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For centuries money has been the pre-dominant focus of human activity. Before money came along humans bartered, but the concept of excess wealth, of being a millionaire is a new addition to our worldly pre-occupations. As far as millionaire knowledge is concerned we are all merely infants in the grand scheme of things and its this activity, this vast need to have enough money that will mature and refine to a point when everyone will know how to get their entitlement, their share. But why wait for this to happen? The source of entrepreneurial flair is creativity. Making something from nothing. Creating or uncovering value that didn’t exist before. There’s three things you should know about becoming wealthy quickly. Here they are.

1) Wealth is a numerical concept designed to assist in the trading of value. It sounds obvious but its your understanding of its nature that can help you see clearly. $1 million dollars is not made up of a single fat bill with a million printed on it. Its numerical and has a lowest common denominator. A cent. 1 billion cents is 1 million dollars. If you know how to get your hands on a single cent, then there in your capacity, you have the seed to make 1 billion cents. A cent is easy to get, so your work is immediately leveraged. Even $10 is an elementary amount of profit to achieve so your work of getting 1 billion cents, now becomes a matter of getting 100,000 ten dollar bills.

Its not how much you can get your hands on that really matters. Whats important is how you got that quantity of numerical value, money. If you got it by working in your job for a single hour, then the prospects of time diminishes your possibilities of using leverage to make that million fast. Lets face it, that’s what we all require. Speed is important because time is short and life is for living after all once the capital is safely in the bank.

The source of entrepreneurial creativity is creation. Worked for money, money that has been assigned and credited to you for carrying out specified tasks on an hourly time scale, namely as you would typically find in a job situation is absent of money “creation” You are far removed from the source of money creation. Your creation is fixed by an outside source, an agreement. The agreement you made with your employer. Opportunity is very scarce in these circumstances.

So, if you can learn or craft an excellent idea where you can make even a single cent under the power of your own independent creativity, there in that activity has the potential to create $1 million dollars. I would rather work and focus my activities to make a single cent, then to labour under the burden of an hourly wage, simply because the security given is false. You have abandoned the possibility for creation for security. A dead end.

2) If you reflect on nature, you can literally see the secret power of leverage and the implications to your entrepreneurial goal. Nature creates abundance through creativity from literally nothing. On a microscopic level, everything that duplicates and repeats itself does so in the very first instance from a small embryo. Whether its animals humans or plants, the world of nature is about componential volume. A single component, a lowest common denominator repeated on a massive scale. As an entrepreneur your job is to find your own individual component. Your own embryo of value that you can work to play god by reproducing its properties on a grand scale. Repetition and leverage go hand in hand in the million dollar quest. This concept can deliver very rapid results indeed.

3) But before we even consider reproducing an increment of value that will grow into a million dollar fortune we want something else. We need the leverage of organic growth. Just like in nature, an embryo is the source of the creative process, however after that small systemized act of creation, nature go’s on to the next creation. She does not labour with her last creation for the time of its natural life. The organism is endowed with its own capacity to grow and reproduce.

It is this quality that we want to endow with our little increment of value that will be reproduced. We want that because as entrepreneurs, we create, we don’t work. A creation must find its own legs, just like living organisms do. There is only one way to do that with money. Since money is a man made structure invented to assist in the trading of value, your increment of value will need to be endowed with a capacity to reproduce on its own in a certain fashion relevant to money and human needs.

Its that last item, “human needs” that is most important. The natural forces of supply and demand have an intrinsic role in nature. What is not required dies off. What is required is plentiful and dominates an environment. So your originating creation of value that must be reproduced and duplicated, must have a value of reasonable demand. People must seek it out. They must want it and takes steps to get it beyond your own activities.

Why is it that money is so scarce for so many people on Earth?

Why are there so many poor people on Earth if money is most required by so many? If the law of supply and demand dictates that a commodity will find a level based on these two factors, then why are so many millions lacking money they need. The demand is huge. In some cases its a matter of life and death! (For example a person needing an expensive operation) Yet this lack still exists, contrary to how nature functions.

This last statement should inspire you exponentially. If you think about how the world has changed since the last century you will note how completely “blind” humans were for example in the 1900’s to the demand of fellow humans. We have come such a long way. There are products and services developed today that are so diverse and so completely astounding in their numbers that when we look at the past, our capacity to meet demand was simply ancient.

What many people wanting their first million fail to realize is that we haven’t even scratched the surface of demand and how to meet our fellow humans needs. If commerce continues at the rate it is going now, in 50 years even the diverse and rich supply of products and services will look exponentially pre-historic. In other words, the opportunities are shockingly available. Meaning a million dollars in as little as mere months is completely within your grasp.

