A report says women are getting in financial strife to be beautiful
American women spend $US7bn a year on beauty products

TWO US mums have launched a firm that sells baby high heels.

Don’t let asthma knock the wind out of you. Asthma is a lung disorder characterized by sudden fits of wheezing, coughing, or shortness of breath. According to research or other evidence, the following self-care steps may be helpful:

Clean it up
+To avoid triggering asthma attacks, control household and workplace irritants such as dust, mold, smoke, chemicals, and animal dander, and dietary triggers like certain food additives
+Keep a healthy body weight
+Shed extra pounds to improve breathing and decrease the need for medications
+Check out certain antioxidants
30 mg a day of lycopene or 64 mg a day of natural beta-carotene can help prevent exercise-related asthma attacks
+Try proven herbal remedies
+Supplements containing boswellia extract (900 mg a day), ivy leaf extract (50 drops a day), or tylophora leaf (200 to 400 mg a day) may improve breathing symptoms; children should be given one-half of these amounts or less, depending on body weight
+Watch the salt
+Avoid aggravating symptoms by limiting use of table salt and salty fast foods, and by reading labels to find low sodium groceries
+See an allergist
+Find a specialist to help you build tolerance to allergens

Rambutan

Exotic fruit of Southeast Asia.
The rambutan, Nephelium lappaceum, is a fruit considered exotic to people outside of its native range. To people of Malaysia, Thailand, the Phillippines, Vietnam, Borneo, and other countries of this region, the rambutan is a relatively common fruit the same way an apple is common to many people in cooler climates. This may change for the rambutan over time as availability and distribution improve.
This web site aims to familiarize the public with the qualities that make the rambutan such a wonderful, delicious and nutritious fruit. The word "rambut" in the fruit name 'rambutan' is Malay for 'hairy,' and this refers to the spiky rind. Indeed, without the soft spines on the rind, the rambutan would resemble the lychee (or litchee) which is in the same botanical family. The structure internally is quite similar, with a single central inedible seed and edible white flesh wrapped around it but the skin is the part that makes the rambutan so distinctive in appearance. Other members of the same botanical family, the Sapindaceae, include the longan (Dimocarpus longan), the canepa or mamoncillo (Melicoccus bijugatus), the pulasan (Nephelium mutabile), and guaraná (Paullinia cupana).
Pulasan Guaraná

The fruit should be 2" to 3" long and oval but can be almost round in some varieties. The shape can also be more elongated if the seed does not develop. The two pictures above show, on the left, a pile of fully ripe fruit and on the right a cut-away section of the rind revealing the white, edible interior of the rambutan. Look for a bright red color in most cases but there are some rambutan varieties that ripen a bright yellow or yellow with an orange blush.
Removing the rind The opening of the rambutan can be accomplished by either cutting part way into the rind or, if fresh, biting into it as the spines are quite soft and pose no threat.
Opening the fruit Once the rind is cut part way around the equator of the fruit it can be pried open. There may be some juice if the rambutan is really fresh that you should try to catch before it drips. It will be as sweet as the fruit you are about to enjoy.
Time to enjoy The rambutan can now be removed from the rind by squeezing until it pops out. There is one seed in the center which you discard as it is bitter. The rest of the fruit is yours to enjoy and it is quite refreshing. Besides vitamin C, there are many other nutritional components to savor which you can read about on the nutrition page.

What to look for in a rambutan

Grafted rambutan versus seedlingThe pictures below show some of the differences between grafted rambutan varieties that have been selected from superior specimens with known desirable qualities versus those which have been produced from seedlings with unknown qualities. Seedlings can, on occasion, be as good as previously selected varieties and are then used as scion material or budwood to replicate it by grafting it onto a seedling rootstock. Grafting often accelerates the first flowers in numerous plant species and often leads to earlier fruit production than on trees growing on their own roots.
The grafted varieties tend to have larger fruit and there may be as few as 9 or 10 to the pound or as many as 16 to 18 per pound. The ungrafted seedlings tend to have smaller fruit and there may be 16 to over 20 per pound. In addition, the edible proportion inside each rambutan fruit may be reduced in the seedling due to typically smaller outside diameters combined with medium to large seeds. The other factor which may affect your enjoyment is that many seedlings have fruit with a very fibrous texture a lot like the canepa (Meliccocus bijugatus) and are quite firmly attached to the seed. The photo below shows, on the left, the grafted rambutan fruit and on the right, a bunch of seedling fruit. The differences are striking, both in appearance and in flavor. The texture and frequently sugar content are often superior in grafted or selected cultivars. This was, after all, why they were 'selected' for mass production in the first place.

