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Many health writers make the topic of sugar so complicated that nobody can understand it. It’s very simple. Sugar is sugar is sugar. Your body treats the sugar in an apple the same way that it treats all other sources of sugar. The difference is that an apple also contains fiber that slows the rise of blood sugar after you eat it.

Some people believe that honey is more healthful than sugar. They tell us that honey is a quicker source of energy and a richer source of minerals, and is less fattening. All of these clams are nonsensical. As far as your body is concerned, there is no difference between honey and table sugar. Honey contains two simple sugars called glucose and fructose. Table sugar has the same two sugars, only they are bound together to form a double sugar called sucrose. In your body, they end up in exactly the same way. Once sucrose, the double sugar, reaches your intestine, it is broken down into the single sugars glucose and fructose.

Honey and table sugar are processed in the same way by your body, and honey cannot be a quicker source of energy. An advertisement for honey claims that “ounce for ounce, honey has fewer calories than refined sugar.” This is true but deceptive because honey contains water which has no calories and refined sugar does not. A tablespoon of table sugar has 64 calories while a tablespoon of honey contains water so that it has only 46, but they are both equally fattening. You add sweeteners by taste, not by careful measurement, and you will use the same number of calories to obtain the same sweetness using either sugar or honey.

It’s ridiculous to claim that honey is an excellent source of minerals such as iron and calcium, while sugar is not. To meet your needs for iron, you would have to take in 10 cups of honey a day, and for calcium, you would have to take in 40 cups.

By the same reasoning, your body handles white granulated table sugar in the same way that it processes brown sugar, turbinado sugar, maple syrup, fructose, and all other sugars. Brown sugar is slightly less refined than white sugar, but the difference has no nutritional significance. It makes no difference to your body whether extracted sugar comes from beets, sugar cane, honey, apples or grapes, or maple trees. If you are a diabetic, or store fat primarily in your belly, have high blood triglyceride levels, have a very low blood levels of the good HDL cholesterol that prevents heart attacks, or are trying to lose weight, you should avoid all refined carbohydrates, and that includes all sugars that have been extracted from any source.

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

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Squeeze pages are a very hot topic in the internet marketing scene. What a squeeze page is is a page that is built to get someone to take an action. You have a newsletter but visitors to your site are not subscribing to it enough for your liking so what you do is on each page of your site you offer some kind of freebie, lets say on your buyers page you can offer to send the kind of listings that the person is looking for (if your MLS offers the service this may be very very easy to do) or maybe on a page for sellers you could offer a free download of a “Make more money be properly preparing your home to sell”.

It is great to offer something for free but the way you use this is by offering these freebies only if the visitors subscribe to your newsletter. How do you do this? The best way is to have your website developer have a name for each form so that you can email the free gift based on which form is sent to you.

The additional advantage to these kind of squeeze pages is that you will know what interest is bringing your customers in, this way you can send slightly different newsletters to each group and therefore you will be relating better to buyers, sellers, investors and even breaking down to first time buyers or move down buyers.

Bill Nadraszky is an internet marketing expert for Realtors. You can find his ramblings on what works or doesn’t at http://realtorweblog.xptechsupport.com

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Anyone can test a web page or even an entire site for
accessibility. The necessary knowledge isn’t PhD level or even too vast. It
does require familiarity with HTML and CSS, the ability to appreciate the
unique challenges faced by users with various disabilities, and an
understanding of the W3C Accessibility Guidelines. Beyond that, all you need is
the desire and time.

Step 1 - Validate
HTML and CSS

This step may come as a surprise to many. After all,
wouldn’t invalid code either not work or leave a visible bug? Actually, the
answer is not necessarily.

The reason can be that some WISIWIG editors generate invalid
code and hard-core programmers who write their code by hand can easily omit
some bit of HTML or CSS “grammar”. This doesn’t mean non-functioning code it
just means it doesn’t meet the standards. I won’t go into specifics here, just think of it as sort of similar to
formal collegiate writing. There is a particular standard which is expected. A
paper could be written differently, more “free form”, it could contain all the
ideas and arguments, and it could be just as well thought out - but because it
doesn’t meet the standard it would not get a top grade.

