Interview Tips Preparation guide – Get Your Background in Order
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November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Have you ever wanted to take a fitness shortcut, go on a popular fad diet, take a pill or other supplement to set that new bench press record, or use some other way to “cheat” your way to greater health?
Me neither.
Well, since we have that out of the way, let’s talk about why shortcuts will bring you nothing but trouble.
Wait………you have tried shortcuts?
You’ve been on fad diets, crash diets, and crazy exercise all day programs to try and lose weight?
Why didn’t you tell me? Lol……
Ok, ok, ok…….I’ll forgive you……
This time.
Ok, since I forgave you of all of your “cheating” ways…..let me explain why shortcuts will ultimately get you nowhere.
Let me give you a sentence that you should keep with yourself forever…….
When you take a health and fitness shortcut, you are ultimately cheating yourself.
Let me repeat that if your eyes had some trouble reading that……
When you take a health and fitness shortcut, you are ultimately cheating yourself.
How are you cheating yourself, you may be asking?
Good question…
When you take shortcuts, i.e. crash/fad diets, taking supplements that have God only knows what in them, and doing other crazy things to lose weight (starving yourself, surgery, etc.), you are ultimately HURTING your body, whether you notice it or not.
Why would you want to hurt your body?
Why do want to take supplements that are potentially unsafe…cough, cough, Ephedra.
Well, we all know why you and/or others take these products.
It’s to ultimately lose weight.
Or get in better shape.
Look better for your class reunion.
Or try to make that guy/girl jealous, lol.
Or maybe it’s to impress that certain person(s).
No matter what your goal is……..there is a better way.
Actually, there is a MUCH better way.
It’s called, “Doing it the right way”.
In order for you to reach ultimate health and/or fitness success, you must “Do it the right way”.
What is the “Right Way”?
Well, let me tell what it’s not:
-Starving yourself
-Popping diet pills
-Depriving yourself of sleep
-Silly liquid diets
-Crazy “all meat” diets
-Non-stop exercise
And that’s just the beginning.
Don’t ever, ever, ever, bring yourself down to this level to THINK you need the above
“shortcuts” to get fit. You don’t!
And, if you do it the right way………you will lead a lifestyle that is SUPREME to anything a “shortcut” will ever give you. No matter how out of shape, overweight, or unhealthy you think you are…..no “shortcut” will ever give you the success you’re looking for.
As a matter of fact, there is a pretty good probability that it will do more harm than good.
It will take some work, it will take some discipline, but doing it the right way will lead you to more success than you could ever imagine.
Step up to the plate, and make that change………I’ll talk to you soon.
Chris C.
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Christopher C.
http://www.articlesbase.com/advice-articles/why-shortcuts-dont-cut-it-67186.html
Scammers Don’t Always Want your Money – at First!
November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Sometimes scammers, clever and scheming vultures they are, may not immediately prey on you for your financial contribution. They may have something more deadly in mind – deadly to you, your computer, and the computers of all your friends. Once the scammers establishes a relationship with you, he/she knows that your email address is a “live” address (one that will give him and others he will sell your address to) so he can secretly then move on to phase two – flooding you and all the other “live” addresses he obtained with hoaxes and chain letters.
And, sadly, these emails and chain letter emails carry hidden spyware (pieces of coding that will allow the originator to take control of all the computers it touches). The code is so written that even if the email is deleted, it will still work effectively from the Recycle Bin. That’s the work of scammer who are also hackers.
What Are Internet Hoaxes and Chain Letters? Internet hoaxes and chain letters are e-mail messages written with one purpose; to be sent to everyone you know. The messages they contain are usually untrue. A few of the sympathy messages do describe a real situation but that situation was resolved years ago so the message is not valid and has not been valid for many years. Hoax messages try to get you to pass them on to everyone you know using several different methods of social engineering. Most of the hoax messages play on your need to help other people.
Who wouldn’t want to warn their friends about some terrible virus that is destroying people’s systems? Or, how could you not want to help this poor little girl who is about to die from cancer? It is hard to say no to these messages when you first see them, though after a few thousand have passed through your mail box, you (hopefully) delete them without even looking.
