Acne vulgaris is commonly referred to as just acne. From the start of the teenage years, almost everyone will suffer from some form of acne. It is ain inflammation of the skin that causes irritated sores, commonly on the face. This can lead to low self-esteem, embarrassment, and depression so it is important to treat it and take care of your skin.
The cause of acne vulgaris can be due to a number of different factors. Stress, hormones, and pore-blocking dead skin and oil are some of the most common reasons that people develop acne. It is also an inherited characteristic that you could get from your parents.
Stress changes the level of hormones and neuro-active substances that cause acne. A way to treat this type of break-out is to take some time to relax and de-stress your mind by exercising or writing. Find something that you enjoy doing and practice it when you are feeling particularly stressed over something
Hormone changes that occur during the teenage years can trigger acne vulgaris to flare up. This production of hormones is referred to as androgens. They stimulate oil glands to over-produce and contribute to developing blemishes.
It is a common misconception that all acne is the result of being unclean. If this was true, most people would not ever have to deal with acne. When natural skin oil is combined with normal skin bacteria and dead skin cells, the dead skin gets forced to the surface. The greater the amount of oil that is produced, the better the chance it as of clogging your pores. Clogged pores are where bacteria feed to produce inflammation, which results in pimples. Washing your face cannot treat a condition that develops primarily under the skin.
The effects of having acne vulgaris can be long-term if untreated. If the condition is severe, there is a chance for permanent scars to form. Most teenagers have trouble dealing with the way they feel when they have break-outs. Social situations are avoided at all costs to prevent the embarrassment of a flawed appearance. Some people go as far as missing school because of the appearance of acne vulgaris. Severe depression could also result from unhappiness with the appearance of their skin. Self-esteem and self-worth seem to diminish completely unless their skin is absolutely flawless. There is not a guaranteed cure for these feelings, however, getting an effective acne treatment could eliminate appearance from being the cause of it.
Treatment for acne vulgaris is as simple as finding which medicine works best for you. Severe acne is usually treated by a dermatologist who will prescribe a medication specific to your needs. If the acne is less severe or occasional, an over-the-counter solution could be best for you. There are all types of factors that contribute to the development of blemishes so when picking out the right medicine, consider the specificity of your skin. If you notice that your skin is especially oily, then be sure that you use something that will target the oil. Blackheads and whiteheads are also a target area of some treatments available. To get the best result, experiment in finding what is best for what you need.
AcneHelpZone.com provides people who are suffering from acne with quick, relevant and free acne resources that they can download and take away with them for easy reference.
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A refresher for the returning champion, and a quick guide for
the beginner. Knowing the Texas hold’em rules can make all the
difference in your game and the winnings you take home. Even a
long timer may need a refresher every now and then. Take a
moment and read below to be on your way to enjoying and
understanding the game.
In the game Texas Hold ‘Em you use a standard 52 card deck.
After the cards are shuffled or as with Internet Texas Hold’em
you make your start by placing the predetermined amount of money
into the pot, which is also called, posting the blinds. This
occurs before any cards being dealt.
Often the first player (the player directly beside the dealer on
the left) puts half the minimum in the pot and then all other
players put in the full minimum bet. By doing this, there is
always money to play for in each hand.
When the initial bet is made, next each player receives two
cards face down. These cards are known as the hole cards. After
looking at your hole cards, betting will commence again. At this
point, you can call (which means you put in exactly what you
must to stay in the game), you can raise the bet, or you can
fold and try again next time.
The dealer will then discard their top-card (this is called
burning) and place three cards face up in the middle of the
table. Those cards are community cards. Keep in mind any
combination of your hole cards and the community cards can be
used to make the best five-card poker hand. Placing the
community card is called the flop.
After the flop, the bets begin again. Then there is another card
placed in the community pile face up. That card is called the
turn. After the turn another round of betting occurs. Then the
fifth and final card is placed in the community pile. This card
is called the river.
After the river card the final round of betting occurs. By the
Texas hold’em rules everyone still in the game reveals his or
her hand. The person with the best hand wins.
