Are you a cartoon fanatic? If you are, then most probably you know this young Hispanic girl who loves getting herself into exciting adventures. Well, who wouldn’t know this girl named Dora Marquez? Every little kid knows her as the lead character in Dora the Explorer cartoon show featured in the Nickelodeon channel.

This cartoon show is intended for young viewers and no doubt these youngsters enjoy every moment watching it. It is an educational show that helps the viewers learn how to speak even simple Spanish words since the lead character speaks both English and Spanish. If your children are addicted to this show then more likely they’ll beat you in speaking Spanish. You will be amazed on how great these young people are in composing their own sentences in Spanish just by watching the show. You better be one of these Dora fanatics soon if you don’t want to be left behind.

Shows like this are the ones that young people should watch instead of those that showcase war and cruelty. Parents should support shows like this for their children, not just fun and entertainment but for educational as well.

Like any other cartoon show, Dora the Explorer features a lot of characters, not leaving Dora alone in her adventures. One of these characters is Boots, the little girl’s best friend who is always with her on every adventure that she’s into. He is a talking monkey who got his name from the red boots that he wears all the time.

In each episode, Swiper, a tricky masked fox tries to take an item from Dora or Boots. Dora and her friends should recover the stolen item for the successful completion of the day’s quest. The recovery of the stolen item is sometimes the quest in itself so they really have to get the item back to finish the quest.

There’s one way that the best friends can prevent the evil fox from stealing something from them, which is to repeat the phrase “Swiper, No Swiping!” three times. If they fail to do so Swiper will succeed in stealing an item from them and tell them that they are late while throwing the item far away.

Other characters include Dora’s parents whom she calls Papi and Mami and her grandmother. There is also Dora’s cousin Diego who rescues animals that are at risk and who also accompany her during her quests. Bilingual animals and some talking items complete the list of characters of the show.

Dora would often encourage the viewers to participate in her quest, sometimes by asking them if they have seen the evil fox or ask them to count along with her. This is what makes the show really great for children, not just about speaking Spanish is learned but it also allows the little ones to know some fundamentals of mathematics like counting and be familiar with the various kinds of music.

In 2000, the Dora the Explorer became a regular show on Nickelodeon and is still being produced there at the present. The show is aired around the world and has been translated to a lot of languages already including Spanish, Japanese, French, German, Dutch and many others. The Dora mania is really spreading all over the globe today so you better check it out now, don’t be left behind!



By: Low Jeremy

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In many places across the nation, the heat index has risen as temperatures have heated up in these late days of summer. So what’s a girl to do when she still wants to look fashionable but not be weighed down with heavy jewelry during a heat wave? Throw on a lightweight pendant necklace of course.

Fashionistas from the East Coast to the West Coast and everywhere in between have been spotted out and about in cool layered looks utilizing the basics of summer fashion – tank tops. From Lauren Conrad to Ashley Olsen to Lindsey Lohan to Kelly Ripa, these ladies who set the style standard are reverting to basic gauzy thin tank tops paired with shorts, Capri khakis, skinny jeans and bubble skirts. And their accessory of choice – a long pendant necklace.

Pendant necklaces are an easy go-to when you’re running out the door. They help to complete the outfit and pull your look together. Whether it’s charms, polished stones, lockets or personalized pendants, these necklaces do a great job of looking effortlessly chic and stylish. The key to wearing the look is to start with necklaces that are longer than the neckline of the tank top. After that, feel free to mix and match by adding necklaces of varying length. This will help you to create a unique look that reflects your personality.

Layering is big this season, whether it’s thin tank tops or necklaces. Throw on a couple of both, add a great pair of skinny white jeans, some gladiator sandals and a messenger bag and you’ll be ready for the farmer’s market, a vacation get-a-way or a stroll on the boardwalk. Long pendant necklaces are versatile enough to go with many selections in your closet, and best of all, they’ll still be a style “Do” come fall.



