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		<title>Food For Life Ezekiel 4:9 Organic Sprouted Whole Grain Cereal, Original, 16-Ounce Boxes</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pack of 6, 16-ounce boxes (total of 96-ounces) All natural, kosher certified, organic, vegan, dairy free, yeast free, flourless; No conditioners, additives, artificial flavors, colors, or preservatives Exculsive baking prcesses to ensure proper moisture levels, texture, and maximum flavor without losing vital nutrients and important natural fiber Low glycemic, diabetic friendly Product DescriptionFood for Life [...]]]></description>
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<p><b>Product Description</b><br />Food for Life Baking Company is a family-owned and operated specialty bakery with a passionate commitment to natural foods. Food for Life originated in Glendale, California, in the back of a small neighborhood natural foods store known as Foods For Life N&#8230; <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Food-Life-Ezekiel-Sprouted-Original/dp/B000LKTMLM%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAISXTSWN4GURQULVQ%26tag%3Danothegadgetn-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB000LKTMLM" rel="nofollow">More >></a></p>
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		<title>Be Great, Powerful Beyond Measure (Best Inspirational Video Ever)[The Original]</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IF YOU LIKE THIS VIDEO&#8230; check out my others: ~You Are A Champion (Best Motivational Video Ever) [ORIGINAL] www.youtube.com ~United We Stand (Inspirational Video In Honor of Our Troops) [ORIGINAL] www.youtube.com ~Motivational Go Army Strong Ad [ORIGINAL] www.youtube.com This is the ORIGINAL video. I edited Tony Robbins video for him. Edited by Eric Horner. Video [...]]]></description>
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IF YOU LIKE THIS VIDEO&#8230; check out my others: ~You Are A Champion (Best Motivational Video Ever) [ORIGINAL] www.youtube.com ~United We Stand (Inspirational Video In Honor of Our Troops) [ORIGINAL] www.youtube.com ~Motivational Go Army Strong Ad [ORIGINAL] www.youtube.com This is the ORIGINAL video. I edited Tony Robbins video for him. Edited by Eric Horner. Video footage from Snatch. Audio clips from Muhammad Ali&#8217;s speech, Rocky, and Coach Carter. Still photography by Gabriel Stiritz and Lauren Herreid. Music from Transformers and Gladiator. Hanz Zimmer. This is a fan-made video. Do YOU need MORE inspiration? www.squidoo.com Make sure you Rate and Comment it. Let&#8217;s get that site viral. Thanks. VIDEO SCRIPT/LYRICS: Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure, beyond measure. Ima show you, how great I am. Last night I cut the light off in my bedroom, hit the switch, and was in the bed before the room was dark. Ima show you, how great I am. Only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick, Im so mean I make medicine sick. Ima show you, how great I am. This kids gonna be the best kid in the world. This kids gonna be somebody better than anybody I ever knew. Ima show you, how great I am. I have wrastled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale, I done handcuffed lightnin, thrown thunder in jail. Ima show you, how great I am. All you chumps are gonna bow when I whoop him, all of you, I <b>&#8230;</b></p>
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		<title>Keyword Research Tools</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One need to choose those keywords that are frequently searched for and which is in high demand, but not being already used by many other websites and competitors, and thus has low competition. There are a number of keyword research tools that can help you find them. Apart from the Wordtracker which was already discussed [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One need to choose those keywords that are frequently searched for and which is in high demand, but not being already used by many other websites and competitors, and thus has low competition. There are a number of keyword research tools that can help you find them.</p>
<p>Apart from the Wordtracker which was already discussed in an other article, we have some more equally important research tools like the Overture, Google AdWords Keyword and Guidebeam. </p>
<p><img src="http://inspirationstationva.com/wp-content/uploads/overture-keyword-selector-tool.png" alt="" align="right" title="overture-keyword-selector-tool" width="316" height="241" class="alignright size-full wp-image-131" />Overture&#8217;s <a target="_blank" href="http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/">http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/</a>  keyword suggestion tool is free and much quicker to use than Wordtracker. It works more like the Wordtracker but doesn&#8217;t tell you how many websites are targeting each keyword phrase. For example if you type ‘Computer’, the Overture search suggestion tool will tell you that during the last month the word ‘Computer’ was searched, say for example 459550 times at Overture.Com. Similarly &#8216;computer game&#8217; was searched 302210 times. Also, given one word it will tell you all relevant combinations of that word, which are based on actual searches done by people. If the word you keyed in is not a common search term then you will not get any results. It means that very few people have actually searched for that word during the last month.</p>
