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13Jan/120

Herbalife In Depth Analysis – What Nobody Will Explain To You

Herbalife truly can be a company gone international with distributors in 65 countries. Don't allow this figure fool you into not investigating the truths all around the Herbalife scam.

The Herbalife scam is real and below is really a quick summary of the reasons you may want to avoid this company.

A) All Scams Get their Beginnings

Founded in 1980 by Mark Hughes (who died on the young age of 44, was an avid consumer of his or her own products and whose dead body was discovered with substantial levels of alcohol and sleeping pills), Herbalife is currently over Two-and-a-half decades old and boasts 1.5 million distributors in 65 countries.

Well, that statistic is proof how the company's promises of unlimited earning potential and world class nutritional and supplemental products certainly grabs the eye of customers. But what goes on to the majority of of those prospects after they become distributors?

B) Sucking You Dry

It can't be right to ignore the positive features of the organization while touting a Herbalife scam, so here are a few good things:

Low startup costs - around $108 for that standard opportunity pack, $78 approximately for that mini-pack
Minimal risks
No training necessary (this attribute sells a lot of people on Herbalife)

Wrong, there exists a serious problem.

In accordance with Herbalife corporate, the typical distributor's 2006 earnings each month was $5,100, and from what I often hear recently that figure is anticipated to lower for 2007. Personally i think that this is a decent average to report, however, let's take a look at the following:

Close to only 1% of Herbalife distributors are responsible for earning over 85% from the company's wealth - that means near 99% of the company is fighting for your remaining 15% of sales that define the high dollar Herbalife empire
These are not the percentages you need to see when it comes to a multi-level marketing company. Additionally:

Herbalife products, on average, can be purchased at 30% a lot more than the identical product with all the very same ingredients, just with a different name, for the most part nutritional stores
What does this imply? This means demand and supply venture out your window and so does your invested money. Nobody will pay the lopsided prices the company dictates unless they are not mindful of the numerous competitive, cheaper products out there. As a result, you may not be making many sales.

C) The more expensive Picture

Although me and many more on the market believe the Herbalife scam is real, I will admit how the compensation plan is rather rewarding. It really is rewarding for many who combined with people they register are available massive volumes of product to help make up for the small profit on every person product.

For anyone not considering the Herbalife scam, try to find a business that rewards you to your sales immediately, without needing to pass by any to your sponsor.

Lightning Quick Financial Success

The Herbalife scam is real, avoid it just like the plague. No matter which products or programs you decide to promote, the main step to phenomenal financial success on the web is mastering effective marketing strategies. A mentor can help you to do that, so always be searching for one.

Once you know how to market effectively and believe in the product you are marketing, you'll absolutely succeed!

Now, the aforementioned cost is very little. However, as soon as you become an independent distributor you will end up bombarded by your sponsor to buy lots of money valuation on products within your first a short while beneath the basic premise that you'll be in profit within only a couple of weeks due to the enormous demand for the organization products, not a problem.

Accomplishment in almost any Multilevel marketing involves having aprofitable marketing campaign. Read more for the Herbalife Review.

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27Jan/120

SnatchCode Helps You Backup Your Website and Databases with One Click



Securely and Automatically Backup Your Website with SnatchCodeSnatchCode is a one-click solution for backing up your website and monitoring it for changes. Not only that, but it will scan your website daily for viruses, malware, and unwanted/unauthorized changes.

With each new authorized changed, SnatchCode creates a new snapshot of your website. Depending on which plan you choose this will be done on a daily or hourly basis. You’ll be able to download these snapshots if needed, in order to restore your website to a previous version. For all unauthorized changes, you’ll be notified immediately via email.

SnatchCode also uses a 256-bit encryption for all communications and “all data processing is performed on servers isolated from direct access to the Internet”. With each new scan, SnatchCode is said to get smarter and better at protecting your website.

Getting Started

First you’ll need to register with an email address, password, name and phone number. Your email address will also be your username.

