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Mysterious Clouds Creeping Out of the Arctic

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:18:01 GMT

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A new NASA satellite has recorded the first detailed images from space of a mysterious type of cloud called “night-shining” or “noctilucent."

The clouds are on the move, brightening and creeping out of polar regions, and researchers don't know why.

"It is clear that these clouds are changing, a sign that a part of our atmosphere is changing and we do not understand how, why or what it means," said atmospheric scientists James Russell III of Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia. "These observations suggest a connection with global change in the lower atmosphere and could represent an early warning that our Earth environment is being changed."

This image shows one of the first ground sightings of noctilucent clouds in the 2007 season over Budapest, Hungary on June 15, 2007. Credit: Veres Viktor/NASA

The "Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere” (AIM) satellite first imaged the noctilucent clouds May 25. People on the ground began seeing them June 6 over Northern Europe.

Tags: science, nasa, atmosphere, global warming, clouds, arctic, earth, environment

How to cut grocery shopping cost

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:22:08 GMT

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Cutting Grocery Costs (without clipping coupons)

To save money on groceries, you can do lots of things besides clipping coupons (which I never do). Here are a few ideas to help you save money and add some spice to your routine.

Shop at ethnic markets: I find that a lot of really wonderful, exotic, and flavorful dishes can be recreated rather simply and cheaply at home. Visiting your local ethnic grocery stores can be a great way to indulge in a little bit of restaurant-style eating without actually having to spend money on a restaurant. Also, these stores tend to offer very affordable (and sometimes stunningly cheap) prices on things that you didn’t even realize your traditional grocery store was marking up, like tortillas and soy sauce. Finally, shopping at, for example, an Asian market when you’ve been raised on mac and cheese will give you the opportunity to try a wide variety of new foods and discover new things to enjoy.

Tags: saving, money

10 Ways To Save Money At Starbucks

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:15:26 GMT

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Get Your Morning Fix At A Discount - 10 Ways To Save Money At Starbucks

You get into your car, start driving and find yourself in front of Starbucks before you are even fully awake. The morning coffee fix is a daily ritual for a lot of people. If you are having trouble giving it up, there is no need to pay full price for your cup of joe. Here are 10 ways to save at Starbucks from my latest article at TheStreet.com:

1. Don’t go
2. Buy your coffee at retail outlets
3. Make friends with Starbucks employees
4. Purchase Starbucks gift cards on eBay
5. Look for Starbucks offering promotions
6. Take your own cup
7. Order simple
8. Keep those gift cards (they are collectible)
9. Raid your change jar
10. Buy McDonald’s coffee

Coffee, like soda, can easily be a $1000 a year habit. If you’re not willing to give up Starbucks completely, these hints should help to keep some extra change in your pockets while still enjoying your vice.

Tags: saving, money, coffee, personal, finance

18 ways to improve your body language

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:25:50 GMT

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1. Don’t cross your arms or legs –

2. Have eye contact, but don’t stare

3. Don’t be afraid to take up some space

4. Relax your shoulders

5. Nod when they are talking

6. Don’t slouch, sit up straight

7. Lean, but not too much –

8. Smile and laugh

9. Don’t touch your face

10. Keep you head up.

11. Slow down a bit

12. Don’t fidget

13. Use your hands more confidently

14. Lower your drink

15. Realise where you spine ends

16. Don’t stand too close

17. Mirror

18. Keep a good attitude

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50 Great Free Online Libraries

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 06:18:56 GMT

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Research & Education

50 Great Free Online Libraries

1. California Digital Library

2. The Online Books Page

3. Free Books

5. Research Assistance

6. BookRags - E-Books and Book Notes

7. All Bookstores.com

8. FreeTech Books

10. Free E-Books.net

11. MindView

12. The eBook Directory

13. University of Virginia's E-Book library

14. BizzyDays Ebook Publications

15. Web Source

16. free-ebooks-4u.com

17. Prosperity Point

18. Free eBooks and Best Sites

19. Free Electronic Books

20. CIW Free E-Books

21. My Free EBooks

22. Free E-Books

23. A Good Read

24. Blackmask Online

25. EBookstand

26. Bibliomania

27. Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts

28. The eText Archive

29. Free Books 5000

30. Classic Bookshelf

32. Samizdat Press

33. Page by Page Books

34. bartleby.com

35. Free Books 4 Doctors

36. InformIT Online Books

37. Chapter-a-Day - Free Books in Your E-Mail!

42. BeyondBooks.com

47. Free-Ed.Net

48. Free Joke Books

52. Great Books Index

54. Internet Medieval Sourcebook

55. Books by David Irving

56. Be Successful!

Tags: lists, ebooks, resources

Can Homosexuals Change?