Chain letters are lumped in with the hoax messages because they have the same purpose as the hoax messages but use a slightly different method of coercing you into passing them on to everyone you know. Chain letters, like their printed ancestors, generally offer luck or money if you send them on. They play on your fear of bad luck and the realization that it is almost trivial for you to send them on. The chain letters that deal in money play on people’s greed and are illegal no matter what they say in the letter.
The Risk and Cost of Hoaxes: The cost and risk associated with hoaxes may not seem to be that high, and isn’t when you consider the cost of handling one hoax on one machine. However, if you consider everyone that receives a hoax, that small cost gets multiplied into some pretty significant costs. For example, if everyone on the Internet were to receive one hoax message and spend one minute reading and discarding it, the cost would be something like: 50,000,000 people times 1/60 hour times $50/hour = $41.7 million
Most people have seen far more than one hoax message and many people cost a business far more than $50 per hour when you add in benefits and overhead. The result is not a small number.
Probably the biggest risk for hoax messages is their ability to multiply. Most people send on the hoax messages to everyone in their address books but consider if they only sent them on to 10 people. The first person (the first generation) sends it to 10, each member of that group of 10 (the second generation) sends it to 10 others or 100 messages and so on.
Generations and (Number of Messages): 1st (10); 2nd (100); 3rd (1,000); 4th (10,000); 5th (100,000); and 6th (1,000,000)
As you can see, by the sixth generation there are a million e-mail messages being processed by mail servers. The capacity to handle these messages must be paid for by the users or, if it is not paid for, the mail servers slow down to a crawl or crash. Note that this example only forwards the message to 10 people at each generation while people who forward real hoax messages often send them to many times that number.
Recently, we have been hearing of spammers (bulk mailers of unsolicited mail) harvesting e-mail addresses from hoaxes and chain letters. After a few generations, many of these letters contain hundreds of good addresses, which is just what the spammers want. We have also heard rumors that spammers are deliberately starting hoaxes and chain letters to gather e-mail addresses (of course, that could be a hoax). So now, all those nice people who were so worried about the poor little girl dying of cancer find themselves not only laughed at for passing on a hoax but also the recipients of tons of spam mail.
How to Recognize a Hoax: Probably the first thing you should notice about a warning is the request to “send this to everyone you know” or some variant of that statement. This should raise a red flag that the warning is probably a hoax. No real warning message from a credible source will tell you to send this to everyone you know.
Next, look at what makes a successful hoax. There are two known factors that make a successful hoax, they are: (1) technical sounding language. and (2) credibility by association.
If the warning uses the proper technical jargon, most individuals, including technologically savvy individuals, tend to believe the warning is real. For example, the Good Times hoax says that “…if the program is not stopped, the computer’s processor will be placed in an nth-complexity infinite binary loop which can severely damage the processor…”. The first time you read this, it sounds like it might be something real. With a little research, you find that there is no such thing as an nth-complexity infinite binary loop and that processors are designed to run loops for weeks at a time without damage.
When we say credibility by association we are referring to who sent the warning. If the janitor at a large technological organization sends a warning to someone outside of that organization, people on the outside tend to believe the warning because the company should know about those things. Even though the person sending the warning may not have a clue what he is talking about, the prestige of the company backs the warning, making it appear real. If a manager at the company sends the warning, the message is doubly backed by the company’s and the manager’s reputations.
Both of these items make it very difficult to claim a warning is a hoax so you must do your homework to see if the claims are real and if the person sending out the warning is a real person and is someone who would know what they are talking about. You do need to be a little careful verifying the person as the apparent author may be a real person who has nothing to do with the hoax. If thousands of people start sending them mail asking if the message is real, that essentially constitutes an unintentional denial of service attack on that person. Check the person’s web site or the person’s company web site to see if the hoax has been responded to there. Check these pages or the pages of other hoax sites to see if we have already declared the warning a hoax.
Hoax messages also follow the same pattern as a chain letter. Chain letters and most hoax messages all have a similar pattern. From the older printed letters to the newer electronic kind, they all have three recognizable parts: (1) A hook. (2) A threat. and (3) A request.