By: Tina Black

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“I Love My Body because it houses my beautiful Spirit.” Beth, 30

“I Love My Body because it is a work of art that I see as beautiful, and something I know no one else could ever duplicate.” Francesca, 18

Why do you Love Your Body? Do you love your body because like Beth stated above, it houses your magnificent soul? Do you love your body because it enables you to experience the richness of life with all of your senses?  Do you love your body because it allows you to create things, hug others and enjoy the pleasure of movement?  I’m not asking you IF you love your body but WHY you love your body. I want to start the conversation about loving your body with the why, not the if—to get you to shift your thinking in that direction immediately.  People, women in particular—perhaps you the reader –have spent far too many precious moments of life criticizing and trying to change your body rather than truly loving and accepting the gift of your body!

The challenge that most women face around loving their body is the cultural conditioning around the ideal body for women. There was a popular ad for “The Body Shop”, the skin and hair care products company,   which stated “There are 3 billion women who don’t look like supermodels and only 8 who do.” This ad highlighted that what is promoted as the ideal, normal body for women is actually the normal body for only a very small percentage of women.  Yet, this image is continuously portrayed in advertising, on magazine covers and in the actresses we see in movies and on television.

It is a distortion of reality that ends up creating a situation where women feel inadequate and that there is something wrong with their body for not looking like this. It causes women to judge and try to change their body by dieting, plastic surgery and many other ways of trying to get their body to look like the ideal.  This cultural conditioning is hurtful and has a very toxic effect on women and girls.  It is toxic because instead celebrating and loving their unique shape they are judging it against the promoted ideal.  According to the Social Issues Research Centre “More than 80% of 4th graders have been on a fad diet.” It is sad to see the pressure that young girls feel to start to mold their bodies into the ideal, rather than using this energy to learn, explore and just be happy and content being themselves. So one of the first and most important guideline to truly Love Your Body is to take back the power to define your own beauty.



Tips to help you Love Your Body

1.  Take the Power back to define your own Beauty-Not only taking it back for the cultural/media definitions but also from people around you in your life who have made judgmental remarks about your body. These people weren’t able to see the beauty of your body because they had absorbed the cultural definitions themselves—and were judging you and probably their own body against these standards as well. Take a moment now to close your eyes and imagine taking back the power to define the beauty of your own body. Take it back from the cultural definitions and the media—in your mind state “I will not allow you to define what my body should look like anymore.” Think back to people that have made negative comments to you about your body—a family member, a romantic partner or other kids when you were little.  Say to them in your mind “I take back the power to define the beauty of my own body—your comments were distortions and untrue—and I no longer give them any power.” Feel how good this feels to clear yourself of all of this negativity and distortion.

2.  Clear Your Own Negative Beliefs about Your Body-Because of your exposure to the cultural conditioning about the supposed ideal female body—you probably have practiced self-judgment of your body for not conforming to the promoted “ideal.” These judgments and negative beliefs are again distortions and not based on the truth of the unique beauty of your own body.  We all have bodies of different sizes and shapes that are special and truly beautiful.

Let go of your own rigid beliefs about how your body should look and begin to see how the very things that are different about your body are the very things that make you unique and beautiful.  Write down the negative messages that you say to yourself about your body.  Imagine writing them down to release them from your consciousness. Get them all out—the most negative hurtful ones you can think of. Look at these messages—notice how you would never dream of saying these things to anyone else in your life. Look at all of these messages and apologize to your body saying “I’m so sorry that I said these hurtful things to you—I promise that I will not say these things to you again and I will start loving you instead.”  Look at these messages again and with an intention to fully release them—tear up the sheet of paper and throw it away.  Some people like to build a fire outside and burn the paper as a way of releasing this negativity.

3. Exercise for the Joy of Feeling Your Body Move-When you exercise to eliminate fat from your body and/or to compensate for calories eaten—this can come from a place of fear and have an energy of trying to control and fight against your body.  Imagine exercising for the joy of moving your body and from an intention to be loving to your body—a desire for it to be healthy and have more energy.  The clients I work with around this issue tend to be able to maintain an exercise program if they do it from a place of joy and self-love rather than control and fear about their weight.

Notice if there are things in your life that you don’t do for fear of people seeing your body—like swimming, dancing or any other activity.  Remind yourself that you deserve to do the things you enjoy no matter what your shape.  Let go of what others think of you and stay focused on the fact that you have every right to do the things you enjoy.