Martin Thomas (c)2005

Martin is a professional investor and Entrepreneur. If you would like to discover more about being an entrepreneur, you can read “The Million Dollar Mentor” by Hayden Muller. Martin recommends this work highly and has used the very concepts contained in the work for his own successful entrepreneurial activities. http://www.opportunity-investor.com

Charitable gift giving is a worrying thing. When you give your spare change to the homeless guy you worry that he is going to spend it on the wrong things. When you contribute to those orphanages in Africa you worry whether you are propping up some despotic gangster turned politician general. Perhaps most worrying of all is when you give those charitable gifts you do not know how much of the cash gets through to the good cause. In fact giving a present that also benefits charities may seem like the perfect holiday gift, but in most cause-related marketing, less than 1 in $10s of your spend goes to the charities. Here are some ways to reduce the worry around charitable gift giving.

Choose your charitable gift with care: Buying products for yourself and contributing to a cause is nothing new. Many of them can be very worthwhile purchases. For example, if you buy a bottle of Ethos Water, a subsidiary of Starbucks, the coffee company will donate 5 cents toward clean drinking water programs in developing nations. When you take home a red iPod Nano, a whole $10s of your money goes to the battle against AIDS in the third world.

What is good about these charitable buys is that you the buyer know exactly how much money from your purchase is going to the charity. Companies don’t have to disclose how much they give and the charities don’t have to report how much they get.

Watch out for vague marketing promises and showy promotional campaigns without exact figures. These companies may be spending more on marketing the relationships than on the contribution to the charity.

When you see a pink ribbon brand and want to contribute to breast cancer, it doesn’t mean the various breast cancer charities will get any of the proceeds. Anyone can use a logo. To be sure about all those charity campaigns, check out the campaign websites where you’ll get a breakdown of all the sponsoring deals.

Watch out for those sexy credit cards that make you feel good because they are linked with a good cause. These cards give money to the cause every time you use it but the small print here is that these cards tend to be high interest rates (up to 18 percent) and the donations is only 1 percent of the amount you spent. So do the math: if you charge $100, the bank will give $1 to charity. After 12 months of spending this much, that’s about $12. In some cases, the charity only gets .25 percent from what you buy. Again the advice is to ask the charity how much they get, as the card issuers are less than forthcoming with the information.Or better still swap your affiliate card a general rebate card that will give you a 5% refund and send it directly to the charity of your choice.

Cut out the middlemen such as those online charity malls like greatergood.com or igive.com where you can buy gifts and a percentage of the purchase price goes to the charity of your choice. There has been little negative feedback on these companies. However who needs them when you can bypass the sites and go direct to the website of the charity you’re interested in. They often sell products directly on their sites.

Talking of the Internet you can benefit charity not only by the gifts that you purchase, but also by browsing in itself. Goodsearch.com is a search engine that will donate 50 percent of its advertising revenue to the charity of your choice when you use the site to do an Internet search. According to their co-founder you’ll raise about 1 cent per Internet query and the numbers can add up. Five hundred people searching 4 times a day could generate about $7,300 a year, according to Goodsearch.com.Worry stems from not knowing. Charitable gift giving can be great if you do your homework and go to the charities directly.

Robert Grazian is an accomplished niche website developer and author. To learn more about gifts visit My Catholic Gifts for current articles and discussions.

Is fat essential in a healthy diet? Some nutritionists and scientists believe that a small amount of fatty acids or components of certain fats are essential to human nutrition. This has never been demonstrated for humans, although apparently it is true in rats. There is the incontrovertible fact that countless millions of human beings in Asia, Africa, South America and elsewhere do not consume fat in their diet. And yet they live to a health-normal or beyond-normal life span; their physical or nutritional development is not infrequently far superior to the people on a high-fat or average American fat dietary intake.

Most certainly it is known now that these same people on a low-fat or fat-free diet are virtually free from heart attacks and strokes, which are so common among people on a fat diet.

For Eskimos whose basic diet constitute of fish and whale fats, blood tests revealed that cholesterol and fats in the blood were very low. This surprising fact was later found to be due to the high concentrations of unsaturated fatty acids in the large amount of fish and whale oils consumed by these Eskimos. These unsaturated fatty acids have the unique power to lower the blood levels of cholesterol and other fats, thus protecting the Eskimos from the complications of atherosclerosis in the heart, brain, kidneys, and other organs.

What is fat? First let us look at food in general. As long as we are alive, breathing, with our hearts pumping, our bodies are at work burning up energy which is supplied by food.

