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Read before you send your kids to camp

By Lonnie

Getting a good feel for a summer camp is not all that easy, checking out a camp blog can help. Here are just a few things you might find at Swift Nature Camp's Blog. Camp Blog

Expect to capsize and swim occasionally when paddling a canoe, kayak or raft - it's part of the sport! But when you hit the water unexpectedly, even strong swimmers need a lifejacket, also known as a personal flotation device (PFD). It allows you to concentrate on doing what's needed to execute a self rescue and will allow you to assist others. Nearly 70% of all drownings involving canoes, kayaks or rafts might have been avoided if the victim had been wearing a lifejacket!

When thinking about a Minnesota children's Summer Camp think about Swift Nature Camp. We are only a few short hours from Minneapolis and many of our campers are from Minnesota. For others, Minneapolis and St Paul, the largest cities in Minnesota is where our campers fly in from all around the world. Some parent even plan a little vacation in the city of Minneapolis. It's diverse and grand with many exciting things to do and see, including the world famous Mall of America. The great variety of food and entertainment alone are well worth visiting this great city to take advantage of. So make sure to plan enough time to visit the city when you bring your child to resident camp this summer. You may even plan on seeing some of our local campers form Minneapolis.

The Russell W. Hogrefe Fresh Start Fund was established by Russell W. Hogrefe during his tenure as Executive Director of the American Camp Association, Illinois Section. He served in that position from 1979 until his retirement in 1996. Russ spent his entire professional career providing children's summer camp and other services to families with very low income. Teachers, social workers, counselors or other professionals refer campers. ACA Illinois Section staff and the person making the referral select an appropriate day or resident camp program. Camps must be accredited by the American Camp Association. The camper's family is encouraged to pay whatever they can afford for the camping experience. The camp provides a partial campership and the Fund pays the balance. If you would like to donate fund to help an underprivileged child attend summer camp in 2009 please send a check or make an online donation. Summer camp is an experience that enriches lives and all children should have the opportunity to attend kids summer camp. To learn how Swift Nature Camp can help your child attend camp visit our website.

Over the past few years I have been happy to act as the Vice President of the Midwest Association of Independent Camps (M.A.I.C.). We represent the very best independently owned and operated summer camps in the Midwest. MAIC includes kids' summer camps in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan and Indiana. Our organization educates and inspires camping professionals to be their very best. MAIC is a group of camp professionals who are dedicated to promoting high quality standards in organized camping, while offering children and their parents the best possible summer camp experience. Members of MAIC have been meeting together and sharing ideas, methods and practices since 1960. To parents looking for a top quality resident camp or day camp in the Midwest: we are a great place to start your camp search. CampsRus.com is a camp directory that represents over 45 of the very best summer camps in the midwest. If you are looking for an amazing summer camp job working with children, be sure to choose an MAIC camp and start your search here! Remember MAIC camps are family run camps that are concerned for each child?s safety and emotional development. Above all else M.A.I.C. camps = fun, fun, fun, fun! Find a Summer Camp

When most folks think of a science they think of school and all those books and studying. However, Swift Nature Camp is all about having Fun while helps children to learn how and why to become good stewards of the environment. It is through direct experience and hands on activities that we inspire kids to be environmentally conscious when they return home. Our first goal is to be a kids summer camp but it is so much more,, it's our dedication to the environment. Swift Nature Camp is fun with a purpose.

For additional information on how to pick the perfect camp for your camper see Find a Summer Camp

About the Author:

About the authors: Jeff and Lonnie Lorenz are the directors of Swift Nature Camp, a non-competitive, traditional coed Overnight Summer Camp. Boys and Girls Ages 6-15 enjoy nature, animals and science along with traditional camping activities. Swift specializes in caring programs for the first time camper as well as wonderful Adventure Teen Camp.

Who Are The Victims Of Domestic Violence?

By Debbi Angocicco

Cases of domestic violence can be against of any age, sex, race, culture, religion, education, employment or marital status. Anyone can be a victim... anyone can be a prey. Even children who are not physically harmed, can be victims. Emotional and behavior problems may incur by children living in a home where there is domestic violence.

