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The key to rapid muscle growth, is to perform all your exercises well outside your comfort zone. If you had performed the barbell curl to the point of complete and momentary exhaustion, instead of “copping out” at the tenth. Then your biceps muscles would be forced to work harder than normal. Much harder. As a result, they would grow and build size rapidly. This is the most effective way to build muscle fast.

What matters here is not the number of repetitions performed beyond the initial ten. What’s most important is that you understand the reason behind the need to force yourself to work at higher levels of intensity. To produce the greatest possible muscle gains in the shortest possible time frame, you must continually strive to perform at a level well beyond your comfort zone.

If you perform a set of barbell curls until you can no longer lift the bar, no matter how hard you try, or how many pair of strides you split, then you will be involving the highest possible number of muscle fibers. It may not be the total number available, but it will be enough to produce massive increases in muscle size.

Muscle gains produced by a very small amount of intense exercise, will always be much, much more, that that produced by a large amount of low intensity exercise. It is never the quantity of exercise that produces muscle gains, it is always the quality.

Most guys who exercise today are completely ignorant of the need for maximum intensity in their workouts. And as a result, most are blind to their true potential. Even when they are training six days a week, most guys make have no muscle gains to show for it. They just don’t know that they need to workout at a much higher level of intensity. But, in many cases they’re just too damn lazy to do so.

We’ve all seen the ads for a personal injury attorney on television, on billboards and in newspapers, but when should we consider consulting personal injury lawyers? A personal injury claim can be made when a person suffers an injury through the negligence of another person. Negligence is when a person’s actions are deemed to place another person in unreasonable risk. If this negligence leads to an accident then there is a case for a personal injury lawsuit.

Types of Personal Injury.

Personal injuries can be almost anything that leads to an injury. Whether this is a car accident caused by another driver, or whether you slip and fall while shopping or even at work these are all probably causes for personal injury claims. Tripping over badly laid paving slabs may lead to a successful personal injury claim. Dog bites, asbestos illnesses, a crash while on public transport or any accident that leads to bodily injury may mean you are entitled to claim. A personal injury attorney will be able to advise you whether you have a case or not.

The extent of your claim usually depends on the seriousness of your injury. You are entitled to claim for loss of earnings as well as compensation for bodily injuries and emotional distress. In some cases, for instance asbestos illnesses, your family is entitled to claim on your behalf.

What to do next.

If you have been involved in an accident, the first thing you should do is contact a personal injury attorney; they will be able to advise you whether you have a right to a personal injury claim or not. These consultations are usually free and quite often a personal injury attorney will not take any money unless they win the claim.

The pain and suffering caused by many accidents can be long lasting and not only physical but emotional and mental as well. It can take months or even years to recover from the anguish caused by some injuries.

Families and friends can be affected as well, the mental anguish for them being almost as traumatic as it is for you. You may need short- or even long-term care. Not all injuries are short-term. Many people who worked with materials that contain asbestos in the 20th century have developed lung cancer or mesothelioma. These are both very serious illnesses that can have adverse affects throughout life and possibly lead to death.

About The Author

Peter Peckham is a freelance author from Wilson, North Carolina. For examples of other articles, see www.a1-personal-injury-attorney.net.

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Businesses routinely maintain copies of correspondence and memos. Far to often, however, they do not extend this practice to email correspondence. Email correspondence is no different then your normal paperwork. You must keep copies of all of it to protect your business in any litigation.

Currently, only banks and broker-dealers are obliged to retain e-mail and instant messaging documents for three years under U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rules. Beginning July 2006, all public companies will also be required to do so under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Notwithstanding these laws, your custom and practice should be to maintain copies of all email correspondence. Email is considered evidence and courts are hammering businesses that do not maintain email records. Judges are often ruling that the failure to maintain and produce email records means the business in question is hiding key evidence.

In the recent Perelman v. Morgan Stanley litigation, a judge’s ruling on the failure of Morgan Stanley to produce email was key factor in the issuance of a $1.45 billion verdict. Based on the failure to produce email records, Judge Elizabeth Maass issued a pretrial ruling that effectively found Morgan Stanley conspired to defraud Perelman in a 1998 deal. Morgan Stanley is not the only business defendant to have this problem.

