Christian Bale

Christian Bale is the youngest of four children. His parents are entrepreneur, commercial pilot and talent manager David Bale and circus clown and performer Jenny James, both English.[6] Bale spent his childhood in several countries, including the United Kingdom, Portugal, and the United States.[7] He lived in a house boat for a small amount of time. In 1976, when Christian was two years old, the Bale family left Wales. Bale’s family settled for four years in Bournemouth, where he attended Bournemouth School and participated actively in rugby union.[7] Christian has described his childhood, with respect to his mother being in the circus, as interesting. He recalled his first kiss was with an acrobat named Barta.[7] As a child, he trained in ballet and guitar.[7] His sister Louise’s work in theatre also influenced his decision to become an actor.[7] David Bale was very supportive of Christian’s acting. He resigned from his job as a commercial pilot to travel and manage Christian’s burgeoning career.[7] David Bale later married feminist icon Gloria Steinem on September 3, 2000. He died on December 30, 2003, from brain lymphoma at the age of 62.
Christian Bale’s first foray into acting was a Lenor, or Downey, commercial in 1982, when he was eight years old.[8] He appeared in a Pac-Man cereal commercial playing a child rock star a year later[9] and in 1984 made his stage debut in the West End play The Nerd, opposite Rowan Atkinson.

Christina Aguilera

Aguilera was born in Staten Island, New York City, New York, to Fausto Wagner Xavier Aguilera, a Sergeant in the U.S. Army at the time and Shelly Loraine Fidler, a Spanish teacher. Aguilera’s father was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, while her mother is of Irish descent (Christina’s maternal grandmother emigrated from County Clare). Her father, Fausto, was stationed at Earnest Harmon Air Force Base in Stephenville, Newfoundland, Canada and Japan. Christina Aguilera lived with her father and mother until she was seven years old. When Aguilera’s parents divorced, her mother took her, and her younger sister Rachel, to her grandmother’s home in Wexford, Pennsylvania, a White-collar suburb outside of Pittsburgh. According to both Aguilera and Fidler, her father was very controlling, as well as physically and emotionally abusive.[11] She later wrote about her difficult childhood in the songs “I’m OK” in Stripped, and “Oh Mother” in Back to Basics. Although her father has written to Aguilera, she has ruled out any chance to reunite with him.[12] Since then, Fidler has married a paramedic named Jim Kearns, and has changed her name to Shelly Kearns.
As a child, Aguilera aspired to be a singer. Her musical influences included Etta James,[14] Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston,[15] Nina Simone, and Madonna.[16] She also cites the musical The Sound of Music as an early inspiration for singing and performing.[17] As a child, she was known locally as “the little girl with the big voice”, singing in local talent shows and competitions.
According to VH1’s Driven, whenever competitors learned they would be up against her in any given week, they would immediately withdraw, prompting insiders to claim it was “like sending a lamb to the slaughter.” Her peers soon became jealous of her and would frequently subject her to ridicule, ostracism, and, in one gym class, attempted assault. Acts of vandalism around her house included the slashing of the tires on the family car. Eventually, the family relocated to another suburb in the Pittsburgh area and took to secrecy about Aguilera’s talent lest another backlash occur.

On March 15, 1990, she appeared on Star Search singing Etta James’ “A Sunday Kind of Love”, but lost the competition. Soon after losing on Star Search, she returned home and appeared on Pittsburgh’s KDKA-TV’s Wake Up with Larry Richert to perform the same song. People remarked that the then ten-year-old “sounded 20.”
Throughout her youth in Pittsburgh, Aguilera sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” before Pittsburgh Penguins hockey, Pittsburgh Steelers football and Pittsburgh Pirates baseball games. Her first major role in entertainment came in 1993 when she joined the Disney Channel’s variety show The New Mickey Mouse Club. Her co-stars included Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, Rhona Bennett (who later became a member of En Vogue), Ryan Gosling, Britney Spears, and Keri Russell. According to the documentary Driven, Aguilera’s Mickey Mouse Club co-stars called her “the Diva”. One of her most notable performances was of Whitney Houston’s “I Have Nothing.”[19] When the show was canceled 1994, Aguilera began recording demos in an attempt to get signed to a record label.
At the age of fourteen, Aguilera recorded her first song, “All I Wanna Do”, a hit duet with Japanese singer Keizo Nakanishi.[20] In 1997, she represented the United States at the “Golden Stag” International Festival with a two-song set which included Sheryl Crow and Diana Ross.

