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		<title>Death Skulls</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat Franczyk</dc:creator>
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HI! All you people into World of Warcraft might want to check out the amazing T-shirts at Fighter Warehouse. Death Skulls on every t-shirt in the Xzavier clothing line-up. Amazing artistry has gone into this clothing line developed around the ever-popular death skull theme.
Could someone please tell me what is the attraction?
I love t-shirts as a medium [...]]]></description>
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<p>HI! All you people into <strong><em><a href="http://eu.wowarmory.com/guild-info.xml?r=Gul%27dan&amp;gn=Death+Skulls" target="_blank">World of Warcraft</a></em></strong> might want to check out the amazing T-shirts at <em><strong><a href="http://www.FighterWarehouse.com/?Click=16270" target="_blank">Fighter Warehouse</a></strong></em>. Death Skulls on every t-shirt in the <a href="http://www.FighterWarehouse.com/?Click=16270" target="_blank"><em><strong>Xzavie</strong></em>r</a> clothing line-up. Amazing artistry has gone into this clothing line developed around the ever-popular death skull theme.</p>
<p>Could someone please tell me what is the attraction?</p>
<p>I love t-shirts as a medium of self-expression. I am not personally in any way enamoured with the idea of death, or skulls. I am glad that I have a skull, but I do not want to see skulls.</p>
<p>That usually means that they are no longer doing their job.</p>
<p>Not good on all accounts.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.abrockwear.com/images/abrockwearMensTattooShirt2.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><strong><em> I don&#8217;t see a skull on </em>this<em> Xzavier t-shirt!</em></strong></p>
<p>However, that being said, the best place to find lots of skull-covered clothing in one place is <a href="http://www.FighterWarehouse.com/?Click=16270" target="_blank"><em><strong>Fighter Warehouse</strong></em>.</a> And, if someone buys an Xzavier t-shirt at <em><strong><a href="http://www.FighterWarehouse.com/?Click=16270" target="_blank">Fighter Warehouse</a></strong></em>, and tells their friends to go there also, then they get paid for the referral. Just do it online.</p>
<p><strong><em><a href="http://www.FighterWarehouse.com/?Click=16270" target="_blank">Fighter Warehouse&#8217;s</a></em></strong> affiliate program is the best on the internet. They will pay you 25 % if someone arrives at their site via your link and actually buys something within the next few months.</p>
<p>Try it, you will like it. And so will <em><strong><a href="http://www.FighterWarehouse.com/?Click=16270" target="_blank">Fighter Warehouse.</a></strong></em> You can aslo call it <a href="http://www.FighterWarehouse.com/?Click=16270" target="_blank"><strong><em>Fighters Warehouse</em></strong>,</a> although that is technically incorrrect. Your website will potentially get traffic from an additional 8,000 viewers that prefer that spelling.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.FighterWarehouse.com/?Click=16270" target="_blank"><strong><em>Fighters Warehouse</em></strong> </a>carries excellent pressure pants, pressure shorts, comfy and effective jock support, ball support, whatever you want to call it. Great support, under the evil name of <strong><em>Dirty Boxers.</em></strong></p>
<p>That name is wrong on so many levels.</p>
<p>Okay, at least on two.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.FighterWarehouse.com/?Click=16270" target="_blank"><strong><em>Fighters Warehouse</em></strong> </a>carries high quality mouthguards and supplements. And anti-fungal powders and sprays.</p>
<p>A good scratch can lose the match.</p>
<p><strong><em>Well.ca</em></strong> carries salve for all of your bruises and scrapes.</p>
<p>So tell all of your friends, children and grandchildren You need money for retirement. And a new pair of <strong><em><a href="http://www.FighterWarehouse.com/?Click=16270" target="_blank">Dirty Boxers</a></em></strong> for comfy support. You don&#8217;t need to tell them that part, just the part about needing money for retirement. Force them to sell <a href="http://www.FighterWarehouse.com/?Click=16270" target="_blank"><strong><em>Fighter Warehouse</em></strong> </a>products. Make sure that they set up their affiliate link under your affiliate link. Make sure that your affiliate link is under my website link, or I will have to kill you.</p>
<p>All my love,</p>
<p>Pat.</p>
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		<title>Xzavier T&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat Franczyk</dc:creator>
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Perhaps the Sisters of Notre Dame would have been nicer if they had carried these pictures around back in the day.
