Cheverly, MD (ContentDesk) April 10, 2006 - According to Ann Archer, published author on MSN, traditional thinking says the average homeowner pays anywhere from 5% to 15% of their homes value on landscaping.
Even at the low end of this range, homeowners will invest $10,500 if they live in the median-value American home worth $213,000.http://www.GardenHere.com offers an alternative that can save homeowners up to $30,000 by collaborating with more than 3,000 other home gardening and landscape members. By working together through the Internet, http://www.GardenHere.com makes it possible for homeowners to spend a fraction of what it would normally cost to add natural beauty and value to their home.Known as the friendliest home gardening community on the Internet, http://www.GardenHere.com makes it easy for home gardeners and do-it-yourself landscapers to exchange plants, seeds and flowers.
Members can set up their own trade lists to let other home gardeners know what they have ready to trade and which plants they would like in exchange.
Some members are even willing to share extra plants free -- just for postage.Registration and membership are free at http://www.GardenHere.com, says founder, Al Stubblefield, and, member benefits are much more than being able to trade and exchange plants, seeds, and flowers.
There are also tons of gardening tips, photo galleries, a chat room, private mail services, a garden auction, zone lookup, local weather, garden tools, free downloads and member calendars.Features and forums at http://www.GardenHere.com are provided in response to requests from the 3,000 plus members and the more than 1 million unique visitors who visit the site each year.
For instance, a new forum, Interiorscape, is being introduced this week for members who want to decorate the inside of their home as well as the outside.
The new forum includes topics ranging from painting, cleaning and interior design to furniture arrangement.Moderators for the http://www.GardenHere.com forums are member volunteers who share gardening tips, help new members learn their way around the site and provide free seed packets to members who become active participants.
Many of the articles published on GardenHere.com are written by volunteer member journalists.http://www.GardenHere.com member Sharon had this to say about this unusual approach to home gardening and do-it-yourself landscaping, Thank you so much for starting this friendly site. GardenHere is what I have wanted to find for years.
We are retired and on a fixed income, and plants are getting so expensive. This is just what people like me need, and I really look forward to all the fun and learning, and making new friends. About GardenHere:GardenHere freely serves home gardeners and neighborhood garden clubs. Membership is free. Members are invited to join the forums and post free exchanges, garden tips or just trade conversation with other home gardeners.GardenHere also offers a garden auction, plant encyclopedia, a garden journal in their free download area, garden calculators, a chat room, and hardiness zone look up tool.GardenHere makes it easy for members to trade plants, seeds and flowers. Members share home gardening tips and plant propagation techniques.
Everyone is welcome to upload plant and flower pictures, give garden advice, ask questions or just say "hello."Each month over 100 thousand unique visitors drop by GardenHere to research plants, talk gardening, meet other home gardeners, and exchange free plants, seeds and flowers.GardenHere is one of Americas favorite home gardening communities on the Internet, says owner and web designer Al Stubblefield. Thousands of home gardeners have joined the GardenHere forums. It is a popular place to make friends, do garden exchanges, trade home gardening tips, and get plant advice.One new member had this to say, Thanks to you all whom I have had the opportunity to trade with. I love being able to share my flowers with others. I think I have driven all of my friends and family crazy trying to give them starts of the same things every year.
Now I don't have to just get rid of my plants, I can share with all the GardenHere members. Thanks for allowing us the great opportunity to share with gardeners every where." MelissaAnother GardenHere member from Adair, Oklahoma said, I have just recently found this gardening website and absolutely love it. If anyone would be interested in some Bearded Irises, please let me know. I have three beds that are extremely out of control!A home gardener from Boulder, Montana had this to say about GardenHere. I just wanted to thank you for this wonderful home gardening website you have created.
This is a great idea . . .!.
The Importance of Waterbed Sheets
Waterbeds provide a unique sleeping experience.
They can be great for stress relief and curing insomnia.
In order to keep bedding in place overnight, waterbeds require special sheets.
There are numerous types of material used to weave the sheets, giving consumers a wide choice of fabrics.