These are the general Texas hold’em rules. Texas Hold’em poker
is a fabulous game of chance and strategy. Take your chances and
have a great time playing. On thing that is great about Internet
Texas Hold’em is the others players can’t read you to try to
find out if you’re bluffing. Online or off, Texas Hold’em poker
is a great combination of luck and strategy.
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As home based business owners, when we do marketing by email we ask ourselves, “Why are many of my subscribers not reading my emails? Why are they not buying my products?”
There are many reasons why your subscribers don’t WANT to buy YOUR products. The 3 most common reasons are:
- Every email they get from you is about products that helped you.
- They feel you don’t really want to solve their problems because you don’t know anything about them- but their email address.
- Your emails have a “one size fits all” message. Your emails make them feel like one in a crowd, not like a special subscriber.
It’s not too late to change those common mistakes! Commit to really care for them. You’ll see them forwarding your emails and you’ll get more free targeted traffic!
Even more, they’ll look forward to hearing from you. Hence, make them feel special using these 3 tips in your email marketing campaign.
Tip 1) Don’t send the same message to all your subscribers. Have your subscriber list divided into at least 3 sublists like by country, US state, date subscribed, and interests.
Sublist 1: Country, US state of where they live
Have a great product you know will help your subscribers save time? Don’t tell all your subscribers about it at the same time. Think of ways to make your various subscribers feel special.
- For instance, let’s say most of your customers live in Ohio. Make them feel special with an email that says something like:
- I’m writing to you because you live in Ohio and your state is one of my top 3 states served. In other words, more subscribers have bought my product “5 tips ebook” than in most states in the country! As my way of saying thank you, I’m offering you, (and only my Ohio subscribers) this related product at 40% off the purchase price! I’m only offering this special for 4 days. After 4 days, all my subscribers and website visitors will need to buy it at regular purchase price. I’m glad to serve you.
Sublist 2: Date they subscribed
Think of ways you can mention the date they subscribed to your newsletters and product offers.
- For example, Hi Julie, you subscribed to my “top restaurants in Maghreb” newsletter in September. September 14 is my birthday and I’m happier every year knowing that I’ve helped people like you Julie, save time and money eating well in Maghreb. As my way of saying thank you, I’m sending this free special report on “How to cook a delicious Maghrebin Tangia in less than 20 minutes” to all my subscribers who subscribed in September.
Sublist 3: interests or preferences
Get to know your subscribers like you know your friends. It’s easy and quick. In your emails begin to write a few lines on your own interests.
- For instance, name where you went for a vacation, how you spent the weekend, or music preferred. Many subscribers will email you back sharing their interests.
Tip 2) The first paragraph must include the specific benefits they will get when they finish reading your email.
Your subscribers have too many emails to read. Why should they read YOUR email? Write whether they’ll get more money, time or love with your information.
- For example, your “weight loss tips’” newsletter has an article on ordering meals at restaurants with natural sugars in carb-rich foods. How can you get your subscriber excited? Offer the benefit of keeping the extra pounds off. For instance:
- Hi Julie, Welcome to this week’s weight loss tips by officialoverweightnomore.com . Today’s article will show you how these 2 natural sugars in carbs cut YOUR cravings by a whopping 80%. Start eating them this week so you can beat mood swings and have more energy during the day! Say goodbye to fatigue. Enjoy! [article full text goes here]
Your subscriber will get excited about keeping the extra pounds off when they read “cut your cravings by a whopping 80%.” Your subscriber will be glad to know your helping them lose weight with specific tips at the beginning of your email. You bet they’ll skim over the article, and not put it off to read later.
Tip 3) Treat your subscriber like a friend by writing specific emails, using numbers or percentages AND words like “you” and “your.”
For example, in your latest “weight loss tips” e-newsletter you wrote 3 tips to help people lose body fat. Just how do you grab your subscriber’s attention? Be specific.
- Hi Julie, This week’s weight loss tips from officialoverweightnomore.com will show you some foods that help you lose your body fat. Get ready to add the protein that melts away 20% of your body fat in your meals. The next time you’re dining out, know which dairy to order so you burn 81% more belly fat. [your specific tips and research proof goes here]
See how using specific numbers like “20% of your body fat” make you WANT to read more?”
