titleSteamer Trunk and a Right of Passage/titlecategory1/categoryHowling winds, icy bows, and a edgy crew made for all the excitement a Captain could endure and yet our future was long beyond what we knew we were qualified to endure. I had seen many a rough sea and fought through them all with a healthy respect and growing admiration for all those who ventured the waters of this amazing world. All the tales of ships heavy with war time bounties and cursed souls planning a path for glory.
The hearts of the forgone mariners swelled with pride, as seaman of all sort and origin endured the troubled currents of the open sea. To hear it told from young and old, bouts of yearning quenched in the depths of the lockers below. I had my worries, no doubt, but my passions would overcome and hopefully steady the crew aboard the Mercy. We had been ashore weeks ago in some native isle, where I’d taken me only prize, a a href=http://www.steamer-trunk.net/wooden steamer trunk/a that had washed up on the south side of this worried shore.
Inside the a href=http://www.steamer-trunk.net/antique/antique wood steamer trunk/a was a hundred stories, now fastened in pictures and fancy mementos of sort. The woman that had her was for sure a catch to be had, or so it seemed to me. A fit good for a man and the concern in all her detailed writings. She, like the most of us had longed for love, and ended in loss. Well, I wouldn’t let her tale die if I could. Ya see, as salty a dog as I was, me heart was deep and hidden tender for romance, that I myself had lost.
December 26th, 2008
titleNatural Treatments for Yeast Infections/titlecategory1/category
Though yeast infections have no major negative effect on pregnancy, they are often more difficult to control during pregnancy causing significant discomfort for you. To guarantee the successful removal of a candida yeast infection in men and women, many homeopathic treatments also come with a full money back guarantee. Whether you have mild or severe levels of oral, penile, or vaginal yeast infections, a href=http://www.yeastinfectioncurez.com/natural cures for yeast infections/a may be exactly what you need. Often women can catch a yeast infection simply from having excess moisture on or around the affected area. Wearing loose fitting clothes that breathe well and help keep the body dry can prevent this.
In actuality, there are plenty of things that you can eat while trying to cure your yeast infection with a href=http://www.yeastinfectioncurez.com/natural cures for yeast infections/a. Many vegetables, nuts, whole unprocessed grains, meats, herbal teas are all available to you, and can make delicious meals. span style=text-decoration: underline;strongIt is important to see your doctor before diagnosing or self treating yourself, especially when you are pregnant, or think you may be pregnant, and you have symptoms of a yeast infection./strong/span Conditions such as vaginitis and yeast infection often produce symptoms, while cervical dysplasia and cancer do not. Colposcopy is used to view the cervix or obtain biopsy tissue.
There are many more a href=http://www.yeastinfectioncurez.com/natural cures for yeast infections/a, but this article wonrsquo;t give me the opportunity to list them all. Sarah Summer has written a book with all of these home remedies to cure yeast infection and hundreds more. In the brief case here, we examine some of the methods we use to treat a patient with a chronic vaginal yeast infection. The commonly occurring yeast infection Candida, occurring in women, can flare up under conditions of changing vaginal acidity or hormones. Occurring in a majority of women some time in their lives, the symptoms include genital itching or burning with or without an accompanying vaginal discharge (described as cottage cheese-like).
December 26th, 2008
title15+ Really Sweet iPhone Tips/titlecategory1/category
strongWhen I spend about half a grand on a cell phone, I’m thinking . . . i want to get my money’s worth!/strong
That’s how I feel, anyway — which is why I made it my business to put my new iPhone through the paces from jump street by scouring the web’s most serious iPhone resources for the most useful power tips/ tricks available. The result is this collection of a href=http://usacellsearch.com/15-iphone-tips-2/16 iPhone power tips/a that will help you get even more enjoyment out of your new favorite toy! Some of these, granted, you’ll need to Google to get the current URL. But, if you want, you can just click the link for the complete article with photos and videos.
strong1. Unstick a Stuck Slider:/strong if you’re iPhone’s slider ever gets stuck — as in, it simply refuses to do anything when you try to slide it, usually because you want to make the iPhone up to use it — here is a fix from emiPhone Atlas/em (www.iphoneatlas.com): press the Home button once before attempting to move the slider for the first time.
