Align with Attraction

Do you feel stuck? Are you struggling to make life work? Tired of your own soap opera reruns?

Get your life aligned with the Law of Attraction!

Scientists agree with spiritual teachers. Prosperity is simply the natural physics of the universe. Science calls it the Law of Quantum Physics. Metaphysics calls it the Law of Spiritual Attraction. Like energy attracts like energy. Like vibration attracts like vibration. Like qualities attract like qualities. This is Instant Karma in all its beauty and fierce justice.

Scientifically speaking, all physical matter in life is pulsating electromagnetic energy that undulates in a wave motion — and thus, naturally connects with those aspects of life that are on that same wavelength.

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So how do you put cash in your pocket, romance in your bedroom, and vitality in your body?

The Latin root of “prosperity” means “to make happy, favorable, successful, fortunate, thriving. Prosperity is not an outer circumstance or state. Prosperity is an inner feeling or space — an experience of oneself as joyful and flourishing. Outer events are the reflections of how you have been flowing from your Source Energy. This is what a good creator does — flow energy.

You can attract prosperity with your personal magnetism. As you focus your attention on your dream, the Law of Attraction brings your desires to you automatically.

True prosperity is having what you choose to have as you choose to have it.

Here are a few effective, pragmatic ways to tap into the River of Plenty.

Master the Law of Giving and Receiving



When you give freely of your gifts and talents, you receive back in kind. The key to success here is how you give, not what you give. When you come from a place of bountiful giving, you receive plentifulness in return. When you give from a place of lack or limitation (for example, expecting something in return as a pay-off), you receive back the same vibration or quality — a reflection of lack and limitation. When you give from a space or energy of fear (scarcity consciousness), the universe mirrors that poverty back to you.

Align Your Personality with Your Soul



Align your personality’s actions and attitudes with your soul purpose and passion — and your life will unfold in a profoundly easy, delightful and bountiful way.

Walk with an Appreciative Heart



What you appreciate in life appreciates — increases, grows. The more aspects of life you appreciate, the richer you become inwardly — and, in turn, outwardly, according to the Law of Attraction.

Prosperity Begets Prosperity



Prosperity is a living, organic state of being. Prosperity defies the laws of economics in that it’s not a commodity that we have less of when we give some away. Prosperity grows greater for the giver as it’s given. The more you share, the more you end up receiving. Give and you shall attract. Nature does abhor a vacuum!

Draw from Your Prosperity Consciousness Bank Account



Vibrations of good times can be stored up for retrieval during challenging times. Prosperous times can remind you emotionally and physically of how the vibration of happiness feels — and shift you palpably into those good vibes in the present.

Experientially re-living peak moments from the past is more transforming than mentally remembering an event. “Positive experiencing” is even more powerful than “positive thinking.”

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By: Robert McClure

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Nia Peeples from CBS’ The Young and the Restless recently confirmed her non-participation on the new season of Dancing with the Stars. Contrary to reports that she was on this season’s list of celebrity competitors, she said that she won’t be appearing on the highly-watched series.

The 45-year-old singer-actress confirmed this through her official website.

“Guess what? It’s a [rumor]! But everyone here in town is hearing the same thing you’re hearing so don’t feel bad,” Nia Peeples said. However, she expressed delight in the thought that CBS had considered her for the reality series.

“The sad thing is I won’t be on [Dancing With the Stars] this season. The good thing is a rumor means they are seriously considering [putting me on the show],” she explained. “Also CBS called my agent in a panic when they heard, complaining that they were just starting to develop my character on [The Young and the Restless] and would be needing more of my time. The other good thing is that I can contractually do it next season.”

Earlier this year, Peeples was cast for the soap opera, The Young and the Restless, where she plays Karen Taylor, Nikkia Newman’s (Melody Thomas Scott) campaign manager. Peeples also appeared in various primetime series before joining the soap, and these shows include Walker, Texas Ranger, Andromeda, Barbershop and Early Edition.

Nia Peeple’s website reported that her latest air dates on The Young and the Restless include September 10, 17, 18, 24.

As Peeples won’t be appearing on Dancing with the Stars, another soap actress will be gracing the dance floor with his moves. All My Children’s Cameron Mathison was cast to appear on the reality dance competition with professional dancer Edyta Sliwinska.

This is not the first time that a daytime actor participated in the competition, as the first season of Dancing with the Stars featured General Hospital’s Kelly Monaco and daytime veteran John O’Hurley. The actors competed with each other and Monaco emerged victorious in the first season of Dancing with the Stars.

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By: Groshan Fabiola

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Beginning your own home based business, on the internet or anywhere is not always an easy decision to make.

There are many factors to study, to work on, to be successful.Home based businesses, after all, do not seem to be very secure to some of us, nor are they prestigious to others.

However, before you get discouraged and start enumerating the reasons why you feel that your little dynamite home based business cannot possibly work, you should take some time to read the following stories about becoming a full blown entrepreneur, step by step, and not let many small problems and people, that you will have along the way, discourage you.

A long time ago, there was a young drug store clerk named Asa Candler. Candler decided to start his own home based business after purchasing a beverage recipe from the town doctor for $500 behind a store counter. That amount represented his entire life savings, but Candler was dedicated to making his home based business work.

Today, that venture is a multibillion dollar company with an unmatched international distribution network. It owns the most recognizable brand name in the world. What is this company? You have probably heard of it. It is called Coca Cola.

What did Asa do to plant such a powerful seed that has grown for over a century now? Was he persistent? Looks that way. Was he smart? It is really hard to tell. Was he preparing himself for a terrific opportunity that he fully believed and accepted would come along if he put his heart and soul into it? Count on it. Was he actually thinking and believing an opportunity was going to come along sometime? Clearly, yes.

How could he possibly know when opportunity was there? He did not know. He only knew that an opportunity would come and that he had to be prepared as possible to do something about it when it showed up. He had to clearly recognize opportunity when it knocked. We know he was clearly ready for it because he saved up $500 which was a tremendous amount of money for someone of his occupation at the beginning of the last century.

Major financial and life lesson here ladies and gentlemen. Practice finding opportunity in everything you do everyday and you will be stunned at how your skill will develop in this area. Trust me. It only takes practice and opportunity will come.

If you are prepared like Asa, nothing will hold you back. Doubts of negative people will be mowed down like grass under a moving mulching mower and nothing will be able to stand in your way. Remember that the next time you have a vanilla coke, okay?

Next example. One day, Anita Roddick, a British woman whose husband was frequently away on business, decided to make her hobby a moneymaking venture. Roddick, with little to do whenever her husband left town, did not choose to watch soap opera reruns or take aerobic classes.

Aerobic classes are fine, they increase your physical and mental health. Soap opera reruns are a serious no, no, okay? Let us continue. Instead, she took to concocting with various potions in her garage including the ingredients of interest and enthusiasm.

She gave a few of these potions to friends and found out that they were very popular, so popular that she was soon selling them all over her neighborhood. She had the big E for enthusiasm. This made word of mouth advertising, for her, which is one of the most explosive powers in the business world. Especially when just one person, at the beginning likes it.

This home business, from such inauspicious beginnings, is now an internationally recognized franchise that does billions of dollars of business each year. What is this business? It is called the Body Shop. Other names would be enthusiasm, persistence, intensity, burning desire, love of making something nice and good for our fellow human beings. See how good we can be when we try?

History bristles with examples of large corporations that started close to home. Truly, great things start from small beginnings. Did you know, for example, that Microsoft was started in a garage, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen? Remember that Paul Allen maxed the SAT test? Big clue for you here.

What is it? Right! Bill picked out the most appropriate and best human being he could find to work with him. He did not pick out a lazy, alcoholic, drug sniffing, stupid jerk. Can you trust me that this major step will make a major difference in your life career success? Good job.

Looking at the company now, it is pretty hard to believe, but it is true. Back then, Gates and Allen were just two geeks who were more interested in writing software than they were studying in school. They were doing something good, found excitement in it when others did not, and threw themselves into it with, you guessed it, enthusiasm. The A bomb is not even as powerful as this.

