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Here are the meanings of ten common dreams that people have:

Being Chased or Attacked
To dream that you engage in a fight, denotes that you will have unpleasant encounters with your business opponents, and law suits threaten you.

To see fighting, denotes that you are squandering your time and money. For women, this dream is a warning against slander and gossip.

For a young woman to see her lover fighting, is a sign of his unworthiness. To dream that you are defeated in a fight, signifies that you will lose your right to property.

To whip your assailant, denotes that you will, by courage and perseverance, win honor and wealth in spite of opposition.

To dream that you see two men fighting with pistols, denotes many worries and perplexities, while no real loss is involved in the dream, yet but small profit is predicted and some unpleasantness is denoted.

Wind
To dream of the wind blowing softly and sadly upon you, signifies that great fortune will come to you through bereavement.

If you hear the wind soughing, denotes that you will wander in estrangement from one whose life is empty without you.

To walk briskly against a brisk wind, foretells that you will courageously resist temptation and pursue fortune with a determination not easily put aside. For the wind to blow you along against your wishes, portends failure in business undertakings and disappointments in love. If the wind blows you in the direction you wish to go you will find unexpected and helpful allies, or that you have natural advantages over a rival or competitor.

Ladder
To dream of a ladder being raised for you to ascend to some height, your energetic and nervy qualifications will raise you into prominence in business affairs.

To ascend a ladder, means prosperity and unstinted happiness.

To fall from one, denotes despondency and unsuccessful transactions to the tradesman, and blasted crops to the farmer.

To see a broken ladder, betokens failure in every instance.

To descend a ladder, is disappointment in business, and unrequited desires.

To escape from captivity, or confinement, by means of a ladder, you will be successful, though many perilous paths may intervene.

To grow dizzy as you ascend a ladder, denotes that you will not wear new honors serenely. You are likely to become haughty and domineering in your newly acquired position.

House / Property Damage
To dream of visiting your old home, you will have good news to rejoice over.

To see your old home in a dilapidated state, warns you of the sickness or death of a relative. For a young woman this is a dream of sorrow. She will lose a dear friend.

To go home and find everything cheery and comfortable, denotes harmony in the present home life and satisfactory results in business.

Fire
Fire is favorable to the dreamer if he does not get burned. It brings continued prosperity to seamen and voyagers, as well as to those on land.

To dream of seeing your home burning, denotes a loving companion, obedient children, and careful servants.

For a business man to dream that his store is burning, and he is looking on, foretells a great rush in business and profitable results.

To dream that he is fighting fire and does not get burned, denotes that he will be much worked and worried as to the conduct of his business. To see the ruins of his store after a fire, forebodes ill luck. He will be almost ready to give up the effort of amassing a handsome fortune and a brilliant business record as useless, but some unforeseen good fortune will bear him up again.

If you dream of kindling a fire, you may expect many pleasant surprises. You will have distant friends to visit.

To see a large conflagration, denotes to sailors a profitable and safe voyage. To men of literary affairs, advancement and honors; to business people, unlimited success.

Falling / Drowning
To dream that you sustain a fall, and are much frightened, denotes that you will undergo some great struggle, but will eventually rise to honor and wealth; but if you are injured in the fall, you will encounter hardships and loss of friends.

To dream of drowning, denotes loss of property and life; but if you are rescued, you will rise from your present position to one of wealth and honor.

To see others drowning, and you go to their relief, signifies that you will aid your friend to high places, and will bring deserved happiness to yourself.

For a young woman to see her sweetheart drowned, denotes her bereavement by death.

Nakedness
To dream that you are naked, foretells scandal and unwise engagements.

To see others naked, foretells that you will be tempted by designing persons to leave the path of duty. Sickness will be no small factor against your success.

To dream that you suddenly discover your nudity, and are trying to conceal it, denotes that you have sought illicit pleasure contrary to your noblest instincts and are desirous of abandoning those desires.

For a young woman to dream that she admires her nudity, foretells that she will win, but not hold honest men’s regard. She will win fortune by her charms. If she thinks herself ill-formed, her reputation will be sullied by scandal. If she dreams of swimming in clear water naked, she will enjoy illicit loves, but nature will revenge herself by sickness, or loss of charms. If she sees naked men swimming in clear water, she will have many admirers. If the water is muddy, a jealous admirer will cause ill-natured gossip about her.