Each type of fabric offers its own unique advantages.
Waterbed sheets come in an endless array of colors and patterns, allowing buyers to pick the color and design that best matches the rest of the room.
One unique feature of many waterbed sheet sets is the corner pocket design, which lets users firmly place the sheets on the bed, assuring that they won't move when you are trying to sleep.
Some popular fabrics used to make waterbed sheets are cotton, satin and flannel.
Each fabric offers distinct advantages, one is not necessarily better than the others.
Waterbed sheets come with different thread counts.
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The Palms Tanning Resort Continues Winning National Accolades
Written by Jan Dowker from Simply Organic, The Palms Tanning Resort's Public Relations company.Greenwood Village, CO (ContentDesk) OCTOBER 24 2003--Surrounded by the soothing sounds of ocean waves, a 9-foot waterfall and incredibly appointed individual tanning rooms, The Palms Tanning Resort continues to raise the bar in the tanning salon industry for its upscale salon design, attention to customer service, use of sunless tanning technology and revolutionary tanning beds.Although still in its infancy, Keith and Holly Rodenberger, owners of The Palms Tanning Resort, have invested both time and energy to create a flourishing business.
Their efforts are gaining them national recognition throughout the tanning industry."We've taken the industry by storm because we believe that tanning is more than a necessity, it's a luxury.
Everyone that goes to a tanning salon should escape the ordinary.
Our salon provides our clients with just that experience," says Keith Rodenberger.Recognition...
Cloud 9 Air Mattress Beds Joins clixGalore for a Promotional 7% per Sale Affiliate Program
(ContentDesk) May 22, 2006 -- Cloud 9 Air Mattress Beds, quickly becoming one of the industry leaders in the promotion of New Age Sleep Systems has implemented a new affiliate program in conjunction with trusted clixGalore Affiliate Networks.After countless requests from affiliate marketers and alike to promote their High Quality Sleep Systems, Cloud 9 Air Mattress Beds announced last month that affiliates would be able to promote all products including, Air Beds, Adjustable Beds, Sensus Memory Foam Mattresses, Talalay Latex Mattresses, all Mattress Toppers and Foam Pillows. Cloud 9 Air Mattress Beds provides quality products from Latex International, Leggett & Platt, Somma Aire and Foamex. The products combine the best US made Sleep Products available with unparalleled affordability and amazing health benefits.Each manufacturers quality is well documented; Latex International is the leader of the highest quality latex, Talalay Latex. Leggett & Platt are the largest manufacturer of...
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Healthy Pregnany: Pilates Helps Expecting Mothers
Most people think of Pilates as a new form of exercise because of its recent surge of popularity in the fitness and healthcare industry. In reality, Joseph Pilates invented about 80 years ago by.
Pilates was a sickly child with asthma. To help fight his illness and build his strength, he experimented with various mind-body disciplines and later became an accomplished skier, diver, gymnast, and boxer. While in internment during WWI in England, he taught fellow interns his concepts and exercises that he developed over 20 years of self-study and apprenticeship in yoga, Zen, and ancient Greek and Roman physical regimens.
During this time, Pilates began devising the system of original floor exercises known today as “Pilates matwork". Within a few years, he became a nurse to the many internees under care with wartime disease and physical injury. Here, he began devising exercise apparatuses to rehabilitate the patients by taking springs from the beds and rigging them...
Healthy Pregnany: Pilates Helps Expecting Mothers
Homeowners Save Up to $30 Thousand on Landscaping
Cheverly, MD (ContentDesk) April 10, 2006 - According to Ann Archer, published author on MSN, traditional thinking says the average homeowner pays anywhere from 5% to 15% of their homes value on landscaping.
Even at the low end of this range, homeowners will invest $10,500 if they live in the median-value American home worth $213,000.http://www.GardenHere.com offers an alternative that can save homeowners up to $30,000 by collaborating with more than 3,000 other home gardening and landscape members. By working together through the Internet, http://www.GardenHere.com makes it possible for homeowners to spend a fraction of what it would normally cost to add natural beauty and value to their home.Known as the friendliest home gardening community on the Internet, http://www.GardenHere.com makes it easy for home...
