25 Years Later: Aids And The Forgotten Victims
Science has taken important steps toward treating the condition in the 25 years since the first cases of a nameless, deadly disease now known as the human immunodeficiency virus were recorded in the U.S. The problems of one group affected by the disease, however, need addressing in a different way. Over the last quarter century, the tragic story of HIV AIDS has often been told-but the story of children orphaned by this disease is often forgotten. Without mothers, fathers, doctors and community leaders, millions of children are left unprotected and deprived of a normal childhood. Children are suffering because the world has not recognized that the disease is wreaking havoc on childhood. The AIDS pandemic is unraveling decades of progress for children. School enrollment, immunization rates and child survival around the world are suffering significant reversals...
Posted on February 9, 2009 by Aida | 9 comments
The Secrets That Lead To Great Colour Photo Prints
You ve carefully composed that shot. You sat there, waiting hours on end to get the colours of that beautiful sunset just right. Then, finally, you shot your great sunset. Everything seemed like OK, but when you print your beautiful photo, it comes out dull, with little of the vibrance you expected to see. What a disappointment. Most disappointments with photography being output on an inkjet photo printer have to do with the colour workflow. If your colour workflow is not set up well, you re bound to get results that look nowhere near what you expected from the shot in the first place. So, how should you proceed to get the best looking output on an inkjet photo printer. It all starts with setting up your workflow correctly, and to do that, you need to make up your mind about a few things first. The first issue is to determine which level of output quality you...
Posted on December 11, 2008 by Carrie | 3 comments
The Dangers Of Get Rich Quick Schemes -and Other Money Pits
It is an understandable that millions of people have ambitions, desires or passing wishes to have their own business. Let s face it, countless millions of people are in jobs they do not really like, nor get any satisfaction from. Financially, they get by from to month to month, but cannot build up real wealth. It seems a constant strain to make ends meet; frustrations are commonplace because people have little control over their own lives, they have to live day to day in their employers cage; frustrated like grounded eagles with their wings clipped. Maybe they are helping to make their employer rich, but what of themselves. Don t we all deserve the freedom, the riches, that the owners of successful businesses enjoy. What is easy to forget is that, usually, those business have been built with a lot of blood, sweat and tears. Running a business is very hard...
Posted on November 4, 2008 by Pedro | 10 comments