Christina Applegate

At the age of three months, Christina Applegate made her TV debut, appearing with her mother in the soap Days of Our Lives and later, at age five months, in a commercial for Playtex.
Christina landed on the big screen at age nine when she was seen in the 1981 films Jaws of Satan (a.k.a. King Cobra), and Beatlemania.
Applegate debuted in a television movie as Young Grace Kelly in the biopic Grace Kelly (1983, opposite Cheryl Ladd) and appeared on her first TV series in Showtime’s political comedy Washingtoon (1985), in which she played a Congressman’s daughter. She was also spotted as a guest in the shows Father Murphy (1981) and Charles in Charge (1984 and 1985).
In 1986, Applegate won the role of Robin Kennedy (1986-1987), a cop’s daughter, on the police drama series Heart of the City. Meanwhile, she was also seen guest starring in the sitcoms All is Forgiven, Still the Beaver, Amazing Stories, and Family Ties.
Applegate eventually scored her most memorable role of ditzy Kelly Bundy in Fox’s comedy series Married… with Children. She portrayed her character for ten years (1987-1997) in the successful sitcom. While working on the series, Applegate was seen in Dance ‘Til Dawn (1988, NBC) and in Streets (1990), in which a teenage drug addict is stalked by a psychotic police officer.
Applegate guest-starred in 21 Jump Street (1988), Top of the Heap (1991, as Kelly Bundy), and hosted Saturday Night Live (May 1993) and Mad TV (1996).
The character of Sue Ellen Crandell in the comedy feature Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (1991) was Applegate’s first starring role. She followed it up with films like Vibrations (1995), Across the Moon (1995), Wild Bill (1995), Mars Attacks! (1996), and Nowhere (1997).
After the sitcom Married… with Children was canceled in May 1997, Applegate starred as Claudine Van Doozen in the independent feature Claudine’s Return (a.k.a. Kiss of Fire), was cast in the action-comedy The Big Hit, and played the fiancee of a Mob descendant in the Mafia satire Jane Austen’s Mafia (1998).
In that same year, NBC handed her the leading part of “Jesse” in their sitcom with the same title. The series debuted in 1998, received rave reviews, and brought Applegate a People’s Choice Award for Favorite Female Performer in a New TV series and the TV Guide Award for Star of a New Series as well as a nomination at the Golden Globe for Lead Actress in a Comedy. Though the series gained praise, it was canceled in 2000.
“This was a major commitment. I really had to sit and think about it. I eventually came to the conclusion that it came into my life for a reason.” Christina Applegate (on accepting her role in the sitcom Jesse).
The new millennium saw Applegate playing the dual role of a 12th-century noblewoman, Princess Rosalind, and her 21st-century descendant, Julia Malfete, in the time-travel comedy Just Visiting (2001). After gaining wide notice for playing Cameron Diaz’s level-headed best friend, Courtney Rockcliffe, in The Sweetest Thing (2002), Applegate continued to win roles in such movies as Heroes (2002), the airplane comedy View from the Top (2003), Wonderland (2003), Grand Theft Parsons (2003), Surviving Christmas (2004) and Employee of the Month (2004). Behind the screen, she was the executive producer of Comforters, Miserable (2001).
As for her television work, Applegate won the 55th Annual Prime Time Emmy Award for Best Guest Actress in a Comedy after she guest starred as Amy Green, Jennifer Aniston’s sister, in the hit series Friends in November 2002 and October 2003. On the silver screen, she portrayed TV anchorwoman Veronica Corningstone in the 2004 films Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and the DVD bonus film Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie (an alternative film comprising alternate takes and deleted scenes and story elements).
Adding to her screen work, Applegate has performed on stage in such productions as The Axeman’s Jazz, Nobody Leaves Empty Handed, The Runthrough, as well as John Cassavetes’ The Third Day (co-starring Gena Rowlands). In 2004, she debuted on the Broadway stage playing the title role of Charity Hope Valentine in a revival of the 1966 musical Sweet Charity. She eventually took home the 2005 Theatre World Award and was nominated for a 2005 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.
Applegate was one of the founding members of the Pussycat Dolls, which debuted at the Viper Room on Sunset Strip, Los Angeles in 1995.[2] [3] Applegate emceed for the Dolls when they moved to The Roxy in 2002.
While playing the title role in a revival of Sweet Charity, she broke her foot, and it was announced that the musical would close during previews. She persuaded the producers to rescind their decision, and on April 18, 2005, she made her Broadway debut.[4] Sweet Charity ended its Broadway run on December 31, 2005. She also guest-starred on two episodes of Friends, in the ninth and tenth seasons, titled “The One with Rachel’s Other Sister” and “The One Where Rachel’s Sister Babysits” as Amy Green, Rachel’s (Jennifer Aniston) younger sister. She won an Emmy for her performance in “The One with Rachel’s Other Sister”. In 2006, she appeared in an advertising campaign for Hanes title “Look who we’ve got our Hanes on now”. The campaign started in 2005 but she, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Kevin Bacon were added to the ads in 2006.
In 2006, Applegate appeared in Jessica Simpson’s music video “A Public Affair”, alongside Eva Longoria, Ryan Seacrest and Christina Milian.
Christina is currently starring in the ABC comedy, Samantha Who?. Jean Smart, Jennifer Esposito, and Melissa McCarthy are co-starring. The series is about a 30-year-old who, after a hit-and-run accident, develops amnesia and has to rediscover her life, her relationships and herself.

Christina Milian

In 2000, Christina Milian made her first official musical appearance on Ja Rule’s second studio album Rule 3:36, performing guest vocals on his song “Between Me and You”. Released as the album’s lead single in 2001, the track managed to peak at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and in the top 30 of the UK singles chart, building Milian’s reputation as a singer. Milian also appeared in Mya’s video for “Best of Me” playing a friend. In the meantime Milian co-wrote and provided extensive backing vocals for the track “Play” for Jennifer Lopez’s 2001 album J. Lo which became another success. Milian would later pass down the song to Lopez because of already having a club song with “AM to PM” as promotion. She also went on to co-write “Same Ol’ Same Ol”, the first single from girl group PYT’s debut album Down With Me.
In 2001, Milian eventually released her first solo single, “AM To PM”, off her self-titled debut album. The song became a worldwide hit reaching the top 5 in the UK and Denmark, top 10 in the Netherlands, and top 40 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and in Australia. The success of “AM To PM” sparked the international release of the Christina Milian album which she co-wrote and produced, although not in the United States. The second single “When You Look At Me” was another international hit reaching the top 5 in the UK, Netherlands, and Ireland and making the top 40 in Denmark, Germany, Australia, and France. Although a music video for the album’s third single “Get Away” (another collaboration with Ja Rule) was filmed in Paris, the single wasn’t released officially.
Afterwards Milian also was featured on the track “It’s All Gravy”, a duet with British Rapper Romeo of the UK garage group So Solid Crew. While the song was another UK top ten hit single in 2002, Milian provided the theme song for the hit Disney series Kim Possible, “Call Me Beep Me” later that year. In 2002, she also collaborated with Hilary Duff on her Christmas album Santa Claus Lane, on the song “I heard Santa On the Radio.”

