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One of the tings to decide when building or remodeling a kitchen is the type of stove that will be fit in. The countertop stove is a popular choice to give the kitchen an integrated look. Depending on which type of countertop stove you choose, there are different considerations that you need to consider for your kitchen countertop.

Let us start with the countertop gas stove. Being a gas fed stove, you will need to have a connection to you gas line leading all the way up to the countertop. An electrical connection is also needed if your gas countertop uses electrical features such as automatic igniting sparks and digital timers. Be sure that the gas countertop stove has removable tops to make it easier to clean. A lot of heat is generated sideways from the source of the flame while cooking so it is worthwhile to keep this in mind when deciding on the placement of the gas countertop stove. Adequate insulation is advisable to avoid damaging your kitchen countertop.

Next up is the electrical countertop stove. This countertop stove type generates heat by feeding electricity into heating elements. The only thing to get used to with electric stoves is that it takes a while for the heat level to reach the desired level due to the heating up or cooling down of the elements. On the plus side, the electric countertop stove does not lose a lot of heat sideways compared to the gas countertop stove. Installation is straightforward in which you will need to pick a spot on your kitchen countertop and ensure that there is an electrical power source coming through.

Then there is the induction type countertop stove. This countertop stove uses magnetic induction to heat up you pan directly. There is no heating of any elements on the stove itself. Instead, heat for cooking is generated on the surface of the pot or pan. However, the pot or pan used with an induction type countertop stove must be made of metal that sticks to a magnet. If you a magnet sticks to your pan, then it will work with the induction type countertop stove. You will need to get used to the stove a bit as it is very efficient in generating heat since there is in heat loss to the environment. Water boils very quickly and you can burn your steak quite easily if you think that it fries like a gas or electric stove. Installing the induction type countertop stove is similar to installing the electric countertop stove.

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I have tried to raise my children to understand that we are all different, but that everyone bleeds the same. I have taught them that when an ambulance races by with it sirens blaring, someone is in need. I have instilled in them that every person who fights for our freedoms deserves our respect and gratitude. I have taught them to stand up for themselves and their beliefs. And I have taught them love. As a mother, you always wonder Are they really listening? Do they understand what I am saying? Do they know how important this is?

One Sunday, my mother had my daughter at the mall. A man in a wheelchair was pushing through the mall beside them. My daughter looked over and with a great big grin said Hi! My name is Sierra, and this is my mamaw. The man looked over and smiled. He said hello back and tried to continue on. My daughter would not have it. She continued talking to the gentleman for another few minutes telling him all about her school and her friends anything she could think of. My mother just smiled, this was typical of my daughter. She liked to talk. After a few minutes, the man looked up at my mother. To her surprise, there were tears streaming down his cheeks. Are you her mother? he asked. She replied that she was simply the mamaw. He told her that most kids laugh at him and ask him terrible questions. He said that this little girl was the first person to treat him as if he were just like her, walking and laughing. My mom nodded and said that she had been taught well.

My daughter has a heart bigger than any child I have ever met. After 9-11, she drew pictures and put them in our windows. I didnt realize until I left for work the next morning that she has also made a signsupport our troops, each picture is .25. Her own father was overseas fighting, and she was still concerned with other people before her own fears and worries. I bought them all.

I got a call from school one day that my son was in the office. He had been in a fight. My heart sank. This was not how I raised him. I could not believe that he would hurt someone. I picked him up from school and decided we needed to talk. His head was hanging he was obviously upset. Would you like to tell me what happened today? I asked, trying very hard not to sound upset myself. He began his story. Apparently, some of the big kids were beating up one of his friends. He told them to get a teacher, but no one wanted to tell. My son decided that someone had better help this kid out, as we getting pretty banged up. My son walked in the middle of the fighting and punched the bully in the gut. He told his friend to get up, that he would take care of it. Now, I do not condone fighting, but I know that he was sticking up for someone who couldnt stick up for himself. I applaud him for that.

