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For todays 34 to 38 million adults in the US who didnt graduate from high school, the GED credential is the best available diploma to demonstrate skills and proficiency levels that are necessary to progress in education or career.

Developed in 1942, the first GED Tests were designed to help military veterans finish their basic education. Military service members are still eligible for the General Education Development test. However, the GED credential is awarded to others who can pass the full test series that measures academic knowledge and proficiency in science, social studies, math, reading and writing.

Whos eligible to take the GED test?

• You arent currently enrolled in high school;
• You havent graduated from high school;
• You are at least 16 years old or older; and
• You meet state, provincial, or territorial requirements regarding age, residency, and the length of time since leaving school.

• Some candidates elect to take the test when they have a high school diploma from an unaccredited high school or theyve been home-schooled.
• Candidates who graduated from a non-US high school are eligible to take the GED test if they meet all other state and federal requirements.
• US citizenship is not a requirement to take the GED test.

No, the GED is not available online. The GED is administered by the American Council of Education, which oversees and monitors GED testing regulations and the tests. Official GED tests are ONLY given at designated test centers throughout the U.S., U.S. Territories and Canada. To locate official testing centers, visit http://www.passged.com/test_state.php.

What makes a GED credential equivalent to a high school diploma?

The GED test is a rigorous 7.5-hour exam, equal to or exceeding high school proficiency. Tests are standardized and normed using a national random sample of graduating high school seniors. To pass the GED tests, a candidate must demonstrate a level of skill that meets or exceeds that demonstrated by 60% of graduating high school seniors. This means that 40% of graduating high school seniors wouldnt pass the GED tests.

Approximately 97 percent of colleges and universities in the U.S., and 95 percent of employers accept the GED credential.

More GED Resources:

- Free resources and information on GED testing, official testing sites, financial aid and student support are available at http://www.passGED.com/. The website also provides links to federal agencies and nonprofits that serve GED students, instructors and workforce development programs.

- The American Council on Education and most local libraries and community colleges will also have additional resources designed specifically for GED students and adult learners.

About the Author: Leonard Williams, an e-learning instructor with http://www.passGED.com, is also a curriculum specialist who focuses on research and development, implementation and assessment of best-practice learning solutions for adult learners and people with educational challenges. Leonards email is LeonardWilliams@passGED.com. He invites feedback and questions from GED students and instructors.

Allergies can cause hives, itchy red splotches on your skin that come and go, but being evaluated for allergies as a cause of chronic hives (urticaria) is almost always a waste of time and money.

We know that allergies to foods and drugs can cause hives, but almost always hives caused by foods or drugs stop by themselves within a few days or weeks. Chronic hives continue to break out for more than a couple of weeks and are evaluated with blood tests, X rays and MRIs. Usually doctors can't find a cause, but when they do, they find a hidden infection, tumor or an autoimmune disease.

When hives are caused by helicobacter, the bacteria that causes stomach ulcers, they can be cured by taking antibiotics. Infectious mononucleosis can start as hives that last for several weeks before the actual symptoms of disease start. Exciting new research shows that most people with chronic hives have antibodies against their own white blood cells which can be diagnosed when they have huge red swelling at the site where their blood is injected into their skin and they can be successfully treated with immune suppressants such as cyclosporin and intravenous gamma globulin. Hives caused by touching cold objects are often caused by infection and often stop after a person takes antibiotics.

Doctors usually recommend avoiding aspirin, the most common drug cause of hives. They prescribe antihistamines first. However, sometimes, antihistamines do not control itching and your doctor may have to prescribe cortisone-type medications such as prednisone. Sometimes chronic hives are the first sign of a tumor that may not show up for many years.

Dr. Gabe Mirkin has been a radio talk show host for 25 years and practicing physician for more than 40 years; he is board certified in four specialties, including sports medicine. Read or listen to hundreds of his fitness and health reports at http://www.DrMirkin.com

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If you have been exposed to the danger of asbestos in the past, there is a strong chance that you have developed one illness or another which is said to root from asbestos. You might be feeling very angry and are looking for some way to make those responsible for your illness to own up to what they did. It is because of this that people hire lawyers and sue various companies.

Because of what happened to you, you might be so wrapped up in the quest to bring the company to justice that you want to go all-out in the legal battle with them. Because of this, when you hear the advice of a lawyer for settlement of your mesothelioma asbestos cancer case, you immediately reject this path.

Before you let your emotions prevail, however, you should really turn your mind inward and try to examine the various possible reasons which may be behind such an advice. You should realize that lawyers are also quite often as full of pride as their clients are in terms of litigation. They will also rather fight all the way if they see the chance that you will win the case outright. This means that there must be something about your case that causes your lawyer to lose a bit of confidence.

There are two sides to this. The first one is that he or she has found a weakness in your case. When you get advice from a lawyer for settlement of your mesothelioma asbestos cancer case, then you know that there could be something wrong with the strength of the case. There could be some weak link which your counselor has spotted and he or she is just trying to get you out of the case before your opponent catches sight of the same weakness and crushes you.

You can also take the advice from your lawyer for settlement of your mesothelioma asbestos cancer case and interpret it as a sign that there may be something being planned by the company which would leave you hanging dry. By negotiating for a settlement while you still have the advantage, you are at least able to make sure that you will get something for your troubles. If you choose not to settle and you lose the case then you might end up wishing that you had listened to the advice of your lawyer for settlement of your mesothelioma asbestos cancer case.

