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If you devote as little time as 10 minutes to stretching after
you row, the benefits will be immeasurable. Stretching the
specific muscles that you use when you row makes the most sense
and is therefore the best use of your time! Also, stretching just
after you have rowed, when your muscles are warm, is the safest,
easiest and most beneficial time to incorporate a routine.

You can expect to decrease any stiffness, pain or soreness that
you may experience after rowing by stretching your muscles.
Stretching improves circulation to the working muscles, which
helps them to recover more efficiently after exertion. Stretching
on a regular basis will improve your range of motion which will
enhance your experience in your Echo rowing shell. We’ve even come to realize
that you can incorporate several terrific stretches without even
having to get out of your boat!

A couple important details to keep in mind when you stretch:

Remember to breathe. When you breathe, you invite your
muscles to relax, to soften and to let go. If you are tight when
you stretch, you are creating unnecessary resistance and
preventing the muscle from relaxing and letting go. To take it
even further, be present with what you are doing and set an
intention in your mind to breathe into the sensation that you are
feeling in your body. This is known as “breathing into your
stretch”. Deep, easy breathing is relaxing, quiets the mind and
is an ideal way to finish your row.

Stretching allows you to take care of your body and finish your
row feeling a greater sense of peace.

© 2006 Nancy Friedman

Nancy is a member of Echo Rowing in the Sales Division. Nancy is a certified Kripalu Yoga instructor, who for ten years, has been teaching Vinyasa (flow) style yoga classes in Southern Maine. She has come to appreciate the similarities of Yoga and Sculling…. both a meditation in motion exemplifying grace, strength, personal empowerment and peace. Look for teaching tips, techniques and stretching exercises at http://www.EchoRowing.com or the Row ECHO blog at http://echorowing.blogspot.com

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Actors Oded Fehr and Iain Glen will both be returning for the upcoming third “Resident Evil” film Resident Evil Extinction. This according to Production Weekly. Fehr started off his tenor in the “Resident Evil” series by portraying the game character Carlos Olivera in “Resident Evil Apocalypse”.

Meanwhile the returning Iain Glen was seen in the finale of “Resident Evil Apocalypse” as the evil Dr. Isaac’s, who later finds himself thrown through a glass window before Alice makes her escape from an Umbrella Corp. facility. An official plot synopsis has also surfaced for the movie, and it goes like this…

“Milla Jovovich is back as Alice, and she’s running with a new pack of humans, leading a caravan that’s cutting through the Nevada desert on a long trek to Alaska. Hunted by the minions of the perpetually scheming Dr. Isaacs, Alice has zombies hungry for her flesh, and lab rats hungry for her blood…while Alice is hungry for only one thing…Revenge.

I am not sure whether the term “lab rats” is code for Umbrella scientists or could it possibly mean that we will see some sort of mutant rodent creatures hunting Alice in “Resident Evil Extinction”? I guess we’ll have to wait and see. On the other side of things, it’s looking like the Dr. Isaac’s character is slowly becoming Albert Wesker like. I hope not, I really want to see “The” Albert Wesker brought into this series sooner or later.

“Resident Evil:Extinction” is expected to begin shooting within the next few months, looking to be released in 2007. The film will also return Sienna Guillory and Mike Epps as Jill Valentine and L.J. For those of you keeping score at home, Sophie Vavasseur (Angie Ashford) remains the only major player from “Resident Evil:Apocalypse” yet to join the cast of the third film.

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If you have a website and you are not involved in any of the
thousands of affiliate programs available on the Internet, you
are loosing great opportunities to make some extra income. As in
the case of some top affiliate marketers this extra income might
even transform into thousands of dollars.

Affiliate program is one of the most effective methods of
producing sales second only to direct mail. According to
Forrester Research, a marketing research company, in this year
21% of all online sales will be generated from affiliate sites
promoting affiliate products.

If you do your homework right, you too can earn handsomely from
the correct use of affiliate programs.

What is an affiliate program?

The concept of affiliate program is based on the age-old
business practice of referral service. This is quite common
in many industries. An attorney, for example, gets a certain
percent of commission if he refers a client to another lawyer.

