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Surgical masks are usually worn in several parts of Asia out of consideration for others when one has a communicable disease, as well as when one wishes to avoid catching anything oneself! But in the case of the common cold, it is unlikely that these masks can be of much help.

That’s because surgical masks usually can not filter out the viruses; the fabric is frequently just not fine enough to catch the germs, which are merely too small. But a lot more importantly, the one thing to realize about the common cold is that, out of some two hundred or so rhinoviruses there are, only a few of them that are directly responsible for the symptoms which afflict sufferers.

That is right – most common cold viruses do not actually cause the sore throats, running noses, or headaches that so bedevil the infected. Most rhinoviruses don’t attack our cells. Water eyes? Itchy throat? Congested sinuses? Absolutely nothing to do with them, in all likelihood.

The overwhelming majority of the time, it is our own bodies that produce such symptoms. Yes, our own bodies – our own immune systems, to be exact. All those symptoms come, most of the time, as a result of the immune system reacting to the virus.

The virus itself, in most instances, does nothing. Does not try to infect cells, doesn’t destroy them or cause any issues. But like an overzealous police department hell-bent on locking up every harmless vagrant and panhandler, our immunity system runs amok producing chemical reactions to the foregin intruder, reactions that are the direct cause of our stuffed noses, scratchy throats, and even aching ears.

Thus, having a strong and robust immune system gives rise to very intense reactions! Far from a sign of weakness, all that sneezing, coughing, and hurt most likely means a healthy immune system!

It should be noted that flu viruses do attack us, even though most rhinoviruses do not. But the symptoms are the same, and it’s a dilemma when strong immunity helps with flu viruses but hurts when it comes to most cold viruses! In any case, it’ll be all right to leave the surgical masks for surgeons.

It’s fascinating to watch old science fiction movies and compare the technology onscreen with current state-of-the-art technology in real life. For example, isn’t it funny that the world of interplanetary travel depicted in Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” should not have thought of mobiles and invented them – though in fact, such devices were in reality just another five or so years away from commercial feasibility! And it’s funny how with all the cinematic attention focused on such grand ambitious technologies like extraterrestrial travel the wonders that really did take place, in the real world, should carry, arguably, a lot more weight, impacting as they do our lives in maybe much more important ways. Take, for instance, the kind of rides offered by serial entrepreneur Zalman Silber.

Zalman Silber is the founder of a number of tourist attractions in the United States and Australia. Some are really great, such as Skywalk and The Edge, while others are rather uninspired, such as the Skyride and Oztrek. These last two are billed as an immersive you-are-there experience for the whole family – blah blah blah – but they’re hardly more than travel flicks the kind you can get on public TV, educational fare you’ve had a million times over already in school, even. They are helicopter fly-bys of New York and Sydney, respectively, with the only concession to “multimedia” (a buzzword that’s been commonly used to ballyhoo them) being so-called motion seating providing kinetic feedback in sync with happenings onscreen.

Nothing, as mentioned already, anyone hasn’t seen before.

Yet such things were to be found in many a science fiction film (albeit B-grade knock-offs, admittedly), someone’s vision of what hi-tech audio-visuals would be like one day! Certainly, that just speaks to the poverty of the imagination on the part of the writers more than anything else, but the point is that such contemplation makes for much amusement when screening the science fiction films of yesteryear.

Or take one of the earliest scenes from “Logan’s Run,” when the title character uses a kind of television-teleporter to find a date. Instead of going to a bar, the people of that world use this device to summon dates! It’s nothing short of a kind of 3-D Craig’s List!

These “everyday details” are especially likely to show up in the more thoughtful and interesting movies, and on the whole make up one useful yardstick by which much of the best examples may be separated from the mundane. For most sci-fi flicks focus on laser guns and starships, but leave out what really makes science fiction interesting in the first place, the nexus between science and technology and the everyday lives of human beings.

See how the worldwide web has changed everything? And what is it but a network of computers connecting to one another, serving up information, usually in a graphical (and truly multimedia) way? Nothing particularly incredible here; no “warp drive” or “plasma cannon” here – proving the old adage that life is stranger than fiction!

On Sand Hill in Fort Benning, Georgia, every recruit training company has its own armory with its own gun safes where rifles are stowed. Back in the early 1990s, the Army’s block of Basic Rifle Marksmanship (BRM) instruction usually didn’t take place until the fifth week of Basic Combat Training (BCT), so none of us recruits even knew that behind the nondescript door across from company headquarters lay the firearms we were all so looking forward to finally holding.