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 19:44:29 GMT

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Can Homosexuals Change?

But, some might ask, can homosexual behavior be changed? Homosexuals often argue that the behavior is innate and cannot be changed, but the experience of more than fifty years of research in homosexual therapy provides conclusive proof that while homosexuality is indeed a deeply imbedded impulse in many people, vast numbers of homosexuals intentionally leave the lifestyle each year and return to normal heterosexual relationships of their own accord. Many others who seek qualified therapy have been cured of addictive and self-destructive homosexual behaviors.

A meta-study combining the results of research conducted by nine psychotherapists and psychoanalysts indicates complete recovery in more than 52 percent of the cases treated. In cases where Christian counseling and conversion to Christ is involved, results are even higher.

The most serious long-range concerns regarding the agenda to enforce public acceptance of homosexual behaviors is the devastation this lifestyle wreaks on both young people and society itself. The constant barrage of pro-homosexual indoctrination makes it difficult for young men and women to escape the homosexual environment, even though they may earnestly desire to return to a normal heterosexual life and family. Vulnerable high school age and younger children, already damaged by family disintegration, the erotic images in television and the movies, vulgar rock music, and other conditions that promote identity confusion, are pushed into destructive, demeaning, life-threatening, and desperately unhappy behavior choices.

Medical researchers and epidemiologists have found that homosexual practices—which include anal and oral sex, as well as contact with, and even ingesting, human waste—are invariably linked to serious and deadly diseases. Despite more than 15 years of well-funded education programs to teach young men to avoid high risk behaviors, the practices continue and are common.

Tags: gay, homosexual, sex

Frequently Asked Questions about Sexual Addiction

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:29:49 GMT

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Frequently Asked Questions about Sexual Addiction
By Robert Weiss, LCSW, CAS

Q: How do I know if I am a sex addict?

The primary way to identify any addictive behavior is to consider whether it is causing negative or unwelcome problems and yet you return to it anyway. If your sexual behaviors have caused consequences to your legal status, relationships, career, health (emotional or physical), yet you continue to engage in those sexual behaviors anyway then there is likely a problem. You know that you are a sex addict if your sexual behaviors take up more time, energy and focus than you would like or if they cause you to act in ways that go against your underlying values and beliefs. Men and women who are sexual addicts will frequently say to themselves, "This is the last time that I am going to..." yet they will find themselves ultimately feeling driven to return to the same sexual situations, despite previous commitments to change.

Sexual addicts are most often unable to make and keep commitments to themselves and others about stopping or changing particular sexual behaviors over the long term and most have problems with real intimacy. They will describe having feelings of overwhelming intensity while approaching the possibility of engaging in their particular sexual behavior and describe this intensity state as "being in the bubble" or "like being in a trance." This intensity/arousal state is typical and helps sexual addicts block out the potential consequences of what they are about to do. Typical sexual addict behaviors include: compulsive use of the Internet, phone lines or personals ads for sex, consistent use of prostitutes, sexual massage or escorts, multiple affairs, frequent sex outside of primary relationships, anonymous sex and compulsive masturbation.

Tags: addiction, addict, masterbation, pronography, love, relationships, sex, sexual

Are you a woman sex addict?

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:25:37 GMT

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Women Sex Addicts
Adapted from The National Council on Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity

A fine line exists between what may be considered by most people acceptable sexual behavior and what is sexually addictive or compulsive. This is especially true for women in a society such as ours where sex is often treated as a commodity. Our culture discourages women from being assertive and direct in the expression of their sexual needs, thereby encouraging a less direct and potentially seductive or manipulative style. Some women go beyond these culturally-sanctioned behaviors and use sex compulsively as a means of gaining power and love.

Some sexually addictive behavior patterns in women may include: excessive flirting, dancing, or personal grooming to be seductive; wearing provocative clothing whenever possible [a form of exhibitionism]; changing one's appearance via excessive dieting, excessive exercise, and/or reconstructive surgery to be seductive; exposing oneself in a window or car; making sexual advances to younger siblings, clients, or others in subordinate power positions; seeking sexual partners in high-risk locations; multiple extramarital affairs; disregard of appropriate sexual boundaries, e.g. considering a married man, one's boss, or one's personal physician as appropriate objects of romantic involvement; trading sex for drugs, help, affection, money, social access, or power; having sex with someone they just met at a party, bar or on the internet [forms of anonymous sex]; compulsive masturbation; and exchanging sex for pain or pain for sex. For most people, sexual relationships, fantasies, and activities are normal behavior, but for the sex addict, they cause problems.

Tags: sex, love, addict, addiction, flirit, slut, whore, prostitute

How Do I Know if I Am a Sexual Addict?

