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Have you always sacrificed the moment for the future ?, and how every moment is then gone and how you always seem to live in regret. Realizing it is only a step and doing something is the other.A life poem lyric called “The Lover of Now”. Start: Mama gave me all her love and all of her fears Pop’s showed how scotch dilutes one’s slave labor years the fruit of friends fed me in how to spread the blame its taken becoming dust to see I control the walls around my name Sister you don’t need no prophets or be baptized to see whatever you choose to thinketh you will come to be visit the garden of silence and talk to your soul share the wings it offers and fly to forgiveness to let go and who am I… Well I’m the lover of now never too late to shout aloud Yoga and voodoo men with body mechanics have all joined hands telling me I’ve only got six months to go I’m the Lover of now ain’t got no choice anyhow Under a moonlight romance I take my cries for a dance awaiting Karma to check my balance and call Complete song lyric can be found at .poemstolyrics.com/life-poems-lyricist-theloverofnow.html

by Philip Yaffe Part 5 of an occasional series I am a collector of quotations. I have been ever since I learned how to write, I mean professionally, not in primary school. I am particularly fond of what I like to call “pithy prose”. These short quotations can cover an unlimited variety of subjects: love, religion, politics, human nature, etc. What unites them is their ability to say more in one or two sentences than could be expressed in a thousand-word treatise. It’s like being able to pour a liter of liquid into a half-liter bottle. They are superb examples of Mark Twain’s famous dictum, “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” In principle, all writers and public speakers are capable of producing pithy prose, but clearly some are better at it than others. Any collection of pithy prose must necessarily be biased in terms of what it includes and excludes. I make no apologies for my selections, only for the hundreds of other meritorious quotations I had to leave out. No one will agree with all these quotations; this was not their intention. You may even find some of them repugnant or outrageous. This was their intention. We seldom learn anything of value from what we already agree with. Only those ideas that grate on our nerves can open our minds. As with oysters, irritation can produce pearls. So if anything you are about to read annoys or shocks you, try to think clearly and dispassionately about what it is saying. You will either be confirmed in your current belief or shaken into re-examining it. Either way, you win! This article is part of an occasional series. In each article, I will be offering more amusing, educating, and exasperating quotations to your judgment. But just to be certain that we agree on what we are talking about, here it is in a nutshell. Pithy Prose: A quotation where at first you may not be quite certain what it means. But when you become certain, you become equally certain that it couldn’t have been said better any other way. In short, big ideas in small packages. If you have a better definition of pithy prose, please contact me. I would love to hear it. Who Is Ambrose Bierce? Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), whose full name was Ambrose Gwinnet Bierce, was an American journalist and author. He is best remembered for “The Devil’s Dictionary”. Bierce started developing his insightful and idiosyncratic definitions in a weekly newspaper column in 1881; they were published in book form in 1906. “The Devil’s Dictionary” was originally titled “The Cynic’s Word Book” (see definition of cynic below). Bierce was also a prolific author of short stories, sometimes humorous, sometimes macabre. 1. Abstainer: A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure 2. Absurdity: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion. 3. Acquaintance: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. 4. Admiration: Our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves. 5. Amnesty: The state’s magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. 6. Egotist: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. 7. Beauty: The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. 8. Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain. 9. Bore: A person who talks when you wish him to listen. 10. Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. 11. Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon. 12. Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. 13. Deliberation: The act of examining one’s bread to determine which side it is buttered on. 14. Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure. 15. Edible: Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. 16. Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. 17. Egotist: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. 18. Erudition: Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. 19. Eulogy: Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. 20. Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. 21. Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. 22. Historian: A broad-gauge gossip. 23. History: An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. 24. Impartial: Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy. 25. Impiety: Your irreverence toward my deity. 26. Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. 27. Jealous: Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. 28. Laziness: Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree. 29. Learning: The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. 30. Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. 31. Mad: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. 32. Marriage: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. 33. Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. 34. Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. 35. Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue. 36. Politeness: The most acceptable hypocrisy. 37. Positive: Mistaken at the top of one’s voice. 38. Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. 39. Prejudice: A vagrant opinion without visible means of support. 40. Revolution: In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. 41. Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. 42. Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows. 43. Sweater: A garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. 44. The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up. 45. There are four kinds of homicide; felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy. 46. To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense. 47. Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow. Previously in this Series Part 1: Pithy Prose: The Wit & Wisdom of Mark Twain Part 2: Pithy Prose: The Wit & Wisdom of Oscar Wilde Part 3: Pithy Prose: The Wit & Wisdom of People Named “W” Part 4: Pithy Prose: The Wit & Wisdom of People Anatole France Philip Yaffe is a former reporter/feature writer with The Wall Street Journal and a marketing communication consultant. He currently teaches a course in good writing and good speaking in Brussels, Belgium. His recently published book In the “I” of the Storm: the Simple Secrets of Writing & Speaking (Almost) like a Professional is available from Story Publishers in Ghent, Belgium (storypublishers.be) and Amazon (amazon.com). For further information, contact: Philip Yaffe Brussels, Belgium Tel: +32 (0)2 660 0405 phil.yaffeyahoo.com, phil.yaffegmail.com

