Millionaire dating: if you do it, you can do it!

You know, it’s a secret dream that almost everyone would love to meet a millionaire and fall in love. Will it ever happen? For most people, it won’t. But the truth is, if you do it, you can do it! Vanessa, a 25 yrs lady, has announced her wedding with a millionaire young man Ronald who is the CEO of a MNC. It's amazing, said Vanessa, I just posted my profile on a millionaire dating site called millionairecupid.com and received his chat invitations a few days later. Then, everything went so well that I can't believe it's true! To help those singles found their perfect lovers, the leading millionaire dating site - MillionaireCupid.com has offered some new benefits to those singles who are still trying. At this website, the millionaire admirers and beautiful girls are also welcome. "Not all millionaires want to fall in love with another millionaire", said Jerry, the CEO of the MillionaireCupid dating network. "You don't need to be a millionaire or celebrity to join us, buy you need to be serious of dating and keep yourself online timely." He also mentioned: "we have a huge number of certified millionaires in our network, and we manually verify the income of them to keep the quality of our millionaire members." Since most of wealthy and successful singles have been busy at their business, they don't have enough time to find their love one via conventional dating style. Thus, the online dating helps. CEOs, celebrities and many have been joining millionaire dating club: MillionaireCupid.com, WealthyChats.com, MillionaireChats.com, MillionaireLoves.com, just name a few leading sites in this industry.By Eileen Parks

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Launch of microbicide expected to AID in the prevention of STD'S and HIV

LA JOLLA, CA (March 24, 2008)Instead Sciences, Inc. announced that its microbicidal personal lubricant, Amphora, which has been cleared as safe for human use by the FDA, has shown promising results in clinical studies to also prevent the contraction of certain sexually transmitted diseases, including HSV (Herpes), gonorrhea, Chlamydia, and HIV. In light of the revealing report published earlier this month by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) stating that one in four teenagers has a sexually transmitted infection, the announcement of a microbicide which may prevent the spread of these diseases is very encouraging. "Preventing the spread of STD’s and HIV is unfortunately one of the largest ongoing battles of our time, as is evidenced by last week’s alarming CDC report. With the youth of our country at a greater risk for contracting sexually transmitted diseases, it is becoming increasingly important for us to develop preventive, over-the-counter products. Fortunately, research is proving this to be a real possibility in the form of topical microbicides,” explains Joseph Pike, President/CEO of Instead Sciences Inc. Amphora has already been FDA cleared for use in humans as a lubricant, and Instead plans to launch the product later this year. It is, to date, the only microbicidal candidate that has been cleared for this application. The promising results from clinical studies that indicate Amphora may help prevent the spread of STD’s and HIV indicate an even greater health benefit from its use. According to a study conducted by Mt. Sinai researchers, Amphora has the ability to reduce the infection rate of the Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) by 99% after 30 minutes of exposure to the microbicide. Amphora works as a bio-adhesive “acid buffering” gel that coats the vaginal wall and cervix, helping maintain a woman’s natural pH level between 3.8 and 4.2, a level that has been proven in early clinical testing to render sperm immobile and to inactivate most STI-causing organisms, including herpes, Chlamydia, HSV, gonorrhea, and HIV. In light of the knowledge that many STD’s, including HIV itself, are extremely fragile (effectively killed by lemon juice, saliva, or even exposure to air ), the observations made in the Mt. Sinai study bolster the hypothesis that Amphora will have a similar effect in significantly reducing the infection rate of HIV and other STD’s, as was the case with the HSV testing. Instead Chairman and former Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tommy Thompson asserts, “By getting Amphora into the hands of young women we can begin to offer a means of promoting vaginal health and hopefully preventing infections of STD’s.” Since leaving public office, Thompson has followed the research and development of Instead’s Amphora and intends to participate in the global launch of the microbicide, as well as pursue funding from individuals and organizations that are committed to stopping the spread of HIV and improving reproductive health worldwide. About Instead Sciences, Inc. Instead, Inc. provides women with new and different choices for greater freedom and control of their reproductive and sexual health. The San Diego-based company is dedicated to offering women better options in health care segments where their needs are underserved with products that are thoroughly tested for safety and efficacy. Instead has focused research and development efforts on period protection and feminine hygiene, contraception, prevention of sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDs, and other conditions where vaginal therapy can be an effective preventative or treatment.by Christia Gordon

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GET RICH QUICK?

