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remixfight.com
What it says, a collection of eclectic mp3 remixes available for free download. You get to vote for them too, so that's fun. The vote and fight changes regularly, which keeps it fresh.
MP3Blogs.org
Mp3 blog aggregator, boasting over 45 blogs which feature mp3 tracks to listen to and download. Also supplies rather useful RSS feeds if that's yer bag.
Mystery and Misery
This awesome blog links to legal (and free) music of all different genres from the really obscure to lesser known (for now) indie bands. Each post comes with a mini bio and review.
Close Your Eyes
A cool list of mp3 blogs, which post links to tracks in various music categories. Well worth a visit if you're starting off. See also Thom:Blog for another selection.
Subsystence
Subsystence is a web magazine, but not in the traditional sense. The Downloads section on the main page features bi-monthly stores of electronic music mp3s from a variety of Chicago-based artists.
radioqualia
Interesting art entity. They brought you Free Radio Linux, and bring you streaming softwares, manuals, music and more.

Knobtweakers.net 
Free Mp3 Blog
Free electronic music downloads, daily. Techno, electronica, house, drum n bass, IDM, glitch, trance, breakbeat, hardcore, downtempo, minimal, 2-step, garage, even the occasional chip. All legal.

365 Days Project
The legendary 365 Days Project, in which an mp3 a day -- of mostly outsider, novelty, and oddball recordings -- was made available for the public to download over the course of 2003. It has been archived in its entirety, complete with images and vast commentary on each selection on UBUWEB.


365 Days Project
The legendary 365 Days Project, in which an mp3 a day -- of mostly outsider, novelty, and oddball recordings -- was made available for the public to download over the course of 2003. It has been archived in its entirety, complete with images and vast commentary on each selection on UBUWEB.


Use Free Music
Visit NEWS/Free track for good quality free loops & samples with a new track every month. Site also provides Royalty Free Music for Film, TV, and web based media. Site has produced music for Dr. Who, Graham Norton & iBuzz.
Free Music Blog
Basically what it says. A blog celebrating free and legal music around the world.
Mr Red Penguin
Amusing blog with various free and hard-to-find indie mp3s.
The Online Music Business Space
An excellent, up to date and frozen summary of the major info on this page.
Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads
The original July 2003 (updated in Feb 2004) essay about all this legal and free music stuff with lots of links.
Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads
The original July 2003 (updated in Feb 2004) essay about all this legal and free music stuff with lots of links.
Bestmp3links
Web site listing links to web sites with free legal music and mp3 downloads.
iTunes freebie downloads
Great - i.e. comprehensive and growing - list of free music downloads currently available on the iTunes store. Delivered by the good folk on the MacRumors forums. Good on yer!

Certified Sound MP3 Mastering
Online Mp3 mastering service for the Independent Artist. We have the experience to bring out the best in your studio mix. Check out our quality at our free streaming radio site.
Pump You Up
A nice little Indie streaming and download service which has a nice selection of tracks focused on dubstep, techno, trance and the rest. Nice simple interface, cool music!