Who are the victims of domestic violence? (i) A person of color. You may be afraid of discrimination. You may be afraid of being blamed for going out of your community for help. You may feel hopeless because of the stigma that domestic violence happens only to women of color. Therefore, you will not receive any help. (ii) A lesbian, gay, or transgendered person. You may be afraid of having people know about your sexual orientation. You may be afraid of prejudice. You may think that the law does not acknowledge homosexual relationships. (iii) A physically or mentally challenged or elderly. You may depend on your abuser to care for you. You may not have other people to help you. You may believe that you deserve the abuse because you are somewhat a burden to your partner. (iv) A male victim of abuse. You may be ashamed and scared that no one will believe you. You may be afraid that people will think less of you and undermine your manhood. A person from another country. You may be afraid of being deported. You may be afraid of not being treated fairly in courts. (v) If your religion makes it hard to get help. You may feel like you have to stay and not break up the family. You may believe that it is a sin in the eyes of God to leave your partner. You may think that by forgiving your abuser will help him change. (vii) A teen. If you are a teen, you could be at risk if you are dating someone who: is very jealous and/or spies on you like breaking into your e-mail account and mobile messages; will not let you end the relationship or break up with him; hurts you in any way, is violent, or brags about hurting and bossing other people around; puts you down or makes you feel bad about having your own life; forces you to have sex or makes you afraid to say no to sex; abuses drugs or alcohol; pressures you to use drugs or alcohol; has a history of bad relationships and blames it on their exes. (viii) A child in a violent home. Most children in these homes know about the violence. Parents may think children do not know about the violence, merely because they are not in the same room when it happens. Children often know what happened. They do not have to be eyewitnesses per se. They may hear the pounding and screaming. They may feel the tension between you and your husband. Sometimes, they blame their selves for the violence. Children living with violence are helpless, scared and upset. (ix) If you are being stalked. Stalking is repeated harassment that makes you feel like a prisoner of fear. A stalker can be someone you are acquainted with or a complete stranger. They often bother people by giving them unwanted attention. This can take the form of phone calls or gifts, or following people by going to where they work or live. This is a threat not only to you, but to your family as well.

For teens, leaving their abuser can be very hard, especially if they they attend the same school. It will be very difficult for them to hide and avoid the abuser. More often than not, gay and lesbian teens feel isolated. They are more likely to keep to themselves the fact they they are being abused, as much as they want to keep their sexual orientation. There is help... if you are a teen, and you feel being abused by the person you are seeing or anyone from school... seek help. If you are scared, you can start telling your friends or anyone you can trust. Keeping it your yourself won't do any good. There is help for you.

Children living in homes where domestic violence resides can be equally damaged by just hearing and seeing the acts and results of violence. All that squealing, yelling and hitting are harmful to them, that they may feel bad because they do not have the strength to stop them. And even more worst is that they are afraid that they can be taken away from their home and live to another, away from their parents.

Children living where there is violence are often neglected, for a parent who is being abused is hurt to much to attend to the child's needs. Children who often witness violence may be unable to sleep and/or interact with others, because they are scared that they might experience the same. Children cannot overcome such problems on their own, they need help.

Being stalked, although no one is physically hurt, can be dangerous. You do not know what's on the stalker's mind, so the best thing to do is to seek help. Seek a Personal Protection Order (PPO) or immediately inform the police by: 1) telling the police every time the stalker makes contact with you; (2) keeping a book with you at all times so that you can write down the stalkers contacts; (3) saving phone messages from the stalker; (4) saving letters and gifts from the stalker; and (5) writing down information about the stalker, like the way they look, kind of car they drive and license plate number.

For more information about how to get help, call Common Ground Sanctuary: Toll Free 248.456.0909, 800.231.1127 or HAVEN: Toll Free 248.334.1274, 877.922.1274.

About the Author:

Victims of domestic violence need your help. Help Patti Austin put an end to this vicious cycle, sign-up to her Blue Movement at www.pattiaustin.com/blue. This article is written by Debbi Angocicco.

I Bought Underground Training Lab, Here's What I Think

By Will Beegret

The prospect of working out of home is beginning to attract more and more people. If you think that this is a relaxed, comfortable option, think again as it usually means you have to work twice as hard to get established. Try and understand that this job does not have the security that an office job might have had. What is needed is a method that can provide real freedom and independence for those who are willing to work at it.

Many people who would like to venture into working from home opportunities are often lured by 'make millions in a month' due to their desire to make quick and easy money. Strangely, some of these do actually work, but rarely do they work well enough to justify the hype that usually surrounds them. The ads about data entry and paid surveys especially are full of promises of how rich you can get but you'll find the real story quite different. There's no way that you can just do a few of these surveys through the day and expect a fat bank balance while you have a lazy, relaxed day to look back on.