<p>Even Google Keyword Tool generates potential keywords for your ad campaign and reports their Google statistics, including search performance and seasonal trends. Features of this tool include,<br />
Sorting the results of your desired keyword search by popularity, past performance history within the AdWords system, cost, and predicted ad position. </p>
<p>Easy keyword manipulation where you can select a few keywords here and there or add them all at once. </p>
<p>Searches for keywords present even in any webpage URL specified by your search. It can also expand your keyword search even further to include those pages that are linked to or from the original URL page.</p>
<p>More keyword results are generated based on regularly updated usage statistics database. This helps you to get new keywords or phrases.</p>
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		<title>What Innovation Can Do to Your Life?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a talent that everyone has, yet they think they don&#8217;t. The power of innovation. If you&#8217;ve ever marvelled at somebody&#8217;s creative progess, guess what, you can create and innovate too. It just takes time. Everyone is born creative. The box of crayons in kindergarten were not limited to those who possessed potential; because the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://inspirationstationva.com/wp-content/uploads/inovation_bulb.jpg" alt="" title="inovation_bulb" width="300" height="300" align="right" class="alignright size-full wp-image-31" />It&#8217;s a talent that everyone has, yet they think they don&#8217;t. The power of innovation. If you&#8217;ve ever marvelled at somebody&#8217;s creative progess, guess what, you can create and innovate too. It just takes time. Everyone is born creative. The box of crayons in kindergarten were not limited to those who possessed potential; because the truth is, everybody has potential.</p>
<p>You know how long it took to learn to ride a bike or drive or to never commit the same mistake again? It&#8217;s the same with innovation. It takes a  bit of practice and a lot of time before this mind function comes easily  when called. This article will teach you a few tips on how to bring innovation into your life.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t listen to what other people say. Follow the beat of your own drum. Allowing for the input of other people will only bring cacophony to the music you are trying to make. If you have an original idea, don&#8217;t waste your time and effort trying to make people understand. They won&#8217;t. And the help you will probably get comes in the form of negative feedback. If all those geniuses listened to their peers, we would probably still be living in the middle ages.</p>
<p>Spend time on it. I cannot stress that enough, although, please do not mistake this tip to tell you to quit your day job entirely. Do not. This involves some tricky time management but with a little discipline you&#8217;ll be able to squeeze both in. </p>
<p>Exercise. Take a walk. Run a mile or two. Send all those endorphins coursing through your veins. Exercising certainly clears and relaxes your mind and allows for anything to pop up. </p>
<p>Record your dreams. Aren&#8217;t some of them just the craziest things that your conscious mind would never have thought of? If you&#8217;ve had these dreams before, and I&#8217;m sure have, this only shows you the untapped innovative power you have lying within. So jot down those notes. Those dreams may just create an innovative spark in you.</p>
<p>Find your own style. You can always tell a Van Gogh from a Matisse. You&#8217;ll know Hemingway wrote something by the choice of words on the paper. So it is the same with you. People will appreciate your innovation more because it is uniquely yours and that no one else would have thought of what you were thinking. That will let people see how valuable an asset you are. </p>
<p>Don&#8217;t hide behind nifty gadgets or tools. You don&#8217;t need the most expensive set of paints to produce a masterpiece. The same way with writing. You don&#8217;t need some expensive fountain pen and really smooth paper for a bestseller. In fact, J.K. Rowling wrote the first book of the Harry Potter Series on bits of tissue. So what if you&#8217;ve got an expensive SLR camera if you&#8217;re a crappy photographer? Who cares if you&#8217;ve got a blinging laptop if you can&#8217;t write at all? The artist actually reduces the number of tools he has as he gets better at his craft: he knows what works and what doesn&#8217;t. </p>
<p>Nothing will work without passion. What wakes you up in the mornings? What keeps the flame burning? What is the one thing that you&#8217;ll die if you don&#8217;t do? Sometimes people with talent are overtaken by the people who want it more. Think the hare and the tortoise. Ellen Degeneres once said that if you&#8217;re not doing something that you want to do, then you don&#8217;t really want to do it. And that&#8217;s true. Sometimes you just want something so bad you become a virtual unstoppable. And that is passion. Passion will keep you going. </p>
<p>Don&#8217;t worry about inspiration. You can&#8217;t force it; inspiration hits when you least expect it to, for those unpredictable yet inevitable moments you should prepare. An idea could strike you on the subway, yet alas, you poor unfortunate soul; you have no sheet of paper to scribble down a thought that could change the world. Avoid these disasters. Have a pen and paper within your arm&#8217;s reach at all times.</p>
