Sunday, May 31st, 2009 94 views
by Jeff Garner
We are experiencing the worse economic crisis since the Great Depression, and there’s no easy way out. Unemployment continues to rise, and the President’s stimulus plan can only begin to recover some of what has been lost, much less stem the rising tide of unemployment. We won’t be out of this in a year or even five years. Not only are there fewer jobs, but entire careers have virtually disappeared, lost to technological developments or shipped overseas.
Yet there’s hope. Do an online job search, and you’ll realize there are thousands of jobs out there. That’s exactly the problem. With the unlimited potential of the Internet, exploring every job site is simply impossible. How do you sift through it all?
Job search engines simplify the online job search, streamlining thousands of job sites into a simple selection of relevant offerings. It shows you what’s available, including higher paying jobs that aren’t as well advertised. With a job search engine, it’s possible to find the jewel of a job listing in all the grains of sand of possible job opportunities. It doesn’t limit your search. It focuses it, giving you the jobs that have the most relevance and greatest potential.
Job search engines do more than improve time management. They help you to better direct your time, leaving more energy for other important steps of the job process such as submitting resumes and updating your online employment profile. You’ll have time to launch more prospects, which means more potential to help launch your career.
A job search engine is much more effective than Monster because it includes all job listings. Monster only features jobs that employers have paid to advertise.
A job search engine could include a spider that crawls job sites related to your search. Some are even downloadable into your computer, so you can do the search at your own time and your convenience. Others are more extensive, searching sites in real time and then offering you the most relevant, including the hard to find listings that often feature the best benefits.
Some search engines even surf the classifieds of local newspapers, allowing you access to want ads anywhere in the world. Any newspaper is only a computer search away, connecting the globe together.
Unemployment continues to rise, but there are jobs out there to be had, jobs being born every day. Adversity requires a diligent, creative approach. Some people found creative ways to build fortunes even in the wake of the Great Depression. It’s simply a matter of having the tools at your disposal. Technology gives you the leverage to explore more employment opportunities anywhere in the world.
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Sunday, May 31st, 2009 116 views
by Jane Calhoun
As we’ve all learned, profiting from investing is usually not a slam dunk, so it’s always best to learn to invest money with a specific strategy in mind. It’s just like playing a game, you can only be sure of the result after the game has ended and a winner declared. When you play a game to win, you need to start with a strategy, and investing is no different. The winners have one thing in common - they start with a clear investment strategy.
An investment strategy is simple, but not easy. It consists of your personal financial goals, and a plan for how to reach those goals. Having chosen your goals, you can then determine which types of instruments will best help achieve success with your plan. Each time you select a particular investment, such as bonds, stock, or mutual funds, you will be able to also choose within that category among the many options for individual investments - which stocks are a fit, which mutual funds have the objectives that meet your needs.
When you are trying to determine how to invest your money, if you haven′t spent the time on doing research, your choices can quickly become very confusing, if for no other reason than because there are so many different investment vehicles and individual investments to choose from. This is why having a strategy is key, because it helps you decide which instruments will help you reach your objectives, and which are not a fit.
For investors who are not very experienced in choosing stocks, a financial planner might be a good choice to work with. Working with a professional can help you put a finer point on what you need to accomplish your financial goals and complete your plan. For exmaple, they can help you identify your risk tolerance, your resources for investing, and the time horizon over which your investments can grow.
Build a strategy first, and then trade from your plan, never from your gut. In the long term, it is the investor who does not have a plan who fares worse regardless of market sentiment. Use your plan to steer your course to financial wealth, and by applying your strategy, you′ll begin to achieve your financial goals.
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Saturday, May 30th, 2009 92 views
Regarding Babylon, one message in the book of Revelation is not &ldquoCome out of her, you Pagans.&rdquo The message is: &ldquoCome out of her, my people&rdquo (Revelation 18:4). This message would not be appropriate unless God&rsquos people had a presence in Babylon at the time of the end. Why should you come out of Babylon?
“…That you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues” (same verse).
“For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities” (Revelation 18:5).
“Babylon has been a golden cup in the Eternal’s hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad” (Jeremiah 51:7).
While the City of Babylon will be a specific place on this planet, Babylon itself is a system that girdles the globe. It is the international control system against God. It was set up like that from the beginning when Nimrod established Babel, the seed that became Babylon.
“…Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Eternal” (Genesis 10:9).
The King James “before” is from the Hebrew word “paniym”, which means, among other things, “in front of.” Nimrod placed himself in front of God, ahead of God, in essence, against God. And, Nimrod’s system, Babylon, as refined by his wife, Semiramis, became the control system opposed to the Creator God.
To understand Babylon, we must understand Babel, the tower upon which the system was founded. It was more than just a tower; it was the beginning of the control system against God. It has evolved into being the control system we see in today’s modern world: control of religion (faith control), control of media (opinion control), control of education (mind control), control of commerce (trade control), control of banking (money control), control of medications and prescriptions and medical services (drug control).
How did Babylon get started? Before there was Babylon, there was Babel. After the flood, God gave a promise that he would not destroy all flesh in a flood (Genesis 9:13-15). However, many of the people were still fearful. Nimrod took advantage of this fear. Josephus describes what happened after the flood. At first many were reluctant to come down from the mountains, fearing a future worldwide flood. This happened in spite of a direct promise from God. When the majority of people did come down from the mountains, they dwelt in the plane of Shinar, a section of territory that would comprise what was later known as a precinct of Babylon. It was a good land for farming and was filled with blessings from the ground. However a leadership arose that rejected the idea that the prosperity was a blessing from God. They believed that their own power was the proper cause of their plentiful conditions and that they were therefore under no obligation to obey God.
