5 Simple Ways To Lower Your Monthly Bills – And Save Lots Of Money!

By: Kris Bickell

Here you're going to learn several ways to save money every month by lowering your monthly bills. There are lots of ways to save money, no matter how much of it you have - or don't have! Having struggled for many years paying my own bills, I learned many ways to save money. From simple things like food, gas, and clothing, to bigger expenses, like insurance and your mortgage. All you need to know is where to look to find the savings. Several Ways To Save MoneyThe first thing you need to do is eliminate ALL of your unnecessary expenses:• eating out on the weekends • buying lunch at work every day • magazine and newspaper subscriptions (especially those you can get online and at the local library) • cable TV (you'd be amazed at how many other ways you'll find to spend your time once you get rid of cable TV) • groceries (you can save lots of money with coupons and specials.) It's OK to reward yourself once in a while, but if you are really looking to get out of debt faster, you owe it to yourself to save every single penny you can! To find other ways to reduce your expenses, take a close look at your checkbook and credit card statements. You should also call your credit card companies to see if they will lower your interest rates, even if it is only for a short time. You'll be amazed at how many ways you can save money, especially once you start looking carefully at how you spend your money every month. Shop Around For The Lowest PricesFor those expenses you can't eliminate, it's time to start shopping around for the best prices. Once I realized you can shop around for just about ANYTHING you spend money on every month, I learned how to save myself SEVERAL HUNDRED DOLLARS each and every month! In fact, by shopping around I ended up saving myself more than $750 a year on car insurance alone! The same is true of many of your monthly expenses - like long distance telephone service, internet service, all types of insurance, mortgages, and in some places even your utility bills. It DOESN'T take any special skills. All it takes is a few clicks and you can save yourself a bunch of money in no time at all! So, if you’d like to save yourself lots of money every month - and who doesn’t - start shopping around and looking for ways to lower your monthly bills right away!
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Hoodia Manufacturing and marketing- an Overview

By: Suga vanash

Obesity is a modern disease. But nature has already created a natural medication for curing this disease, millions of years back. The name of this is natural medication is Hoodia. How Hoodia is effective in obese? When was the anti obesity element first isolated? Who isolated the extract? At present, who got the license for manufacture of Hoodia? For these questions we can find answer in this article.Hoodia is a cactus like plant seen in the great Kalahari Desert of South Africa. San Bushmen, the South Africa tribal people used to chew the leaves of this plant to suppress their hunger from times immemorial.Many appetite suppressants and antiobesity drugs though effective are usually associated with side effects. But Hoodia has both qualities of a perfect medicine- efficiency and side effectiveness.The South African council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in 1977 extracted the appetite suppressant ingredient in Hoodia now known as P-57. the CSIR then approved a license to United Kingdom – based phytopharm.Phytopharm in the year 1995 got the license to develop appetite suppressant from Hoodia plant. Rigorous research work was done to develop a highly effectual medication which will fit in the form of Hoodia diet pills, Hoodia capsules and Hoodia health drinks.Initially phytopharm pooled resources with the phytopharm with the pharmaceutical company Pfizer to segregate active constituents from the extract and for preparing an effective antiobesity drug.Pfizer returned the marketing rights to phytopharm in 2002 as they were unable to develop a p-57 molecule synthetically and economically. At present unilever has joined hands with phytopharm to market Hoodia diet pills as diet supplements in their diet food product line.As Hoodia Gordonii is in such as a high demand, it is considered a protected plant and it can be exported with a special permit from the government of South Africa – a CITES permit.There are three laboratory tests available to test the quality of extract in the drug available. They 1. Microscopy:In this test, the sample of Hoodia is examined under a microscope (usually at 400x magnification). Pure Hoodia Gordonii would appear to have long fibers with whirled striations, so this helps in checking the purity of the sample.2. High Performance Thin layer Chromatography (HPTLC).3. High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC).These laboratory tests help in testing the purity of Hoodia sample.When targeting on weight loss with a bull’s eye view, buy Hoodia through an online order and lose weight without any side effect. The delivery of online purchase of Hoodia is made at your door step.
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What does sex have to do with Tantra?

Excellent article on the role of sex in Tantra by Dawn Cartwright, published in Network News Magazine here in Ireland

Tantra is an ancient path of meditation with roots in both Hindu and Tibetan Buddhist spirituality. It is called the "Royal Path" because, in ancient times, Tantra was the
spiritual path taken only by those who had mastered all other paths. Tantric writings date back over 5,000 years and are still used in many modern meditation teachings today.
Of these writings, perhaps the best known is the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra. The Vigyan Bhairav is a Hindu Tantric text which consists of 112 meditations designed specifically to center, to bring the meditator to a single point of focus, that point being this moment, and this moment only. It has been said that Tantra is the fast track to enlightenment by virtue of the sophistication required to practice its meditations. It is the Tantric's ability to surrender to the paradox of duality in every moment that hones him or her to the sharpness of adeptdom.
Of the 112 Tantric meditations given in the Vigyan Bhairav, only 3 of these are sexual meditations. So, why the focus on sex in Tantra?