After a careful search thru all online wealth building opportunities I found out that a lot of publishers refer people to Google Adsense formula as being the best. I have tried it too and found out that it is: 1. Really cheap to start.
2. Easy to setup
3. No setup Fees
4. No maintenance fees
5. And no hidden charges.
6. Anyone can do it
7. There is no discrimination
8. They are faithful
9. They really pay
10. They train you for free
11. Content is king But what I realized is that it:

• 1. Is Not a get rich quick scheme
• 2. Requires a lot of learning and training
• 3. Requires a great effort to setup
• 4. Utilizes the power of keywords
• 5. Requires a lot of patience For one to start making money:
  
• 1. You must utilize the power of Pay Per Click Campaign
  
• 2. You must utilize the power of keywords search
  
• 3. You must enhance the adds placement on your site
  
• 4. You must have good, real and fresh content
  
• 5. You must have a well designed site
  
• 6. You better use you own hosting account
  
• 7. You must your own domain name
  
• 8. You must have patience I wish you good luck up the ladder of Adsense.
  

About the Author. Juddie Passion is a motivational speaker, blogger, internet marketer and publisher. He is the president of clik here
By by Juddie Passion

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A Good Book Cover Design is Key

Marketing your Book cover, Spine and Information. Whether you've written your book or are just starting out, having an eye catching cover is a must. Did you know that customers may be looking over your book for 10 seconds or less? A good book cover entices the customer to want to read more information and to result in a purchase. To accomplish this, you need to know what catches customer’s eyes. A good place to start is your friends and family. Ones that you trust. Ask their opinions. If you're uncomfortable with asking your inner circle or would like your books cover to be a surprise, look to the net. You can post your book's cover idea and receive feedback. Only post your idea on the net if you trust it won't be stolen. When deciding to create my book cover for Mysterious Chills and Thrills for Kids, I looked at many other ones in the children's field. I kept in mind which book covers attracted me and for the ones that didn't, why it didn't. Keep in mind that not everyone is going to agree with your taste. The same applies to your back cover information about your book. If the book is fiction, you'll need to ensure the customer that their entertainment dollars are worth purchasing your book. If your book is non-fiction, show the customer the benefits of purchasing. Can it help solve a problem? Many customers want to know that they are buying something that in some form can benefit them. You'll also need to show how your book is better than then next one in it's category. Don't forget the spine and price. If your book is spine out, it'll need to attract the customer's eyes. When they pull out your book, the price can turn a purchase away. Look at other books in the field and price accordingly. Much lower prices than your competition may appear to sell more but may give the idea that your work isn't as good. Self publishing, Small Press or a Large Publishing company, either way your book is competing against others out there. Make it count!
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Comic Books in the Classroom ( 2 )

Teaching Writing

Again, proponents of the comic book movement insist that teachers should not simply drop a comic book upon a student’s desk with a demand that he or she read it. The concept is to use the comic book as a tool to teach reaching strategies in much the same manner that youngsters are taught with picture books.
Again, if students possess limited reading skills, teaching writing is also a difficult endeavor. It is even more difficult to teach writing to children if they are not invested in their learning. Proponents insist that comic books work as a method of getting investment from children. Therefore working with the comic book format including the use of frames means that teachers may find that writing, including the teaching of grammar and punctuation can be made more manageable for struggling learners.
In addition, the pairing of the visual with the written word is an excellent tool for helping young writers construct their stories. Such methods seem natural when children are very young yet the visual piece tends to be withdrawn as children get older, a factor that exacerbates the issues for struggling readers and writers.
It is extremely important to note that all proponents of the use of comic books in the classroom stipulate that comics are to supplement current materials, not replace. Therefore no one should see the use of comics as eliminating current grade appropriate reading materials.