Clearbits
Site dedicated to 'Creative Commons-licensed, legally downloadable, freely distributable creator-approved files' distributed via BitTorrent. Lots of music, but also movies and books too.
Ez-tracks
Free MP3 music downloads that are hundred percent legal. Select from over 30,000 free MP3's, from a vast collection of genres. Stay up to date with current music news, discuss your favorite song and artist, add your music, and more.
Music Therapy
Music Therapy: Dr Julie Trudeau invites you to enjoy her online music natural health products and join her love affair with the phi harmonic vibrations of the Music of the Spheres. Buy digital Music created by her and enjoy life!
Broadjam
One of the fastest growing community of indie artists on the planet. Broadjam is the engine driving the music of independent musicians around the world.
indieTunes
Music community for independent music artists offering online auditions, streaming radio, free downloads and music sales. Offers artists the highest payback anywhere in the world. [Update: Nice looking site, some good music, although not a huge selection of free downloads yet. Red.]
Musical Family Tree
Features a lot of indie bands from Mid West USA, in the hope of exposing them to a larger audience. Message boards, downloads, streaming, it's all there. (Update : Definitely worth a look, if you like this style)
belgiummp3.be
Belgian mp3 site, featuring over 1000 tracks for download and streaming from 600 artists, all in English
pastemusic.com
Started as a online record store but now also a record label, magazine, internet radio station and mp3 site. Alt-country, Folk rock, Americana and singer/songwriters are strongly represented but pop, emo and indie rock are here too.
playvox.com
65,000 'specially formulated' mp3 tracks which can only be played or downloaded by the site's advert sponsored Play Vox Studio player. In its favour, the site does offer a fairly decent partnership with artists (50% revenue split on sales and a share of any potential company profits).
peoplesound.com
Unsigned artist portal, and part of the Vitaminic Group. Some interesting foreign bands.
dmusic.com
A front end portal for more than 16,000 artists and 51,000 tracks. Throw in some news, forums and a general community feel and you get the picture. Nice place to visit and worth taking time to browse.
insound.com
Self proclaimed indie rock record store with a small record label on the side. Offers streaming radio, lots of signed bands and a very respectable collection of free mp3 tracks for download. Nice vibe.
somesongs.com
Nice simple song portal. No actual downloads, but lots of direct links to artists tracks hosted elsewhere. Neat!
earbuzz.com
Reasonably sized indie music sales portal with a fair amount of full tracks to download. Definitely worth a visit.
usounds.com
mp3 blog which also hosts downloads from labels such as Radio Khartoum and Ninjatune. Reviews and more.
kingblind.com
Music News, Album & Concerts Reviews, Free and Legal mp3's, Music Videos, Art / Entertainment and much more.
largehearted boy
Daily downloads, daily news, bittorrent downloads and much more.
IntoMusic
This niche site offers music from independent musicians releasing their own material - unlike many large portals, it chooses quality over quantity and has unique english quirkiness with reviews of the artists. It's a cross between an english music mag and an mp3 site. Nice design and some nice features.
My Space
Mmm...whatever happened to MySpace? Once *the* place you had to be, it's now relegated to a sideshow, a place where bands put a track just to tick the box. Still a huge selection of music to listen to, but really it's a waning power in the online music scene. BUT if it's too loud, you're still too old!
Acid Planet
Sony funded community site featuring streaming tracks created with the ACID Xpress package. This means you'll likely only get a particular flavour of music, but hey, it's surprisingly listenable stuff. Perhaps because the site charts are created from real people votes, so quality bubbles upwards. Definitely worth a listen.
Acid Planet
Sony funded community site featuring streaming tracks created with the ACID Xpress package. This means you'll likely only get a particular flavour of music, but hey, it's surprisingly listenable stuff. Perhaps because the site charts are created from real people votes, so quality bubbles upwards. Definitely worth a listen.
Mixposure
Nice selection of over 6000 tracks for streaming and download, along with useful reviews. Definitely worth a look!
United Bands
Lots of free downloads from Indie bands around the world, but mostly in America. Lots of community features, voting, friends, online journal and more.
headjog - royalty free music
high impact royalty free music, instant downloads
Musician War
A site that encourages members to upload original compositions and \"duel\" where community members can vote on their preferred track. (Site formerly known as guitarwar.com).
Zambian Music Site
The best site for all Zambian Music
the roots music listening room
wonderful collectors site including 1000++ mp3s of the oude time music, mainly from vintage 78rpm recordings now in the public domain,
a true treasure chest !
Out of the Blue Productions
Floor filling Electronic Beats for your ears! A MUST HEAR! Go to music page!
MIDI Pianola & Player Piano Rolls
Links to huge archives of midi-files converted from late 1800s & early 1900s punched paper rolls for automatic player pianos. Get one of the widely available free midiPlayers for your PC/Mac and take a trip back in time.. these collectors/archivars deserve a massive thank you for the effort taken.. just wonderful !!
Dr. Safa YEPREM's guitar page
Special documents for Art of Flamenco and Guitar, videos, lessons and mp3 files.
DJ Kenny Mac
Eastern Europe from Kyiv (but in English), offering a small number (as yet) of Ukraine free alternative rock downloads and info. Free submission's for qualified bands interested in networking East and Central Europe.
smart-music
Searches the web for the finest free dance music available.
A collection of independent techno, house, hip-hop, broken beat, downbeat, nu-jazz
and electronica genres.
The Free Music Directory
Developing directory of sites which offer at least one full-length, high-quality song download on their site. Free listings to all who qualify.

