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Joel Turtel, author of "Public Schools, Public Menace: How Public Schools Lie To Parents and Betray Our Children," says busy working parents can give their kids a quality, low-cost, private-school education at home using the Internet.

Millions of desperate parents today are appalled at the inferior education public schools give their kids, but think they have no where else to go.

Many parents believe that the only alternative to public schools is either a Catholic or Protestant-affiliated school or expensive non-religious private school. The problem is that even Catholic schools now charge an average tuition between $3000 to $4000 a year. Non-religious private schools can charge between $7000 to over $14,000 a year.

Millions of low and middle-income parents simply cannot afford this tuition, so they think they are stuck with public schools.

Turtel says theres another way. Now parents can give their kids an excellent private-school education through Internet schools that cater to K-12th grade students.

Many Internet private schools have low tuition costs, from as low as $350 a year to $2000 or more a year. Many schools charge less than $850 a year.

For example, the Clonlara School currently charges about $750 for the 2005-06 school year for a new student in kindergarten through 8th grade studies. Children get a thorough education in Reading, Math, History, and many other subjects in the curriculum, and the school assigns a personal teacher to each child.

There are dozens of excellent Internet private schools parents can choose from. Some schools such as Keystone National High School only offer high-school programs while others offer a complete, kindergarten through 12th grade education.

Many accredited Internet schools give a course of study similar to traditional private schools. They take children through a progressive curriculum in math, science, reading and writing, history, and many other subjects.

This structured, comprehensive program, in effect, gives children a personal teacher and private-school education in their own living room.

This setup is especially helpful for single-working moms, or families where both mother and father work. Since Internet-school teachers supervise the child's education, it's less likely that parents have to take time from work or quit their job to homeschool their kids. As a result, Internet private schools take most of the homeschooling burden off parents' backs.

As Turtel says to parents in his book , You dont have to settle for a third-rate public- school education for your children. You do have alternatives, many excellent, low-cost alternatives that can give your children a first-rate education and a rewarding future.

"Public School, Public Menace" has a whole Resource section devoted to Internet private schools and many other education options. The author lists dozens of Internet schools with their website addresses. Parents can quickly research these schools, find out if the yearly tuition fits their budget and the curriculum and teaching methods look suitable for their child.

Joel Turtel is an education policy analyst, and author of Public Schools, Public Menace: How Public Schools Lie To Parents and Betray Our Children." Contact Information:
Website: http://www.mykidsdeservebetter.com,
Email: lbooksusa@aol.com,
Phone: 718-447-7348,

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Its every parents nightmare and it was happening to me, but not as a dream. It was real. My teenaged daughter, my baby, sat on the examining table in the Emergency Room, her face a mask of pain as tears rolled down her cheeks. At only 100 pounds she seemed so little and vulnerable. After having her four wisdom teeth removed there were complications.

Her TMJ was worse and now her jaw was locked. She was in excruciating pain that radiated from her jaw up the side of her head to her ear. Later, after reading about her condition online, I would learn that some women have said this pain is worse than the pain of childbirth. When women talk about pain that is worse than childbirth, I pay attention.

To make matters worse she has a fear of needles. As a hypnotherapist Id treated many people for phobias, but not my own daughter. Your own family members do not make good clients so success rates are low. I didnt want her to fail with hypnosis with me and lose faith in it so that another hypnotherapist would find it more difficult to help her. Somehow, we had never gotten around to dealing with her phobia.

The doctor had prescribed a needle and she was having a meltdown. That meant more pain and more fear. I talked her through the shot, but even the strong narcotic did little to ease her pain. While she laid on the examining table, sobbing, I remembered taking her to the doctors when she was little, how she would beg me not to let them draw blood. It was so often a painful fiasco with her small, hard to locate veins, but I would always find a way to get it done.

I always felt her pain, suffering along with her and finding some way to distract her if I could. Sometimes I would let her squeeze my fingers as hard as she could, feigning pain and yowling and carrying on, distracting her while she got her needle. I had started to master those techniques years ago with her older brother. He was now in the ER with us. Like a good older brother, hed accompanied his little sister to the ER.

