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		<title>Kinships and the switching Nature of Women&#8217;s Sexuality</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Romance, Love & Life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sex was a macho, bodily desire. Merely today, afterward the ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://lavendercastle.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/daysofsex.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-483" title="daysofsex" src="http://lavendercastle.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/daysofsex-300x150.jpg" alt="daysofsex 300x150 Kinships and the switching Nature of Womens Sexuality" width="300" height="150" /></a>Sex was a macho, bodily desire. Merely today, afterward the tertiary wave of feminist movement, women get turns into independent in both individual and public aspects of life. This diffuses to a lot of regions, similar their careers and kinfolk lives, merely as well lets in their sex lives. Women get captured file of their sexuality, switched its definition from the conventional patriarchal bounces, and liberated themselves from social anticipations for their physical structure.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Beginning with the expanded accessibility and apply of female preventives, women&#8217;s dominance over their sexual actions gets developed exponentially. From dominating maternity to stimulating motivate, the area of feminine sexuality gets been dramatically changed.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In early moment periods, whatever woman who actively involved in an autonomous sex spirit was believed disobedient. Her autonomy was forbidden. She was avoided in the metropolis for to be what was and then believed promiscuous. Although plainly getting cognition of their sexual pieces was weird for women.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Today, women get at to extensive cognition all but their bodies, sex, preventives, and shelter. As the telling becomes, cognition is ability; these devices get rendered women the ability to accept dominance of their sexuality. There is although a big market for female sex toys, where preceding there was no. Women get been freed in a lot of paths, sexuality let in.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The capability to created autonomous determinations all but delighted and kinships services to ameliorate degree the playing area between the sexes. The awareness growing channeled away in tertiary Wave feminism combined women by recognizing the lots alike feels they get, although in the region of sex</p>
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		<title>Valentine&#8217;s Day Presents</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Valentine&#8217;s Day is often referred to as one day for ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://lavendercastle.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/valentine1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-477" title="valentine1" src="http://lavendercastle.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/valentine1-293x300.jpg" alt="valentine1 293x300 Valentines Day Presents" width="293" height="300" /></a>Valentine&#8217;s Day is often referred to as one day for lovers, but many people consider a holiday women. As a result, starting in February, the panic starts set in. No one wants to celebrate Valentine&#8217;s Day for ruining his girlfriend or wife. But as he learned that they want and what they expect?</p>
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<h3>A Woman&#8217;s Personality should inspire Valentine Ideas</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Woman&#8217;s personality, leadership for trying to determine what type of gift or party the best. This sentimental? If she collects pictures, cherishes the memories of the data, and songs in memory of the love she feels in her relationship, she will look at the experience of romantic Valentine&#8217;s Day. I sent her flowers will melt her heart. Taking it to the gala dinner will be her. Sex by the fireplace with a bottle of wine and chocolate her breath. Medallion with quote significant date or will be introduced in her cry.</p>
<p>If it is active and adventurous, but another approach might be in order. Woman who likes to spend a weekend hiking trails, skiing and weight lifting could be looking for something less traditional. Date, which begins climbing gym or dance studio to learn the tango can be in order. Do not deprive her of a romantic meal, but in view of its taste. If they are health nuts, they might prefer a restaurant with a light meal, and may fail in a box of chocolates.</p>
<h3>Valentine gifts women want?</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">People want to know: Do women expect gifts Valentine&#8217;s Day? See past the holidays this question. Some women focus more on gifts than others. If they are, as a rule, great gifts for friends, family, purchase, and the men in her life, she can count. When she was mad buying gifts during the holidays, the feeling of a present interest in it.</p>
<p>But if they tend to experience more attention, they may be more impressed by a well-planned evening, than a toy in a box. In this case, focus on creating meaningful and creative Valentine&#8217;s Day, not looking for a gift.</p>
<h3>Romantic Valentine&#8217;s gifts express her likes and dislikes</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Romantic Valentine&#8217;s Day gifts show the thought, care and love. They are gifts, based on understanding and love of a woman celebrating. Consider the preferences of women. Think about past experiences and giving opportunities. Tune in to her desires, and listen to see if they hint about their expectations. The need to do homework, plan something special to buy, if necessary, and enjoy.</p>