4. Remind Yourself What the Purpose of Having a Body Is-Your body is yours to fully experience life, to take it in and enjoy it.  Your body is a vehicle for you to experience life with all of your senses.  Your body allows you: to feel a warm breeze on your skin, feel the cool water in a lake when you swim, see all of the vivid colors of a sunset, hear all of the beauty of music, to hear the sounds of birds and trees moving in the wind, feel the softness of someone’s hand, feel the joy of dancing, taste and enjoy delicious food, express yourself through a smile, tears or laughter. Your body is for you, not for others to critique or judge.  You are not here as a display for others, but as a fully embodied human being with deeper, richer qualities than just your appearance.

5.  When You Look in The Mirror—Look at Yourself Through Loving Eyes-For many women looking in the mirror turns into an exercise of self-judgment. They zero in on all of their perceived flaws and what they feel is “wrong” with their body or face.  Again the criteria they are judging themselves against is this unrealistic ideal that is promoted in the media.  I have many clients who when they first started working with me said that they couldn’t look in the mirror because all they saw were these perceived flaws. I suggest that they shift this by instead looking at themselves in the mirror through loving eyes.  An example would be if you look in the mirror and see a wrinkle that you would ordinarily judge—look at this wrinkle with love and compassion—and even see the beauty of this wrinkle.  Set a clear intention to see yourself through the lens of love—interrupt the self judgment and move into being very loving with yourself. This will be something that you need to practice before it becomes a habit—but it will be well worth the effort because you will begin to feel really wonderful about yourself.

6. Have Your Self-Esteem be Internally Referenced-Have your self-esteem be based on your internal qualities rather than your external appearance.  What are the qualities that make you—you?  Is it your compassion, your unique creativity, your intelligence, your capacity to have fun, your wisdom, your perceptiveness, your capacity to listen to people or your loving heart?  Think of the people that you love in your life.  You love them for who they are—the unique Spirit that they are—not for what they look like.  That is how they feel about you—they love you for who you are and all of the special qualities that make up you.  Learn to value yourself for the substance of you—not for the physical form that you travel around in.

7. Explore the deeper reason for the preoccupation with your appearance/weight-Sometimes when someone is preoccupied with their appearance it may be an avoidance mechanism for deeper, more painful feelings.  Check in with yourself and see if this might be the case.  If in your childhood things were painful for you and out of control, you may have learned to focus on your weight as a way to avoid the loneliness and helplessness of what was happening around you.  Or maybe there is a painful issue in your life today that you don’t have the courage to face—like a challenging relationship or lack of purpose in your life.  A preoccupation with your appearance distracts you from facing these issues.  If this is the case for you, it is important for you to get support for yourself to open up to face these feelings directly.  You can get this support through taking the risk to reveal your feelings to a trusted friend or working with a counselor who can help you work through these feelings.

8.  Eliminate Comparing Yourself to Others-The energy of comparison and competition is hurtful to yourself and the other person. Doing this is just another form of putting yourself down and will not help you to feel good but will make you feel even worse. Vow to not participate in this kind of energy.  Instead if you see someone who is attractive—instead of comparing yourself to this person or judging them—state instead—“She is attractive and so am I.”  Celebrate that other person and yourself too.  You will find this feels so much better than comparing yourself to them or being critical.

9. Take One of the Areas of Your Body You Typically Judge and Take a Week to Fully Love This Part of You-Spend 15 minutes a day looking at this part of your body and find things to love about it, better yet, do it throughout the day.  The more challenging it is to do this, the more you need to do it!  I read in a book about a woman who did this exercise and after a week of doing it a stranger came up to her and told her how beautiful this part of her body was!  When we transform our own way of seeing ourselves—it transforms the way others see us as well.  You want your first intention of doing this exercise to be the shift in your own self-love, not to have the effect on how others view you.  How you view you is always going to be what is most important.

10. Decide That You Are Beautiful and Practice Being Beautiful-You get to decide if you are beautiful or not. If like I stated above you have taken your power back to define your own self than why don’t you claim your own beauty!  Take a day and repeat to yourself “I am Beautiful”.  Do things that make you feel beautiful—wear something special—that you love and feel great in.  Walk like you are beautiful.  Look in the mirror and say “I am beautiful.” This may feel awkward at first but continue to do this until you really start to believe it. Celebrate who you are and your beautiful, unique body.  We need women who are seeing and celebrating their own beauty—it helps other women who are stuck in negativity about their body see that there is another more joyful path to take—the path of true self-love!



