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November is Alzheimer’s Awareness Month. We all know that Alzheimer’s Disease is a devastating illness for anyone. That’s why it is very important to get to know about the disease and it is important to find out the early detection of the disease.If you think that you may have Alzheimer’s or want to be sure about early detection you should go and apply for memory screening. Go to the website and locate the memory screening in your area. You can The most important factor health wise is to visit your doctor regularly, participate I activities that stimulates your brain (word games would be perfect ),get help if you are depressed, eat healthy, exercise and reach out to people. You need to have a active social life. It is very important that you can talk to someone about what you feel. I know that age has something to do with dementia, that’s why you need to read the successful aging tips that you can find at the website. Share it with your love ones. So they will be aware too.And give the generous holiday gift.

You can help about this fight although there’s no known cure yet for Alzheimer’s but, you can help by ensuring quality care to the people who suffered this illness. You can help by contributing to the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America. There’s nothing more special than giving a holiday gift to someone who really needs it. On my clinical, I experienced working with Alzheimer’s patients and it was devastating to see people who loss their memory, their special moments that we all want to hold on. They need our help even though there’s no know cure for this but being thoughtful for their situation will be a great holiday gift that we can give to them.

What we can do now is to encourage everyone we know that we should get a memory screening and find out the early detection , maybe we suffered some symptoms that new need to understand more if it is Alzheimer’s or not. Bring your love ones. Don’t forget to exercise your brain with word games,memory games and other brain power ideas that can help to stimulate our brain cells. Spread the word about memory screening and about Successful Aging Tips and don’t forget to share the special holiday gift. It's your memories, it's your health, it's your life. Take good care of it!

This is my post for Bloggers unite Stop the Abuse!!!



I am reaching for the people to stop Domestic Violence. Women are not your punching bag that you can just step on and will treated like a slave!!!

Domestic violence and emotional abuse are behaviors used by one person in a relationship to control the other. Partners may be married or not married; heterosexual, gay, or lesbian; living together, separated or dating.

Examples of abuse include:

* name-calling or putdowns
* keeping a partner from contacting their family or friends
* withholding money
* stopping a partner from getting or keeping a job
* actual or threatened physical harm
* sexual assault
* stalking
* intimidation

Violence can be criminal and includes physical assault (hitting, pushing, shoving, etc.), sexual abuse (unwanted or forced sexual activity), and stalking. Although emotional, psychological and financial abuse are not criminal behaviors, they are forms of abuse and can lead to criminal violence.



The violence takes many forms and can happen all the time or once in a while. An important step to help yourself or someone you know in preventing or stopping violence is recognizing the warning signs listed on the "Violence Wheel."

ANYONE CAN BE A VICTIM! Victims can be of any age, sex, race, culture, religion, education, employment or marital status. Although both men and women can be abused, most victims are women. Children in homes where there is domestic violence are more likely to be abused and/or neglected. Most children in these homes know about the violence. Even if a child is not physically harmed, they may have emotional and behavior problems.

If you are being abused, REMEMBER

1. You are not alone
2. It is not your fault
3. Help is available
Call Call your nearest YWCA who can help you in shelter, legal and food needs. You don't have to be afraid, just remember the more you show them that you are afraid the more they think they can control and threat you!!! Fight for your right an dprotect yourselves and your children!Don't be a victim!

The following is a press release about the launch of green energy tariffs. British Gas has made the announcement of this green energy tariff, which will be the "greenest" out there. I didn't know much about until just recently when I came across this press release, but found it to be very informative and something many of my readers may enjoy learning more about. Take a moment and read the press release below:

BRITISH GAS LAUNCHES GREENEST ENERGY TARIFF

9 August 2007: British Gas has announced it is launching two new
green energy tariffs, Zero Carbon, which will be the greenest tariff available on the domestic market and Future Energy. British Gas has launched the tariffs, in response to the increasing demand for green energy products.