Food consists of six groups, all of which are basic necessities essential for normal health. These are proteins, carbohydrates, fats (which are also manufactured by the body), vitamins, minerals, and water.

Protein is the keystone of human nutrition. It is essential for every form of life for growth, pregnancy, formation of blood, bone, and every vital tissue. It is essential for the healing of wounds, the warding off of infection, the maintenance of body weight, and the conduct of vital organs and glands in the body.

Meat is the greatest source of animal protein for human consumption and man can live in good health on virtually an exclusive fresh meat diet. Animal sources of proteins are meat, fish, poultry, milk, eggs and cheese. These foods contain high sources of protein, as well as carbohydrates and fats. Vegetable sources of protein are wheat, beans, peas, lentils, soybeans, nuts, corn, rye and yeast, although these also contain elements of carbohydrate and fat.

Normal adults and growing children require one gram of protein for every 2.2 lbs. of body weight. This means that the average man or woman weighing 125 to 175 lbs. needs from 60 to 80 grams of protein daily for normal nutrition. This would be contained in the equivalent of 1/2 pound of steak, one chicken, a pound of fish or a pound of cottage cheese. Each gram of protein supplies four calories of energy.

Carbohydrates are a main source of energy. Carbohydrates include the two main classes: starches and sugars. They are one of the primary sources of energy of our diet. One gram of carbohydrate yields 4 calories of energy. The amount of carbohydrates necessary in the daily diet is very variable and also depends on the amount of it eaten with the protein in meals. The average American adult consumes anywhere from 150 to 400 grams of carbohydrate daily. It takes about 500 grams to make a pound. Usually more than half the calories in the diet (from 50 to 70 per cent) are supplied by carbohydrate.

Unfortunately, these carbohydrates are usually refined to excess, as in the case of flours and sugars. Essential vitamins and proteins are lost in this way and certain nutritional deficiencies may result. If excessive carbohydrate is eaten in the diet, many individuals will experience symptoms of gassy distress, flatulence, belching, or bloating. Bread, flour, milk, cereals, potatoes, cornstarch, cakes, rice, and puddings are examples of dietary starch as are most vegetables, although these contain lesser amounts of both carbohydrates and protein. Sugars are represented by cane sugar, corn syrup, honey, maple sugar, and syrup, milk sugar, malt sugar, jams, jellies, and most fruits.

Two of the most common symptoms or sensations that humans feel daily are dependent on carbohydrate metabolism: hunger and fatigue. Certain endocrine glands in the body control the level of blood sugar in the body and are linked to the feelings of hunger, fatigue, and exhaustion. When the blood sugar falls abnormally low, one feels headaches, nervousness, dizziness, or weakness.

What are fats and what do they do to you? The outstanding fats eaten daily in the United States and Europe are butter, eggs, whole milk, cream, meat, fish and poultry fats, and cheese in various combinations. These fats, at 9 calories per gram, contain more than twice the amount of calories than protein or carbohydrate does at four calories each per gram. As we have noted and shall describe in later chapters, excessive intake of fats leads to the shortening of life, premature death by heart attacks and strokes, obesity, and numerous crippling illnesses.

Fats (or lipids) contain the elements of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen in various combinations of animal and vegetable fats. Examples of animal fats are butter, lard, cream, milk, eggs, and the fat in meats. Vegetable fats are soybean oil, olive oil, cottonseed and corn oils, and peanut oils; these are found in nuts, coconuts, avocados, margarines and other vegetable fats used in cooking.

Fats do not dissolve in water, and when pure they are odorless and tasteless. They are found in most bodily tissues, particularly in combination with other elements, proteins, or minerals. Fats or lipids act as vehicles for the absorption of the natural fat-soluble vitamins such as vitamins A, D, and E.

In order for fats to be utilized by the body, they must first be digested and broken down into constituent parts before being absorbed. They are absorbed in the following manner: After the food is masticated and enters the stomach, the digestive system supplies its first fat enzyme called lipase, to begin the digestion of the fat. Enzymes or ferments are unique chemical compounds manufactured by the cells of the tissues. In the digestive tract they are vital for the chemical breakdown of all foods before they can be absorbed.

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Hi everyone

Detoxing is big business nowadays through diets, scrubs and fasting. Salons are popping up everywhere with the latest ’star’ of the moment and their ‘new’ detoxing programme promising wonders.

Keeping your liver in a healthy state should be a priority and by eating a healthy varied nutritional diet of good food for good health keeps our own personal detoxifier - our liver, working to rid our body of toxins and to go about its endless tasks.

Looking after your organ is vital, as everything we ingest, inhale or absorb through our skin has to be detoxified and refined.

