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You may be in search of a good one cup coffee maker that will serve your purpose well. Have no worries, you can surely get one that fits your needs and budget from among the wide variety of makes and ALS Scan Models available.

One cup coffee makers perfect for the home and office environment

The one cup coffee makers or single cup coffee makers are just right for your home kitchen or the private office place. This will meet your personal one cup coffee drink requirements. Apart from superior functionalities people also seek ALS Scan Models with a distinctive look that will create an elegant appeal and act towards dcor enhancement of the surroundings.

Popular single serving coffee maker ALS Scan Models

A popular single cup coffee maker model is the Salton MES2 1- Cups Coffee Brewer. This readies coffee fast. The one 10 oz. mug coffee equivalent to one 5 oz. European cup that it prepares at a time involves an easy process. This has a removable water tank that facilitates easy cleaning.

There is the Keurig B100 1- Cups Maker that is another popular model having a state of the art, patented technology incorporated in a simple and sleek design. This user friendly machine has a great appearance and adds to the dcor of any environment in which it is placed- be it an office corner or home kitchen.

Known as the Home Caf System, the Black & Decker AM8 1 Cup Maker is yet another immensely popular single cup coffee maker model offered by the Black & Decker concern. The model features pressure-brewing technology as is used for making the best cappuccinos, lattes and mochas. The coffee machine also offers the convenience of coffee pod usage. Upon using this single serving coffee machine not even a minutes time will elapse before a fresh and delicious cup of coffee is delivered. The pressure brewing technology that is made use of in the model helps extract the complete flavor of the coffee beans.

The SSP 23 1- Cups Maker is yet another worthwhile single serving coffee maker. This is offered by Mr. Coffee- a proven name for many decades. Its specialty is that it can make use of pre-packed gourmet coffee pods coming in a variety of flavors, blends and roasts. The coffeemaker features a removable cup platform that helps prevent splatters thus obviating the risk of staining from plashing of coffee.

Tania Penwell provides information on one cup coffee makers for A1 Coffee Makers - Your Guide to Coffee Makers, Accessories, and Gourmet Coffee.

A portable DVD player is great for watching pornmovies during a trip, but often many cost hundreds of dollars. Now why would you want to pay that much, when you can buy discount portable DVD players? There are online stores that sell discount portable DVD players on the internet, you just have to know what to search for, so I'll tell you how. I also provide a link at the end of this article to where you can find a trusted online store I bought my new portable DVD player from.

Online is where you will find discount portable DVD players
Buying online is practically the only way to find discount portable DVD players. Since you are reading this article, chances are you may have already knew this. Now let me tell the reason why you only can find discount portable DVD players online. Stores with a physical location have to sell their merchandise at high prices, while online stores do not have the same problems. A "physical" electronics store have to order in bundles from a warehouse, (which in turn the warehouse often has to order from manufacturers). Once the store receive the merchandise, the owner must stock up the items, which may not be sold for weeks or months. All this including the fact stores have to pay staff, bills, etc takes up time and money. The only way for the store to make a decent profit is by raising its products to expensive prices, but an online store do not share the same problems. Most online stores have their own warehouse, and can easily ship the product straight to your home. There are online stores that will pass the savings to you by selling discount portable DVD players. You just have to know who they are, and I provide a link at the end of this article telling who they are.

Checking out refurbished products is another way of getting discount portable DVD players
Any product that was refurbished means the item was restored back into a "new condition". The DVD player is then professionally repacked, and given a new warranty to be sold. This is a good way of getting discount portable DVD players, because you can buy refurbished portable DVD players at much lower prices than originally sold. A company that is selling a refurbished product can not sell it at the original price, because that would illegal for them to do so.

Do not count out less-popular brands
Checking out less-known brands is another way of finding discount portable DVD players. You should not over-look this option, and I'll tell you why. Most high-end products from less-known brands such as portable DVD players often have the same thing inside as the popular brands. When you buy products from popular brands, many times you are paying higher just for their famous name. Many popular products do not actually create what is used inside of the DVD player, but simply buy individual parts from the same manufacturer less-known brands buy from. The companies simply put together the pieces and place their logo on the product.

