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By Debra Betterly It doesnt matter how old we are, matters of the heart go on forever. It is well known that a healthy diet, exercise, and attitude are powerful determinants of a healthy heart. But, knowing how to give and receive love and appreciation may still be the heart’s best medicine. Since healthy relationships are so vital to living our best life, as a Life Coach, relationships often naturally integrate themselves into whatever life change my client is trying to make. Relationships are a big part of our personal Spirit, Mind Body landscape and affect every part of our being. Good or bad-how they play out in our life, and physical, mental and spiritual health, is up to us. And no, if we are not happy with our relationships, it’s not the other people you need to change -there’s no place for blame in a healthy relationship-its us. It is often at midlife that we finally realize that having healthy relationships is up to us and no one else. Once a client has accepted this, the real work can begin. Taking a holistic approach, here are some ways to prevent problems in, or refresh relationships, that I’ve found helpful for myself and my clients. 1. Be Generous With Your Appreciation. How often do you feel or give appreciation? How important is appreciation? Studies show that appreciation of others and of ourself is strongly correlated with happiness and health. I know of people who have quit their jobs for not feeling appreciated for their contributions in the workplace. I’ve also seen the opposite. When people are acknowledged for their efforts, they feel better about giving and often go beyond the call of duty. Experiment with this and experience the magic for yourself. Appreciation changes people. In families, appreciation can minimize or prevent problems. Start appreciating those you care about for things you wouldn’t even think of appreciating them for! All those things you take for granted, like “Thanks for being out there earning a living so we can pay our bills each month; Thanks for the juggling you do everyday to take care of our family; Thank you for being a wonderful kid; Thank you for cleaning up your room; Thank you for bringing up this issue that we need to deal with; Thanks for the great meals you make for us” You get the idea. Make it a habit. Get the whole family involved. It may feel awkward at first, but after awhile the energy in your home will change, and problems will begin to disappear. It works just as well in the workplace. Good job whenIt made me smile whenI know you’ve been working really hard lately andthen watch company moral skyrocket! One other interesting phenomenon, if you want something from other, you must give it first. So if you want more appreciation in your life, start doling it out and watch your wish come true! 2. State Your Intention or The Purpose Behind the Communication. According to Dr. Rick Brinkman, a lifestyle management guru and author of “Life By Design”, whenever we communicate there is always a purpose behind that communication. A very effective way to communicate is to let people know your purpose or your (positive) intention first to avoid misunderstanding. Without the desired intention, defenses easily go up. People often need to know where we are coming from before they can really let go and listen. For example, you might say, “I love you and I really need to clear the air about what happened the other night”. This states the intention first and has a loving, positive tone. Consider the difference if the person had said, “I feel frustrated about what happened the other night and I think we need to talk about it”. The intention is unclear and immediately causes the other person to put up a protective wall! Always state your intention first. 3. Assume a Positive Intention in Others. Always assume the best intention in others. People will literally fall all over themselves to fulfill your positive expectations of them. There have been studies that prove when students work with teachers who believe in them to excel, they do. The expectations of the teachers get projected on to the students and in such cases, the students IQ is tested higher than normal for that student. This is the power of your projections! If we want to bring out the very best in our spouse, clients, employees and kids, we can start by just assuming the best and projecting positive expectations. Sometimes an intention is good, but the actions are not welcome. For example, your husband decides to surprise you and rearrange the furniture. His intentions were good, but you hated what he did. If you just said, “You shouldn’t have done this, you need to move everything back the way it was”-do you think he would take the initiative to do something “nice” for you again? Probably not! But, if you said, “Thank you honey for caring about the way our home looks, it was really great of you make this effort for me. But, what you didn’t know is I really don’t like it this way, can we try something different?” With this response he will not be afraid to try to please you another time. 4. Seek First to Understand. An argument is two people wanting to be understood when neither one wants to understand. How to resolve an argument? Let the other person feel understood first. When they feel understood, they will then be able to give their full attention to us. Listening is the key to understanding. Let them know you are listening by giving specific feedback so the other person knows they are being heard and understood. The best way to do this is to simply take their words and give it back to them. This is a special technique used by counselors and coaches. Their words are special to them; it doesn’t work as well to try to use our own language. We can ask questions for clarity if we need to. Listening and caring provides the feeling the other person is looking for. The final step is to confirm the other person feels understood by saying something like, Do I understand this correctly? Then it’s our turn to talk. 5. Enjoy Differences. Recognize it is wonderful to have differences, and then to respect them. Each individual processes feelings differently according to their own life experience. If we are sensitive to this we can discover the best way to support the other person and get both needs met. A really useful question to ask when some one close to us starts a statement with ” You dont”, is “How would you know if I did?”, For example, ” How would you know if I supported you?”, or “How would you know if I cared for you?”. Keep in mind, the people close to us often have their own criteria for getting their desires fulfilled based on their own model of the world! And it may not be the same as ours, so we need to ask. For example, one persons criteria for a romantic evening may be very different than their partners! The intent may be the same (wanting intimate time together), but how to fulfill that intent is often not. Again, asking questions helps a lot! Ask, “What does a romantic evening look like for you?”, and then you may need to find a compromise. 