Feels Like Christmas
Traditional or contemporary, instrumental or vocal. A treasured source of quality legal music to enhance the holiday season.

Free Childrens Music
As above, a great place to discover top indie music for children.

Free Kids Music
Very popular source for free music for kids.
Christian MP Free
New, but growing selection of indie Christian artists. Emphasis on quality material.
Christian MP Free
New, but growing selection of indie Christian artists. Emphasis on quality material.
Free Solo Piano
Well-trafficked site features quite a wealth of solo piano music by popular indie artists.

Free Solo Guitar
New, but excellent resource for multiple fingerstyle guitar artists who present full-length songs for free download.

Free Music Group
Quick reference page to several free, legal sites. Featured are the solo piano, solo guitar, Christmas, children's and Christian music below.

Free Music Group
Quick reference page to several free, legal sites. Featured are the solo piano, solo guitar, Christmas, children's and Christian music below.
Guitars 101
Eclectic guitar focussed site with variable selection of streaming and downloadable mp3 tracks featuring...er...guitars. The axeman cometh!

Zenguin
Independent artist collective, many genres. Downloads available at most of the artist sites. The Radio Room highlights unusual stations and sound collections.

NetNewMusic
A music portal dedicated to contemporary classical and avant garde music; linking sites with freely available mp3's by several hundred selected contemporary composers.
mperia.com
An online indie music store, designed to help artists sell their tracks directly to listeners and keep most of their own money. Lots of features to help artists promote themselves and to help listeners find good stuff.
freekidsmusic.com
Small, but tastefully targeted (OK it's bright, alright?) children's mp3 music download and streaming service. Not many tracks, but links back to artist's sites offers more. Includes charts.
catholicplanet.com
Christian mp3 downloads (from here, not from up there silly!) Watch out also for the Catholic Jukebox and the reviews.
remix.overclocked.org
Computer games are fun. So too apparently is the background music when it's remixed and offered as mp3 downloads. Lots of downloads!
metalblade.com
Another one for heavy metal fans.
centurymedia.com
Heavy metal fans only. This is your stop. Downloads of all sorts of stuff. Heavy!
ragga-jungle.com
Surprise! It's a ragga-jungle site. Streaming radio and free registration needed for music downloads.
Djouls
Supremely niche Anglo-French site containing 'music you won't hear on the radio'. We feature it here because you can grab complete mix albums of some very interesting stuff. Definitely off the beaten track, and the site takes some work to browse, but we suspect there are gems buried in there.
ughh.com
Hip Hop. Vinyl singles for sale, free radio streaming, Top 40 and new releases. Couldn't find any free downloads though.
Classic Cat
Free classical music is difficult to find among the many hosting sites. Classic Cat provides a neat overview - sorted by composer and work.
AsianClassicalMP3.org
Small and select collection of Asian classical music tracks taken from cassette tape recordings. Worth a visit if you're an enthusiast.
publicdomain4u.com
Like the Blues and 'olde tyme' stuff? Then you'll like the Public Domain mp3's coming out of this small site. Needs much more to make it really sing and dance, but still a nice alternative to all the indie stuff out there.
publicdomain4u.com