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		<title>Enhancing Your Breasts Naturally</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://lavendercastle.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/natural-breast.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-471" title="natural breast" src="http://lavendercastle.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/natural-breast-300x200.jpg" alt="natural breast 300x200 Enhancing Your Breasts Naturally" width="300" height="200" /></a>You may have read ads regarding natural breast enhancement. Maybe you’re looking for options to surgical breast enhancements. If you want to enhance your breasts without the costs and risks of surgery, you should know about natural breast enhancement options.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Natural breast enhancement generally relies on plant estrogens. These estrogens are not the same as the estrogen prescribed by doctors. Plant estrogens can cause the breast to grow as it does in puberty. Users report permanent results from using natural breast enhancement.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Natural breast enhancement using plant estrogens often comes in the form of a pill to be taken daily. It can also be found in creams. There are even natural breast enhancement products that come in liquid form.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It is important to note that natural breast enhancement methods do not show results immediately. Don’t give up if you don’t see results in a day or two. Many users report results in a few weeks. Unlike surgery, with natural breast enhancements you can control the results. When you reach the desired size, you can stop using your pill or cream.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If you are interested in natural breast enhancement, research products carefully. Natural breast enhancement is a good option for people who cannot afford surgical enhancement. It is also a good option for those who want more control over the results or are seeking natural ingredients. Natural breast enhancement does not leave scars. You have no recovery time. Natural breast enhancement is an option for anybody who would like to enhance their breasts.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Pueraplus is a premuim grade Thai traditional herbal formula derived mainly from White Kwao Krua (Pueraria Mirifica) which contains Phytoestrogens (Natural Plant Estrogen). After many years of research from Thailand, the studies indicated that this herb shows estrogenic and rejuvenate effects to the female body especially at the breast, hip, facial skin, body skin, hair and vaginal epithelium. Thus elevate the appearance of the female secondary sexual characteristics and also the skin beauty.</p>
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		<title>Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin top list of most admired women</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of the 21st century&#8217;s first decade, Americans ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://lavendercastle.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Hillary_Clinton_Sarah_Palin.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-463" title="Hillary_Clinton_Sarah_Palin" src="http://lavendercastle.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Hillary_Clinton_Sarah_Palin-300x223.jpg" alt="Hillary Clinton Sarah Palin 300x223 Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin top list of most admired women" width="300" height="223" /></a>At the end of the 21st century&#8217;s first decade, Americans have decided on the women they admire the most &#8212; and their picks might surprise some.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">One is a woman who once lived in the White House &#8212; Hillary Rodham Clinton. And the other is a woman suspected of harboring ambitions of living there someday &#8212; Sarah Palin.  A Democrat and a Republican. A former senator and a former governor. Two polarizing politicians, both moms, both bestselling authors, both lost their bids for one of the nation&#8217;s top elected offices last year.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Are American voters dropping a hint here?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">According to a new survey released by USA Today and the Gallup Poll, Clinton, 62, barely beat out Palin, 45, as the most admired female &#8212; 16% to 15% in a poll of 1,025 American adults. However, because the poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points, it&#8217;s statistically a draw. The survey was open-ended, meaning male and female respondents had to provide the names.<br />
Not that public admiration necessarily translates to votes. But the results have to set off any political spectator&#8217;s eager imagination about a future presidential ballot match-up between the two, who, though politically polar opposites, are both outspoken, both often underestimated and both beloved by their respective bases.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Clinton&#8217;s 17 straight years as the most or second-most admired woman is unprecedented since Gallup began asking the question in 1948 (when presidential daughter Margaret Truman and then-princess, now Queen Elizabeth II were in the top 10).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Clinton first headed the list in 1993 as the new first lady in the White House.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And she remained highly admired as first lady throughout the public and private turmoils of her husband&#8217;s two terms, then as a senator from New York and now as the nation&#8217;s 67th secretary of State, only the third woman to hold the post.<br />
All this despite &#8212; or actually perhaps because of &#8212; her brutal, toe-to-toe, sometimes bitter Democratic presidential primary contests against Barack Obama in 2008.<br />