6. Notice the Energy of Your Intention. According to the bestseller “A Return to Love” by Marianne Williamson, when we come from a place of love and acceptance, and truly accepting people as they are, has the miraculous effect of helping them be better people. When we are always telling people what’s wrong with them, we don’t help them, instead, we paralyze them with shame and guilt. When we accept others unconditionally, we help them to feel good about themselves, to relax, and to find their way. This doesn’t mean we can’t share constructive criticism, but again, and energy of positive intent is important. It is the energy, good or bad, that is carried in our communication. The miracle is the authentic intention to communicate with love not fear. According to the book, “the key to communication is not what we say, but rather the attitude that lies behind what we say”. A Relationship Tool to Try. The following relationship tool can help with maintaining healthy relationships. It is called a relationship agreement. Sit down with your spouse, your son/daughter, or your business partner and come up with some agreements about how to communicate with each other. Then when things start to go amuck, (and when our feelings turn into emotional reactions, they easily do!), you can get the agreement out and say Remember how we agreed to communicate? Examples of mutual relationship agreements might include: * To have weekly meetings. * To communicate without blame. * To communicate only from love-not fear. * To take turns with who gets to start when settling an argument * To create and have a plan for how to exit an argument so you can come back to it after you’ve gained some perspective. * To always state the positive intent first. Every two people who come together bring uniqueness to that relationship, so each particular relationship agreement will be unique as well. Other useful strategies include creating special and sacred time alone with our spouse or child, bringing new skills or hobbies to a relationship to share and appreciate together, and reading relationship books or listening to tapes with partners and discussing how we might apply the information to our own relationships. Try this: Think of one relationship in your life that is meaningful to you, but is not going as well as you would like. Choose from the ideas in this newsletter that feel comfortable for you to try. Then apply the changes you want to make. Be patient and journal the changes you begin to see in the other person and in yourself. Debra Betterly,Ph.D.is a Life Coach whose specialty is midlife mastery. This article is derived from her newsletter, Second Acts, a spirit-mind-body approach for women re-inventing the second half of life. Please visit http://www.amazingjouneycoach.com to subscribe to this free monthly eNewsletter and also to learn more about her program Put Your Dream to Work and her eBook Awakening the Spirit Within. You can also email her at amazingjourney@charter.net Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Debra_Betterly http://EzineArticles.com/?Communication-Tips-for-Heart-Healthy-Relationships&id=56528 no credit check rehab loans personal loan document examples how do personal loans work car dealerships in atlanta with no credit check

By Geraint Ap Iorwerth I was in my late teens when I first read Henry Barbusse’s Under Fire, a novel set in the first world war trenches. It led me to consider the question: who does God listen to when He is bombarded with the prayers of different nations and religions, all equally convinced that He is on their side? As I grew up, the questions became more problematic: what kind of god are we talking about? Who would want to follow a supposedly supreme being whose followers regularly take up arms in his name? While Muslim leaders are urging their followers to look honestly at the health of their faith, Christian bishops are silent. There is almost a total lack of prophetic critique of the west’s way of waging war on terrorism and no cries for the Israeli government to end its oppression of the Palestinian people. The Judaeo-Christian religion has evidently nothing to repent. God is on our side. Victory is assured. Or, in the words of President Bush: “We will not falter and we will not fail.” The western coalition consists of secular states, and yet we are suddenly hearing a great deal about God from some of our politicians. American currency bears the words “in God we trust”. God Bless America is almost a second anthem. Early on in the recent conflict in Iraq, the press was allowed to photograph US pilots praying together before taking off on a mission. But who are they praying to? Bush even summed up his speech to the US congress on September 20 2001 with the prayer: “In all that lies before us, may God grant us wisdom.” What is this wisdom that he invokes? Bush is still a president with a mission in his second term. The leader of the world’s only superpower has a divine vocation to “defend freedom”. Prior to his speech to Congress, Bush was blessed by another president, this time of the Southern Baptist convention, with the words: “I believe you are God’s man for this war. God’s hand is on you.” Bush is no Christian fundamentalist. His religion appears to be a primitive kind of theism, popular among many in mainstream American religion. Bush’s agenda, sanctioned by his God, is to root out the evil one(s), with salvation in the guise of America close at hand. He declared in a TV interview, soon after the September 11 attack, that “America is the greatest source of good in the whole of human history”. But it is humility that helps to build bridges in times of crisis, not self-righteousness. Human sacrifice, once an integral part of religious expression, gradually gave way to animal sacrifice as a means of placating or pleasing an angry god. We like to think that we in the enlightened west have long since left such practices behind. But we have not. Perverse ideologies spawned by the Judaeo-Christian heritage still accept as inevitable the sacrifice of innocent people for the common good. Allied soldiers, who have after all been trained to kill, are in “civilised warfare” and protected at all costs, while civilians (and proxy soldiers) are not granted such luxury. God, forever waiting in the wings, has an insatiable appetite for human blood, and he is not fussy what race, creed or ideology supplies it. Texts celebrating the cruel demands and exploits of this god abound in Jewish, Christian and Muslim holy books. It is incumbent on their teachers to look again at how to deal with