The Hook: First, there is a hook, to catch your interest and get you to read the rest of the letter. Hooks used to be “Make Money Fast” or “Get Rich” or similar statements related to making money for little or no work. Electronic chain letters also use the “free money” type of hooks, but have added hooks like “Danger!” and “Virus Alert” or “A Little Girl Is Dying”. These tie into our fear for the survival of our computers or into our sympathy for some poor unfortunate person.
The Threat: When you are hooked, you read on to the threat. Most threats used to warn you about the terrible things that will happen if you do not maintain the chain. However, others play on greed or sympathy to get you to pass the letter on. The threat often contains official or technical sounding language to get you to believe it is real.
The Request: Finally, the request. Some older chain letters ask you to mail a dollar to the top ten names on the letter and then pass it on. The electronic ones simply admonish you to “Distribute this letter to as many people as possible.” They never mention clogging the Internet or the fact that the message is a fake, they only want you to pass it on to others.
Because cybercriminals are becoming smarter and more sophisticated in their operations, they are real threats to your personal security and privacy. Your money, your computer, your family, and your business are all at risk. These cybercriminals leave you with three choices:
1. Do nothing and hope their attacks, risks, and threats don’t occur on your computer.
2. Do research and get training to protect yourself, your family, and your business.
3. Get professional help to lockdown your system from all their attacks, risks, and threats.
Remember: When you say “No!” to hackers and spyware, everyone wins! When you don’t, we all lose!
Resource Box:
Etienne A. Gibbs, MSW
http://www.articlesbase.com/business-articles/scammers-dont-always-want-your-money-at-first-109363.html
Celebrity Beauty Secrets and Tips Revealed
November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment
A lot of celebrities consider beauty as ‘not just skin deep’, and hence concentrate a lot on health care and grooming. With useful advices as natural and homemade beauty tips on skin, hair care and on other health related issues, this happens to be the most helpful aspect of celebrity worship. Although most of the beauty secrets shared by the stars are no different from the natural beauty tips one has grown up with, youngsters pay heed to these time tested beauty secrets only when it comes in the form of a celebrity beauty tip.
Celebrities can enjoy huge fan followings, especially when it comes to beauty and style matters. Being a style-icon a celebrity is imitated by his admirers once he builds an image. Budget celebrity beauty tips, whether it be about skin care, acne prevention, hair styling, reducing body weight or any other issue related to improving looks has always been cherished by the admirers. Adjudged from this angle, the best celebrity beauty tip of the present age seems to be being ones own self.
The perfect combination of homemade beauty tips with occasional TCA peels seems the right answer when it comes to stopping the onslaught of professional stress and makeup. The fast-action TCA ( Trichloroacetic Acid ) skin peels cause acne, pigmentations, scars and wrinkles to vanish in matter of moments and is perfectly safe. With the effects of the chemical skin exfoliation lasting for 6 months to a year, application by medical practitioners is recommended. The wide acceptance of TCA peels in the medical community has made it much more than just a celebrity beauty tip.
Inspired by the doctrine that beauty comes in all sizes, shapes and colors and is more about self-expression than mere imitation of someone else’s style, modern fans go for personal styling. A few generations back an individual would be content with just getting an Elvis Presley hair cut or a Marilyn Monroe makeup even if that gave a more or less dumb look. A present generation Tom Cruise admirer instead customizes the star’s hairstyle to best suit his personality. Similarly, a woman obsessed with Julia Roberts may not opt for a curly crop, but rather sport her hair straight, a la Brooke Shield’s style.
The same celebrity beauty tip holds for make up and attires. Considering the camera glares and flashes they are exposed to, it is very fitting that a beauty pageant winner or a celebrity will settle on heavy makeup and some out of the ordinary clothing. However, when adopted in everyday lives, the too gorgeous, overtly glamorous looks will best be termed ‘blunders’ on the fashion-front. No wonder that young women go for a lot of scaling down and opt for the ‘girl next door’ look rather than the ‘Diva’ look.
Steven James
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/celebrity-beauty-secrets-and-tips-revealed-103328.html