Graphic NovelsAnother concept that takes the comic book approach to another level is the creation of a graphic novel. Technically, the term graphic novel is used to refer to multiple issues of a series that have been collected into a single volume. Generally the term applies specifically to the concept of releasing the collected works without serialization.
However, Marvel Comics is set to release a whole line of graphic novels but is actually taking a number of classics and converting them to the graphic format. Each book will feature Marvel’s famous illustrations as well as a glossary of terms for young readers and special content geared toward assisting teachers. Along with “Treasure Island,” Marvel will develop graphic versions of “The Last of the Mohicans” and “The Man in the Iron Mask.”
Without a doubt, the vast majority of critics would likely find such literature in graphic formats more palpable then the traditional comic. It also goes without saying that the new Marvel series represents an enormous investment by the company and can only be seen as a clear belief that there is a strong market for such literature.
That investment can mean only one thing, Marvel at least believes the movement is here to stay.
Next up, we interview Chris Wilson, the editor of the web site the Graphic Classroom and a teacher who is writing his master’s thesis on the use of comics in the classroom.

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Comic Book in the classroom ( 1 )

Today the focus in education is on enhanced student learning. Therefore all curriculum materials and teaching techniques are receiving careful review.
Just as education begins to emphasize standards and achievement, an innovative method of teaching reading and writing is catching steam. Recognizing that capturing the attention of young readers is an essential component of effective teaching practices, many teachers are turning to comic books as a tool to reach struggling readers as well as students who are new learners of the English language.
Though the initial reaction to the suggested process is that educators are simply lowering their educational standards and reinforcing lazy reading habits, it is easy to see why comic books have the potential to help readers. And if they help young readers become more fluent readers, then educators believe that critics should put away their negative pre-conceived notions and give comics a try.

Teaching Reading,

Because comic books are laid out in frames, it is very easy for readers to track a story. In fact, it is also easy for those readers to both jump ahead and back as a story develops. In addition, the fact that each frame contains some text and a picture makes it much easier for readers to grasp and contextualize a story. Ultimately, the limited text in each frame is beneficial to those for which reading is a challenge.
Therefore comics are very appealing to those readers who are intimidated by and/or frustrated with long text passages. The pictures in the frames of course also add many visual cues to the story line helping students better understand the critical literary points of the story.
Those who advocate the use of comic books state succinctly: “The goal of any good teacher is to educate, even if the method seems unconventional.” Therefore if comics improve reading skills they should become a part of a teacher’s reading tool kit.

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NIE BOOK COLUMNS

Newsbee’s pleased to announce the birth of his newest literacy project, Baby Buzz, a book column for parents, caretakers and teachers of little ones, birth to age 3.Parent educators help Newsbee select one quality picture book each month for the wee ones. Then the child experts write a review which you can feature in your community newspaper. A new Baby Buzz column will be available the 20th of each month.Click HERE for a sample of Baby Buzz. A list of former Baby Buzz type material is available HERE.
The Missouri Press Foundation offers two other monthly book columns available to newspapers at no cost through its Newspapers In Education program. Check out what author Chris Stuckenschneider has ready for your newspaper.Book Buzz and Novel Ideas

* For a complete list of Book Buzz Picks, click HERE.