Validating your code has a number of advantages. It decreases the probability of cross browser
problems, it tends to eliminate or reduce so called code bloat, and valid code
tends to be easier to maintain as well as being compatible with a broader range
of assistive technologies used by people with disabilities.

Step 2 - Automated
Accessibility Testing

Automated accessibility testing is an often misunderstood step in the overall process. To some it is everything that needs to be done.
“My site is Bobby compliant. Doesn’t that mean it’s accessible?” To others it’s
a red herring and should be avoided all together. My take is that it’s an
invaluable step. When writing an article I rely on the spellchecker to catch my
typos even though I know I still need to go through and check out the copy
myself to make sure I have written “Dave” and not “Cave”, for instance.
Automated testing finds many issues which could easily be missed by reading the
code and so I always begin with it.

Depending on the scale of your project you might be able to
use one of several free web based validators or
you may opt to buy one of the testing packages available on the market.

The report you will get will include tests which cannot be
run by the validator but which it flags for manual examination. Make sure to go
through these as well. Most of the tools will describe the issue enough for
someone with the above mentioned prerequisites to test.

And lastly, make sure to have any issues raised, fixed
before continuing. Doing so will greatly reduce the time required for the
remainder of testing.

And please, I cannot emphasize enough that automated testing
alone cannot assure accessibility. Please continue with the steps below.

Step 3 - Keyboard
Testing

This a simple but very important step. Hide you mouse and
navigate your web site using only your keyboard. If you have never done this
then you are likely to learn something.

Various groups of people can’t or don’t want to use a mouse.
For some it’s just confusing or difficult, especially those with certain motor
control problems or sometimes seniors. For others, like blind web users, it’s
impossible. Making sure every link, form field, button, or any other
functionality in the page is accessible via the keyboard is a basic necessity
of web accessibility - but you may also find that to get to the main content or
primary form on the page you need to click the Tab Key many times. Though
technically accessible, this is extremely inconvenient.

Again, be sure to make any changes required which this phase
of testing brought up before continuing.

Step 4 - Screen
Reader Testing

To conduct screen reader testing you will need to install
the necessary software. It
will take some time to get used to and configure your screen reader so be
patient. Begin by simply turning off your monitor and listening to your page.
Does it make sense? Many web designs depend on visual cues and can get close to
unintelligible when those cues aren’t available.

Next, try to carry out one or more of the tasks your website
was built for. If it’s an online store, find a product and make a purchase. If
it’s an informational site then find key information. Remember - this is the
reason you built the site and it is the reason you are making it accessible. If
it core functionality depends on a complex form, can you tell which fields are
required? If it’s a shopping cart, can you see how much you have spent before
making the purchase?

Step 5 - Target
Audience Testing

Various conventions of web design have emerged in the course
of the World Wide Web’s short existence which we have grown used too and even
depend on to help us navigate a new site. Links appear in a different color
(often blue) and underlined. Site wide or global navigation is usually found
along the top of the page. Small pictures can often be clicked to get a bigger
one. Similarly, there are conventions used in quality accessible design but
naturally those of us who aren’t dependant on accessible design may not be
aware of them. These might include links, sometimes invisible, along the top of
a page which allow the user to skip to various parts of the page, colors with
high contrast values or just consistent design throughout the site.

Web accessibility isn’t just fulfilling a set of
requirements or validating against predefined checkpoints. It also means
quality design. And just as it’s best to leave questions of browser based user
interface design to an expert it’s best to have your site checked over by an
expert in screen reader user interface design when considering accessibility.
And though in theory, there is no reason a sighted specialist couldn’t become
such an expert, one who is dependant on screen readers will more likely be
intimate with their functions and use, the frustrations of poor web site design
and solutions which ease or eliminate those frustrations in practice, not just
in theory.

Conclusion

Website accessibility is something every company and
organization needs to consider if they have or are planning to have a web
presence. It’s not only morally correct but it increases your potential
customer base and it is increasingly becoming the law.