In fact, Gates dropped out of Harvard, worked on his home business, and produced MSDOS. The rest is history. Bill Gates is, of course, currently the richest man in the world, and his company, Microsoft, dominates the software industry.

Bill is a happy guy and gives away billions of dollars every year that is like interest from his principle, that does not shrink, so he can go on doing this forever and be a big hero to us, his family, the world and history. Pretty nice, huh?

Now, you may never aspire to reach the heights that Candler, Roddick, and Gates have. But I pray you put the very powerful lessons in this article to the test and try for yourself and those you love.

The purpose of this article has been to remind you that even the greatest of successes were at first small ventures, not unlike the one that you are planning to build. As long as you infuse imagination, creativity, and plain old hard and smart work into your business ideas, there is no reason to believe that you will fail.

Even if you do, you should simply pick yourself up, learn from your mistakes, and push forward. You never know. Your home based business might become the next Microsoft, or the next Coke! Get excited and make it happen by doing.



By: James Lowe

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Tamara Braun is the newest addition to NBC’s Days of Our Lives family. The newcomer will be playing the character of Ava, a mysterious woman from Steve Johnson’s (portrayed by Stephen Nichols) yet unknown past.

Braun was former cast for ABC’s General Hospital as Caroline “Carly” Benson-Roberts Corinthos. She left the daytime series in 2005 to partake in other projects. After three long years, she is back to the world of soaps.

In an interview with Soap Opera Digest, Tamara Braun shared her emotions on being called for the show. “It was an exciting surprise,” she exclaimed. “I got a call, and it was a role that really intrigued me, so we got to talking. [Ava] sounds very layered and complicated and seems like there’s a lot to sink my teeth into.”

Accepting the offered role also allowed Braun to reunite with former General Hospital cast mates Stephen Nichols and Mary Beth Evans. Braun said that she’s happy to be working with the two again. “Stephen and I would cross over in the makeup room and say basic, “Hellos,” but we never really got to know each other and we never as actors worked together, so I’m looking forward to it. He’s an actor’s actor and likes to get into it. I’m looking forward to what we might find,” she shared.

Evans on the other hand, immediately approached Braun and gave her “the biggest hug” upon her arrival on the set for her first taping day. Braun is also keen on befriending and getting to know all the other Days of our Lives cast. “So far, everyone is warm and nice,” she gleefully said.

Braun will be appearing on the show for only a short-time. Her contract with NBC was clear about this. But Braun is happy about it, and it’s just exactly what she wants. She even considers the arrangement as a “perfect” one. She simply knows her plans and priorities in life. “There was nothing wrong with leaving daytime and there’s nothing wrong with coming back,” she explained. “Things just have to line up in your life. It has to be the right time to express and explore certain things.”

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By: Groshan Fabiola

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Below we’ve identified thirteen decisions you should make to set up a comprehensive home office business system that’s tailored to your unique preferences and work demands. There’s no one right answer, but most people run into trouble if they haven’t addressed the issue each of the following questions raises. So this will help you decide:

1. How many hours will you work each day and each week? If the nature of your work is such that you cannot set a precise figure, define clearly how you will decide on the amount of time you’ll spend working from week to week or day to day.

2. Which hours of the day will you work? Unless your work demands it, there is no reason to limit yourself to typical hours. You can work at hours better suited to your circumstances.

3. How many breaks do you plan to take each day and when will you take them? Some people like to break for five minutes each hour. Others prefer taking longer breaks after working for several hours. Still others break when they come to a stopping point in their work.

4. When will you do household chores? Some people like to take a break for household chores and find that the change of pace allows them to come back to the office refreshed and ready to work. Others find that if they stop to do a household chore, the next thing they know the whole morning has slipped away.

5. When will you eat lunch and will you snack while working? Having the kitchen only steps away often becomes a problem for people who work at home. Consciously deciding how you will handle this should make it easier to keep your weight and concentration in bounds.

6. When and how will you dress? Some people find that to work effectively they need to get dressed as if they were going to the office. Others relish the freedom to stay in a robe all day.

7. Will you watch TV during daytime hours? If so, how much and when? Some people find it’s easy to get hooked on game shows or soap operas. In fact, some people claim they work best while watching TV. Others can’t work well with the television on but get hooked nonetheless. Even if you wouldn’t be caught dead watching a soap, the variety available on daytime TV today can lure you with movies, sports, and news.

8. Under what circumstances will you take off a day, afternoon, or a morning? Sick leave and days off take on a new perspective when you work at home. If you’re self-employed, establish your own leave policies, consistent with the nature of your business. If you’re employed at home, you’ll be on your own to coordinate your work with the established leave policies.

9. When do you decide to get someone to help you with your work? Many work-at-homers try to do everything themselves. Some can, but others end up saving money by spending it to hire help.

10. If you have children, when will you be available to them? Most people find they cannot allow children to have unlimited access to them during working periods. So you will need to make age-appropriate arrangements for their care and set boundaries regarding when you will and won’t be available to them.

11. What information do you need to keep track of? Usually, in-house office procedures include policies for records you need to keep. Working at home, however, you will probably have to establish your own record-keeping procedures. 12. How will you manage your money? If you’re self-employed you will need to establish a system for managing the financial aspects of your business. Even if you’re working at home on a salary, you’ll have to arrange a procedure for managing your home-office tax records. 13. What interruptions are you willing to allow? There will be phone calls. There may be people coming to the door to repair things, sell things, or make deliveries. Neighbors may want to visit. It’s easier to have a policy than simply to respond to each interruption as it occurs.



By: Jeff Casmer

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Drifting In Life?

It is with tremendous excitement that you launch the innings of your life. A great career, plenty of money in the bank, decent house with a beautiful garden, bunch of friends who care for you as you care for them, a loving spouse, children who do you proud … yes, you aspire for all these. Somewhere down the line, you find something or the other going wrong in one or the other of these areas. You keep struggling … yet the aspiration is beyond your grasp. At the end of the day, you wonder: what’s going wrong?

Not only is there unhappiness, you experience the same pattern of events repeating in your life. For instance, whenever you take up a new job, you find yourself reporting to a senior who treats you unfairly, and this happens invariably with every next job that comes your way. Or you end up having an affair with a person who is already married, and this person ultimately ditches you in the end because they find their earlier attachment stronger. Or you go through a string of marriages, each one ending up in divorce. Or you find yourself perennially in debt, and no sooner did you extricate yourself from one mortgage, you are neck-deep in yet another. Or … Sigh. The list goes on.

Have you asked yourself the question - “God, why is this happening to me?” Thankfully, you do not have to seek the answer anywhere else. The answer lies in your subconscious.

Planting The Right Seeds In The Subconscious

To put it more succinctly, the answer lies in your thoughts. There is a simple rule of life that I wish I was taught on the first day of my school: “What you think, so shall you become.” “How you perceive yourself, becomes your reality.” “It is your thoughts that shape events in your life.”

Below the threshold of our conscious mind lies the subconscious. It is the subconscious that is in tune with the cosmos that we live in. The subconscious is a part of our persona, and acts as a conduit between us and the rest of this world. The only way to communicate with our subconscious is through our own thoughts. Thoughts are generated in our mind as a result of external stimuli (TV, movies, printed material that we read, sounds that we hear, etc.), or they may be internal (our basal emotions, our rational intellect). These thoughts that cross the landscape of our alert conscious, seep below and reach the subconscious. The relationship between our alert conscious mind and the passive subconscious mind is that of master and slave. Whatever thoughts come from the conscious mind are accepted “as is” by the subconscious. After accepting a thought, the subconscious immediately gets to work on it.

In some cases, the result is instantaneous. (Pause here for a moment, and read the text right up to the closing bracket very slowly. Visualize that you have a half-cut lemon in your hand. Visualize that you are opening your mouth. Now visualize that you are bringing this lemon on your tongue and squeezing it. Let the juice from the lemon squirt on your tongue. Do you now feel a certain sensation in the corner of the jaws? Do you feel yourself salivating? What exactly happened? What happened was this: the visualization was a stream of conscious thoughts. The thoughts reached out to the subconscious, which in turn implemented them into your particular reality by creating the sensation in your mouth as well as the entire body!)

