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Have you been waiting for some great ticket bargain to make your first trip to the theme park this season. Wait no more….. Six Flags has started their 2008 season with some great online bargains on ticket prices. While other parks around the nation are quite holding on to the daily tickets, Six Flags makes your day more fun with some nice discounts they have been offering at all Six Flags parks around the nation. So what have been stopping you from booking your tickets ? See whats on the table for you.

Six Flags bargains and promotions to all the bargain hunters. Six Flags Discovery Kingdom (Vallejo, CA):
Now you can enjoy the thrills on coasters like Boomerang, Kong, Medusa & Vertical Velocity for 30% less than what you would otherwise pay at the gate. You can now buy your daily tickets for $34.99. Six Flags Magic Mountain Tickets (Los Angeles, CA):
Magic Mountain boasts some great roller coasters that could take your excitement level to new heights. Enjoy the ride on Riddler’s Revenge, Batman, Deja Vu, Goliath, Scream, Tatsu, Viper & X2 for 55% less that what you would pay at the gate. The price of an adult daily ticket at the gate is $59.99 and now you can purchase your tickets at $26.99 before memorial day. After memorial day you will pay $39.99 which is still 33% less that regular price you pay at the gate.Six Flags St Louis (St Louis, MO):
Have you been holding on to your dreams for 2008 to experience on most challenging rides. Now get on to the thrill rides like Batman, Mr. Freeze, Superman, Ninja, Xcalibur & the Boss. Buy your tickets for $5 less than what you would pay at the gate. The regular gate price is $44.99. Six Flags over Georgia (Atlanta, GA):
Has some great roller coasters that can keep you busy throught the day. The thrill rides at Six Flags over Georgia include the Batman, Superman, Dare Devil, Acrophobia, Georgia Cyclone, Ninja and the Goliath. You can enjoy all this fun for 40% less than the regular price of $49.99.Six Flags America (Baltimore/ Washington DC):
Give yourself a treat with some of the best thrill rides in the Baltimore area. Get on to Batwing, Superman, Jokers Jinx, Roar, Mind Eraser and the Tower of Doom. All for 20% less than the gate price of $49.99.Six Flags Great America (Chicago, IL):
Six Flags Great America prices online are 27% less than the price at the gate. You can buy the daily adult ticket online for $39.99. Enjoy some of the best coasters like the Batman, Dark Knight coaster, Dare Devil, Raging Bull, Superman and the Tornado. Dont forget to experience the Giant Drop.Six Flags Great Escape (Lake George, NY):
Lake George Six Flags has been offering $5 off the gate price on the daily tickets. Rides here can take you to high n high which will keep you bolted to the seats thru the day. Enjoy the coasters like Boomerang, Canyon Blaster, Steamin Demon and the Comet.Six Flags Fiesta Texas (San Antonio, TX):
You can now grab a sweet 32% discount off the gate price of $46.99. Enjoy the Superman ride followed by Big Bender, Boomerang, Goliath and the Scream. There are two Six Flags in Texas, one in San Antonio and the other in Arlington. Six Flags Over Texas (Arlington, TX):
A whopping 36% off the regular daily ticket price of $47. Rides like Batman, Mr. Freeze, Dive Bomber Alley, Taxas Giant and the Titan are waiting for you.Six Flags New England (Springfield, MA):
Enjoy $15 off the gate price at Six Flags New England. You will definitely enjoy the rides this park has to offer. Rides like Batman, Superman, Mind Eraser, Nightwing and Cyclone will take to the upper limits of a fun & exciting day.Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom (Louisville, KY):
For just $24.99 which is $15 off regular price you will see yourself on the coasters at the Kentucky Kingdom. This park has some unique and fun filled rides like Chang, Himalaya, T2 and the Enterprise. Six Flags Great Adventure Tickets (Jackson, NJ):
Now you can go to Six Flags Great Adventure for $20 less. For just $39.99 you can get the daily ticket online which gives you admission to the theme park plus the wild safari. Most popular rides include Dark Knight roller coaster, Batman, Superman, Kingda Ka and nitro. Take my word…. these rides will make you come to this park again and again.