If you are a writer or simply someone with an awesome ebook to sell, you may know of many different marketing channels for your work, but have you ever considered the power of your own social networks? This article looks at a great new tool for reaching the people that you’ve already touched with your online presence, and gives you tips for converting friends into purchasers. Think about this as a great way to generate passive income… CybaSumo.com has recently launched a groovy tool for artists, musicians, writers and other creative types that helps them sell their stuff directly to their social networks. Once you sign up for free at .cybasumo.com, you get a store in a widget - a box where customers can browse and shop - that you can put anywhere. You can easily place your store widget on your Facebook profile without any programming or HTML. Soon you’ll also be able to place your store on your MySpace page, blog, and more. That means that each time your friends see your profile on Facebook, they can check out and buy your stuff. Your profile is your advertisement! And there’s no need to send them to another site - they come to CybaSumo.com when they’re ready to finalise their purchase. That’s where there’s strength in numbers. You’ll find hundreds of other artists in our CybaSumo catalog. Every time their customers come to the site to complete a purchase, they’ll be able to see what you have to offer, too.

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From all the evidence I’ve seen and experienced, God has to be an interdimensional being. From the creation of the universe to how the Holy Spirit can inhabit a soul leads me to believe this. When the universe was created, it was spoken into existence. I don’t believe in the Big Bang explosion causing the universe to expand at hyperlight speed because it violates known rules of physics. But if it was all shifted from one dimension to this one, it could explain why the act of creation took less than a week, according to the Bible. When God was able to communicate verbally with people in the Old Testament, it could be because it was easier to shift from one dimension to another. The energy fields of earth were more powerful and the high-energy dimension we know as Heaven could have God’s transmissions shifted easier to man. The connection was easier to establish. Jesus is the physical manifestation of God. Through him, the power of God was able to be exhibited to people. If it weren’t for the physical limitations of Christ’s body, when the Sea of Galilee was stilled, it would have been frozen and a hole through the atmsphere might have been created that would have allowed deadly radiation to reach earth. People would have not only been healed. Their DNA might have become perfect and they might still be living today. The feeding of the 5000 might have become the feeding of the world. But the physical restraints kept the miracles from becoming even bigger. When the redeemed shift to the Heavenly dimension, they will be glorified and their bodies will be changed. When Christ, Moses, and Elijah were at the Mount of Transfiguration, they glowed due to the interdimensional shift. They had come from a high-energy state to this lower-energy state. The Holy Spirit is like a radio transmission that can only be received by those locked onto the signal from Heaven. The redeemed will be the only ones that will hear Christ call us to Heaven and also hear the trumpet blast. All other people will not hear much more than static or the wind. God is unable to speak to all Christians because the field conditions are too weak to allow it. The Holy Spirit is our only link to the Heavenly dimension. When a redeemed person dies, he is shifted to the Heavenly dimension. When Christ returns to establish his kingdom in Jerusalem, he will shift to this dimension and will initially glow when he shifts. But in a short time he will look almost like everyone else. When that happens, there will be peace for 1000 years on earth and real progress for mankind will be made. Rick Badman