In other cases, the result takes a little while. At some point of time, if you are fascinated (a basal emotion) by authority figures that are rough and tough and tend to chew out their juniors … then the subconscious works in tandem with the universe in such a way that the same quality of authority figures come into your life. (I am simplifying things here.) If you find a particular character in a television soap opera or a movie attractive, this attraction seeps down to the subconscious; and at some point of time, your walk and your talk, indeed your entire personality begins to be a clone of this character. The interesting point is this: if this character goes through a string of divorces in the soap opera … then you are so engrossed in imitating the character, that you might face the same set of situations in your own, very real life, too!

Makes you sit up and read the entire paragraph once again, doesn’t it?

The net conclusion is this: The quality and tenor of your thoughts decide what kind of people and events come in your life.

Correcting Your Present Situation

In the fast-paced life of today, it is not possible to go off to the high mountains to meditate and contemplate; or to rejuvenate oneself. You may be weak, tired, worn out, but still you cannot give up the battle that life has become. The Formula One cars that burn the tracks in a Grand Prix event have pit stops where they can change tyres and refuel and rejuvenate. There are no pit stops for you - except for the time you spend in reading articles such as this. Your refuelling and rejuvenation and consequent course correction has to happen while you are right there, in your very own Grand Prix. Fortunately for the present generation (circa 2000 and beyond), technology has a good solution to offer.

This solution is in the form of subliminal messaging. Technology takes advantage of the fact that the present generation spends most of its time in front of a computer screen. Softwares have become available in the market that, once loaded on your computer, flash positive messages on the computer screen at random time intervals. These messages may belong to any category of your choice that is relevant to your present life situation - whether it is new learning, or a good career, or relationships, whatever. The software is careful enough not to divert your attention from the work you may be doing on the computer. So the messages come to you without any advance warning, briefly titillate the pixels on the monitor, and fade away almost instantaneously. This happens with such speed that your conscious mind does not register it. Yet, unbeknown to you, the message percolates to your subconscious. How does this happen? One analogy that comes to mind is when you are able to complete a sentence that a near and dear one leaves hanging midway: in a flash, you know what he or she was trying to convey in those half-completed sentences. Your subconscious is actually able to *read* their mind in those moments.

Once the messages begin to be received by the subconscious, it immediately starts acting on it. And as we saw earlier, in some cases the results are very quick, while in others it takes a little while.

Final Word

How do you know that the solution is working? When your aspirations begin to come in your grasp, one after another. A great career, plenty of money in the bank, good house with a beautiful garden, bunch of friends who care for you as you care for them, a loving spouse, children who do you proud…



By: Sanjay Agrawal

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In little more than a decade, 900 number service has undergone considerable evolution beginning as a simple polling mechanism to an information and entertainment vehicle and finally, to the powerful, interactive marketing tool it is today.

Actually, the first use of information by phone began long before the introduction of 900 service. New Jersey Bell, in 1927, and New York Telephone, in 1928, created a recorded time of day service to alleviate the burden of such requests made to its operators. These services were the nation’s first 976 numbers.

One of the added benefits of the service was that operators of the day had to avoid the constant propositions they heard from interested men. Years later, in the 1950’s, recorded technology was developed, and the phone companies added weather, horoscopes, sports, and off-track betting information for their customers.

AT&T was initially asked to develop the 900 number for use by television networks as a way to conduct instant polls of viewers on matters of current interest. ABC’s Nightline used a 900 number first during the 1980 presidential debate, when it polled viewers on who they believed had won the Reagan-Carter debate.

Cost of the call was 50 cents. There were so many calls that phone likes jammed around the country. By a tally of 469,412 to 227,017, viewers picked the Californian, and both a new presidency and phone concept were launched.

As a spoof, those zanies at Saturday Night Live tried their own version of the 900 polling technology. Viewers were asked to call in to vote whether or not Eddie Murphy should boil Larry the Lobster or let him live and give him valuable prizes.

In a close vote, Larry was granted clemency, but Murphy boiled him anyway. So much for democracy. And so much for our nation, which cash as many votes on the fate of Larry as on the fate of Jimmy and Ronald a few months earlier. Well, that’s show biz.

Despite such high profile programs, the 900 industry was originally limited to only 44 simultaneous programs. Thus, the service was used sporadically for polling and supplying various non-interactive (where the same message is heard by all callers) information.

In 1981, during the divestiture proceedings of AT&T, the Justice Department ruled that the Bell Operating Companies could no longer provide information by telephone themselves.

This decision opened the door for companies and entrepreneurs to enter the pay per call business by providing the informational messages; the telephone companies, meanwhile, continued to provide the networks, transport, billing, and collections that are common to the industry today.

The information feature came about that same year when NASA asked AT&T for a 900 number to enable reporters and space buffs to hear conversations between mission control and astronauts on space shuttles. After the first two flights, the number was made available to the public. Thousands dialed it during the Challenger disaster.

Until the spring of 1985, nobody leasing a 900 number received revenue from the calls. AT&T received 50 cents for the first minute and 35 cents for each subsequent minute.

As a result, 900 numbers were primarily used by corporations as promotion or information tools. Johnson & Johnson, for example, used AT&T’s Dial-It 900 Service to release consumer information during the Tylenol tampering scare.

In April of 1985, however, AT&T began giving 900 providers up to five cents from each call. For the first time, companies of all kinds were able to use 900 numbers to make money. Demand for the numbers increased significantly.

In January 1987, the 900 business changed dramatically. AT&T stopped paying commissions to program sponsors and introduced premium rate billing, a contract offering that permitted proprietors of 900 programs (information providers, or IPs) to set a price they want charge for the value of the information or service they are providing.

AT&T’s Dial-It network allowed companies to charge up to $2.00 for the first minute of a call, permitting the information provider to keep $1.35 (AT&T pocketed the toll from extra minutes). The system had its limitations. It was passive (non-interactive) only and had limited ability to offer numerous programs at the same time.

During the same year, the now bankrupt Telesphere International began the nation’s first interactive 900 service. First offered in Chicago, the small interexchange carrier (IXC-a long distance company like AT&T, MCI, and Sprint) soon expanded service to include New York City and later the nation in 1989.

Telesphere enjoyed early dominance in the 900 field. The introduction of pay per call was a major hit with the small interexchange carrier. Its revenues more than doubled from 1987 to 1988. Half of its $36 million revenues in the first quarter of 1988 came from 900 service.

By now, information providers could charge up to $50 flat rate per call. This enormous profit potential spawned hundreds of less than legitimate applications, including children’s programs, credit card scams, and adult entertainment.

The carriers were helpless in preventing pornographers from entering the business, as the Freedom of Information Act prevented a carrier from controlling the kind of information available on its network.

It wasn’t until the carriers were to show their high uncollectible rates on pornographic programs that they were allowed to remove them. Today, the 900 industry still suffers from the black eye it received in the early days of the 900 business from these less valuable applications.

What the carriers did not count on was the rapid proliferation of adult message lines, said Lou Delery, general manager of AT&T MultiQuest 900 service. “Suddenly we were in the middle of a storm of complaints from consumers, legislators, and attorneys general. We were spending so much time managing complaints that the service almost didn’t seem worth it. We decided drastic changes were needed.”

National 900 services were implemented at break-neck speed by the carriers. In February 1989, AT&T joined MCI and Sprint in offering its own expanded 900 service by introducing MultiQuest-a package of several interactive 900 options.

The term MultiQuest implied the vast range of information sources available through the telephone to serve people in their quest for information and entertainment. Corporate America began to embrace the 900 number.

Chrysler and Paine Webber began allowing shareholders to listen in on their meetings via 900 number. President George Bush even touted the merits of the industry by appearing in a television commercial that encouraged viewers to call a 900 number in support of the USO.

Interest was at the fever pitch in 1989. Stories in the New York Times said that 900 “could greatly expand consumer services over the telephone.” Many other articles talked about a new future for billing and collection that “could some day replace credit cards.”