Damage can be caused to the liver through a poor diet made up of high fatty foods, high alcohol intake, chemicals - in the air we breathe or apply to the skin, and through drugs.

Obviously we all need to take prescribed drugs at some time in our lives so whilst taking the medication make sure you are eating a diet of good high nutritional food to help the liver detox. Drugs taken regularly for recreational use have been shown to cause serious problems.

Fatty degeneration of the liver is caused by excessive fat build up and impairs the ability to function and handle fat properly, this allows fat to be stored around the body accumulating often around the waistline or being deposited as cellulite under the skin.

50 per cent of people aged 50 and over now suffer with fatty degeneration; this is a much higher rate than at any time before.

Common symptoms of this are having ‘a spare tyre’ or potbelly and being unable to lose weight. The size of our nations waistlines has hit the headlines many times recently due to poor diets and lack of exercise, even though today we have access to so many good foods all year round.

If your liver is damaged through fatty degeneration the proper regulation of cholesterol levels is hampered -therefore failing to manufacture enough ‘good’ HDL cholesterol and allowing bad LDL cholesterol to build up in the arteries. This has been associated with increased risk of having a stroke or heart attack.

You can help yourself to help your liver detox itself by eating the right kind of fat and types of food necessary to repair itself and start working properly.

Helpful detoxifying foods for the liver are easy to add to your diet and if you are already eating a healthy diet of good food including plenty of fruit and vegetables - best lightly cooked - you are all ready giving yourself a head start to good health.

By adding the other foods listed below regularly into your diet will help to keep your liver working at it’s potential.

Mushrooms contain glutamic acid that is needed to produce glutathione and aid liver detoxification.

Avocado and papaya helps the body produce glutathione.

Onions and garlic - the sulphur compounds and methionine in these are important for detoxification, also contain glutathione a powerful anti-oxidant. Cabbage, broccoli and eggs also a good source of methionine.

Asparagus and watermelon are also rich in glutathione.

Beets and tomatoes contain anti-oxidants such as beta-carotene, caratenoids and flavanoids that help limit damage by free radicals, helping to cleanse and heal the liver, also a good source of folic acid.

Brazil nuts are high in selenium a good anti-oxidant needed for detoxification.

Protein is helpful for the liver so include fish and chicken etc.

Another excellent food for general liver health is soy-beans as these contain lecithin - this helps to break down fats and help to reduce high cholesterol levels, also helps maintain healthy membranes around liver cells.

Walnuts contain arginine that helps detoxify ammonia and are rich in glutathione.

It is best to limit the amount of foods that makes the liver work harder to sensible amounts, saturated fats as in sausages, hot dogs, salami and bacon and also high fat dairy products - cheese, butter and ice cream.

Saturated fat is also found in many snack foods including fast foods, doughnuts, crisps and french fries. Processed food should also be limited.

Caffeine from tea and coffee should be limited to 2 or 3 cups a day. Caffeine is broken down by the liver but can make it more difficult to cleanse itself, so why not try a ‘half caf’ variety and then you can still enjoy your cuppa, this is what I always buy and cannot taste the difference. You could use ‘decaf’, but some caffeine is useful to give us a perk.

We all know alcohol stresses the liver and its detoxification process, and that when consumed regularly in large amounts can cause actual damage and immune suppression.

Not only heavy drinking, binge drinking can cause the same effect. It is far better to drink ‘little and often’ than bingeing.

Alcohol in moderation is the best course to take with regular periods of no alcohol at all. If you feel better after abstaining from drinking then it is a good indication that your liver was not coping with the amount of alcohol that you were consuming before.

Refined sugar such as sucrose, dextrose, glucose, maltose and other syrups that end in ‘ose’ are hard on the liver. Natural fructose that is still in food such as ‘fruit con fructose’ etc is perfectly ok.

We never say that you cannot eat and enjoy any type of foods, it is just the amount and the frequency that they are eaten that can do damage, so keep these ‘bad’ types of foods as treats - there is nothing better than walking along the sea front on a cold blustery day eating a hot freshly cooked doughnut.

Try hard not to use these foods for comfort eating as this is generally when we can go astray on our diets and use them as a crutch, as with alcohol and then find it difficult to amend our ways.

Chemicals that get into our body through food should also be cut down, food colourings are a good example, but what are often overlooked are pesticides. Pesticides are sprayed several times through the growing life of our fruit and vegetables, so make sure that you thoroughly wash them before consuming.

So remember ‘good food good health’ is the best way to keep your body working like clockwork, and a diet made up of a variety of good nutritional food will give you all the vitamins and minerals you should need.