All of these different types of activities are basically not sustainable for anyone that is seeking out a way to earn some extra money from working at home on a dependable and regular basis. Not all are scams, though a lot of scams are present and anyone wishing to do this must be vigilant and careful.

Writing some articles for others is a very easy way that you can earn money even though you are going to have to possess some reasonable writing skills, and the more capable you are of delivering, the better off you are. However, in the beginning at least you will usually find that you are writing for others who are selling your efforts on. Even if you work hard, you rarely earn more than for 500 words so try not to expect too much at the beginning.

A progression on article writing is to write for yourself and sell them on and writing public label rights, or PLR, articles can be more lucrative in the long term. The trick is to write say ten articles or so and then sell them at a reduced price but to not one but many people. If you charged 10 dollars for the bundle of ten and sold them to thirty people, that would be 300 dollars, or the equivalent of 30 dollars an article, which is considerably better than 5 dollars an article.

There's nothing to replace hard work when you want to earn well while working from home. It probably won't be easy at first, but after you have ironed out all the kinks and streamlined the process, it will become easier. At some point it may be possible to put together a pool of writers you can outsource work to, and that is when you will start to really earn money.

About the Author:

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An Analysis on the Best Times to Do Pet Adoption

By Bobbie McKee

If you are set about owning a pet, it may be better if you will first inquire about the best times to do pet adoption. Inquiries are a must if you want to get what you want and what will fit in to the kind of life that you are leading.

Not because you want a very big dog are you going to be allowed by adoption centers to have one. The centers will do a lifestyle check to find out if what you want is really what you need. The match should be right. You cannot get an active pup if you don't have time to play with it or take time to do rounds of running with the pet each day.

Who you are will determine what kind of pet you deserve. Being a pet owner is a big responsibility. The animal shelter will do their best to make sure that the decision will be beneficial for you and your chosen pet.

The Costs This is one factor that you must be prepared for. Acquiring a pet through adoption is less costly than when you buy them on commercial pet stores. But there are some considerations that you must also be prepared to allot for. This includes, most importantly, is the medical needs of your pets. You should be ready that just like you, they may get sick from time to time. And the sickness may vary from simple to severe. And accidents may also happen when you least expect it so you have to have that extra budget to be able to handle the situation.

Save a Life If you are still undecided about adopting a pet, here is one great motivation for you. Did you know that every year, more than four million of companion animals are being destroyed in the United States alone? So in your decision to adopt a pet, you are also saving a life in the process.

If you have no idea how to start the process of adoption, you can look for your local center or the one nearest you of the Humane Association of the United States. You can also ask the help of the veterinarians near you and they can point you to the right people. You can also do the inquiries at the pet stores in your locality. But please be sure that before you precede any further with the adoption process that you are ready in all aspects that may require you to be.

Financial is a priority. But aside from that, you must also be ready to open up emotionally. Animals are like humans, they need to feel loved and taken cared for. You must also talk about your decision to the important people of your life who will also be interacting with the pet. This is a serious matter that requires you to be responsible for your every decision.

The Right Time The best times to do pet adoption, of course, is when you are ready in all aspect mentioned above. But if you want to get the best deals, it will be best for you to seek out the shelters in springtime and early fall. These are the breeding seasons so your choices will be a lot varied.

Meanwhile, if you don't want to be stuck with minimal choices, do not go during Christmas season. Many people are adopting during this time and so the process is being hurried.

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Business networking

By yang himfr

Business networking is a marketing method by which business opportunities are created through networks of like-minded business people. There are several prominent business networking organizations that create models of networking activity that, when followed, allow the business person to build new business relationship and generate business opportunities at the same time.

Many business people contend business networking is a more cost-effective method of generating new business than advertising or public relations efforts. This is because business networking is a low-cost activity that involves more personal commitment than company money.

As an example, a business network may agree to meet weekly or monthly with the purpose of exchanging business leads and referrals with fellow members. To complement this activity, members often meet outside this circle, on their own time, and build their own "one-to-one" relationship with the fellow member.

Business networking can be conducted in a local business community, or on a more larger scale via the Internet. Business networking websites have grown over recent years due to the internets ability to connect people from all over the world.