A settlement is also a quick and quiet way to wrap up a case. If you are fighting a large corporation, then you have to realize that taking it into court may have very profound effects. For one thing, they could actually bury the case underneath so much paper work that it would be hard for you to actually get a trial started. Even if your case does go to trial, the case could drag on for months, consuming and exhausting your resources without you even seeing one cent of the anticipated damages.

Many companies opt to settle because everything is kept quiet during a settlement. This means that a company's stock will not lose its value. However, if you opt to go for the "public trial" route, then you should know that it will leave the company no chance but to try to crush your case utterly. This means the company will hire the best lawyers in town. If you don't give the company a quiet way out, you might find yourself facing the wrath of a cornered wild cat. Remember to always give your opponent a graceful way out since a person with nothing to lose makes a very dangerous opponent.

Some people complain that the advice from lawyers for settlement of mesothelioma asbestos cancer cases is unreliable as they often end up with less money than they would have gotten if they had taken the case into court. You have to realize that this is the whole point of settlement. When you receive advice from your lawyer for settlement of your mesothelioma asbestos cancer case, you should see it as the exchange of certainty for uncertainty. That is, the possibility of getting paid for damages versus the reality of being paid now in settlement. The decision is always up to you.

When you get advice from your lawyer for settlement of your mesothelioma asbestos cancer case, you should definitely listen hard. This is because you should not take settlement as a sign of giving up. You should, instead, take it as a sign of a skilled opponent yielding when that opponent knows that he has been defeated.

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With apologies for the cheap trick of mentioning Paris Hilton to get your attention, coming to grips with the idea you're about to discover is critically important to your success with search engines!

Because while it's true that there are many factors that determine how well a page ranks in Google - did you know that one stands out above the rest? It's link text. (Also known as anchor text?)

So much so, link text can be the deciding factor when chasing top rankings for extremely competitive keywords.

And for sure can't hurt for lesser search terms.

You see link text creates what's known as "link reputation". Have enough links using the same phrase as the link text and Google cant help but conclude that's what the page linked to is all about.

Yeah buthow powerful is the link text of inbound links, really?

Well guess what? It's so powerful you can land top listings for a given keyword phrase without the keyword phrase even appearing anywhere on the page.

Since I can sense your skepticism from here, let me prove it using 6 examples which I was able to dig up in about 15 minutes. Starting with

===> The "website traffic" Mystery

First I did a search for "website traffic" in Google.

When I did the search, (and we both know things can change) this site, http://buytraffic.1st-casinoaffiliateprograms.com, was poised in position #3.

Casino affiliates?

Not necessarily what would come to mind as a site dealing with website traffic now is it?

Yet try as I might, when I searched that page for the term "website traffic" I couldnt find it. Not even once. But when I went in search of the links to that page however heres what I did find:

"Buy website traffic - casino traffic - You can choose to buy website traffic or if you own an online casino you can buy complete packages including signups, banner displays and unique visitors. This can push your website traffic and signups dramatically."

Huh? See that? That listings got "website traffic" in the link text. And a couple more times in the description.

I guess the only possible explanation for the #3 ranking for "website traffic" is the link text. Thats what is causing that page to rank #3 for that term.

===> Cell Phone

For example two I searched on "cell phone". This time Sprint PCS came in at #5 out of 5,100,000 listings in Google.

Once again, the term "cell phone" did NOT appear anywhere on their page.

===> Laptop/Laptops Examples

Next I tried "laptop". The Apple Powerbook listing came in at #4. Yet, and you guessed it, the word "laptop" was no where to be found on that page.

Since I was in the neighborhood, for the fourth example I gave "laptops" a shot. The site was sitting in #4 out of 5,910,000 competing pages when I did that search. Yet once again, the word "laptops" doesnt show up on that page either.

Of course a check of the backlinks turned this up from the Yahoo Directory:

"Discount Laptops - retailer of new and refurbished notebook computers."

Oh and I found the exact same listing in DMOZ. Since it featured "Discount Laptops" as the link text, its only natural Google would conclude the page is about what else? Laptops!

===> Jobs

Monster.com currently holds down the #1 spot for the search term "jobs". Once again, (you beginning to see a trend here?) the word "jobs" does not even appear on that page.

===> Money

Finally I searched on "money". Perched at #16 was MasterCards website. Here too, the word "money" was not used even once in the visible text.

===> Summing Up This Link Text Stuff

Based on the evidence when it comes to ranking high in Google, saying link text trumps all is surely not too strong of a statement.

In fact its absolutely positively true. Focusing on link text is a surefire Google seo tactic. Yes, content counts, but link text counts for more..

Making link text the closest thing to a sure thing you can get.

Simply put, link text, which is used to develop your sites link reputation, is one of the most powerful seo techniques going. It gives you ranking momentum like nothing else. Use tightly focused link text with links from high PR pages and youve got yourself an unstoppable combination.

So are you capitalizing on the power of link text?

Are you constantly getting links with the appropriate link text in them?

If not why not?

Because as Ive shown you - link text really does trump all.

John Gergye shares more ideas like this in his recently updated eBook "Traffic From Google in 35 Days". Find out more here: http://www.traffic-test-tube.com/j/tfg35cl.shtml/ Or test your search engine IQ by taking his seo quiz http://www.traffic-test-tube.com/search-engine-quiz.shtml/ and get the free special report "Coming Out On Top".