Palin, on the other hand, burst onto the national political scene &#8212; and this year&#8217;s list &#8212; thanks to Sen. John McCain plucking her from the political obscurity of the Alaskan permafrost as his 2008 running mate and the first woman on a presidential ticket of the party of Lincoln.<br />
The latest new first lady, Michelle Obama, trailed on this year&#8217;s most-admired-women list. She ended up at No. 4.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">(In a separate Rasmussen Reports poll, Michelle Obama is also mirroring her husband&#8217;s plunge in approval ratings. From November to December, her approval numbers dropped 7 percentage points, down to 55%, still higher than the president&#8217;s. The national telephone survey of 1,000 likely voters has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Just ahead of Mrs. O for third place in the USA Today/Gallup Poll survey was another Illinois African American female, who helped get the Obamas into the White House: the billionaire businesswoman and TV talker Oprah Winfrey.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Predictably, among admired males, the incumbent president easily tops the list as usual. This year, he was followed by, less predictably, his immediate predecessor, Republican President George W. Bush, and then by former South African leader Nelson Mandela.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Someone named Glenn Beck &#8212; completely unknown to us here in the predictably liberal, MSNBC-watching and indubitably elite media &#8212; is the No. 4 most admired male despite &#8212; or perhaps because of &#8212; his 1950s haircut.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Pope Benedict XVI is fifth, and the Rev. Billy Graham is No. 6, putting him in the top 10 most admired males for the 54th consecutive year. The Rev. Al Sharpton did not make the top-10 cut. Neither did David Letterman.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">However, just squeaking into the top 10 most admired males is Democratic President Bill Clinton.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Well, actually, he tied for 10th place with the cellphone texter Tiger Woods.</p>
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		<title>Do women make better CEOs?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://lavendercastle.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/business-women.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-457" title="business-women" src="http://lavendercastle.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/business-women.jpg" alt="business women Do women make better CEOs? "  /></a>Last year may go down as the best year yet for female CEOs of large companies, but those corporate chiefs want to make it clear their success has nothing to do with chromosomes.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;Good leadership is about the person and has little to do with gender,&#8221; says Carol Meyrowitz, 55, CEO of retailer TJX Cos., whose stock soared 79 percent in 2009. &#8220;Good leadership and good performance [are] not about any one thing, but a host of factors and circumstances.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Still, the year after Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin fell just short of becoming the first female president or vice president, and heading into 2010, when women will begin outnumbering men in the work force, stocks of the 13 Fortune 500 companies that had a woman at the helm for all of 2009 were up an average 50 percent.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">That&#8217;s a significant outperformance. The S&amp;P 500 is up 25 percent.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Others with an up year:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">• Brenda Barnes, 56, of Downers Grove-based Sara Lee, up 27 percent.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">• Andrea Jung, 51, has been at Avon Products a decade, making her the longest-tenured of the 15. Avon stock rose 34 percent in 2009.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">• Ellen Kullman, 53, has had an impressive debut since taking over at DuPont on Jan. 1, 2009. DuPont stock is up 34 percent.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">• Carol Bartz, 61, the former Autodesk CEO who took over at Yahoo two weeks into 2009 for co-founder Jerry Yang, also ended the year with a gain &#8212; Yahoo is up 38 percent since Jan. 13.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">There now are a record 15 Fortune 500 companies with a female CEO, seven of them megacorporations in the largest 100 as measured by annual revenue.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Women CEOs of giant firms remain too small a sample size to draw any conclusions, and it would be a stretch to attribute the 2009 outperformance to gender, says Susan Cabrera, whose study of gender, leadership and team performance was in the December issue of Psychology of Women Quarterly.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;Having said that, research shows that women on average tend to be more risk-averse,&#8221; Cabrera says, which would give them an advantage in times when it&#8217;s best to reduce debt, cut costs and conserve cash. There may be a backlash against male CEOs who &#8220;swung for the fences and got clobbered,&#8221; she says.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Women who reach the top also have to be more exceptional than the average CEO, Cabrera says, which should show up in performance. EBay CEO John Donahoe, who replaced Meg Whitman in 2008, agrees that female executives are exceptional. But he was at eBay during Whitman&#8217;s final three years, when eBay cracked the Fortune 500 and rose to No. 326, and he says she was anything but risk-averse.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Xerox, the 147th-largest company by revenue, became the first to transition from one female CEO to another when Ursula Burns, the first female African-American CEO in the Fortune 500, followed Anne Mulcahy on July 1. Burns is the 44th woman to make it to CEO of a Fortune 500 company.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Xerox stock was up 8 percent in 2009 under the combination of Burns, 51, and Mulcahy, 57. That makes it one of the 12 companies led by a woman for the full year that enjoyed a stock rise in 2009.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Burns is a native New Yorker who grew up in a public housing project. A math whiz, she earned bachelor&#8217;s and master&#8217;s degrees in mechanical engineering and joined Xerox in 1980 as a summer intern.</p>