After school let out one day, my daughter walked up with me to pick up her little brother. A young girl in a wheelchair came out and wheeled over to Sierra. She began talking to her and they carried on for several minutes. When the little girl left, I asked my daughter who the girl was. Oh she replied, last year I was a helper. It was my job to get that girl to her classes and help her with her bags and stuff. I told her I didnt know she had done that and that I was proud of her. She looked surprised and said well mommy, someone has to be there for her, I figured it should be me

Just a few nights ago, my husband and I were in the store with our son. We were standing in line when all of a sudden he started yelling THANK YOU. HEY, THANK YOU!! I looked at my husband, confused and asked what he had done. My husband just smiled and said I think he is talking to him, and pointed to the man in line behind us. There was a man in his military uniform. My son was thanking him for his service.

And finally, if ever they hear a siren, my children immediately bow their heads and say God bless the people that the sirens are for.

My children answered; Yes, they were listening.

Nikki Gladwell, Hypnotist
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Nikki is an accomplished sales and marketing strategist, life coach, and hypnotist with over fourteen years of experience. Her primary focus is on developing and maximizing communication skills to help you become an effective leader in your field, your community, and your family.

You and most other people involved in MLM know the ideal way to build your home business is not only online, but offline as well. Offline marketing is another word for building your business through your local market. Here are ten effective strategies you can use today to market your MLM offline.

1.Donate a high selling product from your business to your local Radio Station; they have numerous contests and are always looking for sponsors! This gets even better when you realize that your donation can be written off as a tax deduction, plus you get free advertising and business exposure for your donation!

2.Call your local Chamber of Commerce and find out about job fairs that will be in your city or county. Get a booth and set up information about your fantastic MLM opportunity!

3.Are there local colleges in your area? If so, great! Call the college or university and find out when their next job/employment fair is. Many times you can get a booth or table very inexpensively ( $30 or less). You can get a lot of great new prospects at events such as this.

4.Just about every area has a local gym. So, what an ideal place to target especially if you sell nutritional and health products! You can get a table space for $20 or less in most cases. Make sure you have three to five products on display, some free samples, plenty of business cards, and fliers. The free samples will be attracting folks like crazy who are starving after their hard workout like!

5.Make sure you network with others in your community who are in home businesses. Find out what events and activities that they participate in. They are good resources to assist you in getting started as you begin to network in your community.

6.Take advantage of all those lunch breaks! Contact companies in your area to see if you can come in and set up a table in the employee lounge or cafeteria. You know, the areas where people congregate when taking a break. These days a lot of companies will allow you to do this if you just ask.

7.Do you have a local cable TV channel in your area that allows business people to advertise? I know I do in mine. You can inquire about advertising. Did you realize an ad on a cable channel could potentially reach thousands of potential buyers for you? It would be best to use your MLM website address for these types of advertising and not your personal home address.

8.Make good use of those small hometown newspapers! Many people do not get a good response when they do a big newspaper ad unless they do a solo ad, display ad, or something along those lines. But, target a small hometown newspaper and you can see your response greatly increase! What you can also do is to inquire about getting your ads on specific pages in the newspaper that targets the group of people in your MLM niche.

9.Pizza anyone? Every town has a pizza place. Contact your local pizza shops, diners, deli?s, and coffee bagel shops to ask them about advertising on their paper placements. Customers do read those ads!

10.Summer is fast approaching. Why not take your MLM home business on the road? Contact your local area parks and community centers to see what their schedule of events are and inquire about setting up a booth or table.

As you can know see, there are numerous highly effective offline marketing strategies you can for your MLM business. Pick a few and get going growing your prospect base through your local market.

Monique's Hawkins is a retail representative for a network marketing company. She believes failing in network marketing is NOT your fault. To discover how to end years of failure and frustration with MLM, visit http://mentormonique.googlepages.com/bementoredforlife

You probably still remember the day you first moved into your house. There was that feeling of pride, sheer happiness, and accomplishment of finally having bought a house of your own. Fast forward to now, ten years later. Your family has grown, you now have a few gray hairs, and your jewel of a house, well, it has seen better days.