In the summer of 2004, UBS bank was found by a judge to have “willfully destroyed” email evidence in a discrimination case. UBS was ordered to pay costs and a jury returned a $29 million verdict.

Email Policy

To protect your business, you must have a procedure in place to maintain email communications generated through the business. Failure to keep these records can lead to rulings in litigation that your business willfully destroyed evidence. If this occurs, the judge may issue significant monetary sanctions, automatically find you liable or take other harsh steps that assure a victory for the Plaintiff. As if such developments are not bad enough, there exists a second risk associated with email communications.

Maintaining email communications, however, can have a downside. The problem arises, of course, when a communication contains statements that are damaging to your business. Yes, the proverbial catch-22 situation.

To avoid such disasters, your business must develop a clear policy on email communications and train all employees to comply with that policy. Employees must understand the business environment is not one in which jokes, flippant remarks and so on should be made in email communications.

About the Author

Richard Chapo is with SanDiegoBusinessLawFirm.com - Go to our article section to read more business law articles.

Personal injury cases are brought about by physical injury or mental anguish caused by actions or negligence of another party.

Personal Injury cases can include Auto Accidents, Defamation of Character, Product Defects and Medical Malpractice to name just a few. In order to be sure if your personal injury case has validity in the eyes of the law, contact a legal professional in your state.

If you suffer accidental personal injury or damages through the fault of another, that person or business is legally responsible (liable) and can be required to pay compensation. To determine responsibility, the court looks for negligence–carelessness by one of the parties involved. Whoever is determined to have been less careful (i.e. more negligent), is legally responsible for at least part of the damages incurred.

Compensation is generally awarded based on the strength of your documentation and degree of injury. A legal professional is recommended in Personal Injury cases over all others in order to maximize your compensation in the face of the Insurance companies, which normally defend such cases.

Personal injury cases are serious matters. They often involve grave injury, permanent disability, and even death. Victims depend on the personal injury lawyer to recover financial damages that are required to cover their medical treatments, replace permanently lost income, and compensate for their pain and suffering.

Without a qualified, experienced personal injury lawyer, their chances of receiving fair compensation plummet. That’s why it’s really important that, if you’ve been a victim of personal injury, you choose the right personal injury lawyer to represent you. Here are a few things to consider when making your selection:

Choose an attorney who specializes in personal injury

Your personal injury lawyer should be able to accurately assess the merits of a personal injury case, approximate its monetary value, and determine the best strategy for pursuing it. He or she should also have extensive experience in the field. Your personal injury lawyer should also who keep current with the latest developments in personal injury law.

Choose a personal injury lawyer experienced in dealing with insurance companies

Insurance company lawyers represent most personal injury case defendants. These corporate lawyers seek to pay out the least amount possible, so an inexperienced personal injury lawyer may be at a disadvantage in these negotiations. Therefore, choosing a personal injury lawyer with a proven track record of successful negotiations is essential.

Choose a personal injury lawyer with trial experience

Although most personal injury claims are settled out of court, personally injury lawyers sometimes obtain favorable settlements by threatening to take cases to trial. The defendants are often willing to pay out more money to the plaintiffs to avoid expensive trials, negative publicity, and the chance that a court would award the plaintiffs more money. In this case, experience is key: if your personal injury lawyer has never won cases in court, the defendant in your lawsuit may not take the threat of going to trial seriously.