Like the Blues and 'olde tyme' stuff? Then you'll like the Public Domain mp3's coming out of this small site. Needs much more to make it really sing and dance, but still a nice alternative to all the indie stuff out there.
OneManBrand
Free bizarre brokenbeat mp3s from this stable of underground talent based near brighton, uk. New and remixed tracks added all the time.
Plinko Manor
Free punk rock from the local South Bend, Indiana music scene. More added all the time.
d1rt7
Beats, breaks, mixes, shit...
Blentwell
Blentwell is an ongoing document of the evolution of blended music. A daily updated link log of hot mixsets and fresh new tracks heard online..
Feng's Distorted World
Presenting Free and Legal Mp3 Downloads from Underground Electronic Music Artists.
Kahvi Collective
mission: to gather and provide free electronic grooves. area of operation: internet
hXcmp3.com
Loads and loads of hardcore, post-hardcore, and metal songs for download. Most of these tracks are DIY or pre-production recordings, but there is an equal number of gems for the angst-ridden 16-year-old scenester in you.
hippocamp.net
Huge electronic music Net label based in Manchester UK - some amazing free mp3 releases including BSR, DNCN, Maroufleur, Batfinks and Domestication Of The Dog.
micromusic.org
Micromusic.net is many things. first we are a music label, though we deal with .mp3's and hard drive space not vinyl! Micromusic.net is also what the users make it. It is an organic community that can shape their own identity by uploading and downloading, organising parties, bringing their own projects to micromusic.net, making bands with other micromusic.net members, helping with any aspect of the site programming, designing... whatever.
Musopen
Small but tasteful selection of free classical music categorized by composer, performer, instrument and period. Nice resource and definitely worth a look.
Agnula Libre Music
A database of Libre Music (works which have been put by their authors under
a license which allows free redistribution and usage). Artists, who want their music
to be accessible to the widest audience possible, without artificially limiting how
and how much their creations spread around, can better publish their music there,
instead of on this Wiki page.
Free List of Mp3s, Reviews, Search Engine
Half a million links in the list to date and adding about 10-15 thousand per day, Some really neat stuff and weird stuff. The best part of the site is the keyword search and the Review pages. Add your site to have it scanned as well.[Update:not sure about this site at all, the search function and overall design are very strange for instance! Ah well. Red]
karadar.com
Karadar offers a simply superb selection of all things classical. Downloads, librettos, texts, et al. The only 'problem' is that the mp3 download process has been made deliberately complex - including a classical music question gateway - to foil leeching ignoramusii (?). Still brilliant though!
650-Breaks (Hot Shit !)
Online mixes archives from Amon Tobin, Coldcut, Dj Shadow, Dj Spooky, Diplo, Sixtoo and more
ZikWeb.org
Weekly updated original mp3s plus online radio. Home of Phoebus and NoSushi.
remixwars.com
A site that features a wide variety of electronic (Industrial, EBM, Darkwave, Synthpop, Electronica, Noise) mp3 downloads. You can also download loop files to remix. Unfortunately, to download songs, you must be registered. Use a throw away address.
MP3 Thursday at LeliaThomas.Com
Weekly feature of an unknown musician or band that offers free and legal MP3 downloads. Multiple genres; everything from Americana and blues to ambient chillout.