Adding a Website

Next you’ll be able to add your website. As long as you have FTP access, your website platform is supported; so yes, it will also work with self-hosted blogs.

Add Your Website to SnatchCode

You’ll need to enter your username, password, hostname (ftp.yoursite.com or IP address), and port (usually 21 for FTP). Since this is sensitive data that you’re entering, the page where you enter this information is encrypted for your security.

SnatchCode Encryption

Backing Up Your Website

Once your website has been added, all you have to do is click on the “Backup Now” button and you’re all done. SnatchCode will begin with the monitoring and automatic backups. Backups typically take around 48-72 hours, but this also depends on the size your website; larger websites could take days to complete. You’ll be notified via email when the backup is done and/or if any issues are found.

Backing Up Your MySQL Database

SnatchCode also has a database backup feature, which is currently in beta.

Backup Your MYSQL Database with SnatchCode

It works the same way as backing up your website except you need to enter your MYSQL username, password, database URL or IP, and database/schema name.

Other Features

If you ever wish to undo changes to your website, you’ll first need to upgrade to a Plus, Pro, or Enterprise account. The option will then be enabled on your dashboard. This is a nice feature because if you happen to change something on your website and totally mess it up, you can simply go back to a previous version before you made that change.

Undo Changes on Your Website with SnatchCode

As mentioned above, you can also download your backups to your computer for further safe keeping.

Pricing

  • Free: Comes with a storage limit of 250MB for 1 site; backup is done automatically on a daily basis.
  • Plus: Comes with a 750MB storage limit for an unlimited number of sites; backup is done automatically on an hourly basis.
  • Pro: Comes with 30GB of storage for an unlimited number of sites; backup is done automatically on an hourly basis.
  • Enterprise: Comes with an unlimited amount of storage for an unlimited number of sites; backup is done automatically on an hourly basis.

Benefits

If you’re a WordPress user, using a backup plugin doesn’t always make sense. There are some plugins that will save your backups to Dropbox or another secure server, but most will only backup to your own server. So if your server happens to crash, you’re still in trouble because your backup was on that same server and it will be lost as well.

With SnatchCode, your backup is saved on their server so there’s no worries about losing your backups.

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26Jan/120

Part 2 SEO QA – SEO Newbie’s Questions Answered

In continuation with the previous post, here are some more common questions I see in my Google Analytics log. The post help to get direct answers for the question.

(1) How many words can I use in H1 tags?

H1 tags are for page headings. There are no fixed numbers. Have H1 tag meaning full for page body content that helps users and search engines to understand better. Normally 4 to 5 words are seen around as maximum and they were meaningful.

(2) Can I use the same article content in different articles site?

No you should not. Have one article per site. Do not duplicate. Make sure that the articles site is not a scrapper site.

(3) Does Google prioritize search results?

Yes Google lists search results based on website popularity and the factors includes links to your site, search engine friendly structure, quality content and many other factors. Follow Google guidelines to increase your online presence.

(4) How to get listed higher in Google?

Your site should meet Google guidelines provided the site should have relevant backlinks for your users search keywords and should have quality resources (articles, news etc). If it is a service site, build internal links from your resources.

(5) How often does Google crawl?

There is no fixed time interval. Crawls are based on backlinks, content updates, PageRank and many other factors. Build crawler-friendly pages by following Google guidelines.

(6) What is the Google panda factor?

Panda is a filter that finds low-quality pages. If you have too many low-quality pages then the site will be flagged. Read more on Google panda factor checklist.

(7) What are more important backlinks according to Google?

Backlinks that are related to your site theme and the linking site should have related content around.

(8) What does the term keyword prominence refer to?

Keyword prominence refers to the priority given for the keywords in top content, Title, H tags and Meta tags.

(9) What directories does Google like?

Human edited directories are linked most.

(10) Should I mention sitemap in robots.txt file?

Mentioning sitemap XML in robots.txt helps spiders to know the location of the sitemap.

The blog post “SEO questions answered” will be a weekly update. I will be answering the question as I find in my Google Analytics search log. Subscribe and stay tuned!