scripture that preaches intolerance, violence and oppression. We have seen how divisive religions can be. The challenge is to to discover that which unites religious people, and to act upon it. We need to rediscover the alternatives to the myth of redemptive violence - the belief that violence saves, war brings peace, might is right. According to the Christian scriptures the crucified Jew challenges us to “love our enemies” (Matthew 5). The Jewish teacher, Paul, in his letter to the Romans, declares: “Do not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good” (12). This kind of love makes “the other”, be they friend or foe, a brother or sister. Such practice is subversive, because in doing away with an “us-them” mentality, my shelter becomes my enemies’ shelter, my food a shared meal with another who could be a criminal or a terrorist. A love that is unconditional is exactly what it says. It is that love that builds a firm foundation for peace with justice, a peace that is the dynamic of operation infinite forgiveness. Herein lies the essence of the life and teaching of the Crucified Jew. President Bush challenged the world with the words, “are you for us or for our enemies?” Words that were in fact first uttered by Joshua, in the Jewish scriptures (Joshua 5) when confronted by a divine messenger holding a sword. The latter replied: “Neither.” On hearing this unexpected reply, Joshua knelt in humility. My hope is that all of us, along with President Bush and his supporters, are doing the same as 2005 continues to unfold. In search of a gentle God -Geraint ap Iorwerth Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Geraint_Ap_Iorwerth http://EzineArticles.com/?A-Gentle-God&id=21645 loan cash mortgage kosters cash loans no credit check consolidation loan personal loans apply online

By Teddy Shabba Most if not all men who haven’t had the type of success they would like with women at one point or another have said at least to themselves that they would like to know how to attract women. Yet, for the most part the majority of these men are simply stating a preference rather than actually making a decision to do whatever it takes in order to attract women. In other words most men would be willing to do what they already have been doing and maintain the same habits and beliefs to attract women even though they already have solid proof that what they have been doing isn’t working for them now. Of course, most men don’t consciously make this decision instead they simply allow their unconscious mind to continue doing the behaviors and habits that are not attracting women. On the other hand, men who have truly made the decision to do whatever it takes to attract women have cut themselves off of any other possibility when it comes to women. Instead of continuing to allow their unconscious mind to control their habits and behavior they chose to consciously create habits and behaviors that actually help them attract women by changing their belief system. Now, when it comes to changing your belief system it is important that you know that it can happen overnight and that when you change it you change it with a belief that is actually going to help you attract women and not just another belief that doesn’t help you attract women only in a different way. The easiest way to make sure that you change it to a belief that is going to help you attract women is to get your new belief from someone who already has success with women to begin with. Teddy Shabba is a Dating Coach for Men who has a daily newsletter that provides you with a wealth of information on how to be more successful with women. You can sign up for the Teddy Shabba Dating Advice Newsletter for Men now. Also with over 500 articles from a variety of dating experts just for men our Dating Advice and Seduction Article Database is the perfect place for any man. To learn more about How To Attract Women visit our article section Attract Women Today. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Teddy_Shabba http://EzineArticles.com/?Changing-Yourself-To-Attract-Women&id=413157 no co-signer no collateral bad credit loan multiple paycheck systems johnny paycheck aka donnie young cash advance australia

By CD Mohatta For all of us family is very important. We share very deep bond and affinity with our family. Our parents, our siblings and our children are the people who make our world apart from our spouse. How to wish family members on their birthday with free birthday ecards? Let us find out. Birthdaty ecards for father and mother- please look for subdued colors. Prefer nature as the image background. Try to get free ecards with large font sizes and look for text that is heart warming. Birthdaty ecards for brother- you grew up with your brothers. You know their color choice better than anybody else. Send ecards that translates your feelings as closely as possible. An ecard written with some text about the childhood spent together will be a good choice. Birthdaty ecards for sister - don’t select very bright colors. Warm colors would be preferable to cool colors, as they look more emotional. Use text that talks about a brother/sister’s love for sister. If your sister has any special preference, try to find a card accordingly. Birthdaty ecards for son and daughter- pour your parental love in the ecard. Let the ecard be very warm looking with text that describes a parent’s love. Use bright and very cheerful colors. The text should be funny with a message for your child’s future. For every family member, you should select different type of ecards to wish a happy birthday. Your relation with them, age difference and their preference would help you look for the ecard that would make them enjoy your birthday wishes. CD Mohatta writes for ecards, greeting cards and online cards. If you are looking for Free birthday ecards that look good and will make the recipient happy, please chose from - Birthday Ecards from http://www.ecarduniverse.com/ The author recommends http://www.yourfungames.com/games/ as a big resource of free online games of all types. Download them and play free for as many hours as you want. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=CD_Mohatta http://EzineArticles.com/?Free-Birthday-eCards—How-To-Select-For-Family?&id=201896 bad credit auto loan application christmas quick cash advance payday loans for savings account legal case summaries on payday loan companies