Christina Ricci

In 1997, Christina Ricci began to appear in more adult roles, beginning with her role as the troubled, sexually curious Wendy Hood in Ang Lee’s critically acclaimed The Ice Storm. Ricci subsequently appeared in films like the independent hit Buffalo ‘66 (in which she played Vincent Gallo’s unwitting abductee-turned-girlfriend), John Waters’ Pecker, and Don Roos’ The Opposite of Sex (as the acid-tongued, manipulative Dede). For her performance as Deedee, Ricci won acclaim and was nominated for a Golden Globe and attained the unofficial title of the Sundance Film Festival’s 1998 “It” Girl.[citation needed] Although she missed out on an Oscar nomination, Entertainment Weekly honored her well-received performance as one of the “Worst Oscar Snubs Ever”.[7]
Later films included Sleepy Hollow (alongside Johnny Depp), Monster, and Prozac Nation (which featured her first on-screen nude scene). Ricci had to turn down the role of Ronna in Go because of scheduling conflicts; the role eventually went to Sarah Polley. Ricci was turned down four times for the role of Dolores Haze in Lolita, and the role eventually went to Dominique Swain. Ricci was originally slated to play the lead in Ghost World (2001), but by the time it was filmed she was too old for the part and had moved on to other projects. Thora Birch (Ricci’s co-star in Now And Then) took over the role. Ricci also turned down a role in Loser. Ricci made a cameo appearance on Beck’s successful Guero, providing the cameo voice on Hell Yes.
In February 2006, Ricci made a guest appearance as a paramedic in the ABC drama Grey’s Anatomy, for which she was nominated for an Emmy award. She was a guest star for seven episodes in the last season of Ally McBeal in 2002 as Debbie ‘Liza’ Bump, a lawyer who worked at Cage & Fish and married Richard Fish in the last episode. It was initially hoped that Ricci and several other noted guest star appearances would boost Ally McBeal’s then declining ratings.[8]
On December 4, 1999, she appeared as the guest host on Saturday Night Live. She performed parodies of Britney Spears and the Olsen Twins. During one of her skits, she accidentally punched actress Ana Gasteyer in the face. The skit was a parody of the Sally Jessy Raphael show, in which she played a 13-year-old run-a-way who sleeps with dogs, and required her to fake-punch Gasteyer, but accidentally ended up really hitting Gasteyer in the eye. Although Gasteyer initially reacted by putting her hands over her mouth in surprise, she quickly fell back into character.

Christopher Walken

Christopher Walken was born Ronald Walken (named after actor Ronald Colman) into a Methodist family in Queens, New York. His mother, Rosalie, was a Scottish immigrant, and his father, Paul Walken, was a German immigrant.[6] Both of his parents were bakers. Throughout his youth, Walken worked after school in the family bakery, Walken’s Bakery, which was situated on Broadway and 30th Street in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, New York. Walken often worked alongside a young immigrant girl interested in learning all about the food business, Lidia Motika, who grew up to become acclaimed restauranteur and TV cooking show host Lidia Bastianich; the two have remained close ever since[7].
Influenced by their mother’s own dreams of stardom, he and his brothers Ken and Glenn were child actors on television in the 1950s. Walken studied at Hofstra University on Long Island but did not graduate. Walken initially trained as a dancer in musical theatre before moving on to dramatic roles in theatre and then film.

Cindy Crawford

Born in DeKalb, Illinois, to John “Dan” Crawford and Jennifer Sue Walker Crawford in 1966, Cindy Crawford’s trademark is a visible mole (or “beauty mark”) on her upper lip. She is so closely associated with this physical feature that she appeared in an advertising campaign for chocolates featuring commercials wherein she “licked off” her own mole. During the beginning of her career, the mole was removed from many of her earlier modeling pictures, including her first Vogue cover.
She was discovered by chance by a newspaper photographer, who noticed then-16-year-old Cindy at work during her summer job of pollinating corn and took a picture of her. The photo and the positive feedback she received were enough to convince her to take up modeling. She entered the John Casablancas Look of the Year contest and was the runner up.
Crawford graduated from DeKalb High School in 1984, as valedictorian [1] with a 4.0 GPA.[citation needed] She won an academic scholarship to study chemical engineering at Northwestern University, which she attended for only one quarter. She dropped out in order to pursue a full-time modeling career. After working for photographer Victor Skrebneski in Chicago, Cindy moved to Manhattan in 1986.
Her brother died at a young age from leukemia, and Crawford has made childhood leukemia a focal point of her charity work, donating proceeds of her calendars to medical research.

Cindy Margolis

Cindy Margolis was born in Los Angeles, California of Jewish heritage. According to an interview in Playboy, her career began with a business class project on greeting cards at California State University, Northridge, where she produced cards with a photograph of herself wearing lingerie and including her phone number.[4] Her modeling career took off when agents started asking about the woman on the cards. She has modeled in advertising for companies such as Reebok, Vidal Sassoon, Coors, Frederick’s of Hollywood, Hanes, and Sunkist. She was Miss Makita Power Tools 1986 and did appearances at woodworking trade shows.