When I was in Grade One, my school principal was Sister Xavier. I swear she was six feet tall and as wide as a swizzle stick. Sister Xavier looked stern and strict, but actually, she [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong><em>Perhaps the Sisters of Notre Dame would have been nicer if they had carried these pictures around back in the day.</em></strong></p>
<p>When I was in Grade One, my school principal was Sister Xavier. I swear she was six feet tall and as wide as a swizzle stick. Sister Xavier looked stern and strict, but actually, she was the only nun in the teaching order, the Sisters of Notre Dame, that did not have a penchant for using the strap, or wrapping fingers with pointers, or traumatizing children for no reason at all.</p>
<p>Which is why it is too bad that <em>she</em> was the nun that I witnessed slip on the ice at the top of a very steep hill, and careen down the sidewalk to street below in a most undignified manner. The crossing guard broke her run, and prevented any chance of her sudden death under the wheels of a car.</p>
<p>Yes, I was the only witness to this little escapade. I knew what was good for me, so I kept this incident to myself for many years, until I was well away from the clutches of any of her comrades in Christ.</p>
<p>Somehow, these nuns would have turned my eyewitness account into a confession of guilt. I would have morphed from the innocent little child who witnessed this somewhat comical slide of a nun down the steep sidewalk, into an attempted murderer.</p>
<p>I saw the ice; why didn&#8217;t I call out to Sister Xavier and stop her from taking the next, fateful step? Because I wanted to see her lose control, wipe out, and take the crossing guard with her into the arms of God, they would say.</p>
<p>And they would say that. I kid you not.</p>
<p>That is why a most excellent post-secondary institute, St. Francis Xavier University, was never on my list of schools to attend.</p>
<p>By the way; apparently 18,100 people are trying to find someone named <strong><em>Xavier</em></strong> or <em><strong>Xzavier</strong></em>, by googling the non-word <strong><em>xaiver</em></strong>. We will therefore use it three times throughout this blog and magically add those searchers to our audience.</p>
<p><strong>Welcome!</strong></p>
<p>And what, if anything, does this have to do with<em><strong><a href="http://www.FighterWarehouse.com/?Click=16270" target="_blank"> Xzavier T-shirts</a></strong></em>?</p>
<p>Why, absolutely nothing, of course.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.FighterWarehouse.com/?Click=16270"><em><strong>Xaiver</strong></em></a>.</p>
<p>Just that the name <strong><em>Xzavie</em><em>r </em></strong>brings up such warm and fuzzy childhood memories of endless years of quality &#8220;education&#8221; at the hands of female wackos dressed in black and white.</p>
<p><strong><em><a href="http://www.FighterWarehouse.com/?Click=16270" target="_blank">Xzavier</a></em></strong><em><strong> T-shirts</strong></em> have amazing graphics of skeletons and swords and crosses and filigree. <em>This</em> is what those nuns should have been wearing. Far more representative of their true calling &#8212; tormenting children.</p>
<p>For some unfathomable reason, this is what the young men of today like to wear to clubs and bars. They say that the young women like these shirts immensely.</p>
<p>Why they would, I do not know.</p>
<p>But if you do, please check out <em><strong><a href="http://www.FighterWarehouse.com/?Click=16270" target="_blank">Fighter Warehouse</a></strong></em> for their line of<a href="http://www.FighterWarehouse.com/?Click=16270" target="_blank"><em><strong> Xzavier T-shirts</strong></em></a>. That way, you can check out the ball support pressure shorts at the same time without having to admit that you need such support just to walk to the corner store, let alone kick-box.</p>
<p>Never admit to any age-related ailments.</p>
<p>Shop at <a href="http://www.FighterWarehouse.com/?Click=16270" target="_blank"><em><strong>Fighter Warehous</strong></em>e</a> and stay in the athletic, young man loop.</p>
<p>Fake it til you make it, I always say.</p>
<p>And always will.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.FighterWarehouse.com/?Click=16270" target="_blank"><em><strong>Xaiver.</strong></em></a></p>
<p>Oh yes! Try their mouthguards if you have bruxism &#8212; teeth grinding, for whatever reason. Like a traumatic childhood memory full of nasty nuns.</p>
<p><strong><em><a href="http://www.FighterWarehouse.com/?Click=16270" target="_blank">Fighter Warehouse</a></em></strong> mouthguards look a lot cooler than namby pamby ones from the drug store. And they work just as well without making you look like a sissy.</p>
<p>Mouth drool should look cool.</p>
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/2008/08/25/291867_5.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><em><strong>This nun is happy because she &#8220;confiscated&#8221; a child&#8217;s skipping rope.</strong></em></p>
<p><strong><em>It&#8217;s okay; she&#8217;s dead now. She tripped and smashed her teeth because she wasn&#8217;t wearing a mouthguard from <a href="http://www.FighterWarehouse.com/?Click=16270" target="_blank">Fighter Warehouse</a>.</em></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.FighterWarehouse.com/?Click=16270" target="_blank"><em><strong>Xaiver</strong></em></a><strong><em><a href="http://www.FighterWarehouse.com/?Click=16270" target="_blank">. Xzavier Clothing.</a><br />
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<p>Pat.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat Franczyk</dc:creator>
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When I first read that the Canadian company Upaya Naturals provided online customers with raw food delights, I wondered what kind of idiot can&#8217;t just buy a raw carrot from the local food store and eat it.  Even if you are a shut-in, local stores deliver, so where is the market for Upaya Naturals?