Great Songs Free
Some excellent tunes from indie artists for free and legal download. [Be prepared to navigate around a large amount of Google adverts in order to get access to the tunes, but nice selection nevertheless. Red].
Muzikvoice.com
Free Online Music Promotion and reviews for unsigned bands. [Nice clean design! Red.]
SignHereOnline.net
Music resource provides unsigned artists and independent bands with an opportunity to promote original MP3 music and solicit recording contract offers. [Update: Clearly a new site (basic design and not much material) which offers a subscription service for unsigned bands - one track is free, extra tracks uploaded cost money. Best thing about the service currently is the voting section which gives listeners a chance to say which artists deserve a record contract. Needs much more material. Red]
unsignedbandweb.com
A music community site featuring artists from all genres and nations. Hifi and Lofi streams and downloads from a very large number of genres.
splendidezine.com
Online music zine for people with a voracious appetite for new music
75orless.com
New music reviews in 75 words of less. Mostly indie rock but hip hop and electronic are also common
betterPropaganda.com
This is a good indie music review site. They have well-written reviews and interviews with various artists. There is a free mp3 download for just about every band that they profile. Oh, and the music they choose is, IMHO, very good.
pitchforkmedia.com
Not brilliant. Site mostly full of reviews. Looks good and may be useful to find new stuff, but the downloads are kind of poor and placements are paid ads.
garageband.com
Again focus is on being a peer review site, which makes it more difficult to find tracks to download, as you're reliant on the views of a community to 'bubble' stuff to the surface of the charts. 'Update:' OK, on review I'm probably being a little unfair here. There's certainly a goodly selection of music (100,000 tracks) to stream and download, and the quality is definitely better than random download sites. Well worth a visit! Also see above!
godsofmusic.com
A nicely presented and detailed review site. No downloads, just direct links to the artist sites with mp3's to offer. Nice.
warr.org
Wilson and Alroy's Record Reviews. Don't let the site's simple appearance fool you. This site is a wealth of thousands of album reviews encompassing popular music from today back to the 1950s. Wilson & Alroy, a pair of self proclaimed "rock 'n' roll super dweebs" go into a huge amount of depth and precision in picking apart some of the best (and worst) albums, and best of all, back up their opinions. An excellent and engrossing site.
Zerophase.net (forever down)
A well designed, independent music site featuring audio reviews (they let you stream/download a high quality track from the album being reviewed while you read) and mp3 downloads from a variety of genres.
Gigatracks.com
Review site that hand picks each of the songs that are posted and offers them for free download. The idea is to focus on only posting the best music that the reviewers encounter.

3hive.com
Six different authors scour the web for the best free and legal music and write a brief review. A new band is posted every day. [Update: Nice design, nice selection of songs, blog format. Well worth a look! Red.]

The Weed Files
Self-service music store intended for artists and labels who want to distribute their music in the Weed format. Their services, including lifetime hosting, are provided for free. They have 1600 independent artists in their database, including Heart, Kristin Hersh, Gazpacho, Roger Manning, Abby Travis and Gretchen. They're currently in the process of adding about 70,000 songs from CD Baby artists to their catalogue.

Weedshare Search
Search engine for music in Weedshare format. Weedshare allows you to download and listen to music for free. Only for Windows users, no special software needed to listen. After you have heard a song three times, you can decide to buy the song, pass it on to someone else or just throw it away.
mp3.com.au
Hosts thousands of great mp3 files uploaded to the website by artists from around Australia and overseas. All mp3 files on the site are completely legal as they have been uploaded by the artists themselves, and free to listen or download.
Altsounds
Community site that hosts alternative (or independent) artist content. Tracks provided free streams and/or downloads, but with a brutally up front user rating system which filters good from bad. Great place fo find new music.
Soundlift
Independent music portal, nice design, lots of cool music, which can be streamed or downloaded. Play full album is a nice touch. Definitely worth a visit.

Purevolume
Tens of thousand of tracks available for free download and streaming. Run by self-proclaimed indie fans to fill the hole left by mp3.com. Lovely design, great selection, awesome site all round. A fabulous resource.



Purevolume
Tens of thousand of tracks available for free download and streaming. Run by self-proclaimed indie fans to fill the hole left by mp3.com. Lovely design, great selection, awesome site all round. A fabulous resource.


archive.org - Live Music Archive
More than 15,000 freely downloadable concerts - a user-friendly face put onto the Etree live concert trading download service, with explicit permission from the bands involved, by the wonderful Internet Archive. Easier to use, search and recommend. Warning, some massive sized file downloads (SHN), although some streaming/downloadable mp3 too.
Netlabels
Massive selection of free albums (and thousands of tracks) from various 'net labels', all gathered under the one roof courtesy of the Internet Archive. Worth a look indeed!
Artistopia
Artistopia offers music artists and songwriters a platform to collaborate on musical projects with industry professionals. [Update: Not actually that impressive nowadays in terms of music content though.]

