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Although I was never picked for sports teams as a kid, I always thought that golf would be far easier than all the others as it required very little physical exertion in regards to chasing a ball up and down a field for 90 minutes while opponents try to take the legs out from under you.

I mean, how difficult could it be? You stand still, look at the hole at the other end of the green, look at the ball and then hit it as hard as you can with a metal or wooden club. Even better, once you do, you don’t have to run as fast as you can to the hole. Instead you take a taxi in the form of a golf cart. How sweet is that!

I had a rude awakening one day when a friend of mine managed to talk me into playing a few rounds down at one of the local courses. For starters there were no golf carts, so we had to walk around all 18 holes. That wouldn’t have been so bad but for the fact there were no golf caddies on that day either so we had to carry the bags of clubs around too. Damn those things are heavy! Golf caddy’s do not get paid enough.

To make matters worse, it began to rain half way through the game. So there I am, soaked, sore, tired and about to drive my tuft of grass another 100 yards, for that is all I seemed to be hitting all morning.

Someone must have super glued the golf ball to the tee because every time I looked down after swinging that freakin club, there it was, smiling up at me, wondering why I wasn’t hitting it. On the few occasions that I did manage to hit it, it made a lovely plopping sound as it hit the water, sinking into the murky depths of the nearest water hazard, never to be seen again.

Or I spent the rest of my time doing a David Attenborough as I searched through the rough long grass (in vein I might add) looking for that elusive white golf ball. I actually managed to find many day glow and colored golf balls on my safari for my own but alas it was never found.

In all I lost 12 golf balls that day but managed to recover 9 multi colored ones that didn’t belong to me. This leads me to believe I’m not alone in my inability to hit a golf ball straight. I didn’t come across the dead bodies of any lost golfers looking for their own golf balls but I was fully expecting to.

Just when I was about to assign golf to a watery grave by hurling my 9 iron as far across the nearest water hazard as I could, two extremely attractive females came walking over the hill behind us. They too were searching for their lost golf balls.
(I swear you couldn’t make this stuff up if you were writing a film.)

We exchanged golfing disaster stories and after a bit of chatting decided to retire to the club house for the day to escape the rain and plan a new strategy of attack.

Thanks to my golfing disaster we now have dates for this Friday night and although I caught the cold, lost my balls and was thoroughly pissed off for most of the game. (I was losing a bet with my friend) I can’t help but feel that meeting girls at a stadium of 90,000 screaming fans just would not have happened.

Although I’m still useless at golf, my opinion of the sport has changed completely. Not only for obvious reasons but I’ve come to learn there is a great deal of skill required to hit a ball straight with a bent club in a cross wind.

So the next time you laugh at the poor guy or girl who is hitting a golf club into the ground repeatedly, show them a little sympathy as they may be at the end of their teather. And the next time you see a pro sink a ball in 2 shots, stand in awe at the amount of time, patience and effort they must have put in to their game to become THAT good.

About the author:

Jack Crow is a freelance writer and part time golfer. When he’s not writing articles he’s trying to improve his golf swing at his local course.
To read golfing tips and secrets he has discovered visit:
http://www.golfvre.com/

Question : I HAVE been on an 80 per cent vegetarian diet for about five years now. I take spirulina regularly. Two years ago my period started to become irregular. It came twice in a month for two consecutive months. The medication prescribed by the doctor only helped to relieve the symptoms for only a few months. Am I approaching menopause? I am 43.

Answer : AS you are a vegetarian, the risk of getting not enough vitamin B12 is there as this vitamin is mostly obtained from meat and animal products. But you are on the right track supplementing with spirulina. Your irregular periods seem to indicate menopause.

A woman would normally go through menopause between the ages of 45 and 55 due to reduced oestrogen and progesterone production by the ovaries. The age varies according to several factors. One of these is body weight. Overweight people tend to menopause later. Common symptoms of menopause include amenorrhoea (absence of period), irregular periods like you are having now, increased or decreased flow, hot flushes, heart palpitations, low libido, tingling, chills, nervousness, excitability, inability to concentrate, forgetfulness, depression, fatigue, irritability, insomnia, headaches, muscle and bone aches, and gastrointestinal disturbances. There may also be changes in frequency of urination, stress incontinence, unwanted hair and drying up of vaginal secretions and vaginitis. If menopause has been confirmed by a doctor, you may try taking a herbal supplement to help women cope with menopausal symptoms. This is a safer alternative than hormone replacement therapy. A good herbal supplement should contain black cohosh, dong quai, soya, red clover and sage.