Not so many years before, Id watched him being wheeled from the ER with hoses and wires attached to his body and a defibrillator on his gurney, as they wheeled him to the cardiac ICU. A reaction to a drug for pain had caused fluid to build up around his heart, causing intense pain and cardiac distress. I helplessly watched my usually strapping, healthy, though-guy son who was then pale and lying on that gurney, his breathing shallow and labored. He made it and now was in the ER with his sister who was going through her own crisis. He has a son of his own and I know he will probably go through what almost every parent experiences, helplessly watching while a child suffers. Whether it is our own child or someone elses it is never easy. The suffering and sometimes death of a child is perhaps the most incomprehensible of experiences for some people.

In my book, Your Loved Ones, Your Self; Finding and Raising the Family Within I wrote about our Loved Ones. They are the part of our own Higher Consciousness that creates us and projects us into this world. You might call Loved Ones, Spirit Parents. Higher Consciousness, in another dimension, or domain, individualizes so that each of us has our own personal Higher Self. It is the same Higher Self that Jesus called the Father when he said, I am in the Father and the Father is in me.

God is inscrutable to the human mind, but our own part of Higher Consciousness, our Loved Ones, are our link to God. Just as our Loved Ones, the Father, are in us and we are in them, God is in us and we are in God (multiplicity). So while we as human earthly parents suffer, watching our childrens suffering, our own Spirit Parents and our childrens Spirit Parents are experiencing the suffering as well, but in a different awareness. They understand the purpose of the suffering and the benefit because they have divine understanding. But perhaps, on some level, they may still suffer, and that may be part of their evolutionary path. Because, you see, evolving and maturing is what these lives, experiences, and pain are all about. Just as we and our children mature and grow with each experience, the different parts of consciousness grow and evolve as well.

Each life, and each experience in that life, is a gift. Pain, as distressing as it may be in human terms, is a gift. We cannot evolve, learn detachment, and enter into Higher Consciousness, bliss, without pain and suffering. The passage to Higher Consciousness is through Trial by Life and that life includes pain. Though we may learn to deal with our own pain, it is much harder to be detached even thankful, when our beloved, fragile child is crying in pain, frightened, and confused. Does this mean we should stand by and let anyone suffer and not try to relieve the suffering? Certainly not.

It would be nice if we could help our child to understand the reason for pain and suffering and to detach himself or herself from the pain, but a childs understanding is limited. How do you explain to a child that pain is a gift and that he or she, through Higher Consciousness, chose the pain before entering this world? You cant. Therefore, we are forced to face pain through our children, there is no escaping it on this plane of existence until we evolve and detach ourselves from it. Before your child was born he or she made a choice to feel pain so that you could not escape it or manage it like you manage your own pain. The suffering of our children is the ultimate opportunity for the test of faith and detachment. That opportunity is a gift from our children to us. Only with understanding of the evolutionary process of consciousness and the acceptance of our roles as witnesses and participants can we successfully see the pain for the illusion and opportunity that it is.

Be thankful for the moments of joy and happiness in life. They are gifts of love from our Loved Ones. Be thankful for pain and suffering, even your childs suffering, because that is a manifestation of an even greater love. While you and your child suffer the universe suffers with you as well. If you have trouble accepting pain and suffering as gifts, just think of your life and the times you have grown, matured, and moved forward in life. What caused your greatest evolution? Was it peaceful happy times or times when you were challenged? The old saying, What doesnt kill you will make you stronger, has a ring of truth.

Pain and pleasure are two ends of the same stick. While the experiences seem very real to our conscious and subconscious minds, to our Higher Consciousness our Loved Ones, who we really are, they are illusions. They are parts in a play acted out on this stage. We are both players and audience. That is multiplicity, one of the hardest principles of existence the human mind can ever try to understand, but it must or you are doomed to repeat the cycle of pain. The purpose of pain and suffering is to teach us detachment and move us to a higher consciousness.

Pain and suffering are the greatest gift of love. Love and gratitude for each moment of life, whether pleasurable or painful, are the key to freedom from pain and the attainment of eternal bliss. That is why, though it is hard to comprehend from a human standpoint, as a father and grandfather, I say, be thankful for your childs suffering. Also, remember that you are setting an example that will help lead your child to Higher Consciousness and the detachment he or she will need to rise above earthly suffering to heavenly bliss.