Testing doesn’t need to be difficult or expensive. Depending
on the scope of your site compliance can be achieved entirely in-house by
following the steps above. If you haven’t got the available resources or feel outside,
expert help is required there are a number of consultants from which to choose.
One should be aware, however, that the services rendered can range from
automated testing only (perhaps appropriate for a web development team which is
not particularly knowledgeable in accessibility issues but able to understand
and implement post test recommendations) to full, regular audits costing 10’s
of thousands (possibly appropriate for a company with a large and regularly
changing website such as an on-line auctioneer or a newspaper). It is vital,
therefore, to understand one’s needs and know which service to seek.

For any larger testing effort target audience testing is key.
Unfortunately, most accessibility testing companies don’t offer the service,
and some don’t even offer screen reader testing.

Resources

Free
Online HTML & CSS Validators

HTML Validation (http://validator.w3.org/“>http://validator.w3.org/)

CSS Validation
(http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator)

Free
Online Accessibility Validators

WebXact (http://webxact.watchfire.com)

Cynthia Says (http://www.cynthiasays.com)

Automated Accessibility Testing Software

InFocus (http://www.ssbtechnologies.com/products/infocus/index.html)

Bobby
(http://www.watchfire.com/products/desktop/accessibilitytesting/default.aspx)

Screen
Readers

JAWS (http://www.freedomscientific.com)

IBM HomePage
Reader (http://www-3.ibm.com/able/solution_offerings/hpr.html)

Miscellaneous

W3C
Accessibility Guidelines (http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/)

Accessibility
Testing and Target Audience Testing Solutions
(http://www.pageaccessibilitylabs.com)

Nik Page has been working in SEO, website accessibility and usability testing since the early 90’s.

He is currently General Manager of Page Accessibility Labs

With the compensation way of life increasing throughout the globe, having possession of public liability cover is becoming more and more obligatory. If you don’t at present have liability insurance integrated into your building insurance, then now is probably the correct time to look at getting enhanced cover. Here is some info about why you require insurance, and what to watch out for. Find cheap public liability at www.InsuredRisks.co.uk.

What is public liability insurance: Public Liability cover is an insurance agreement that shelters you from claims that 3rd party’s may possibly make against you in the probability of an accident. If somebody damages their belongings or wounds themselves in or around your property or company then the public liability insurance will shield you for any fees that may occur. Insurance generally ranges from two hundred and fifty pounds up to ?1 million.

What are you covered for: Insurance will insure you against accidents or loss that other people may suffer in or around your house or business grounds. You are covered against claims from thief’s in addition to injury that might arise to somebody from falling items or employees carrying out repairs. If a mishap occurs on your grounds and someone claims against you, your insurance will support you to pay any damages.

What’s included Many contents or property insurance policies include integrated liability insurance. You would be advised to check with your insurance firm if this is the case, & what amount of protection you have. Even if the insurance is built-in, you should confirm that you are suitably covered for any form of accidents that might arise.

Premiums: The payments that you pay depend on the kind of protection you want. If you just cover your home, then costs are likely to be lower than if you are protecting a business. Although, payments are comparatively cheap inexpensive the extent of cover that you get, & it is as a result crucial for anybody running a business.

A fact about human nature: gratification is so much more
intense after you’ve been made to want something for a long
time.

This is something you need to remember as you roll out your
“event marketing” campaign to your list of subscribers and
participants.

They don’t know it, but your listeners want you to tease them.
They like it when you dangle the carrot, press their hot buttons
and walk away. It makes them respond, and it makes them want
what you have.

For this reason, it’s worth “pacing out” your event marketing
email drip campaign and schedule of “events leading up to the
event.”

Event marketing can get pretty crazy. You have a lot to do, and
little time to do it. I know, because I’m currently coordinating
the first annual Web Content Awareness Day, which you can
read all about and bookmark for our big launch on Feb 9, right
here: http://WebContentAwarenessDay.com

You don’t think you’d like to create an event? Well, maybe you
wouldn’t, but maybe you would if you knew what the event was.
Planning an “event” can inject new life to your sagging, lagging
online network. It can make you a little bigger in your niche.
It can even make you something of a celebrity, if you think you
can hack “high profile.”