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This important process is very important for the students and advisors alike. But advisor should act like a mature and responsible person who, unlike the student, has had much more experience in advising of the completion of dissertation. Te advisor should give special attention to all requests of the student as well as his comments or observations. If an advisor is requested to read the draft of the dissertation, he should read it and evaluate it, providing specifiac comments to the work submitted. On another hand a student should prepare thoroughly for each meeting with his advisor (it might advisable to prepare a detailed plan of the meeting as well). One should remember that an advisor can not allocate unlimited period of time to the student, so a student should be succinct and provide his advisor wit as much detailed information as possible to get some good dissertation help. If a student has some proposals to resolve some controversial issues of the dissertation that is being prepared or some new ides on the subject that is being researched, he should prepare them in advance and write them down. It is a prerequisite, because your advisor would more likely provide you with the feedbacks on the particular piece of writing. How you contact with your advisor? Usually, it should not be a greet problem, especially in this era of mass communications. Sometimes, it more useful to communicate via email or leave voice messages, however your advisor will be able to indicate the best way of communication with him. To select the best advisor, you might meet with all the faculty members of your program and talk with other graduate students in the program about the qualities of the faculty members eligible to direct dissertation papers. Be cautious about making assumptions, and ask questions covering a range of topics. Some questions should best be discussed with the faculty member in question, others might better be asked of advanced graduate students. Students naturally focus on the advising relationship more than their advisors do, and the more successful students take control of it. Knowing the operating procedures for relating well with your advisor helps you get the advice and support you need. In the area of advising, professors don’t come with batteries included. We suggest you start winding that key. Jenny Stewart is a PhD in Human Relation. She is an educational consultant and utilizing her skills in helping the students to accomplish there education successfully. She is changing the student’s difficulties into ease since many years by helping them with her skills and knowledge to get there projects done efficiently.

When applying for a job, you have to remember that you’re not the only available candidate. Your future employer or the head of the HR department probably has a good number of resumes waiting on his or her desk. In order to catch their attention, you have to make sure that your resume stands out among the rest. In fact, resume writing tips are the secret weapon of many successful job applicants! You might think that a resume is only a piece of paper and that what matters most is the interview itself. However, know that applying resume writing tips on your own profile automatically gives you an edge over the others! Scroll down a bit more and learn how to gain a good advantage over your competition! Do Your Research What is the company all about? What kind of person are they looking for? If you take the time to research on your target workplace, you’ll be able to find out just what qualities you can highlight on your resume. Keep in mind that companies aren’t necessarily looking for the highest scorer or the best speaker. They’re looking for that one person who will match and blend with the job and their company perfectly. Use Action Words I’m not just talking about verbs here. When describing the task you have accomplished, stick to specific descriptions and use the active voice. After all, it’s much more pleasant and interesting to learn that you “edited and published a collection of short stories” than “served as an editor.” It shows that you’re someone who works hard. Avoid Stereotypes Stereotypes will kill your resume. Many articles on resume writing tips will warn you of being too ordinary. Remember that the goal here is to stand out. Start with your objective. We all know how the typical objective goes. Try to keep yours interesting by fusing your personal point of view and the company’s direction. That will definitely help you come up with a fresher objective. Now that you have learned a few of the standard resume writing tips, go over your resume and see which areas you can improve on. Is your objective too boring? Can you make your tasks more specific and action-oriented? Do you think your resume shows that you’re the right person the company is looking for? After reviewing and submitting your resume, it won’t take long before the phone rings and someone asks you to schedule a job interview! Want to earn a 5-figure monthly income through freelance writing jobs? Go to .20daypersuasion.com/5figurewriter.htm and discover how to earn massive amounts of money by becoming a freelance writer.