By Laura Adams Candidates experience and credentials, as detailed in the resume, are most often the frequently used criteria for determining which job applicants are deserving of a personal interview. Ultimately, though, the hiring decision is going to be heavily based upon the candidates performance in the interview and their value to the organization. To impress an interviewer, you have to be able to distinguish yourself from other candidates and be prepared to ’sell’ your qualifications to the interviewer. How can you do this? Present a polished professional image Remember that professional companies are looking to hire professional individuals, not the beach bum who just shook the loose sand from his hair. Dress conservatively in a well-fitting suit and keep jewelry, makeup, and fragrances to a minimum. Its also important to always take a shower, brush your teeth, and comb your hair before an interview as well to present to clean, polished image. Spend some time to research the organization prior to the interview Doing outside research on your own time to prepare for the interview demonstrates your commitment to hard work and your sincere interest in the organization. Study up on the company’s products and services, industry, target market, annual sales, structure, and any other key information. Managers will be impressed by your research. Prepare specific examples of how your skills and experience make you a strong fit for the organizations needs Practice answering tough, directed questions about your experience and be prepared to draw colorations between your experience and that needs of the organization. For example, if the position requires strong analytical skills, you should have example ready to demonstrate your strong analytical skills. Have you faced any challenges that forced you to think quickly on your feet? How do you go about evaluate alternatives when you have to justify a decision on a project? Prepare and ask intelligent questions about the company and position Your research on the organization will also come in handy when it comes time to formulate a series of intelligent questions you want answered. Since the interviewing process is an evaluation tool for both the individual and the organization, it is in your best interest to gather as much information about the potential opportunity as possible. Asking well thought-out questions shows that you are serious about the opportunity at hand and indicates the level of your knowledge about the company to the interviewer. Pay attention to your body language. You want to exude self-confidence and poise during an interview. Maintain eye contact, smile pleasantly, and keep your body attentive but relaxed throughout the meeting. Avoid fidgeting, clearing your throat, and breaking eye contacts as these are all signs of an anxious person. Conclude the meeting by thanking the interviewer for his time and shaking his hand. End the interview on a strong positive note by thanking and acknowledging the time the interviewer spent meeting with you. Its important that interviewer know that you value his time - after all, he could just have easily been doing something else. Write a quick Thank You message to the individual(s) who interviewed you. It only takes a few minutes to pen a Thank You note to an interviewer, but the gesture speaks volumes about your professionalism and the importance you place on good customer service. If you treat the interviewer with gratitude and respect, you are likely to treat your co-workers and customers equally well. Laura Adams is a qualified careers advisor with 11 years experience. Insurance Employment Information - Resources, News, Tips and Views to help Insurance Professionals find their dream jobs. http://www.Insurance-Job.info Copyright Insurance-Job.info This article may be reproduced as long as the resource box and live links remain intact. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Laura_Adams http://EzineArticles.com/?How-To-Impress-At-An-Interview,-And-Land-That-Job&id=133050 aw wish pay day friday lyrics sba loans georgia w knight knight enterprises llc payday loan direc how to use your va home loan with bad credit

By Vicheka Lay Lawyer and philosopher have many things in common and very slight differences; staring from university education to on-court argument. Many lawyers do not know that attaining philosophers characteristics would benefit their professionals. This article aspires to reveal the duplicates between lawyer and philosopher. Lawyer and philosopher are all above argument in defending their stances; no matter the culprits or victims side. This is the very first similarity that lawyer and philosopher is obliged to aggregate as many evidence and interpreter those evidence to be in favor of their stance. However, I think that lawyer should be philosopher and not philosopher should be lawyer, because history has taught us that philosophers mind is more sophisticated and civilized than that of the lawyer whose mind seem condensed, because of money-steering. To a further extent, philosophy is a more aged subject than the law. And because philosopher uses his or her mind more frequent than the lawyer. The second similarity is about interpretation. Again, lawyer and philosopher have interpretational power of any merits (matter of fact). Lawyer and philosopher can interpret any subject into a complete different point of view. Plato and Buddha interpreted that the human world is always on the flow of changing, but the latter philosopher says that the world is real. Lawyer should behave like philosopher, because philosopher has endless perspiration and inspiration to go to the core and theme of the problem and this is the sharpest argument that is really hard to fight back. Lay Vicheka is a translator for the most celebrated translation agency in the Kingdom of Cambodia, Pyramid Translation Co.Ltd.. Simultaneously, he is working as a freelance writer for Search Newspaper; focusing on social issues and students’ issues. Lay Vicheka is the expert author for ezine and other websites around the world such as articlecity, 365articles, talesofasia, etc. Lay Vicheka has great experience in law and politics, as he used to be legal and English-language assistant to a Cambodian member of parliament, migration experience (home-based business) and in writing. He is also member of a New York-based research company. Posting address: 221H Street 93, Tuol Sangke quarter, Russey Keo district, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Tel: 855 11 268 445, vichekalay@yahoo.com Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Vicheka_Lay http://EzineArticles.com/?Lawyer-should-be-Philosopher&id=179921 payday loans no teletrack short term loan money tree day loans quick cash advance