Garageband
Massive selection of indie and unsigned music to play and download. You won't find major label stuff here, but there's some great music available anyway. Part of the iLike/MySpace empire.

Garageband
Massive selection of indie and unsigned music to play and download. You won't find major label stuff here, but there's some great music available anyway. Part of the iLike/MySpace empire.

MP3.COM Free Music
Great grand-daddy of all music sites, subsequently ruined by CNET. But BIG NEWS folks, it's back! The site has been completely revamped and now offers real genuine stream and downloadable tracks across a wide range of genres. Mostly indie label type stuff, with the occasional major label artist thrown in as a teaser. Powered by Last.fm.

MP3.COM Free Music
Great grand-daddy of all music sites, subsequently ruined by CNET. But BIG NEWS folks, it's back! The site has been completely revamped and now offers real genuine stream and downloadable tracks across a wide range of genres. Mostly indie label type stuff, with the occasional major label artist thrown in as a teaser. Powered by Last.fm.

Jamendo
33,000 albums for free streaming and download, across a wide range of genres. Creative Commons licenses, available in 7 languages, very cool indeed.

Last FM Downloads
Last FM, as well as providing streaming music, also offer free MP3 downloads galore. A massive selection of major name tracks are on offer, so go grab some.

rcrdlbl
Site features around 25,000 free tracks for streaming and download, almost all from 'emerging artists' and suchlike. The site also features the occasional mainstream artist like Moby and Massive Attack, but pitches itself strictly as a talent spotter. Worth a look!
Amazon
Yep Amazon! Few people realise that Amazon has offered free MP3 downloads for a long while. Since the advent of their new iTunes rival however, they've made it harder to find the free stuff in one place, so it's buried under the deep link we supply here. Sort by Price to bring all the free stuff to the top of the pile. Great selection of free tracks.
Soundclick
We're talking 3.79 million songs, from over 400,000 artists, all available to stream or buy. There's also a huge selection of free download tracks too. Arranged tastefully in chart format. Comes with some naff pop up ads though!)
Artist Direct
Streaming, download and music video service which offers full album downloads and more. Not just indie and unsigned stuff either, so it's definitely worth a visit
Oddio Overplay
Massive music resource which has collated years of downloadable and streaming music from resources all over the world. Check out the Super Sound page for a large list of cool music. All free and legal. Check it out.
Erik Brown's MP3 Links
Erik's site is getting a bit long in the tooth nowadays, but it still features a great collection of eclectic mp3 music site links arranged in a hard on the eyes pink motif. Well worth taking a look though
Monkeyfilter Audioblog Wiki
Taken from the amazing Tofu Hut site. A huge list of mp3 blogs, offering music to stream and download in an awesome selection of genres. Go there. Do yourself a favour. The wiki is only editable by Monkeyfilter members, but it's still excellent.
The Hype Machine
My how time flies. This small experimental site has now grown into a giant musical compendium based around songs posted on mp3 blogs. The design is delicious and the site lets you easily listen to the new music that has been posted today by a great variety of bloggers - discover and fall in love with something new!
Wuzam
New free MP3 music search engine which offers streaming and downloads of a huge selection of publicly available tracks. Let's see how long this lasts, eh?
MySpace
No wait, come back! Really it's a NEW IMPROVED MySpace like you've never seen before. A huge selection of streaming tracks, although unfortunately no free downloads only purchase. The radio feature is cool though.
NoiseTrade
Gorgeous looking Indie artist portal featuring thousands of tracks and albums for free download in exchange for your email address. Free, legal and you can leave a tip for the artist as well. Awesome!
Guvera
Interesting new online streaming service offers indie and mainstream artists for free via an innovative advertising model. Register, gain credits from seeing ads and create playlists from 3 million songs. It's no Spotify, but still worth a try.
Free Music 
Features a great selection of *HAND PICKED* MP3 tracks from independent artists across a range of genres. The blog format and RSS subscription means you can easily keep up to date with new tracks as they come online, which is excellent.