Prominent media such as the major television networks regularly began using 900 service. USA Today offered sports, weather, and stock quotes.

ABC’s daytime soap opera magazine Episodes used a 900 number to launch sales of its publication. Two million soap fanatics responded and ordered a subscription.

ABC also brought 900 into the homes of prime time America with its regular use of the service as a vote line during halftime of its Monday Night Football telecasts. On the initial night, service bureau Call Interactive handled over 8,000 simultaneous calls as 51% of callers chose Tony Dorsett’s rushing play as the most spectacular in the 20-year history of Monday Night Football. (Just for the record, O.J. Simpson got 19%; Bo Jackson, 16%; Earl Campbell, 8%; and Refrigerator Perry, 6%)

In December 1989, in a rare act of unification among the Big Three networks, each agreed to run a two minute commercial after popular prime time shows to promote a 900 number for Prime Time to End Hunger.

This major media event was deigned to provide a data base of volunteers for the organization. The commercials ran on the Cosby Show, Golden Girls, and Cheers (NBC), Murder She Wrote, Jake and the Fatman, and Designing Women (CBS), and thirtysomething and Head of the Class (ABC).

Another famous 1989 promotion was a contest to win one of 36 vintage Corvettes, one for each year from 1953 to 1989, sponsored by MTV. More than 1.1 million people entered the contest during its two-month run.

A whopping 87% or all entries came from a $2 900 call, while other contestants used the free alternative mail-in entry method. This program was later contested by a civil suit on the grounds of illegal gambling, but the program was upheld as legal by a federal judge.

America’s most popular game show, Wheel of Fortune, racked up an amazing 4.7 million calls during a three-week promotion that allowed callers to play along with Pat Sajak and Vanna White. The game promotion ran for three weeks to increase ratings.

The over $6 million invested in advertising included full page ads in People, Readers Digest, TV Guide and 25 daily newspapers. The cost of the call was $2 per minute. Callers got a coupon for a personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut just for playing.

Each night randomly selected winners received $1,000 prizes or Caribbean cruises. A portion of the proceeds went to Toys for Tots. Over $1 million was raised for this very worthwhile charity.

Today, the glory days of the much maligned 900 number are clearly a thing of the past. There are, however, many companies and entrepreneurs still making money from the 900 number industry.

It’s hard to imagine how strong the 900 number industry would be today if it weren’t for a few mistakes made along the way. But, for now, with shows like “Deal or No Deal” it seems like text messaging is the new promotional vehicle of choice for media.



By: Robert Bentz

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An advertising company is a potentially very successful and enjoyable business, but only if done correctly. Advertising promotion is older than most people think, and here is a brief history of advertising companies.

There are four very influential inventions that have shaped the media and thus the advertising industry - the printing press, radio, television and the Internet. The printing press made the wide dissemination of information with words on paper possible, mainly advertisements in newspapers and magazines. Selling material had to be created and advertising agencies were born.

The first advertising agency, Volney B. Palmer, was opened in Philadelphia in 1841. By 1861 there were 20 advertising agencies in New York City alone. Among them was J. Walter Thompson, today the oldest American advertising agency in continuous existence. Radio became a commercial medium in the 1920s.

For the first time, advertising could be heard, not just seen. Soap operas, music, and serial adventures populated the new medium, and as radios appeared in virtually every home in America, sales of products advertised on the air soared. Advertisers rushed to write infectious advertising jingles, an art form that still has its place in the advertising repertoire of today.

Then television changed everything. Although TV was invented in the 1920s, it didn’t become a mass commercial medium until the 1950s when the prices of television sets began to approach affordability. Print and radio had to take a back seat because, for the first time, commercials were broadcast with sight, sound and motion.

The effect of the telvesion on the advertising industry and the way products were sold was remarkable. Advertising agencies not only had to learn how to produce these mini movies in units of 30 and 60 seconds, they had to learn to effectively segment the audience and deliver the right commercial message to the right group of consumers.

Cable television was the next great innovation, offering a greater variety of channels with more specific program offerings. That allowed advertisers to narrowcast. Before the advent of cable television, the networks attempted to reach demographics by airing at different times throughout the broadcast period. Soap operas were broadcast during the day to reach women, news in the evening to reach an older target audience.

Cable television, on the other hand, brought with it channels like MTV that catered to young music lovers, ESPN, for (typically) male sports fans, and the Food Network, for people who love cooking (or at least love to watch others cook). These new advertising channels were delightful for advertisers who wished to target certain audiences with specific interests, though less so for the networks who saw their share of ad revenue dwindle.



By: Tom Sample

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Old Time Radio Shows do make you nostalgic, don’t they? But do we know them in detail? Here are some quick facts on Radio Shows from old times.

Let us get back in time… there was a hype about radio entertainment in the 1920s. This hype ruled till the early 1960s. At the beginning, the majority of radio programs imitated the variety show acts that had been the stronghold of civic amusement until radio. Comics or singers also started ruling the airwaves!

Most of all, you did not have to go away from your home in order to enjoy the entertainment! Eventually, audiences in general became somewhat more mature and a variety of other types of entertainment programs were added to the lineups on radio networks.

One of the major popular areas of Radio was drama series. They became very popular including various shows featuring doctors and soap operas, or even popular movie scripts especially adapted for public radio broadcasts.

The old time radio action series had cops, robbers and private detectives! There were some fantasy series that thrilled large audiences with extremely famous fictional characters, often from comic book fame including Superman as well as the Green Hornet!

But horror shows were also in great demand. Thus came shows that featured things like ghosts, vampires, as well as werewolves. But the world never lacked science fiction fans. Thus came tales and predictions on the future, space travel, and exciting exploration of the things unknown including the paranormal.

As for another other instance, take the account of game shows such as “You Bet Your Life” that let the most of the average people to escape from the monotony of everyday life!

Do you know what is the 1st ever commercially held radio station on the land of the U.S? According to most of the historians, it was radio station KDKA in Pennsylvania.

Radio stations began their irregular broadcasting in the early 1920s. But you may ask which form of entertainment was initially popular on radio? Until the end of 1920s, the vast majority were musical programs including opera, jazz, country/western, classical, or other forms of popular music. Between songs the singers themselves might tell a joke or two or tell an amusing story about something that happened in their real life. In the early days, there were only a very few dedicated comics as would become most popular beginning in the 1940s.

The in the 1930s, the very first daytime series had appeared by featuring love, romance, and other emotional subjects that were employed to appeal to the average American housewives. The vast majority of those programs were sponsored by contemporary soap products. That is the time when they came to be known as the soap operas. Gone are the days of intense cliffhanger shows like “The Cisco Kid” or the “Captain Midnight” that were broadcast during the afternoons to entertain young people of that time. Moms loved the shows, not to watch themselves, but as “babysitters” for their kids who were home and often restless from a day stuck in a desk at school.

Comedy series were always the “Kings” of the old time radio shows, however. Shows like “Amos ‘N’ Andy”, “The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show”, “The Jack Benny Show”, “The Milton Berle Show”, “The Martin and Lewis Show”, and many others brought a bit of cheer to what were often hard lives for millions of viewers.



By: Rick Brady

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For free TV show fans, soap operas had been, are and will always be on top of their list as the pinnacle of television drama. The concrete proof is that soap operas all over the world are among the highest-rated, if not the highest-rated, among all the other shows in all the other genres.

In the U.S. and UK, they also hold the record as being the longest-running TV shows in history, beating all shows in all categories, including lavishly-produced one-shot TV specials and others.

Of late, the “telenovela” produced in Latin America and exported all over the globe, is the current holder of the most-watched television program in the world with over 2 billion avid viewers.

What’s A Soap Opera?

Soap operas started as radio drama serials with soap makers as their main sponsors. These are presented as serials or a continuing long narrative story, usually aired during weekdays aimed at female listeners, mostly housewives.

Later, it was only a matter of time that this popular radio drama format got transplanted on TV, this time with visuals. The move earned the soap opera more fans.

What makes a soap opera different from the other drama formats is its open-ended narrative. Each episode ends with some kind of a cliffhanger, promising that the story continues in another episode.