Six Flags made a lot of new additions and enhanced the parks thought the US. With this great offer Six Flags reported that the attendance for the first quarter was up by 19%. I have been a great admirer of Six Flags theme parks. It’s not only the aggressive pricing of the tickets and discounts they have been offering this season but also the tremendous and continuous improvements it has made in the parks to make ones experience more fun than before.

How can you grab these discounts ?:
For my reference, I would like to credit Mandrekar.com (http://www.mandrekar.com) for putting a nice comphrensive website with Six Flags tickets with all available discounts and promotions. You can click on your local Six Flags park in the Six Flags section and buy the ticket that would be of interest to you and your family. I have not discussed the family and group discounts in this article. There are even better discounts at some of the Six Flags if you go in groups (more than 10 or 15 depending on the park). You can even save on season passes at most Six Flags if you buy family season pass. Please refer to http://www.mandrekar.com

Ken Silverman is a theme park author and blog publisher. He frequently publishes articles and reviews on theme parks. Ken often writes on theme parks and national parks. This season he has started covering topics especially in the Six Flags tickets and Disney World tickets and how a bargain hunting traveller could save much more than an average person on a trip to Six Flags theme park or Disney World resort in Orlando. He is also a tech savvy content manager and graphics designer.

Bet you didn’t know this

With these economic times everyone is trying to save everywhere they can. Whether is at the grocery store or at the gas pump or their utility bills or what ever it may be, the focus is to save.

This article will look at two areas of savings; your income taxes and at places you already shop or spend money.

Income taxes

Something you probably you didn’t know about the taxes you pay from you check at work. Every year about 5 months worth of your income goes to the government in taxes. Can you believe that! 5 months of your hard earned money goes out in taxes! Crazy, right? Well not for the government but probably for you. Another thing about taxes is that you don’t have any control over when you pay them. When you get paid, the taxes are already taken. So the order goes this way: You pay taxes, then you get paid, then you pay your bills and hopefully you get to pay yourself. How does that sound? You do all of that hard work for 80+ weeks and you pay the government first and YOU last. Bet you never looked at it that way. Well coming up you will see a wonderful way to combat this travesty!

Business Ownership

Business ownership is one of the best ways the average person and combat the Tax Attack. When you become a part time business owner along with your full time job, you can change your W-4 reflect you have a business, thus pay less in taxes or none at all. Bet you didn’t know that either. Yes by being a business owner the government recognizes you as a different entity. So this is one way to save money and get paid more from your checks from at work.

The next thing about being a business owner is that you get to PAY YOUR SELF FIRST, pay bills and then pay taxes LAST! Finally, even though your business is part time, you get to pay yourself first. That’s right you, the most important person in the world to you.

Save! Save! Save!

One great way to save to be part of a savings program. A program that allows you to pay a membership fee and have access to savings that everyone else does not. This type of program will give you access to a number of places and areas to save because these retailers are part of an affiliate program that allows them to provide savings to those that own a membership. The retailer in turn get more customers, brand recognition and in return can provide even more savings. This is just one example

So we’ve talked about tax savings through business ownership and saving at places you already shop through a savings membership program. This should be a great start for you on the road to keeping more money in your pocket.

That’s the whole point.

Here is a link to view free information on how to do all three aspects that were mentioned in the article.

Save money on your taxes, become a business owner and save on shopping.

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It will only take 5 minutes of you time. Is saving on your taxes at work, paying yourself first and saving up to $200 per month worth 5 minutes? I think so.

With all the online opportunities out there, it is hard to know exactly what works finance what doesn’t work for the average person. It’s tough to define the term “average person”, but for the purpose of this article, I’m going to make the following assumptions:

The Average Person

1. Has a job that personal need to keep until they make consistent money online.
2. Does not have the time or the desire to talk on the phone at all hours of the day or night to interested prospects.
3. Does not have extensive experience in running a business, accounting, marketing, sales and customer service.
4. Does not have experience marketing online and creating web sites.

Given this criteria, we can quickly eliminate most of the online opportunities. Here’s what we need:

1. An proven automated system that allows a person to make money without spending hours everyday on the computer.
2. An experience team of phone professionals handling prospects calls and questions 24/7. Let’s be honest here, almost nobody is going to hand over their money to you without speaking to someone first. Also, if you are new (everyone is at some point) some people are hesitant to join your team. Phone experts trained at answering questions can eliminate this problem.
3. The system must provide top notch websites, complete support, training and a proven marketing system.