By Peter Bane PERMACULTURE HAS ITS GENESIS in the visionary work of J. Russell Smith, J. Sholto Douglas, Robert Hart, and others less well known, who, two generations ago and more, realized the urgency of transforming the basis of agriculture through the use of trees and other perennial crops. They saw the progressive devastation of land that followed the plow and knew that only by integrating forestry and farming could mans impact on the Earth be tempered and hope for humanitys future be secured into the next century. Following the revelations of ecologist H. T. Odum (I) on the problem of energy, a third leg was added to this vital synthesis as David Holmgren so trenchantly expounds in his essay Energy and Permaculture (2). It was for Holmgren, a young student of design at Hobart. Tasmania, and his unlikely mentor, Bill Mollison a bushman turned university professor, to set forth a systematic and practical approach to implementing these new understandings. Permaculture emphasized redesign of the domestic landscape or self-reliance, building the genius of the local and the individual into this triune and revolutionary shift. Though widely accepted by both traditional and post-modern peoples around the world, permaculture has been largely ignored by governments and institutions, to which its essential message is anathema. The vacuum of official support has obscured the scope and extent of this revolution in mans relation to the land. It is important therefore, for those of us promoting permaculture concepts and systems to realize that the elaboration of the permaculture design system, though original to Holmgren and Mollison, was neither isolated nor unique, but contemporary with a range of parallel creative work in other western countries. Rummaging my bookshelf for inspiration on energy in preparation for this issue, I came across evidence for a similar ideation in a slender thesis by Ida and Jean Pain, Another Kind of Garden. First published in 1973 and in a fifth edition by 1979, this little book documents the work and methods of M. Pain with brushwood compost. A Little-Known Visionary Pain was a citizen scientist in Occitania, that fabled and historic region in the south of France, whose political fate has long been submerged within the French state, but whose spirit is still restive. Contemporary with Bill Mollison. Pain was concerned with the devastation of the Mediterranean forest by fire, a terminal process of dehumification of soils that began thousands of years ago with the introduction of grazing animals and cereal cropping. He experimented with the production of compost from brushwood thinnings of the garrigue, Frances sclerophyllic (dry loving) southern forest. By progressive applications of this compost and careful mulching to retain moisture, Pain demonstrated and recorded in great detail that high quality vegetables could be grown without irrigation in these dry soils. He further speculated that the forest itself could he regenerated by selective use of the same material. What sets Jean Pain apart from Sir Albert Howard or other advocates of compost for gardening are two important elements, First. Pain placed the source of humic material in the forest and not in agriculture. In this way Pain pointed to a way of making productive the vast scrubland and dry forest regions of the sub-temperate and sub-tropic regions, areas of the planet blessed by abundant sunshine and long occupied by humans, but whose soils were exhausted before the modern age. Second, motivated by a profoundly post-modern understanding of global resource limits, he concerned himself with the production of industrially useful energy from this basic earth resource. In this way he offers a bridge between traditional livelihoods based in shifting cultivation or nomadic herding, and a more modern, prosperous, and settled way of life. He also shows westerners a way out of the dilemma of dependence on fossil fuels. Why then have we not a better knowledge of this important man and his work? The answers are several and should surprise us little. Jean Pain worked independently in a rural region. He was affiliated with no university or government. Though French is a world language, it is no longer the leading tongue of science and has been eclipsed by English as the lingua franca of cultural innovation. Pains small, didactic volume was self-published, and its translation into English was awkward, the text difficult to read. Though Pain networked with other researchers in francophone Europe and in California, the extent of his outreach appears to have been limited. He was essentially an agronomic scientist and inventor, without the personality which might have enabled him to publicize and propagate his ideas. And, more broadly, his creative work, like so much innovation in energy technology, was marginalized by the worldwide conservative reaction of the l980’s which sought to deny the implications of the oil shocks of the previous decade. Lets look at Jean Pains methods and try to assess what sort of legacy he has left us as we enter the 21st century. Pain lived in Provence and realized the limitations of what Alan Savory (3) has called brittle environments, those characterized by extended seasonal drought. Absent herds of large animals to process the biomass into a form available to soil organisms, organic matter tended to cycle more often through fire than through earth, exaggerating the loss of carbon from soils already depleted and subject to high temperatures for much of the year. While Savory, and his intellectual predecessor Frenchman Andre Voisin, emphasized intensive grazing by herd animals, Pain faced a dry mountainous landscape where resinous plants were dominant. Unsuitable for most grazing animals, the brush-wood, which amounted to as much as 50 ton / hectare (20 ton / acre) was a huge reservoir of volatile fuel for an ever-increasing number of human-caused fires scourging the Mediterranean littoral (seashore). A modern Prometheus, Pain sought to domesticate this demon for human use. His studies had revealed the essential mystery of humus and its role in soil fertility. The creation of long-chain carbon molecules by a biological alchemy made soils and the environments based on them, more supple, better capable of holding magic substance could be cultured by providing supportive conditions for bacteria and fungi to digest plant material: ample moisture, controlled atmosphere and temperature and the continuous diffusion of oxygen into the mass were sufficient. But though the raw material was abundant in the Provencal forests, its collection required chainsaws and motorized transport, and its processing required grinding to increase the surface area and hasten breakdown. Collection and grinding required industrial fuels and machinery, albeit simple: trucks, tractors, power saws. How then to close this economic and energy loop? By capturing energy from the composting process. Alternate Energy Paths Jean Pain articulates two basic biochemistries: a familar one, that in the presence of oxygen, cellulose and lignins in woody material break down (or build up) to humus; and one less familiar, that suspended in water, anaerobically, and held at 36C (97F) the same woody material will support bacteria that produce methane gas. (Only slightly different processes are required to yield wood