The other distinction that soap operas are famous for is the presence of ALL kinds of storytelling devices borrowed from ancient times to the present - chance meetings, coincidences, last-minute rescues, sudden revelations, surprising change of minds, and “deus ex machine” endings. All of these devices are, of course, hated and reviled by other writers, mostly the so-called ‘literary’ writers.

However, this open plot narrative and continuity devices have seeped into mainstream primetime drama series like Hill Street Blues all the way to Friends and The West Wing. They all feature ensemble cast and intertwined multiple storylines.

Recent hits include Lost, Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty and Grey’s Anatomy. Their appeal seems not just centered on the melodrama but also on the occasional humor in the stories.

Recession And Decline

In their heydays, soap operas used to lord it over the ratings and held it in record number of years, unsurpassed even up to now. Guiding Light, a radio drama in 1937 and transferred to television in 1952, holds the distinction of being the longest running soap ever.

Still going on after more than 45 years are General Hospital and As The World Turns. In 1986, Eastenders (UK) became the highest-rated soap opera episode ever with more than 30 million viewers out of 54 million TV sets.

However, the economic recession took its toll on everything, including soap operas. The downward trend had already begun in early 2000 and continued unabated till today.

One by one, they all fell down. NBC cancelled Passions in 2007, and announced Days of Our Lives might not last in 2009. Guiding Light, the longest running show in TV history got cancelled after barely making only a million and a half viewers everyday.

The other endangered shows include All My Children, General Hospital, The Young and the Restless, Days of Our Lives, The Bold and The Beautiful and As the World Turns.

The main culprit is the dismally low number of viewers. Added to the misfortune was the 2008 economic recession. Most of their advertising monies come from the automotive industry, one of the hardest hit in the current economic downturn.

Other causes helped in the decline of soap opera viewers, the biggest of which is competition - the Internet, cable, the movies, other portable entertainment devices, etc.

Also, in contrast to all the past years up to today, there seems to be a continuing trend in the dwindling of the number of stay-at-home audiences (mostly women) which is the main market for soap operas.

The fans of free TV shows are now wringing their hands in true soap operatic fashion, watching and worried about their favorite soap operas, and reading the usual credit end-line tag: “What happens next? Who’s going to save them all? Tune in tomorrow!”



By: Boris C.

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Stories have played a major role in all our lives. When we were small children we looked forward to bedtime when we would hear a story from a parent. If we were not so lucky, we would hear a story at school. Those of us who went to Sunday school heard stories from the Bible that were meant to educate us, but often scared us into submission. Sadly the different layers of the Bible stories are hardly ever explained to us. Emanuel Swedenborg provided interesting spiritual explanations of various Bible stories. Refer to my blog for a link to the website.

Another fascinating website that sheds a different light on the hidden meanings of the stories in the Bible is one where the author claims that none of the stories in the Bible are real or actually happened. Refer to my blog for a link to the website.

And by the way, it is not a sin to read these websites and then decide for yourself what you want to believe. God gave you a mind so that you can use it to decide what is good for you. Remember that what is good for you is not necessarily good for other people, and it is not for us to judge one another.

We all grew up with the tales of the brothers Grimm. Those tales are seen today as fairytales for children, but they were originally meant for adults because each one of them contain a lesson that is much deeper than what a child would hear. Each one of these tales is a metaphor that explains a facet of life.

And of course we are told stories every day on television. The soap operas are not real at all, but for some people they are a window into the lives of an imagined family. There are also various series that make characters familiar to us and we learn what to expect of the characters, like the heroes in science fiction or action movies. We all have our favourite actors and actresses, because they are masters at weaving a web that we want to believe. Sometimes these soap operas are used for edutainment (a combination of education and entertainment) to convey important information on health or civil issues, and this is more powerful than for example providing written material to people that have difficulty reading, or providing verbal warnings to people that did not have the good sense to heed such warnings.

Stories are part of many different traditions. The stories of the Grimm brothers and comic characters such as Asterix and Tintin originated in Europe.

There are also the tales of the Arabian nights that reflect ancient life in the Middle East. The Arabian Nights is a collection of Persian, Arab and Indian folk tales that were handed down through the centuries. Legend has it that a beautiful lady called Scheherazade had to tell a murderous prince a story each night to prevent the prince from killing her. The result is a beautiful collection of stories including the famous ones about Sinbad the sailor and Aladdin.

The Hassidic Jews have their own traditional stories. One of the disciples of the great Rabbi Baal Shem Tov was lame. One day, this disciple was asked to tell a story about his master. He began to tell how the Baal Shem Tov used to leap and dance when he prayed. The disciple became so engrossed in his story that he stood up, and began to leap and dance as his master used to. At that moment, he was cured of his lameness, and became completely healthy. There is a beautiful story called Let the story choose me that explains the healing value of stories. Refer to my blog for a link to the website.

On the African continent stories often feature talking animals that convey important lessons in life. Refer to my blog for a link to a website with examples of these tales.

Why are stories so important to us? We use stories to share experiences, understand each other and create a sense of community. Parents use stories to bond with their children. Sages use stories to convey important life lessons and explain customs and values. People express wisdom by means of a story. Stories are used to break down barriers within and between groups.

Most stories have some entertainment or educational value. The advent of the internet has brought us the genre of urban myths. People’s need to believe things is often proven by the circulation of the most absurd stories, such as the one about the rapist who got into the car of a lady who was putting petrol into her car, or the various versions of the very ill children whose parents need money for emergency treatment. A very useful website to get to the truth of these myths can be found on my blog. We would do each other a favour by first researching even the most heart rending story before we circulate them.

Stories enable us to look inward and understand story patterns and characters that intertwine with the hard-to perceive forces that shape our lives. The stories also enable us to look outward, because story-threads join us to a larger cultural fabric. The most important stories may be those we share with family and friends. All stories help preserve memory, explain our present, and imagine our future. Stories that evolve across time bind individuals to families and families to society, defining our collective values, beliefs and goals.

Stories also connect us to the eternal Source of creativity. Professional writers know that the muse is a combination of discipline and inspiration. That inspiration comes from tuning into another dimension that contains all the stories that we could possibly want ‘ from Tolstoy’s War and Peace to the Harry Potter saga to all the Bible stories.

Here are two lovely short stories that convey lessons to us in a thoughtful manner.

The first one is about the young boy that wanted to become the pupil of an old priest. The priest looked in the eyes of the boy and realised that the boy was not going to live long. He decided to send the boy back to his family to die, but told the boy to come back the next summer.

A year later the boy was back, lively and happy. The priest looked at the boy in astonishment and realised that the boy was not going to die for a very long time. Never questioning what he initially saw in the eyes of the boy, he asked the boy to explain to him in detail what had happened during the previous year.

The boy told the priest how, on his way home, he saw a colony of ants trapped on some high ground in the river. The boy found a long stick and held it over the river so that the ants could walk on the stick to dry land. His arms got very tired, but he held the stick in place until the very last ant had reached dry land. The boy then described the rest of the journey, but the priest was no longer listening. He had realised that that one single act had wiped out all the bad karma that the boy had accumulated in previous lives. That was why the boy was no longer going to die young.

The second story is about two priests that were travelling together on foot. They came to a river crossing where a woman was standing, looking frightened. Brother Benjamin asked her: “Why are you looking so frightened? Can we help you?”

“I need to get to the other side of the river”, she said, “but I can’t swim and am frightened that the water will take me.”

“I can help you,” said Brother Benjamin. The woman got onto his back and they waded to the other side. She thanked him and walked away.

The two priests walked in silence for the next two hours. Brother Benjamin eventually realised that Brother John was silent because he was angry.

“You are very quiet, Brother John? Is something bothering you?” Brother Benjamin asked.

“Is something bothering me! You swore a vow of chastity! You promised never to touch a woman! And there you did not just touch a woman! You carried her on your back in a most indecent manner! Shame on you. Shame on you!” Brother John said.

Brother Benjamin stopped walking and looked at Brother John.

“Brother John,” he said. “I put the woman down hours ago. Why are you still carrying her?”