You can design your event to be as big or small as you like.
Create a “Buy Me a Drink” website like John Delavera’s at
http://buymeadrink.com, and earn a few dollars for your efforts
while making people laugh and smile. Throw a virtual Halloween
bash and have your colleagues send hilarious costume pics, maybe
hold a “guess the marketer” masquerade online. You can do
anything you’d like, as long as your ultimate goal is to endear
your audience to you, build better business relationships and
expand your connections.

But as I said, the trick is to be something of a tease. If
you’re always in everyone’s face all the time, your readers will
grow weary of you. A well-planned event will include
‘milemarkers’ as you edge closer to the big reveal, the grand
finale website launch, contest results or whatever it may be. At
milemarker three, maybe you hit your audience with a mini
blog-launch. The response is overwhelming, everyone’s thrilled!
But milemarker six, “Take this Survey,” is not received so
heartily.

What happened? Did you overstimulate? That can easily happen,
you know. If you fail to pace out your marketing, leaving
adequate time to be missed and sought after, your audience will
grow immune and you’ll lose your effectiveness. So DO pace it
out, change it up, toss in a surprise or two, and let yourself
be missed.

Event marketing isn’t necessarily the way to go for you. If you
think that “rallying up the group” is something that you can
pull off, then start with a small project and include a crop of
close-knit colleagues who will lift their megaphones and sound
you off in celebratory style. Test the water; if it’s not as
massive of a production as you’d envisioned, that’s okay, it was
your first time after all.

Just know that if you’re going to pull people along with you in
your online event endeavors, then you should probably tweak your
teasing and coaxing skills. Think back to high school. You big
flirt, you.

Want to witness event planning live in action? Please join me
and my marketing friends for the First Annual Web Content
Awareness Day, scheduled to launch on February 9, 2006 at
http://WebContentAwarenessDay.com.

Sneak Peek: Visit the Countdown to Web Content Awareness Day
Blog and learn how you can ride our wave of high web
traffic!

Paste in this link:

http://wordfeeder.typepad.com/web_content_awareness_day/

Copyright 2006 Dina Giolitto. All rights reserved.

When you are just about to begin to play cricket it is not always straightforward to tell what you should buy. If you go into a sportswear equipment shop & ask them what you need, you will most likely end up getting a substantial amount of kit that you don’t need. With this in mind, it is sensible to clearly understand what you may need ahead of you going shopping. That way you are more likely to receive what you need, rather than what the shop manager thinks you need.

Below, is essentially a full cricket equipment list, you do not have to get everything on this list, as several organisations will provide you kit especially at youth level: Find a wide selection of cricket items today at Sportswear-Equipment.com.

Cricket whites, cricket bats, balls, helmets, gloves, batting (wicket keeping) inner gloves, wicket keeping gloves, batting pads, wicket keeping pads, box, chest pad, arm guard, inner thigh pad, cricket boots (bowling boots; batting boots), box (groin guard), stumps and bails.

For most of the sports competitions you will ever play a part in you will need to have your own set of whites. Cricket whites include white cricket trousers & a cricket shirt. It is therefore important that you get hold of a correct pair of cricket trousers and also a good white cricket shirt and jumper as it can turn pretty cold if you are standing out on the field for a lengthy period of time especially if you are playing in England (the start and end of the season are the coldest).

If you can not borrow equipment from your club the other most important items of equipment are a cricket bat & box. A descent cricket bat is imperative if you aim to score a lot of runs & is a very individual piece of equipment, so spend some time picking your bat, if at all possible you would be recommended to go to a store & pick one up before you buy in order for you to know how it feels to hit with. (Once you know what you want you can often procure bats on the Web considerably cheaper). You need a good box to protect your groin from the ball, as getting hit down below’ is considerably painful, so investing in a good box before you start is a clear must - you can not play cricket without one.

Related topics of interest include: F1 Merchandise & Cheap Toys.

1. Have you had your cholesterol checked recently?

The truth is some cholesterol is necessary for good health, but having too much cholesterol in your blood is a big danger as it can raise the risk of heart attack or stroke. The excess of cholesterol in your blood may be stored in your arteries and cause them to narrow, a disease called atherosclerosis. In case of large deposits an artery can be completely blocked so the blood can’t flow through.