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Eliminating excuses is the first step on the path to physical fitness. This may be easier said than done...oops, that is also an excuse! We all have the same 24 hours in a day, and the body we were born with. Yet, people vary greatly in terms of fitness level. Why is that? Because the physically fit don't let lame excuses interfere with their commitment to their health.

Don't let the usual excuses keep you from starting, and sticking with, a reasonable exercise regimen:

1. "The gym is too far away/there isn't gas in the car/my cute workout clothes are dirty...{blah, blah, blah}"

Having your own exercise equipment, in your own domain, removes this line of reasoning. Forget commuting and work out at home. Not being willing or able to go somewhere doesn't have to get in your way.

2. "I don't have time to work out."

Working out will increase your energy, which will actually give you more time in your day, not less. And if you choose your exercises to give the most efficient workout, then 30 minutes, 3 times a week should be quite beneficial. That is possible by choosing fitness equipment that offers a variety of exercises, like the Bowflex Treadclimber, or a home gym that has multiple stations.

If you can't spare 30 minutes, 3 times a week for your own health, what on earth do you have time for?

3. "It hurts."

Exercise should never hurt -- ever. Instead of giving up on exercise altogether, do low-impact activities. One way to ease stress on your knees and feet, for example, is to work out in water. Also, some exercise machines provide a similar effect. The Bowflex climber has "dual-treadles" that come up to meet your feet, which some say feels like walking in water.

It is important to always consult with a health care professional before starting any exercise routine, to ensure the activities you choose are appropriate. After all, the point is to get healthier, not injure yourself.

4. "Working out is boring."

No one said you had to do the same exercise over and over, until you're bored. Change it up a bit. Vary your routine to include your exercise machine three times a week, a brisk walk or jog twice a week, and swimming or yoga another once or twice a week. Your exercise equipment can also keep you from getting bored by enabling numerous different exercises (see #2).

5. "I'm too old to get in shape."

This might be the conclusion you draw if your exercise equipment doesn't offer you adjustable settings, to match the intensity to your current fitness level. That can lead to feelings of discouragement and keep you from wanting to continue. The Bowflex Treadclimber has adjustable settings and speeds, to customize your workout. After about six weeks, you'll probably feel younger, not older!

6. "It's not possible to look that good {as in before/after pictures or the bodies featured in commercials}."

No one can guarantee how you will look, at a higher level of fitness. But if you're getting healthier and have a good chance of looking a lot better, isn't it worth doing it anyway? Optimum health is the goal, better looks are a pleasant side effect. Think of it that way, and you won't feel so down when a six-pack doesn't appear in a week.

7. "But I don't need to lose any weight."

Weight loss is only one element to getting in better shape. There's also: getting stronger, increasing energy and stamina, better posture, staving off "old age", and reducing your risk of certain illnesses. Also, your weight may be redistributed in a more attractive way. Then there's the best reason to work out: fun! If you enjoy your workout, you'll do it more often, and will get more and more fit.

Excuses can be a way of postponing things you know you need to do. So eliminate them, one at a time!

Kathy Hildebrand is a professional writer who is easily bored with her "day job" assignments. So, she researches anything and everything of interest and starts writing. Writing about an extremely wide variety of subjects keeps her skills sharp, and gives her food for thought on future paid writing assignments.

More of her research and articles can be found at www.lasertargeted.com/bowflex and other sites around the internet.

Traveling to the Washington D.C. area and the northwestern part of Virginia becomes a trip into history. The eye and mind not only view the scenery, but also ghosts of the countrys past.

Whorls of fog, like mists of memory, wind over paths swathed through forests of ever vigilant green. Trees choke off the view of the horizon as sleek horses graze on ground christened by a nation's two fights: one a battle for independence, one a battle within. Everywhere the eye wanders, glimpses of history, memories of the past mingle with scenes of the present.