strong2. Make Skype calls:/strong Up-front disclaimer: We’re not talking about free, voice-over-IP (VOiP) Skype calls here. We’re talking about making SkypeOut calls, which are not free but can drastically reduce the cost of making international calls on your iPhone. Matter of fact, SoonR lets you access Apple Mail files, mailboxes, and contacts. It also lets you grab documents from your Mac for viewing on iPhone, including PowerPoint presentations and all that kinda’ good stuff.
strong3. Know Where to Go for the 411:/strong Lucky for you, the world has gone iPhone crazy. That means there a lot of excellent sources of info on the latest iPhone developments out there on the web. Bad news: there’s a lot of crap, also. Here’s a short list of our favorite iPhone info sites:
- modmyiPhone.combr / - iPhoneFreak.combr / - iPhoneAlley.combr / - The Unofficial Apple Weblog’s iPhone pagebr / - Gizmodo’s iPhone coveragebr / - iPhoneAtlas.com
While you’re checking these sites, keep in mind that some sites you might already be visiting on a regular basis have really done a super job of becoming iPhone-friendly, including Digg.com, Amazon.com, FaceBook.com, and Netvibes.com!
strong4. Play Great Games:/strong You know what Jack says about all work and no play! Not that the web surfing you’re doing on your iPhone is all work-related, yeah right? Games — most of which are free — are starting to pop up for the iPhone, and we’re sure there will be more where those came from. For now, you can just launch the Safari browser when your iPhone and visit these hot game sites:
- strongMacMost’s collection of iPhone games,/strong including classics like solitaire and minesweeper (free, MacMost iPhone Games).
- strongmynuMo has 4 iPhone games,/strong including iWhack — a whack-a-mole knockoff where the mole’s replaced by a headshot of Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer — and Blackjack (also free, myNuMo iPhone Games).
- strongiGiki’s games,/strong which include Hangman and Canyon Crawl — aren’t free, but then, they’re only a buck a pop and might be just what you need when you get tired of the freebies (99 cents per game pack for 99 days, iGiki Games).
- strongPopCap’s Bejeweled,/strong (free, PopCap Bejeweled).
strong5. Beat a Shortcut to your Fave iPhone Apps:/strong Handy iPhone apps, like Leaflets (free, Get Leaflets) and Applists (free, Get Applists) put most iPhone apps your fingertips, but if you want to build your own list, just collect the apps you tend to use the most into the same bookmarks folder in Safari on emyour computer/em. Then, the next time you sync your iPhone, using iTunes, be sure to check Sync Safari Bookmarks on the info tab, under Web browser.
strong6. Rehang the Wallpaper:/strong If you’re up for a bit of iPhone hacking, you can take any image you find anywhere on the web and turn it into a custom wallpaper.
But there is a much easier way: Download a 320×480 pixel image for free from a variety of online sources, saving them all in the same folder on your Mac. In iTunes, with your iPhone docked, select your iPhone, click the Photos tab, select the radio button next to Sync Photos From…, then from the drop-down list, select Choose Folder…
Next, browse to the folder you just created, then click Apply in the lower-right hand corner. Finally, on your iPhone, go to Settings, Wallpaper, Photo Library to hang your new wallpaper!
strong7. Take Self-Portraits/strong Because the iPhone camera shutter’s button is a soft (i.e., onscreen) button, it’s a bit tricky to take self-portraits with it since you have to turn the phone around so you can no longer see the button. Here’s the solution: with the camera feature selected, place your finger on the camera icon and turn the phone around so you’re facing the lens. Then, smile pretty and let go of the shutter button! You’ll hear the telltale click — and, you’ve just taken a self-portrait!
strong8. Reveal Secret Features:/strong When Apple released the first firmware update for the iPhone on August 1, 2007, it did so with little fanfare, and attributed most of the updates to security fixes. emThe Wall Street Journal’s/em Walt Mossberg discovered a few new non-security-related features on his side phone after the update including:
- Greater capacity in the iPhone module’s Favorites list (used to be 20, is now 50).br / - Ability to automatically blind carbon copy (BCC) yourself on all e-mails sent, where previously, your only option was to CC yourself, which alerted your recipients what you were up to… br / - Compatibility with some car adapters and external speakers, originally created for the iPod. For more iPhone and tech tidbits, visit Walt’s blog.
strong9. Just Ditch the Camera Altogether:/strong On the other hand, if you know you’ll never use the iPhone’s camera, you can just remove it altogether. (If you work for or with certain government agencies, you’re iPhone may actually be considered contraband on their property because they don’t want you taking secret photos of Bigfoot, Elvis, or (believe it or not) alien spaceships!