No, most likely not even the gun safes could have kept those weapons from our hands had we known! That’s how eager we all were to do the very thing we had actually signed up for, blasting away at targets.

Some folks like Drill and Ceremony (known as “D&C”) and there may even be those who actually like Physical Training (PT), but there will never be anyone who gripes about firing rifles, pistols, and the like. It’s the one thing everyone loves about the Army, blowing stuff up!

The gun safes are just an extra precaution, actually. There are no munitions in the training armory, and of course, the armory itself, such as it is, being comprised of one small nondescript room the same as any other on the premises with its cookie-cutter layout, is locked, behind dead-bolt bars and the like, no doubt.

And within real rifles share space with dummies issued for D&C; our first acquaintance with the armory was tempered with the realization that we were getting fakes, to be used for the endless parade-ground drills some found so tedious.

It was as astonishing a surprise as first realizing we had an armory on the premises when instead of dummies we had been issued real rifles for BRM. And since the start of BRM, any further D&C, which occurred much less frequently but was still present every so often, was conducted with real weaponry.

Green energy is forecasted to be the great industry with the 21st Century, paying great dividends to the country or countries that pioneer and successfully capitalize on it. Economically, environmentally, and even militarily, the ability to produce sustainable forms of energy is really a prize that will set the fate of the world for centuries to come.

Sadly, the United States is in danger of losing the green energy race. Our country is addicted to oil and the politicians are addicted to corporate money, so change has been virtually impossible.

On the other side of the world, literally, are the leaders of China, who have embarked on an ambitious plan to produce solar panels as well as implement solar farms themselves for domestic use. The Chinese are also big on wind farms and nuclear power, other technologies which Americans first developed but have now abandoned.

Sounds ominous? The chattering classes are all up in arms about the issue, but nothing has been getting done, not even with the election of Barack Obama. The interests are just too entrenched. Everybody stands to lose something, and contemporary American culture seems to have lost sight of any notion of the common good.

It’s a crazy scenario. You can find American citizens, engineers and scientists, educated with American tax dollars, who now conduct their work in China or are employed by businesses that do the rest of their work there. In effect, United States tax dollars are educating the people whose work will ultimately benefit the Chinese!

Of course, these scientists and engineers are only working for the highest salaries. But the companies they work for – American firms, owned by American citizens – complain that they simply can’t do business here; they need to go where the action is, and that’s China. To do anything else would be like trying to sell ice at the North Pole.

Nowadays, when you see a New Orleans Saints flag, there is the possibility that someone is rooting not really much for the team as for the city. Or, to look at it from another angle, the team has become the city and to root for one is to root for the other. However, to be sure, only a New Orleans Saints flag will do; can you imagine waving the city flag instead?

For there are few goodwill ambassadors more potent than a city and its sports teams. So many folks in any society are sports fans, and many sports fans are passionate just to be passionate as much as for any other reason. Yet in the case of The Big Easy, there is suddenly a higher reason, a good reason, a reason at all.

In regards to Nawlins football, it is no longer about bragging rights or mere entertainment anymore. Not after 2005. Not after Hurricane Katrina. With almost three hundred billion dollars in damages and over a thousand and a half confirmed deaths.

It had been among the worst single catastrophe to ever hit the nation, with some eighty percent of the Crescent City flooded and hundreds of thousands evacuted. And that’s just for starters.

Waving a New Orleans Saints flag is a way to show solidarity with fellow Americans. And there is nothing People in america enjoy more than cheering on the underdog. Following the pummeling Katrina gave NOLA, watching the Saints take the field and rooting for them is something of a civic duty.

Fans were no longer simply living fantasies through overpaid and often badly-behaved players. For just one magical moment, football was a truly holy ritual through which the country can bond, the city can heal. In their first comeback game, with the Superdome itself scarcely just repaired, the game had as its goal not simply winning, but cleansing, and reconnecting, and redemption.

Gun safes are necessary and usually required by law. They prevent access to firearms and ammunition. Hardlier models will prevent damage as well, such as in the case of fire or flood. Some kinds of safes use hi-tech electronic locks whilst excellent old-fashioned mechanical ones are found on most. Interestingly, it’s this latter kind of lock that is reputed to possess the highest reliability.