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		<title>MOTHER TERESA’S SAINTLY LIFE</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mother Teresa was born as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, on August ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://lavendercastle.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/mother_theresa.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-356" title="mother_theresa" src="http://lavendercastle.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/mother_theresa.jpg" alt="mother theresa MOTHER TERESA’S SAINTLY LIFE"  /></a>Mother Teresa was born as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, on August 27, 1910, the map of the heavens at her birth has the following stellar signature: Sagittarius, Virgo and Libra. Her Sagittarius ascendant makes her attuned to philosophy, religion and she has a deep longing to understand God. Several of the planets were in Virgo, the sign of service, and her Midheaven was in Libra, the sign of equality and peace. Throughout Mother Teresa’s life she expressed the best of these signs and, which the energies of Pluto, which rules fate, and Neptune, the planet of mysticism, which actively influenced her life as they transit around her horoscope, she was able to come up with a new brand of practical spirituality.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">She took the vows of chastity, poverty and obedience, made herself pure and fit for divine communication. Later in her life, as Mother Teresa, she regarded her life and works as an expression of God’s love on earth. When she was eighteen, Neptune entered her 9th house-the area of education, higher learning and yearning to be with God. There was a call to be in union with the higher forces of the universe and she heeded the call. She left her home in Skopje, Yugoslavia and became a nun in Dublin, Ireland. She was changed forever; she came to be known as  Sister Teresa.  Her life was transformed as she dedicated it to doing God’s will. The order she joined ran convent schools in India. She later went to India to teach and eventually adopted it as her home and the base for her saintly work.</p>
<p>On September 10, 1948, while on the train heading to a retreat, she had a remarkable spiritual experience. There was another message form God, instructing her to leave the convent and to help and express God’s love to those who are poor, suffering and downtrodden. In this year, she started her special mission; she left the convent to seek the poor. She attracted 12 followers who were very devoted to her cause. They sought the most miserable of society and lived with them. Early in the existence of their order they endured abuse and humiliation but they persevered. In 1950, the Vatican established the Missionaries of Charity and Sister Teresa became Mother Teresa. Unlike other missionary orders, they took and additional vow- a life of dedication to the care of the poor and the needy.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In 1952, the House for the Dying was opened, caring for the helpless and guiding them to die in dignity. In 1957, they started to work with the outcast of society-the lepers. Wherever there was a calamity, missionaries from her order were present, giving moral support and helping raise funds for the people in distress. Mother Teresa’s strong dedication has won her many admirers and supporters worldwide. By her selfless example she has proven that despite economic issues that divide people, human beings are the same-they share the same pain and sorrow. Her work has transcended national and religious boundaries.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">She has won the support of world leaders and other benefactors form different backgrounds, hence, she did not have to worry about the source of funding for her projects. In 1985, then US President Ronald Reagan honored her with the Medal of Freedom. In 1996 a poll was made and she was voted second to Princess Diana as the World’s Most Caring Individuals.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Mother Teresa has helped millions of people who were suffering and have inspired the rich and the poor alike into another way of compassionate living. Some individuals were born to embody a universal principle that if more people would emulate would lead to a more peaceful and spiritual planet; Mother Teresa was such a light, she pointed us a way to be closer to God, through the path of service.</p>