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:20:59 GMT

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How Do I Know if I Am a Sexual Addict?
By Robert Weiss, LCSW, CAS

For most adults, healthy sexuality is an integrated life experience. Sex with partners, with self, or as a part of exploring new relationships is usually a pleasurable act of choice. For sexual addicts however, sexual behavior can be most often defined by words such as driven, compulsive and hidden. Unlike healthy sex that is integrated into relationships, sexual addicts use sex as a means to cope, to handle boredom, anxiety and other powerful feelings or as a way to feel important, wanted or powerful. While sexual addiction is not defined by any particular sexual act, sexual addiction is defined by the feelings and activities surrounding sex. Patrick Carnes, Ph.D. in his groundbreaking 1978 book on sexual addiction, Out of the Shadows, helps to define sexually addictive behavior as sexual activity that often falls into one of three categories: Shameful, Secretive or Abusive.

Shameful
Shame can be defined as a feeling of inner worthlessness or despair about ever being good enough. For the sexual addict spending precious time, money and energy seeing prostitutes for sexual massage, maintaining multiple affairs or masturbating night after night to pornography, shame about these acts becomes the hidden inner core of feelings which ends up sabotaging relationships, careers and self-esteem.

Tags: sex, addict, addiction, pronography, masterbation

Understanding Compulsive Masturbation

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:19:41 GMT

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Understanding Compulsive Masturbation
By Robert Weiss, LCSW, CAS, CSAT
Leslie Fisher, MSW, LISAC, CSAT

Of all the types of sexual acting out, compulsive masturbation is one of the most secret and isolative. The person engaging in this sexual activity is often the last to seek help, often not seeing or understanding their behavior as problematic. This is often related to familial, societal, or religious shame associated with the act of masturbation. Many clients report that their internalized messages around masturbation are that the act itself is "dirty", "shameful", or "sinful."

While most sex addicts actively seek treatment, pushed by some obvious consequence of a legal, occupational, health or relational type, the solitary nature of the compulsive masturbator's behavior leaves their actions less subject to the direct consequences of other forms of sexual acting out. The addict engaging in compulsive masturbation seeks therapeutic intervention for help as a last resort, seeking relief from anxiety, obsession, isolation and the inability to seek or maintain healthy intimate relationships. Some compulsive masturbators do experience consequences through the viewing of inappropriate materials i.e. child pornography or through masturbating in inappropriate places i.e. the workplace or an automobile. However, the most frequent consequence of compulsive masturbation is a life devoid of intimacy, removed from feeling and filled with hidden shame.

As to the behavior of compulsive masturbation itself this can take place in differing forms. For example there are men who masturbate daily as a part of their "morning or evening routine." Jay, in treatment for sex addiction for several years now, has the following to say about his experiences,

Tags: compulsive, masturbation, sex, imagination, pronography, cybersex

Understanding Addictive Cybersex

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:16:34 GMT

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Understanding Addictive Cybersex
By Jennifer P. Schneider, M.D., Ph.D. and Robert Weiss, LCSW, CAS

The Internet is profoundly transforming our culture and our world in ways similar to the introduction of the telephone 100 years ago. In addition to its function as a source of information, the Internet is leading a revolution in the delivery of sex and sexual content. Cybersex, which is any form of sexual expression accessed through the computer or the Internet, is now a major industry. Currently, over 60 percent of all visits on the Internet involve a sexual purpose.

These days cybersex activities include not only viewing and/or downloading pornography along with masturbation, but also reading and writing sexually explicit letters and stories, e-mailing to set up personal meetings with someone, placing ads to meet sexual partners, visiting sexually oriented chat rooms, and engaging in interactive online affairs which include real-time viewing of each other using electronic cameras hooked up to the computer. Many people allow themselves to engage in sexual behaviors online (S&M, cybersex with adolescents or children, presenting themselves as persons of the opposite gender) which they would never do in the real world. Spin-offs of cybersex activities are phone sex with people met online, and online affairs that progress to real or offline affairs.

For most cybersex users, the Internet provides a fascinating new venue for experiencing sex. Some users, however, perhaps 8-10 percent, become hooked on cybersex and experience significant life problems as a result.

For those hooked on cybersex, the negative consequences can be divided broadly into two categories: those resulting from the many hours the user spends on the internet, and those which specifically relate to the sexual content of the user's activities.

Tags: pronography, sex, masterbation, addiction, pervert

Love Addiction Part II: Recovery from Love and Sex Addiction

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:14:03 GMT

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Love Addiction Part II: Recovery from Love and Sex Addiction
By Robert Weiss, LCSW, CAS

Much of the love addiction literature speaks to the love addicts' inability to live their lives without a relentless search for a partner in most any situation or experience. Upon reflection many recovering love addicts can relate to having used some strategy or another all of their lives in an attempt to find and keep sexual and romantic partners. One woman put it this way, "I never once went to a party without wondering who I could get a date with or get into bed, I always dressed for it and I always looked for it." Whether through revealing dress, flirtatious manner or seductive talk; the addict is always hunting and searching in one form or another to try to bring that special attention, intensity and arousal that the latest tryst or liaison can bring forth. One important part of the love and sex addicts' recovery process is recognition of those methods used to attract and manipulate others.