In the left photo below, the grafted variety is in the upper row, the seedling in the lower. In the photo below on the right, the upper two rows are the grafted variety and the fruits below that are from a seedling. Notice the large seed size in the cut open seedling fruit reducing the amount of the edible portion.


The reward for your efforts
As you can see above, the thin-skinned rambutan fruit is quite accessible and the edible portion makes up a large part of the whole. After making a shallow cut through the skin and only part of the way around the exterior, the edible white portion is exposed with some light pressure on the rind along the line of the cut. Resembling a boiled egg about 2" to 3" long once it is removed from the rind, the rambutan fruit easily slips out of the soft spiny skin (pericarp) and in some varieties also slips easily (freestone) away from the pit. There are many varieties where the edible portion is harder to peel away from the seed (clingstone) but the flavor of the fruit is deemed more important than this quality and many clingstone varieties have a great taste. There are also the occasional fruits where the seed has partially withered ("chicken tongue" seed) or not formed at all, leaving you with a delicious seedless fruit, but those are the exceptions.

When to pick or when to buy
Notice how the fruit forms in clusters and some of these can be quite large, numbering in the dozens. As full ripeness approaches, the entire branch can sag under the weight and be pulled down a few feet. Harvesting involves cutting off the entire cluster if the majority of the fruit are ripe; if not, then several visits to the tree are required to complete the task.
From flowering to ripe fruit, it takes 90 days or more. The green fruits start to turn yellow and then red, sometimes quite rapidly. In some years, the process from green to red can take place in 5 to 10 days. Keep in mind that the ripe rambutan is typically red but there are some varieties that finish with a bright yellow color and some that end up with an orange blush. The flavor is pretty much the same as the red ones. The best fruit have little or no black forming on the tips of the soft spines. The close-up

These pictures make it possible to see the detail of the skin of a rambutan. The soft spines, or spinterns, are safe to handle and lose a lot of water after the fruit has been picked. For this reason, to hold them for any length of time in refrigeration requires some sort of plastic film to slow down the moisture loss. The spinterns may turn black within days after harvest but the fruit inside remains quite fresh and tasty for several days or a week longer. If the humidity is high, then the fruit can be held at room temperature in a plastic bag that is not sealed but rather loosely closed.

My kid is guilty! She is indeed addicted in watching Disney channel's TV shows. She watches it every day. If it's possible she would want to watch them for 24 hours!
I really don't know how to put my kid's interest into something else.
TV has been her babysitter.


According to some Child Psychiatrist, TV can be a child best friend but it can also harm her, especially if some of the shows she watches are of those with explicit or Bulgar contents. But Playhouse Disney so far has been the safest for kids right now. Their strict screening really sets-up a Child-friendly TV shows for children.
But of course, you gotta let your kid play with other children to increase her social life... That's what I do with my little angel.

My Friends Tigger and Pooh. Although this has a limited learning functions for kids, they can learn to care for others and be alert in any situation. I can recommend this for little toddlers. The graphics are pretty entertaining. And it can teach them to co operate with a group.




POCOYO. What does a little blue baby offer to kids? like Pooh, he can offer little kids lesson on how to care to others. To treat animals right and to enjoy being a toddler with wide imagination, it can explore their little minds and adopt it with their daily basics. Not only that Pocoyo teaches little toddler to be caring but also to behave and be playful.




Little Einsteins. This is a perfect TV show for your little explorers! In this TV show they have many options to learn. About music, comprehension, dancing, singing, fairy tales and a lot more. It can teach little cuties to be co operative and let them decide on things as well.

Some people here in my place don’t know the benefits of CHINA products. That they think if it’s CHINA it has no quality. But they are all bunch of HYPOCRITES. I love China products they’re cheap, they’re good, they’re easy to find, fashionable. From toys, to clothes, to electronics, to school and office supplies… I love them!

TOYS, they are much cheaper and more creative than any of the other imported toys there is in stores. By the way, F.Y.I. people! Many US toys are being imported from China. But really they are much cheaper and just a few bucks about a dollar or so, you can buy almost a dozen of toys with different kinds. See how much you can save? If you want to check on toys made in China try looking or investigating the toy itself, for example Barbie, it is located at her back it is stated Made in China. Even Fisher Prize.

CLOTHES. They are cheap and much more fashionable than any branded clothes. They derive their fashion senses from Japan and Italy. So you can never be out fashioned. For my kid, she grows like almost every minute. So I really have to invest on clothes. I patronize China products since they are much cheaper and you can buy them by bulks with fewer prizes. Even our footwear, Could you imagine, I bought some for my niece and she wears them at school everybody was commenting how pretty the designs are.