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25Jan/120

10 Uses for WordPress Other Than Blogging



1. Project management system

WordPress can be an easy to use project management system if you work with a team of people who all need access to the same content. It can set up as a members only site to keep your material private.

2. Forum

People love community areas and WordPress can be used as a community site as well as a blog site. You can use it as a public forum or a private forum.

This is also a great way to do group coaching sessions.

3. Help Desk

You can set up WordPress as a ticket system so clients and customers can contact you with technical problems, order problems or any other thing that relates to your business.

4. Article Directory

Tired of fighting for placement on the big article directories? With WordPress, you can start your own directory. You can grow it as big as you’d like or just limit it to a few select authors. The choice is yours.

5. Auction Site

If you like sites like eBay or if you want to auction off websites or even physical products, you can set up your own auction site and let viewers bid on your items.

6. Storefront with e-Commerce

If you don’t want to use a commercial eCommerce site for your products, you can set up your own site with WordPress. There are many plugins and themes that you can use to accomplish this. One of the benefits to this option is it’s a one time fee for a great plugin instead of a monthly fee like some commercial sites charge you.

7. Membership site

Membership plugins are available for WordPress if you decide to go private, or you can have different levels of membership. Some are free and some will cost you a little bit of money. The paid plugins are usually the best option because most offer support if you run into problems with installation or other issues down the road.

8. FAQ portal or Q&A site (private or public)

WordPress is a great way to set up an FAW section or a Q&A site where others can ask you questions and have them answered. You can do this as a public site or as a member site.

9. Easy to use CMS (content management system)

WordPress is a great way to organize content, either for your own personal use or as community group or as a group of team members. WordPress really is easy to use and manage so this is a great way to line out your content in a systematic manner.

10. Client/Customer Management

WordPress can be used as an invoicing system and a way to keep up with your clients, customers and contacts. This is much like a Help Desk except you organize it for customers so you can manage them better.

 

 

 

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24Jan/120

How to Write Irresistible Blog Intros

This guest post is by Andrea Wren from Butterflyist.com,

Did you know that I like to have sex on roller coasters? Yes, there’s nothing that does it for me more than wondering if my partner will puke at the point of, um, no return. Okay I’m fibbing. I can’t even imagine how difficult big dipper hanky panky would be, but I got you listening, didn’t I?

While I was being a little devious, and you’re now going to be a tiny bit disappointed that I’m not going to talk about my fetish for fairground frolics, I’ve demonstrated two things:

  • A strong hook in the introductory paragraph of your post is crucial to grab the reader’s interest.
  • Your hook should be linked to what you’re actually writing about, otherwise the reader will feel like they’ve been duped once they continue.

But then, seeing as the title already told you what this post was going to be about, I can be excused. You knew I wasn’t going to be talking about my fictional amusement park passions, so I haven’t hoodwinked you after all!

But I did gain attention.

First impressions…

They count, don’t they? Unlike networking events or dinner parties, where we may be forced to stay making small-talk with a person we’ve decided we don’t like, when we’re reading blogs, we have a choice. And we don’t have to stick around. Once you’ve got your title, you have to think carefully about the all-important first impression that will follow.

So how do you write a winning intro that will make your reader read on?

Find a relevant hook

This is key. A “hook” has that name for a reason—it’s designed to capture the reader as an angler would a fish. You lay the bait with your title, and then your hook (the first sentence or two of the opening paragraph) should snatch hard enough that even the wriggliest of wrigglers won’t get loose.

How outlandish you can afford to be (a la the tabloid press) depends on the context of the writing, and how confident a writer you are. But even the most conservative of business blog posts can be strongly hooked.

Whether you begin with humor or with a serious quote, a good hook will intrigue the reader, or challenge them, and draw them into finding out where your opening gambit leads.

Therefore, it’s useful to start with a curious or unusual fact connected to the post, a question, or something that tests the reader’s beliefs. You could even try all three. For instance:

“In a new report, small businesses say they cannot afford to employ women of child-bearing age who may require maternity pay-outs. Should financially struggling SMEs be entitled to refuse to recruit women in certain age groups?”