Once you use these 3 email marketing tips, many more of your subscribers will read your emails. Remember, send customized emails to your sublists, and tell them specifically with numbers and percentages what benefit they’ll get once they finish reading your email.
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“YOU ARE THE GREATEST TEACHER”
Ron Hevener
Author, “The Blue Ribbon” and “Fate of the Stallion”
Having a kennel and loving dogs, I’m lucky enough to meet a lot of people they are important to; people from all walks of life. Today, the dogs we love and care for have a great affect on how we look at the world around us. Dogs are in the news, in movies, books, and all kinds of advertisements. What is their appeal? We know the answer to that. Dogs appeal to every sense we have, from visual to touch, and the magical result is the most powerful appeal of all … emotional.
Forget about the evolutionary history of dogs and worrying about how they may have come into being. Forget about making television documentaries about which breed was the “Original Dog” and traveling to exotic places to find the last remaining members of that breed on Earth. That’s all grand in a National Geographic kind of way, but the truth is lost in so many forgotten memories that it doesn’t matter to the dog in your life right now. What matters is the diversity of this species, and the possibility that there was no single original breed.
Do I believe in spontaneous genetics and things like that? Oh, yes; very much so. I also believe the emotional make-up of a living creature, and its mentality, are affected by its physical appearance. But, that could be my years of dog shows, raising just about every breed of dog there is at one time or another, or the artist in me speaking.
We all know our own personalities can rub off on our dogs. We know dogs are different from cats or birds or horses and other animals in their basic nature. Along those lines, customers at our kennel often ask which puppy in a litter is the ruler, which is the most loving or which is the most playful. Sometimes, when looking at a puppy by itself and searching for an emotional connection with this prospective fur-child, customers will ask if I think the pup will turn out this way or that. When I say it depends on them more than anything else, they are often surprised. “The dog is going to learn from you,” I say. “You are the greatest teacher.”
Here at our kennels, sometimes we raise whole litters together and we have a graduation system, like in school. Littermates start out together, but as they become more dominant, or according to their growth and the special feeding they may require along the way, they move up the ladder into the next run. They haven’t lost sight of their littermates because they are in the next kennel run beside them. And the new kennel mates aren’t strangers either because they’ve been housed next to each other for a while. The result is, our litters don’t have just one dominant pup with a bunch of followers. Instead, what we have is a bunch of confident, independent thinkers.
When I say, “You are the greatest teacher” I’m not speaking about rigid discipline such as one endures in Obedience classes. Maybe “rigid” isn’t the right word for that, but I think it illustrates the difference between fundamental training and the invisible “something” beyond that which develops between you and your dog just by traveling the same path in life. In my novel “Fate of the Stallion,” this mysterious bond is expressed in a scene where Dan Marshall senses the presence of an Arabian stallion running along the river beside him. The horse seems to be calling him, as if saying “Find me! I am yours!” and the story reveals the parallels of their lives, showing how man and stallion share the same fate. Likewise, in “The Blue Ribbon” a novel set in the competitive world of dog shows, there is a scene called “Miles To Go.” In this scene, Robert Sheffield, a dog show judge loved by two different women who own rival kennels, is hiking in the Canadian woods with his dog, reflecting on love. If you’ll notice, the path in the woods symbolizes Robert’s own path in life, and his dog is right there beside him. Like many of us do, Robert is thinking to his dog in a mental conversation, wondering if he has made the right decision by letting the woman he really loves slip through his fingers. Among the trees, the dog sees a deer, runs after it, but, of course, the deer gets away. “She got away?” Robert asks. “It’s OK, fella. We’ve got miles to go.” In those miles, will there be other deer? Will they see the same deer again? I wasn’t sure when I wrote that scene how it would turn out.
