Reducing the Signs of Aging
Posted on November 9, 2009
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One of the things that I have noticed in the last few years is that I am starting to look old. Now, if you are in the same situation as me, you will know that it can get a little depressing at times since getting old is something that none of us wish for. So, I have been looking at ways to slow down the aging process, and I have found myself taking a serious look at HGH.
I have been reading online that the human growth hormone can help to reverse the aging process, and keep one looking younger. I know that for me, grey hair was very traumatizing and I want to look like a young person as long as possible. It seems like the product would be perfect for me, but I wanted to make sure before I took it.
So, I have been researching online to find out what the side effects are and I will ask my doctor first before taking them. But it seems that many people are having great successes keeping wrinkles and the pain of age away by using this supplement.
I have a doctor’s appointment next week, and after talking to him, I will make my decision as to whether or not I will take it. But it seems to me that it will be a good choice for my situation. I really don’t want to look any older.
What Africa Needs from the West
Posted on November 3, 2009
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By Emeka Chiakwelu www.afripol.org strategist@afripol.org
At Glenglades in Scotland 2005, the G8 nations under the leadership of former Prime minister of Britain, Mr. Blair proposed to increase foreign aid to African countries to the tune of $50 billions in the next decades. The G8 nations pledged to effectuate debt remission for most highly indebted nations in the developing nations. Fourteen nations in African benefitted from the program after completing austere structural programs and having graduated to completion points approved by their creditors and International Monetary Fund (IMF). But many African countries were left behind because they cannot meet the difficult requirements and structural modalities for the program.
The G8 nations at that point mapped out modalities for the proposed foreign aid, and Tony Blair formed an organization of eminent personalities including Bono, President Obasanjo, Geldof, Kofi Annan with Bill Gates as the chairman – to monitor G8 nations in their pursuit of redeeming the pledge.
The G8 has not absolutely fulfilled her pledge to Africa. But the level of Africa’s ills cannot ordinarily be wished away by mere increase in aid support. Aid is not an engine of development, rather its impact is short term and sometimes it can be a barrier to economic development because of the attached strings. Africa needs to trade and industrialize her economy for effective participation on international stage.
First and foremost, the procedural disbursement of aid from government to government does encourage corruption. Financial aid disbursement must be modified to go directly to the poor citizens and wealth creating enterprise and small businesses. As for debt remission, Africa received $540 billion loans between 1970-2002, she paid back $550 billion (i.e. principal with interest inclusive) and she still owned $295 billion as at the end of 2002.
AFRIPOL to this end is canvassing and looking forward to having a situation where the entire Africa‘s foreign debt will be written off unconditionally in order to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goal of halving global poverty by 2015. There is no gainsaying that Africa has not paid enough dues even with all the litany of problems confronting the continent.
Beyond aid and debt remission, the West should ask, what does Africa really need from us?
Empowerment to foster Freedom and Liberty: Africans must live in the system of government that encourages freedom and justice. The respect for fundamental human rights must be instituted and adhered to; an environment that provides self-help, self-improvement and self-innovation must be encouraged. Only freedom can make these things possible and make free enterprise a reality, so that free people can create wealth and advance human dignity.
The West must encourage and support governance that accommodates checks and balances in Africa. This will in turn provide accountability and respect for the populace. What Africa needs mostly include, elimination of dictators and socialist regimes, establishment of virile/free political platform and economy, rule of law and respect for individual rights. All these things do border on fundamental issues which foreign aid alone cannot redress. Until these issues are properly put right, the story of the optimum utilization of these billions of dollars from foreign aid will always remain a mirage.
Anti-corruption legislation: The responsibility of fighting corruption is too complex and gigantic to be left for one party. Both Africa and West must partake in the fight against corruption. The West must enact banking laws that will fish out bankers that accept laundered money and tainted wealth from corrupt African leaders and bureaucrats. Ill-gotten wealth must be returned to Africa without much ado, while the culprits must be exposed and prosecuted.
The West must work together with African governments on the war against corruption and bribery. Corporations and Transnational companies operating in Africa must not induce politicians and bureaucrats by bribes in their quest for contracts.
” African Union estimates that the continent loses as much as $148 billion a year to corruption. This money is rarely invested in Africa but finds its way into the international banking system and often into western banks. The proceeds of corrupt practices in Africa, (which the African experts group recommended in 2002 should be classified as a ‘crime against humanity’ because of its impact on ordinary people), are often laundered and made respectable by some of the most well known banks in the City of London or the discreet personal bankers of Geneva and Zurich.”
Elimination of wars and Promotion of Peace and conflict resolutions:The West can work with African union in finding solutions to the cessation of conflicts and wars.
Wars (especially internal strife) are ubiquitous in the continent. Some African governments and warmongers commit their resources to executing endless wars. The West must frown upon the sell of arms to these parties by checkmating their natives arms industries.
Fair and Balance Trade: The West must encourage fair and equitable trade with Africa. The giving of aid must not be the only means to defeat poverty and alleviate quality of life in Africa. The promotion of trade can be possible when concessions are made to infant industries in Africa. The West can improve technological developments by investing in areas of science and technology that can sharpen the technical-know-how in the continent. The West must stand for fair trade at the World trade organization by conscientiously removing agricultural subsidies given to their own agricultural sectors that adversely affect the traffic of commodities from Africa. Only trade can be the panacea to poverty in Africa, this will by and large booster a higher GDP and a decent standard of living.