By: Elsabe Smit

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Eric Braeden, star of The Young and the Restless, will be receiving his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on the 20th of July at the Hollywood Boulevard.

Having a long career in the entertainment industry, the 66 year old actor has been playing the role of Victor Newman on the popular daytime series since 1980. He gained massive popularity when he played the wealthy and prominent business tycoon, earning him a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1998 and three Soap Opera Digest Awards for the same category.

Braeden is most known for his work on the popular daytime soap The Young and the Restless, however he has also appeared in other television productions such as guest roles in series such as The Rat Patrol, Mission: Impossible, Run For Your Life, Hawaii Five-O, Gunsmoke and Chips.

Braeden has also graced the big screen, appearing most notably in the blockbuster hit, Titanic (which starred Academy Award nominees Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) where he played Colonel John Jacob Astor IV. His other film credits include Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Adulteress, Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, Death Race, Intertect, 100 Rifles, Morituri, Colossus: The Forbin Project and Dayton’s Devils. Just recently, he concluded work on the film The Man Who Came Back, a period western that also stars Billy Zane, Armand Assante, Sean Young, James Patrick Stewart and Carol Alt.

Aside from acting, the Emmy Award winning actor has also demonstrated his great prowess in the field of sports, winning the German Youth Championship and the 1972-73 US National Soccer Championship, where he played for the Los Angeles Maccabees.

In 2005, Los Angeles City Council Chairman Tom LaBonge, with the approval of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, proclaimed February 1st as Eric Braeden Day.

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By: Groshan Fabiola

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Recent studies show that almost 4 billion people are watching TV online. That figure is rising constantly on a daily basis as there are more channels and more choice on the Internet!

The regular Internet user spends nearly forty-one days each year being online or approximately 164 minutes per day, also researches reveals that 148 minutes per day are spent watching television. This supports studies done in September 2005 that most individuals spend almost eight hours a day using 2 or even more media simultaneously.

It all began in the opposite way - The Internet was made compatible with a television set, and individuals could access the web through their television screen. Now things are beginning to move in the opposite direction. Television is now being tailored to fit into the constantly changing perimeters of the World Wide Web. The benefit? Now individuals can watch TV online. But what exactly can individuals watch over their computer screen?

Online TV is opening up a world of possibilities for television stations. All over the world, TV stations are making their broadcasts available to view online. The United States alone offers hundreds of stations, while nations like South Africa, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Uruguay, Finland, Spain, France, Japan and many more are offering stations as well. The possibilities are endless when it comes to what individuals can find when they watch TV online. Whether you’re interested in movies, news, documentaries, various sporting events, soap operas, kids programs, music channels, in fact the list is endless. Even the best football matches that aren’t shown on normal satellite or cable can be found online, even live Premiership games in the UK!

There are many advantages to making television accessible via the web. Many people have very little time to watch television during the day. There are workers who get up in the morning and work late and are on their laptops always working on a day-to-day basis. On a lunch break; it would be nice for people to have a chance to get away and watch a bit of TV. Maybe Catch up on the scores or sneak a glimpse of a soap opera. This would appeal to busy people; many of those who don’t get a chance to do so at home can watch TV online on a computer.

Watching TV online requires no additional hardware and when new channels become available they are automatically added. All the software necessary to view TV on the Internet use easy to use user interfaces. The best thing and the most obvious is that there is no monthly charges for watching TV on the Internet usually just a small one time fee to get all the information to get you up and running. There are literally hundreds of channels available and Internet software adapt to pretty much any Internet connection however fast or slow.

This method of watching TV is new and revolutionary and is already pulling in billions of viewers worldwide. I’m sure that in years to come, once people have found out how much is available online, Internet TV will become more popular than ever!



By: Stephen Roper

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Nominated for 18 Emmys and 15 Golden Globes in its thirteen season run, Dallas is the 1,000-pound gorilla of the prime-time drama/soap opera genre. Premiering in 1978 as a five-part miniseries, the show combines the classic sex and innuendo of boilerplate afternoon soap operas with the freewheeling adventure of Texas wildcats and filthy rich capitalist oil barons. The explosive combination of rampant love affairs and high stakes business dealings scored well with both men and women, prompting CBS to make Dallas the lynchpin of its Friday night lineup (back when people actually watched Friday night television). As a result, Dallas became one of the most successful TV series in history. In fact, the famous ‘Who shot J.R.?” episode (”A House Divided” Air Date: 3-21-1980) still holds its spot as the second most watched television show ever (the season finale of MASH is #1). With arguably the most memorable TV villian ever created, it’s little surprise that Dallas held the #1 or #2 spot in the Nielsen ratings for most of the 1980s decade.

Undoubtedly, the unrivaled success and popularity of Dallas was in large part due to Larry Hagman and his portrayal of J.R. Ewing. Hagman’s real life Texas roots, unique charm, and wholehearted commitment to his craft helped to create one of the most loveable villains in history, and his treachery is on fully display in season five. Although J.R. is a vindictive cutthroat, the audience grows to love his sinister smile in the aftermath of a one-sided business deal and/or a selfish act of calculating revenge. In sharp contrast, J.R.’s brother Bobby (Patrick Duffy) brings the Ewing karma back into balance with his all-American smile and impeccable character. Patrick Duffy brings his own style of charm to the small screen, and it makes for an interesting clash of personalities.

The Dallas (Season 5) DVD features some of the best episodes of the series. The initial ones center around Sue Ellen’s attempt to leave J.R. once and for all. With Dusty and Clayton Farlow by her side, Sue Ellen (Linda Grey) begins a new life at the Southern Cross ranch in San Angelo. The ensuing war between the two over baby John Ross makes for some of the most enjoyable prime time drama ever produced. The onscreen chemistry between Hagman and Grey is simply magic. They manage to portray a believable love-hate relationship between a husband and wife, and it’s one of the ongoing conflicts which launched the show to the top of the Nielsen ratings for almost fourteen years (making it the longest running prime time drama in television history).

Below is a list of episodes included on the Dallas (Season 5) DVD:

Episode 78 (Missing Heir) Air Date: 10-09-1981

Episode 79 (Gone, But Not Forgotten) Air Date: 10-16-1981

Episode 80 (Showdown at San Angelo) Air Date: 10-23-1981

Episode 81 (Little Boy Lost) Air Date: 10-30-1981

Episode 82 (The Sweet Smell of Revenge) Air Date: 11-06-1981

Episode 83 (The Big Shut Down) Air Date: 11-13-1981

Episode 84 (Blocked) Air Date: 11-20-1981

Episode 85 (The Split) Air Date: 11-27-1981

Episode 86 (Five Dollars a Barrel) Air Date: 12-04-1981

Episode 87 (Starting Over) Air Date: 12-11-1981

Episode 88 (Waterloo at Southfork) Air Date: 12-18-1981

Episode 89 (Barbecue Two) Air Date: 01-01-1982

Episode 90 (The Search) Air Date: 01-08-1982

Episode 91 (Denial) Air Date: 01-15-1982

Episode 92 (Head of the Family) Air Date: 01-22-1982

Episode 93 (The Phoenix) Air Date: 01-29-1982

Episode 94 (My Father, My Son) Air Date: 02-05-1982

Episode 95 (Anniversary) Air Date: 02-12-1982

Episode 96 (Adoption) Air Date: 02-19-1982

Episode 97 (The Maelstrom) Air Date: 02-26-1982

Episode 98 (The Prodigal) Air Date: 03-05-1982

Episode 99 (Vengeance) Air Date: 03-12-1982

Episode 100 (Blackmail) Air Date: 03-19-1982

Episode 101 (The Investigation) Air Date: 03-26-1982

Episode 102 (Acceptance) Air Date: 04-02-1982

Episode 103 (Goodbye, Cliff Barnes) Air Date: 04-09-1982



By: Britt Gillette

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If you are a woman, you know how degrading it must be if someone approaches you and asks you how far along are you in your pregnancy. You then grit your teeth and tell them that no, you are not expecting, in which the stranger will apologize profusely and then hurry away. To avoid from having this nasty incident from happening again, you will need to know how to lose belly fat in one week, and quick too!