Dogs have an emotional appeal that covers our widest range of feeling. In my writing, whether about dogs or horses, the stories often deal with keeping our sense of love alive. Over and over again, at book signings and lectures, I am asked “What does keeping love alive matter to a man like you, who has everything he could possibly want and more than he can handle? I guess my reputation for playfulness has something to do with that. Surely, someone like me doesn’t have a care in the world! I say this with tongue in cheek, of course. Married at nineteen, a father soon after that and selling my artwork as souvenirs to tourists, you could say I’ve been around the block a few times. In fact, I’d say I’ve been around the block and all over the neighborhood! I’ve met many people in that neighborhood and I’ve come to believe our ability to love is eroded by the rotten things that happen to us. It is also nurtured by anything that makes us feel good and important.
As an artist, my studio has been committed to uplifting, encouraging work such as the Hevener figurines and paintings for over thirty years now. Very few animal lovers are not familiar with our collectible figurines with their open expressions and smiling faces. Even The Antiques Road Show has featured them. And all of our figurines, prints, books or CDs are made in honor of the animals who keep alive our ability to love, in a world where it is very difficult to do so.
Let’s talk about that world.
Today, we are facing a crumbling economy. Let me rephrase that. We’re not facing a crumbling economy; we’re in it. Just about everywhere we turn, something is falling apart. All of us know people who have lost their jobs. All of us see businesses closing. All of us see odd legislation being passed - things we never would have considered before the day in September that changed it all. There is an uneasiness around us. And it’s growing. As we deal with serious issues more and more, as our families fracture and our natures become more hardened, our pets become a comfort to us and sometimes the only way to keep our hearts open.
At a recent high school appearance, I spoke in the auditorium about the many things people can do with their lives; the many adventures they can have in the creative fields I know something about. Publishing, the record business, television, movies, horse racing, dog shows, horse shows, the art world; surely I could open doors for them in an exciting array of life’s opportunities. But, looking around that auditorium, I saw no spark of interest or imagination. As we left that school, I said to my assistant, “Maxine, this is the first time I can ever remember not even reaching one soul.” And I asked myself what kind of society would want zombie-like citizens such as I had just seen. Was it an “inner city” school I had just been to? Yes. Was it New York or Chicago or Philadelphia? No. It was a school in the town of Lancaster, Pennsylvania; in the county known for its industrious Pennsylvania Dutch; the county in which I live. Were they Pennsylvania Dutch kids I was speaking with? No, they were not. In much the same way that Hawaii was invaded by outsiders and the values of its native population changed forever, Lancaster County has changed and I doubt if there was even one student of Pennsylvania Dutch background in that school. This is serious. It’s why teachers are giving up. And it has happened in our lifetime!
The hopelessness of those students mirrored the hopelessness of their homes. But I knew these kids had pets at home, too. How did I know? I asked them. In a show of hands, reluctant at first, I had found out how many had horses, dogs, cats, fish and other pets. And I thought to myself, this is the first thing they’re responding to. In a world where so much is out of their control, they don’t feel like they can reach the lofty things I’m talking about and maybe they can’t. But they can have an influence on their pets, and that’s a start.
Today, right now, pets are more important than ever. In order to keep pets and take care of them, we have to provide for them. To provide for your pet, you have to buy food. Which is best, you wonder?
You must take your pet to the veterinarian. Who is the best vet around, you ask?
If you want a litter of puppies, you must find a mate. Where do I find the perfect match, you ask, searching out the local kennel club.
When the pups are born, it’s one of the most magical experiences of your life. You’ll always remember it. Now, you must raise them and for the next couple of months you will do everything you can to raise them well. You’ll have paper work to fill out: registrations and pedigrees to prepare and sign. You’ll meet new people when families come to you for the puppies you brought into the world. Everywhere your pet takes you, it means dealing with other people, talking things over and finding out what works for you. Before you know it, you have a lifestyle and a reason to live.
That school of the zombies? It took me a while, but I finally figured it out. They didn’t want to see an author that day. They wanted a ray of hope. I guess I should have brought a puppy with me.
Next time, I’ll remember that.