By: Shelley Riutta

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Choosing free dating web sites for the many interesting profiles you will find there and the new friends and acquaintances that you will develop is a positive experience, but there are also benefits from the links at the site.

Products

Free dating web sites makes some of the revenue it needs to run efficiently by selling advertisement space to companies and individuals who have products and services that relate to romance, dating or similar areas. For example, you may find an advertisement for a cruise dedicated to singles to romantic areas of the world. You can sometimes find links to products such as jewelry, adult toys, lingerie or even candy and resorts dedicated to romantic getaways. The business involved hope that you will see their advertisement on the dating site and choose to patronize their products.

Specialized sites

Another common link from a free dating web site is to other free or paid dating sites. The individual sites pride themselves on some aspect of their theme or characteristics in order to attract you from the original free site to another site. For example, you may prefer a gay site, or one that specializes in members from other cultures or regions of the world. These ads at the original site may help you to decide on a more specialized group of members that would be closer to your own interests. Because the original site is free, you can follow any of the links to the specialized sites with no additional funds required.

Services

Free dating web sites may have links presented that will provide different types of services to you as you follow the links. Some common examples are links to write romantic poetry for greeting cards, taking pictures to place on your profile. Sometimes links lead to sites where you can place personal ads in newspapers, either online or in print. Another service link is reviews of various websites related to dating and romance such as chat rooms, matchmaker services and age specific online dating.

Romance

Free dating web sites are all about romance and most, if not all the sites have many links that promote romance in one way or another. You can read about romance, find romantic cards, stories, pictures and jewelry by following various links. You can schedule a romantic cruise for two or an adventure style cruise with other singles. These links and the dating web sites are intended to bring together information on all the people, places, things and ideas related to dating and romance. You can enjoy socializing without ever following a link, but you can also help the web site owners by purchasing items from the site sponsors and advertisers.

Articles

Another thing you will find on almost every free dating web site is information. This information is usually presented in the form of various articles on a multitude of subjects. You can learn how to pick a web site, what to look for in a profile and how best to write your own profile. You can learn tips on security and how best to implement it. How to spot a phony on the member profile and how to avoid getting scammed by another member or by the site itself are other articles that can be found by using the site search capabilities.



By: Alan Lim

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When your friends call you over for a game of cards, you bring along your box of dominoes hoping they’ll take you up on a dominoes game instead of Poker once in a while. When you visit your mother and she asks if you’ll play chess with her, you tell her you will—so long as she plays a few rounds of dominoes when you’re finished.

Despite the immense popularity of dominoes in areas of the world such as Asia and the Latin Americas, since the dominoes game is relatively rare as a pastime in the United States, the dominoes fan can have a difficult time finding someone with whom to play a round or two of dominoes. Since the dominoes rules can seem complicated to a person who’s never played the game before, many potential dominoes game players don’t give the game a fair chance.

If you can find someone who will listen to the basic dominoes rules of Double Six play and convince them than it’s extremely easy and fun to play—because it is—you might be able to convert a new dominoes game player. But if you want to play a game of dominoes with fellow dominoes fans whenever you want, try taking your love for dominoes games online!

If you truly crave the face-to-face dominoes game, search for an online dominoes fan club or group. Yahoo! Groups, MySpace, Friendster, and Facebook are just a few of the social networking Web sites where you might find a group of fellow dominoes enthusiasts online. Because these groups and the “interests” sections on profiles are searchable, you can easily find those with an interest in dominoes.

You can even search social networking profiles by location to find one or two dominoes game player(s) near you whom you can meet to play the game offline. As always with the Internet, use caution when meeting a person offline for the first time. Try meeting at a public place, like a park or a coffee shop, for your first few dominoes games and don’t give those people your address until you’ve played a few dominoes games with them.

Ask your fellow online dominoes enthusiasts what else they do to play dominoes games. Are there dominoes tournaments within a few miles from your home? Can you find enough dominoes game players online to start a local dominoes club? There’s safety in numbers. If you can organize a local dominoes game tournament or club at a public setting with a group of people, you shouldn’t have to worry about dealing with a dishonest person on your own.