Clay Aiken

Clay Aiken was born and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina. As a young boy, Aiken sang in the Raleigh Boychoir and as a teenager, he sang in school choirs, church choir, musicals and local theatre productions.[6] . After high school he sang lead with a local band, Just By Chance,[7] and cohosted and performed with the band at “Just by Chance and Friends” shows in Dunn, NC. He was also emcee and performer at the Johnston Community College Country Showcase in Smithfield, NC, and at the North Carolina Music Connection and Hometown Music Connection shows in Garner and Benson, NC. He performed the national anthem numerous times for the Raleigh Ice Caps and the Carolina Hurricanes.[8] Three demo albums of Aiken’s vocals were created before American Idol with the aid of studio time given as a birthday gift by his mother: a cassette called Redefined,[9] a CD titled Look What Love Has Done, and a CD that combined songs from both demos, titled “Look What Love Has Done, Vol 2.”[10]
Clay Aiken attended Raleigh’s Leesville Road High School and took courses at Campbell University before enrolling at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He found his interest in special education while directing YMCA children’s camps as a teenager, and at age 19 he served as a substitute teacher for a classroom of students with autism at Brentwood Elementary School in Raleigh. While attending college in Charlotte he took a part-time job as an assistant to a boy with autism, and it was this child’s mother, Diane Bubel, who urged him to audition for American Idol. Although his American Idol activities temporarily delayed his academic pursuits, Aiken completed his course work while on tour and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in special education in December of 2003.

Clerks

Clerks is a 1994 film written and directed by Kevin Smith, who also appears in the film in a minor role. Starring Brian O’Halloran as Dante Hicks and Jeff Anderson as Randal Graves, it presents a day in the lives of two store clerks and their acquaintances. Clerks was the first of Smith’s “View Askewniverse” films. It introduces several characters, notably Jay and Silent Bob, who reappear in his later works.

Coldplay

Coldplay are an English rock band. Formed in 1998 in London, the group comprises vocalist/pianist Chris Martin, guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman and drummer Will Champion. Coldplay achieved worldwide fame with their 2000 single “Yellow”, followed by the success of their debut album, Parachutes, which was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Coldplay went on to be nominated for this prestigious award on two further occasions, once in 2003 and again in 2005. Coldplay have been one of the most commercially successful acts of the new millennium, selling over 30 million albums. The band are also known for hit singles, including “In My Place” and the Grammy Award-winning “Clocks”.
Coldplay’s early material was compared to acts such as Jeff Buckley and Radiohead,[1] while also drawing comparisons to U2[2] and Travis. Since the release of Parachutes, Coldplay have also drawn influence from other sources, including Echo and the Bunnymen[3] and George Harrison[4] on A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002) and Johnny Cash and Kraftwerk for X&Y (2005).[5] Both of these albums were released to great critical acclaim and commercial success. In 2002, A Rush of Blood to the Head was named as NME’s Album of the Year.
Coldplay have been an active supporter of various social and political causes, such as Oxfam’s Make Trade Fair campaign and Amnesty International. The group has also performed at various charity projects such as Band Aid 20, Live 8, and the Teenage Cancer Trust.[6]
Since December 2006, the band have been working with producer Brian Eno on a fourth album, expected to be released in the first half of 2008.

Colin Farrell

Farrell was born in Castleknock, Dublin, the son of Rita (nee Monaghan), a homemaker, and Eamon Farrell, who operates a health food store and was a footballer who played for Shamrock Rovers FC.[1][2] Farrell has three siblings, two sisters, Claudine (who is his personal assistant)[3] and Catherine, and a brother, Eamon Jr.
Colin Farrell was educated at St. Brigid’s National School in Castleknock followed by Castleknock College and Gormanston College. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was a promising young football player for Dublin team, Castleknock Celtic, as a goalkeeper and dated Angie Miller. Farrell auditioned for the Irish group Boyzone when he was still unknown.[4] Farrell attended The Gaiety School of Acting, but dropped out and was cast in the part of Danny Byrne on Ballykissangel, a BBC television drama. Farrell appeared on the show from 1998 to 1999.

Courteney Cox

Courteney Cox was born Courteney Bass Cox in Birmingham, Alabama to a wealthy Southern family. Her mother, also named Courteney (nee Bass) and her late father, Richard Lewis Cox, was a contractor.[1] Cox has two older sisters (Virginia McFerrin and Dottie Pickett), an older brother (Richard, Jr.) and nine half-brothers and half-sisters. Her parents divorced in 1974, and her father eventually wound up in Panama City, Florida, where he opened a company called Cox Pools, while Cox grew up with her mother and her stepfather, New York businessman Hunter Copeland.
Cox was raised in a wealthy suburb of Birmingham, Mountain Brook, Alabama where she was known as CeCe. She attended Mountain Brook High School, where she was a cheerleader, tennis player and swimmer. Upon graduation, Cox went to study architecture and interior design at Mount Vernon College for Women. She dropped out after a year to pursue a modeling career, after being signed by the Ford modeling agency in New York City. While modeling, she also took acting classes and acquired a Northern accent.

Courtney Love

Courtney Michelle Harrison was born in San Francisco, California to a family of Irish and Jewish descent[3] . Love’s biological family broke apart rapidly while she was still very young. During a child custody case following Love’s parents’ divorce, both her mother and one of her girlfriends presented letters to the court implying her father had given the child, then three years old, LSD.[4] Harrison denies this allegation[5] and has passed polygraph tests; however, these allegations led to full custody being awarded to Love’s mother.
Courtney Love then spent a troubled childhood with her mother as she wandered through three husbands and as many hippie communes in Oregon, and various schools including a boarding school in Nelson, New Zealand.[6] Before arriving in New Zealand, Love had been left in the United States with a therapist, while her mother, the new husband and her half-sisters went on ahead; when she was sent for, Love was sent to the boarding school in Nelson.

D Angelo

D’Angelo (born Michael Eugene Archer, February 11, 1974), is a Grammy Award winning American soul singer, pianist, guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. D’Angelo is known for his production and songwriting talents as much as for his vocal abilities, and often draws comparisons to his influences, Marvin Gaye, and Prince. He has himself influenced the sound of modern R&B, particularly neo-soul. D’Angelo has a son named Michael by former girlfriend R&B singer Angie Stone. Rock critic Robert Christgau has described him as “R&B Jesus”

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If you are interested in any way in Mind Maps, this is THE Mind Map reference book to have in your library. I purchased my copy some years ago and have constantly referred to it since.