Controversy, of course, often works well. And juicy revelations can do the trick too. Here are three other tips to make note of:

1. Set the scene

Your hook could potentially be the first paragraph in itself, depending on how succinct you are. But within the introduction, the reader should know what the post will be about.

Setting the scene is about defining reader expectations—he or she needs to assess whether the time they are about to invest in reading your post will be worth it.

In the above example of a hook, the writer might go on to say which report their information comes from, what their own position is (you will generally be shown which way the writer leans from the start, but a clever writer will make it seem that they could have their mind changed), and which arguments they are going to tackle in the rest of the piece.

You give the reader the gist, without giving it all away in the first few sentences.

2. Cut the waffle

So you’ve got the hook, and you’ve set the scene. Now read over your introduction aloud.

If it trails off around the houses and then does a few thousand miles across the world and back before it makes its point, your reader will be away with the fairies before you know it.

Like with the continuing blog post, all writing in the intro should serve some purpose. It should make the reader laugh, offer a fact, provide an opinion, make a challenge, concisely explain something, or ask a question. If it does none of these things, get rid of it.

No reader wants to wade through the ramblings of your mind if they aren’t going to lead somewhere, or if you’ve already said it. You need to convince the reader you have a good story. Waffling will not do this.

Don’t say anything that doesn’t need saying.

3. After a strong beginning…

With a good hook and a pithy opening to your article, your reader should, we hope, commit to finding out what else you have to talk about.

Writing compelling introductions takes practice, but it goes without saying that this is only the beginning. You then have to keep your audience enraptured throughout.

However, that’s another blog post waiting to be written.

Andrea Wren is an experienced freelance journalist, travel writer and blogger based in the UK. She blogs at Butterflyist.com, a site which inspires people to have the confidence to push their comfort zones and see the world. Here you can also get her free eBook ‘Travel More, Work Less and Live Life’. Find Andrea on Twitter via @thebutterflyist

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23Jan/120

Jury Duty: George Orwell Style



It might very well be the old world and the new world butting heads, but I’m finding more and more things getting in my way as I try to do my job as a content writer. I write the “old world” here because I’ve been called to jury selection, again, and I’ve tried to tell the forces that be that I can’t take enough time away from my job to commit to a jury. ( In fact, I haven’t had a day off in four years but that’s what it takes to move though the content writing waters like a shark looking for it’s next meal).

But the Man wont listen to my common sense. They don’t get it. They wont ( or more likely can’t ) and tell me about my ‘civic duty’ –that’s what they call it…after a recession where all us common folk got slapped around or knocked down and trampled..they  have the nerve to tell me I still have some obligation to them that involves more than just paying taxes.

There’s more. I have a neighbor that won’t be quiet and I’ll more than likely need to get the municipal courts involved to shut them down. More time close to the strange vibration of authority. More hours wasted falling even further down the rabbit hole of senseless and archaic bureaucracy. I don’t mind telling you that I’m frightened—worried that once these stone faced throw backs to the public sector world get a hold of me, their numbers will seal up around me like sand on a beach and I’ll never be heard from again.

The numbers they’re rounding up for the jury duty are cause for concern alone. In the last day I’ve run into three people who have been summonsed to some sort of Great Hall for the selection process and when I asked to talk with Big Brother or someone in charge, they told me I couldn’t. It’s all way too much like Logan’s Run or The Wized of Oz. Both as frightening, weird and full of meaningless jibberjabber about civic duty as something people who lived under the Hammer and Sickle had to endure.

And there doesn’t seem to be anything to do about it. In the end, it’s just about the old world telling us they wont go away and leave us to our new world jobs without a fight.

 


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22Jan/120

How to Get People to Pay You to Write



get paid to writeThe internet is booming with opportunities for people with the right skills, and one set of people that can really enjoy this opportunity are writers.