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When the motivation lacks what to do? I think that is the most critical issue in our business of network marketing. How do we get recharged again? What do you do? One thing to do is to call somebody that energizes you. But is it wise to rely on somebody? That person can be gone or out travelling.

Notice and make a note of things that triggers you. If a long walk could do it for you just do it. Maybe some music can speed you up. The latest movie out there. Whatever it takes make it work. Make it work as soon as possible too. Kids are good inspiration. They capture the moments and the days. They never think about tomorrow or yesterday.

There is an expression, if you stand with one leg in the past and the other in the future you pee on the present. Opps! So we better take actions today because tomorrow might not ever come. It you are tired take a power nap and get in to it. Do not think just do it. You can also set the priority in the different issues you have to go through. Put the biggest hinder first.

Once you have done it the smaller ones may have disappeared. So sort the problems in an order that makes sense. What else to do? Keep reminding yourself of how good you would feel to get everything done. The satisfaction is priceless. Make a decision of where you want to be in one year, in five years or even longer time. Put a goal collage on the wall close to where you see it everyday. Make a commitment in your life once and for all. Make a stand for your kids to show how to do a plan for the future. Take the opportunity to teach them.

Read books about motivation. Choose preferably about subjects of how to motivate you anywhere, everywhere with anybody. Listen to seminars of good speakers. How do you choose good speakers? Well it is hard so you just have to line up with a few. Then pick the best and leave the rest.

Do you have good tapes, c.d at home to listen to? Listen to them over and over again. You know if you have seen a movie twice, three times. You notice different things every time. Socialize with people who are enthusiastic. They have the ability to light to the room up. To inspire others. Thats a gift. Be in good environment too.

What is a good environment for you? Take an inventory of that issue. Maybe you have to do a great change in your life to find the right place. Surround your self with beautiful things. Like fresh flowers. They have such a great impact on us humans. Are you near any animals? Talk to them, pamper them. They give you unconditionally love. Most of all, stay healthy, stay happy and enjoy your life. Because youre worth it!

MarieLouise is working as a personal trainer and a life coach. She is also very skilled as a networker with several years experience from different MLM companies.
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The advent of cars and other motor vehicles changed transportation in the early 20th century. These horseless carriage became the most important means of transportation over the years. The widespread acceptance of the automobile by the American public posed unique problems, such as better roads, service, fuel stations and places to store the vehicle.

Space became an important issue in the development of garages. One of the first solutions for urban car storage was publicly and privately owned large-scale garages. The garages also changed architectural design. The portable garages paved their way through the market in 1908. They were small, partially prefabricated structures that consisted of wood or metal panels. These structures could be easily constructed within a day, and were relatively inexpensive.

Garage shelving is basically undertaken in two basic forms: site-built and prefabricated. Prefabricated shelving is sturdy and portable. It is more adjustable and faster to erect than any other type of garage. With regards to these kinds of garages, steel is stated to be the best choice for construction. One can also build these in plastic, but these garages are fragile and cant hold heavy items.

While buying materials for prefabricated garages, one would need to first consider the purpose of constructing the structure, and the place where it would be built. Steel shelving is only available in standard widths, depths and heights, and one would need to choose from these choices given. Adjustability is another factor that one needs to consider for prefabricated garages. There are many types of prefabricated garages available, and one needs to look for sheds designed for heavy loads. Due consideration should also be given to the sustainability of the structure in all seasons.

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Affordable health care is one of the things that everyone all over the country wants. The cost of health care has sky rocketed in the past few decades. In the past, many of us rely on our employers to provide good, affordable health care. However, businesses are now cutting workers benefits to cut costs. Fortunately, its still possible to be adequately covered in case of a medical emergency.

It is unfortunate that employers are cutting costs where affordable health care is concerned. Employers often expect employees to pay a greater share of the total of the monthly, yearly or quarterly premiums. Many people think they cant allow for health care on their budget so they simply opt not to sign on to the company health care plan. However, the same people will always find a way to afford vices like cable television, cigarettes, junk food, and alcohol. They may be able to find the money to pay for a health care premium if they cut down or give up some of these luxuries.

You may want to look carefully at the health care plans provided at both places of work if youre married and both of you work. Couples may find a little more of what they had in mind if one spouses health care plan seems to be a little sparse in coverage or non-existent.

