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OCTOBER Article

Jim Hague — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:45:00 GMT

OCTOBER Article

October is here and the US film releases have been a bit onthe weak side. There have been some really good ones like WHIP IT, DrewBarrymore and Ellen Page roller derby movie…but please taking up valuablescreen space movies like CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS, COUPLE’S RETREAT,ZOMBIELAND. If you are a thinking person, here are a few films that are aroundfor your enjoyment and thought:

COCOBEFORE CHANEL, Audrey Tatou in the title role, withBenoit Poelvoorde and Emmanuelle Devos, directed by Anne Fontaine. In selectcities opening wider during the month.

THETUNNEL starring Heino Ferch, Sebastien Koch, Alexandra Maria Lara,based on a true story of the desperate attempts to escape East Berlin in the‘60’s. Still running strong on EUROCINEMA VIDEO ON DEMAND look for it on yourcable system’s video on demand guide.

INTIMATEENEMIES, had its US debut at the Charlotte Film Festival in lateSeptember, Benoit Magimel and AlbertDupontel star, directed by Florent Emilio Siri. A drama following a French platoonduring Algeria's war of independence.

THEMAID (LA NANA), starring Catalina Saaverdra, directedby Sebastien Silva. A drama centered on a maid trying to hold on to herposition after having served a family for 23 years.

THEWEDDING SONG, Tunisia (French), starring LizzieBrochere and Olympe Borval, directed by Karin Albou. The Nazi occupation ofTunisia strains the bonds of friendship between a Muslim woman and her Jewishfriend who are both preparing for their marriages.

BRIGHTSTAR a Jane Campion movie starring Abbie Cornish about theBritish poet John Keats and the woman who loved him.

Also, in October on EUROCINEMA ON DEMAND, you will see BERLIN CALLING, starring PaulKalbrenner, Corrine Harfouch, Rita Lengyel. DJ Ickarus (Kalkbrenner) tours clubsaround the globe with his manager/girlfriend (Lengyel). On the eve of theirlargest album release he is admitted to a psychiatric clinic after overdosingat a gig. GREAT MUSIC, beautiful people, don’t miss it.

www.eurocinema.tv

Go for a Twin Flame, not a soul mate

Jim Hague — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:14:00 GMT

By Jim Hague

Itis long believed in western culture that concept behind Soul Mates pertain tolovers only. But the dictionary defines soul mates as two persons compatible with each other indisposition, point of view, or sensitivity. This does notnecessarily imply lovers.

Usspiritual people define soul mates are twosouls, created to support each other as they journey different worldsthroughout the many incarnations (or lifetimes). Soul mates accountfor one another, making sure that one grows in the dimensions of health,psychological, material, and most important, spiritual.

Butare soul mates limited to just two people? The answer is no. Soul mates caninvolve numerous groups of people. Soul mates are people, usually friends,teachers, mentors, or other people who support each other to achieve life'sgoal or helped in case of a crisis. Anyone group of individuals, two or more,connected with a purpose of growth and gratitude, can be regarded as soulmates.

Thetwin flame, however, is thesignificant other half…the one! Two twin flames are likened to a physicalduality that is needed for completion. After all, you cannot have north withoutsouth, left without right, or ying without yang. Your twin flame is your otherhalf that makes you complete. There is unconditional love between the two.

Whilethe personalities maybe different, a matrix of energy meshes. You just know itand feel it. The relationship grows very fast and deep, to the point where youwill almost always know what the other person is thinking and feeling. Call ittelepathy, but indirect psychic communication occurs almost daily betweenflames.

Howwill you know if someone you run into is 'the one?'

Thereis no answer to this. You will just know. Read the following:

You will feel a Love like no other you have ever experienced.
There is a familiarity and a knowingness that is absolutely undeniable.
You feel complete. Your heart is certain that this is your other half.
When you are together, you experience that "in Love" feeling all the time, and waves of ecstasy and bliss pour through you.
Your heart pours Love to your Twin, and giving to your Twin becomes the most important thing in your life.