Overview of contents:

The makeup of the brain is explained.

Amazing consistency is seen in the natural architecture of the world around us with beautiful color plates to illustrate the point.

Brainstorming with words and images is explored in the first few chapters.

Then, Chapter 9 - “Mind Mapping”, explains the whole process in a summarized form.

Other chapters then elaborate on the foundation laid here.

For me one of the most useful sections of the book and the one which has become more soiled than any other is the last part which gives a comprehensive listing of the uses of Mind Maps.

These include:

self-analysis

problem-solving

keeping a diary

family study

story telling

thinking

teaching

meetings

presentations and management

I have found these principles very useful in business planning with mind maps.

Major corporations such as Boeing Aircraft, Electronic Data Systems, Digital Equipment Corporation and Nabisco have used these techniques along with many students at Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

At around 300 pages, copiously illustrated, with beautiful photographs and numerous mind map diagrams, this is a great addition on the bookshelf.

Michael A. Jones is a writer and webmaster with over 10 years experience. To see five key uses of mind mapping, check out this page on Michael’s goal setting site:

Life is a journey, a journey filled with off road stumbles and on road bliss. This journey can feel like it is all uphill for those who are coping with a chronic illness, addictive disease or injury-related condition. But life is a journey.

“He who chooses the beginning of a road, also chooses its destination.”
-Anonymous

For every journey, a roadmap is helpful in order to get to the destination timely and see all the sights and do all the activities along the way, which one has planned. Many of us travel or have traveled on our journey of life, without such a road map. We all need direction at some time, although many of us don’t typically ask for directions. But how will you know where you want to go if you do not have a goal or destination in mind? Or if one has a destination, but no road map, one may circle around endlessly, reaching the destination long overdue or even worse never at all. Everyone should have a road map for their journey of life. On this road map, it is important to establish what you really want, who you really want to be, your purpose and how you will travel.

“A man without a plan for the day is lost before he starts.”
-Lewis K. Bendele

Learn and Seek Information

Often times we need a teacher or mentor for some guidance. We all do. Those who are most successful at living the life of their dreams seek information and seek guidance. I recommend everyone do this, life is a marathon, and we are in the process of learning the entire way, we are always evolving. Please visit http://www.acquiredhope.com and http://www.inspirednhopeful.theSGRprogram.com for information, free resources and programs to help you live the life you dream.

Goal Setting

A journey requires goals. Think about it, what do you really want? If you do not know, how can you receive it? Once you identify what you really want, write it down and if you have it already; fantastic! If you do not have what you really want, then establish it as a goal. Choose what you really want to be your experience.

Identity Statement

It is really important that we establish who we really want to be. We have an opportunity to be who ever we want. We are the creators of our universe, we become what we think and focus about. So it is really important that you create and think about who you really want to be. Take a few minutes to reflect and think about whom you are today and who you want to be. If it is a match; fantastic! For many of it, it is not a match. It is important to establish objective, detailed and finite goals of what you really want.

Ultimate Purpose Statement:

During our journey, it is important to have an ultimate purpose. A journey is more gratifying and enjoyable, if and when there is an ultimate purpose and a direction or vision. Every business organization knows that when they establish their Mission Statement. If one wanders without direction, one can get distracted and easily led off track. Therefore, having an ultimate purpose statement to guide your journey will keep you on the safest and fastest road to your dreams. In our journey of life, we as humans have three general purposes:

1)To know true happiness and joy. This means our life’s mission is to live our lives to the fullest and to strive to reach our fullest potential.

2)To know that we are all connected, as one God force or energy source. To give back to mankind to advance life.

3)To learn how to co-create our reality with the help of the universe or Higher Power. To learn how to apply the power of positive thinking and guide our thoughts to manifest the experience that we desire.

Rules of Conduct:

With any journey or trip, one must have rules or conduct or laws to abide to determine how one will get there. When one is driving a car, one must follow rules of traffic in order to maintain organization, efficiency and not to do harm to others. When one is performing at the workplace, there are rules of order and discipline. The same rules apply in life. It is important to know what rules of conduct guide you and your direction. You should establish your rules of travel or your rules of conduct. When you are following your set rules, you will know you are living or being who you really are.

Having Faith

No one can tell you when or how or when your goals will be achieved or your journey will be complete; you must leave that up to God or the universe or Higher Power, most people believe in a Higher Power of some sort and by some name. But go into each day believing that you are on your journey of life, become who you want to be, adhere to the rules of conduct and following your road map to your destination. Live one day at a time and live each day to the absolute fullest. Be efficient and complete with your actions. Reward yourself for small accomplishments. That will not only make this process more fun, but will help to keep you positive, hopeful and continuing to practice the process that you are learning in this book. Acquiring hope and acquiring health is a process.

Imagine that you are traveling from Florida to California in the darkness, you know that if you can see the 200 feet in front of your car in your headlights, you will reach your destination. Life is the same principle; it unfolds bit by bit in front of your eyes. Live each beautiful day, knowing that there are many other beautiful days coming your way. With each day unfolding step by step and mile by mile. Live in the moment, let go of the past, and don’t worry about the future. Define your destination and all the sights and experience that you wish to have along your journey and have the faith, everyday, that it will happen for you. Learn how to acquire it!