Black cohosh is effective in treating perimenopausal symptoms and those arising from a lack of oestrogen and progesterone, such as hot flushes and night sweat. It is anti-inflammatory and may help to relieve menstrual cramps.
Dong quai, also known as ‘female ginseng’, helps to restore balance in a woman’s reproductive system by toning up the uterus, nourishing the blood and stimulating healthy circulation. Soya is high in isoflavones and is beneficial for menopause-related hot flushes, osteoporosis and certain types of cancer. Recent evidence shows that red clover helps improve heart health in menopausal women.

Sage is for digestive disorders associated with PMS and excessive perspiration especially at night.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

www.medical-explorer.com

Before anything we can take better care of our feet by wearing shoes that don`t pinch. It’s also advisable to change your shoes at work. Be sure to keep a spare pair at work and change before you leave. To go bare foot is also something our feet love!

If you don`t have any other problems than dry skin on your feet, you can take a weekly foot bath. Or even better, 2-3 times a week.

Start the pedicure by filing the hard skin and then place your feet in luke warm water. Dissolve bath salt in the water or buy a germicidal cure form your pedicurist. Germicidal herbs are effective for cracked heels, nail fungus(Candida), restless feet and legs.

Keep your feet in the foot bath for at least 15 minutes until the skin softens.

If your skin is still hard and dry, use the file softly. Don`t be too rough. It`s better to file your feet more often.

Dry your feet with a soft towel.

Finish the pedicure by giving yourself a foot massage. Or exchange footmassage with your partner! Apply a good lotion and let it absorb thoroughly. The foot massage will increase your blood circulation.

If you have more serious problems like ingrowing toenails, you should see a pedicurist.

Edna Solem
http://www.houseofedna.no

Each year, the United States News and World report issues
college rankings. These ranking lists are the most popular and
are the officially recognized university rankings for all
American colleges and universities. These college rankings are
divided into multiple sections:

National Universities * Top Schools (public and private) * Top
Public Schools * Most Diverse Liberal Arts Colleges * Top
Schools (public and private) * Top Public Schools * Most Diverse
Best Values * National Universities * Liberal Arts Colleges

Within each of these categories the colleges have been assessed
by location, value, subject and school type to produce the final
college rankings. These are often used by potential students and
their parents to ascertain which of the colleges they most wish
to apply for. The college rankings may seem simplified but they
do give a good starting point in the overwhelming process of
searching for the perfect college.

To produce the college rankings each school is assigned to one
of the above groups. The National Universities group for 2005
includes 248 American universities (162 public and 86 private)
that offer a wide range of undergraduate majors as well as
master’s and doctoral degrees. Within each category the data on
up to 15 indicators of academic quality are gathered from each
school and tabulated to form the final college rankings for the
National Universities. It is worth noting that specialty schools
and those with enrolments below 200 are not included in the
college rankings.

The Liberal Arts Colleges section of the college rankings
include 215 liberal arts colleges that emphasize undergraduate
education and award at least 50 percent of their degrees in the
liberal arts. Most of these colleges included in the college
rankings are private institutions.

The final section of the college rankings produced by the U.S.
News is the Best Value category. The particular formula used to
determine which schools offer the best value relates a school’s
academic quality that is judged by its position in the overall
college rankings to the net cost of attendance for a student who
receives the average level of financial aid. Obviously, the
higher the quality of the program and the lower the cost, the
better the deal and the higher up the best value college
rankings a school will appear. The limitation to the best value
college rankings is that the U.S. News only takes the schools
that are placed in the top half of the full college rankings to
assess with this formula. However, these college rankings do
provide a good reference for the value of money of the more
academically strong colleges.