It was Nimrod, grandson of Ham, who incited them to exhibit such an affront and contempt of God. His philosophy was, “If you submit to God, you are a coward.” It was a philosophy of expanding self-confidence into self-worship. The building of the tower of Babel was supervised by the master mason, Nimrod. Its purpose was not simply to reach into heaven (the sky). Its purpose was also to provide a place to go when the future flood arrived to drown the world. Nimrod worked on the fear people had of the flood, a flood that never came. Fear was (and is) a tool of Babylon.
The tower was constructed of burnt brick, cemented together with mortar consisting of bitumen, which made it water-proof. Fearful that other places might not be as fruitful and plentiful as Shinar, the majority of the people participated in the building of the tower. Nimrod controlled the people by means of the tool of fear. However, the tower-building project came to an abrupt end when God confounded their language and scattered them over the face of the earth (Genesis 11:7-9). So all the people who were participating in the building of the tower became unable to communicate with each other and, as a result, became scattered. After this time, did anyone come to inhabit the land of Shinar? Yes. Hestiaeus mentions the priests of Jupiter (a false god) took sacred vessels and came to Shinar.
Nimrod’s great uncle, Shem, is also known as Sem. He is the father of all Semitic people. According to profane history Shem killed Nimrod, cut him up, and sent pieces of his body all over the inhabited world.
This violent act had the effect of terrorizing Semiramis, Nimrod’s widow, to the extent that she turned the Babel system into a mystery, a secret system known only to the inner circle. It became the Babylonian mysteries. And today Babylon is a mystery to the majority of the world’s population who have been victimized by it. Modern education and media are, for the most part, Godless and secular.
“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient” (Romans 1:28).
This is one reason so many in the media and in education have lost the ability to maintain logical and reasonable trains of thought. Their degeneracy has developed to the level in which their mind has become reprobate. Some newcomers have not reached that point but they are told they must get with the program or get out. After years of getting with the program, they, too, lose the associative abilities one would ordinarily expect of reporters and educators.
Christ did not institute vows of poverty for himself or for anyone else. On the other hand he did not direct that his way (Christianity) should be run like a business, complete with territorial imperatives, spirit of competition, and an overbearing chain-of-command to lord it over the so-called “laity”.
Many demons have had the effect of placing an extra bit of deception into the mind of the idolater. For example, at the end there will be frog-like demons that will influence the rulers of the world to believe that they can actually fight against Christ (Revelation 16:13-14). There is an equation at work here. The more idolatry a person is involved in, the greater capacity they have for self-deception.
“Take heed to yourself that you be not trapped by following them, after that they be destroyed from before you; and that you inquire after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? Even so will I do likewise” (Deuteronomy 12:30).
At first glance, this may seem like someone simply going after other gods and using idols as an aid to worship other gods. The next verse makes it clearer. You shall not apply this to the true God!
“You shall not do so unto the Eternal your God&hellip” (Deuteronomy 12:31).
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Sources:
Elder, Wily, Babylon: Control of Religion, ? 2000 Wily Elder, AFSS Corporation, Ocala, FL, United States
Hislop, Alexander, The Two Babylons, ? 1916, Loizeaux Brothers, p. 6,63,64, Neptune, NJ, United States
Josephus, Complete Works of Josephus, ? 1960 Kregel Publications, Page 30, Grand Rapids, MI, United States
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Saturday, May 30th, 2009 378 views
by Don Bethune
Many adults approaching sixty-five years old are under the misimpression that they do not have to be concerned with any problems concerning health care coverage reimbursement. They need to realize that regardless of their belief, they will need some type of coverage reimbursement. Medicare is the federal governmental program that provides health insurance to those over age sixty-five.
Medicare is funded by pay sheet deductions and self employment taxations on workers. It is believed by several to be division of social security since it is for superannuated folks sixty-five years aged or older. In reality, it is dealt and funded individually from Social Security, but does apportion several of its troubles.
In order to understand the program, you must understand how Cigna Medicare providers function. Medicare actually has a number of Parts to consider when evaluating services. Part A covers hospital care and costs. Part B covers items such as doctor services, outpatient care and other non-hospital services. Part C is known as a Medicare Advantage Plan. If you have Parts A and B, you can pick up Part C as an alternative. It provides the same Part A and B coverage plus other managed care expenses. The managed care expenses are provided through private insurance companies. Part D is the prescription drug benefit plan
Part D of the Medicare program only recently went into effect in January 2006. You must register as a beneficiary to get benefits. The cost to you is via monthly premiums although there are subsidies for low-income enrollees. Since the drugs in Part A and B are excluded under Part D, there is no overlap in coverage for the prescription drugs.
Cigna medicare part d is assailable to anybody who’s eligible to Medicare Part A OR registered in Medicare Part B. Registration is intentional but if you do not inscribe when first qualified a late registration penalization of 1% of premium cigna rates per month will enforce. At this time there isn’t a cap on the belated registration penalization.
You can cease your Medicare Part D benefit program at whatever time but you’ll not be admitted to link up with additional plan until the yearbook election period. The yearly election period will be from November fifteen through December thirty-one of every year. Belated enrollments can alone unite a plan in the yearly election period.
Medicare recipients that have some other reference of drugs reportage might abide in that plan and not enter in Medicare Part D if that additional source of reportage is at least as benevolent as the Part D basic benefit, which is known as “creditable coverage″. If a recipient has creditable coverage they’ll avert belated registration penalization when they inscribe for Part D of cigna providers.
You can choose to register directly through a Cigna provider or with an independent agent. Registering through an agent may be more beneficial in that there is no difference in the premium. Like other types of insurance agents, they can explain the alternative prescription drug plans available. They can also assist you with any questions or difficulties that may arise during the coverage periods.
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