As the addict begins to consciously cast these aside, using the support of 12 step members, friends and often therapy; they come to learn their real human worth, lessening the need for superficial, sexualized attention.

In order for recovery from any addiction to take place, there must be a bottom-line definition of sobriety. For the alcoholic, this is a simple definition -- alcoholics and drug addicts define sobriety as the amount of time they have abstained from the use of alcohol and other mind-altering chemicals. Abstaining from the use of these substances is the recovering person's sobriety time. (E.g., "I stopped using drugs and alcohol on June 15, 1987; therefore, I am over 10 years sober").

Tags: love, addiction, romance, sex, recovery

Love Addiction Part I: The Problem

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:12:11 GMT

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Love Addiction Part I: The Problem
By Robert Weiss, LCSW, CAS

Healthy romantic love is a unique experience which can encourage bonding, intimacy and the opportunity to play and explore with that special new person.

Romance, with or without sex, encourages personal growth as each new relationship forces new insights and self knowledge. The beginning stages of a potential love relationship can be intense and exciting. Most people easily relate to that "rush" of first love and romance; the stuff of songs, endless greeting cards and warm memories. Healthy intimacy, however, is characterized by more than romance, intensity and sex. Intimacy evolves over time. Loving relationships develop partially through utilizing those first exhilarating times to begin to build a bridge toward deeper, longer term closeness.

It can be difficult for anyone who is not a love or sex addict to understand how love or sexuality can be exploited or evolve into destructive patterns of addiction and compulsion. Yet for the love and sex addict, romantic love, sexuality and the closeness they offer, are experiences most often filled with pitfalls, anxiety and pain. Living in a sometimes chaotic emotional world of desperation and despair, fearful of being alone or rejected, the love addict endlessly longs for that "special" relationship.

Tags: love, addiction, sex, romance, romantic

Are you addicted to romanc?

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:09:43 GMT

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Scientists are finding that, after all, love really is down to a chemical addiction between people

OVER the course of history it has been artists, poets and playwrights who have made the greatest progress in humanity's understanding of love. Romance has seemed as inexplicable as the beauty of a rainbow. But these days scientists are challenging that notion, and they have rather a lot to say about how and why people love each other.

Is this useful? The scientists think so. For a start, understanding the neurochemical pathways that regulate social attachments may help to deal with defects in people's ability to form relationships. All relationships, whether they are those of parents with their children, spouses with their partners, or workers with their colleagues, rely on an ability to create and maintain social ties. Defects can be disabling, and become apparent as disorders such as autism and schizophrenia — and, indeed, as the serious depression that can result from rejection in love. Research is also shedding light on some of the more extreme forms of sexual behaviour. And, controversially, some utopian fringe groups see such work as the doorway to a future where love is guaranteed because it will be provided chemically, or even genetically engineered from conception.

Tags: addition, additions, romance, chemical, relationships, couples

Exercise and Depression

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 01:21:41 GMT

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Exercise and Depression

From Paige Waehner,
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Exercise and Depression

Depression is one of the most common problems people experience today, but it's also very treatable with medication, therapy and other self-help options. But, have you ever considered exercise as part of your treatment? Study after study has shown that exercise is a helpful way to treat depression because it:

Increases your sense of mastery which can help for people who don't feel in control of their lives and moods

Increases self-esteem

Provides a distraction from your worries

Improves your health and body, which can help lift your mood

Helps you get rid of built-up stress and frustration

Helps you sleep better, which can often be a problem when you're depressed

It may seem impossible to get moving when you feel depressed but that's exactly what you have to do.

Keep It Simple

The problem with depression is that it makes you feel like you have no energy. Even getting out of bed can take a monumental effort, so it may be hard to imagine exercising at all when you're depressed. No matter what your thoughts are telling you, it really is possible to exercise when you're depressed. If you take some simple steps, you can add a little activity to your day to help lift your mood and work through your depression.

Set simple goals. You don't have to train for a marathon. Set a goal to get dressed and walking around the block. Promise yourself you'll walk around the block at least 3 times that day. The next day, do more. Try to improve just a little bit each day.

Go easy on yourself. You might not be able to handle a lot of exercise, so try to feel good about what you CAN do. Now is not the time to kick yourself!

Tags: execise, depression, manic depression, mood, walking, walk