You get what you pay for in this world. If you want the best system it is obviously going to cost more. Typically, the extra cost pays off in the long run through higher conversions. There are plenty of good opportunities that are relatively inexpensive, but rarely will you find one that is all inclusive.

My advice – Do your research and find the opportunity that provides the most automation possible.

John Stevenson has an MBA in Finance and Corporate Accounting from The University of Rochester. He specializes in Internet Marketing and helping people make money online.

Automated Cash Gifting…Beginners Can Succeed

When I recently saw the President of the Pay Day Lender’s Association on TV the other day lecturing the viewing audience to “Never borrow more than you can repay in a short period,” I got sick to my stomach. I knew he was smelling blood!

He was clearly reacting to the increased desperation of the middle class American worker, falling further behind because of stagnant wages, rapidly rising mortage, gasoline and health care costs.

If you don’t take action to protect yourself and your family, now; from this increasingly predatory economy we live in; you will go right into bankruptcy, foreclosure or both, along with millions of your fellow middle class Americans.

Most of you are letting the government take 30-50% of your hard earned income in taxes every day, while tax the corporations and the wealthy ever more unconscionable and unfair taxbreaks.

Exxon/Mobile makes $9 Billion in profits in 1 quarter and ½ million middle class families will go bankrupt this taxes because they do not have $300/mo more income, which according to a Harvard researcher, Elizabeth Warren, is all that is needed for them to avoid bankruptcy!

There is no way the average person’s wages are going to keep pace with the spiraling cost of living, so the head of the Pay Day Lender’s Association wants to lend a helping hand, at 240% annual taxes of course.

Fortunately, there is another way. You can take back 10-25% of your hard earned pay check that you routinely let the government confiscate.

You can start a home based business and take advantage of the same tax system the corporations and the wealthy use.

You didn’t know there were two tax systems in this country?

Their tax system allows them to pay little to no income taxes, averaging around only 4-5%. You know too well what your tax system takes from you.

How would you like to be able to slash your income taxes and increase your take home pay by 10-25%, every pay day, starting now?

You must have or start a home based business. It must be run with the intent of making a profit, worked at least 20 hours per week and you must not co-mingle personal and business funds.

Once you have a home based business, you can learn how to redirect the money you are presently spending on supporting your lifestyle into expenses necessary to run your business.

Think about a simple trip to the mall on Saturday with your family to shop for a pair of shoes for your son. Tax deductible? A business expense? Clearly not.

However, what if you were to pick up a box of blank CD’s or a new ink cartridge for your business computer? Bingo! That trip has become a business trip! You can now write off the mileage to and from the mall, irrespective of the fact that you bought your son his shoes.

Come to think of it, how would you like tomake the purchase of your son’s new shoes a business deduction too? Impossible? Nope. Instead of giving him an allowance, give him a pay check! That’s right, put him and other family members on the payroll.

The IRS says that if the job is legit, the wages suitable for the work done and an actual pay check is cut, there is no problem with hiring family. In fact, they have given the green light to having children as young as 7 years of age, employed in family businesses.

All of these new found write offs add up to huge tax deductions, which means more take home pay.

An Extra Pay Check of $500-$1,000 every month for your family can make the difference between financial survival and financial disaster.

The key is to have a qualified home based business.

Copyright, 2007, Bill Young. Bill is a Personal Financial Consultant. He shows people How to Quit the Rat Race in 5 Years! He did it himself, in real estate. However, because of the current state of the real estate market, now favors home based businesses as the springboard out of the Rat Race. Click here for more info: http://www.linkbrander.com/go/48681 Call Bill for a free, no obligation 30 min consultation on your personal financial situation and how you can overcome the problems and become financially free in 5 years! 877-291-3642

The overwhelming majority of cars have not been in a major accident. However, according to a report by the television show 60 minutes, there are 1 million cars sold every year that have been a major accident, (I.e. one serious enough to have the insurance company call the car totaled)

While this is a serious problem, that doesn’t mean you should automatically rule out a car because it has been in a fender bender As long as there is no structural damage to the car, there is no need for you to worry. It is quite easy in this day and age to fix a few dented panels. If you think that the accident the car has been in is serious enough to potentially damage the frame though, the only thing you should do is walk away.