Its Never Too Late

Though your house has now fallen into neglect, dont blame yourself. After all, with the pressures of work and putting children through school, you had more crucial things on your mind. The important thing is you can now do something about it. With a home mortgage refinancing lender, you can restore your house to its former glory and maybe add a thing or two as improvement.

Dont Settle For The Familiar, Improvise!

The first thing you should do is to take stock of the place you call home. Take note of the things you need repaired and how you can improve them. You dont have to stick to whats already there. Now is the time to make changes and your home mortgage refinancing lender can make that possible for you.

For example, your concrete floors are in serious need of stripping. Well, instead of installing the same kind of concrete afterwards, you can opt to use tiles or even hardwood instead for a warmer feel. Your wallpapers are peeling so badly that you can see the plaster behind them. Instead of mounting new wallpaper, why not paint your rooms in bright and pleasant hues? You can even go as far as painting a different color in every room. That will surely brighten up the house.

Of course, stripping your floors, painting your walls, fixing the shingles up on your roof, retiling your bathrooms, and paving your walkway wont come cheap. But not to worry, with a home mortgage refinancing lender, you can go all out. After all, you dont really invest in these projects very often, so find a home mortgage refinancing lender that can offer you the best possible rates there is.

Dont Stop There

Targeting the basic home improvement points in your house is definitely the best way to go. But dont stop there. Make the most out of your home mortgage refinancing lender and augment your house the way youve always wanted to.

Did you ever want to have your own pool in the backyard? How about a terrace outside your bedroom? Or floor to ceiling French windows on your back wall? Now is the perfect time to embark on these projects. Heck, you can even have a Jacuzzi installed in your bathroom if you want to. The point being youre already having all these home improvement projects done, so another project or two wont make a difference.

Renovations take a lot of work and could be very time consuming. However, the rewards are great and definitely well worth it. This way, your most precious jewel, which is your house, can be restored to its former glory. Now youll only have those gray hairs to worry about.

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Everybody is talking about VOIP these days. You get VOIP advertisements in your cable bill, in your electric bill, in your credit card statements, and see it advertised on TV all the time.

What is VOIP and is it right for you? First of all, VOIP stands for Voice Over IP or Voice over Internet Protocol, and it is the hardware and software that allows you to make and receive phone calls over your high-speed Internet connection. Many people have VOIP these days and many of them have eliminated the phone they had with their local phone company after determining that VOIP works well for them.

But with all the VOIP service providers out there, how do you know which one is the right one or the best one for you? First you need to take a couple of steps back and remember one of the very core things that is required for a VOIP connection. That core thing is a fast and reliable high-speed Internet connection. Studies have shown that in far more than 95% of situations where a customer has complained about lousy VOIP service, the problem was not with the VOIP service but was their lousy Internet connection instead.

So before you can determine which VOIP provider is going to be your best choice, you need to first look at the company that is providing your high-speed Internet connection and determine realistically if they are providing enough pizzazz to allow VOIP to work for you. Is your connection spotty and slow? Does it slow to a crawl sometimes for no apparent reason whatsoever? Does it disconnect you every so often for no reason? If you answered yes to any of those questions, then chances are that you should get a different high-speed Internet provider before you consider trying to use VOIP, because the likelihood is high that you will not be happy with your VOIP solution from ANY VOIP service provider.

For a residential VOIP connection, that is going to be either DSL or cable Internet service. VOIP will not work well on a dial-up connection, and VOIP will also not work well with a satellite high-speed connection. If you have a T1 line, VOIP will almost certainly work, but a T1 line is typically for business instead of residential since it costs several hundred dollars per month, so you probably don't have a T1 line at home.

Assuming you have a stable and reliable high-speed Internet connection at home, your choices for a VOIP vendor are pretty much wide open. Believe it or not, one of the places NOT to get VOIP service is directly from your cable company. Why? Because from what I have consistently seen, the VOIP service from your cable or DSL company is about twice the price of what VOIP service should cost. That is a pretty steep price to pay just for the convenience of having your DSL or cable on the same bill as your VOIP service, which is the ONLY advantage I can see.

