Ezine

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Who does cosmetic surgery benefit?

November 26th, 2010 | admin |

Who does cosmetic surgery benefit?

As much as cosmetic surgery is a personal choice and should only be undertaken if ita??s something that you believe will benefit you, it could be the case that there are several other people who will notice a positive impact on their own lives after you choose to undergo surgery.

This tends to be considered truer for weight loss surgeries, where patients undergoing gastric bypasses and lap band surgeries discover a whole new lease of life when the weight begins to come off and they find they have a lot more energy. That means that not only do they benefit from better health and mobility, but their families can enjoy the advantages too.

For example, if a patient was overweight to the extent that they couldna??t play with their children in the garden or take them on days out because theya??d become too exhausted, then massive weight loss can literally turn a familya??s life around a?? as well as help ensure that children learn about exercise and develop positive habits with their parents.

But what about other surgeries that are strictly for aesthetic purposes? Therea??s a lot of judgement from some people about how the industry is perceived as a??shallowa?? a?? which is simply not true. There is nothing a??shallowa?? about feeling significant emotional turmoil due to the way you look. Most people have experienced feeling self-conscious at one time or another, and surely people can apply those feelings to understand what a torment it can be to be unhappy in your own skin.

Some people who were bullied when younger due to their looks can find a new life following surgery, with rhinoplasty, breast surgery or ear pinning procedures amongst the most prominent choices. Some people find that, by undergoing surgery, their libido returns and their relationship with their partner gets better and ita??s normally nothing to do with the way their partner perceives their attractiveness, but has far more to do with how attractive they feel themselves after having surgery.

Aesthetic cosmetic surgery absolutely benefits the person undergoing the treatment most a?? and thata??s the way it should be. One thing it doesna??t do, however, is harm others a?? so this personal choice is exactly that, personal

http://www.landauercosmeticsurgery.co.uk/

This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php
Five Filters featured article: Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-Reporting of Falluja's Cancer Catastrophe.

View the original article here

PPC ADVERTISING: HOW TO MAKE YOUR BUSINESS “CLICK”

PPC ADVERTISING: HOW TO MAKE YOUR BUSINESS “CLICK”

PPC stands for Pay Per Click – a popular advertising technique on the Internet. Found on websites, advertising networks, and especially on search engines, PPC advertising involves sponsored links that are typically in the form of text ads. These are usually placed close to search results, where an advertiser pays a particular amount to visitors who click on these links or banners and land on the advertiser’s web page.

In essence, PPC advertising is all about bidding for the top or leading position on search engine results and listings. Advertisers do this by buying or bidding on keyword phrases that are relevant to their products or services – the higher the bid, the higher the spot on the search results, the more the people will find the ad (and click on it) to go to their websites (this is why some people call it “keyword auctioning”). Advertisers would then pay the bidding price every time a visitor clicks through the website.

PPC advertising is also known under the following names/variations:

·?? ?Pay per placement
·?? ?Pay per performance
·?? ?Pay per ranking
·?? ?Pay per position
·?? ?Cost per click (CPC)

PPC advertising is usually done with the following standard procedures:

1. Setting up an account and/or deposit funds.

2. Creating a keyword list.

3. Choosing (and setting up) an account with a PPC search engine.

4. Bidding on the ad placement, including the search result words or phrases.

5. Writing out an ad copy.

6. Setting up the ‘landing pages’ for your ads.

7. Placing the advertisement in the search engine.

There are many benefits to Pay Per Click advertising, making it an effective way of promoting a business ‘online’. Some of them are listed below:

·?? ?Get launched immediately. PPC advertisements are implemented very quickly – they can go ‘online’ within an hour after winning the bid and paying for it.

·?? ?Obtain specific, pre-qualified, and quality traffic. PPC provides you with a quality or a well-targeted traffic. Visitors are narrowed down into ‘qualified’ people who are actually looking for specific products and/or services that you offer – those who are more likely to become a ‘lead’ (a convert) and complete a transaction (either by buying your product or subscribing to the service that you are offering.

·?? ?Widen your reach. PPC advertising provides additional traffic to your site, aside from the natural or “organic” search engines.

·?? ?Track your investment. PPC advertising makes use of a tracking system that will determine exactly who comes to the website and what they do once they arrive – the length of their stay on the site and the number of pages (including the actual pages) that they view. These are valuable tools in determining statistics such as return on investment (ROI), acquisition cost-per-visitor, and conversion rates (the percentage of visitors who are converted into customers or leads).