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		<title>swine influenza : Only Four States are Free</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 16:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After SARS and bird influenza or H5N1, the whole word ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://lavendercastle.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/flu_virus.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-224" title="flu_virus" src="http://lavendercastle.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/flu_virus.jpg" alt="flu virus swine influenza : Only Four States are Free" width="600" height="358" /></a>After SARS and bird influenza or H5N1, the whole word is threatened with swine influenza or H1N1. This deadly type of influenza is said to be the combination of the pig, bird, and human influenza. Until this day, May 16 2009, Mexico stills on the first list of country that has the biggest H1N1 case. The list then followed by United State with about 4,714 cases of people who are infected and become the suspect of this disease. The patients and suspects are spreading in 47 States including the District of Colombia. Among the states, New York still has highest record of H1N1 case.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Five people on United Sate have died because of this disease and the number might be increasing if the medication cannot be found or the pandemic cannot be stopped. Based on the United State government organization that handle this case, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, two of the five people who died recently are patient in Arizona and a man in Texas. This virus infects almost all of the states, only four states are free from the virus they are: Alaska, West Virginia, Mississippi, and Wyoming.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Pregnant women, people who suffer from heart disease, chronic disease, and HIV are people who have bigger risk of this swine flu. For those who are having chemotherapy and children less than 12 years old are also the easy target of this deadly virus. The symptom of this influenza is similar to the regular influenza added with vomiting and diarrhea. With the increasing victim number, it is our duty to make a fortress from the virus by keeping our body vitality.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">A common gripe in a family is that people feel they are not being listened to.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://lavendercastle.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/whispering.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-164" title="whispering" src="http://lavendercastle.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/whispering.jpg" alt="whispering I Want To Be Heard" width="413" height="310" /></a>We are all busy and there is often a lot to be communicated in a family.  It&#8217;s really important for everyone to have a say and be listened to. Equal amount of airtime can makes a huge difference too.<br />
In our family, the after school, evening mealtime is the first time the four of us came together in the day.  This means that we all have things to tell each other or ask and, in the past, it often resulted in everyone interrupting and bitty, unfinished conversations.   After eating we&#8217;d clear up and put away (our children have always been involved with this) and we&#8217;d all leave the kitchen. I often felt frustrated or fed-up at being interrupted and unheard. Most nights I also felt exhausted.<br />
So my partner and I decided to make a few subtle changes.  Rather than something that we just wanted to get done and out of the way we made our dinner a more social experience. We asked them to lay the table, including glasses and a water jug and we decided to serve the food at the table. To encourage a decent conversation we each wrote on a small piece of paper something that we wanted to talk about over dinner.  The paper was folded and placed in a bowl.<br />
Then one by one we pulled out a note and had a conversation about it. We decided we&#8217;d go around the table twice to see what everyone thought or felt about the subject then drew the next one out. It worked wonderfully, having everyone focused on one topic at a time.  We had a lovely time. Everyone engaged and felt listened too.<br />
An amazing unexpected benefit also occurred.  We found that at the end of clearing up everyone was in less of a rush to get away.  We felt like we  had a enjoyable social experience as a family and were all really contented.  Having the children be involved with things that are happening in the home is a great benefit.  If you want to have your children be more involved than they have been be sure to make any changes subtly and gently.  Let them know it&#8217;s going to happen in advance and avoid dumping things on them last minute and show respect, by making them feel part of the process when you can, by discussing changes with them before they happen &#8211; if they are old enough.<br />
Over to you &#8211; how could you use the information in the newsletter to benefit you and your family?<br />
Want more help?  It doesn&#8217;t need to be hard going in a stepfamily.   You don&#8217;t need to feel pulled in every direction or be confused over how to deal with issues that come up.  I can help you build strong relationships and a happy home.  Wishing you a happy month.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><a href="http://lavendercastle.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/graham-one.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-134" title="graham-one" src="http://lavendercastle.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/graham-one.jpg" alt="graham one Martha Graham" width="580" height="447" /></a>Early Life:</strong><br />
Martha Graham was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania on May 11, 1894. Her father, George Graham, was a doctor of nervous disorders, known today as psychiatry. Her mother, Jane Beers, was a descendant of Myles Standish. Being a doctor&#8217;s family, the Grahams had a high standard of living, with the children under the supervision of a live-in maid. The social status of the Graham family increased Martha&#8217;s exposure to the arts, but being the oldest daughter of a strict Presbyterian doctor would be detrimental. As Martha matured, she was strongly discouraged from pursuing a career in the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="follow" href="http://www.andrearosen.com/" target="_blank">performing arts</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">When Martha was sixteen years old, she begged her father to take her to a dance performance in Los Angeles, which he did. Her father presented a bouquet of flowers to her outside of the theater, as told by Martha in her autobiography. The dance performance made such an impression on her that she decided to devote her life to dance, much to the dismay of her parents. She was told that a career in the arts was simply not suited for the daughter of a prominent Presbyterian physician. However, something Martha had seen on that stage had been a revelation to her; she was determined.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Destiny Found :</strong><br />