Householders signing up to the Zero Carbon tariff will:
• reduce their household energy carbon emissions to zero through Kyoto compliant offset schemes which will meet the new Defra requirements
• help fund a direct increase in investment in renewable energy generated in the UK
• contribute to the new British Gas green fund which will:
o invest in developing new renewable technologies such as wave power
o oversee a programme to help schools in the UK reduce their CO2 emissions

Gearóid Lane, Managing Director British Gas New Energy said,”Our new tariff responds to consumer demand for truly green energy solutions. It is essential that customers have confidence in green energy tariffs and that their credibility is not damaged by tariffs that claim to be green but in reality do not deliver any incremental environmental benefits. Green tariffs are moving from niche to mainstream products and we’re leading the industry by offering a tariff that will do more for the environment than any other product currently available.”

Under the government’s Renewables Obligation (RO), electricity suppliers in the UK are already required to produce an increasing percentage of their electricity through methods such as wind farms which, unlike traditional power plants, produce zero carbon emissions. For 2007/2008 this figure is set at 7.9%.

In a recent report, the National Consumer Council (NCC) raised concerns that some energy suppliers are packaging electricity which is produced under the RO scheme as “green”, yet it delivers no additional environmental benefits. The NCC called on energy suppliers to take steps beyond their legal requirements and offer green energy tariffs that provide genuine additional environmental benefits, in particular CO2 emissions reduction.

British Gas worked with Global Action Plan and The Climate Group’s “We’re in this Together” campaign to develop Zero Carbon which goes further than any other green tariff in meeting these requirements offering consumers the only zero carbon option on the market.

The tariff carries a premium of £84 per year, reflecting the higher cost of producing energy through lower carbon emission schemes.

Virginia Graham, Chair of Global Action Plan, said, “The British Gas Zero Carbon tariff delivers on all three of the essential requirements of a green tariff which are: additionality, transparency and verifiability. As such it is a very welcome new offering in the market. Consumers signing up to the tariff can be confident that they are getting 12 per cent more renewable energy than they would otherwise have got. The carbon emissions from their electricity and gas will also be offset with emissions reductions from projects accredited by the United Nations.”

Zero Carbon is one of the first initiatives launched through the ‘We’re in this Together’ campaign, which was launched in April 07 as an alliance of some of the UK’s biggest brands who are all working to help their customers reduce their impact on the climate.

Dr Steve Howard, CEO of The Climate Group and founder of ‘We’re in this Together’ said, “We’re committed to offering people ways to make a real impact on climate change through Together.com. We’ve worked with British Gas to ensure that Zero Carbon is a genuine step forward in delivering more environmental benefits than any other tariff currently available.”

British Gas’s second green energy tariff, Future Energy, offers an alternative green electricity tariff at a premium of just £20 per year. Customers signing up to this tariff will contribute to a green fund which will provide solar panels and other renewable energy technologies to UK schools. Money from the fund will also be invested in development of future renewable technologies and sources.

To sign up customers can call British Gas on 0845 604 0055 or visit www.britishgas.co.uk


I think that this is one of the great idea. As what you read knowing that for every customer signing up to Future Energy British Gas will:
Invest 100% of the customer’s contribution into the non-profit British Gas green fund : £5 will go to UK schools to help reduce their CO2 emissions. The rest will be invested in development of new renewable technologies and resources.
For every kWh of electricity used by a Future Energy customer, British Gas will supply a kWh of renewable energy to the national grid at the same price as our standard tariff. 100% of the renewable energy purchased will be backed with LECs & REGOs, which are proof that the electricity purchased by us is from a renewable source.
Issue further advice and tools to help to reduce household energy consumption and save money on energy bills.
Actively encourage customers to reduce their consumption by completing an Energy Savers Report
This tariff carries a £20 premium on average annual electricity consumption
The British Gas green fund is a charitable non-profit fund with two areas of focus:
- a programme to help UK schools reduce their carbon emissions
- development of emerging low carbon / renewable technologies.
All these things even though you have to pay more but the cause is great. It is time for people to understand that there’s a lot of ways to help conserve energy.