strong10. Get the Official Mod Tool:/strong If you’ve already had to send your iPhone back to Apple for warranty repair or replacement, you may have already discovered something different about the replacement iPhone. First off, it comes in a much thinner box. Second, it comes complete with the official iPhone SIM card removal tool: a paperclip! Yup, Apple actually supplies a paperclip with all replacement iPhones, along with instructions for using it to open the SIM card slot and insert your card!
strong11. Buy Spare Parts:/strong If you’re the type who simply can’t resist trying to take your iPhone apart, here’s where to go to find replacement parts when you go too far: iPhone Parts. Sources of mine told me that Apple charges $300 for a replacement screen, but you can get one from iFixIt for only $199.95.
strong12. Kill that Annoying GSM Buzz:/strong If you hear a buzzing sound, while using an iPhone cassette adapter in your car stereo, such as emMonsters iCarPlay/em — which claims to be iPhone-compatible (but doesn’t appear anywhere on Monster’s website) — Gizmodo offers a low-tech solution: aluminum foil… Yup, just take a little bit of Reynolds Wrap and wrap it around the cable closest to your iPhone. Doing so eliminates the need to switch to Airplane mode, which would be a viable solution if it didn’t send your incoming calls to voicemail!
strong13. Find Wi-Fi Hotspots in Your Neighborhood:/strong emJiWire/em makes it easy to find the nearest hotspot when your iPhone — so you can rescue yourself from the slow-moving hell that is emATamp;T’s/em EDGE data service. Surf on over to iphone.jiwire.com on your iPhone and fill in your location. If you’re a cheapskate (like me), check the box for Search Free Hotspots Only.
strong14. More Wi-Fi Performance Enhancements:/strong Apple has a potentially useful collection of WiFi related iPhone tips in a regularly-updated knowledgebase article on its website. Suggestions include fixing problems like paid WiFi connections that drop off suddenly, weak WiFi signals, and WiFi connections that revert to EDGE due to issues with WEP passwords, or problems with Mac address filtering.
strong15. Hack Your iPhone!:/strong Disclaimer: this tip isn’t for everybody. Some of these hacks (i.e., self-made modifications to the iPhone’s default behavior) are intended for people who have experience changing the way their computers behave by accessing the underlying code governing such behavior. You’ve been warned.
- strongFor Macs:/strong iFuntastic and Installer.app. br / - strongFor Windows:/strong Installer.app or iBrickr.
Once you’ve installed one of the above helper apps, you can try an ever-expanding array of iPhone mods. With iFuntastic, for example, you can add your own custom ringtones, rearrange the Home screen, and change the ATamp;T logo. Installer.app goes even further, letting you install and play Nintendo games that feature tactile feedback! The good folks at Gizmodo.com make it easy for Mac users to take advantage of this newfound power over their iPhones with a handy tutorial (visit their site and search for eminstall apps iPhone/em).
emWindows users can also use a helper app called /ememiBricker/em to modify their iPhone, install custom ringtones, and install third-party apps. But, if all you care about is adding custom ringtones, you might want to try a href=http://www.efksoft.com/products/iphoneringtonemaker/Efiko’s iPhoneRingToneMaker/a ($10).
strong16. Just Don’t Be a Sucker!:/strong While searching for the latest iPhone apps, you could run across some websites that’ll offer you instant access to emhundreds/em of the latest apps — all for one-time membership fee of $49.95. These sites include, but are not limited to, www.iphonenova.com, www.iphonecyclone.com, and www.iphonedownloadpro.com. Problem here, is that these sites (IMHO) are scams.
I ponied up $50 for membership to emiPhoneNova/em, for example, which claims to be the World’s First iPhone Download Service. Guess what it really is? It’s a BitTorrent-like site for downloading illegal content you can view on your a href=http://usacellsearch.com/category/cell-phone/iPhone or iPod/a.
But, your $50 membership only gets you a BitTorrent client called Tomato Torrent and links for you to download two more span style=text-decoration: underline;already-free apps/span that help you convert existing videos and ripped DVD content to be viewed on your iPod/ iPhone. You also get links to a mere five (5) web-based iPhone games and a huge, poorly-organized list of illegal movie downloads like The Simpsons and Transformers. Nuff said; as Napoleon Dynamite would say, …What a Rip-off!
