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The glorious egg, with its deep links to Creation mythology, is one of the oldest symbols of life and rebirth known to us. Many gods, demons and heroes have sprung from eggs. It’s a symbol of new life in cultures as far apart as Polynesian, Chinese, Phoenician, Egyptian and Greek and represents resurrection in Christian belief.

Hindu mythology brings us a vivid picture of how the world-egg became the world we now live in. There was one, a warm, glowing, single egg. It rocked gently, a crack appeared, and the world was born. Half the shell became the earth and the other half became the sky. Mountains were created from the inner membrane and clouds from the outer. The veins formed rivers, the fluid became the ocean and the yolk formed the sun. It makes a kind of sense when you consider the egg.

Portrayals of winged eggs commonly float above Egyptian mummies, carrying the soul to another birth. A great bird, Tien, dropped an egg in China and a man emerged from it. Another egg of note is that of the phoenix, the bird which dies in flames every 14,000 years after setting its own nest alight. From the resulting ashes, a new egg emerges from which hatches a new phoenix, which dies in flames … and so it goes.

Helen of Troy was hatched from an egg. This is due to the lamentable lusty habits of Zeus. On one of his amorous forays he assumed the shape of a swan and dallied with Leda. On the same night Tyndareus, king of Sparta, also made love to her. She produced two children, Castor and Clytemnestra, and two eggs from which hatched. Polydeuces (Pollux) and Helen.

We are informed that the birthdays of notable Romans were marked by hens curiously laying red eggs. Perhaps they did.

There’s one folkloric egg that we would all like to have, and it crops up all over the place. The owner of a goose finds that the goose can lay eggs of pure gold and so dissects the bird to extract the gold inside her. The goose turns out to be just the same as any goose inside and, being dead, will no more lay her golden eggs. This is, of course, a cautionary tale, but eggs were as valuable as gold in an early agricultural society. No longer does our diet depend on the season and we have forgotten how once we starved for food in winter, and how an egg was an ever increasing and expanding source of valuable protein. And we have forgotten the delights of the coming of Spring.

Consider the egg. Hold it in your hand, and study the delicate shell, so fragile and yet so strong. Think on its weight, its shape, its perfection and totality – all the possibilities of a perfect creation are inherent in the egg. Its very form evokes wonder. The elliptical shape follows the movement of heavenly bodies and of the earth itself. It describes the sphere of light that surrounds all living things. It declares our common experience in starting our existence in the egg-shape of the womb, both a container and a totality. You can clearly see the idea of the World Egg. In the beginning, mirrored now in the Moon.

At Easter we exchange gifts of eggs. These Easter eggs, the dawn that arrives with resurrection of life, and the celebration of Spring all serve to remind us of the cycle of the earth. Whatever your religion, consider the egg as the symbol for rebirth, renewal and hope in the world.

Susanna Duffy is a Civil Celebrant and mythologist. She creates ceremonies and Rites of Passage for individual and civic functions using ancient myths in modern settings and produces an ezine of
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Most people agree that a good and free way of getting traffic to your site is by exchanging links (reciprocal linking) with fellow webmasters. This is also agreed to be a good way for moving up the search engine results page for your chosen keywords.

However webmasters are often confused as to which sites they should exchange links with. Many read that incoming links from websites that have the same keywords result in higher rankings with the search engines. This often results in webmasters setting up reciprocal links with websites that are in direct competition with their own.

Now take just 30 seconds to think of any successful business that hosts advertisements for their competitors. Does the Coca-Cola website link to Pepsi? Does Ford’s website link to Daimler-Chrysler’s? No of course they don’t, so why would your website link to one in competition (unless they paid you a big fat check for the privilege).

So who should you exchange links with? Try and get inside the mind of the people you want to visit your site, your ideal targeted visitor. What would they be interested in as well as your product?

For example, let’s assume that you own a website that sells gold watches. You could link to other watch selling sites but as detailed above it could actually harm your site by taking prospective customers away.

Before deciding which sort of sites to trade links with you need to think of the sort of people that are going to be interested in purchasing gold watches. What sort of people will they be? Try and put yourself in the shoes of your customers.

Gold watches are a luxury item and aren’t cheap. The people you want to visit your site and the people who are most likely to make a purchase are going to have a good disposable income, and income they are willing to spend on expensive things. What other products would they also be interested in purchasing? The first thing that springs to (my) mind is designer clothing. People who are interested in buying a gold watch are making a statement. ‘Look how much money I’ve got’. Wearing designer clothes is another way of making that statement. So find websites that sell designer gear and exchange links. Remember it’s worth their while too because your customer base is very similar to theirs and you will both benefit.

You can then go on to exchange links that with sites that sell other luxury items like luxury cars, holidays etc. Once you have a better understanding of your target customer profile it’s not so difficult to find linking partners who will benefit you AND are of interest to your customers.