Disasters
To dream of being in any disaster from public conveyance, you are in danger of losing property or of being maimed from some malarious disease.

For a young woman to dream of a disaster in which she is a participant, foretells that she will mourn the loss of her lover by death or desertion.

To dream of a disaster at sea, denotes unhappiness to sailors and loss of their gains. To others, it signifies loss by death; but if you dream that you are rescued, you will be placed in trying situations, but will come out unscathed.

To dream of a railway wreck in which you are not a participant, you will eventually be interested in some accident because of some relative or friend being hurt, or you will have trouble of a business character.

Trapped
To dream of setting a trap, denotes that you will use intrigue to carry out your designs

If you are caught in a trap, you will be outwitted by your opponents.

If you catch game in a trap, you will flourish in whatever vocation you may choose.

To see an empty trap, there will be misfortune in the immediate future.

An old or broken trap, denotes failure in business, and sickness in your family may follow.

Ghosts
To dream of the ghost of either one of your parents, denotes that you are exposed to danger, and you should be careful in forming partnerships with strangers.

To see the ghost of a dead friend, foretells that you will make a long journey with an unpleasant companion, and suffer disappointments.

For a ghost to speak to you, you will be decoyed into the hands of enemies. For a woman, this is a prognostication of widowhood and deception.

To see an angel or a ghost appear in the sky, denotes the loss of kindred and misfortunes.

To see a female ghost on your right in the sky and a male on your left, both of pleasing countenance, signifies a quick rise from obscurity to fame, but the honor and position will be filled only for a short space, as death will be a visitor and will bear you off.

To see a female ghost in long, clinging robes floating calmly through the sky, indicates that you will make progression in scientific studies and acquire wealth almost miraculously, but there will be an under note of sadness in your life.

To dream that you see the ghost of a living relative or friend, denotes that you are in danger of some friend’s malice, and you are warned to carefully keep your affairs under personal supervision. If the ghost appears to be haggard, it may be the intimation of the early death of that friend.

Todd runs the Dream Interpretations Guide
web site at: http://dreaminterpretationsguide.com, a
dream dictionary containing over 10,000 dreams interpreted.

In a recent article, Increase Your Income with an Organized
Marketing Plan, I talked about how to organize your daily
marketing tasks so that you could be more efficient in your
marketing, save time, and make more money.

There are additional ways that you can organize yourself so that
your are more effective.

One major advantage of organizing your self is that you can save
time. And as the old adage says, “Time is money”. If your
information is scattered all over the place it is hard to find
and you will waste time looking for it.

It is easy to join several programs, especially if you start
joining traffic exchanges or safe lists. Keeping track of their
information can be a real chore. Most of them will send you an
email. You can print out the emails and file them. You can also
save all the emails in a folder. While it is a good idea to do
both of these, it will take time to look up the information
later.

Create a file where you can store all of the information from
the email in one place. This file could be made with a word
processor, a spreadsheet, or a database program such as Access.
Each has its advantages and disadvantages.

With a word processor you have everything in one file that is
easy to scan. However, you should alphabetize the entries as you
enter them.

With a spreadsheet you can have one line per program and easily
sort them by program name, program type, or date. Sometimes when
you save a URL in a cell the cell looks strange.

A data base program takes a little longer to set up, but once
done you have nice fields with labels for each piece of
information.

Use whatever is best for you or what you are most familiar with.
The point is to organize them for easy and speedy access. Store
the file where you can get to it easy and fast.

For each program I suggest that you store at least the name of
program, login URL, referral URL, your user name, your password,
date you joined the program, type of program, and cost. You may
also want to store your email address used for the program,
program contact email, how you found the program (especially if
u joined from a portal), and some notes on the program.

As you join programs you will have costs and income. Generally
these costs are tax deductible and the income may have to be
reported. Also, you will want to know if you are making or
losing money. This is another thing to track.

Tracking expenses and income can be as simple or complicated as
you want it to be. A spreadsheet is one of the simplest ways.
Set up columns for date, program name, cost amount, income
amount, and source. The source would be PayPal, ClickBank,
check, credit card, etc.

Once the spreadsheet is set up you can enter the information as
it occurs of gather and enter it monthly.