There can be many soul mates. There can only be one divine counterpartin the physical or soul, that is the twin flame.

Soul mates know each other form another life.
Twin flames know each other from the beginning of time.
Soul mates are there for your personal growth.
Twin flames are to complete you.
With soul mates, you feel that you have met the person before.
With twin flames, you feel you know each other inside out and the discovery can go on forever.
With soul mates, you have lessons together.
With twin flames, you feel complete yet have some lessons together.
With souls mates, you will sometimes feel you have met other soul mates.
With twin flames, you have never felt this deep before from a soul mate.
With soul mates, some lessons are challenging and you may need to resolve something.
With twin flames, you both go beyond the challenges together ... the connection is unfathomable.

Howdoes one find his/her twin flame?

Toattract a twin flame is best done through prayer, meditation, and openness.Open all channels. Do not discriminate! Don't limit yourself to being with justblondes, athletic, a particular race or religion. Being equally yoked is aconcept you and your twin flame grow into, not born into.

Whenyou meditate, feel your twin flame by your side. Be as if your twin flame iswith you all the time, which he/she is! Your twin flame may not be in physicalform, but rather, exist as an energy field. Once that energy field connectswith you, your energies mesh. It is then you ask for your twin flame to enterinto your life. Before long, the twin flame will appear in physical human form.

SriYogananda of the Self Realization Fellowship offered a prayer. "God, blessso that I may find my life partner according to your laws of perfect soulunion." Keep saying that prayer with complete faith and watch whathappens.

Mayyour flame find you. May you find your flame. May both of you become one.

Jim Hague

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Don't blame Obama for Peace Prize

Jim Hague — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:32:00 GMT

Date: 10/7/09

We are all scratching our heads to why President Obama was awarded The Nobel Peace Prize. Even the President himself was surprised. What is the justification ofthe Nobel committee for awarding a President barely nine months into office and presiding over two wars?

He's not George W. Bush.

GW Bush was a President of war. His mission was twofold (1) Rescue the world from weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (2). Avenge the events of 9/11 by going after the Osama Bin Laden. As we can see, no weapons of mass destruction were found and neither was Osama Bin Laden. The world has become very skeptical of our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan and remains a dangerous place.

To the world, Obama is a refreshing replacement of the Bush administration that would not hesitate to attack a 3rd or 4th nation if necessary. His intentions are to end both wars, somehow someway. Weather that is accomplished or not is a different story. For now, President Obama offers hope. To the Nobel Committee, that's good enough.

Howeverthe Noble peace prize reputation may be at risk especially since the US may haveto keep its military on high alert against several uncooperative nations such as:

Iran' - Who continue to not cooperate with international appeal to halt it's nuclear program most believe is to develop a bomb.
Afghanistan - Those Taliban people just won't go away.
North Korea - The cooperate, then un-cooperate, the cooperate once against, only to show their un-cooperation..again.
Any nation against Israel - That pretty much includes the entire mid-east.
The moon – Oh yes, he bombed the moon this week. God forbid if the moon is the death star in hiding.

To give this award to Obama in light ofa world with fuse ready to be lit may be pre-mature.
Only time will tell if this selection will prove genius or embarrassment.

NO OLYMPICS FOR BRAZIL

Jim Hague — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:41:00 GMT

NO OLYMPICS FOR BRAZIL
That's right, I cannot support Brazil to be awarded the 2016 Olympic games. Why? Two words. Street Kids. Brazil is notorious for it's treatment of the homeless children living the streets like a bunch of packed animals.

In a nation where abortion is illegal, Brazil has failed miserably to accommodate on the consequences. I'm okay with abortion being illegal, but when kids are forced into prostitution to support themselves and when little girls as young as 13 are having babies, eventually abandoning them, there is a problem.