So when thinking of websites to exchange links with, I don’t think of those that are similar to mine. I think ‘who is my customer and what interests them as well as my product’.

Get it right and you’ll have a constant stream of quality, targeted traffic and less reliance on your search engine ranking. Get it wrong and you’ll be sending your customers to the competition.

All treasure hunters know that the wet sand at the edge of the beach is the best place to find valuable treasure. However, the ocean seems like it always doesn’t want to give up this treasure. Inevitably, as soon as we detect a good target, and began to dig the target, the water rises making it difficult, if not impossible, to recover the target. Even with the best scoops available, it is sometimes very difficult and frustrating to try to recover targets at the edge of the surf.

However, there is a simple tool that anyone can make that will make war recovery easier. simply taken old 5 gal. drywall bucket and cut out the bottom. also remove the handle as it is metal and may interfere. String section of rope through the handle holes so you have an easy way to carry the bucket. I prefer to carry the bucket on my belt.

Now when you are working in the wet sand, and you find a target, pinpoint it. Center the bucket over the target and using both hands, wiggle the bucket down into the wet sand. You have now stabilized the sides of the hole you are about to dig. Using your scoop, remove the sand from inside the bucket, and recover your target. The bucket holds the sides of the hole so it doesn’t collapse in.

I hope you find this technique useful and that you recover more treasure because of it. As I know it has increased the number of targets that I have been able to recover greatly.

About The Author

Dean Novosat is an avid treasure hunting and can often be found metal detecting the beaches of the mid-Atlantic United States. He uses Minelab equipment exclusively, but you will also find Garret and Fisher detectors in his arsenal. He is the webmaster of http://www.treasure-metal-detecting.com and http://www.metal-detector-info.com.

The Ravens have been down since their glory year in 2000. They have since gone 10-6, 7-9, 10-6, and 9-7. This year will be better with all the changes, and could put them back in the Super Bowl. Boller will take advantage of all the changes and Coach Fassell will open up the offense. Bold prediction, if Boller falls, Wright could step in and have big numbers and move this team towards the Super Bowl.




Jamal Lewis will be able to play football this year and not worry about the off the field problems that has plagued him. The addition of Mason and Clayton will help the passing game but I think Hymes will have a bigger role than many people think. He is big and should become the difference maker that this team needs. Oh, by the way, the Ravens have the best TE in the league in Todd Heap.




Some say the defense is getting old and to some degree they are right but this is still the top and most feared defense in the league. Look for Polley to have a monster year and Suggs to build off of his great rookie year. With Ray Lewis in the middle there is no reason to worry about this defense.




Baltimore should be 5-1 or 4-2 before the first showdown with the Steelers on Halloween. If Baltimore can beat the Steelers in Pittsburgh then they will have the inside track to win the division. Even if they lose this game they will be able to bounce back and have at least 3 more wins before they go to Denver on December 11th. They finish with Green Bay and Minnesota (Super Bowl Preview) at home before they end the season at Cleveland.

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The depressing part of loss of hair for guys is that there is no cure. Hair loss has been a topical issue for males around the world but there are stunning treatments that can often reduce further loss of hair. Hair Loss treatments are available from Advanced Hair Studio.

There is a lotion based treatment for hair loss called Minoxidil that might often be taken in tablet or lotion form and can often help gents regrow their hair and stop further baldness. The baldness lotion comes in a variety of strengths with 2 percent being the most used. The treatment is used under the guidance of a trained professional and should be made aware that the baldness treatment is not an incredible miracle cure. However, the wonderful success of this hair loss treatment is approx sixty six percent. The hair loss treatment medication course is a minimum of three months before superb results might well show and all chaps are recommended to stay on the hair loss treatment for at least nine months to a year.

For girls that do not get any success with the hair loss treatment they could try baldness surgery. Hair loss surgery is a permanent solution and involves transplanting the skin on the head to minimise bald areas. Hair surgery can be costly and involves a medical procedure so may not be for every chap.

Sometimes what with numerous professions, the quality of the business relationship decides the profitability of the BlueSkiesCareers.co.uk marketing recruitment business. When the firm was first started there was a belief in mind, and this was to improve the ordinary level of relationship that both candidates and clientele receive from recruitment agency.

There is a single clear distinction that splits the firm from their competitors, that is that around some point or another each and every member of its marketing recruitment consultants has spent time in an agency or client side. This is practical seeing as it guarantees they have got a distinct perception of what the candidates looking for jobs in marketing, or agencies with available marketing jobs.

They has four locations, in London, Yorkshire, the North West and the Midlands; recruiting candidates seeking for a job in marketing. They give recruiting solutions for the freelance and permanent positions.