More complicated ways to save your financial information is by
using an accounting program. The advantage of an accounting
program is you can get some very nice reports from them.

Your downloads can also become very hard to find after a while.
It is easy to vaguely remember downloading an ebook last month
and then spend a lot of time trying to find it on your computer.

A spreadsheet or database program will work great for storing
this information. I store name of the ebook or software, whether
it is an ebook or software, author, source (usually a url), path
on my computer where the file is found and the name of the file,
cost (if any), whether I have any rights, such as resell rights
or giveaway rights, whether it is brandable, whether or not I
have printed the book, and a brief description. You may also
want a category field so that you can group related items.

These 3 lists, plus the daily task list mentioned in my previous
article, are the main lists that I keep. If you would like a
copy of the previous article send an email to
organize@profits-for-life.com or visit
http://www.the-home-business-center.com/articles.php.

You may have additional things to want to track.

How you organize your lists is up to you. There is no correct or
incorrect way. There may be better and worse ways, however this
is also dependent on what software you have and what you like to
use best.

The point is, just organize. In the long run you will save
yourself a tremendous amount of time and frustration. The
Internet is huge, so don’t get lost in it.

If you are just starting out this may seem like a waste of time
to you. However, now is the best time to start. It is easiest to
organize when you have only a little information to organize.
Later you will be very thankful that you took the time to do it.

Be flexible. As time goes on you may discover that you want to
change how you are organizing. Go ahead and make the change.
Fine-tune it so that it works for you. The goal is to have the
information that you want and need in one easy to use place when
you want it.

Sometimes computer can be ornery. They can crash when you don’t
expect it and always at a very inconvenient time. So back up
your files on a regular basis. Back them to a disk, a CD, your
hosting service, some free web space, or whatever else you can.
Backing up can save you the frustrating of having to start all
over again if you have a system problem.

The Internet can be a fun and exciting place. It will be even
more fun if you are organized. It can also be a profitable
place. The less time you spend looking for information the more
time you will have for your marketing efforts, which will mean
more income for you.

Each year the Sydney University Football Club selects a group of players for its Elite Development Squad to prepare for the next season. For 2005 a squad of 50 was chosen which did not include any of the Club’s seven Wallabies nor any of the players on Super 12 contracts. Players committed themselves to around fourteen weeks of intensive training involving six to seven sessions per week of weights, skills and fitness work despite either being full time students or working full time.

At the conclusion of the season the Club’s doctor, Katherine Rae, and physiotherapist, Keiran Cleary, jointly issued a Medical Report analysing the injury experience of the Club’s eight teams. They particularly highlighted the members of the Elite Development Squad, noting that during the season “the EDS squad suffered only two non contact injuries, both muscle strains, which resulted in only four games lost to injury.”

More specifically, among the 36 players who completed the full EDS program there was “only one calf strain and one hamstring strain … . They had no back pain or groin pain necessitating loss of game time.” By contrast, for the Club as a whole, there were 28 instances of low back pain, 27 hamstring injuries, 27 groin injuries and 6 quadriceps strains.

Two non contact injuries in over 1000 hours of playing time is an extraordinarily low figure in itself, and certainly by comparison with the Club’s other players who accumulated over 80 comparable injuries. The injury incidence for the Club as a whole seems to be broadly in line with that reported in various scientific studies including those focussed on professional players.

It is obviously unwise to attach too much significance to the experience of one club over a single season. However the disparity in injury rates between those in the EDS group and their team mates is so great that it is very unlikely to be attributable to mere chance. Therefore it is necessary to explore possible reasons for this very favorable outcome. I believe that there were three relevant factors at work:

Duration and intensity of the training program

An off-season involving around 90 uninterrupted training sessions creates a near ideal opportunity for players to enhance their basic strength and fitness for rugby.Very few non-professional players would have the commitment and dedication to stick to such an exacting schedule. And very few professional players would have such a large block of time available. For example, Australian full-time players normally participate in at least two of the three tiers of club, provincial and international rugby and are therefore playing through most of the year.

The EDS squad also had on-campus access to physiotherapists, doctors and nutritionists plus regular dietary supplementation. Thus, even though the squad members were not paid, they were training in a very professional environment.