alcohol, yet a third useful substance.) Methanenatural gasis an industrial fuel. It can provide combustion energy for cooking and space heating, but it can also run motors. Convenience in transport and for vehicle use dictates compressing the gas, but this too is possible with methane-generated electricity and simple compressors. The nimble French inventor set out to link all these processes by the necessary technical elements. Since his first aim was the rejuvenation of the soil, Pain devoted himself first to the perfection of the compost pile. Manual preparation of the material required that it be selected from small branches (less than 8mm thickness) and leafy matter. The presence of chlorophyll (and we know also enzymes and other nutritive substances) enhanced decomposition to humus (4). In the case of industrialized composting a smaller thickness was desired (less than 1mm), with long thin fibers preferable to short thick pieces. He reports that machinery that shaves rather than chips the branches and limbs is preferred. Obviously, powerful machinery is required to macerate small tree trunks and limbs, and Pain spent considerable attention developing prototypes. One of these, a tractor-driven model, was awarded fourth prize in the 1978 Grenoble Agricultural Fair. The brushwood shavings must then be saturated with water. A cubic meter of woody material will absorb up to 700 liters of water over three days if continuously moistened. Mindful of conserving this precious resource, Pain dug trenches before building his piles in order to drain away excess water which he then pumped hack into the process. A large heap (75 cubic meters, about 50 tons) of this material could be obtained from a hectare of careful forest thinnings (35-40 tons). This would both improve the health of the forest while providing humic manure sufficient to one hectare of cereal cultivation. Compost piles properly made, of course, heat up. Reaching 60C (140F), a heap of this volume would ferment for up to 18 months and provide (through a simple plastic coil embedded in the pile) heated water for domestic use throughout the run of the reaction. Pain reports that he heated his fiveroom house of 1000 square feet (100 m2) and provided hot water (at a rate of 4 liters! minute) for its occupants from a 50 ton pile for six months, but that a 12 ton pile maintained that output for a full 18 months. After testing horizontal and vertical coils. Pain concluded that a circular coil or series of concentric circular coils was the best design for extracting heat from a compost consistent with ease of constructing and deconstructing the pile. Jean Pain continued to refine his technologies. The shredder he devised was later fitted with a recirculating chute for ease of handling the brushwood shavings while obtaining the fineness required. Having proven the utility of heating water (and spaces) with brushwood compost, he experimented with heating air for greenhouses. And to make a completely honest farmer of himself, Jean Pain insisted on meeting the energy requirements of his harvest and processing machinery, so he turned his attention to the production of gas by methanogenesis. Referring to the work of Ducellier, Isman, John Fry, Sauze, and others, Pain touches only lightly on the technical aspects of gas generation, preferring to report his findings relative to the brushwood source material. Five kilograms of finely shredded brushwood compost yield about 1 cubic meter of methaneabout 5,500 kcaIequivalent to about half a liter of high-grade petrol in energy content. The gas generated by the fermentation of brush-wood requires a simple filtrationwhich he does not explain but which is presumably referenced in the literaturebefore it can be compressed and applied to motorized transport (a simple carburetor adjustment for a standard gasoline engine) or electricity generation. As the photos in his book attest, Jean Pain in fact developed or adapted machinery to run from this fuel. An important development in technique for methane production was to embed the gas-producing tank (a sealed plastic tub of 4m3 volume) surrounded by coiled plastic pipe, in a Compost heap. The plastic coil conducted water around the gas tank while serving as a heat exchanger. By regulating the flow of water, the temperature of the gas reactor could be regulated to optimize gas production, which in this example was about 1300 liters per day. The now warmed water of course was used for heating the house. Jean Pain connected this supply to a storage reservoir of 36 innertubes. These in turn fed the domestic cooking devices and supplied gas to a compressor run on electricity from a methane powered generator. The compressed gas supplied motive power for the farm truck, while the generator also ran lights in the house. The results are impressive. From a hectare of fire-prone and unproductive forest, 50 tons of agricultural fertilizer can be derived along with the energy equivalent in fluid form, of 4000 liters of high-grade petrol. This energy can he channeled to the harvest and processing of the woody material, and the whole can be accomplished while providing paid employment and a modest profit from the sale of gas and humic manureby any measure a true permaculture! Pain calculates the economics of a theoretical 1000 hectare unit managed according to his methods and estimates that process energy required is 12% of energy yield, while counting in all inputs, ores, metallurgy, wood, implements, and so on, 26%; that equipment can be paid for in five years and the financing, including interest, retired within 10. All the while 16 people will be employed at good wages. Some Caveats Pain continued innovating and refining his methods through at least 1979 (when the fifth edition of his hook was published). He inspired the creation of a technical center in Belgium (5), and reported pending contact with municipal officials in Seattle, Washington who were interested in applying his methods to process urban wastes. A cooperative enterprise had been formed for the manufacture of brushwood shredding machinery, but interestingly its address has been scratched out from my copy of the book. What has become of him and his work is unknown to me. In the course of 15 years he learned a great deal of the technical requirements of his art, all directed toward increasing the yields and efficiencies of the process, hastening the cycle from cutting of brush to application of compost to soil, recycling material internally (he used aged compost to generate methane, then recycled the residue to soil). His aim throughout was improvement of forest health. Though I have emphasized in this synopsis the technical aspects of his invention and the industrialization of brushwood compost, Pain himself stresses the importance of sensitive harvesting of the woody material: careful pruning, thinning, and felling are essential to a successful result. In his own words: This research, then, which was begun in 1964 in the Central Var district and which was aimed primarily at enabling a family of extremely modest means first to get by and then live normally in the forest, has today led to the production of energy in the form of electricity obtained by means of simple techniques, this not being our purpose at the outset. Pains work points out the need for further innovation and elaboration of techniques for producing methane and alcohol from woody material. Implied are an array of methane or alcohol-driven motors of various sizes for everything from power tools to generators, transport vehicles, and farm and earthmoving machinery. These are simple fuels, easily derived horn organic materials and thus capable of widespread production and use They are ready substitutes for most of the liquid petroleum-based fuels now used by industrial civilization, and as such arc compatible with a smooth transition away from centrally controlled energy. Though wind and solar will play an important role in a gradual shift of energy sources, there is little promise of either the major revolution in motive technology or of a rapid restructuring of the built environment that would allow us to shift our heavy dependence on transport to these well developed renewable energy sources. Much interest of late has gone towards the process of converting waste cooking oils into biodiesel. While this is interesting and creative, it seems inherently limited in its applications, primarily because of the relative scarcity of the source material. Nothing like a sufficient quantity of spent cooking fat is available to provide adequate transport energy for the entire population, even at vastly reduced levels of energy use. Also, the production of industrial cooking oils is primarily monocultural and inherently devastating to enormous areas of the planet. Biologically, production of oils requires a more complex and less efficient energy pathway than plant production of cellulose and ligneous material. There will always be many hundreds, if not thousands of times more woody material than oil produced. In addition to the basic phytochemistry, there is the geographic argument: many millions of acres of land are unsuitable for arable crops, are degraded forest of low yield, or are wastelands wrecked by agriculture or toxic chemicals. We need technologies for deriving economic yield from the rehabilitation of these lands. We also need simple technologies to break the monopoly of the fossil fuel industries. It was the genius of Jean Pain to grasp the essential problem of the age and throw himself into finding simple and appropriate technical solutions for it (even if, by his admission, he did not know all of what he would do at the outset). That these solutions find their most efficient application at a modest and very local scale is a boon to the world and has everything to do with Pains original intent. The social and labor arrangements, capital financing, and technology required to yield useful and commercially valuable energy and fertilizer for individual and community-scale application from restorative forestry are within the reach of large numbers of people and groups throughout the world. What is needed now is for significant numbers of people to realize and take responsibility for our continued use of liquid fuels in transport, energy for domestic heating and hot water, and to realize that the stable and successful transition to a sustainable economy requires us to develop locally controlled and biological sources for these energies, based on simple, widely available and applicable technologies. Notes 1. Odum, Howard.T. and Eugene C. Odum. The Energy Basis for Man and Nature. McGraw Hill, 1981. 2. Holmgren, David. Energy and Permaculture. Permaculture Activist #3 1 May, 1994. 3. Savory, Allan. Holistic Resource Management. Island, 1989. 4. Celine Caron. Ramial Wood Chips, Permaculture Activist #29/ 30, July, 1993. 5. Jean Pain Committee International, 18, Avenue Princesse Elizabeth, 1030 Brussels, Belgium tel. 32-2241-08-20 or 32-52-30-01-66. The author admits to no great familiarity with either the production or use of biogas, only a keen interest based on need. He would like to thank Emilia Hazelip for her timely suggestion to investigate the subject, and offers his sincere appreciation to Ida and Jean Pain for their pioneering efforts. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Peter_Bane http://EzineArticles.com/?Another-Kind-of-Energy-or-ComPost-Modernism&id=468841 easy short term loans pay day loans low fee faxless payday loans hard money jumbo loans

By Natalie Aranda Workman’s compensation, or as it is often called, “Worker’s Comp”, is the name that refer to a system of laws that offers protection to injured workers. Its intended goal is to make sure that anyone who is injured at work receives medical care appropriate to their injury. The laws also provide for recovery of lost wages. When necessary, it provides for the retraining and rehabilitation necessary to return to the workforce. In the event a worker is killed on the job, benefits would extend under most circumstances to the worker’s family. Although the system of laws governing Worker’s Comp makes recovery of benefits easier than in normal personal injury cases, it is not unusual to need the services of an attorney to protect your rights and to insure that you receive all the benefits to which you are entitled. There are attorneys that specialize in Worker’s Comp laws, and it is advisable to seek one of them. Not only do laws vary from state to state, but often courts vary from city to city, so by all means, if your injury occurs in, say, Boston, than be sure to hire a Boston personal injury attorney to represent you. There are a few things that could exclude you from coverage under Worker’s Comp laws. Although this does depend on the jurisdiction, employees may lose their benefits if their injuries or death results from either willful misconduct or from intoxication. In addition to normal Worker’s Comp benefits there are some special federal laws which provide additional protection to certain classes of workers. —–The Jones Act. Intended for seaman on U.S. flagged vessels —-The Federal Employment Liability Act (FELA). For employees of railroads engaged in interstate commerce. —-The Longshore and Harbor Worker’s Compensation Act (LHWCA). For employees of certain classes of private maritime employers —-The Black Lung Benefits Act. For miners suffering from black lung disease. It is not unusual for an injured employee to have some difficulty with either their employer or with the Worker’s Compensation system. The employee usually has little knowledge of his rights although the employer is usually