List of web sites with high PageRank

Okay so here's the deal: not too long ago, Wikipedia had a page listing known websites with a PageRank of 10, and a large number of sites with PageRank 9. However, for some reason it was decided that the page contradicted Wikipedia's article policy and it was deleted. I decided to put a copy here on my site for anyone who misses the Wikipedia page to view.
As Google changes their algorithms regularly, different sites gain and lose PR10 status. This page is updated periodically to reflect this; if you would like to contribute, you can email webmaster ~at~ doheth.co.uk with additions.

Introduction

The following is a list of websites with a high PageRank as assigned by the Google search engine. PageRank (PR) is the number of points out of ten that signifies the importance of a site to Google. The PageRank number appears to be logarithmic, with a single point representing an order of magnitude difference of importance. See Wikipedia's PageRank entry for more information.
This list is a portion of all PageRank 9 and 10 pages derived from the Google Toolbar, which displays the PageRank of a web page currently displayed by a browser. The exact PageRank may vary slightly, due to changes in ranking by Google, or by local differences through use of different Google servers or through DNS behavior (e.g., google.com may redirect to its regional sites, which may have lower PageRank). Redirects from a high PageRank page may reduce the redirected page's PageRank.

PageRank 10

Currently 12 domains
  • Google.com - Google, the most popular Internet search engine, and the one that assigns this PageRank we're rambling on about.
  • W3.org - World Wide Web Consortium, the organization behind most web specifications like HTML, CSS and so on.
  • USA.gov - The U.S. Government's official web portal.
  • Adobe.com - The main domain is no longer PR10, but these two pages are:
  • India.gov.in - Government of India
  • HHS.gov - United States Department of Health and Human Services
  • Recovery.gov - U.S Government recovery board
  • TheEuropeanLibrary.org - The European Library - searches the content of European national libraries.
  • Europeana.eu - Europeana - "The cultural collections of Europe".
  • CNN.com - Cable News Network, American television news channel
  • Miibeian.gov.cn - Ministry of Information Industry Records in China
  • AddThis.com - AddThis bookmarking/sharing service - this page is linked to by every page using the system (as StatCounter.com used to be), hence the PR10.

PageRank 9

Currently 148 domains

A+ For Effort Just Isn't Enough To Stop Smoking Permanently

With the news that gets released about cell phones being accused of being possibly unhealthy a product has arrived that not only gives cell phones a very real healthy boost it gives it the ability to save lives.

For years the American Lung Association and the American Cancer Association have put an effort into letting people know that they need support to actually stop smoking permanently. They have done so because the hard statistical evidence proves that when people who try to stop smoking use a support system their odds of success at achieving their quit smoking dream go up exponentially.

But what support systems have been available up to now? If you are a smoker and you want to make it to your permanent quit smoking goal and you accept the fact that you need support to do it how do you get it? Well, if you buy a nicoderm product you can call them afterwards and ask for a CD. What's on it? Who knows? Who ever gets it?

Otherwise, if you live in a state that offers a quit smoking helpline you can call that toll free. They hire people and train them on what to say to you to help you through a commitment threat moment when lighting up seems like a good idea again.

When you call what do you get? Not all state run programs are the same but in California you will receive, when you call, several options including a one on one counseling session to end your craving hell. Their statistics evidence that those who call the program are twice as likely to succeed then those that don't and try to work it out on their own. If you live in California you can call them at 1-800-NO-BUTTS anytime between 7AM and 9AM Monday thru Friday and on Saturday you can call between 9AM and 1PM. To find the state run help line in your state just submit a query through any search engine and it will surely pop up in the first link position or page.

If your local area runs a smoking cessation group you can attend weekly meetings and get help that way. Or, if none of those options appeal to you then you can sign up with a number of the internet programs that will counsel you online or send you email messages to help support you through quit smoking commitment hell. Additionally, you can set yourself up with a private counselor to help you through it all through once a week or so individual sessions.