When you’re looking at choosing a dissertation topic, this is generally going to be through a choice made by you and your lecturer/professor.  Most often, students, when they are thinking about a dissertation topic, should attempt to narrow down their topic to one that is specific and can adequately researched.  However, the opposite is commonly true, as many lecturers sometimes feel that students want to ‘research the world’ when they are thinking about a topic on which to write their dissertation research paper. Your topic needs to be related to the academic arena, the course that you are one, and the area of expertise that your supervisor (the lecturer who will advise you of research direction) – if you choose a topic that is broad or off topic, then you’re surely heading in the wrong direction.  This is where your supervisor/lecturer comes in to their element – they’ll question your understanding and thinking, and this isn’t to test you as a person, but to test whether or not you have the background knowledge and potential to see the research through.  The main element here is that your supervisor can see that you believe you have an ending in sight. If you are on a management degree and have a keen interest in marketing on your course, then choosing a topic of researching women and the effects of Beauty products, in relation to brand loyalty, wouldn’t be a good idea.  Even choosing the 25–35 year olds category, who reside in the North West (of England) would still mean too broad of a topic, but will all be helpful when choosing a topic for your proposal. Generally speaking, your dissertation topic should focus on something that you are interested in, but not something that you have detailed knowledge about.  Why, you may ask?  Well, simply put, you’re going to become bored easily and distracted.  This is a human trait that everyone carries – we like to learn new things, they don’t have to be innovative or ‘hip’, they just need to be new to us as an individual. When you are thinking about the topic of your dissertation you don’t need to go into much detail, as you are setting the foundations to build the rest of your proposal on.  Once this has been approved by your supervisor, you will then be able to go onto writing the hypothesis, or hypotheses, for your research project – i.e. what you want to learn, prove, or disprove.  When you are looking at narrowing the topic for your proposal, you will need to conduct research with relevant resources and review what other research has already been undertaken in the specific topic.  A quick tip here – it’s always good to keep a note-pad on you at this point, as many of the sources you review will probably be used in your literature review. From all of the research and thinking you are doing, and discussions with your supervisor and friends (the latter I would strongly advise), you should be formulating a plan of how your work is going to be shaped.  This isn’t an easy task, but was is in academia? You will of course want to keep on topic when you are planning out your topic and proposal, and planning is best started as early as possible in the dissertation process.  This will allow you to understand where you are at in every stage of the process and will also benefit you when you have to centralise the scope and thinking of your paper.  This will all be helpful when you are looking to write your proposal and thinking about the hypothesis of your dissertation topic. About the Author: Nick Sanders is the owner and founder of Supaproofread.com, a dissertation editing services company, specialising in editing and proofreading services. You should visit them if you are looking for dissertation editing proofreading.

Wedding becomes much more special when you hear your loved ones saying their best wishes for you and for your better half. These wedding wordings which are whole heartedly given would bring tears to the eyes of the family members and most of the time even on the spectators. Weddings have three primary types of wedding wordings or speeches. First is the speech to be given by the father of the bride. The father-of-the-bride’s speeches are usually filled with humor. The father would reminisce about the happy times that they spent in the family. The father would also like to give his wishes to the new member of the family. Seeing the father being as the man that is not really that showy or very vocal about their emotions is a nice and touching view to see. What the father should not do in giving his speech is to put the groom down. As fathers, they would feel that their princesses are being taken away from them. It would not only ruin the occasion but also dishearten their daughters. The father’s perspective on the marriage is that there is going to be a new member in the family. No one is going to be taken away instead, there will be a new addition to the family members. The next wedding wording is from the groom. This is the moment where the groom is going to state his gratitude to his parents, to the parents of his wife and of course to the guests who took their time off to celebrate the occasion with them. The groom can also give a speech to his bride. This is perhaps the most emotional part of the groom’s speech. The brides would be overjoyed hearing his husband proclaiming to all of the guests his love and how lucky he is to be married to the most beautiful woman that he has known. The final wedding wording is the best man’s speech. Again, the speech of the groom’s either best friend or brother is supposed to be humorous. Not to the point of being offensive but is enough to entertain the guests. The best man will also say his blessings and wishes. Wedding wordings can be humorous or serious and prepared or impromptu. There would be times that guests would be asked to give speed even if you are not prepared. You can give your speech in a humorous way. In this manner, you would be able to entertain the guests and at the same time, make yourself comfortable in front of other people. As long as you extend your wishes for the best future for the new couple then that is okay. For those who already knew that they have to give speech, you can research a poem, quote or a sonnet in order to make your speech a bit formal and fit for the occasion. You can also search online for some wedding speech then put a personal touch on it. These speeches are very special for the new couple. They are not just mere words but an assurance that there are many people who are wishing them well. With this, the couple would surely feel that they are loved and supported by their families and friends. For More Information Please Contact us at .mgproduction.ca