The recruitment consultants cover numerous distinct sectors, nevertheless the most attractive are the roles in marketing positions. The marketing recruitment agency are truly effortless to talk to and there can often without doubt be someone in one of their locations who may aid you. Have a ganders around their website first, that can often give you the confidence and the drive to notice what Blue Skies Careers is really about for yourself. It’s fun and really easy to click around, there are areas around everything you yourself can want; find your ideal marketing jobs, press, happenings, ratings, marketing agencies the agency work for, and also even an area where you yourself should acquire quite a bit of interview pointers.

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What could be simpler or lovelier than a festive Christmas inspired by Mother Nature herself? Revive your pioneering spirit by tapping into the landscape’s vivid colors, rich textures and natural fragrances to beautify your holiday home this year!

Shockingly inexpensive, nature’s holiday decor is also fun to find and customize. Pack a picnic lunch and a thermos of hot cider, and head for the countryside!

Most of what you need is right there on any country road — ivies trailing along the roadside, thistle-heads in open fields, bright red spice-berries and rosehips in the understory of most woodlands. Take the kids along and give each of them a disposable camera to record your memory-making experiences

1. Ivy-and-grapevine wreath
Simply tuck tendrils of sweet green English Ivy in and around a wreath of foraged grapevine, twisted into a round, brown wreath shape. (Ivy works wonderfully well on a raffia or straw wreath as well!) For an elegant touch, entwine a length of gold or magenta gossamer ribbon around the wreath, tie a contrasting loop of ribbon at the top, and hang anywhere!

2. Cinnamon-apple garland
Core and slice foraged windfall apples to form apple rounds, sprinkle with cinnamon and dry them on a cookie tray in a slow, 170-degree oven until they’re leathery by not crisp. Use a pencil to drill a little hole at the top of each apple slice, then continue drying. Use twine or raffia to string the dried delectables into a garland to spice up any room!

3. Pine-cone glitterati
Foraged pine-cones of any kind, a little bowl of glitter and a bit of florists’ wire or even recycled ornament hooks are all you need. Put unopened cones on an aluminum tray in a 170-degree oven for a few minutes to open them up. Give each dry cone a quick spray with artists’ adhesive, or dab on regular white glue, then dip the sticky cone into the glitter. A group of these look gorgeous in an old wooden salad bowl, atop a wooden tabletop that strewn with a few evergreen boughs and a handful of bright red foraged rosehips. Or use the wire or hooks and hang them on the tree, where tree lights will have the glitterati shimmering!

4. Willow wands and cobalt
Contemporary elegant drama for almost nothing! Clip and arrange a “bouquet” of wispy green and yellow willow wands in a plain, clear vase. Toss in a handful of small, smooth inexpensive cobalt stones to cover the vase base, then hang a few cobalt blue glass ornaments from the willow branches.

5. Dried basket of bounty
Fill a tall-handled reed or twig basket with stunning lengths of golden yarrow and dried golden wheat, accented with dried poppy heads and milkweed pods. For fragrance, tuck in a spray of silver garden sage or field-dried Sweet Annie. Sprinkle generously with crimson spice berries and tie a sprig of holly to the handle.

6. Colonial apple basket
What could be simpler and more natural than an old basket filled with fragrant balsam and fir boughs, topped with shiny red, golden and green fresh apples? Tie a wide red ribbon to the handle and tuck in a strand of white cool-touch twinkle lights for a soft, traditional holiday glow on a sideboard or dining room table. Or alternate the apples with pears, oranges, lemons and pomegranates!

With Mother Nature as your one-stop shopping guide, you can hang the holly and trim the tree with the richest palette of colors, textures and fragrances imaginable … so why shop anywhere else?

Kate Sheridan is a Michigan freelance writer, photographer and homesteader whose writings on the fun and foibles of country living may be found at http://www.gardenandhearth.com/RuralLiving.htm.

Santa Claus is one old dude. We all know that. Just look at how white his beard and hair are, right? But did you know that the legend of Santa Claus, and St. Nick, go back nearly to the time of Christ, nearly 2,000 years ago? No? Well then, sit back, pour yourself a hot chocolate, grab yourself a plate of cookies, and get ready for the story of Santa Claus.

It is said that around the year 280 A.D., there was a man born by the name of Nicolas. He was born in the Near East in a town called Patara. To find it today, look on a map or a globe for the country of Turkey, near Greece. It was there that the man who would become Santa Claus was born.

Nicolas had a big heart, so big that he became a monk and devoted himself to his god and his religion. But Nicolas also was a big fan of his family and his neighbors, and he also devoted himself to them. Word spread in his homeland and far and wide about how kind and generous Nicolas was. Nicolas was born into wealth, and stories soon spread about how Nicolas gave away all of his family’s money to the poor, the sick, and anyone else he came across who needed it.