ELECTRONIC GADGETS. I’m telling you now, if ever you have plans on buying China electronic gadgets you must handle them with a lot of care… Of course again, it is cheaper. You can buy MP3 for just $6. A digicam for just $10. A mobile phone who has everything and I mean everything… TV, radio, mp3 player, video/camera, internet browser, and many more for just $40. Not only that an iPhone for just $30.

SCHOOL AND OFFICE SUPPLIES. Colorful things for kids like notebooks, there lots to choose from and it really looks like they are expensive but actually they aren’t. I buy these products for my niece whose attending first grade right now and they are so cheap that I saved almost 75% of my budget for her school supplies. Even the bags she uses. They are much cheaper but more fashionable. There are lots to choose from. From Barbie to BArny.

I know you might be thinking I am a Chinese though I advertise their products. But I’m not even part Chinese. I just love their creativeness and assertiveness.

What good is a typhoon? When I was a kid I used to love it when it rain hard. I just couldn’t remember why. Maybe because when typhoon strikes, we’ve got no classes in school and we’ve got to stay indoors to play. Or the feeling of being in the dark with no light but a candle and you’ve got to play “shadows”. Cause you see here in our place, when typhoon hits to signal number 2, electricity had to be deactivated to prevent fire when lightning strikes electric post. I really don’t know the real reason behind it but a cousin of mine who used to work in an electrical company said so. It was always like that. So when it rains hard… NO SCHOOL, NO ELECTRIC, Nothing but fun being in the dark. Me and my sister used to love it when it rain, cause here in our country, where hot summer lasted for months and months, we always suffer heat stroke like almost everyday, it’s a good thing when it rain, we can play in the rain, or play indoor games and at night we cuddle in our comforters or blankets with only a candle to shine the whole room. Now that I have a kid of my own, and my sister isn’t here, I try to let them experience the same thing we did back then. So what I do is I tuck them to bed at night and read them fairy tales just like those old days when my grandmother used to read us one. Maybe that is also one of the things I admire when it rain. You’ve got to reminisce past just like what I am doing right now. It really gives me a wonderful feeling, I feel so young… My husband never understands it why I am so darn happy when it rains. But now by reading this, I hope he does. I know it’s a bit peculiar to love typhoon, I mean here in our country a little typhoon can cause so many deaths. But you can’t blame me, as I’ve said earlier it’s cold here when it rains… that’s the only time it is! My baby is playing happily with my niece today even though outside it’s raining cats and dogs. And there’s no Disney channel for them to watch to begin with. Maybe because it’s cold that just like me they feel alive. It’s just so sad I have to wait for the electricity to be activated just to post this. There’s no WI-FI around my place. And I’m running out of battery so toddles everyone!!!

I am confused I can't understand my blog! Well, because I write different stuff, I get lose to track! I write what ever pops in my head.So you see, you can read about almost anything here. Any kind of article, You can read facts about life, sex, people, kids, health, animals, food, advertisement. ANYTHING! It's just sad I got no time to sort it though I write like crazy and Don't even tend to categorize it. HMP! But bear with me people. It's a good thing I have to write down my thoughts and have fun out of it plus I earn too! Yes! I mean earn money from my blogs. So for those who want to earn by blogging here are some few pointers and instructional article on how to earn by you just writting anything you like and having fun at the same time.




Why You Need a Blog
If you want to generate consistent, long-term traffic and sales, you need to start blogging. It takes time to build a blog. But if you do a little each day, you'll profit in the long run.
The first thing you want to do is go to either WordPress.com or Blogger.com and create a blog. You're going to post content in your blog so it gets picked up by search engines.
Google loves these sites. So everything you post will get into the Google Search engine eventually. You're also going to use Ping-O-Matic to notify all the blog services about your posts so you get into other search engines like Yahoo! and MSN.
Next, you need to get some articles up so you can get an Adsense account and make a little money with that too. You need some content in your blog before you can display Adsense ads and affiliate links.
You can write your own articles (if you have time), have a freelance writer do it, or you can get free articles at EzineArticles.com.
Setting Up Your Blog
Just go to Blogger.com and create a new blog. You'll want to create a new blog for every product you promote. I recommend you start with Affiliate Cash Secrets for your first promotion because the affiliate program pays up to 75% commission monthly.
Once you create your blog, go to Settings. Under the Basic tab, add a description of your blog. The title can just be "Affiliate Cash Secrets." I put "Building Your Automatic Money Machine" for the description. But you can enter whatever you want.
I also set Show Email Posts to NO. I don't want any distractions in my blog. No external links, etc. My visitors are there to do one thing of two things: click on an affiliate link or an Adsense ad.
Next click the Formatting tab. Select "Show 1 Post on the main page." I only want one article on each page because that gives the reader a stopping point where they come to my resource box and click through to my site.
Post template - here's where you can add your resource box to appear on each page. It will not update your entire blog. But it will appear in the HTML editor every time you make a post.