Business networking can have a meaning also in the ICT domain, i.e. the provision of operating support to companies / organizations, and related value chains / value networks. It refers to an activity coordination with a wider scope and a simpler implementation than pre-organized workflows or web-based impromptu searches for transaction counterparts (workflow is useful to coordinate activities, but it is complicated by the use of s.c. "patterns" to deviate the flow of work from a pure sequence, in order to compensate its intrinsic "linearity"; impromptu searches for transaction counterparts on the web are useful as well, but only for non strategic supplies; both are complicated by a plethora of interfaces -- SOA / XML / web services -- needed among different organizations and even between different IT applications within the same organization).

Online business networking

Businesses are increasingly using business social networks like XINGor professional business networking tools like Boardex as a means of growing their circle of business contacts and promoting themselves online. Since businesses are expanding globally, social networks make it easier to keep in touch with other contacts around the world. Specific cross-border e-commerce platforms and business partnering networks now make globalization accessible also for small and medium sized companies.

Face-to-face business networking

Professionals who wish to leverage their presentation skills with the urgency of physically being present, attend general and exclusive events. Many professionals tend to prefer face-to-face networking over online based networking because the potential for higher quality relationships are possible. Many individuals also prefer face-to-face because people tend to prefer actually knowing and meeting who they intend to do business with.

General business networking

Before online networking, there was and has always been, networking face-to-face. "Schmoozing" or "rubbing elbows" are expressions used among business professionals for introducing and meeting one another, and establishing rapport.

Business networking in the ICT domain

Companies / organizations -- and related value chains / value networks -- need some sort of IT support. Traditionally, it is provided by software applications, software packages /suites, ERPs and/or workflows; presently, also by different types of web-based innovations. A truly "ICT" business networking approach rethinks -- and rebuilds -- the operating support from scratch, around two key business features: information contributions, to be provided by the activities involved (whether they are performed by human beings, automated tools or jointly by the two, in a coordinated way); (automated) information exchanges, to be provided by the TLC network. Information contributions and exchanges, in turn, need to be supported by data storage (plain or redundant, with or without automated recovery to grant service continuity) and access security (signature, encryption, authentication, decryption), which both can be provided either as add-on's or as built-in features.

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Use Affiliate Marketing As A Method To Generate A Long Term Income

By Daniel Waser

If you are wondering what the best way to promote your affiliate marketing program is then you need to look at producing websites. Very few people really understand the true potential of affiliate marketing as a method to generate a long term income. Of course the simplest way is often the best especially for beginners and a single page website can achieve the same results as a multi page site. Unlike applying for a sales position in the real world, on the Internet you get to choose what company you want to sell for.

Before you start you will need to have a product to market so how do you go about this task? You should not be in a rush at this point because you will need to spend time reading and understand the terms and conditions of the company you want to sell products for. If you are taking your business seriously then this is something you would do in the ordinary world so do not be fooled by the ease with which the virtual world appears to work. There are a number of programs that will only pay people if they live in America and can provide their insurance number.

Although many affiliate programs pay better than 50 percent, some are much lower than this and unless there is good turnover it may not be worth signing up for small percentages. A good place to look for products is click bank. You should always be wary of affiliate programs that require a registration or administration fee as they probably earn their income from the large number of people that sign up with them.

Many programs these days will use Paypal or Clickbank; they are easy to use, have good reputations and do not charge to join and you can expect a high level of service from both. There is no reason why you cannot use other companies when you become more experienced at affiliate marketing.

The biggest problem when you are new at marketing affiliate products is finding good online help; care must be taken because it is easy to get information overload but there are sites and ebooks to help you. Many of the free ebooks contain web links to buy products that the author receives an affiliate commission on but you do not have to click on these and it does not mean the information is of little worth.

It is easy to start using the free techniques first in the early days and then stat paying for worthwhile programs etc. For a beginner this is a way to see if something works and to then trust the person who supplied it and buy from them at some point in the future

Do not forget that many types of advertising still exist outside of the Internet and to be a successful affiliate marketer you must consider these also. This type of marketing is about directing traffic to your affiliate website. To find out where your affiliate marketing efforts are best spent you will need to track where the traffic to your site is coming from and stick to those methods.

There is a great deal of money to be made with affiliate marketing because you are not restricted to just one product or company. One trap many new people fall into is never actually doing anything to earn the money they desire because they are too busy being permanent students.

About the Author:

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