Nicole Matoushek, MPH, PT has 15 years of experience in clinical managed care and disability management. She is founder of ErgoRehabinc.com. She has authored two books “Acquired Hope: A Journey of Advanced Recovery and Empowerment” and “365 Days of Abundant Hope” both available on http://www.acquiredhope.com. She is inspired by the success and wealth creation program: http://www.inspirednhopeful.theSGRprogram.com. Nicole is passionately dedicated to helping others succeed in obtaining abundant health, wealth and a fuller life!

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Hi, Dr. Dennis

I am a 34 year old woman who is insanely attracted (you could even say devoted) to a 56 year old man who still makes me melt after almost 4 years of knowing him. We have seen photos of each other, but our only contact has been via e-mail and telephone - never in person.

I met this man while I was still married. Our business relationship turned friendly, and after a year and a half of a friendly relationship, our talks led to more intimate and personal subjects - I can honestly say I was the one who was curious about his sexual likes and dislikes…he has always been a perfect gentleman and has never placed an emphasis on anything sexual (that is INSANELY attractive to me).

After a year of a VERY intense emotional relationship (this man had proven to me that he would wait as long as he had to for me), I had beat myself into an emotional frenzy because I felt I was cheating on my husband, so I ended our “romantic” relationship. I love the man dearly - he has my heart - so I explained that I wanted to still be friends. He wanted to have contact as friends once or twice a month, which I could not have lived with, so he said he needed a couple of weeks to get used to the “new order of things” - going from a very intimate friendship to a platonic friendship, then he contacted me at the end of a “2 week hiatus”.

That was 1 year ago this month, and I have since divorced my husband (for narcotic addiction - not because of my feelings for this other man). I poured my heart out to this man a couple of months ago, basically telling him how much I still care for him, and I wish he would give our romantic relationship another chance - at least meet me in person before he gives up on us altogether.

This was a man that was absolutely CRAZY about me last year, but he told me recently that he did not see a future with me, even though he has a “great deal of affection for me that he cannot deny”. Lately, he has been growing more distant - his phone calls are down from 8 a month to 3 or 4, and his emails are only 1 per week now instead of 3 or 4. My divorce will be final in 2 1/2 weeks, and I am wondering if he is trying to distance himself from me now in an attempt to build attraction since we plan to visit in person soon after my divorce is final?

I keep reading all this advice to men to create distance from women to build attraction while still leaving them on her agenda. I feel he is doing this to me - or maybe I am just HOPING that is what he is doing.

Could he be trying to get rid of me altogether since I am about to be divorced because he would think I was “needy” or something? He said he is very attracted to my physical appearance (I was voted best-looking in high school and have held my own over the years), my analytical ability, my positive outgoing attitude, my intelligence, and my devotion to my family and friends - those are his words, not mine. Could a man throw away a woman who was once the woman of his dreams? We have stayed such good friends since the “romantic breakup”, but now he is creating all this distance - it’s not normal for him.

And for all you men who have read this far, here’s a tip for you - this man made me fall HARD for him because he was a perfect gentleman who truly listened to what I said and could even ask me questions about it later. He is VERY intelligent and well-spoken, and has a genuine interest in every facet of my life. And yes, I love him because he stands his ground and did not let an emotional outburst I had get to him - he is very strong emotionally without ever having walked all over my emotions. He is very optimistic and supportive of me which goes a long way.

I want this man, and without sounding too conceited, I just cannot understand why he would not want me, but it appears that way right now. Do you have any idea why he is creating all this distance from me right before we are supposed to meet?

He KNOWS I would not sleep with a man that was not devoted to me long term, so him telling me he does not see a future with me is not promising. Maybe he just wants the sex and is being honest with me about his standing on a long-term commitment since we are good friends. Or maybe he can’t say anything about a long-term commitment since he has not seen me in person yet? I know men are visual creatures like that.

Do you have any suggestions on what I could do to show him that I would never leave him again now that I am soon to be legally divorced? I completely crushed this man (and myself) last year and I beat myself up for it daily, but I want him to feel secure with me again now that I am free to be with him.

I would really appreciate any help you could provide. Thanks.

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Hello!

First - to any guy that’s reading this, I strongly urge you to NOT use this as an example what to - or not to - do. In fact, you should never take relationship/dating advice from women unless they’re lesbians and even then, their target market is rather different from yours! Buyer beware!

Sorry - this may work for you, but trust me, your situation; like your relationship, is very different from the “norm”. Any guy that believes this will work is going to find out the hard way that it won’t. Then, they’re going to write to me, very unhappy with the results.

Yes, I can tell you exactly what’s going on here. You’ve spent the last 4 years building up an emotional connection that frankly, only exists in your mind. Your brain actually takes in information at over 60,000 impressions PER SECOND. That’s a tremendous rate of information, and if your brain doesn’t have access to the real information, it “fills in the gaps” by giving you whatever it is that you want. In your case, you filled in the gaps with all the intellectual/emotional “chemistry” without having the actual impressions to work with.

Consider this: when you’re “in person” you get not only the verbal part of communication, but a much bigger part is missing: non-verbal. You can’t watch the tilt of his head, the almost instantaneous, impreceptable movement of the corner of his mouth and the slight changes in his complexion. Instead, you’ve spent many hours on the phone and via email getting none of this! Your mind has “inserted” this information for you since it wasn’t there. I’m sorry to say that you are (in effect) in love with a ghost!

While you’ve been building all of this up and creating all the things you need to want this man, he’s been denied what he needs! Even worse, you’ve now required that he create something that doesn’t even exist to get it! You demand (as you stated) that he “devotes” to you when in fact, there is nothing there (other than huge phone bills) on which to base such an expectation.

Here’s something you really need to understand: men and women use sex and physical intimacy VERY differently; at least in the beginning of the relationship. You (as a woman) use sex to create bonding and inimacy. Men on the other hand use sex to determine if we WANT TO create bonding and intimacy! This period only lasts for a short while and if you miss it, it’s very difficult to get back - almost impossible.