Many people ask, how can they specifically lose fat in the abdomen area? The answer is targeted exercises. For starters, swimming is a good way to lose fat not only in the belly area but also all over your body. Not only that, it also tones your leg and arm muscles so along with a flatter tummy, you’ll also get a more lithe looking pair of limbs thrown into the package! Brisk walks also help, as do ab crunches and sit ups as well as side crunches. If you must, you can invest in a simple exercise mechanism known as the Ab Cruncher if you want to know the best way how to lose belly fat in one week. You can even exercise in front of the TV while watching your favorite soap operas!

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By: emma johnson

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Free TV shows on television were born much in the same way as those radio shows of old. First, radio was the venue for playing music and broadcasting the latest news. Later, there were good old chats, the commentaries and the talk shows. Then, entertainment like songs and stories dramatized for radio arrived and stayed.

When television came into the scene, the network owners more or less followed the same time-tested formula. Only this time, the number of categories was almost doubled because there was an important detail added to the medium - the visual element.

One of the biggest come-ons for watching free TV shows is the availability of several varieties of these free shows. Each category is designed to cater to everyone’s taste.

Here are some of the more popular and important ones.

News

Even in the early days of TV, broadcasting the news was of paramount importance. Prestige and the continuing reputation of networks depended largely on how they handle and disseminate the news. This time, they are spiced with the added moving visuals in contrast to photo stills in newspapers and simple descriptive narrations in radio broadcasts.



TV Serials And Series

Series are drama stories that vary each week but headlined by the same group of characters. The featured stories or situations could be on specific locales (hospital dramas) or occupations (police action-dramas).

Serials are continuing stories of a group of characters, where each week’s episode picks up the narrative thread left off from the preceding week. This is not a popular primetime format in the U.S. right now, except in daytime soap operas. (Soap operas got their nickname because they were largely sponsored in the early days by soap manufacturers.)

Another variety is the miniseries, a continuing story aired on limited number of episodes. The more notable successes were Rich Man Poor Man and Roots.

Sitcoms

These are basically comedy shows headlined by comic actors in comic stories about everyday lives. The characters in these 30-minute-long shows usually deal with odd, uncomfortable and mostly comic situations.

Specials

As the term implies, a special is an important one-time show aired with much fanfare and can interrupt or temporarily replace any regular program.

They can be a big movie, a documentary, a musical event, an awards show like the Oscars, a live event like a presidential oath-taking, a big sporting event, or coverage of an important cultural event.

Talk shows

These are shows where people talk about various topics initiated by the host. Sometimes, they feature a panel of guests to help discuss the issues at hand. Another feature is the taking in of live phone calls from viewers.

Talk shows can also be comic all throughout, with comedy hosts and celebrity guests talking about current entertainment issues or about the guest celebrities themselves.

Game Shows

These are popular shows usually shown on daytime where there is a real contest with big prizes and rewards. To spice up the games, celebrities are sometimes included as players either playing against themselves or against ordinary contestants. (Spelling Bee was the first TV game show.)

Reality Shows

This relatively new show concept is supposedly unscripted and unrehearsed. They feature non-actors interacting with one another, dealing with invented challenges (like ’surviving’ in an island), or competing against each other for some rewards (affection of another person, big money, etc.) They usually emphasize interpersonal conflicts and the varying emotions of the participants and the resulting “real-life drama”.

Other Choices

Today, there also exist the so-called specialty stations or channels whose programs cater to a specialized group of audience. Examples would be cable stations like Animal Planet, Nickelodeon, National Geographic, ESPN, Discovery and others.

For the average viewer, these are bonanza days of viewing free TV shows. You can pick and watch any program you like at any hour of the day, seven days a week. Unfortunately, one has to live one’s life as well - eat, sleep, and work.



By: Boris C.

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ar-ending holiday season is the best time to pay a visit to the Walt Disney World Resort. There are more season-specific events during this time than any other. This is great news for you if you happen to be traveling to Orlando in the upcoming month, but the number of events can be a bit overwhelming and daunting to keep up with so we have outlined the latest happenings at the Walt Disney World Resort for your convenience.

First up in November is the Festival of the Masters at the Downtown Disney Marketplace. Here you will find one of the most eclectic and critically acclaimed open air art festivals in the United States. Young children may not be too excited to pay a visit here but don’t worry, just a few steps away is the World of Disney store. The largest Disney store in the country will keep the young ones entertained while teenagers and adults enjoy the art festival. The festival runs from November 11-13, 2005.

During the weekend of November 12, the biggest soap opera stars gather at the Disney-MGM Studios for ABC Super Soap Weekend. Fans of various ABC daytime dramas will be able to meet and greet dozens of popular stars in person, including Susan Lucci.

Also showing at the Disney-MGM Studios, beginning on Monday November 14, is The Osborne Family Spectacle of Lights. This brilliant display of Christmas lights and decorations is not to be missed. Come out and marvel at the sight of over 5 million lights adorning the New York Street district of the Disney-MGM Studios. Insider fact: This event requires the use of 32 miles of extension cables and 66 snow machines!

For more holiday fun, head back to the Downtown Disney Marketplace for the Festival of the Seasons. The festive atmosphere during this event is very infectious and beams of holiday cheer. Stroll through and visit the various shops and enjoy the Disney-themed nighttime entertainment. This month-long festival runs from November 19 to December 24.

The EPCOT Center also joins in the holiday cheer with Holidays Around The World. Circle the vast World Showcase lagoon and celebrate the holiday season as you indulge in music, characters, and food from around the world. This is certainly something the entire family can enjoy. Holidays Around The World can be experienced from November 25 to December 30.

At last, towards the end of November, you will find Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party at Disney’s Magic Kingdom. This is Disney World’s cornerstone holiday celebration, so if you are visiting the resort during November 27 to December 20, you will surely not want to miss this event. The celebration is complete with a special parade, a new fireworks spectacular, and cheerful stage shows.

At Walt Disney World, the holiday season is truly “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year”.

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By: Jose Negron

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We have a very distinguished comedy writing partnership called Galton and Simpson. These two were responsible for some of the funniest situation comedies on radio and television from the 1950s to the 1980s. If you ask anyone living in these islands - who is old enough - they will tell you happily that they remember ‘Steptoe and Son’ and ‘Hancock’s Half Hour’. Most people, of that age, will even be able to quote a few lines from one of the episodes. Ask them about Tony Hancock, the blood donor, and they will say, Oh yes, I remember, he said: ‘A pint? That’s nearly an armful, isn’t it?’ They will be able to describe the episode he got stuck in a lift or the time he had a reunion of old Army pals. Yes, they will say, chuckling merrily, it was all good stuff, I remember it well. Then, ask them this question: What did Hancock do for a living?

It might seem irrelevant. After all, it was a comedy show. It wasn’t meant to be realistic, or even approximate to life. Besides, everyone in Britain knew the name Tony Hancock. He was a comedian, right? Well, actually, no. When the writers were interviewed some years ago, they were asked that very question: why had Hancock never actually been described as a comic in any of the episodes? The stories always involved him living in some sort of run-down suburb of London, sometimes called East Cheam; in an unkempt house, sometimes in a road called ‘Railway Cuttings’; sometimes alone and sometimes with an assortment of friends that included Sid James, Hattie Jacques and Kenneth Williams, all fine comic actors. In the later series, the pals were axed, one by one, and Hancock did all the comedy on his own. (It was also one of the things he was famous for: the more famous he got, the more paranoid and solitary he became.) But what did he do? The writers smiled and said that was one of the fun things they did: they varied it from episode to episode. Most of the time he was described as an actor, but in some of the stories he was incredibly poor, unknown and struggling, while in others, he was famous, a household name, recognised in the street and being given awards for his art. The writers were easily bored, they said, so they had fun with the character, and made him different from week to week. The strange thing, they said, was that no one seemed to notice.