The gun safes of yesteryear were crafted with good looks in mind more than anything else, but their primary duty nowadays is as described above. As a component of modern-day security concerns, numerous are designed to really blend in with their surroundings and be as inconspicuous as possible, an ironic complete about-face for a class of furniture that was once meant to be shown off.

Old-fashioned designs are still available, of course, though usually with added security features in a nod to the times. As mentioned previously, firearms safety is really a legal matter now, and numerous gun racks and safes are even bolted down to prevent tipping over, particularly when empty (since the heaviest part is often the door).

Gun ownership is highly politicized and controversial inside the United States, and one of the greatest ways for American enthusiasts to vouchsafe their remaining rights is to demonstrate common sense for safety and security, which well-made safes and racks help them do.

It might rankle, but due to increasing support for gun control in this country, owners are automatically enlisted in a public relations campaign of sorts. Image is key because facts and figures are “all over the place” and may be used to buttress either position.

For instance, while the FBI reported that ten thousand murders have been committed by firearms during 2005, a New England Journal of Medicine article in 1992 seemed to suggest that guns also deter or prevent crime millions of times a year as well.

Internet marketing comprises many disciplines employing a myriad of techniques, but probably the most popular form involves articles. Using articles to market your business is the basis of online marketing today. It is but one of several marketing tools available, but it is essentially the most powerful one, generally speaking, due to the way search engines work.

A right article marketing strategy mirrors a search engine’s algorithms to ensure that the backlinks contained in the article are easily found by the search engine’s web-crawler.

As time passes, the build up of backlinks translates into being listed higher and higher on a search engine’s results page, that is crucial because research show that the overwhelming vast majority of people online don’t bother looking below the fold, the rest of the webpage that must be scrolled in order to be visible.

It’s not particularly hard to do, however it is time-consuming, that’s why many people leave things to a real marketing company, particularly an SEO firm, one that is an expert in Search Engine Optimization. If you really have the money to burn, however, it would probably be better to indulge in outright advertising, or paid placement, in a search engine’s results page.

Depending on how competitive the keyword that you’re to be listed for is, it might be more worthwhile to just shell out the money for guaranteed listing than hiring an SEO firm to perhaps get you above the fold, if on page one at all.

For anyone of less means, however, article marketing is really the way to go, seeding the worldwide web with articles that include backlinks to one’s own webpage. It’s the single most crucial thing anyone can do to promote his or her business online. Depending on any number of other factors, of course, it probably should not be the only thing, but its performance might be all that you would need under certain circumstances.

Racing isn’t on the minds of most bicycle commuters, unless they happen to be messengers or deliverymen who, normally, ride to work! And in such cases, it would not be too surprising to find them employing what could pass for ad hoc racing strategies of the sort found in informal alleycat contests.

It may seem surprising that people who need to ride all day, every day, would also ride so fast, particularly when not actually on the job but merely commuting there. Wouldn’t such people rather take a little break from any kind of racing for a while? Wouldn’t it make much more sense to slowly ease oneself into one’s day instead of rushing, rushing, rushing all the time?

Most people would agree. But for the speedsters, it’s all about the speed. For such people, it is like how fish need to swim and birds have to fly. It’s not so much a conscious choice as an inborn need. If anything, it is how they warm up for the day ahead.

Of course, the majority of people commuting by bicycle would like to get there as quick as possible, too. But for them, what’s possible is a great deal more limited, in all likelihood, than for the racers who tend to make their living from bicycling all day.

Such people have so much practice, and they’ll have accumulated so much experience. They are virtually fearless – and though fear usually lend wings to feet, fear when bicycling, particularly in an urban environment, can be an impediment to speed.

In fact, habitually slow riders tend to be those with no confidence. They’re afraid – and understandably so. But the fear slows them down – not that speed is an absolute necessity for them anyway. The point is that it isn’t a matter of some being fast so much as others being slow.

Small business loans are vital cash infusions taken on by just about any business at some point during its corporate history. Small business loans are made by regular lending institutions such as banks or even the government as well as by other businesses, corporations specializing in making just such loans. Repayment schemes vary, but one of the most common is that typically attached to a cash advance, requiring merchants to pay only depending on their every day credit card sales. Such an understanding allows in effect one to pay a minor amount at a time, as a % rather than an absolute amount, taking almost as long as needed!