Emphasis on basic strength development

Strength and conditioning in the EDS program was structured and administered by Martin Harland, a sports scientist who had previously worked with professional rugby league, Australian football and basketball teams. His programs for rugby players place a high degree of emphasis on basic strength development and rugby-specific fitness. A distinguishing feature of his approach is a concentration on heavy lower body work through exercises such as squats, deadlifts and cleans.

Use of the ScrumTruk

In addition to their free weights exercises the group regularly used the rugby specific MyoQuip ScrumTruk as a core component of their leg strength work. Certain unique attributes of this apparatus might be relevant to protection against injury. Although it works basically the same muscle groups as the barbell squat, the fact that the resistance is in the horizontal rather than the vertical plane means that there is no adverse loading on the lumbar spine. It is also more quadriceps specific than the squat and exercises effectively the muscles of the calf.

But its main benefit in injury minimization may be in relation to the hamstrings. The ScrumTruk specifically works this muscle group as well as adjacent areas such as the glutes, quadriceps and core stabilizers. But the most important effect might relate to the frequently observed importance of eccentric loading in developing the hamstrings. Both the barbell squat and the conventional leg press deliver constant resistance. When performing these movements concentrically the muscles involved are only under very partial load as the hip and knee joints move to full extension. By contrast the ScrumTruk’s operation provides continually increasing resistance throughout the exercise movement. Because of this, the muscles involved are strongly activated over the full exercise range and most critically are working at close to full load at the conclusion of the movement. It would seem to follow logically that the more that muscles are being activated concentrically, the greater the eccentric load when the movement is reversed. Thus there is heavy eccentric loading on the hamstrings when they are near fully extension.

The low injury incidence by Sydney University’s elite training squad seems to suggest that other teams might benefit similarly by implementing a long and intensive off-season training program concentrating on the development of basic lower body strength through complex free weight movements and the use of the ScrumTruk. The potential improved injury outcomes are additional to the very substantial strength gains from such a program.

Bruce Ross is CEO of MyoQuip, manufacturers of variable-resistance strength machines including the HipneeFlex and HipneeThrust, and the rugby-specific ScrumTruk and JumpTruk. MyoQuip exports worldwide from Australia.
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The garage door is typically the largest moving part in your
home and is probably used every day. With normal use, parts can
wear out and break, creating potential safety problems. There
are a few light maintenance duties and inspections a
mechanically inclined person can perform to ensure maximum
safety and increase the life of their door.

Check the rollers, hinges and safety devices to be sure they are
fastened securely and in proper working order.

Check the balance of the door by lifting it a few feet off the
ground and releasing. The door should not travel more than a
couple of inches in either direction. If the door drops to the
ground then your springs either need adjusting or replacing.
When operated manually a garage door should go up and down
smoothly.

In the event of spring failure extension springs can cause
severe damage if they are not contained. If the door’s springs
don’t already have safety cables installed, now would be a good
time to get them installed. Remember even the highest quality
springs eventually wear and break.

Replace springs if they show signs of wear such as uneven gaps
between the coils, bent or damaged ends.

Inspect the cables for fray. Replace frayed cables immediately.
Check the pulleys for nicks or excessive wear that can cause
damage to the cable. Replace worn pulleys if necessary.

Verify that the tracks are level and plumb. Tracks should line
up parallel to the door sections without binding. Ensure that
the lag screws securing the track brackets to the jambs are
secure. Replace bent, missing or rusted lags immediately.

Tighten all hinge and bracket screws, bear in mind that garage
door bottom brackets are under extreme tension when the door is
closed and can cause serious injury if accidentally or
deliberately loosened or removed. Replace bent or broken hinges.
Check the door’s rollers for excessive wobble and replace as
necessary.

All garage door openers manufactured and installed after 1991
are required by law to have a reversing mechanism. Garage door
openers manufactured and installed after 1993 are required to
have photo eyes connected at the bottom of the track to trigger
the reverse mechanism when an infrared beam is broken. A
defective or improperly adjusted reversing mechanism on your
garage door opener could cause damage, injury and possibly
death. Check your door opener regularly to be sure that the
reversing mechanism is in proper working order.

Lubricate rollers, hinge pivots, pulleys, torsion spring coils,
bearings and the electric opener chain and sprockets.

With periodic inspections and maintenance the average garage
door can safely provide many years of trouble free performance.