Go back and re-read that paragraph until the idea really sinks in. You need to understand why; while getting what you want, you’ve also shot yourself in the foot by denying him what HE needs in order to be where you are!

In effect, he’s passed through all of the phases that you’ve been building up to. He may very well have been where you are now years ago. However, by not having the physical aspect of a relationship with you, his mind decided to relieve this pain by taking away his need for you. In effect, he’s fallen out of love with you and has become nothing more than a friend and maybe even less than that.

Right now, his contact with you is probably more out of habit than out of need. By putting such huge requirements on him in order to even build anything from this point forward, he’s probably just given up and is moving on emotionally if not mentally. This is why he sees no “future” with you. It’s based entirely on your past together.

All people interested in relationships need to understand this point: all relationships have a “window of opportunity” where both people’s needs coincide. Many women (and sometimes men) try to artifically manipulate this window by saying things like, “Let’s take this slow” or in other ways like preventing or putting of first meetings (as in this case). What this does is to destroy the chance for the relationship to begin to ripen. It never leaves this “proto-stage” and eventually withers and dies.

I regret to say that this is likely where things are for you now. You’ve spent far too much time “selling” and no time “delivering”. While this may have worked well for you, it absolutely didn’t work for him. I can say this with great assurity; both from being a man and having talked to many, many thousands.

At this point, I’m not very confident in your ability to “right” this situation. I’ll bet that on top of all history here, you’re also at some distance away from each other - maybe hours or even days. With this added problem you aren’t going to “fix” things here unless one of you moves and even then, you still have to get past the history!

If you two are local enough to get together regularly (like instead of calling), I strongly urge you to do that right away. Without being in person, you’re never going to work this out, and frankly, I doubt it even then.

Best regards…

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Have a love, dating, relationship, sex or man/woman question? You can write to me by going to: http://beingaman.com/ask_question.asp for answers. For more information about my books, “Being a Man in a Woman’s Worldtm” (volumes I & II), and other products visit: www.beingaman.com. Check out the discussion group at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beingaman.

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Dr. Dennis W. Neder is known around the world as a tough, but fair relationship expert, dealing with all sorts of dating, sex and relationship issues from a man’s perspective. Having written 3 books (”Being a Man in a Woman’s World?” series) and is working on others, hundreds of articles, been on hundreds of radio and TV shows, he is funny, direct and intuitive.

One of the biggest fashion questions for men is usually the lack of understanding on how to color coordinate and look sharp and smart. In order to stay safe, we always see men wearing clothes with colors maintained within navy, blue tones, black and white, or khakis. While I strongly believe that men can definitely move out of these colors as men’s fashion has evolved tremendously.

We are experiencing men’s clothing which are colored more vibrantly and playing with more patterns at the same time. So what colors should we settle for? We should always wear colors that either warms up our face or bring focus toward it. The most common mistake is men thinks that wearing white is the best of choice since it is considered a universal color. Unfortunately, it is not the case because pale skinned men with light colored hair looks very much paler with white shirts.

It would be better to actually wear earthy colored shirts or medium blue colored shirts. These two tones of colors help to warm up their faces and create more attention toward the face rather the clothing. What about men with highly differentiated complexion and hair colors like light-colored skin with dark hair?

This group of men actually has a lot of rooms to play around with colors. They can easily wear shirts that are light colored or dark colored and yet not shift the focal point away from the face. Men with medium differentiation, for example tanned skin with dark-colored hair, are more suitable to settle for lighter colored shirts rather than dark colored ones. The dark colored shirts against the skin and hair will create a heavily toned down look and not brighten up his face.

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Someone really ought to write The American Man’s Guidebook to Avoid Infuriating a Russian Woman during Correspondence because there are certainly enough American men out there looking for a Russian companion who want to make a good impression, but don’t know where to begin. Even fewer know the biggest mistakes to avoid when writing a Russian woman. While I’m not prepared to write a book on the subject, I do have a few tips for men who are looking for a compatible partner in a woman from Russia.

Like women anywhere, Russian women dislike men that are dishonest, mean spirited and have bad tempers as well as those who are unreliable and of course unfaithful. Many Russian women tend to dislike facial hair and are apt to avoid a man who is obese. However, these same women are not disenchanted by a man who is ten to fifteen years older.

Because Russian women are not desperate to leave Russia, writing the wrong things will end in a quick rejection. Before you decide to write a Russian woman, learn about the culture. Begin to study what is considered normal and acceptable behavior and what is not. You’ll find some very interesting things like that handwriting a letter is considered cheap or that appearing in photos wearing shorts and no shirt is disrespectful.

Remember there is a strong western influence on today’s Russian woman. She sees American television, listens to American music and often eats American foods. While a Russian woman would rarely call herself a feminist, she is independent by fate and takes on many responsibilities as a regular course of life. To assume that she will be docile and obedient is a big mistake. To command her in anything is a major mistake. With Russian women, if you want something, ask and the likelihood is you’ll get it.

Another common mistake when writing a Russian woman is to begin the letter with “Dear” and tell her you find her beautiful. The word “dear” in Russian has a very intimate connotation and is better left for when you know the Russian woman better. To tell her she is beautiful is another way of convincing her you want only one thing and are not interested in her as a person. When considering things that will make a Russian woman feel devalued, keep in mind that trying to impress her with the things you have will only serve to make her feel you are trying to make her one of your possessions.

Lastly, if you want to avoid infuriating Russian women during correspondence, make sure you never stop writing without an explanation. If you find she is not the one for you, tell her.