Battle fields forever scarred with the scattered litter of the dead are surrounded with masses of hardwoods fertilized with the blood of men who wore the Union blue or the Confederate gray. Cannons, forever guarding ghosts of those who fought and died, left wheel ruts unfilled by the passing of time. In hollow mockery of troops long gone, towering trees stand attention around a painting of a grand house which burned leaving but scraps of a foundation and graves and monuments, lasting reminders of the price of a war which turned brother against brother and friend into enemy.

In Fredricksberg, colonial buildings march side by side in their restored grandeur, quaint, narrow, and deep with pocks caused by shelling in revolutionary or civil war time. Stark, plain yet with silent dignity, a battle-scarred church, built of brick and mortar, stands separated from rushing traffic by a line of swaying trees. Aged pine floors creak echoes of the past in the building where heroic medicine had been found, while young girls, older ones too, shudder at the tales of treatment of long ago. A biker bar and inn sits in memory where the rich entered by the front door, and the common folk by the back. A deck of cards lies on a table, the ace of spades missing to avoid more of the King's tax, the start of "not playing with a full deck." White and proud stands the home of the first president's mother, a mother's home where a son came to ask her blessing and where a boy ghost lurks.

Monticello brings many to visit its splendor and its view. Gentle mountains softened by graduated shades of green touch the low, lazy haze curling about the rounded peaks. Deep valleys spread below, filled with close ranks of pines, oaks, and elms divided by lush meadows or fields of fragrant grasses and hay. On a hill-top sits the ancient, in New World time, house with multiple chimneys pointing to the bright blue sky where wisps of friendly clouds play hide-and-seek. Around the mansion lie carpets of velvet grass shaded by weeping willows and towering oaks while flowers peek through hedges. Vistas of wooded hills and valleys hide old houses in armies of trees with roofs and chimneys briefly spotted behind the sentries. Trails of history meander through today's sunlight, bringing back memories of yesterdays gone by. A stone monument marks the grave now empty while immortality lives in brick and wood for all to see, but not touch.

A flood of traffic rushes into the nation's capital, greeted by a towering white spear and a columned reminder of those who led through the two historic wars most grim. The spires of a red-brick American castle reach toward the drizzling sky on one side of a mall of grass and paths. Mobs of citizens from here and there play tourist, staring in awe or simply gawking at the mixture of history now surrounded by crass commercialism. The long reach of grass is framed by a domed capitol blurred by mist, buildings old and new housing memories and dreams, the towering column reaching upward unsoftened by any influence. Around and through rages a river of people flowing, ebbing, creating rapids that cannot be navigated. Apparently healthy men accost walkers, begging for money for food; all look amazingly well-fed. Here lies history drowning in today as a nation's mansion hides behind bars and barricades, unapproachable.

Standing tall and proud at the top of a hill like an elderly lady fallen on hard times, Chatham, a mansion from colonial times used in the Civil War as a Union headquarters to subdue Fredricksberg, brings feelings of dread and of anticipation. The mansion gathers her tattered gown around her with dignity, staring haughtily across the river, overlooking the shadows of destruction left in her lap. One is overwhelmed with the need to escape from the oppressive darkness by fleeing around the circle of her skirt. Like hiding behind his mother in safety, he finds her garden holds peace and contentment, full of flowering, blooming life.

Memories of the past, real and imagined, spin and mix with views of the present creating a new, more intimate portrait of a slice of history.

Vivian Gilbert Zabel taught English, composition, and creative writing for twenty-five years, honing her skills as she studied and taught. She is an author on http://www.Writing.Com/, a site for Writers, and her portfolio is http://www.Writing.Com/authors/vzabel Her books, Hidden Lies and Other Storied and Walking the Earth, can be found through Barnes and Noble or Amazon.com.