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“To Whom It May Concern:
B. del Castillo has my permission to submit “You Are The Greatest Teacher” to you for publication. This is one of several lectures I use at my book signings. The important thing is to get the words out there, in as many ways as possible, and I hope your readers understand that this essay is meant for them.
Best Regards,
Ron Hevener
www.ronhevener.com“
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Shorter, edited version available upon request.
Photos available upon request.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Author/Artist RON HEVENER specializes in animal sports and entertainment. An accomplished artist, Hevener figurines and prints from his novels are bought and traded throughout the world. “Life is a movie,” he says. “On with the show!”
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Web hosting in one of its various guises should be considered by
any enterprise embarking on e-business. The potential for cost
savings and benefits through reaching customers and coming to
market faster is huge, but there are also great risks. The
principal danger is of choosing a Web hosting provider that is
either unsuitable — perhaps being unable to deliver the level
of service you require — or worse, about to go bust. The
dangers of the latter were demonstrated by the high-profile
agonies suffered last year by PSInet, the company previously
touted as the “Internet super-carrier”, which is now threatened
with bankruptcy. The problem with the Web hosting business is
that to make it viable, major investment has to be made up-front
in data centres, staff and network infrastructure, in the hope
that the customers will then come flocking in. Although rapid
growth in Internet use continued through 2000 despite the
dot-com debacle, PSInet suffered because it was over-ambitious
in its projections and a little ahead of its time. Caroline
Bryan, Web hosting analyst at Datamonitor, says, “It
over-reached itself and sunk too much money into its IP network
and datacentres, while the services did not take off quite as
expected,” This showed that size alone is no guarantee of
success in the Internet service business, so the question is how
can a potential Web hosting customer make sure it is entrusting
its Internet shop window to the right provider. After all, in
the case of full outsourced Web hosting, an enterprise might be
relying on the service provider to collect a sizeable proportion
of its revenue through e-commerce, as well as to deal with
customers. According to Bryan, hosting companies that have spun
off from some existing large players in telecommunications or
systems integration are better placed, because they have
independent revenue streams and so rely less heavily on the
goodwill and patience of their financial backers. The best UK
example is BT Ignite, said Bryan, which although still losing
money overall has a huge existing network infrastructure it can
call on, as well as BT’s IT solutions business Syncordia and its
outsourcing company Syntegra. This point is echoed by other
analysts, such as consultant and analyst Ovum’s ISP-watcher
Henning Dransfeld. “ISPs with a telco background can leverage
their telecom network and are in a good position to offer good
quality of service,” he says. This includes not only the big
incumbent carriers such as BT, but also the likes of NTL with
cable TV networks and in future others exploiting the unbundled
local loop. It can be argued that BT has over-reached itself
with the huge investment in 3G mobile networks on which there
will be no immediate return. There is also the little matter of
the $1.25bn ([pound]8.5bn) it is spending jointly with US
telecoms giant AT&T over three years in setting up the global
network of at least 44 data centres for the Ignite Web hosting
services. But the principal risk is of takeover rather than
collapse, with hopefully less disruption to the hosting. In any
case, at least according to BT Ignite’s vice-president of sales
and marketing Perses Sethna, the company is on target to start
making money on Web hosting by 2003. Some of the individual
country businesses making up BT Ignite are already profitable,
for example I.net in Italy, which recently had a successful
initial public offering with BT retaining a 50.8% stake. But
other Ignite businesses, including the UK operation, are still
making significant losses. Expansion The Web hosting story began
in the US with basic co-location services and has since expanded
into more managed offerings, including up to full outsourcing
and application provision. There is now a broad spectrum of
services on offer, but most analysts assign these to just three
categories. For this reason, others such as Worldport only
provide dedicated services. Few if any ISPs in the hosting
business want to confine themselves purely to co-location
because, as research director specialising in ISP issues at the
Gartner Group Eric Paulak points out, it delivers a relatively
poor return per unit of space and in locations such as the City
of London, where property is expensive, it is only just viable.