Below are some important things to consider when planning on a pay per click campaign:

1. Know your product. Take an inventory of the product and/or services that you have to offer (before anything else).

2. Stay within the budget. Determine your daily or monthly budget; and stay with it. This means keeping your budget in mind, avoiding bidding wars if possible.

3. Bid just right. Know how to bid right – a bid that is too high can exhaust all of your money, while a bid that is too low can make you lose that spot.

4. Watch the bottom line. Measure your profit margin against your spending or expenses. Know when to stop and terminate your PPC program – if you spend more on advertising but have little or no sales at all.

5. Find the right keywords. Decide which keyword phrases to opt and bid for. Do some keyword research, either by actually looking at existing search terms or with the use of online keyword suggestion tools, to know which terms are mostly used when searching for items that are related to your business. Focus on specific keywords, not on general ones.

6. Write effective ads. A good PPC ad is that which can persuade and move a searcher. There are several approaches to this:

·?? ?Discount offers
·?? ?Testimonials
·?? ?Celebrity/famous endorsers
·?? ?Money-back guarantees
·?? ?Free trials or sample offers
·?? ?Freebies
·?? ?Reverse psychology
·?? ?Major benefits (“Lose weight”)
·?? ?Direct instructions (“Click here”)

7. Maintain a professional-looking site. Your web content should be regularly updated and checked for spelling and grammatical errors. There should be no broken links or images. The website should be simple – designed in such a way that it will be easy for visitors to navigate and load. Include contact details to create a good impression among potential customers.

Done properly, PPC advertising can be an effective marketing tool that will maximize the return on your investment.

Donald Foster

http://tinyurl.com/yczqram

Hi There All,
I am a Farmer , An Online Marketer and Advertiser. I live in the North-West Region of Tasmania , which is an Island to the South of Manland Australia.
“Beautiful one day….Perfect the next”

http://www.donaldfostersmarketingtreasures.com/dons_mktg_gems/

View the original article here

Thanksgiving 2010: How Obama, Bachmann, Palin & More Will Celebrate

Capitol Hill is effectively closed for business, meaning that representatives and senators can head home to celebrate Thanksgiving with their families, or whomever else they choose.

It's perhaps a final moment of solace for legislators, who will return to a brief and perhaps quite contentious lame duck session of congress after the holiday.

Outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has promised a vote on the hotly debated DREAM Act, a measure that would create a path to citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants who enlist in the military or enroll in college.

There has also been significant buzz that the Senate may vote on the fate of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gay soldiers before the year's end. Extending unemployment benefits, a compromise on the Bush tax cuts and the nuclear arms control "START" treaty are all part of a myriad of legislative considerations that may well take place in the upcoming weeks.

Until then, however, elected officials can enjoy the holiday.

Take a look at a few politicians' plans for Thanksgiving dinner and vote for the best:

After pardoning two California turkeys on Wednesday, the Obamas are expected to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner at the White House on Thursday.

Get HuffPost Politics On Twitter and Facebook! Subscribe to the HuffPost Hill newsletter! Know something we don't? E-mail us at huffpolitics@huffingtonpost.com

View the original article here

Steve Clemons: Thinking on George Washington & Barack Obama at Thankgiving

I know it sounds really corny, but this Thanksgiving, I'm grateful that George Washington was our first President -- and that Barack Obama who like GW can be austere and seemingly distant from common folks but yet is smart and chameleon-like in his ability to forge compromises can still get a great deal right in his presidency.

Reading Ron Chernow's excellent Washington: A Life, I realize how different our world would have been had someone like Tom DeLay or Aaron Burr been America's first president. We might have ended up with someone who never wanted to leave the position as Washington did.

Or among the early founding fathers, if John Adams had come first, or Jefferson - the consolidation of a single political faction's control over the machinery of government at such a fragile stage might have meant civil war far earlier than the one America eventually got.

Chernow brings the austere Washington to life in what must be the seminal work on the first President - highlighting Washington's desperate need for social affirmation, his insecurity about education and intellectual matters, his vanity and concern for appearances, his tormented relations with a stand-offish mother, his focus on material and financial advancement, the role of fortune and luck in elevating Washington socially, economically, and politically.