While they a proud of their strong Catholic faith, this nation is mostly known for it's two major sins: (1) Rio De Janeiro is known for it's nude beaches and temptations promoted by its profiting adult entertainment industry (2). The poor street children, one of the worlds’ greatest crimes that does not seem to gain attention from their local media. These kids are bullied, harassed, and often killed at by private citizens and police.

Let’s not forget the story of David Goldman, whose still fights to bring his son, Sean home after being abducted by his mother to Brazil. The mother while still married to David, married a prominent Brazilian lawyer who refuses to hand over Sean to his biological father. Click on David’s website for more info.

While no nation on earth is completely innocent of crimes against humanity, Brazil’s ignorance on it’s crimes against children makes them well unqualified to host the Olympic Games.

Submit to the search engines on your own and then monitor it

Jim Hague — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:22:00 GMT

By Jim Hague, CEO, CrystalDI Web Design (www.crystaldiwebdesign.com)

My client Yanai is a hair stylist in Beverly Hills specializing in curly hairstyles. Yanai is talented, hard working, and has curly hair! We managed to rank his website (yanaivan.com) to the top of the Google search results. Yet many days he waits for customers in his salon. Frustrated for the lack of business, he calls me asking, ‘what do I do? My site is number one on Google. Why is no one calling me?”

I tell him, “Just because your site is number one on Google doesn’t mean it generates traffic!”
It only means you are #1 on Google. Being on top of the searches is one thing, people entering your website is a different matter.

We researched the volume of traffic entering Yanai’s website and found that only 50 visitors a month enter his website. Weak!

Businesses should take responsibility for their web site’s performance on search engines. Three important things to do: (1) submit your site; (2) Monitor your site’s traffic; (3) and generate traffic from different sources.

SUBMIT YOUR WEBSITE:

1. Start an account on Google.com.
They have great tools to help you monitor your site performance.

2. Select the most popular keywords to embed into your website.
Note, I mentioned popular keywords! Log onto https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal’ and select words that pertain to your website and searched by high volume of people. Then have your Webmaster add those terms into the ‘title tag’ and ‘content’ on your website’s homepage.

3. Submit your site to Google, Yahoo, and DMOZ
These are the big three. We all know about Google and Yahoo, but what is DMOZ?
DMOZ is the ‘Open Directory Project’. Why so important? Because Google gets much of it’s information from this site.

a. Google: ‘http://www.google.com/addurl/’

b. Yahoo: ‘http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit’

c. DMOZ: ‘http://www.dmoz.com’

4. Add to Google’s Local Search Engine
So we now operate in a global economy. However, Yanai is a hairstylist in Beverly Hills. What good does it do if his site appears in a Tokyo search results? Unless he’s committed to traveling across the ocean to give a haircut for some serious cash and authentic sushi, it’s unlikely to help him.

Within your Google account, click on “Local Business Center” icon and follow the instructions. Google will list your company name within their directory, so if someone type’s in Beverly Hills curly hair stylist, Google will supply Yanai with a map to his business location, contact number, and he can upload videos and reviews.

5. Add an XML site map to your website
Why? Because Google likes to know about the different pages on your website and whatever Google likes, you must comply. A site map is a file that identifies the files within your website faster and more efficiently. To generate a site map go to ‘http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/’. Follow the instructions and download your site map.
The file should have an extention, ‘.xml’ like sitemap.xml.

Upload the site map to your website directory. Then log into your Google account, click on ‘webmaster tools’ and follow the instructions to submit your sitemap.

MONITOR THE WEBSITE TRAFFIC, YOURSELF!
That’s right monitor the traffic yourself. Do not rely on Webmasters.

1. Google Analytics:
Analytics is the only online tool you need to analyze your website traffic. Log in to your Google account and click on Google Analytics link. Follow the instructions there to generate the code for you or your Webmaster to install into as many web pages you want to monitor.