Matching hosting providers to these categories is easier said
than done, as suppliers are reluctant to admit that they are
only in the co-location arena, even if that is all they are
capable of providing. BT Ignite addresses the entire spectrum,
but Sethna admits cheerfully that all their marketing effort is
pitched at dedicated hosting because that is where the most
money is to be made. “If you look at the pricing for basic
co-location within the UK, it works out at about [epsilon]100
([pound]65) per square foot,” says Paulak. This figure can be
increased by perhaps 25% by offering some additional management,
for example of the IP routers, but pales into insignificance
when compared to the pickings that can be made with dedicated
services. The gulf is not difficult to estimate, As a rule of
thumb, according to Paulak, a business-class hosting service
with management will cost between [pound]100 and [pound]400 per
user per month, depending on location and level of
sophistication, with the average being around [pound]200. A
typical Web server can handle 50 users and 12 such servers can
be accommodated in a rack occupying nine square feet in a room.
This equates to about [pound]10,000 per server per month, or
[pound]120,000 per rack per month. Dividing by the nine square
feet, this comes to about [pound]13,500 per square foot per
month, which is a good 100-fold increase on what can be earned
with co-location. The result is that dedicated services are that
much more expensive for customers, but when you put into the
equation the cost of managing the facility and acquiring the
necessary in-house IT skills, it may look more attractive. For a
mid-sized company with 100 users, the cost of a dedicated Web
hosting service would be [pound]240,000 per year on this basis.
So despite these costs, there is a strong swing in demand from
co-location towards dedicated services, according to Sethna. But
because of the huge cost differential, a number of larger
enterprises that already have most of the human resources needed
to run a Web site will at least start off with co-location to
test the waters. To cater for this, many business sector ISPs,
such as UUnet, will continue to offer co-location services for
the foreseeable future, almost as loss leaders to lure customers
into their Aladdin’s cave of more lucrative services. As Bryan
notes, “Web site hosting is one of the first things that a
company is quite willing to outsource.” Dedicated services Basic
co-location is technically far easier to provide and is more of
a vanilla service, with fewer differences between the
contenders. But when it comes to dedicated services, some
providers are more capable than others, both in their ability to
offer the high levels of availability needed for e-commerce and
in the range of options offered. BT Ignite, for example, can now
go beyond full outsourcing of IT to embrace customer
relationship management (CRM), “In this way we can provide not
just the technology but surrounding services to get a company to
market quickly,” says Sethna. This could appeal not just to end
customers but also to aspiring application service providers
(ASPs) which might have a sound proposition but not be geared up
to handle CRM issues on behalf of its own customers. “So we are
packaging this as a wholesale ASP offering,” says Sethna. Some
of the value-added services that a large player can bring
embrace both IT and surrounding business issues. One is Web
caching, which is particularly important for international
multinationals, where a global enterprise might want localised
content located close to the relevant customers for performance
reasons. This in tarn requires the hosting company to have at
least a satellite data centre in each country in which they
operate. But before getting carried away with value-added
options, users should evaluate the ability of hosting companies
to deliver maximum availability, says Worldport’s vice-president
of sales and marketing Frazer Hamilton. This cannot be achieved
through resilient hardware and communications alone, but
requires attention to the operating systems and applications as
well. “For this reason we do not use a standard operating
system,” says Hamilton. “We harden the operating system to make
it more secure, and also the applications.” The essence here is
to close unnecessary routes into the system that a hacker could
exploit, using similar principles to those applied to
military-grade software development. Now with large Web site
hosting, there is a growing need for such hardened software in
the commercial sector. Another pressing need in Web hosting is
better support for peering arrangements between providers.
Progress is being made in basic connectivity to create faster
transmission with better quality of service along end-to-end
paths through the Internet, traversing the domains of multiple
service providers. But what is lacking is the ability to retain
information about content during such multi-ISP transmission.
“We think new content peering arrangements are needed to drive
the industry forward,” says Sethna. “We want to be able to swap
content across the network and retain the intelligence and
functionality so that, for example, information on the consumer
is passed back to the source. Then an advertiser might be able
to have granular information of who is looking at their
content.” This may raise privacy issues, but that is another
story. Without doubt though the next chapter in the hosting saga
will address the content distribution question.
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