About The Author

Matt Clarkson

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Dr. Laura’s Bad Childhood - Good LifeDr. Laura Schlessinger, licensed marriage, family, and child counselor (MFCC) and a radio show host known for her frank talk and stubborn commitment to moral issues, talks about the value of determination and courage in overcoming tragic or negative events of the past in her book Bad Childhood — Good Life. In this book, Schlessinger explains how one can have a good life despite going through a bad childhood.Using several examples from her radio program, Dr. Laura explains the whys and hows of certain situations. She dishes out no-nonsense advices that even her 9-year old callers can understand and relate to.Through her book, Schlessinger shares her expertise in helping people realize the connection between childhood experiences and current attitudes and decisions. It is also serves as an eye-opener that reminds people not to dwell too much on the scars and pains of the past in order to cover up or deal with emotional difficulties. The book also shows how this can become a hindrance especially in terms of building interpersonal relationships.Dr. Laura’s Bad Childhood - Good Life is the best guide for people who want to transform the bad into the good and use it to create a better, more peaceful, fulfilling and happy life. Written in a straightforward but compassionate and personal way that is uniquely Schlessinger, this masterpiece also includes examples lifted from the radio host’s own difficult and painful childhood experiences. Once you finish reading the book, like Schlessinger, you will be able to take hold of your life and turn those ugly memories into pleasant realities.

The one and only Dustin Hoffman, the fearless risk-taker with a million faces, was born in Los Angeles, California on 8/8/1937.

Hoffman breathed life to 64 movies in his busy career, including “”Midnight Cowboy (1969)”, “Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)”, “The Graduate (1967)”, “Straw Dogs (1971)”, and “Billy Bathgate (1991)”.

Dustin Hoffman was nominated for the Academy Award for a total of 7 times in 1968, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1983, 1989, and 1998 and won it in 1980 and 1989 for “Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)” and “Rain Man (1988)”.

Here are some trivia facts about Dustin Hoffman:

1) At one point, he was almost offered the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather (1972) and Rick Deckard in Blade Runner (1982).

2) During his struggling days in New York City as an unkown actor, he shared the same house with two other unknown actors — Robert Duvall and Gene Hackman. Hoffman once said “I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31.”

3) In the Little Big Man (1970) he broke a Guinness “age differential played by the same actor in a film” record by playing the same character at ages 17 and 121.

My favorite Hoffman quote is: “Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me.” (As Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate, 1967).

Widely regarded as one of the best, if not the greatest, sitcom in TV history, I Love Lucy marked the beginning of the television era. Created by husband and wife team Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, the series completely changed its industry with its use of a live audience and the deployment of more than one camera angle. The product of true comic genius, I Love Lucy’s ability to entertain audiences of every age remains as relevant today as it was upon its first inception…

The I Love Lucy (Season 2) DVD offers a number of hilarious episodes including the season premiere “The Anniversary Present” in which Ricky is spending time with a beautiful neighbor who is helping him find the perfect anniversary present for Lucy. But Lucy and Ethel are convinced that Ricky is having an affair, and they set out to spy on the two “home wreckers”… Other notable episodes from Season 2 include “Redecorating” in which Lucy unwittingly sells all the furniture after Fred and Ricky conspire to tell her she’s won a home decorating contest, and “The Camping Trip” in which Ricky tries to keep Lucy (and Ethel) from horning in on his and Fred’s camping retreat by taking her on a “trial run” (which he plans to make a miserable experience). But Ricky doesn’t know that Lucy’s on to his scheme, and she’s determined to turn the tables on him…

Below is a list of episodes included on the I Love Lucy (Season 2) DVD:

Episode 36 (The Anniversary Present) Air Date: 09-15-1952
Episode 37 (The Handcuffs) Air Date: 09-22-1952
Episode 38 (The Operetta) Air Date: 09-29-1952
Episode 39 (Job Switching) Air Date: 10-06-1952
Episode 40 (The Saxophone) Air Date: 10-13-1952
Episode 41 (Vacation from Marriage) Air Date: 10-27-1952
Episode 42 (The Courtroom) Air Date: 11-10-1952
Episode 43 (Redecorating) Air Date: 11-24-1952
Episode 44 (Ricky Loses His Voice) Air Date: 12-01-1952
Episode 45 (Sales Resistance) Air Date: 01-26-1953
Episode 46 (The Inferiority Complex) Air Date: 02-02-1953
Episode 47 (The Club Election) Air Date: 02-16-1953
Episode 48 (The Black Eye) Air Date: 03-09-1953
Episode 49 (Lucy Changes Her Mind) Air Date: 03-30-1953
Episode 50 (Lucy is Enceinte) Air Date: 12-08-1952
Episode 51 (Pregnant Women are Unpredictable) Air Date: 12-15-1952
Episode 52 (Lucy’s Showbiz Swan Song) Air Date: 12-22-1952
Episode 53 (Lucy Hires an English Tutor) Air Date: 12-29-1952
Episode 54 (Ricky Has Labor Pains) Air Date: 01-05-1953
Episode 55 (Lucy Becomes a Sculptress) Air Date: 01-12-1953
Episode 56 (Lucy Goes to the Hospital) Air Date: 01-19-1953
Episode 57 (No Children Allowed) Air Date: 04-20-1953
Episode 58 (Lucy Hires a Maid) Air Date: 04-27-1953
Episode 59 (The Indian Show) Air Date: 05-04-1953
Episode 60 (Lucy’s Last Birthday) Air Date: 05-11-1953
Episode 61 (The Ricardos Change Apartments) Air Date: 05-18-1953
Episode 62 (Lucy is Matchmaker) Air Date: 05-25-1953
Episode 63 (Lucy Wants New Furniture) Air Date: 06-01-1953
Episode 64 (The Camping Trip) Air Date: 06-08-1953
Episode 65 (Ricky’s Life Story) Air Date: 10-05-1953
Episode 66 (Ricky and Fred are TV Fans) Air Date: 06-22-1953
Episode 67 (Never Do Business with Friends) Air Date: 06-29-1953

Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a blog where you can find more reviews like this one of the I Love Lucy (Season 2) DVD.

There are avenues available to protest against the production companies and distributors who bring you bad movies. Take food out of their children’s mouths. Stop giving them your money and shrugging it off like no one cares.

No one does care. So, you have to care. If you don’t get the thrill from film you felt twenty years ago, don’t throw money at the studios. The commercial’s pretend as if everyone has to buy the DVD the first Tuesday it’s released. If all the people in America really have a copy, borrow the movie from one of them. If it is that good, then you can go out and buy your own copy.

Encourage your friends to do the same. After enough guilty persuasion, they will give in.

Do not order pay-per-view movies the first night if you have seen terrible movies by that production company their last three trips out. You encourage them to do more of the same trash. You are not obligated to see a film because a broadcaster said the Johnsons saw it in the theaters.

Work on your kids. The industry targets them with special effects. Give them alternative date ideas to steer them away from opening night theatrics.

Go to Goodwill and buy a bunch of books for a quarter each. Suggest your children try other hobbies outside of movies and video games. Don’t push them. They may be typical and purposefully move in the opposite direction than where you want them to go.

At the same time, some of them learn habits from you. Introduce them to great movies at as young an age as possible. Pick up a book. Order a new book once a month as if it were a part of the mortgage. Eventually, you will read one of them and start your own trend.

Battle your cable company. This is the hardest trend to change. We all want to have access to every channel available.
If your cable premium channels play the same five movies over and over again, cancel your premium services. Try other packages. Shop around for the best ones by trying all the packages. Only keep the packages that perform for you. Take your stand.

Yasheve began publishing novels ten years ago. He has worked inside and outside the traditional parameters of the entertainment industry. Currently, he’s a career novelist working on independent film projects at http://www.yasheve.com/copywriter.

Long before Californians elected him as the Governator, former elite bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger took Hollywood by storm as The Terminator. An overpowering figure with amazing charisma on and off the screen, Schwarzenegger did his best to secure roles outside of the typecast blood and destruction movies for which he seemed destined. Instead, Arnold showcased his diversity by branching out into differing genres with such flicks as Twins, Junior, and Kindergarten Cop… Arnold’s success is apparent in this light-hearted romantic comedy which utilizes his likeability as well as his macho man image. A delightful bit of entertainment, Kindergarten Cop is classic Arnold, spawning another of his usual famous one-liners, “It’s not a tumor”!