Happy eating for a healthy liver

Sandra and Ted

This article was composed by Sandra & Ted Wosko. We have always been interested in health issues especially having children, and as with most people, we all suffer with some type of ailment. We are always researching on more and more topics in the endless task of gaining more knowledge to increase our expertise, benefiting ourselves and other people alike.

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Why Now?

1. World is using up its oil fast and to survive the future, we need to look for places which have not been explored yet. Arctic holds oil, gas, minerals, fish and other resources under it’s frigid, barren landscape which stretches thousands of miles. Surveys show that the Arctic contains an estimated one-quarter of the world’s undiscovered energy resources. Also studies suggest that up to 50 per cent of the earth’s remaining undiscovered reserves of hydrocarbons are located north of 60°n latitude. However, the extraction and transportation procedures still remain difficult and expensive. New technologies should cut down the cost considerably by making extraction and transportation procedures efficient and cost effective, just like Alberta tar and oil Sands.

2. The effects of climate change could open up the Northwest Passage to summer commercial traffic by 2015, which links the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean and offers a 7000 KM shorter route than the Europe to Asia voyage through Panama Canal. This summer the Arctic sea ice cap shrank to the smallest size ever measured and scientists believe that in 25 years not just the Northwest Passage, but the whole polar cap could thaw and by the end of this century, summer sea ice could disappear entirely. Some countries are already testing the waters. A Russian ship traveled through the Northwest Passage to Bermuda in 1999 and it saved them a lot of time and money. Japan and other countries researching to find ways to travel through Arctic for large ships.

Canadian or International Waters?

How much of Arctic is Canada’s? Canada claims that the Arctic waters of the Northwest Passage constitute “historic internal waters”, and under Canadian jurisdiction. While most countries agree that many islands dot the Arctic to the north of our mainland belongs to Canada but some countries, most arguably the Unites States does not recognize Canada’s right over waters separating Somerset Island from Devon Island or Melville Island from Banks Island. These countries see the Northwest Passage as an International strait or waters that any countries should be able to use. Hans Island in the Arctic Ocean has already been a matter of diplomatic issue with Denmark. Recently, Danish troops landed on Hans Island and planted a flag (2002 and 2003). Canada responded by doing the same right after (2005), which was the right thing to do to show the world that although we are peace loving people; we won’t tolerate anything when it comes to maintain our sovereignty.

Canada’s Plan For Protecting The Arctic

- Three new armed naval heavy icebreakers in the area of Iqaluit. The icebreakers will include 500 regular force personnel for crews and support and will be capable of carrying troops. This commitment will establish a Canadian naval presence in the Arctic.

- A new military/civilian deep-water docking facility in the area of Iqaluit.

- A new Arctic National Sensor System for northern waters which will include underwater surveillance listening posts, such as acoustic or movement sensors, that will detect the movement and position of any foreign submarines and ships in Canadian Arctic waters.

- A new Arctic army training centre in the area of Cambridge Bay.

- New fixed-wing search-and-rescue aircraft in Yellowknife.

- Provide eastern and western Arctic air surveillance. New long-range unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) squadrons will be stationed at Goose Bay and Comox to provide continuous Arctic and Ocean surveillance and patrol. Also, the Aurora aircraft and the satellite surveillance system will be upgraded to provide a complete Arctic surveillance capability.

- Revitalize the Canadian Rangers by adding 500 additional Rangers. The Rangers’ level of activity and training will be increased and equipment will be upgraded.

- Provide an army emergency response capability for the Arctic through a new airborne battalion at CFB Trenton.

Conclusion

Although Canada and the U.S. may disagree on the Arctic waters issue, it hardly becomes dispute. We can not work this out militarily with our southern neighbours for the obvious reasons. An Arctic cooperation agreement with the U.S. is in place and has worked well so far. Under this agreement, we are to suspend our differences and cooperate each other over Arctic waters. This agreement can be extended to include naval cooperation, Arctic security cooperation etc which would be beneficial for both and cost effective. Recent government activities are very positive and hopefully it will not wither away. Further policy discussions have to be arranged to secure Canada’s future most efficient and effective ways.

Author’s Bio

A Dawn is a City University of New York Economics graduate. The former Financial Advisor now works as a Data Integrity Analyst for a major Canadian wealth management corporation. He created Canada’s Personal Finance Website ( http://www.adawn.net) and Canada’s Favourite Journal ( http://www.adawnjournal.com ) to make the world of personal finance easy and accessible for everyone. His first book Invest Now is expected to be published in early 2008. He makes his home in the world class city of Toronto.