If you think you’re good at writing then there are thousands of individuals and companies willing to pay you for your skills. In this article I will be giving you a few tips to help you get people to pay you to write.

It is important that you know that some of the tips in this article take time to deliver results, and some can give you results almost instantly. Either ways, one thing remains for sure, the more effort you put in, the more results you are likely to get.

Focus on Building an Audience

The first step you should take when it comes to getting people to pay you for your writing is to build an audience. Without an audience, you will hardly be able to make enough money to sustain yourself, and it will be difficult to build a long term business.

By having an audience you will have cultivated a user base that love your work and making money from your efforts will be extremely easy as a result. One of the best ways to build a base and cultivate an audience is by having a blog. People will be able to find you and reference your content through your blog, and over time you will also be ranked in the search engines thereby leading to more traffic to your content.

You should know that building a blog is only one part of the equation, and that after building a blog you still have to focus on marketing yourself. I can easily list a few blog marketing techniques below, but nothing can beat the years of experience of numerous successful writers and bloggers, so make sure you check the marketing section of this blog for some tips to help you out.

Once you’ve been able to build an audience, the tips below will help you get great results.

Offer Your Services as a Freelance Writer

If you’re very confident about your writing skills you can also get people to hire you for basic writing jobs, or for more advanced copywriting jobs. Since you already have a blog and a reader base that loves your content, all you need to do is advertise your writing services, and you will get enough people to hire you.

The key to being successful as a freelance writer is to market yourself a lot, and to also work on constantly improving on your current skills and learning new skills.

Create an eBook Guide

Another step you should take once you’ve been able to cultivate an audience that loves your work is to create an eBook guide that solves a problem, and then sell the guide to your readers. If you lookout carefully, your readers have a lot of problems that needs a solution, and you can get paid for your skills by creating a guide that helps them solve these problems.

You need to realize that launching a guide alone won’t do the trick; you also have to constantly work on marketing yourself.

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21Jan/120

Adding Twitter Feed on Website & Blog

Twitter is a one of the place were people look for information other than three search giant Google, Yahoo and Bing (MSN).
By following the below simple 10 steps you can easily setup custom Twitter search results for your query or search keyword in your website that may help your readers.
Make your site interesting with custom twitter search results. Easy way to setup custom twitter search results related to search phrases for your website without the help of widget. Try Now. It's interesting!
Step 1: Visit Twitter Search
Click Twitter Search URL http://search.twitter.com/ or Copy & Paste to your browser address bar.
Step 2: Use your search term
Now, I would like to display twitter search results for the term "Google". You may try with the same or any other search term you like or something related to your specific page or profile
The result URL would be http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Google
Step 3: Select your tweet language
Now the tweets are displayed for all the language. You may selcet your language using the option "Show tweets written in:" right site of the search page. I have selected "English"
The result would be http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Google〈=en
Step 4: Select "Feed for this query"
Once you are done you may click on the option "Feed for this query" in top right side of the search page and it looks like image below. Now you have a feed for the search results and language specified
The result URL would be http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?lang=en&q=Google
Step 5: Login Google Feedburner
Now login to Google feedburner using your Gmail account
Step 6: Adding Twitter search results feed
In the Feedburner dashboard you will have an option to paste the tweeter search results feed link in an text box as seen in below

On the next screen you may alter your Feedburner title and feed address and click again next. Now your feedburner would have been created for the specified title and address. You can see a screen as below image
Step 7: Feed Management for Twitter search results
In Feedburner created page you have options to move to next step to configure stats or to skip to feed management page as seen in below screenshot
Step 8: Activation
Now you can click on “Publicize” button and you will be landing to a page "publicize your feed". In this, on left side you can see services listed and from that you can click “Headline Animator”.
Now, you have a page were you can change your theme, colour code, wrap long headlines and font size and click on the Activate button as seen in the below screenshot
Step 9: Selecting Twitter search results display code
Now your "Headline Animator" is ready for your twitter search results. You may select the option select other (just gimme the code) as seen in the screenshot below and click next
Step 10: This is how it looks!
You have the code now. Place it in the website or blog HTML and publish. Now you are done. Your "Custom Twitter Search Results" will look something like below, animating real time twitter search results for your query. Here the search results are displayed for the term "Google".
Google - Twitter Search
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21Jan/120

Borrowing Plot Structure to Write an Entertaining Blog



One of the reasons that a good work of fiction captures our hearts and minds is that it has found a winning formula — one that, despite various tinkering and experiments, is fairly straightforward in its format. Understanding and borrowing from this format can help you generate good, interesting blog content.