When Detective John Kimble (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and his partner, Phoebe O’Hara (Pamela Reed), get a hot tip that a drug dealer, Cullen Crisp (Richard Tyson), who they’ve long pursued is searching for his ex-wife because of some money she embezzled from his operation, the two detectives go undercover to find the woman before he does. With Crisp’s wife, Rachel, being the only one alive capable of testifying against Crisp and putting him jail, Kimble is intent on hunting her down. But all he and O’Hara know is the name of the Oregon school the woman’s son attends. A former teacher herself, O’Hara agrees to go undercover as a kindergarten teacher in order to weed out the identity of the boy and his mother.

The plan goes awry however, when O’Hara becomes horribly ill, forcing Kimble to become the undercover kindergarten cop. The principal is reluctant, but agrees to give Kimble a try. A horrible disciplinarian with no idea of how to control a group of five-year-olds, Kimble’s kindergarten class runs rings around him. A nearby first grade teacher, Joyce Palmieri (Penelope Ann Miller), provides him with advice and pointers - leading to a budding romance between the two. With her son Dominic in the class, Kimble suspects that she may be Crisp’s ex-wife, but discounts the possibility once she tells him that her ex-husband is dead.

Rallying the class behind his new teaching methods, Kimble becomes one of the top teachers in the school. But his failure to hunt down Crisp’s ex-wife provides the drug-dealer with the necessary time to hunt down his wife. Upon Crisp’s arrival in town, Kimble and O’Hara learn that his true intention is not the money his ex-wife supposedly stole, but the snatching of his son. Together, they must take on Crisp and his belligerent mother before they kidnap the young boy…

A funny and heart-warming comedy, Kindergarten Cop’s success rests solely on the shoulders of Arnold Schwarzenegger and his unique onscreen personality. With memorable one-liners and cute kids, the film is fun for the entire family. Although it has a modicum of action, Kindergarten Cop is not to be confused with an action thriller. So if you’re looking for that type of film, it’s not this one. But overall, Kindergarten Cop is an entertaining way to spend an evening, and for that reason, it’s a definite must-see film…

About the Author

Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a blog where you can find more reviews like this one of the Kindergarten Cop (DVD).

I’m an outgoing person - too outgoing - and share personal information easily. Being friendly is one thing, but I don’t want to be foolish about identity theft. Recently I heard a Crime Prevention Specialist talk about the way thieves steal our identity. What an education!

After his talk I purged my wallet. Since the talk I’ve gotten a lot smarter about protecting myself, especially when I travel. Airports are busy, crowded places and I can be easily distracted. Now I know I should be on constant alert. How can you protect yourself from identity theft?

1. It’s OK to talk to strangers, but don’t give then personal information about yourself.

2. Refrain from talking about financial things (investments, large purchases, home improvements, etc.) in public places.

3. Leave your check book and check register at home.

4. Delete personal information, such as your bank account number, Social Security number, and alarm code, from your laptop computer.

5. NEVER carry your Social Security card or number with you. Memorize the number instead.

6. Bring only two credit cards with you. Leave the rest at home in a secure place.

7. Use the two credit cards equally. Avoid a high total on one card that might attract attention.

8. Always have a credit card 800 emergency number with you in case your card is stolen.

9. Remove everything personal from your wallet, even your library card. Don’t stick receipts in your wallet or leave them in a rental car. Store receipts in a safe.

10. To dispose of documents you no longer need, soak them in warm water until they turn to pulp, and throw the pulp away.

11. Avoid ATM machines. If you must use one, cover the card with your hand so the number can’t be photographed from a distance.

12. Memorize your hotel room number.

13. Don’t put anything personal (letters with return addresses, etc.) in the trash.

14. Always put outgoing mail on a locked box.

These tips don’t guarantee that you won’t be a victim of identity theft, but they make it harder for the thieves to be successful. Check your wallet and coat pockets again before you leave. As the Boy Scout motto says, “Be prepared.”

Copyright 2006 by Harriet Hodgson

http://www.harriethodgson.com

Harriet Hodgson has been a nonfiction writer for 27 years and is a member of the Association of Health Care Journalists. Her 24th book, “Smiling Through Your Tears: Anticipating Grief,” written with Lois Krahn, MD is available from http://www.amazon.com A five-star review is also posted on Amazon. You’ll find another review on The American Hospice Foundation website under the “School Corner” heading.