Some of this tracks with Obama and much of it not. But what becomes clear in reading about Washington and knowing a lot about Obama is that their lives and presidencies were constant struggles to achieve outcomes that moved the common good forward -- even though they had to engage in deal-making and take actions that seemed contradictory to what they believed. In the case of Washington, hanging deserters (when he was a commanding colonel at 23) or in Obama's case, not yet shuttering GITMO come to mind.

Chernow explains that whatever George Washington did became co-mingled with who Washington was and what his personal interests were. He owned the outcomes he got and personalized the results good and bad -- whether at 21 years of age it was convincing the royal governor of Virginia he should lead the state militia against the French or whether it was taking over the sprawling operation of Mt. Vernon that he originally rented from his half-brother's widow. Whatever Washington did became a personal enterprise. He couldn't separate the task at hand from his own interests. Obama can't comingle his real estate and personal finance interests with those of a nation in which he has been trusted to be the chief steward -- but he can do more to feel political ownership of the process and results of his policy efforts.

To some degree, Washington made America his own enterprise, but one that he could walk away from politically. Obama needs to find a way to do the same -- to do a better job owning the outcomes of his administration and learning that he has the power and capacity as President to create penalties and opportunities for Members of Congress (as well as Cabinet Secretaries and political advisers in his own administration) in delivering on the public policy that Obama pledged to during his campaign.

Power and policy were negotiated around Washington - and today, we still negotiate power and the national narrative between interest groups and political factions.

With both the rise two years ago of President Obama and now the rise of the Tea Party, we are seeing the country's future negotiated. Institutions that Washington's administration established and the essential balance of power in government that Washington forged under his calm, often austere leadership can act as a stabilizer against wild political swings.

But as so often happens when one reads the life story of someone who played a vital, irreplaceable role in securing America's greatness, one pines for that person to be around dealing with matters today. Despite George Washington's ubiquitous presence on the dollar bill and as the symbolic father of the nation, few Americans have a sense of him as a person, his internal torment, the tough calls he had to make as he forged a new nation.

Presidents often compare themselves with each other and become taken with legacy. The first thing a new U.S. president often does is to stock up on histories of their predecessors -- and this new book on George Washington is one that Obama should delve into.

There is no George Washington on the scene today - at least none that I can see at the moment. And American institutions need someone as balanced, as driven by both a desire for power and a desire to not seem to want power, to make the American enterprise his or her own - long enough to re-secure the anchors of democracy in the US. Barack Obama could become the George Washington of a next era for the country -- but he's going to have to learn how to be less acquiescent to the political weather created by others and become the one, like George Washington, whose presence and preferences set the terms of debate for others. Obama is not there yet but could be.

So, for my Thanksgiving, I'm glad we had George Washington - and I hope that Barack Obama takes time to study what a great leader who can make decisions and have the courage of his convictions looks like.

-- Steve Clemons publishes the popular political blog, The Washington Note. Clemons can be followed on Twitter @SCClemons

Follow Steve Clemons on Twitter: www.twitter.com/SCClemons

View the original article here

Friday, November 26, 2010

Jewelry – Buying wholesale jewelry

Jewelry – Buying wholesale jewelry

Jewelry has become an obvious “must have” in everyone’s life. The sparkling glamour helps us flaunt our style and personal taste.

A beautiful jewelry piece can make the difference between standing out or blending in or even (in worst dresser cases) missing it with an outdated look.

Most of us shop for jewelry the old way. I guess scouting for The right jewelry store is somewhat fun but if you want to shop like a store owner you’d better invest your efforts online.

The internet has broken the doors between major distributors and End client and all of us can now shop directly from the supplier for our favorite jewelry items.

Shopping online at wholesale jewelry website manifests in the actual price and be heaper by hundreds of percents

The only shortcoming is we must find a wholesale jewelry store That offers a relatively low minimum buy price. Even so shopping For with minimum price which usually is about 99$-199$ would Just mean we could buy more in the same price it would have
Originally costs us.

Being a wholesale jewelry distributor means most wholesale Website offers a Hugh verity of jewelry items which frequently Changes making shopping online even more tempting.

Solving the “minimum total price” problem is quite simple. Especially when a ring or a pendent cost a several dollars. ita??s actually turns into a great opportunity for showing your love with to close family and friends or get a friend to shop with you sharing the price and getting much more for your money.

A Price Check at major jewelry wholesale stores online Reveals that the prices are amazing and for the minimum Buy limit you could purchase 5-6 rings plus 3-4 pendants plus several sets of earrings. Amazing!!