Why are so many Tantric explorations begun in the sexual realm? If Tantra is a science of meditation that includes all of life and living, why do the teachers of modern times bring so much emphasis to the sexual aspects of the path?
It's true that Tantra views every facet of human experience, including sex, as potential for personal transformation and self-actualization. For the Tantric, life is a meditation. Every activity . . .eating, drinking, breathing, dancing, making love . . . can be entered into with awareness, bringing a quality of meditation into even these simplest of acts. Yet, the
emphasis given to sex and sexual ecstasy within Tantra today is cause for much controversy. Yes, sex is a basic human experience; in fact, none of us would be here without it, but isn't all the focus on sex in Tantra today just a hedonistic indulgence for spiritual gluttons?

Truly, sex is a very important part of human life for the purpose of procreation, but sex as meditation? What does sex have to do with Tantra?
Because Tantra finds its momentum in surfing the abyss created by duality, what better more challenging - abyss than that of yin and yang? That chasm between action and receptivity? The basic duality of being alive. And what better place to dive in and experience it all than in sexual orgasm? No other human experience demands such a tenuous balance between focused activity and total surrender. And there is such power in it, so much of life and death in it. To enter this moment with total awareness, to taste the orgasm as meditation, is to invite the abyss within . . . to experience the chasm fully. Intimacy with reality brings to the meditator the direct experience of oneness. Not oneness as a concept.
Not oneness as an attainment. But oneness as a living reality, as the natural state of the universe, oneness felt through the human senses.
The meditations of Tantra center, for the most part, around the five senses: sight, smell, hearing, tastes and touch. It is through these five senses that we experience our world. Our senses bring the world "inside" us and make it possible for us to interact with it intimately. Each of our senses has yin qualities and yang qualities. In order to taste one must take a bite, in order to hear one must listen, to see one must look. Sensual, and very sexual. To enter and be entered, the weaving of the two bringing forth a third quality that cannot exist with out the other two. The flavor cannot exist without the meeting of the fruit and the mouth . . . the color cannot exist without the meeting of the rainbow and the eye . . . and orgasm itself cannot exist without the meeting of desire and fulfillment.
The polarity of the opposites reveals the single point of the center and delivers it to the Tantric via the doorway of the senses in every moment of living, in every activity of life. Tantra seeks not to encourage nor deny free sexual expression and sexual experience,
Tantra simply acknowledges that, as human beings, we are sexual beings. And that sex, as any other human experience, holds within it the mystery of life.

To enter this mystery, to be entered by it, to become it, is meditation
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Singapore Travel Information

Singapore is the East's great melting pot, a cultural pot pourri that leaves the unsuspecting visitor dazzled. Sir Stamford Raffles, a British civil servant, brought the 'Lion City' to world prominence after searching for a trading station to counter the Dutch influence in the Straits of Malacca, and trade has remained the island's mainstay.Centuries before Sir Stamford Raffles acquired it from the Sultan of Johor in 1819, Singapore had been virtually abandoned. However, within decades Singapore had become the main commercial and strategic centre for the region. In 1867, it became a British Crown Colony and housed one of the UK's most important naval bases. This status remained unchanged until 1942 when the Japanese army swept down through Malaya and occupied the colony. Three-and-a-half years later the Japanese surrendered in Singapore and the colony assumed its previous status. And with the dissolution of the British Empire came internal self-government (1959). In 1963, Singapore joined the Federation of Malaysia, but later broke away in 1965 to become fully independent. The initial outlook was unpromising: Singapore is tiny and has no natural resources apart from a good harbour. However, Lee Kuan Yew (first elected prime minister in 1959 and re-elected eight times thereafter) managed to galvanise the population into building a strong, export-led manufacturing and service economy.Tourism for Singapore has also proven to be of good economic benefit. Culture lovers thrive in this fusion of Chinese, Malay and Indian cultures - the main ethnic groups - with its assortment of mosques, temples and synagogues. Singapore presents a happy collision of opposites – grand and expensive at the famed Raffles Hotel, but low-key and cheap in the food markets of Bugis Junction and Clarke Quay.But even in the low-key and cheap areas, Singapore remains an incredibly clean city where nothing is allowed to dull the shine – even down to the banning of chewing gum. In the last few years there has been some pressure to relax the numerous laws that have given Singapore a reputation as a prosperous but rather antiseptic and pettily repressive city-state. More seriously, Singapore has the highest per capita rate of judicial execution in the world, and the government is still highly intolerant of internal dissent. Abroad, Singapore has taken a more active role in regional affairs, mainly through the Association of South East Nations (ASEAN). There have also been improvements in relations between Singapore and Malaysia, between whom there are myriad disputes over access to air space, water resources and territorial boundaries. In addition, Singapore City's exciting riverside parade of bars and restaurants reveals that Singaporeans actually do know how to have fun – and plenty of it.The natural world is never far away in Singapore, either: Bukit Timah Nature Reserve has a significant area of primary rainforest within its boundaries, while, for the adventurous, Sungei Buluh Nature Park offers the chance for trekking. Check out Pulau Ubin's mangrove forest, a bumboat's ride from Changi jetty, or Kusu site of Taoists' annual pilgrimage.
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