Almost all the VOIP service providers offer a very similar system with very similar features call waiting, voice mail, call block, unlimited local calling, unlimited long distance calling. More features than that are gravy, and you should take a long hard look at those features to see if they are worth the higher cost. Some companies offer a substantial discount if you pay for a full year up front, which brings the monthly cost of the VOIP service (including unlimited long distance) below $17 per month.

Just a note about the "unlimited long distance" aspect that most of the VOIP providers advertise it is not true. By definition, the word "unlimited" means "without limits". But in reality, if your long distance minutes are more than about 2500 to 3000 minutes per month, you can expect a short and tactless letter from your VOIP provider asking why you are using that many minutes on a residential phone, and to let you know in no uncertain terms that they expect to see fewer minutes used in the future.

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The internet can now be considered as the most important source of information exchanger as well as a platform which is the most used one not only for trade but also for entertainment. There are millions of web sites which currently exist on the World Wide Web. These web sites are based on one kind or another kind of business. As the increased usage of internet has converted the whole world into a global village, the prospects of the online businesses have increased to much higher a level. Now your target market can be the whole of the currently existing human race. In this situation the chances of your online business becoming a success are great. Many steps can be taken to make your online business a success.

First of all, you need to think of the kind of business you want to run online. If your online business idea is a good and innovative one, you will make it easier for yourself to promote this business. If this is not the case, you will need to back your idea with proper promotional campaigns. Do your homework carefully. You need to think about the details of your business. The revenue and expenditures, both should be considered in great detail. Once you are ready to launch your business, make sure that you promote it properly. Email marketing, article marketing or pay per click advertising can be used as the most important means of promoting your web site. Once you are through with all these steps, your business will start paying you back.

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With your history of poor credit ratings, no wonder getting home equity loans with bad credit is disheartening task. If you have failed to pay on a loan or even missed a couple of credit card payments, financial companies will label you as a bad credit risk, really quickly.

Bad credit is the term used for a poor credit rating. It should be noted however that bad rating does not equate to dishonesty and deceitfulness. Rather it is the consequence of late payment, exceeded credit limit, overdraft, and declaring bankruptcy. Whether the default of an account is on purpose or attributed to financial crisis, the resulting credit rating given is still the same.

So what will you do when you need the money to use for just about everything? Fixing your credit rating is the best solution. Paying off or maintaining a minimal amount on your credit cards, paying overdue bills and such. Bad credit is harder to fix especially in the presence of outstanding bills. But this solution is not for everyone.

Your Future is more Important than your Past

Getting home equity loans with bad credit may be a solution, if you can handle your finances well. Some equity lenders do accommodate homeowners with a bad credit history. One such lender is ditech.com, whose slogan runs "To us, your future is more important than your past". If you are looking to reestablish your credit, ditech.com can help with your home financing needs even if you have imperfect credit. They offer clients cash out equity and consolidate high interest and credit card debt. If you are interested in checking out ditech.com, maybe they can offer you home equity loans with bad credit rating.

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Cash Poor but House Rich

Using home equity loans to strengthen bad credit ratings is already a common venture for those wanting to step clear of a debt pitfall, though some would have a complicated time in getting a equity lender to accommodate the loan. But over the years, another devise has emerged from insignificance to become a major component in refinancing. Reverse Mortgage is one hot topic these days. Unlike home equity where you have to have an income to qualify or monthly bills to pay, reverse mortgage works opposite. It pays back to you. But to be eligible for most reverse mortgage plans, you must be over 62 years of age and be the legitimate owner of the home. You are paid for the home's equity which you can get as a lump sum, a monthly check, a credit line or a combination of the stated options.

Concisely, home equity loans with bad credit are always bad business for financial companies. But that does not mean you apply for an equity loan because of delayed payments, it is only a matter of knowing where to look.

Steven Resell is a successful Webmaster and Publisher of HomeEquityCreditLoan.info. He provides more information and details on How to choose a Home Equity Loan, Home Equity Loan Rates and How you can get Home Equity Loans with Bad Credit.