Lollipop Theater Network Partners with KIDS FIRST! to Bring Films to Hospitals Nationwide
Washington, DC (ContentDesk) March 24, 2006 -- Lollipop Theater Network (LOLLIPOP), the charity dedicated to bringing the magic of movies to children confined to hospitals due to chronic or life-threatening illnesses, is proud to partner with KIDS FIRST! to bring a continuous stream of quality childrens media to pediatric patients nationwide.
The collaboration will debut on March 25th with a screening of Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainments Little Manhattan at the Avalon Theatre in Washington, DC. Outpatients and their families from Childrens National Medical Center and additional DC area hospitals will be treated to the special 10:00 a.m. screening. Additional group and isolation screenings of the film will be offered at all hospitals through April 7th.Little Manhattan is a romantic comedy about life, the Big Apple - and that mysterious, maddening, and phenomenal thing known as "first love." The film takes place in New York City, a city known for excitement, where two...
HIPAA Self-Directed Risk Assessment Successfully Implemented at Yoakum County Hospital
Austin, Texas (ContentDesk) November 28, 2005 -- CynergisTek, Inc. and Blass Consulting, LLC, leaders in information security solutions, announced today the successful launch of the Self-Directed Risk Assessment Solution (SDRA) at Yoakum County Hospital.
Yoakum County Hospital is a 24 bed rural hospital in west Texas.????Like so many smaller entities covered by the requirements of HIPAA Security, Yoakum was looking to ensure compliance with a solution that was affordable, provided subject matter expertise and could support on-going compliance requirements.
Smaller covered entities, particularly hospitals with less than 175 beds, have all the requirements of HIPAA but may not have the budget or the expertise internally to navigate the standards as they apply to their organization.
Many times, hospitals in this market segment simply cannot afford the fees associated with using independent consulting firms to perform a traditional, best-practice risk assessment....
His Toy, Her Toy
I remember when my daughter was born. Visions of her and I dressed in pinks and purples sitting in her lacy pink room playing dolls danced threw my head. A year later my son was born ;My husbands vision of sports and trucks revved around like mad men threw his manly mind.Those dreams were simply that dreams. Little did I know there are lessons for parents to learn about children's toys and who are children will be.My daughter plays with dolls. She plays with clay and gets her hands dirty.
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Are You Responsible For The Appliances in Your New Apartment?
So you're moving into a new apartment? The list of things you should check on before signing that lease seems never-ending. You have to worry about location, environment, convenience, cost, aesthetic appeal, etc. But wait... there's more! One more thing to check out is what you, the tenant, are responsible for bringing to the apartment.Realize that just because the model apartment you toured with your landlord displayed the lovely washer/dryer 2000 unit doesn't mean you'll have one in your apartment....
Homeowners Save Up to $30 Thousand on Landscaping
National Parenting Expert Recommends Cancellation of Mother’s Day
Atlanta, GA (ContentDesk) May 9, 2006 -- There should be no such thing as Mothers Day, says national parenting expert Hal Runkel, LMFT, author and creator of the award-winning and best-selling ScreamFree Parenting Program. Having a mothers day suggests that on this one day of the year, the husband, and all the kids should make everything special for mom, give her breakfast in bed, let her choose the restaurant to go to, and maybe buy her some nice gifts of chocolate, jewelry, or spa treatments.Hallmark...
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Corporate-Gift-Baskets.com Offers Gift Baskets Recipients Will Treasure For Years
Corporate-Gift-Baskets.com today announced the launch of its new website that helps companies differentiate themselves with their customers through heirloom-quality gifts that the recipients will treasure for years to come."Our company's mission is to help companies to build profits by standing out in their customer's minds," said Don Crowther, President. "Most gift baskets are discarded, and forgotten, as soon as the goodies are gone. At Corporate-Gift-Baskets.com our gifts are designed to be...
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