Fiction Plot Structure

Nearly all fiction, except the occasional experimental types, follows the same basic pattern:

1 – Status Quo

This is how things are, the basic explanation of the current state of things that sets the stage. Whether implied by the narration and dialog or spelled out clearly in an info dump, this part is important because it provides the context for all that will follow.

2 – Conflict!

This is the starting element of the story, the thing that introduces the departure from the status quo. Something has changed, and for whatever reason someone in the story is opposed to this change, and has to fight it.

3 – Complication/Rising Action

A conflict isn’t much entertainment by itself, particularly if the conflict is as simple as: I wanted to go to the movie, but my tire went flat (the conflict), so I changed it (resolved). Much more entertaining would be: I wanted to go to the movie, but my tire went flat and as I was changing it I realized a dust storm was approaching (complication).

Complications that make the conflict more interesting are the spice of a story, and drive what is called the “rising action,” or the gradual increase of tension as the story moves toward resolution.

4 – Climax

Everything has come to a head. The facts are all laid out, the conflict can get no more complicated and a big definitive choice must be made. This is the most satisfying part of the story, and also the part that is easiest to mess up and let everyone down.

5 – Resolution

Wrapping things up, explaining the new status quo. This part is simple enough, and should follow on naturally from the climax.

Now, how can you borrow from this structure in order to make your blog more interesting? After all, a blog isn’t a fictional piece, it’s driven by facts, right?

Well, just because a story is nonfictional doesn’t mean that it cannot have a narrative. Many of the best true stories are just that, STORIES. Take the story of Woodward and Bernstein as they unraveled the mystery surrounding the Watergate break in. You had death threats, attacks, a top-secret source named after a recent pornographic movie — it was practically a thriller film in its own right, and indeed became the basis of one called All the President’s Men.

Each of these elements can be readily worked into a blog post. Virtually every post out there that deals with a narrative of events has to go into a little bit of information about how things have begun, or how they have led up to the events described in the story. Conflict and complication often play out in such posts by going into the details of who said what, and what other people said against the initial quote or in support of it. If a story has ended, you have the resolution option to work with.

Of course, there is nothing that says you have to include all of these elements in a single post, either. Perhaps the best way is to actually follow a particular story for several posts, be it a few days or a months-long odyssey.

This is best done with news-style developing stories, such as following a court case, or an investigation into something dramatic and revealing. Or it might follow a blogger’s personal journey through a difficult struggle such as returning to school or undergoing therapy of a sort following an accident. The point is, with the narrative spread over a number of posts, you can create that sense of rising action, and highlight the individual elements of a good plot much more effectively and easily than if you try to cram the elements into a single post.

So the next time you have a blog post that you think makes a compelling story, treat it like it IS a story. Identify the arc of the rising action, the conflict and complications and present the narrative in a way that makes the readers want to read it — even makes them feel a bit naughty for trying to read ahead to see what happens next.

Dawn Walnoha is the VP of Production at Brandsplat. Brandsplat creates blogs, articles and social media in the “voice” of our client’s brand. For the free Brandsplat Report go to Brandsplat.com or visit our blog.

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20Jan/120

Alcohol Dual Diagnosis – Effectively Treating Alcoholics

A person with an anxiety disorder and alcohol dual diagnosis has mental health issues as well as a substance abuse problem. The two conditions are often linked in a vicious cycle. Many people with anxiety disorders turn to alcohol for relief of unpleasant symptoms. However, excessive use of alcohol can worsen the anxiety experienced during sober periods. Simultaneous treatment of both conditions is necessary for full recovery.