Although it might make a nice change of pace and ensure that your dominoes set doesn’t go to waste, you don’t have to actually meet fellow dominoes enthusiasts offline. In fact, you can enjoy a dominoes game right now or anytime by playing a free dominoes game online!

Online dominoes isn’t as popular in America as other online puzzle games like card games and Tetris, so you probably think it’s hard to find an engaging online dominoes interface. Who wants to play online dominoes in a small flat box on the screen? That’s about as fun as playing video game ping pong.

One of the few online dominoes game Web sites that makes playing dominoes games online a fun, interactive experience to rival the most popular online puzzle games is dominomatch.com. Sign up to play free online dominoes games, select an avatar, and enter the dominoes game room.

DominoMatch.com’s dominoes game room lets you play dominoes with one to three computerized or Internet user players. Each of you selects a seat at the virtual table, your avatars take a seat, and game play begins!

Play as much or as little as you like with dominoes game enthusiasts from around the world anytime, anywhere with Internet access. Become a frequent player and build your score and try for the top of the high scorer list or just have fun with your online dominoes game time and play when it’s most convenient to you. It’s always free to play!

Playing a free online dominoes game is more convenient than trying to convince your friends to play with you and safer than taking your chances with meeting new people who love the dominoes game offline. Your dominoes set may get a little dusty, but you’ll never feel that burning, unfulfilled craving to play the dominoes game when you can play free online dominoes games anytime! Perhaps you’ll get so used to playing dominoes games online you can start using your dominoes set to set up domino rallies around your house!

For more resources about dominos games online or even about dominoes rules please review this website http://www.dominomatch.com



By: Groshan Fabiola

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To win back lost love that is from a long ago means you will likely have an uphill battle ahead.  You now realize that you probably missed out on an occasion at the time, because for some reason you did no then take the right decision.  You believe you made a mistake and now want to try and correct it.  Be careful, because the love you had then, may no longer be there.  You must go carefully when you are looking hoping to win back lost love from long ago.

So you made an error in not profiting from what you had at the time.   Are sure you are not trying to repeat the same error again by not exploiting your present relationship to the full.  It is always so easy to think that things must be better elsewhere and when you go elsewhere you find yourself confronted by illusion If you do not like looking back and imagining what you are missing today, you should perhaps be better off avoiding making the same mistake twice and losing out again.  You may be better off staying in your present relationship and working on it to make it work better.

What will you do if you find that the lost love from a long ago has moved on?  Because you are unhappy with your present situation, it does not mean that they are.   They may be in a happy relationship, and you just appearing on the scene may provoke more harm than good.  Leave them alone if they are happy and don’t try to upset their relationship.  Where they have moved on, perhaps you should do so as well.

Don’t forget that everybody changes over time.  Events in each of your lives may well have made you both completely different people.  It is not possible to relive the past so don’t try to.  Only try to win back lost love from long ago when you are certain that the future will be an improvement on the present for the two of you.

Begin slowly as your sudden unexpected arrival followed by a persistent presence might give an indication of desperation, which of course, you want to avoid.  So take your time and let matters develop slowly, so that each of you can get to know the other again.

Get yourself thinking ahead and not in the past.  The past is behind you and so living in the past is no longer an options you put it behind you a long time ago when you previously split!    If you have the good fortune to win back lost love from long ago, fix your eyes on the present and the future.

I advise you to read a book by T’Dub’ Jackson called “The Magic of Making Up.”Mr Jackson has devised a common sense, easy to read plan to help people in your situation, find their right way forward.

Joe Bisley

For further information click here       http://magic-of-making-up-joebisley.blogspot.com



By: Joe Bisley

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If you are a comics enthusiast, then you probably have heard about Betty Boop. Betty Boop is a popular cartoon character created by Grim Natwick. Her overt appeal lies in her sexy character that has seen her featured in a comic strip in the 1930s and another one in the 1980s. She has also featured in the Betty Boop and Talkatoon film series which are produced by Fleischer Studios.