He became so famous that Nicolas was known as the protector of all children (and sailors too). Once, he even saved three young girls, sisters, from being sold into slavery by their father. Their father, you see, needed money, and was going to make a fortune by selling his daughters. Instead, Nicolas came to their rescue by offering the father money for the girls, and then setting them free.

No wonder that Nicolas became Saint Nicolas after his death. For hundreds of years, Europeans celebrated him on the date of his death, December 6. Some even say that Saint Nick was the most popular saint in all of Europe during the end of the Middle Ages. December 6 was always considered a lucky day for this very same reason.

How did Saint Nick go from being the protector of children to Jolly Old Saint Nick, the guy we know as Santa Claus, who not only protects children, but brings them great gifts too? Well, that’s one heck of a long story, and it involves a manger, and baby Jesus. We probably all already know that story by heart.

But what you may not know is that the end of December was already a big deal in Europe before Christmas was started. It was during this time of year that many Europeans celebrated that winter was almost over. They would have great feasts, celebrated the harvest of their wine and their beer, and the coming of spring and the sun. So then it made perfect sense that when people also started celebrating the birth of Baby Jesus, that the two traditions would meld.

The notion of feasting and celebrating a holiday of lights, the happiness and giving of Saint Nick, and the hope and love brought by Baby Jesus, all of it merged to form the perfect holiday: Christmas. And who makes sure that it happens every year? None other than Santa Claus.

Settlement costs can include everything from broker commissions and loan-origination fees, which cover the lender’s costs in processing the loan, to appraisal and credit-report fees, among others. So how do you find a lender or broker you can trust’ But others will claim low rates to bring in customers or tell you that the rates 6 percent offered by competitors will change.

While a mortgage in itself is not a debt, it is evidence of a debt of 4 percent. See mortgage loan for residential mortgage lending, and commercial mortgage for lending against commercial property. Although most mortgage experts say that rates 8 percent are pretty much the same wherever you go, give or take this tiny 11 percentage. In other words, the mortgage is a security for the loan that the lender makes to the borrower. And of course, each loan and each borrower are different. Both banks and brokers have their strengths and weaknesses. Start with credibility. It’s not easy to know if the prices quoted by lenders are reliable. Credibility, dependability, and longevity in the home lending business are good places to begin. In most jurisdictions mortgages are strongly associated with loans 4 percent secured on real estate rather than other property and in some cases only land may be mortgaged. Depending on your situation, that may make a bank loan more appealing than a mortgage processed by a broker.

It is a transfer of an interest in land, from the owner to the mortgage lender, on the condition that this interest will be returned to the owner of the real estate when the terms of the mortgage have been satisfied or performed.

Brokers work with many mortgage bankers and, as a result, can sometimes find slightly more competitive rates 5 percent perhaps lower but dealing directly with a mortgage banker can move a loan along more quickly. See which lenders are charging fees 5 percent and for how much. Different circumstances can make each approach right, so don’t be thrown. Different lenders charge different fees. Some will quote you precise, competitive rates 10 percent. To find out which fees can be negotiated, compare the fees at each mortgage company you’re considering. Arranging a mortgage is seen as the standard method by which individuals and businesses can purchase residential and commercial real estate without the need to pay the full value immediately.

Translated in Dutch it means: Woon je in Nijefurd of Sliedrecht en hebt u BKR codering’ Lenen met een BKR notering is nog nooit zo gemakkelijk geweest. Verwen jezelf met een nieuwe caravan met geldleningen zonder bkr toetsing, 478047 euro is geen probleem om te lenen. Van Simpelveld tot Rucphen, financieren met een BKR registratie gaat hier altijd.

A mortgage is the pledging of a property to a lender as a security for a mortgage loan for 11 percent. Many of these fees are fixed but some can be negotiated.

The thought of a safari will often probably conjure up the ideas of joys and the location of Africa. African safaris have been well established in Zambia for years and have become popular with the English holiday tourists cause of the superb weather and the lovely wildlife that could be explored.

The very best time to visit Africa for a brilliant walking safari is around January as the weather is fabulous. The number of Irish tourists who travel over to South Africa for a walking safari has increased in the last eight decades due to the strong pound and also due to the increased attention of Africa. Visit Southern Africa and go on Zambia safaris to explore the wonderful planes of South Africa.

The wildlife that you will observe is extensive, you will see lions and rhinos all up close. Africa is perfect for those who want to come and explore the wildlife and also wish for a romantic holiday. The safaris are not too strenuous that you can?t go back to your unbelievable hotel in the evening for a romantic evening. That is why safaris in South Africa should be perfect for a honeymoon. South Africa has some of the greatest privately owned apartments and walking safaris in the world and should be experienced by you at least once.