Social Phobia

Social phobia is one of the anxiety-related conditions most frequently linked to alcohol abuse. Also known as social anxiety disorder, it is an extreme fear of being embarrassed, negatively judged or humiliated in social situations. Sufferers may go out of their way to avoid contact with the general public. Social anxiety manifests in physical symptoms such as nausea, blushing, stammering, shaking, sweating and a rapid heartbeat.

Panic Disorder

Panic disorder is another condition associated with problem drinking. Sufferers repeatedly undergo sudden episodes of intense anxiety. These panic attacks are so severe that they can be mistaken for a heart attack or nervous breakdown. Symptoms include a rapid heartbeat, chest pains, shallow breathing, shaking and dizziness. During an attack, people may fear that they about to lose consciousness or even die.

PTSD

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is also commonly connected with alcohol abuse. PTSD can occur as the result of horrific events such as those experienced by soldiers in combat zones or by the victims of child abuse. Symptoms include constant agitation, flashbacks, sleeping difficulties and nightmares. Sufferers are extremely vigilant and may see threats where none exist. They have difficulties functioning in public and workplace environments.

Reasons For Abuse

Individuals suffering from anxiety disorders often turn to alcohol to lower their stress levels, calm their fears, relax their social inhibitions or numb their emotional pain. Because they use alcohol as a way of coping with anxiety, treatments focused exclusively on their alcohol addictions often fail. In a study of patients in alcohol dependence programs, those with anxiety disorders were found to be at the greatest risk of relapsing within four months.

Therapy

Many alcohol inpatient treatment facilities now offer therapies specifically aimed at anxiety disorder and alcoholism dual diagnosis patients. Inpatient programs typically begin with detoxification. Once this has been completed, specialists can more easily distinguish the symptoms of alcohol abuse from those caused by the anxiety disorder. They can then use a range of treatment options to address both of the patient's issues.

12-Step Program

Alcohol issues are usually addressed using a twelve-step program in conjunction with group counseling and peer support. Anxiety symptoms are often treated with prescription medications, reducing the patient's need to self-medicate with alcohol. Emotional conflicts may be addressed with psychotherapy. Cognitive-behavioral therapy offers patients practical methods for controlling social anxiety and preventing panic attacks.

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20Jan/120

PicYou – Upload and Share Your Photos Instantly



Do you like taking pictures? Do you like sharing content with friends and family online? If you answered yes, then you will simply love PicYou!

PicYou is a photo sharing site that works with Twitter and Facebook and makes it extremely easy for you to snap photos from your cell phone, then quickly upload them online. No, it’s not some traditional uploading site that we are all used to. PicYou has a nice collection of filters (viewable in the screenshot on the right) which allow you to customize and upload creative additions and different looks to your photos before they get uploaded online.

But that’s not all… once online, you and your friends can start browsing through you collection of images, all on your personal PicYou member page. It makes sending photos to your friends easy and fun. Upload your photos and add a filter to create new and unique enhancements.

Best of all, it’s available to anyone and always free.

Download PicYou in the iTunes App Store

As mentioned, PicYou is also an app for mobile devices, and can be download right now in the iTunes store. There are plenty of other photo apps out there, but none of them compare to the quality and filter options that PicYou offer, while also having a web site where all images upload to.

PicYou Features

Every app out there has to compete for the valuable space on your iPhone, and PicYou has the features to make them stand out from the rest. Take a look at the features available through the PicYou app and web site.
  • Free PicYou filters (including Albion, Killowatt, Infatuation, Zeitgeist, Gammanation, Dreamy, Ralston, Cuttlefish and Hipster)
  • Cool PicYou frames
  • Unlimited uploads to the cloud
  • Share your photos instantly on Facebook and Twitter
  • Make new friends through giving and receiving likes & comments
  • Full camera capability, front and back
  • Access from the web at PicYou.com

If you don’t currently have the PicYou app on your iPhone, be sure to download it now and try it out.


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