Although Betty Boop was supposed to have been an Anthropomorphic French poodle, the sexy girl mode proved to be more appealing. Betty Boop first appeared on August 9, 1930 as a sexy cartoon character in the sixth Talkatoon installment called Dizzy Dishes. Betty’s character was based on the popular 1920s singer Helen Kane and another equally popular actress, Clara Bow. Bow’s strong Brooklyn accent became Betty Boop’s trademark accent. In 1932, Betty Boop appeared in Max Fleischer’s cartoon Any Rags in a complete human mode.

Margie voice was the first to perform Betty Boop’s voice. Other voice actresses to have rendered their voice to Betty Boop’s character include Ann Rothschild, Kate Wright, Bonnie Poe and Mae Questel. Mae voiced for the character from 1931 to 1938.

Perhaps the one cartoon that best describes Betty’s teenage years is the Talkatoon series, Minnie the Moocher. The character is portrayed as a modern raised teenager who is at logger heads with her tradition-bound parents. Her constant disagreements with her parents cause her to run away from home but she gets lost in a cave together with her boyfriend, Bimbo. The cave in which they get lost is haunted by several ghosts and skeletons. Betty and Bimbo are too frightened to stay in the cave so they return home. This Talkatoon was very successful and set the stage for the other Talkatoons that featured Betty Boop.

Betty Boop is one of the most prominent animated sex symbols. She was the first cartoon character to represent a real sexual woman. Everything about her, even her dressing and mannerisms, were designed to bring out as much sexuality as possible. In many of her cartoons, the male characters are always trying to get a peek of her while she is changing or doing anything else. In some instances, such as the Betty Boop’s Bamboo Isle and Popeye the Sailor cartoons, she is featured topless, wearing only a grass skirt and a lei.

Betty Boop’s character was created with a head that is evidently larger than an adult human’s. However, the head is the normal size for a baby. This could explain the innocence, girlishness and sense of maturity that Betty portrays in her cartoons. Betty has been paired with other popular cartoon characters such as Little Jimmy and The Little King, in a bid to keep up her popularity. Betty Boop theme song also became quite popular after initial series of the cartoon. Betty made her last cartoon appearances in 1939. Her last cartoon, ‘Rhythm on the Reservation” features her driving a convertible with the label, “Betty Boop’s Swing band”. She is seen driving through a reservation fro Native Americans, trying to teach them swing music.

In 1988, Betty made an appearance in the film “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”. Betty boop has continued to appear in a number of films. Her comic book character is one of the most popular, though it has gone through a lot of revisions over the years since the character was created.



By: Asya Micra

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Dr. Henry Gibbons describes a kiss as "the anatomical juxtaposition of two orbicularis oris muscles in a state of contraction." In “Cyrano de Bergerac III”, Edmund Rostand is more romantic when he defines a kiss as "a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear."

A kiss can mean different things to different people. In “A Dictionary of Omens and Superstitions”, Philippa Waring said our ancestors considered it a sacred act.

"Primitive man believed that the air he breathed possessed some magic power and thus kissing be­came looked upon as a sacred act - an act in which men and women mingled their souls."

In medicine, however, kissing isn’t as exciting as most of us be­lieve. In fact, the very act can be as dangerous as cigarette smoking - provided your partner isn’t healthy.

Thai’s because the mouth har­bors a lot of disease-causing bacte­ria and is dirtier than the sex organs. Those who are worried about performing oral sex will be sur­prised to know that there is a greater chance for the mouth to contaminate the genitals than vice versa.

"The throat of every person, in­cluding the anti-sex orators, is crammed with a dozen varieties of lethal bacteria. These include the bugs that cause diphtheria, gonor­rhea, strep throat and rheumatic fever. If they (moralists) want to start a crusade, it should probably begin in their own noses and mouths," according to psychiatrist Dr. David Reuben in “Any Woman Can.”

"The fact is that the female sexual organs smell better than ‘gourmet’ cheese, are cleaner than the mouth that is applied to them, and 50 years of cunnilingus (licking the vagina) is more healthful than five minutes of cigarette smoking — as well as definitely more enjoy­able. (Also cheaper, more accept­able to others in the room and doesn’t mar furniture or burn holes in clothing),” Reuben added in “How to Get More Out of Sex (Than You Ever Thought You Could).”

In Britain, it is considered un­lucky if a woman who kisses a man with a mustache gets some hair on her lips afterwards. The poor girl is doomed to die an old maid!