Your employers health care plan may not the best option or is simply unavailable. You may choose to discuss your options with your local insurance agent if there arent enough people in the company you work for to qualify for a group coverage plan. The same agent that provides coverage for your house, and car may also provide affordable health care insurance.

You should also have a local insurance agent thats trustworthy just as everyone should have a family doctor, mechanic, and lawyer they trust. Try to ask friends and relatives about whom they go to for their insurance needs if you dont have a family insurance agent. A recommended, reliable, insurance agent is sure to be able to provide you with affordable health care coverage or at least will be able to direct you to someone who can assist you in this goal.

There are some insurance companies that provide a cafeteria plan for those that rely on their coverage. You can pick and choose what options you want to be covered for in a cafeteria plan. If you make sure that you wont have to pay for anything you dont need or want, then affordable health care will be possible.

Making sure that you have some sort of coverage for medical emergencies is the most important thing you need to do for affordable health care. Remember that medical emergencies are not something that happens only to other people. A health care crisis could hit your family just when you least expect it.

Morgan Hamilton offers expert advice and great tips regarding all aspects concerning Affordable Health Care. Visit our site for more helpful information about Affordable Health Care and other similar topics.

The boardroom was filled with noise as the top executives met. The CEO had planned this meeting for weeks, but no one was sure what was going to be discussed, so nervous conversation blossomed throughout the room.

Good afternoon, the CEO said as he took his seat and a hush settled over the room. I want to thank you all for coming today. Lets get to business.

The executives began looking to one another still confused as to what was happening.

I want to spend our time today coming to grips with who we are as a company, the CEO said as he took off his suit coat, draped it over the back of the leather chair and walked to the white board marker in hand.

Most of the executives thought their boss was joking, but he just stood in front of the whiteboard waiting for someone to speak.

We sell computers, one man ventured.

The ice was broken, but it wasnt what the boss wanted. Yes, I know thats what we sell, but who are we?

We are supplies of computers and related components, another ventured.

Very good, but youve just told me what we do, yet again. Who are we?

Most of the executives were at a loss to figure out what their boss wanted, finally a third brave soul spoke, We are a computer company whose purpose is to not just sell computers, but to assist nontraditional college students in returning to college to get a degree.

Very good. And how do you know this to be true? the CEO asked with a smile.

Because I wouldnt be here if it werent for the scholarship I received from this company, the man replied.

What this boss was attempting to get his executives to consider was the best way to brand the company. After all, there are lots of companies that can sell you a computer, but this fictitious company didnt seem to have a clue what they were apart from the role of computer salesmen.

Web branding is about finding out who you are as a business apart from the products you sell. What is the heart of your business? Web branding insists there must be more to your business than selling a product.

This is the process whereby your personality and passion can come through, but you must crack open the nut that reads business and find out what is inside.

As a business owner you likely have something you care about even more than your business. How does that factor into your business principles, goals and customer service?

Keep peeling back the layers until you are so content with who you are as a business that it becomes as nature as breathing to take that information and brand your business as something more than a generic online store selling a generic online product.

Who are you youd be surprised how many customers are curious.

Scott Lindsay is a web developer and entrepreneur. He is the founder of HighPowerSites and many other web projects. Get your own website online in just 5 minutes with HighPowerSites.com at: http://www.highpowersites.com Start your own ebook business with BooksWealth at: http://www.bookswealth.com

The best way to cure arthritis is by doing two things!

1. Understanding what caused your arthritis.

2. Realizing the best way to treat arthritis is to prevent arthritis.

In this article, we will address both of those topics to help you cure your arthritis. However, did you know that only in recent decades, did researchers begin to believe that there is a cure for arthritis?

Fact! Researchers were dumbfounded after discovering indigenous tribes in undeveloped countries whose members consistently live to be 90-100 years of age. What was even more amazing is how tribesmen would work (hunting, gathering, planting, harvesting) up to their dying day. And the the kicker! These primitive tribes have not one known case of arthritis. How could this be? After years of questions, researchers finally concluded that the tribes' diets are the cause of such a healthy life.

What Causes Arthritis?

Understanding the cause of arthritis can allow you to know how to treat arthritis.