Back in 1996 Amazon.com started the first widespread use of
referral service on the Internet. If a client comes to Amazon.com
and buy a product using a link provided by Amazon, from a website
which signed affiliate partnership agreement, that site receives
10 to 15% commission from the sale. The Amazon Affiliate Program
became so successful that it prompted others to follow the suit.
Today, affiliate programs became ubiquitous on the Internet making
them one of the primary methods of online marketing of products
and services.

Affiliate Program can be defined as Internet marketing system
where a company allows and helps third party websites, called
affiliates to post link and refer clients in return for a
predetermined flat-fee or percentage-based commission.

Benefits of affiliate programs
Affiliate Programs became so popular because as a partnership
it’s a win-win situation for both the program owner and the
affiliates.

Benefits for program owners include:

Increase Sales
The primary reason for most of the companies to adopt an
affiliate program is the possibility of boosting sales. In fact,
proper implementation of a quality affiliate program is capable
of increasing sales dramatically.

Free promotion
A successful affiliate program can easily become the largest
traffic generator for the company website. Many websites receive
major portion of their visitors from their affiliate links.
To find suitable websites with required content in order to run
a banner or link campaign is time consuming and require large
resources; affiliate programs in comparison can resolve this
issue often with a far smaller investment.

Increase search engine ranking
Search engines, Google in particular, calculate link popularity
as one of the main factors in their ranking algorithm. Backward
links from affiliate sites certainly help improving this.

Branding
Thanks to its affiliate program Amazon.com banner links can be
seen on numerous websites. Popularity of Amazon.com among the
newcomers to Internet proves that Amazon.com was successful in
creating its online brand name. No doubt, omnipresent visibility
of their logo on the affiliate sites definitely had a huge impact
on the brand recognition of the Amazon. Offline companies had to
spend billions of dollars of advertisement money to get similar
results!

How about the affiliates? What are the benefits they get from
an affiliate relationship?

No product or service to carry
Online business with your own product or service might be
rewarding, but it requires substantial investment from your
part. With carefully chosen affiliate programs you can have your
online business without the requirement of having your own
products.

The investment is low as all you need is a website.

No need to have a merchant account

Since you don’t carry your own products or services you do not
have to go through the hassle of having a merchant account to
cater your clients. Your affiliate program owner will do everything.
All you have to do is supply clients through your designated link.

Possibility of residual income
Many programs pay you a commission from the sales made to the
customers generated from affiliates, who have signed up as an
affiliate following your link. This kind of affiliate system is
called 2-tier system.

Visitor tracking system allows affiliate programs to pay you a
commission when same visitor from your website makes repeat
purchase.

Some affiliate programs that promote monthly or yearly
subscription services pay a commission each month as long as
customer referred by you stays subscribed.

Complement you website with added products and services
If your site is dedicated to certain products or services,
there must be other stuffs that go well together with your
own products. It’s a good idea to seek out viable affiliate
products of these items and promote through your site. Your
visitors will love this and this will help building loyalty
among your visitors.

Have new contents for your site
many affiliate programs supply you with valuable marketing
materials. Some of these materials can be nice addition to
your site content bringing further value to your website.

Various Affiliate programs

There are two ways of running an affiliate program:
The company owns and handles the program itself, using
certain software.

The company uses third party administered affiliate programs.
The reasons why many companies prefer to hand over management
of their affiliate programs include technical aspects, cost
factor and human factors.

- Companies do not have to spend money on developing, running and updating the software.

- Proven technology allows companies to concentrate on their job of selling their products and services.

- Many prospective affiliates prefer third party managed programs, because they rightfully ponder, in this case the program owners have less chance to cheat their affiliates.

Find below a list of some leading third party affiliate program
administrators:

http://www.befree.com
http://www.linkshare.com
http://www.cj.com
http://www.clickbank.com

However, this does not mean that you should avoid company run
affiliate programs. On the contrary, some of the most successful
and best affiliate programs are run by the owners.

If you find an affiliate program that suits your requirement
and you feel that the company is a reputable one, by any means
you should give it a try!

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How would you like your next cruise vacations to be? The single most important part when looking for the best cruise vacations is planning. And planning begins with choosing not only the right destinations but also the right cruise line.