This old superstition, however, could well apply to today’s world. Kiss­ing a stranger is certainly not a good idea, especially if you’re not sure about that person’s health. So before passion comes to play, use your head first. Otherwise, you may end up sick.

"Any disease that can be handed on through an exchange of bacteria or viruses in the saliva certainly can be exchanged with a kiss. Mononucleosis spreads this way; so does a cold, the flu and a host of other undesirables, includ­ing venereal diseases which can be spread through kissing if there are active spores on the lips or if there is oral/genital contact,” concluded Carol Ann Rinzler in “The Dictionary of Medical Folklore.”

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By: Sharon Bell

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Born in Las Vegas, Nevada (Sin City!) on October 5, 1985, young and talented Sydnee Capri hit the porn scene and immediately started making waves in the industry as one of the hottest women around. In two thousand four at the tender age of 19, Sydnee Capri realized what her true calling was: starring in some of the hottest pornos ever made.

The Nubian Princess that is Sydnee Capri is five feet, eight inches tall, measures 34B-25-39 and weighs in at one hundred twenty nine pounds. Capri likes to refer to herself as Creamy Chocolate Lust, and when one takes a look at her thick, luscious ass it’s no wonder why. Her face is also a thing of beauty. A guy (or girl, for that matter) could get lost in her wide-eyed gaze for weeks.

Since she first got her start in the porn industry, Capri has spiced up more than 100 different adult movies in almost as many roles. Surely, no matter what a person is into, Sydnee has something in her video library to satisfy his or her desire.

One of the most striking things that porn enthusiasts notice when the camera falls on Capri is the way that she attacks any cock that’s within reach. Costars love the way that she wraps her pouty lips around their cocks, and it’s no wonder why. Some of the hottest scenes ever filmed have been focused on her giving high quality blow jobs to actors lucky enough to be in the same movie.

Capris dark, puffy nipples are the things that wet dreams are made of, and her pierced belly button gives her a slight hint of an edge that is incredibly sexy. Thankfully, she does not shy away from girl on girl scenes, either. At her website, fans can pay to join up as members and get treated to a huge selection of various movies, pictures and scenes that she’s shot over the course of her career.

Taking a look at what her personal website has to offer, it’s no wonder that her official MySpace page has more than 3,500 different friends. For one reason or another, her old MySpace page got deleted. The old one had an almost record setting thirty five thousand friends. Her celebrity crushes include T.I., and she’s currently touring all over the United States to get up close and personal with her thousands of fans.



By: Phoenix Delray

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I’m sure you read a lot of times this sentence : you need first to love yourself. But what does that mean? Is it about getting you a hot chocolate when you are cold? Is it about getting you a new dress when you feel like it? Is it doing whatever you want when you want it? Is it about putting warm clothes on when it’s freezing outside?

Loving yourself means to learn to treat you like a loving parent would do with his child.

When you are an adult, and I assume you are, you still have an Inner Child inside you. These are your emotions. At that level you still react like a child of 3-4 years old. Your emotions can not get older or mature. But you can get mature. You can learn how to respect them and how to handle them. You can learn how to take care of this Inner Child.

When you are not aware of your Inner Child, you try to live in an adult world like a 4-year old boy or girl. You feel all alone, afraid of the big nasty world there outside, not knowing what to do, where to ask for help, how to protect you. This is a very difficult way of doing. You will always feel afraid, fearful, doubtful, tired. It is hard to try to survive as a child in a grown up world. You will feel angry and afraid most of the time, and lost.

Why is that? Because nobody takes care of that Little Child inside you. Let’s say your name is Charlotte. You are 42 years old. Inside you lives the little Charlotte. She’s four. When you are busy in the outside world taking care of other people, of business, of getting around, of doing a thousand things every day, the little Charlotte will feel overlooked. When you’re always running to help others, to make sure their needs are fulfilled, you will be exhausted every night and cry in your bed. Sometimes you will get temper tantrums. You will feel very angry without any reason (but still there is one, a big one!).

All these big emotions are attempts from your Inner Child to get your attention. Imagine you have, besides your children, husband, collegues, parents, friends, a little four-year old girl named Charlotte. Nobody ever notices her. Nobody takes care of her. Whenever she tries to tell something and get some attention, you shout to her “Shut up!”. You say “I have to take care of my parents, my work, my husband, my paperwork, my friends, my other children, my house… I don’t have time for you!”