Now we could be generous and say that ‘Of course people noticed’. They saw the variety, saw the joke, and laughed along. Unfortunately, that would be extremely uncommon. Think of a more recent comedy series, like ‘Friends’. One of the characters, Joey, was supposed to be an actor. For much of the earlier series, he was a struggling actor, with the occasional bout of small parts. Later, he achieved a regular gig as ‘Dr Drake Ramore’ in a TV soap opera. But it didn’t change week by week! Over the course of a series, the character Chandler lost his job, was unemployed for a while and then took up an internship in advertising. Remember that? The character Monica was a chef and was in charge of a restaurant for a while. But not just for one week! The fact is that it is very, very strange to have a comedy series in which the main character changes his life as often as Hancock, while still retaining the same persona. One week he was an actor on a West Country farming radio soap opera called ‘The Bowmans’. Anyone remember that? It was for one week, and was never mentioned again. How odd is that? It would be as though Homer Simpson was married to Marge one week, and a single bachelor the next. We know that Homer takes time off to be an astronaut, a singer in a Barbershop quartet, and a human cannonball, but we also know that he has a regular job in the power plant. What if the plant had a different boss every week? Would anyone notice that?

The plain fact is that we like to comfort ourselves with the illusion that we have memories and that they all make sense. What we fail to include is the fact that anything we remember is a mere fraction of the whole, and that usually we choose the bit that gives us most pleasure. So, we remember the odd joke - maybe we can even quote a few lines from the odd Monty Python sketch - but we can’t remember how many lumberjacks there were. Maybe it’s because it doesn’t seem important at the time, so doesn’t get included in the mix. But then it would be like those old wedding photos we sometimes get out and ponder over. Always there’s a question, like, ‘Who is that guy, third on the left, next to Auntie Margaret?’ We can’t remember his name, or if he’s even a relative. There’s a gap in our memory, but, in order to preserve our sense of worth and not to go totally crazy, we simply gloss over that bit and pretend it isn’t there. After all, it’s only a detail, right?

One of the most glaring examples of this selective memory is to do with music. Many pop pundits derive endless pleasure from allowing people to wax lyrical about their favourite tunes, and then prompting them with questions like: ‘When that record, your most preciously remembered song, was in the Top Ten, what was Number One?’ They then embarrass you by quoting some dross that has come and gone, and has not only slipped from your memory, but also from the collective consciousness of the nation. It’s true. Most of us look back to some Golden Age of music and quote all the great singers and songs of that era, but the only reason we can manage that is by deleting all the rubbish that was around at the time. It’s true, there never was a decade when pop and rock were all authentically wonderful; in every era there’s good and bad, so we treasure the good, (in our view), and drop the mundane. Which is all fine, except that the only way we can do that is by rewriting history and leaving out the bits we don’t like. Try it: go on the internet and look up the Top Tens of yesteryear. I guarantee you will be embarrassed to see, just like a diamond among the stones, your most treasured memory flanked by stuff you would rather forget. That’s what we do: we make ourselves feel better by failing to remember the details. We select, we edit, we rearrange, and we construct. Our memories are not filing cabinets that contain all the files: they are scrapbooks of cuttings and family snaps, chosen and arranged to please us. But you know how you do that, don’t you? You start with a pile of photos and you end up with a selection. The rest? They’re ruthlessly thrown away. Like unwanted details.

By: Mike Scantlebury

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You have got to love soap operas. From the intricate plots and finely woven webs of deceit, to the depths of schemes, they were, are and always will be classics. They are timeless. I wrote this article as my take on them back in 1970 when filling white space for our high school paper. Watch a few soap operas for the next few days and see for yourself how closely they resemble soap operas 36 years ago…

And now for that thought provoking question that plagues men’s souls unceasingly through the bright shining of the day and through the untold dark depths of the night:

Why did Peter, who in reality is actually Superman, fake that he stubbed his toe on the 17th stone on the sidewalk starting at 4th and Grand instead of the 16th stone, which was bigger and more logically the victim of that invulnerable toe and why did Marlys take Sam’s advice to buy the yellow tulip instead of the red and green carnation, while all the time Rodregus knew that the curvaceous young Pandora was at the moment buying the last purple, double-breasted, duck-billed, warbling giraffe in the world for her dear departed Phillip disguised as a lowly second mate on the Queen Mary, which was under attack by the tyrant Cedric because of the terrible beating he had suffered at the hands of Radcliff whose ex-wife Natalie was actually Percival’s long lost great-great-uncle Maximillian in disguise who knew that Zigmond was fond of un-pitted olives stuffed into green grapefruit filled graciously with Granny and Gretchen’s goulash, which was gradually getting gooey and who also knew of Jennifer’s contact Louella in the deep Congo, seized at the time by the dread Gardenia, the 7th cousin of Guenivere, in hopes of receiving the eight-ounce bottle of Elmer’s Glue stored in the vast files in the cortex of Courtney’s colossal computer complex carefully compiled to correct the current curling, commonly crusading as the contagious, communicable, crystalline, cucumber crud, carried on cue sticks by crying cuckoo clock birds continuously to conform with the cunning Cornelius’ cumbersome plot to corrupt the currency and continue the crisis of the Cormandel Coast Cult, complicated by the coroner Cort’s corny connotation to conceal his consecutive coronary contractions constantly crippling his conscious efforts to contradict congenial counterparts’ careful counterfeit correspondence with Corwyn, the cosmic cosmetician?

Was it because Bill had green eyes or was it because Melissa meddled menacingly and meticulously in Maude’s plans to read the calendar to see what year she had been sent to by her superiors in the future?

Tune in tomorrow for the exciting climax created by another deep question.

By: Randall Ulbricht

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you are experiencing a major life change—you are no longer who you were, but you are not yet who you are becoming.” Laura Day

Did you ever look at someone and think they had the perfect life—only to find out some crisis they have been dealing with–unknown to you? I am convinced that everyone goes through several difficulties in their life at one time or another. Some common scenarios:

Losing a partner or spouse through either death or divorce; Living paycheck-to-paycheck would have been an improvement. Working at a job you hate. Feeling helpless as you watch your child go through their own life crisis.

Sure, I know that surviving a crisis shapes us—but why does it have to be hard? Have you ever caught yourself thinking some of these:

Shoulda, coulda, if onlys. Wouldn’t it be great to rewind some life chapters and have a do-over?

Family recipes. Instead of that special dish you always make at Thanksgiving, don’t you wish you could put your “hard knocks” knowledge down on a recipe card and give it to your kids or friends so they didn’t have to suffer like you did?

What is God thinking? “I try to do the right thing; I’m considerate of my friends and family; I work hard; don’t curse much (unless I drop something); give to the needy—then why is God doing this to me?”

Your own Godfather movie. Despite being such a good person (see above), you can’t help but visualize your ex or a boss or ______ (fill in the blank) in a room and… (Well…you get the picture.)

Read the book, saw the movie. “I’m intelligent enough; surely, I could have learned that valuable life lesson an easier way.”

Hopefully, you’re on the bright side of some of these life’s trials. But if you’re facing a new drama, here are some things to remember:

Take a step. Sometimes as our world collapses around us, we get into an “O’ woe is me” mode. Start to identify what you can do (and then do it). Sure, there may be things out of your control, but take back control of your life instead of whining.

Focus on today. It’s easy to get into a chain reaction worry-tail spin. One example could be–you imagine making a mistake at work, getting fired, not finding a new job, losing your home and you end up living in a box (my personal fear). Identify what you can do today and focus on that.

Reframe. After surviving your own personal soap opera, you reflect how much you’ve learned through it all. Look at your situation using a different perspective or lenses. Consider what you might be learning while you’re going through the next dramatic episode. What could be the opportunity?

Let go. If you’ve ever given your well-meaning advice to a loved one, you know it doesn’t usually work. As part of our human condition, we all need to learn our own lessons. (I know—I don’t like it either.) Remembering the Serenity Prayer (”God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference”). It’s perfect for so many situations, isn’t it.

Hindsight. When you know better, you do better. You made the best choice you could at that time. As one of my coaches told me (more than once), “How very human of you.” You are enough—just as you are.

Just as you are amazed how much you’ve already survived in your life–you’ll get through this challenge as well. You will get to know your own strength.

By: Jane Falter

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