It all depends on what your preferences are (weather, duration, comfort, etc) That picture may look nice on the brochure, but can you really stand the Caribbean Sun? You may also check in what type of cruise you’re preparing to embark. There are many types of cruises available: family cruises, Christian cruises, all inclusive cruises, Christmas cruises, golf cruises, single cruises, luxury cruises and more, each one with their own particularities and activities within the cruise

As you see choosing the best cruise vacations is not that easy because then you have to pick the cruise line, and there is some heavy competition, among the cruise lines are Carnival, Royal Caribbean, Norwegian, Holland America plus a lot more. But don’t despair, a good travel agent will definitely help you tailor the best cruise vacations you can have.

Here are some tips you should take in consideration when planning for the best cruise vacations:

•Keep in mind your lifestyle. Does the cruise activities and fellow travellers feel right for you? Thinking about this will help avoid feeling uncomfortable during your trip. Some cruises even require you to have certain type of clothing if you want to attend their restaurants or events.

•Plan ahead how the weather is going to be. Nothing is more frustrating that vacations going bad because of the weather, if you can’t stand too much sun you should think twice going on a Caribbean Cruise.

•Consider the itinerary. The pace of the itinerary is also important, some cruises spend more time at sea than others.

•Be on the lookout for unnecessary charges.

•Get all the help you need from your travel agent. Ask all the questions you have. Trust me, it is better to find out about some things before taking the cruise.

•Final tip, just have fun! This should be the top priority on a vacation. If you feel you will spend more time in your vacations worried, take another cruise.

In the future for we may find that the enemy is using Nano bots to attack our troops on the battlefield. These nano bots will come into our base camps and military positions and interfere with the human bio-system of our soldiers and in doing so will either render them unable to fight, unwilling to fight or even killed him.

In other words the enemy will be using microscopic weapons, so small that you cannot even see them and they may even challenged our very best current technologies for sensors, which may prevent us in the detection of these devices. It is for this reason that we must figure out a way to stop Nano bots coming in wave after wave in swarms to kill our soldiers.

You are probably saying; that is impossible and if it ever comes to be there will be no way to stop them. However, I disagree and believe that we should invest in research and development dollars for this potential eventuality. There is no reason that we cannot set up an electric current similar to a mosquito zapper that you put on your patio.

The only difference would be that the electro-magnetic charge would be more of the virtual fence surrounding the base camp or our military troops positions. If a swarm of Nano bots came close and passed over the virtual fence, they would be zapped into next week. Then it is only a matter of designing a robotic vacuum cleaner to vacuum them up. Consider this in 2006.

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It was a cold October morning in Dayton, Ohio and as I left my house at 7am the skies opened up and it began to pour. It wasn’t cold enough to turn the rain into ice but it was still chilly enough that I turned on the heater. “Today was gonna be a great day, I just knew it!” That thought just kept running through my head. I was full of confidence. We were prepared.

Today we were having customers in. Not just any customer - General Motors was visiting our branch and we were going to make a presentation trying to secure all the distribution business for two of their local manufacturing facilities. We had a plan and we had rehearsed our game plan over and over.

This wasn’t small potatoes. It could mean a $4 million increase in our business. We were ready. I was 31 years old, the youngest Branch Manger working for the largest steel distribution company in the world, but I wasn’t nervous. Scared, a little bit, yes, apprehensive, a little bit. But, I was confident.

One of my most cherished mentors always said, “If you’re gonna be a bear, you ought to be a grizzly.” I was gonna be a Grizzly today I told myself. We were hungry!

Three General Motors muckety mucks came that day. The Director of Procurement; he was a tall lanky man with that corporate pin striped look and the division buyers of each of the two manufacturing plants. One buyer was short and thick with huge hairy hands and it looked like he didn’t have a neck. He reminded me of Danny Davito but he was just a little taller. The other one was average height, average looks and average dress but he was built like Arnold Swartznager. Looking at the two division buyers reminded me of the movie Twins where Arnold Swartznager and Danny Divito were twin brothers.

Looking at the the three of them brought to mind the spectrum of emotions we face as salesmen in this business. Pin Stripes intimidated meDanny D. made me laugh and Arnold scared the heck out of me.

The morning went ok. My top sales rep and I walked through much of the presentation before lunch - back then we didn’t have PowerPoint. We were following our plan. I was young, but Bud Hurst was an old pro, a lone wolf, with over 25 years of experience. During a break he told me we just didn’t seem to be reaching them. Something was missing. We weren’t in a zone. We decided to break for lunch a little early hoping with the help of a couple of Martinis (Martini lunches were ok and common back then) we could break down some of the resistance and make them feel a little more relaxed, hoping to close the deal after lunch.