* For a complete list of Novel Ideas Recommendations, click HERE.
Hello, Friends: Newsbee's the name, reading's my game. Each month, yours truly flits from this book publisher to that, pours over catalogs and talks to those in the know, in schools and libraries, about quality children's books. It's a daunting task, but some bee's got to do it.
From hundreds of titles, I select three each month - preschool through eighth grade - chosen to fit a particular theme. These are my Book Buzz Picks, and each month I announce them in the newspaper. A honey of an idea, don't you think? What better place to introduce kids to good books than on the pages of their local newspaper?
True stories and pretend tales too, I've got them all. But reading them is only half the fun. Newsbee groupies also get to write to me and tell me what they think of my Picks. It's a book club in the newspaper! They'll swarm to see their reviews published in their hometown newspaper. Space, of course, prevents me from running all the reviews I receive, so I just select one for each book.
There are so many ways a newspaper can use my Picks. The word around the hive is that newspapers that have invited me to appear on their pages are mighty glad they did. Be a hero in your hometown - sign up for my monthly Book Buzz Picks through Missouri Press Foundation.
Here's a "Novel Idea." How about giving readers of your community newspaper a heads-up on just-released books? After many requests, the
Washington Missourian is making its popular book column, "Novel Ideas," free to newspapers nationwide. The column has become well-respected by book publishers nationwide. Rather than being a review column, "Novel Ideas" is a book suggestion column. Author Chris Stuckenschneider chooses three books each month to share with readers. The column averages about 600 words per month. The column and cover images, are available for download through the Missouri Press Foundation. To get started publishing "Novel Ideas" in your newspaper, or for further information, contact Stuckenschneider using the information below.