Women aged 45 and older and men aged 35 and older should have their cholesterol checked periodically, at least one time in a year. Your health care can decide you to have it checked more often, depending on what your cholesterol level is and what other risk factors for heart disease you have.

2. Do you exercise?

Physical activity rise up your metabolism, and eats up more calories. In addition, the more you exercise, the better the effect. Exercising builds muscle and bones, improve your breath and sustain your heart.

These days, exercising is not just a life style or a good sense. Many people use it as a status symbol. You often hear men and women discussing their workouts; exercise classes, cycling, working on the treadmills or weight machines.

There is not excuse for not exercising. Think that your health is an important part of your life, and should be a high priority.

3. Do you eat your veggies?

It is important to supply your body with the minimal levels of essential antioxidants and nutrients needed by each and every cell in your body to support optimal health.

Eat your veggies. But don’t confine yourself to lettuce or salads! Darker greens have about the very low calories and carbs, but pack a lot more punch in the vitamins and nutrients. By substituting radicchio, escarole, watercress or spinach for the iceberg lettuce, you add vitamin C, riboflavin’s, manganese and a lot of essential vitamins that lettuce doesn’t contain. Try them steamed, braised or grilled for something a little different from the usual salad.

Valerian D is a freelance writer specialized in health issues and disease risk factors

If you have never considered a personal debt consolidation loan, maybe
now’s the time. Each year, millions of people file bankruptcy as a
means of eliminating their consumer debts. Although bankruptcy may seem
like an easy fix to credit problems, the effects are long-term. Before
taking drastic measures, explore other debt reduction options.

Understanding Debt Consolidation Loans

Debt consolidation loans are intended to help people manage their
credit, and pay off debts sooner. Without consolidating debts, some people
are able to reduce their debts. However, this long process takes several
years. Instead of paying on a high interest credit card for ten or
twenty years, it may be more beneficial to consolidate debts. This way, the
balance in paid within a few years

Convenient and Lower Monthly Payments

The convenience of a debt consolidation loan is an attractive feature.
If you are burden with several creditors, making payments to various
lenders may be time consuming and frustrating. Furthermore, having too
many creditors makes it easier to forget a payment.

Through debt consolidation, all your credit balances are combined into
one loan. This alleviates submitting several payments each month.
Rather, you make one payment to the debt consolidation lender.

Debt Consolidation lowers monthly debt payments by reducing interest
rates. For example, if you have four high interest credit cards, minimum
monthly payments for all four credit accounts may be around $200.
However, if you consolidate the four balances and obtain an interest rate of
9 or 10 percent, monthly payments may be reduced up to 50 percent.

More Money Goes to Reducing the Principle

Many people are unable to reduce their credit card balances due to high
interest rates. In some instances, the minimum payment is lower than
the finance fees. Thus, the balance continually increases, even if you
are not using the credit card.

By obtaining a lower interest rate, a large portion of your monthly
payment is applied to the principle balance. If possible, attempt to
secure a debt consolidation loan with an introductory zero percent interest
rate.

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If you don’t get out of loan, then you will be stuck in a debt trap. That is taking a debt to repay another debt. Therefore it’s very important that you go in for debt settlement. If you don’t then you can land up in bankruptcy. All your collateral and the security can be taken away from you. The things that you have worked hard for can be just taken away from you. Since the credit and the lending agencies have the power do to do. To prevent yourself from landing in such a situation, you should settle your debts as soon as possible

This cycle will continue and soon you will be forced to sell your household things or take your baby’s milk money just to repay the debt, thus debt settlement becomes very necessary. Added to this is the social insult and loss of face that you may encounter within your friends and family circle. Lenders have strongmen and have the tact to recover money. Therefore you may find them knocking at your door

Repay debts or you may find that you have no financial investments on which you can bank upon. Future financial investments are required to help you in the years when you may not have a steady stream of income or when you have retired. At that point of time you will make sure that debt settlement is done so that investments and the income from these investments are required to make sure that all your bills are paid. Credit reports become positive once there is debt settlement. Therefore if need be, you can also take more debts in the future. You become a good customer to whom the lending institutions are ready to give loans at less than market interest rates too.

If you enjoyed this article check out this list of debt settlement related articles. And here you’ll find our most recently added debt settlement article for your reading.