So what causes arthritis? Arthritis is typically caused by the following: poor diet; unbalanced diet; inactive lifestyle; stress; inefficient vitamins; improper breathing; and lack of sleep.

Did you notice that you can control most (if not all) of the arthritis factors. In fact, the biggest cause of arthritis is your diet!

Naturally Treating Arthritis with Your Diet

Did you know that the FDA allows over a thousand additives and preservatives to be added to our food? In fact, thirty-year-old landfills recently opened were found to have hotdogs which still have not decomposed. How disgusting does that sound? Now think of the other foods (with preservatives) our body digests on a daily basis?

So why am I telling you this? Because the resilient tribes who live to be one hundred years of age have never consumed one additive or preservative in their life! And note, these tribes have also not one case of arthritis.

Arthritis-Free Dieting Tips

1. Stop drinking soda! Typically anything in a can is loaded with preservatives and additives.

2. Drink less coffee and more herbal teas.

3. Stop eating white flour. Anything with the words 'enriched' is not a good choice for arthritis.

4. Lower your sugar intake. Most arthritic symptoms are associated with high amounts of sugar.

5. Stay away from dairy products.

6. Eat raw fruits and vegetables. These water-soluble fiber foods are great for arthritis sufferers.

7. Eat protein from any lean meat, eggs, beans, grains and nuts.

8. Drink 8-10 glasses of water each and every day! This is extremely important for curing arthritis.

9. Stay away from fast foods and processed foods.

10. The best foods are always fresh and raw. Eat foods that will spoil after a couple of weeks.

These simple and helpful tips will get you started on the right path for treating your arthritis with no medications and no surgery. However, don't stop with these tips. To discover an array of foods to eat and not eat; various breathing exercises; fitness ideas, natural anti-inflammatory herbs and other tips to naturally cure arthritis; please check out our safe and secured website today.

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Many internet users today plug into the internet with a dial-up modem. We connect our PC to a telephone jack and wait for the computer and server to shake hands. If there is a successful connection, were ready to surf the internet. Otherwise, we need to dial up the model and connect to another server.

Sounds frustrating? For a lot of users, dial up isnt offering what they need. However, theres an option that is available for almost all households: Cable Broadband.

What is cable broadband? Cable broadband is a higher speed internet that could transmit data 400 times faster than dial-up. With coaxial cables, the bandwidth is broader so that the download and upload speed is unsurpassed by any conventional phone modems.

As one can see, cable broadband offers faster speeds. But how can this benefit the average user? The benefits for individuals are tremendous.

Broadband is allowing new media to be available for the consumer. For example, who wouldve thought watching television programs or music videos would be readily available with a simple url search? The convenience of the broadband gave license to webmasters and corporations to play music and videos online.

If youre still using dial-up, access to videos and streaming music may not be ideal. Its slower which could mean that the movie or streaming music will break up during the transfer of data. Loss of data could make the experience unpleasant.

What happens if your connection for your dial-up drops? In this case, youd have to start up the dial-up again and wait for your pc to connect. Unfortunately, dropped connections happensometimes too frequently. With cable broadband, there are no interruptions. The connection is constantly on and it doesnt have to reconnect if the pc remains idle.

Online games are becoming mainstream. Games such as World of Warcraft and Second Life are best played when theres a broadband connection. With cable internet access, a person can play a game without interruptions. However, dial-up users have to worry about lag during play. This could mean the frame rate becomes too slow that the game wont respond well. Or, it could mean constant connection dropping because the game thinks the PC is idle.

For home stock day traders or commodity traders, real time connections are crucial. A delayed execution of a trade could cost a person thousands of dollars in lost opportunities. Cable internet allows instant transmission of data so that the trader gets the trade executed on time. Moreover, connection with cable is more reliable so that youll know you wont have to reconnect during bad connections.

Cable internet services also allow users to add a wireless router. A wireless router lets people with laptops to roam around the house without a cable connection to the internet. Since the data is transmitted through the, this allows ease and portability for anyone with a wireless pc card.

Theres good reason why cable broadband is becoming a good alternative for internet access. Individuals who have cable TV are now offered cable internet access. Consider cable internet if its right for you.

Michael Russell
Your Independent guide to Broadband