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The novelodeon

This past April, as the final season of The Sopranos hit the airwaves, with seemingly the whole country bracing for impact, I'd still never seen a single episode. Gradually, my indifference turned to concern. It felt like every talk show, news culture section and conversation on the street was about the fate of Tony Soprano — a latter-day American anti-hero, a titanic figure with the air of myth about him. I began worry that I'd missed out on something big. A cultural touchstone of rare proportions.
So, as the end drew near, I took a deep breath and decided to start from the beginning.
Six months, 86 episodes, and over 70 combined viewing hours later I'm finally done, and while I may have missed out on The Sopranos as a broadcast event — seven seasons of weekly appointments with Tony, Carmela, Meadow, AJ and the whole crumbling world of New Jersey gangsterdom — I got to experience something perhaps more satisfying: a hyper-concentrated, solitary viewing experience, curled up nightly in bed with my laptop. Episodes flowing into each other almost seamlessly like chapters of a book. The pause button like a dog-eared page or bookmark inserted as my eyelids began to droop. An experience not unlike reading a big novel.
Book lovers frequently insist they could never get in bed with a computer, but it seems that this is happening all the time. Any of you who have indulged in a multi-season TV binge can probably attest to this — hours spent prone, the laptop huffing away, plowing through disc after disc (Bob made a similar observation a while back). Substantively too there's something that recalls leisure reading. It has oft been remarked that The Sopranos heralded a major shift in television into terrain once solely occupied by the novel: serial dramas that transcend their episodic structure and become a new kind of literature. Big cross-seasonal plot arcs. A broad social canvas. Intricately interwoven narrative. A large cast of deeply drawn characters. Not to mention a purchase on the country's imagination that recalls the popularity of the great serial fictions of Dickens a century and a half ago. With the spate of high-caliber TV serials originated by HBO and then proliferated by channels across the television spectrum, film has moved onto the novel's turf, matching not only its narrative scope but its expansive dimensions. Stories as big and sprawling as novels can now be told in moving pictures, and thanks to a host of new individualized distribution channels, experienced as intimately, on a laptop or iPod.
Of course I'm not suggesting that film and prose fiction aren't very different things, just that their roles seem to be converging. From its early days, film has been in conversation with the novel, frequently operating on canvases as vast as Anna Karenina or Great Expectations, but it necessarily has had to compress, select and distill the worlds it shows into something in the vicinity of two hours. When a film edges toward the three-hour mark it is considered epic. Simply in terms of duration of story and investment of time by the viewer/reader, movies and novels have always been very different kinds of fiction requiring very different sets of commitments from their audiences.
The shift arguably began with the multi-episode adaptations of classic books pioneered by the BBC in the 70s — shows like I, Claudius, on through the 1995 hit rendition of Pride and Prejudice, right up to last year's Bleak House. Here, television began to stretch out novelistically. And indeed, novels were the source material. Still, the solitary "reading" element was absent here. These were broadcast events, viewed in living rooms at an appointed time set by the channel, with little or no control by the spectator. Soon enough, however, VCRs entered the home and television audiences became time shifters, capturing and bending the broadcasters' schedules to fit their own. From there the die was pretty much cast. A parade of new "narrowcast" technologies — DVDs, TiVo, personal computers, iTunes, bit torrent — imbued these shows with book-like qualities: reader-driven, personal, portable... an intimate cinema of one.
Immediately upon finishing The Sopranos, with the pangs of withdrawal already setting in, I found solace in Wikipedia, which has extensive articles on each episode and character from the show. With the help of the external links, I soon found myself on a strange digital dérive through various arcana: press clippings, blogs, and an forums debating the show's ambiguous ending, personal web pages of supporting cast members such as Joseph R. Gannascoli, who played the gay mobster Vito Spatafore, and from whose site one can purchase such fine collectibles as t-shirts emblazoned with "I Love You Johnny Cakes." Through the drifts of trivia, I eventually dug up several interesting quotes from contemporary authors ruminating on the novel's place in American life and the increasing overlap with television. The first bits were from John Freeman, president of the National Book Critics Circle, who published a piece in The Guardian during those fevered months surrounding the Sopranos finale entitled "Has the novel been murdered by the mob?"From coast to coast, from white-wine sipping yuppies to real life mobsters, The Sopranos has had Americans talking - even those of us not familiar with the difficulty of illegal interstate trucking or how to bury a body in packed snow. While the New York Times called upon Michael Chabon, Elmore Leonard and Michael Connelly to resurrect the serial novel in its Sunday Magazine, critics were calling Chase the Dickens of our time. The final episode roped in some 11.9 million viewers. One major question, though, remains. Has Tony Soprano whacked the American novel?
....America's most powerful myth-making muse long ago moved in to Hollywood (and the White House press room), so the ascendancy of The Sopranos to the level of quasi-literary art should have been expected. Indeed, this wouldn't be troubling were Americans reading other, actual novels. But they're not - at least not in the numbers they once did.
Freeman cites two authors, Gary Shteyngart and the late Norman Mailer, both of whom have discussed The Sopranos as a story of novelistic proportions. First, here's Shteyngart, in a Slate dialogue last year with Walter Kirn:Our time...is more mutable. Change occurs not from year to year but from day to day—the fiction writer's job of remaining relevant has never been harder. And I don't think this will be true only of the present age. I think we are entering a period of unprecedented acceleration, of previously unimaginable technological gain that may be derailed only by the kind of apocalypse found in Cormac McCarthy's latest novel.
The Internet, I both fear and hope, is only the beginning.
But the emotional need to connect with a story remains. One of the folks behind the popular HBO series The Wire recently said that he sees each season as a novel, with a clearly defined beginning, middle, and end. The Sopranos, which may one day be acknowledged as the definitive fiction of the early 21st century, puts an emphasis on detail, setting, and psychology in a way that could resonate with a reader of, say, A Sentimental Education.
And here's Mailer, in a 2004 interview on Poynter Online:The Great American Novel is no longer writable. We can't do what John Dos Passos did. His trilogy on America came as close to the Great American Novel as anyone. You can't cover all of America now. It's too detailed. You couldn't just stick someone in Tampa without knowing about Tampa. You couldn't get away with it. People didn't get upset if you were a little scanty on the details in the past. Now all the details get in the way of an expanse of a novel.
You can take a much broader canvas with nonfiction ... and Americans want large canvases because America is getting so confusing. People want more information than you can get from most novels. You can read a novel about a small subject like the breakup of a marriage, but that's not a wide enough approach for some. It takes something like "The Sopranos," which can loop into a good many aspects of American culture. As I said, I don't think the Great American Novel can be written anymore. There will be great novels ... forever, I hope ... But the notion of a wide canvas may be moving to television with its possibilities of endless hours.
I think it's this element of time that lies at the heart of this over-drawn analogy. The storytellers of television are driving a golden age of magisterial fictions roomy enough to capture the full flow of time. TV serials used to be a way to kill time: repeatable formulas, the same story told again and again, a tradition that's alive and well in shows like Law & Order. You can check in, check out, it doesn't really matter. TV has always been sort of timeless in this way. Whereas prose fiction has long had a special relationship with time. Time, in its fullness, takes time for the author to convey, and the time it takes to read book-length fictions is I think equally part of the reward — it's an endurance sport, long-distance running. I always assumed that only a book could show me the landscape of time in this almost bodily way, but my recent odyssey with the Soprano family appears to have blurred the usual distinctions.