<p>I hope this article has helped you bring more innovation into your life. Keep in mind that you&#8217;re doing these things for your own satisfaction and not anybody else&#8217;s. But soon enough they will notice, and everything should snowball from there.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mortgage crisis has had a negative impact on everyone, not just homeowners. Elected officials are working hard to pass legislation that is designed to prevent future banking debacles. Unfortunately, history has proven that when legislators over-regulate banks that it tightens the reins on lending. This is done by raising the bar on what it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://inspirationstationva.com/wp-content/uploads/mortgage.jpg" alt="" title="mortgage" width="300" height="255" align="right" class="alignright size-full wp-image-108" />The mortgage crisis has had a negative impact on everyone, not just homeowners. Elected officials are working hard to pass legislation that is designed to prevent future banking debacles. Unfortunately, history has proven that when legislators over-regulate banks that it tightens the reins on lending. This is done by raising the bar on what it takes to qualify for a mortgage or installment loan. Predictably, it’s the middle class that will feel the pinch more than anyone. Specifically, it’s the middle-class, self employed small business owner that be injured the worst. </p>
<p>Most people are aware that you can reduce your taxes by deducting expenses and qualified charitable contributions. What most people don’t realize is that small business owners live and die by those deductions. Tax rates have risen on the self employed more than any other segment in our society. To counter these tax hikes, legislators created more “loop-holes” write off’s and deductions for small business owners to use. </p>
<p>For this reason, small business owners rely on creative CPA’s to maximize their deductions in order to show less income and pay less taxes.There are nearly 23 million small businesses in America and over 35 million sole-proprietors and almost every one of them employ savvy CPA’s to keep them in the black. The draw-back is that by doing this most self employed borrowers are unable to prove enough income on paper when applying for a loan or a mortgage. </p>
<p>Traditional mortgage lending practices of yester-year required that borrower’s prove sufficient income when taking out a loan. Over the years, taxes have risen for small business owners at staggering rates, far above what they have for W2 employees. At the same time the self employed borrower&#8217;s “provable” income has dwindled proportionately. Under traditional banking rules most of the self-employed people wouldn’t be able to qualify for business loans or mortgages. This would ultimately force small business owners out of business and cripple our would economy. </p>
<p>This new business paradigm literally forced the banking industry to create lending products that catered to small business owners who could not prove all of their income. These products were called “stated” income loans and did not require borrowers who had good credit to prove their income. These products originally required good credit and sufficient assets in order to qualify for them. Responsible guidelines and common sense underwriting kept default rates on these products in line with conventional mortgages. Unfortunately, as competition for this segment of borrowers stiffened between lenders the stringency to qualify for these mortgages softened, thus the mortgage crisis. </p>
<p>It is exactly this type of loan that our law-makers are trying to do away with through legislation. The new mortgage bill being bounced around has specific remedies for irresponsible lending. Meaning, if a bank loans you money and it can be proven in court (attorneys like this law by the way) that the bank was irresponsible in doing so they could be penalized. The definition of “irresponsible” is did the borrower have the capacity to repay the loan, meaning did they prove enough income. This bill will kill stated income loans, period. </p>
<p>So where does this leave the responsible self employed borrowers who needed these loans to live and operate their businesses? This leaves them with higher taxes. Should this bill pass self employed borrowers will be forced to claim more income each year on their tax returns in order to qualify for car loans, mortgages and even business loans. This will negate any of the loop-holes and deductions they were promised in lieu of higher taxes. </p>
<p>This means the government will rake in billions in extra revenue as a result of this bill. For example, let’s assume that a small business owner claimed $40,000 in income last year after deductions and business expenses. If she was in a 40% tax bracket she would pay roughly $16,000 in taxes. Under the new banking guidelines that same business owner may have to claim $80,000 In order to qualify for mortgages, car loans and business loans. Assuming she’s in the same tax bracket, she would now have to pay $32,000 in taxes. </p>
<p>Multiply $32,000 by 23 million business owners and that’s one huge pay-day for Uncle Sam. You can bet that the Senators pushing this bill through congress are well aware of this left handed tax raise. You will never hear them mention it either, I wonder why?. You will hear about the naughty lenders that put good wholesome red blooded Americans in the street through predatory lending practices. You will never hear about the 20 million business owners who paid their mortgages on time and actually need these loans to stay in business.</p>
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