Modern technology makes webinars a great way to earn some money on the internet. Are you an authority in something? Do you like public speaking? Then hosting your own webinar, or web-based seminar, would be an ideal way to make money, potentially very serious money – given the reach and scope of the worldwide web. Too bizarre? Tell that to serial entrepreneur Zalman Silber, whose simple idea of putting a little moviehouse at the Empire State Building has exploded exponentially into a parade of businesses.

It’s all so simple – and simplistic, to be honest, that it almost smells of a rip-off, a tourist trap. For the New York Skyride, the pillar of his success (a star salesman already at famed New York Life Insurance Company, it was the Skyride that truly made him his first million), is nothing more than a half-hour “educational film” of the sort that kids are forced to put up with in school, a movie about the history of the Empire State Building and some other famous New York City landmarks. That’s all. No “ride” at all involved, unless it’s to be taken for one where money is concerned! Yet it’s a perfectly legitimate, legal business, and it’s been operating for well over a decade now, so clearly somebody – a great many somebodies – are satisfied enough. And in all fairness it must be said that such success has since allowed Zalman Silber to offer much better tourist attractions, although in Australia, in the form of the Sydney Skywalk and The Edge in Melbourne.

But anyway, all that’s simply to say that no matter how silly the idea may sound at first, it’s difficult to say for certain whether it has “legs,” whether it will “run” or “hunt.” And a webinar is very inexpensive, relatively speaking, even if you do decide on pseudo-professional production values (for which there are a number of quite powerful software packages available, even for free, that should be of help).

With just a minimum of monetary investment, you could start your own web-based seminar business on a topic that you’re an expert in. Come on, everybody’s good at something! Okay, maybe you’re no master craftsman, but the vast majority of webinars or webcasts entail a basic to intermediate-level knowledge, anyway. Real master craftsmen (or master chefs or master carpenters or fitness trainers or weavers or what-have-you) are unlikely to tune into something on the web in order to increase their expertise in any case. Your likely audience would be beginners, whether complete beginners or beginners with some experience behind them who are ready to move onto an intermediate level of knowledge.

The most important thing overall, though, is SEO, or Search Engine Optimization. It’s the second decade of the 21st Century, after all, and you can bet that all the experts are available already, online with their own sites and webinars established. It’s going to take some significant SEO for people to be able to find you in the first place!

Unless you’ve got one of them portable Coleman Roadtrip grills, camping food will probably mean some thing like an MRE, or Meal, Ready-to-Eat. Originally developed for the U.S. military, MREs are self-contained lightweight rations available in a wide range of flavors. They’re also produced by other nations for their militaries, with all the familiar flavors a local would expect!

As an example, MREs for South Korean troops feature such regional delicacies as kimchi, while Italians enjoy beef tortellini; Swedes and Norwegians get cod stew with sour cream and potato, and Poles make do with bogracz (beef goulash). And though soldiers in the field can’t use camping grills for obvious security reasons, thanks to the marvels of modern science MREs now provide hot food flamelessly!

Today’s MREs contain a Flameless Ration Heater, or FRH, that will raise the temperature of an eight-ounce entree by a hundred degrees Fahrenheit in no more than twelve minutes. FRHs use a simple chemical reaction to supply heat sufficient to warm up the precooked contents of an MRE.

The concept is to use the natural oxidation of a metal to produce heat. MREs now reach boiling point within seconds, steaming and bubbling! In ten minutes or so, dinner is ready. As can be imagined, they aren’t anywhere near the power of your least expensive Coleman Roadtrip grills, but they ain’t any person spending the night outdoors.

No, combat cuisine does not compare to camping fare, but it’s not actually that bad, and, frankly, isn’t roughing it part of the overall experience, regardless of whether in the military or living out of doors?

Of course, you could just opt to go totally authentic and hunt game and roast it over a campfire spit! But an MRE is really a nice compromise between that and a Coleman grill.

Rhinestones are used in place of prized diamonds on clothing and fashion accessories. They’re typically used as a cost-cutting measure by businesses targeting consumers who ordinarily could not afford a diamond on anything but a ring or necklace, though [rhinestones] are only low-cost when compared to the real thing itself.

Gemologically speaking, they are valuable objects in their own right, with various intriguing characteristics. some of the best examples are fully able to replicate the sparkling effects of genuine diamonds.