Now click the Comments tab.
Default - new posts do NOT have comments. Again, you don't want any distractions on your site. This isn't a "fun blog," it's a "money blog."
Finally, click the Template tab. If you want a different template, click "Pick New." Google has a ton of tutorials on how to edit your template so I won't cover that here. But you'll notice on my blog that I changed my Links and put the Adsense ads on the side bar.
When you're finished posting, go to Pingomatic.com and enter your blog name and URL. This will notify all the search engines that your blog has been updated. Only ping when you have added new content or made significant changes to your blog.
I would add about 10 pages to start. Then add 3-5 pages a day. After 3 months at 5 pages a day, you will have 450 pages listed in the search engines. That could easily generate a few hundred visitors a day to your blog.

A reseach I made for my cousin. I was so amazed with what I did so I put my work here at my blog. Here's a few facts you must know about psychology. How it begun and understanding the facts about it.


How did psychology begin?

"Psychology", a scholar observed, "has a long past, but only a short history." As a science it can be said to have begun about 100 years ago, when Wilhelm Wundt opened a psychological laboratory in Germany. Yet an interest in mind and behavior is at least as old as human records.



Most of the great themes of modern psychology can be traced to ancient Greece. Almost three thousand years ago, the poet Homer marveled at the range of human personality and credited the gods: "To one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, the lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind."



Aristotle's concept of catharsis was partly a theory of psychotherapy. In watching tragic dramas, he said, people felt terror and pity, and this purged their minds of negative emotions. In the same vein the dramatist Aeschylus wrote; "Words are physicians of a mind disease." Over two millenia later, Sigmund Freud not only turned to Greek drama to illustrate his theories of unconcious but also used words - talk of a patient in psychoanalysis- as the basis of therapy for mental disorders.
Hippocrates, called the father of medicine, was very modern in his views that mental illness had natural causes and the brain was the seat of emotion and thought. And many of today's findings about the brain and behavior simply amplify Aristotle's assertions that the human psyche(or mind) is a part of the body and that our capacity for reason and moral choice develops as the brain processes more and more data from the senses

Is psychology really a science?

Scientist in other fields, such as physics and chemistry, often critisize psychology as "soft". Many jokes jokes reflects doubts about its validity as a science. British psychologist such as Hans Eysenck cites the cartoons in which ones laboratory rat says to another."I sure got my human well conditioned, whenever I pressed this pedal he drops pellet into the chute"

Some doubts are reasonable. It is really valid to apply the results of animal experiments of human behavior, just because the animals'nervous systems are somewhat like our own?Can rats in a maze reveal anything significant about how humans think, or for that matter about rats?

Although most scientist do not deny that talk therapy on the Freudian model has helped many people, it bothers the scientist that nobody can say for sure how or why it works, after almost a century of use.

One philosopher, Patricia Churchland of the University of California at San Diego, has pointed out that the portion of the brain reachable by talk- our concious thinking, introperpective self- is "only little bubble on the froth."beneath which the huge prepondence of brain activity proceeds,in effect, on its own.

Whenever someone you know- relative, friend, coworker, schoolmate, or neighbor- talks about commiting suicide, the threat should be taken very seriously. Get in touch with a close family member, the person doctor or minister, or a local suicide prevention agency. In other cases people who plan killing themselves might not want to talk about it. Nevertheless, they may give clues to their intentions.

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  At greater risk are those who have attempted suicide in the past. An estimated 75 percent of those who actually kill themselves have made at least one prior attempt. Such person needs watchful care and support, particularly during time of stress.




• A change of personality can signal danger. If someone becomes highly irritable or cries with no apparent reason. there are grounds to act. And when someone who is normally resillent becomes apathetic and resigned, it is time to watch them carefully.




• Emotional bows - the loss of a loved one, financial reverses, failure in performance at school or on the job - may trigger the wish to end it all.




• Expressions of guilt of self-hatred may indicate an inner despair; remarks like "I think I'm a lot of trouble to everybody; they'd be better off without me"should be taken seriously.




