due date. This route can throw your birthing options out the window, such as a homebirth. Unfortunately, you will be hard pressed to find a doctor that will not recommend chemically inducing your labor once you are past your due date; regardless of the risks or harsh side effects. Many mothers that have experienced the side effects from using medication to start labor shiver at the thought of going through it again.

You might have already come across various methods on how to start labor naturally. You might even have tried sex, EPO, walking, spine adjustments by chiropractic, bouncing on the birth ball, and spicy foods, in order to start your labor naturally.

Acupuncture in another commonly suggested way to naturally start labor. Some people are skeptical about acupuncture for labor. It has been shown in several studies, however, that by stimulating specific acupuncture points, the body is gently urged to begin the process of childbirth. The only complication that may occur is some slight bruising at the puncture points. Some people might be afraid of possible pain caused by needles that are used to stimulate the acupuncture points for inducing labor naturally. The acupuncture needles used are solid, yet extremely thin. That’s why there is very little or no pain during the treatment.

Most acupuncture specialists will not make house calls to perform the treatment; this could be a problem for an expectant mother who is past her due date.

Acupressure is another method shown to be very effective in bringing on labor. A simple and comfortable way to naturally encourage labor is acupressure. Acupressure is similar to acupuncture because the same points of the body are used, but without the needles. However, acupressure utilizes thumbs and fingertips rather than needles. In order to stimulate the acupressure points to start labor, the points are first located according to some simple measurements. Using just your fingertips or thumbs, pressure is given to points on the body. The pressure could be applied as a small rotating movement, static pressure, or in a pressure-release manner.

Sometimes, only one acupressure treatment is enough to “kick-start” labor but usually the treatment is repeated in a few hours time. Acupressure for labor is beneficial not only in inducing labor naturally, but is also extremely helpful in relieving labor contraction pains, back pains, and nausea, that are often associated with pregnancy.

What is wonderful in acupressure for labor is that it could be used at home. Because acupressure is simple, a person with no previous experience could use this method with great success, just by following basic instructions. Hence, more and more pregnant women and their partners are using acupressure for conditions related to pregnancy, including the induction of labor. Midwives and natural health care doctors agree that acupressure is a safe and effective way to naturally start labor.

Mike Valles asked:




There are many things that may be difficult to learn, but knowing how to draw house plans is not one of them. In fact, it would not take you very long to be able to do it yourself and then you can start drawing your own house plans for your dream home. Here are just a few things you need to know about learning how to draw floor plans.

The Home Design Software

Drawing house plans and floor plans requires that you use special home design software. This software, such as is offered by CAD, or Chief Architect, simplifies the process and enables you to use special features that are necessary for your custom home designs. Some of this home design software contains features like:

Furniture Cabinet design Siding texture Floor textures And more.

These features are used when you tell the home design software program to generate your 3-D images so you can know what your custom home will look like.

The Time Involved

Learning how to draw your own custom house plans really does not take long. Two courses can be completed in just a couple of months, but you can learn how to draw a ranch style home in about a month. The nice thing about computer courses is that you have the freedom to work at your own speed and schedule. This allows you to put in the time you have available, or whenever you are available, even if 3:00 am is the only time you have for it!

The Assistance Available

Taking a course is one thing, but doing it with the ready help of a trained and very experienced house plan designer will definitely give you an edge. Questions can be freely asked through emails and you will get an answer quickly.

The Focus of the Lessons

These courses will teach you what you need to know about designing your own floor plans. By the time you finish the first course, which could be completed in a month, you will have made the floor plans for the ranch style home. This will include:

Elevations Foundation Basic electrical Kitchen Doors and windows Porches and Decks And more!

The second course will teach you how to draw a two-floor home. Between the two courses you will have learned enough to get you going so that you can begin to create the house plans for your dream home.

The House Plans You Create

Being given the basic tools for drawing house plans, you can go from there and use your imagination to create your own dream house plans. You will be able to experiment and tweak your unique creation until it is just the way you want it. Best of all, after your new home plans are done, it is just a few more steps until you can build it - and the best part - live in your dream home that you designed yourself.

Steve Sutherland asked:




The lawn care business can seem extremely easy to enter due to the low start up costs involved A basic lawn mowing business can be started for just a few thousand dollars if you exclude the cost of buying a vehicle. This article looks at funding and start up costs for a small lawn care business.

For some lawn care business operators, start up costs end up being more than expected, debt can spiral out of control and income can be surprisingly slow in the beginning.

As it will take you some time to build up a client list and get some money coming in it is a good idea to buy your equipment with cash instead of buying on credit and going into debt.

You don’t necessarily have to start off with the best gear. Just start your business off with what you feel are the essentials and then as you increase your income over time you can slowly invest in additional equipment.

To get started with a lawn care business you really only need a lawn mower, mulching bag, an edger and your vehicle. A pick-up or small truck is preferred but you can get away with a station wagon or SUV.

Buying good quality, second hand equipment is one way to minimize start up costs and lower your risk.

Leasing equipment is also preferable to going into debt in the early stages of your business. Try to look for a short-term lease so that if you want to quit the business after a trial period then you won’t be locked into a long-term contract. If you quit your business, returning leased equipment is preferable to being stuck with a lot of debt and expensive lawn care equipment that is hard to sell.