In the popular culture, rhinestones occupy a curious place. They can be as brilliant as any diamond they’re meant to simulate, yet are frequently employed in brash outlandish ways, like as a part of a showman’s outfit. Elvis, Liberace, and many other singers are associated with them, giving these stones a kind of strange status halfway between kitsch and high society.

Two names which are most related to high society rhinestones: Swarovski and Preciosa, European companies that have defined the rhinestone industry for over a century each. Swarovski is based in Wattens, near Innsbruck within the southern Tyrol region of Austria, but its reach is quite cosmopolitan, having provided the star atop New York City’s famed Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree for the years 2004 through 2009. Long associated with luxury goods for instance fine crystals, jewelery, and chandeliers, the company also runs an indoor Wattens theme park revolving around its work.

Preciosa is a Czech concern which accounts for most of the other rhinestones produced on the market these days, utilizing a secret method that involves only about thirty percent lead in order to minimize refraction.

Other kinds of special coatings and coating techniques are employed to produce crystal rhinestones that exhibit diamond-like traits such as rainbows. Intriguing, that the former realms of the Hapsburgs’ Dual Monarchy should host the two finest rhinestone makers in all of the world!

For many choosing between a Macbook or a PC can be a pretty difficult choice. Equally the Macbook and the PC have their good and bad. PC’s are more commonly used and subsequently will have more software in addition to more places for it to be repaired if it breaks down. Macbook on the other hand is increasing in popularity and does not seem to have as many complications as a PC, and also places it can be repaired seems to be growing as well. A key factor in the PC versus Macbook war is the price. A PC can be much less expensive as compared with a Macbook, however selecting a Refurbished Macbook may assist with this issue. As well the Operating-system in a Macbook is not as much of a target as the Windows os as found in PC, in terms of viruses, as a consequence you are unlikely to get a virus in a Macbook.

Currently, water delivery is very common, not just at the office but also for one’s home. But now there is a service that takes the idea a few steps further, with bottleless water delivery for the most environmentally friendly solution available on the market. Watermatic Coolers is a company that’s been recognized for its impressive new vision of delivering clean water without bottles, trucks, or processing plants by The American Business Awards. Best of all, it costs less than bottled water and needs just a one-time installation that is professionally carried out with a minimum of bother. Less money, better for the environment – no wonder Watermatic was a finalist for the 2008 Stevies!

Dog food coupons rank among the most popular of searches on the web. Dog foods has traditionally been divided into two types, dry and wet, although semi-moist varieties now exist. Though most dry foods could be left out for long periods of time, many owners practice portion control and feed their dogs twice a day, the same as they would with wet foods.

As can be imagined, dry varieties generally cost less, but that does not stop individuals from trying to find dog food coupons online to lock in even greater savings. Dry dog food is the much better choice where nutrition is concerned, too; they are a lot more nutrient-dense than wet dog food due to the fact the latter necessarily contains high amounts of water, anywhere from sixty to ninety percent.

On the other hand, however, wet dog foods typically contains less filler, such as corn and wheat, and more meat, especially when compared against the cheapest dry ones.

Dry dog food is important for giving canine teeth a bit of a workout while wet food is recommended for older dogs that have difficulty chewing. Most owners, nevertheless, will simply purchase whichever one they have dog food coupons for! Some individuals also believe that specific breeds should be fed only certain kinds of food, but practically everybody agrees that an age-specific diet is important.

In common with human food, dog food ingredients are listed in order, by amount, and such lists are really long. Many people feed their dogs food made at home, and there are those who even feed them human food.

While dogs will eat just about anything we do, from beer and donuts to rice and vegetables, many are in fact toxic to them, for example grapes, onions, chocolates, tomatoes, and certain nuts and, yes, beers. And even common household objects like pennies manufactured after 1982, which contain zinc, could be fatal with ingestion.

As one of the most promising platforms to have appeared at the turn of the century, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 was at first greeted with widespread derision as a Johnny-Come-Lately to the nine billion-dollar videogaming sector (which is these days worth many multiples of billions more annually). Nowadays the Xbox is considered cutting-edge and competes directly with Sony’s equally notable Playstation, but lately the stakes were lifted with Microsoft’s introduction of its Kinect technology that pledges to do away with game controllers altogether, using the player’s own body movements to direct all onscreen motion. The highly superior motion-detection technology makes it possible to scan even facial gestures!