How do you think she will feel? What do you think she will do? First she will try to get your attention by showing big emotions. She will cry a lot, she will scream and shout, maybe she’s getting aggressive from time to time. You think you’re angry at the outside world, but it is Your Inner Child that is angry with YOU! She’s sad and angry because you don’t care about her! You act as if she doesn’t exist! Nothing is worse than acting as if our Inner Child doesn’t exist. This means trying to live as if WE don’t exist.

The worst feeling in the world is being unloyal to one’s self. Nothing is worse than this!

How many times did we ignore what we felt, to please someone else. How many times did we say to our Inner Child “Shut up, you are not important, the other one is far more important than you are, go away, I don’t want to hear you, I don’t want to see you”? Awful isn’t it? And we do this every time we let come the desire of the other one before ours.

This little Charlotte inside, what will she do? She will give up after a while. After trying a long time to show her emotions, she will give up. She will get very tired of all this and she will say :”It doesn’t matter, she doesn’t love me, she doesn’t want to take care of me, I’m not worth it”, and she will get depressed.

Of course you will think you get depressed because of others, because of your work, because of your children, because of your husband or parents. It is nobody’s fault. But you have to learn how to take care of this Inner Child which is suffering from your lack of attention to her.

When, after getting depressed things still don’t change, there’s one weapon left to catch your attention : little Charlotte will get sick. Or she will get an accident. Maybe that way the adult Charlotte will learn to give finally attention to her Inner Child, which is as real (if not more) as a real child of flesh and blood.

You need to learn how to be a loving parent for yourself.

What does that mean?

First you need to develop an Inner Mother. If you were lucky and had a loving caring mother, you can take her as an exemple. Otherwise you need to invent, to create this Inner Mother, which is your feminine caring energy. Everytime you have an emotion, your Inner Mother should ask your Inner Child : “What happens, my darling?” Listen to what your Inner Child has to say. Than you go on with the dialogue. Inner Mother says : “Come here. Come in my arms, I love you as you are. I love you with what you feel.” Doing that, the heaviness of the emotions will drop pretty much. Than you say these words : “I understand”. These words are very important, because most of the time we don’t feel very “normal” having the feelings we have and we try to ignore or suppress them, which makes them heavier. “I understand, my darling, come here in your Mothers arms, I love you.” Stay with these words and feelings for a while, and than ask :” What do you need?” Whatever the Child answers, you say : “We will ask this of your Father”.

And here starts the task of your Inner Father, who is there to protect you and to act for you in the outside world. You would never send a four-year old asking for a raise at work or getting to resolve a conflict at school or with the neighbours, would you? So why do you try it? Send out your Inner Father to take care of whatever you have to do in the outside world. Your Inner Father is your male energy, which enables you to make decisions, to take action, to follow your inner guidance (which is located in you Inner Child, also called Intuition) and to manifest your Child’s desires in the world.

When your Child has a need, for instance to call someone or to go somewhere to arrange something, imagine that your Inner Child stays at home with his Mother who takes care of his feelings (”I understand you’re afraid…”) and that your Inner Father (another part of your being) goes out there to act. Your Inner Father is that part of you which is able to handle stress, to take action, to arrange conflicts and all other stuff that has to do with the outside world. If that part is missing because you didn’t have a good model when you were little yourself, you will have to create and develop it.

Of course your Inner Child, Mother and Father are all parts of you. It is all you. It is just a model to understand what is happening inside you and how you can learn to love yourself.

Loving yourself is listening to your Inner Child, taking his emotions seriously, understanding what he feels and taking action in the desired direction. Loving yourself is having this dialogue with yourself every morning when you open your eyes, every evening when you go to bed, and every time you have an emotion.

Loving yourself is building a strong inner connection with yourself. It is creating your own loving family, inside you. You will never feel alone anymore. You are already three! Call it your Trinity. Wherever you go, from now on you go with your Inner Family. Your are not alone. You are loved and you are protected. You listen to yourself and take care of that precious little Child that has been waiting for so long to get your attention and love.

This is inner healing.



By: Ineke Van Lint

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