If you can’t get a small interest free loan from family and you really do need to seek funding then make sure that you have a solid business plan in place that you can take to potential lenders to show them that you are serious.

However, before you look at small business financing options for your lawn care start up investigate the possibility of getting a small business grant from your state or government. The lengthy application processes involved and the small chance of success turn most people off this idea but it is worth looking into if you are eligible.

All in all though, we are really not talking about a lot of money that is involved with getting a lawn care business up and running. Entrepreneurs who are keen to get started in the lawn care business should look upon the raising of their own start up capital as being their first challenge.

Dolson McArt asked:




There are plenty of people who wish to put up there own businesses but do not have the means for it, so they end up not reaching for their dreams. You need money in order to put up a business such as daycare center. It may not be that expensive but you still have to do small investment. Actually, a small investment can also be terrifying, so there are some who can’t pursue their dreams.

The good news is that, you can pursue your dream of opening your own daycare center with the help of government grants. The US government allocates millions in grants each year. On both federal and state level, there are lots of small businesses who are given grants.

So, with these grants, you can now open your own daycare center that you wish to have. Definitely, you can! Take note, this grant money are for free, you do not have to pay it back once you were granted with it. This is far different from loan, as soon as you were given this grant, you can use it in opening your own small business and you never have to repay it.

Don’t be too excited, since you need to work for it and provide effort in order to be granted with it. Bear in mind that this is free money, so you have to show that you are worth it to have it.

Everyone wants free money, so there are lots of people who are applying for government grants as well. Knowing the fact that there are many others who are applying, you need to make sure that your application will shine than the others. You will have bigger chance it you created a catchy and appealing application form.

In order to make sure that you can effectively submit a catchy application form, you need to invest a little with grant resource. You can use the internet in finding the right grant resource that you can use. Actually, as soon as you gain a grant, investing with grant resource is worth it.

Bear in mind that gaining a government grant is your first step in putting and running a profitable and rewarding daycare center. But, with this government grant, you can start much easier and stress-free.

You have to submit a complete application and make sure that all the necessary information is in there. Before sending the application, you need to double check it. Make sure that yours is appealing and interesting to stand out among other applicants.

Learn more see: Start a daycare business

Printing Companies asked:


 

Online printing services require master effort in the creative world of Print Design. Creative Designs are created in different styles in different formats like digital image, animation, and Motion picture. Online Graphic Design can be considered as putting your effort in creating & designing them to make them as professional portfolio which can represent the over all topic. Online Printing & Graphic Design will include work produced by drawing, through digital production, interactive media design, 3D Designs and Web design. Some Online Graphic Design providers will have websites and areas of other areas of Graphic Design.

Online Digital Photo Printing is a technique used to develop concept through images. Online printing services offer you quick, low cost, high quality printing solutions, from any possible media. There are numerous online digital photo printing services providers at affordable prices. Most of the companies fulfill the requirements by the highly skilled artists.

This means that if you go with a standard printing service in your nearby community you will not get it at affordable rates, be able to see to it that the job is done to your specifications as well as you with an online printing service that can contact you and send you repeated samples by email or by you contacting their site online.

With these and some other Services we offer far more services like Business cards Design, Magazine Design, Packaging Design, Press Advertising Design, Newsletter Design Printing, Brochure / Catalogs Design Printing, Banner design, Flyers Design printing, Labels design printing, Mailers design, Presentation Folders, Poster Design,

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Emylou asked:


Looking forward to a day at the park with your kids or how about basking in your backyard or a weekend getaway, with that oh, so lovely sun beating down on you?

 

Did you know though, that even the slightest exposure to the sun could target fair skin, far worse than people with a slightly darker complexion?

 

Seek some shade if outdoor activities are unavoidable. If you can’t avoid being in the sun however, then don’t forget to slap on that sunscreen, preferably with a S.P.F. (Sun Protection Factor) of 15 or higher, before you venture outdoors.

 

Although the act of applying sunblock may seem like a bore, believe me, prevention is far better than cure.

Besides sunscreen, a fashionable large-brimmed hat or baseball cap should do the trick or what about a fancy parasol? And don’t forget those ever-important shades. Your eyes need protection too.

If you forgot your sun protection and ended up burnt or if you slathered it on unevenly and you have a streak of red across some part of your body (how embarrassing!!) you’re paying for it now with reddened skin. Ouch. Although you may not acknowledge it, your skin certainly does!

Sunburn, at times, can cause mild pain and redness, affecting only the outer layer of skin. The thick sap of the aloe vera plant or a soak in a cooling tea bath are excellent home remedies to a soothing effect. 

You may not think much of a mild one, but what if you have developed oozy blisters? Still think nothing of it? This type of sunburn is usually more painful and takes longer to heal. In severe cases like this, it’s time to bring in the professionals.

Sunburn is something a great deal of people experience fairly regularly during the summer season. Just because it is commonplace, does not mean that this condition does not require special attention proper care.

Don’t ignore the telltale signs of the sun’s damaging effect on your precious skin. In reality, anyone who spends too much of unprotected time in the sun is a candidate for first or second-degree burns, children included.

 

So, don’t forget to slather on that sunscreen on all parts of your skin exposed to the sun.



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