pretty sure about them. The employer also has some little tricks up their sleeves for minimizing their liability. The worker is walking through a minefield here, and this is where that Boston personal injury lawyer comes into the picture. It is hard to even trust the doctor in these cases. Employees are often told they are fine to return to work by a doctor whose loyalty is much stronger to the employer than the employee. Another practice that is sometimes used by employers to limit Workman’s Comp liability is to return the employee to work at a different position. This special position is a promotion that involves much less physical exertion, and the employee accepts it, and then in a couple of weeks he finds himself laid off and the position eliminated. Once he returned to work his Workman’s Comp benefits ceased, and now he has lost them. The attorney can guide you, and make sure you receive what you have coming to you under the law. These cases are procedural, and are not lawsuits as in non-work related personal injury. However, an exception is made when the injury is caused by a deliberate action of the employer, or when the employer fails to carry Workman’s Comp Insurance even though required by law to do so. You then have the right to sue the employer outside the Workman’s Comp system. Natalie Aranda writes on family and laws. Workman’s compensation, or as it is often called, “Worker’s Comp”, is the name that refer to a system of laws that offers protection to injured workers. Its intended goal is to make sure that anyone who is injured at work receives medical care appropriate to their injury. The laws also provide for recovery of lost wages. Not only do laws vary from state to state, but often courts vary from city to city, so by all means, if your injury occurs in, say, Boston, than be sure to hire a Boston personal injury attorney to represent you. The employer also has some little tricks up their sleeves for minimizing their liability. The worker is walking through a minefield here, and this is where that Boston personal injury lawyer comes into the picture. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Natalie_Aranda http://EzineArticles.com/?The-ABCs-of-Workmans-Compensation&id=340061 no faxing required military payday loans fake paycheck no fax instant loans hard money lender for oil and gas deed

By Ann LaRoche Think about it! Our culture today is all about instant gratification. It is all about I want it now. Yet Math is counter culture. Math is about struggling to understand. Math is about working out a solution and maybe even going down a few dead ends before the solution reveals itself. Math is work. Its no wonder that learning math is rejected in our lets make it easy society. Now we do try to fool ourselves. I see a lot of products such as Math Made Simple, Math Made Easy, Math tricks, All the Math Youll Ever Need to Know in One Book. I hate this advertising for several reasons. One reason that just glares in my face is the misnomer of it. What did they do to make math easy? What happened to the hard math? Also the name is misleading. What may be an easy or simple approach to learning math for you, may not be simple for me. What are you lead to believe about yourself if you still dont get it and yet it is easy math? What are you telling your child with this product? Do you believe your child is capable of doing ‘real’ math? What is your child going to do when he is finally faced with real’ math? Are they going to find out that he has been faking math all this time? In his mind, it is not a matter of ‘will they find out’, but ‘when’. Sadly, I know adults who feel they aren’t any good at math. They feel that they have been faking it. They dread the day when they will be found out. Some have changed college majors and others have given up on dream careers all in fear that the math would eventually be more than they could handle. That faking the math wouldn’t work anymore. It is sad but true. Do you see where Im going with this? Is this real math or what? But back it this counter-culture idea of instant gratification. What is wrong with struggling to understand something? Am I stupid because Johnny figured the problem out before I did? I dont think so! Yet a lot of parents get anxious about their child when they compare him to his classmates. Johnny knows his multiplication tables, so you must know them too. Your brother never had any problem with math. What’s wrong with you? Then there’s the dreaded incident of being call to the blackboard to answer a simple math problem and you don’t know how. These situations shouldn’t happen. They are damaging and are in no way a reflection of a person’s true math capabilities. Yet they happen and they lead our children to believe less of their capabilities. As a parent myself, I think it is okay to struggle at math but no one should be embarrassed because they struggle. Have you ever considered that maybe your child is better off for having struggled to get the answer? Does the struggle build character, fortitude, perserverance? What does instant gratification build? What does Made Easy build? Self esteem is built through true accomplishments that come after struggle and persisting in the face of failure and finally succeeding. Isnt that the self esteem you want for your child. Well you cant have it with instant gratification. Learning math is certainly made easier when you can find an approach or teaching method that matches your learning style. Learning math is easier when you want to learn it, when it is fun like a game. Learning math becomes easier when you have a reason for learning it. Fulfill these three requirements and you will unlock the secret of learning math. Fulfill these three requirements for your child and you will have a child who wants to learn math, who enjoys the challenge. But I wont say learning math is easy. Maybe the learning will be easier but that is up to you and how you encourage your child in math. Ann LaRoche, Math Expert and Author of the book “Math Is Child’s Play.” Ann advocates learning math by playing games. Card games and board games are the fun and easy way to strengthen math skills and improve problem solving capabilities. In her book, Ann debunks common math myths, addresses math anxiety, and gives practical advice to parents who want to help their child with math but feel unable or unqualified. Ann sheds light on the confusion wrought by New Math and has a process for handling math homework time that will turn those tears of frustration into smiles of triumph. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Ann_LaRoche http://EzineArticles.com/?Math-Is-Counter-Culture&id=373215 christmas no fax cash advance 24 hour no fax cash advance what is the avarage interest rate for personal loans cnbc fast cash

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