As a New England vacation travel writer Ive always considered Connecticut an overlooked state when people choose destinations and attractions for a New England vacation. As youll discover here a Connecticut vacation offers excitement... or peace and quiet, depending on your mood.

Lets take a quick look at seven reasons why you should consider a Connecticut vacation for your next New England trip.

THE MUSEUMS OF CONNECTICUT

With more than 14 diverse theme museums in Connecticut, theres bound to be something to suit your taste. Heres a quick rundown...

Bridgeport is home to The Barnum Museum and Discover Museum, and at Danbury youll find the Military Museum of Southern New England and the Danbury Railway Museum. Keeping with a train theme Thomaston hosts the Railroad Museum of New England and Naugatuck Railroad.

In Bristol you can find The New England Carousel Museum and period time pieces at the American Clock and Watch Museum. Just a little south in Waterbury is Time Expo, and a chance to celebrate the heritage of the Litchfield region at the Mattatuck Museum. At the Connecticut Antique Machinery Museum in Kent experience machinery that once drove commerce in the area.

Windsor Locks is not just home to Bradley International Airport but also to the New England Air Museum and south in East Haven experience another form of transportation at the Shore Line Trolley Museum.

And rounding out our must-see list is Mystics Museum of America and the Sea, and the fabulous Mashantucket Pequot Museum in nearby Mashantucket.

THE CONNECTICUT WINE TRAIL

Wineries in Connecticut? Yes, in fact theres 16 of them scattered throughout the state, and they make a perfect basis for a Connecticut Vacation. The climate in Connecticut is mild compared to the rest of New England and wines produced include: Chardonnay, Cabernet, Merlot, and Riesling. While Connecticut wines have only been produced since 1978, many farms where the grapes are grown are hundreds of years old. The wine tasting room will usually be open but call ahead for a tour time. Youll find these wineries not geared for large bus loads, but on the plus much more intermit than wineries in Northern California.

The wine trail is split into two major regions and its suggested your tour is split up over three to four days. But because the trail takes you near so many other destinations and attractions in Connecticut let yourself be distracted and enjoy the jaunt through scenic and historic New England towns.

FOXWOODS AND MOHEGAN SUN

Combined Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun make the largest casino complex in the world. Foxwoods in owned and run by Mashantucket Pequot Tribe, and Mohegan Sun by Mohegan Tribe on lands they own in Uncasville. These are sophisticated high-style experiences with shopping complexes, hotels, high profile entertainment acts, and top-rated restaurants. They are both close to each other and located in the eastern region of Connecticut, and close to museums, scenic drives, and the Connecticut vacation attractions in Mystic.

HISTORIC HOMES OF CONNECTICUT

Perhaps the most famous home to see on your Connecticut vacation is Mark Twains in Hartford, which is now a museum as well full of many artifacts he accumulated in the 17 years he lived there. Also in Hartford is Harriet Beecher Stowe home of Uncle Toms Cabin fame. Another famous womans home is the academy run by Prudence Crandall in Canterbury - its the site of the first academy for black women in New England. Your trip to Connecticut should include the town of Litchfield where you can view museum quality preserved colonial homes, and the Litchfield History Museum and Tapping Reeve House and Law School.

Connecticut includes many historic homes that played an important role in the Underground Railroad and the African-American journey from slavery to freedom.

ESSEX STEAM TRAIN AND THE CONNECTICUT RIVER

The historic 1892 Essex station is your kick-off point for a unique combined 21/2 hour vintage Steam Train and Riverboat Cruise along the Connecticut River. In the summer its cooling, and in the fall stunning with the turning of the leaves. The Connecticut River Museum is also in Essex and vividly brings to life the rivers history as told through paintings, artifacts, and interactive exhibits.

THE TOWN OF MYSTIC

Mystic Seaport and the Mystic Aquarium are magnets for visitors to Connecticut. The seaport is billed as The Museum of America and the Sea and depicts an authentic 19th century seafaring village, tall ships to tour, and a Preservation Yard where master shipbuilding skills are still practiced. The Mystic Aquarium includes a delightful array of indoor and outdoor exhibits, including Beluga whales, and a stunning display and model of the Titanic.