Martha enrolled at Denishawn School, a dance school and performing troupe. At age 22, extremely late for an aspiring dancer, Martha had found her destiny. She was told, however, that she was far too old to begin dancing and that her body was not properly build for it. But Martha persevered, proving to be a quick learner. She worked very hard, paying much attention to detail, to train her body.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Martha danced with Denishawn for seven years, then moved to New York City. She launched her own company in 1929. Nothing stood in the way of her mission: to &#8220;chart the graph of the heart&#8221; through movement.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>A New Language :</strong><br />
Through her choreography, Martha began to push the art of dance to new limits. Her early dances were not well-received by audiences, as they were confused by what they were seeing on stage. Her performances were powerful and modern, and were often based on strong, precise movements and pelvic contractions. Martha believed that by incorporating spastic movements and falls, she could express emotional and spiritual themes. Her choreography overflowed with beauty and emotion. Martha was establishing a new language of dance, one that would change everything that came after it.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>A True Pioneer:</strong><br />
Still dancing in the late 1960s, Martha often turned to alcohol to cope with her despair at her declining body. Her performances began to include more acting than dancing, relying on the movement of the dancers around her. Martha&#8217;s love of dance was so strong that she refused to leave the stage, even though critics insisted she was past her prime. However, when the critics became too loud, she left the stage. Despite her age, she kept dancing throughout the 60s. In 1969, Martha finally announced her retirement from the stage. Although she couldn&#8217;t perform, she continued to teach until her death in 1991, at age 96.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The Martha Graham Dance Company:</strong><br />
Founded by Martha in 1926, the Martha Graham Dance Company is the oldest, most celebrated modern dance company in the world. It presents the classic Graham repertory and new choreography in <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://ynview.net/travelling-in-united-state2.html" target="_blank">New York</a> and on tour, featuring many of today&#8217;s most talented dance artists.</p>
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		<title>best cell phones for women</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://lavendercastle.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/women_cellphone10.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-110" title="women_cellphone10" src="http://lavendercastle.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/women_cellphone10.jpg" alt="women cellphone10 best cell phones for women" width="450" height="339" /></a>Contrary to expectations, not all women want to be seen with a girly pink or bejeweled phone that screams for attention. Don&#8217;t get us wrong. We love cute colors, but we also like understated tastefulness that mingles fashion and femininity in equal measures. In short, a phone good enough to be seen with. That said, <a rel="follow" href="http://www.andrearosen.com/" target="_blank">design and colors </a>aren&#8217;t the end game for us. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="follow" href="http://lavendercastle.com/category/works-and-professional" target="_blank">The professional</a>, hip and smart women of today want <a href="http://curvedms.com/" target="_blank">cell phones </a>that also offer great functionality (as opposed to a ton of features) for <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.oopshey.com/" target="_blank">not just work but also play</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So yes, give us something that works and works well. Let there be sufficient fun features for ringtones and personal pictures. How about a user interface that&#8217;s easy to text with? Finally, a handy size seems to be the operative word among our female friends who fancy unobtrusive terminals. So for the money, and based on the earlier criteria, these top 10 choices (in no particular order) make the final cut for what women want.</p>
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<li><span class="f3"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.curvedms.com/motorola-razr2-v8.html" target="_blank">Motorola RAZR2 V8</a><br />
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<li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.curvedms.com/samsung-sgh-e590.html"></a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.curvedms.com/motorola-razr2-v8.html" target="_blank">Samsung SGH-E590</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.curvedms.com/samsung-ultra-edition-121-u700.html" target="_blank"></a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.curvedms.com/samsung-ultra-edition-121-u700.html" target="_blank">Samsung Ultra Edition 12.1 (U700)</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.curvedms.com/lg-shine-ku970.html"></a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.curvedms.com/lg-shine-ku970.html" target="_blank">LG Shine (KU970)</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.curvedms.com/nokia-6300.html" target="_blank"><span class="f3">Nokia 6300 </span></a></li>
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