• Fixation on themes of death, suffering, or suicide, even if spoken of in jest, should be taken up. It is difficult to do, but may be lifesaving, to reply to such remarks by asking if the persons is thinking about suicide.




• Writing a will, putting one's affairs in order, can, in certain circumstances, be a warning that the person is preparing to commit suicide.




• Giving away of possessions, particularly young people, is a tip-off that something may be seriously wrong.




• Withdrawal from normal activities involving school, sports, or hobbies, can be a warning danger.




• Alchoholics and drug abusers make up a high risk group. They account for the great majority of suicides.

Measures to Take Include:

• Do not ignore danger signals: Do not assume the crisis will pass.Try to discuss suicide openly and calmly.




• Hide all dangerous drugs, including aspirin, all firearms, and car keys.




• Try to make sure the potential suicide is not left alone too often or too long.




• Don't be hesitant about calling for proffesional help. Remember, you may help to avert a real tragedy.

To keep loneliness at bay, street children often band together in "families"or form close knit partnership:

What exactly is a street child?
Anyone who works with street children comes up sooner rather than later against the problem of definition. Broadly, street children are those for whom the street (in the widest sense of the word: unoccupied dwellings, wasteland, doorways, sewers…) more than their family, has become their real home, a situation in which there is no protection, supervision, or direction from responsible adults.
In the 1980s, UNICEF and other agencies suggested a distinction between children ON the streets and children OF the streets. “Children on the streets” or “working children” are those whose family support base has become increasingly weakened and who therefore must share in the responsibility for family survival by working on city streets. While these children may spend their days and evenings on the street, they usually return home at night. “Children of the streets” are those whose ties with family are completely broken and who are completely alone, without support (even the support of extended family, step-family, or god parents) and must struggle for daily survival.
Although the UNICEF definitions and categorization are helpful, they are not so easy to apply. [For example,] here in Cusco [ Peru], there are children who live in the streets on weekdays but go home on weekends. There are also those who would be considered “on the streets” but who stay away from their homes for extended periods of time. “Of the streets” kids might not be in the streets continuously; at times they are in jails or institutions or they are living with unrelated people rather than their families. Child prostitutes often do not fit cleanly into these categories either.
The UNICEF distinction assumes a more experience of family life where the family lives in a private dwelling where the front door is shut against an apparently hostile world. It denies the reality of slums and provinces where overcrowding forces play, culture, and family life onto the streets. So then, children on the streets within their own communities should not be considered “street children”. Thus, a street child is not just a child on any street but a “child out of place.”
Children often end up on the streets due to rural-urban migration, family unemployment, and poverty. Most people who work with street children will agree that few have been abandoned. Rather, street children tend to gradually abandon or break away from their families. Usually abuse or exploitation within the home is involved, often associated with parental alcoholism or drug use.
In recent years there has been an overconcentration on “children of the streets” which has hidden the problems of larger groups of working children who are not so visible, exciting, and glamorous, but whose problems are no less urgent. Generally working children tend to be lonelier and suffer from greater abuse. They have less freedom. The nutritional status of many working children has been shown to be worse than that of children of the streets likely because they must share their earnings with the whole family. Studies have shown that their physical, psychological, and intellectual development has also been more damaged. All children living even part time on the streets encounter violence on a daily basis, often at the hands of police who are after all paid by society to keep the streets clean and safe. In the street, the notion of children’s rights takes second place to the requirement of avoiding tourists being made uncomfortable by unsightly beggars. Many experience detention centers or even adult prisons which leave them physically and emotionally scarred.

The street children that I have talked with have told me that it is impossible to survive in the streets without using drugs such as terokal (a toxic glue used for shoes), crack, and cocaine. Membership in gangs and sexual relations (often spreading HIV and other diseases) are also common.

Do you think about her every day? Sometimes call her just to ask her what she's doing?

Do you have pretty much the same standards, laughs at the same things, have fun together?

How about the way she looks? What others consider a flaw-that gap between her teeth, for example-do you think it's cute?

Do you buy things you think she'd like, even give her something dear to you such as heirloom?

Are you intensely curious about her family backgrounds, interests, and work, and do you want to show her thiings you've accomplished?

Do you want to discuss everyting important to her?

Does she always seem to be involve with your plans for the future?

Do you want to become better person for her sake?

Do you go to the theater because she loves it even though you don't?

Do you feel strong emotional and mental attraction to her? Do you enjoy being affectionate?

Do you find it easy to resists attractions to other people?

Do you feel bouyant, glad to be alive?Do people keep asking you why are you so happy?

If you answer yes to all or most of these questions, it may be time to move to the next level for both of you!