2. Use Webmaster Tools
Not just for webmasters, these tools will monitor the efficiency of your website. Most people are not aware that Google looks for sites that are clean and free of errors such as missing pages and bad links.

Pages that irk Google are:

§ Links on websites that links to non-existent pages

§ Time Out – If page appears there, seconds later not there!

§ Unreachable – Page exist, but server problems

§ Sites maps with unusable or non-existent web addresses

GENERATE TRAFFIC FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES

Don’t just rely on Google or Yahoo for web traffic. You need to do whatever it takes to generate traffic to generate business. Here is a list of possible ways to increase traffic to your website.

Link Exchange: Ask friends, colleagues, and especially owners of high volume websites that generate high volume traffic. You can add a like to their website, but make sure they add your link to theirs. Both parties will benefit from each other’s traffic
Social Networking Sites: Go on Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace to network, network, network! These are great places to communicate news and information regarding your company.
Mass Email: Build an email list of names and emails. Then, when possible, send out emails and be sure to include a link back to your website.
Pay for an ad on a large email list. While most companies will not share list, ask that company if, for a fee, you can add a banner or some verbiage that links back to your site.
Radio / TV / Newspaper: Publicize your website. If you have the money, use these.

I hope this article helps. If I can be of service or if you need any more information feel free to email me at jimh@crystaldi.com.

A simple method to successfully address the health care conundrum

Jim Hague — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 06:41:00 GMT

Tom Casey

Guest Editorial

We all know that the United States remains the only industrialized country in the world that doesn’t guarantee health care to all its citizens and that 46 million Americans remain uninsured and millions more underinsured, yet health care spending represents almost 20% of our GDP. Even those who’ve managed to maintain their insurance have seen their rates go up and their deductibles rise. 60 percent of all bankruptcies in 2007 were due to medical debts.

I have no ideological preference for government programs, commercial plans or even hybrid forms of coverage. What is crystal clear, however, is that no citizen -- rich or poor, young or old -- should be denied access to affordable health care - period. And no business should be forced to subcontract off-shore or be pushed to the brink of insolvency simply because it has employees.

Everyone knows our health care system is broken and there’s no mystery why. Health care costs are rising at twice the rate of inflation. There are many reasons for these dramatic cost escalations, including a reimbursement system that rewards inefficiencies and a legal system that punishes our providers. Yes, it is complicated and yes, it is in the hands of our Congress and President to correct it, which is exactly where we can start a simple method to successfully address this health care conundrum:

Although no one remembers a ballot measure where we were asked to vote for a special healthcare program for our elected officials, Representatives and Senators alike receive some of the best health care benefits in the country. Taxpayer dollars pay up to 75 percent of the premiums for their comprehensive coverage and unlike many Americans who must struggle against precondition clauses or are even denied coverage because of those preconditions; Senators and Representatives are covered no matter what - effective immediately.

Why not make their plan the starting point for developing a strategy to provide affordable coverage for all Americans? But of course, we all know that their insurance is far too expensive for our nation as a whole, so let’s back it down until all of us, including Congress, gets covered by a universal plan that our country can afford. The formation of a single insurance risk pool to leverage down insurance prices for all citizens and the implementation of unitary pricing, where everyone gets the same discount and pays the same price for the same product or service will work wonders to dramatically lower the cost to administer health care. Make coverage available through multiple sources and set deductibles at something manageable, like three percent of a household’s taxable federal income and we will find ourselves well on our way to successfully resolving this shameful situation.

This approach forms the foundation of universal coverage and it in no way restricts anyone from electing to pay more for premium care. But realize this - only when Congress and our President share the same health coverage with the rest of America will they have the commitment and urgency to implement a workable plan. And only by giving them a vested stake in our health care will they remain incentivized to continue to make improvements by taking on those wrenching systemic changes that need to be made, including weaning themselves from the political patrons that so strongly influence today’s debate - be they trial lawyers, pharmaceutical manufacturers or anyone else whose profits stand in the way of our national interests.