Silly me. Upaya Naturals [...]]]></description>
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<p>When I first read that the Canadian company <strong><em><a href="http://www.upayanaturals.com/?Click=7861" target="_blank">Upaya Naturals</a></em></strong> provided online customers with raw food delights, I wondered what kind of idiot can&#8217;t just buy a raw carrot from the local food store and eat it.  Even if you are a shut-in, local stores deliver, so where is the market for <strong><em><a href="http://www.upayanaturals.com/?Click=7861" target="_blank">Upaya Naturals</a></em></strong>?</p>
<p>Silly me. <strong><em><a href="http://www.upayanaturals.com/?Click=7861" target="_blank">Upaya Naturals</a></em></strong> provides online shoppers with hard to find, all natural, vegan cheeses and ice creams that actually taste good while providing lots of nutrients.They arrive on ice to your very doorstep, where you can be waiting, crackers in hand, or spoon in fist, in eager anticipation of the yummy, delectable treats that are being delivered to your home. </p>
<p><img src="http://doubledogyoga.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/img_0680.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><strong><em>Cashew-based Ice Cream. It tastes like dairy ice cream, without the guilt.</em></strong></p>
<p>If you find the wait too exciting, be sure to order aromatherapy essential oils that calm the nerves, and smell divine.</p>
<p>Get all of your favourite blender recipes at the ready also. <strong><em><a href="http://www.upayanaturals.com/?Click=7861" target="_blank">Upaya Naturals</a></em></strong> carries<strong><em>Vitamix and Blendtec</em></strong> blenders, the cadillac of blenders/juicers on the market today. You can prepare bread mixtures, and soups, as well as smoothies and ice creams, without having to fiddle with numerous attachments. Push a button and you are off to the races.</p>
<p>The <em><strong>Vitamix Deluxe 5200</strong> </em>is touted as the best blender on the market, but the following videos offer conflicting evidence in this regard. You can also buy <strong><em>Vitamix</em></strong> at your friendly neighbourhood Costco store, if interested. You can save yourself the shipping fees that way, as they are presently on sale, and therefore cost the same as ordering from the company online. Ask for a demo before you buy.</p>
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<p><em><strong>The Vitamix Blendtec Kitchen Aid Challenge. You decide. The facts in these two videos conflict. Kitchen Aid is far less expensive and appears to do the trick.</strong></em></p>
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<p><strong><em>The Vitamix Blendtec Cha</em></strong><em><strong>llenge.</strong></em> </p>
<p> Why pay for <em><strong>Blendtec</strong></em> or for <em><strong>Vitamix</strong></em> if <em><strong>Kitchen Aid</strong></em> is just as efficient, if not moreso?  And it&#8217;s half the price at $199.00 How do they all fare with breadmaking? We want more tests please, before we take a <em><strong>Vitamix</strong></em> home!</p>
<p><em><strong><a href="http://www.upayanaturals.com/?Click=7861" target="_blank">Upaya Naturals</a></strong></em> also carries <strong><em>Superfoods</em></strong>, <strong><em>Greens</em></strong> etc. that are vegan-friendly. Power up so that you will have th strength inyour arms to lift that spoonful of healthy cashew-based ice cream to your lips, over and over again. After all, you have many delectable flavours to try. You need muscle mass.</p>
<p>So please, do yourself a favour and check out <a href="http://www.upayanaturals.com/?Click=7861" target="_blank"><strong><em>Upaya Naturals&#8217;</em></strong> </a>website.</p>
<p>I can hardly wait to try the cashew-based ice creams. I have never tried them before, but everyone says that they are great. I know that there are some almond and soy-based ice creams that are out there these days that are absolutely delicious. I wonder if the cashew-based ice creams give them a run for their money?</p>
<p>And don&#8217;t forget to brush your teeth! Yep. <em><strong><a href="http://www.upayanaturals.com/?Click=7861" target="_blank">Upaya Naturals</a></strong></em> carries healthy,  flouride-free tooth cleansers also. And skincare products. And the kitchen sink. Okay, everything but.</p>
<p>Speaking of the kitchen sink. Upaya Naturals carries one of, if not <em>the</em> best, water filtration systems on the market today: <strong><em>Wellness Kitchen S-III Filtration</em></strong>. This countertop water filtration system can also be easily mounted under the sink with the purchase of an adapter kit. What is most wonderful about this <strong><em>Wellness filtration system</em></strong> is that trace mineral that we need for our health are added back to the water supply after filteration has occurred. If you are concerned about pharmaceuticals, heavy metals and fecal matter making it into your drinking and bathing water, this filtration system will give you the quality of water and the peace of mind you need.</p>
<p>Unless, of course, you enjoy all those pharmaceuticals in your water!</p>
<p>Perhaps we could just bottle it and sell it ourselves to those chronics residing in families that have purchased water filters.</p>
<p>Hmmm.</p>
<p>Just an evil, entrepreneurial thought.</p>
<p>Pat.</p>
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		<title>What is TMJ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat Franczyk</dc:creator>
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What the heck is TMJ?
