The World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) was based on a 1989 convention on anti doping by the Council of Europe.  The Anti Doping Convention had gathered to set a standard for testing and regulation of illegal substances, particularly in the Olympic Games.  The World Anti Doping Agency created its WADA code in 2004, but it [...]

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My great Aunt Martha recently passed away.  I attended her funeral along with my parents and my brother.  Aunt Martha and I had a fun relationship.  She had an outgoing personality and truly stopped to smell the roses of life well into her nineties. 
One of my favorite activities with Aunt Martha was baking.  I inherited [...]

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If you are self-employed or own your own small business, one of the most important parts of your business plan is determining your rates and/or product pricing.  However, this isn’t necessarily as easy as simply figuring out an hourly wage for yourself: You also need to take into account all of the benefits you will [...]

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Our company has seen a downward trend in sales for the past five years, and we have begun to realize that we need to expand our products, as well as improve our telemarketing in the most cost effective manner possible.  However, we want to make this move with calculated precision so we are employing an [...]

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I asked for a Coach bag for Christmas.  That’s all I wanted; this gorgeous blue gray suede hobo bag called “Zoe”.  Isn’t that a cute name?  It’s a beautiful bag.  The craftsmanship is guaranteed for life (how many things can you say THAT about?  Not many!) and it’s just a beautiful, elegant and stylish bag [...]

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Divorces are sometime inevitable and can be a devastating experience for everyone involved. Mediation in Arizona can help make the process a little less painful and might save you money too.  When you go to the initial free consultation with the divorce attorney in Scottsdale, they will inform you of the procedures and discuss all [...]

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Someone with the right touch for weddings can make a good living as a Michigan wedding planner.  However, just being good at planning weddings isn’t enough — you also have to have a sense for how to market your business efficiently and effectively.
Online marketing is of course the most often thought of type of marketing, [...]

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I struggle in my mind with this issue a lot.  I have two dogs, and we used to have a great little set-up to keep them warm in the winter.  Short of having a Sliding glass dog door or pet doors for wall installation that lead straight into the house, it’s hard to provide for [...]

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I’m a big proponent of online shopping.  Ever since the big companies got their act together and accepted the internet age, I’ve been shopping primarily online.  Before that, it was kind of hit or miss with small, new age companies.  Nowadays, I’ve noticed that the best commercial websites share some things in common.  They let [...]

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Even though the character of Tinkerbell the fairy has been around since J.M. Barrie wrote the play Peter Pan back in 1904, and became even more popular in Disney’s animated Peter Pan feature, she’s experienced renewed popularity due in part to a marketing push by Disney to promote their new Tink movie, and also because [...]

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