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Nominated for 29 Emmys, and winner of six including Outstanding Comedy Series, The Cosby Show dominated prime-time TV from the mid- to late-eighties. The brainchild of popular comedian Bill Cosby, the series followed the life and times of a normal upper-middle class African-American family. One of the most successful sitcoms in network television history, The Cosby Show earned the #1 Nielsen rating for five consecutive years (1985-1990), and in its eight seasons it never dropped out of the Top 20. Coupled with the hit comedy series Cheers, the two shows made Thursday nights a weekly ratings sweep for NBC…

The Cosby Show is set in a New York brownstone where Heathcliff “Cliff” Huxtable (Bill Cosby) and his wife Clair (Phylicia Rashad) live with their five children - Sondra (Sabrina Le Beauf), Denise (Lisa Bonet), Theo (Malcolm-Jamal Warner), Vanessa (Tempestt Bledsoe), and Rudy (Keshia Knight Pulliam). Cliff is a popular obstetrician/gynecologist who runs his practice out of the home’s basement (which has its own street entrance), while Clair is a successful attorney with a local law firm. In the first season, Sondra is not seen because she’s attending Princeton, but she and her boyfriend (and later husband) Elvin (Geoffrey Owens) become major characters in subsequent seasons. Most of the comic relief derives from Cliff and Clair’s struggles with their children and the often stupid things they do, but in general, the family gets along very well. If The Simpsons are the quintessential dysfunctional TV family, then The Cosby Show is illustrative of the ideal real-life family. Bad language is non-existent in the series, and it showcases a plethora of African-American role models such as Stevie Wonder, Lena Horne, and Sammy Davis Jr. One of the best written sitcoms since I Love Lucy, The Cosby Show holds its own in the hallowed halls of the TV elite…

The Cosby Show DVD features a number of hilarious episodes including the season premiere in which Theo returns from school sporting a report card with 4 D’s. Believing he doesn’t need to go to college, Theo is given a memorable lesson (using Monopoly money) by Cliff - prompting him to vow to do his best from now on. This episode is especially interesting given the various aspects of the family and home that are different from the rest of the series. Since this was the pilot, the characters and their lives had yet to be firmly established… Other notable episodes from Season 1 include “Mr. Fish” in which the family participates in a formal toilet funeral for Rudy’s dead goldfish, and “Father’s Day” in which Cliff rebels against the oddball Father’s Day presents he’s received over the years, such as a giant polka-dot tie with twinkling lights…

Below is a list of episodes included on The Cosby Show (Season 1) DVD:

Episode 1 (The Pilot) Air Date: 09-20-1984
Episode 2 (Mr. Fish) Air Date: 09-27-1984
Episode 3 (Bad Dreams) Air Date: 10-04-1984
Episode 4 (Is That My Boy?) Air Date: 10-11-1984
Episode 5 (A Shirt Story) Air Date: 10-18-1984
Episode 6 (Breaking With Tradition) Air Date: 10-25-1984
Episode 7 (One More Time) Air Date: 11-01-1984
Episode 8 (Play It Again, Vanessa) Air Date: 11-08-1984
Episode 9 (How Ugly Is He?) Air Date: 11-15-1984
Episode 10 (Bon Jour Sondra) Air Date: 11-22-1984
Episode 11 (You’re Not a Mother Night) Air Date: 12-06-1984
Episode 12 (Rudy’s Sick) Air Date: 12-13-1984
Episode 13 (Father’s Day) Air Date: 12-20-1984
Episode 14 (Independence Day) Air Date: 01-10-1985
Episode 15 (Physician of the Year) Air Date: 01-17-1985
Episode 16 (Jitterbug Break) Air Date: 01-31-1985
Episode 17 (Theo and the Joint) Air Date: 02-07-1985
Episode 18 (Vanessa’s New Class) Air Date: 02-14-1985
Episode 19 (Clair’s Case) Air Date: 02-21-1985
Episode 20 (Back to the Track, Jack) Air Date: 02-28-1985
Episode 21 (The Younger Woman) Air Date: 03-14-1985
Episode 22 (Slumber Party) Air Date: 03-28-1985
Episode 23 (Mr. Quiet) Air Date: 05-02-1985
Episode 24 (Cliff’s Birthday) Air Date: 05-09-1985

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Some corporate conglomerates that were eager to offer huge sums for social networking sites (Rupert Murdock paid $900 million to acquire Myspace.com) are now rethinking their stratagem. These buyer-hungry interests are learning that their offers don t match up to the potential revenue generated by these sites. The New York Times reported on September 22, 2006 that many of the social networking sites, have attracted large audiences but little revenue. The Times article also reported that big companies like Viacom, currently in negotiations with Facebook.com and its 22-year-old CEO, are realizing that their offers may not be lucrative once they acquire the software. Facebook, a site create by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg for students to network, generated $50 million last year, not anywhere near the $750 million offer currently on the table.
The popularity of the software itself, though, does not seem to be on the decline, but rather is gaining speed in the cyber world. Major companies and search engines like Yahoo are trying to develop and launch their own social networking software, and open source software is available for smaller companies with the same intentions. Drupal, a popular open source social networking software, is increasingly popular for companies who choose not to invest in the thousands of dollars it would take to develop their own software. They can purchase the rights to the software to then adapt it into a wrapper that has the look and feel of their website. Sites like Zaadz, a socially conscious focused company, and decayenne, a place for young adults of high socioeconomic status to meet similarly inclined folk internationally, have notable traffic and don t appear to be gearing up for multi-million dollar profits or entering into discussions with corporate buying powers. Wikipedia lists 71 different social networking sites that currently live on the web, with Myspace boasting the largest membership at more than 108 million.
Corporate buyouts are not a new trend, as companies are smart to target new technology when looking for investment options. Perhaps some view the exorbitant purchasing bids as nominal, given the potential future growth of social networking technology. In the meantime, these sites house their most viable demographic, a gold mine for advertising dollars.