Truly an opportunity to save some money While granting some really cool gifts that
Everyone loves a?? jewelry.

Next time you shop for jewelry dona??t forget You too can shop like a store owner.

international retailer of fashion
stainless steel jewelry wholesale offering Pendants, Pendant, necklaces, rings jewelry, Bracelets, Chains, Rings and more. Best prices, Fast recorded delivery and much more in our online store http://www.fashionsteel.com

Find More Jewelry Articles

View the original article here

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 2010: Route, How To Watch LIVE

The 84th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade takes place in just a few hours on Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010, in the streets of New York.

Per the parade's official website, America's favorite Thanksgiving parade with massive balloons, elaborate floats, top-notch marching bands and celebrities will take place from 9 a.m. to noon Eastern Time in Manhattan.

The parade will be broadcast live on NBC and is expected to be witnessed by an estimated 3.5 million attendees as well as 50 million at home.

NBC New York reports:

Macy's is pulling out all the stops for 2010, the company said, with a line-up that features more than 1,600 cheerleaders/dancers, 850 clowns, 15 giant character balloons, 43 novelty, ornament balloons, balloonheads and balloonicles, 12 marching bands, 27 floats, large performance groups and a host of celebrities including Kanye West, Kylie Minogue, Juanes, Jessica Simpson, Gladys Knight, Victoria Justice, Big Time Rush and many more.

Here's a map of the official Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 2010 route:

Get HuffPost New York On Twitter and Facebook! Know something we don't? E-mail us at nytips@huffingtonpost.com

View the original article here

Top Uses for Multimedia

Top Uses for Multimedia

We all know that multimedia is a powerful way to entertain, inform and market to people. Let’s first separate the uses of multimedia from its delivery mechanisms.

Major delivery mechanisms of your multimedia presentation include DVD and CD ROM, kiosks, computers, the internet, games and displays.

The top uses for multimedia are for presentations, sales and marketing, education and training, and entertainment.

Here’s how they all come together:

Education and training – A great learning tool, the use of multimedia allows for interactive learning at the users pace. Learning goals can be identified and met before allowing the user to proceed to the next lesson. Training sessions can be transportable on DVD or CD ROM to allow for maximum flexibility.

Sales and Marketing – The use of multimedia at kiosks at trade shows are used to entertain and educate. They can also be programmed with database functions to gather information from participants for future marketing efforts. Businesses design flexible and interactive multimedia presentations to describe their products and services for their sales force as well.

Presentations – Presentations can be designed so that the presenter can go from one subject to another, based on a client or audience’s interests or feedback. Sometimes a little multimedia eye candy can go a long way towards keeping your audience alert and amused, especially when the content of your presentation is technical.

Displays and Kiosks – Multimedia can also be used in stores to entertain, educate, engage and market to customers. Whether your customers are standing in line waiting to check out, at a trade show or walking or driving on the street, multimedia can be used to engage, motivate and inspire your potential client to make a purchasing decision.

Websites – Want to add pizzazz to your website? Multimedia is the way to go. With varying levels of interactivity, you can engage your audience and increase the ‘stickiness’ of your site by including interactive tests and quizzes, learning sequences, and engaging mini-movies.

Entertainment – Multimedia has been used to give life to virtual reality and game development of all sorts for years. Animation, music, sound, graphics and lots of multimedia programming are used to give life to these two huge industries.

There are many variations on the themes we’ve just outlined, but these should give you a brief survey of the major uses for multimedia.

For more related articles go to http://www.video1pro.com/articles.html

Irwin Myers is the president of Video One Productions, a Chicago-based company that has been providing production, editing, and duplication of videos, DVD’s, and CD’s for hundreds of companies for more than 20 years. To find out more about how Video One Productions can help you with your production and multimedia needs go to http://www.video1pro.com

Ezine

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Who does cosmetic surgery benefit?

Related Articles

PPC ADVERTISING: HOW TO MAKE YOUR BUSINESS “CLICK”

Related Articles

Thanksgiving 2010: How Obama, Bachmann, Palin & More Will Celebrate

Steve Clemons: Thinking on George Washington & Barack Obama at Thankgiving

Friday, November 26, 2010

Jewelry – Buying wholesale jewelry

Related Articles

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 2010: Route, How To Watch LIVE

Top Uses for Multimedia

Related Articles