How can the average person tell if the car has been in an accident? It is not at all easy to tell, often times it is still very difficult for professionals to be able to tell. A great body shop can turn a total wreck into a passably new car. That said, they will still have a difficult time hiding the work from a professional inspection. This is just another advantage of a professional inspection, which should be a required part of every used auto sale. A mechanic can confirm the work that might have needed to be done to the auto.

The easiest way for you to tell if the car has been in an accident is to suddenly ask the seller if it has been in an accident. Watch carefully and closely their reaction since a sudden question like that will cause people to show their true emotions.

Some ways you can check the car yourself for tell tale signs are to look for signs of body repair. You will want to go over the body of the car looking for overspray anywhere on the car. When a car gets totally repainted there is often some overspray on rubber gaskets, on the side edges of windows, and on door moldings. Another common area where you can spot painting mistakes is to look at the spare tire, the luggage compartment and the rocker panels. Oftentimes the paint companies will not bother to do these. Look closely at the overall state of the paint. Many times a repainted car will have uneven layers in the paint itself.

Are you located in Minneapolis and looking to get alot more information about buying a new or used car here? If your answer is yes, then click on this link and learn more! http://www.minneapolisusedauto.com

When you hear about new medical breakthroughs in the news, you will only hear about peer reviewed research. Peer reviewed means that it passed some sort of basic standards for quality. It Msn the gold standard of research.

But is it real gold, or fool’s gold?

Medical research seems especially mystical and awe inspiring to the average person. The basic concepts of medicine, which aren’t really difficult to understand, are deliberately cloaked in Latin terminology and other confusing jargon, making medical knowledge and theory seem out of reach to the common person.

After all, every profession needs to make you think you need their services. Lawyers make the legal system so complex and confusing that the average person is completely helpless without legal assistance. Accountants help the IRS tweak the tax code to make it virtually impossible for the average person to know it all, understand it all, or follow all the changes constantly being made. Doctors have made it so you cannot request medical tests or take drugs without their prescription. You name a profession, and you can see ways it perpetuates itself by disempowering the public.

What about the medical research profession?

One of the most important things to know about medical research is that, above all else, it is a profession. Researchers make their money usually from both salaries and grants. The job of the researcher is to find a sponsor for their special type of research. The more research projects and publications they get, the more sponsors they have, and the higher their income. And if a researcher comes up with a patentable device or drug, there are intellectual property rights to throw into the compensation package.

This means that researchers do not work for free. They are mercenary. There may be very interesting and, by social standards, very important research that needs to be done that they could do. But unless, and until, they are paid to do it, the work does not get done.

This means that the funding sources of research, be it the government or private sources, determine what research is actually done. Most of the money for medical research comes from the private sector, usually drug companies, which is why drugs dominate modern medicine. Government funding is little different, since it comes from agencies that are highly lobbied by drug companies, and are run by doctors trained and paid by drug companies. Medicine is a public-private partnership, giving the pharmaceutical industry government-like power over the culture and its healthcare research.

Research into non-drug alternatives are rarely done for this reason. It is also why medicine claims it knows very little about the causes of most diseases of our time. They care much more about the treatment than the cause, since treatment is profitable for the research sponsors, while knowing the cause can lead to prevention, which translates in medical terminology into “unbillable”.

Of course, this is a pretty big scam to pull off. Consider its scope. The public is taxed and begged for donations to pay for medical research that goes into discovering drug treatments that the public will later have to pay incredibly high prices to obtain, and only after paying the doctor for an office visit to get a prescription. And if the drug gives nasty side effects it only leads to more calls for more money to find newer drugs with different side effects.

Is the public getting a good deal here? How do you know the research is scientifically valid? Where is the quality control?

Since most people have been conditioned into believing that they cannot judge medical research unless they have a Ph.D., M.D., N.D., or other license, the research is evaluated for you by other scientists in the field. This is called peer review.