So, off we go to lunch. We grabbed our suit jackets (back then dark suits with white shirts and ties were mandatory - there was no such thing as casual days — this was the late 70’s). Little did I know I was about to set a new standard of dress.

Out the door we went—-it was beautiful out. The rain had stopped, the sun was shining and it had warmed up a little. The five of us, the Director of Procurement, the twins and Bud Hurst, my top sales rep followed as I led the way to my car.

As I rounded the corner and approached my car I noticed that between me and the car was a huge puddle of water about 6 feet across and at least 3 inches deep. It really didn’t bother me much, I’d seen it before on rainy days and, in fact, I had been meaning to get it fixed. It was just one of those expenses (fixing the parking lot) that always seemed to get pushed to the bottom of the budget priority list. Besides, it was only noticeable when it rained. It was a slight indentation or minor sink hole as we say in Florida in the black top.

No big deal, RIGHT — no big deal - until that day.

As I turned, a little quick I might add, to go around the puddle, I stepped on a rock, no bigger than the size of a golf ball. But it was big enough to turn my ankle, twist it and there I went, face first, doing a belly smacker right into the 6 foot puddle. I even scraped my chin causing blood to trickle down my chin.

	I was in shock
 	I didn't want to get up
 	My face was as red as a baboons behind
 	I was stunned
 	I laid there for a few secondsan eternity
 	I was hoping this wasn't real

Finally, I turned over, propped myself up on one hand and my two feet to keep the seat of my pants dry and I looked up at four suits, the three muckety mucks, Danny Divito, Arnold Swartznager, the Corporate Pin Striped suit and Bud, the old pro who probably thought I was wet behind the ears even before I fell into the puddle.

	They were trying not to look at me
 	Mr. Pin stripes was covering his mouth trying desperately not to laugh
 	One buyer, Danny Divito was moving around like he had ants in his pantslooking in every direction but mine
 	The second buyer, Arnold, his cheeks were bulging out; his eyes looked like they were going to pop. He even had that big vein running down the middle of his forehead like the real Arnold Swartznager does. I swear - he must have been holding his breath

There I was, sitting in the middle of a mud puddle; I looked more like a wounded duck than a Grizzly Bear.

It was eerie; it was like a deafening silence in the parking lot. The kind of silence you saw in the Alfred Hitchcock movie, The Birds, just before they attacked.

The Director of Procurement for General Motors Corporation, Mr. Pin Stripes, the one holding his hand over his mouth started bouncing like he had a pogo stick up his behind. You know how you bounce when you hold a laugh inside.

Finally, bless his heart, old Bud, my sales rep reached down to take my hand to help me up - and as I struggled to my feed, he grinned a grin so wide he could have eaten a banana sideways and said, “Nice FALL day, isn’t it?”

Well that comment cut it loose and all four of them roared with laughter. They thought it was absolutely hilarious. And, I guarantee you, no matter how embarrassed you get, no matter how stupid you feel, when you’re standing in front of four people that are laughing so hard tears are running down their cheeks, you can’t help but laugh with them.

I dried off with my golf towel that I retrieved from the trunk of my car and even though I was soaked we went to lunch anyway. Of course that’s all we talked about during the entire lunch - I couldn’t eat from being so embarrassed and they barely stopped laughing long enough to put food in their mouths.

Alls well that ends well; we got back from lunch and within an hour closed the deal. That meant a $4 million increase in sales for our branch. I think they felt sorry for me.

 After lunch tide turnedeverything we discussed seemed to lead back to my grand belly smacker

 We talked about reducing inventory and someone said that would prevent tripping over it as they all roared with laughter.

 Some of the parts we discussed that were to be made from our steel spurred even more laughter -parts like ankle pin, splash shield, dry lube on the parts

Our plan worked - and even through my belly smacker wasn’t in our original plan, it seemed to play a role in our success.

Many times even the best plan, the best preparation will encounter a twist in the road. The more prepared, the more confident we are, the better able we are to handle these twists. The belly flop into the parking lot puddle could have been more devastating than embarrassing. But, thanks to Bud, the sales pro, we were able to turn that most embarrassing moment for yours truly into an opportunity.

Ever since that day, I have never ever short changed maintenance and repair on any budget I was ever responsible for.

What are your puddles in the parking lot?