Africa must embark on the area of trade specialization where she has the greatest comparative advantage. It seems that agriculture is the best possible for Africa. The Western World must take the initiative of reducing trade tariffs and removal of agricultural subsidies. By this, developing nations and poor countries especially in Africa can participate and compete favorably with the West. In practice, free trade must be made to work for every nation. World trade Organization must implement trade policies that are doable, workable and all-inclusive. Foreign aid is good and dandy, though on the contrary, history has always proved that aid has slightly or insignificantly improved nations nor ameliorated the well-beings of the fabric of the needy class at the long run. Foreign aid can be given via reduction in prices of medicine, pharmaceutical equipment and of essential commodities needed for survival in the less technological nations. We cannot downplay the role of foreign aid when fully utilized, when it goes to the required projects that ought to impact the needy positively. But Africa core need is beyond these immediate measures.
Emeka Chiakwelu is the Principal Policy Strategist at Afripol Organization. Africa Political and Economic Strategic Center (Afripol) is foremost a public policy center whose fundamental objective is to broaden the parameters of public policy debates in Africa. To advocate, promote and encourage free enterprise, democracy, sustainable green environment, human rights, conflict resolutions, transparency and probity in Africa. www.afripol.org
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Remodelista Relaunches as an Integrated Home Design Resource
Posted on October 31, 2009
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Remodelista.com, a leading home design blog, today relaunched as the first design website to tightly integrate cutting-edge editorial content with a curated selection of products.
With a new array of tools and services, Remodelista has evolved into a full-featured online sourcebook for architects, designers, and consumers seeking to make better-informed home design decisions when undertaking a remodel, or furnishing a home or apartment.
“Anyone who has survived a remodel—or simply shopped for a couch—knows that an enormous amount of research goes into every selection,” says Remodelista Editor Julie Carlson. “Our new website simplifies the decision-making process, allowing readers to find the best products quickly and easily and then share them with friends, architects, or contractors.”
Remodelista’s relaunch mirrors the experience of the four editors—Carlson, Janet Hall, Sarah Lonsdale and Francesca Connolly—who restarted their own careers once their children entered school by creating the website. Drawing from their combined professional backgrounds as magazine editor, video producer, fabric designer and human resources director, the women have merged their similar design sensibilities with an entrepreneurial drive to form Remodelista.
New Features for Design Professionals and Consumers
The new site combines a strong editorial viewpoint—publishing several new original articles each day—with a comprehensive product catalog that lets readers pick and choose among furnishings selected by the writers. It also offers services and tools to design professionals who can use Remodelista as an inspiration resource and a product guide, and a tool for remotely communicating with clients.
- My Design Files is an online tool that enables design professionals and clients to create personal clipping files for projects and rooms. These files can then be shared with colleagues, clients, architects, contractors, and friends.
- Shop Categories is a new product catalog of over 4,500 items that covers all the furnishings and fixtures needed to outfit a home. From the just-right kitchen clock to the ideal outdoor shower, this directory lets users quickly locate and purchase products chosen by the discerning Remodelista editorial team.
- Readers can reference Remodelista’s 10 Easy Pieces selections to find the top-ten of the most common home furnishings categories. Categories include the perfect cabinet pull, the sleekest wall-mounted faucet, or the best-priced white tile.
- The Get Inspired sections of Steal This Look and Architect Visits provide consumers and design professionals with a trove of inspirational interior images—and the means to replicate them.
- Remodelista Daily features new posts each day, and a way to comprehensively browse or search through the entire Remodelista collection of stories.
“Remodelista is a great resource. Professionally, we use it to search for products or inspiration imagery to share with clients when proposing design concepts, and we are excited about the site’s new features,” says Oliver Freundlich of MADE LLC, a prominent architectural firm in New York City that has done projects for actress Julianne Moore and artist Chuck Close.
By groundreport.com
Comedy Video
Posted on October 29, 2009
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I’ve been obsessed with comedy videos lately and I found a good one from Daren Streblow.
Google, Inc : The No:1 Search Engine on the Web: A Review
Posted on October 28, 2009
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Search Engines are the Bots which Explore the World of Internet and Index pages of those sites which are frequently visited or those sites which are content driven and updated round the clock such such news sites , video sharing , news sharing , article marketing and Search markerting Websites . The Search bots visit those sites and index them through the keywords . Today we are going to review the Best Search Engines and Offcourse the favourite Search Engine Around The World . Google Search has the honour to index 70% to 80% Websites and Blogs over the Internet. This is the great example of its success over the Web.
Establishment: As a first step to fulfilling the mission, Google’s Cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed a new approach to online search that took root in a Stanford University dorm room and quickly spread to information seekers around the globe.The Google company was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 7, 1998
What is Google? “Googol” is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, “Mathematics and the Imagination” by Kasner and James Newman. Google’s play on the term reflects the company’s mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web. Google Search Marketing is Billion Dollar project as it has acquired the top position in search Marketing and Advertsing . The Search Marketing and Advertising Network is Called google Adwords which is said to be the Best Marketing Network over the Internet has really played the role of backbone for the Google Company . If you want to search any information about any thing , research Article or ranking of your Website Google is panacea for all of your needs so keep searching google and quench your thirst of Exploring the Planet of Information Technology . Google is the sole Search Engines Which is available in several Countries and in multiple languages .For More Search Engine Reviews please visit Top Search Engines
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