Scientists doing research, as with all professions, belong to a club of like-minded researchers in the same business, promoting their services and products. They belong to the same kinds of industries, such as universities or large multinational drug corporations. They have the same education, which means they all think alike. The purpose of their organization is to provide standards of practice that are supposed to assure quality. Any research must first be somehow reviewed by the peers of this club to make sure the quality guidelines are met, before the research can be published.

Yet, despite this assurance of quality, the fact is that most of what is considered true today will be discarded as false in the future. “Ninety percent of what you learn in medical school will be out of date and considered obsolete in ten years,” we were told by the dean of students when I began medical school. This means that most of what doctors learn is wrong. It also means that the new information which will come in 10 years to replace and update current misconceptions and errors will also be considered obsolete in another ten years’ time. This is a powerful indictment of medical research, which seems to produce little more than temporary information.

It also means that the peer Msn process does not assure truth. It only means that current standards of practice are followed. Currently, this allows conflicts of interest, since most drug research is paid for by the companies that produce and profit from those same drugs. Even research testing drug side effect hazards is paid for by the companies standing to lose, big time, if their drugs are proven unsafe. Since drug companies have their bottom line, and not unselfish service to mankind, as their reason for existing, it is extremely unwise to trust them with research into their own products. Researchers take no oaths of honesty or integrity. They work for whoever pays them, and they are not above fudging the results to get the desired outcome.

This is not good science, of course. But it is science as practiced in a culture that has professionalized research into a profit-making enterprise. It is not, as people fantasize, the sacred trust needed for helping the sick and injured with unselfish devotion. Medical research is about making money coming up with newly patented drugs to replace the ones that have just gone off-patent and are being sold too cheaply by generic drug competitors.

Peer review does not stop the conflict of interest. Medical journals accept conflict of interest, knowing that it is the way medical research is done. Knowing what research is coming down the pike allows these insiders to get a whiff of new drug developments before the public knows, so they can change their investment portfolio mix for anticipated stock price adjustments.

Peer review also keeps out alternative theories and ways of doing research. All innovation threatens the status quo, and those who control the peer review process, like Supreme Court Justices, can decide on which cases to hear and which to ignore. They are gatekeepers of the status quo, which keeps the current powers that be in power. Since the medical peer review boards are the culture’s final authority on quality, there is no way to challenge their decisions. The quality of the research may in fact be poor, which is evident when you see how many research articles criticize other, peer reviewed research as being flawed in some way. Any researcher will tell you that lots of bad research is done that gets published. However, it’s a publish or perish world. Since researchers and their peers are all caught in this same publish or perish demand, and review one another’s work, they subtly collude to get as much research as they can funded and published. You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours. They argue among themselves in the journals as to the quality of their work, and for sure there is some competition among scientists as they solicit grants from the same sources to do pretty much the same thing. But there is overall an understanding that, as peers, united they stand and divided they fall.

Of course, this means that peer review is nothing more than a political arrangement for research workers, like a guild or union. It’s Msn is to keep control over their field, suppress the competition, and assure continued cash flow. It has nothing to do with science, the systematic search for truth, which must not be tainted by financial motives or tempted by personal gain.

So the next time you hear a news story about some new wonder drug, look for the union label. If it is peer reviewed, there’s a ninety percent change it’s wrong.

Sydney Ross Singer is a medical anthropologist and director of the Institute for the Study of Culturogenic Disease, located in Hawaii. His unique form of applied medical anthropology searches for the cultural/lifestyle causes of disease. His working assumption is that our bodies were made to be healthy, but our culture and the attitudes and behaviors it instills in us can get in the way of health. By eliminating these causes, the body is allowed to heal. Since most diseases of our time are caused by our culture/lifestyle, this approach has resulted in many original discoveries into the cause, and cure, of many common diseases. It also makes prevention possible by eliminating adverse lifestyle practices. Sydney works with his co-researcher and wife, Soma Grismaijer, and is the author of several groundbreaking health books.

Sydney’s background includes a B.S. in biology from the University of Utah; an M.A. degree from Duke University in biochemistry and anthropology; 2 years of medical school training at UTMB at Galveston, along with Ph.D. training in medical humanities.

Sydney Ross Singer and Soma Grismaijer can be reached at the Institute for the Study of Culturogenic Disease, P.O. Box 1880, Pahoa, Hawaii 96778 (808) 935-5563. sydsinger@gmail.com