December 26th, 2008
titleSearching for the Best Massage Therapist in Indianapolis?/titlecategory1/categoryAs the weather gets colder, your schedule gets busier and your muscles get tighter, you might find yourself looking for an a href=http://meamassageandskincare.com/massage/Indianapolis massage therapist/a.nbsp; So, which therapist should you turn to when you need a well deserved massage.nbsp; How do you find the best?
strongWhat Do You Want?/strongbr /First, yoursquo;ll need to decide what type of massage service you are interested in. There are many massage therapists in Indianapolis and each has their own skill set.nbsp; Do you want a traditional Swedish Massage or an intensive ldquo;Pfrimmerrdquo;?nbsp; Are you pregnant and seeking a a href=http://meamassageandskincare.com/pregnancy-massage/Prenatal Massage/a? nbsp;
When you call your prospective therapists, be sure to ask and confirm that the massage therapist you choose has at least a year or two of experience in the massage therapy you are interested in.
strongDrive Time/strongbr /Next, decide how far you are willing to drive for ldquo;the bestrdquo;.nbsp; If possible, donrsquo;t limit your search to your zip code or your side of town.nbsp; Interview massage therapists in a 10-15 mile radius to increase your chances of finding the best one.
Is price your main concern?nbsp; If so, then it is even more important to expand the scope of your search.nbsp; Check surrounding towns and cities that are within a distance yoursquo;d be willing to drive.nbsp; Often times, massage therapists in towns surrounding big cities have better rates and offer specials for regular massage clients willing to drive a few minutes extra. nbsp;br /strongbr /Your Pampering Quotient/strongbr /Now, your preference for how pampered you want your massage experience to be will now determine if you call Day Spas or dedicated massage therapy studios.nbsp; Just so you know, typically a day spa has less experienced therapists because they pay by the hour and few experienced massage therapist are willing to accept hourly pay.nbsp; However, that does not mean you wonrsquo;t find an excellent therapist in a Day Spa.nbsp; In fact, some of the higher-end Day Spas offer the best of both worlds, top notch therapists in a beautifully pampered setting.nbsp; But, of course, all this comes at a price.
If you want an experienced professional at a reasonable rate, your best bet is to call a massage studio or an individual massage therapist.nbsp; Most massage studios in and around Indianapolis are listed in the yellow pages or pop up when you do a Google search for ldquo;Indianapolis massage therapyrdquo;. nbsp;
Finding an top-notch individual therapist can be a bit more difficult, especially if they work remotely or by appointment only.nbsp; Often times, this is where the best of the best reside –but they usually have a large client base and are booked for weeks.nbsp; These therapists have paid their dues and donrsquo;t need to spend much on marketing to stay busy.
strongCredentials/strong strongto Look For/strongbr /Massage therapy is soon to be sanctioned in Indiana so anyone offering massage services will have to be officially licensed, but this is not the case yet.nbsp; So, look for massage therapist with the following credentials.
emCertified Massage Therapist/em (CMT) ndash; means they have received formal training from an accredited school, not just a weekend crash course
emABMP ornbsp; AMTA Registration/em ndash; these are professional trade organization that serious therapist pay to belong to nbsp;
emPfrimmer Deep Muscle Therapist/em (PDMT)nbsp; ndash; a specific type of ldquo;advancedrdquo; massage therapy requiring specialized training and certification
strongMake Your Calls/strongbr /So now that you have the preliminaries out of the way, it is time to call a few massage therapists.nbsp; Your objective is to not only get your questions answered, like ldquo;what do you specialize in?rdquo; and ldquo;do you have any specials?rdquo; but also determine if the therapist meets your personality preferences.
Every massage therapist has a different approach.nbsp; Therapeutic massage can be a very personal amp; powerful experience, both positive and, unfortunately, negative.nbsp; It is my belief that a truly skilled massage therapist can bring your body’s energy back into balance and leave you feeling centered and much stronger than you were before you arrived. An unskilled therapist does the opposite.nbsp; Often times, a massage therapist’s level of positive (or negative) energy is apparent on the initial call with a new client, you just have to be looking for it.
Although the steps above may take you an extra 30 minutes or so, they will help you avoid wasting time amp; money on a bad massage.nbsp; So, take the time and be sure to find the very a href=http://meamassageandskincare.combest massage therapist Indianapolis/a has to offer. nbsp;br /
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