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Novel : The Number 23

Are you a novel reader? did you ever read a novel that it's story somehow connected to you? well... this is what happen to Walter Sparrow (Jim Carrey). One day at his birthday, Agatha (Jim Carrey's wife) bought him a novel book as a birthday present. The book titled The Number 23. As he read the book, he find some odd similarities related to his life. Because of this odd similarities Walter became obsessed to the number 23. He found out that many aspect of his life is related to that number. This movie is directed by Joel Schumacher

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Smiley Book

SmileyBooks
Enlighten. Encourage. Empower.
Publisher:Tavis SmileyPresident:Cheryl Woodruff
Founded by media pioneer Tavis Smiley in 2004 as a co-publishing venture with Hay House Inc., SmileyBooks is a general trade book publisher that specializes in quality nonfiction.
A dynamic company dedicated to the new media landscape, SmileyBooks will publish books by authors ranging from established New York Times bestsellers to exciting new voices on topics that will appeal to a broad spectrum of readers. SmileyBooks titles will be published in hardcover, trade paperback, and digital media, offering the widest possible readership and exposure.
SmileyBooks’ expanded publishing vision is anchored by the imprint’s 2007 #7 New York Times bestseller, THE COVENANT In Action, a companion volume to the 2006 #1 New York Times bestseller, the Covenant with Black America.
SmileyBooks MissionTo empower our readers to achieve their own personal fulfillment and to become agents of change through the principles of love and service.
A Full-Spectrum PublisherSmileyBooks publishes quality nonfiction works in the following categories:Advocacy, Autobiography, Self-HelpEducation, Memoir, InspirationPolitics, Psychology, Business/FinanceSmileyBooks Celebrates New Authors
The new president of SmileyBooks, Cheryl Woodruff, and a roster of newly-acquired authors were introduced at the LOVE WINS reception in New York City. The celebrated authors whose titles will be published by SmileyBooks include Iyanla Vanzant, Dr. Cornel West, Tom Burrell, and Eleanor Hinton Hoytt of the National Black Women's Health Imperative.
About Our Authors
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View a clip of the receptionSubmission Guidelines
SmileyBooks only publishes quality nonfiction at this time. We do not publish fiction, children’s books, poetry, science fiction, fantasy or western genres. Currently, we are accepting proposals for books that will be considered for publication in 2009 and beyond. All manuscripts must be submitted via mail. We are unable to accept or respond to e-mail submissions.
Please read the submission guidelines below carefully before submitting any materials. Be sure to include the following:Cover letter giving a brief description of the project and what is included in the submission package. Book proposal, including outline, introduction, table of contents and text/sample chapters approximately 30-40 pages in length. All manuscript proposal materials must be submitted on standard 8-1/2” x 11” paper, in 12-point font. Market analysis of the potential readership for the book, including title, publisher and publication date of all similar books, with an explanation of how your book differs from each example. Author biography that includes publishing credits and credentials in the field. A SASE for return of the proposal. Please note: a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) is required. Be sure to include sufficient postage for the materials you want returned. There will be no response of any kind without an SASE.

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