TMJ and bruxism can be treated without medication or mouthguards, apparently, quite successfully. But what the heck is meant by TMJ? I have just been on a billion websites, where TMJ is discussed and an assortment of products offered to aid in its relief.
You would think that someone would tell you [...]]]></description>
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<p>What the heck is TMJ?</p>
<p>TMJ and bruxism can be treated without medication or mouthguards, apparently, quite successfully. But what the heck is meant by TMJ? I have just been on a billion websites, where TMJ is discussed and an assortment of products offered to aid in its relief.</p>
<p>You would think that someone would tell you what the initials stand for.</p>
<p>Oh, I know; I&#8217;m supposed to know it by osmosis. If I stare at the letters <em>TMJ</em> long enough, the correct answer will come to me. <em>Too Much Junk food</em>? <em>Tight Muscled Jaw</em>?<em> Twisted My Junk</em>? <em> </em></p>
<p><em>That</em> would give someone bruxism.</p>
<p><strong>What?!</strong></p>
<p><em><strong>TMJ</strong></em> stands for <strong><em>temporomandibular joint disorder</em></strong>, <em><strong>dysfunction</strong></em>, or <strong><em>syndrome</em></strong></p>
<p>Now I know why it is called <strong><em>TMJ</em></strong>. It is also known as <strong><em>TMJD</em></strong> or <em><strong>TMD</strong></em>.</p>
<p>You can call it TMJ, or you can call it TMD or you can call it TMJD, but ya doesn&#8217;t have ta call it<em><strong> temporomandibular joint disorder/syndrome</strong></em>.</p>
<p>Would it really have been so hard to spell it out completely at least once on someone&#8217;s website or sales page?</p>
<p>The temporomandibular joint is the joint on the face that joins the mandible, or lower jaw, to the rest of the skull.  Each TMJ is actually two joints. This enables the TMJ to both rotate and translate.</p>
<p>I beg your pardon.</p>
<p>If someone told me to rotate, I don&#8217;t think that I would need much of a translation. <em>They </em>might need a new TMJ or two once they were done, however.</p>
<p><em>Translate</em>, in this instance, means to be able to slide, and therefore allow the lower jaw to do all those fun movements involved in chewing, talking, and mocking people with overbites.</p>
<p>Speaking of mocking; I wouldn&#8217;t be at all surprised if fists had something to do with a lot of men&#8217;s TMJ disorders.</p>
<p>Inflammation of these joints can be extremely painful, as well as limiting the usual movement of the jaw. People often suffer from referred pain, manifesting as earaches, due to the close proximity of this joint to the ears.</p>
<p>Temporomandibular joint disorder is often exacerbated by a condition known as bruxism. <em><strong>Bruxism</strong></em>, or <em>bruxing</em>, is the repetitive, unconscious movement of the jaw.</p>
<p>And teeth grinding.</p>
<p>Chronic teeth grinding.</p>
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<p>Sounding like Yoda gets more traffic hits to my website, so please bear with me!</p>
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<p>There are mouth guards available on the market, but doctors don&#8217;t advise that you use such shields. Custom-made is the way to go if you choose this avenue of relief.</p>
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<p>The lovely lady who hosts this website was a long-suffering TMJ bruxater herself. She isn&#8217;t any more. She<em> is</em> a medical researcher, nutritionist and health consultant. She has found a drug-free, mouthguard-free way to stop her bruxism and TMJ. Many people have benefitted from her research and are no longer suffering from the effects of these reversible conditions. Many have found that their symptoms have not left completely, but are far less marked.</p>
<p>She claims that you can be TMJ-free entirely within two months using her <strong>3-step program,</strong> and find great relief from the symptoms within the first twelve hours.</p>
<p>Sandra Carter is her name and she can help your TMJ go away.</p>
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<p>Forever.</p>
<p>And without making all the money in your pocketbook go away too!</p>
<p>Please check out her website. Once again, that is Sandra Carter at <strong><a href="http://e1b52k7dhjmbfe2nvd2dplu3a3.hop.clickbank.net/" target="_blank">www.TMJNOMORE.com</a></strong>.</p>
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<p>There, that should do it.</p>
<p>Traffic.</p>
<p>Pat.</p>
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