THE ANTIQUE RUNS

Connecticut is famous for its concentration of antique shops, and draws thousands of treasure hunters each year who take a Connecticut vacation just to stock up on bargains and specimens to collect and decorate their homes. The village of Woodbury is known as the "Antiques Capital of Connecticut" and has over 45 dealers, but the fact is youre never too far from that special purchase no matter where you are in the state. Just sometimes its nice to take the time to follow your nose along a scenic New England road and see where it takes you... you can bet if its in Connecticut, itll take you close to an antique shop.

For more details on these and other Connecticut vacation attractions and to grab your free valuable travel reports go to Cliff's New England Vacations site at: http://www.new-england-vacations-guide.com/

In earlier articles we've been talking about the attributes of the "Ideal MLM Company" for Online promotion of your MLM business, in terms of the ease with which a prospect can be recruited online with no personal interaction with you or the company except via the website.

Now let's look at another factor that comes into play big time. What are the chances of you making any money?

How does your company's Compensation Plan work? Does it require you to sponsor wide or can you make money by just going deep on two legs?

If it's not a binary plan or a maximum of 3 on the front line you'll struggle with retention. The average associate sponsors 2.7 peoplethis is the long term industry average. Most of your business associates will be average people who aren't totally fired up to pursue the business and hate rejection (as every sane person should); but they love and use the product and would like to make a bit of extra money.

If your comp plan requires them to go wide and sponsor a lot of people on the front line to be profitable, they wont be able to do it, they won't make any money and they will just fall awayindustry averages tell us this. The facts simply are that 99% or more of the people you sponsor will not themselves be sponsoring machines. It's the high energy salesman types who love to sponsor wide-and they're few and far between.

And not everyone is going to want to recruit online either. In fact in my experience most people still prefer what is called the warm market: carrying the message to family, friends and people we meet.

So the simple truth is that the ideal MLM Company will have a comp plan that calls for a maximum of 3 on the front line; if you want retention.

A case in point is that the binary plan of one of the major health and wellness companies is year after year voted the best in the industry.

If your company does not have these characteristics and you have been struggling for some time then perhaps it's time for you to re-evaluate your situation?

But if your company has none of the characteristics I have listed and you are still doing amazing things then absolutely ignore everything I have said and get on with it.

If it ain't broke-don't fix it!

As well as your MLM efforts you'll need a Funded Proposal. You'll want to be making some sideline money to fund your marketing.

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All good body builders and weight trainers know the importance of eating well and right. In this day and age though, even the most dedicated of body builders will have a hard time getting a well balananced diet down them. There simply aren't enough hours in the day to plan, prepare, cook, and consume hearty meals throughout the day. This is where supplements come in. In this article I will look at Creatine Supplements, in particular the ever popular BSN Cellmass.

After a workout, the bodies supply of creatine is waning. All good body builders know that to pack on some serious mass, you must replenish your bodies energy, protein, fat and creatine stores as soon after your workout as possible. This allows the body to recover quickly from post workout stress.

Creatine is a chemical found in all verterbrates that allows energy exchange from the blood stream to the muscle cells. Without a sufficient supply of Creatine, the body would take a much longer time to recover from any form of exercise. For this reason, body builders often supplement their diets with Creatine powder such as BSN Cellmass.

BSN Cellmass is different to other creatine supplements in that it requires no loading phase - traditionally, creatine supplements require that you take the supplement for up to 5 days before you start training, whereas with BSN Cellmass you don't have to.

Cellmass also contains patented CEM3 technology, what the real world difference between this and other creatine is I'm not sure, but according to the manufacturers CEM3 technology allows the body to recover quicker, allows you to lift more weight during training, and increases muscle hardness and definity. Manufacturers also claim that BSN Cellmass doesn't come with all the nasty, bloating side effects that other creatine supplements sometimes do.

In conclusion, Cellmass seems alot like other creatine supplements in that the overall 'features' of the product are the same, but is different from other products in that there is no loading phase. This is particularly useful for those of us who don't want to break our existing training routine.

Resource: Cellmass Review