Hypnosis and subliminal programs don't count as support methods so you can scratch those out completely when it comes to getting support. Books don't count either because the support you get must be ongoing not a once read and you're done. Also, when you are having a difficult moment that you need support to get through, you aren't likely to go read anything especially a book.

Until one year ago those were all of the helpful support methods that have been available period. The statistics also evidence that regardless of those offerings of support the vast majority of smokers, in fact at least 95% of smokers, try to go it on their own completely. The result? 95-96% of smokers begin smoking again, giving in and giving up on their commitment before the first year is even over.

Why don't those smokers get the support help they need? Who knows? Maybe most smokers still don't know about the failure rate when it comes to going it alone. Or maybe they just aren't the kind of people who like reaching out to get formal support help when they are stuck in a moment of quit smoking hell fire.

We know, from our own extensive efforts over the past year, that most smokers aren't in fact aware of the current failure rate when support is not received. That lack of information is causing them to continue to make the effort to stop smoking not knowing they are in fact doomed for failure not because they are hopeless but because they aren't getting the support they need to actually succeed.

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A Food Allergy Survival Guide Book

There are lots of people who are suffering from tragic food allergies. However, some don't have any idea that they have it. Food allergy is the result of the body's basic reaction upon introducing the types of food that are difficult or cannot be digested by the system. Once these types of food are digested and penetrate into the bloodstream, some of the food nutrients or other food components are rejected by the body. The tendency of the antibodies and other related elements are to fight back. Thereafter, allergy symptoms become apparent. Common symptoms of food allergy include swollen hands, itchy and swollen eyes, burning sensations of the lungs due to thinning of the tissue lining, and closing of the larynx or throat.

Dealing with food allergies whether the condition is mild, moderate, or severe, must be learned. It includes learning causes of allergic reactions, the best options for preventing and fighting food allergies, and integrating ways into the person's lifestyle is to avoid food allergies. The five-star book entitled Food Allergy Survival Guide is the best answer.

This book discuss all about the types of food eaten by people and provides detailed sections on how to deal with major allergens such as eggs, dairy, gluten or wheat, corn, peanuts, shellfish, fish, and yeast. Each section also include explanations regarding the types of food that must be avoided by allergic people, dealing with restaurants, preparing types of food, reading labels properly in connection with dangerous types of food, and incorporating easy and healthy alternatives.

Food Allergy Survival Guide is highly readable and comprehensive. Sufferers from food allergies will never feel alone because this helps them in widening their horizons and increasing their hopes that they could still eat the types of food they love, if they follow proper cautions. This is one of the great informative books wherein you can find common answers to common questions, real advice from experts, how to take the advantage of learning health and food issues, complete nutrition guides, and delicious recipes.

Food Allergy Survival Guide tackles some important health issues including food triggers, effective ways of conducting skin tests for determining sensitivity and allergy, how food allergies are interrelated with chronic illnesses such as arthritis, asthma, diabetes, and ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), changes in behaviors and emotions once allergic reaction occurs, types of food that directly affects the health of the baby when breastfeeding, questions that must be asked to an allergist, using processed types of food, how to distinguish food sensitivity, food intolerance, and food allergy, how immunological process is connected to food hypersensitivity, and how to maintain eating healthy types of food through non-allergic substitutes.

Surprisingly, the best part of this book is the recipe section containing recipes completely free from major allergens. It is easy to learn cooking and baking healthier types of food retaining the flavor, texture, and richness. The types of food do not have to become boring and tasteless because you have food allergy. Nourishing and mouth watering recipes are great such as divine macaroons, banana bread, ultra fudge brownies, chocolate cake, and pound cake. More than one hundred featured recipes without using cheese from the expert Jo Stepaniak. Comprehensive nutritional analysis is provided with every recipe, so never worry.

Compared to other books on dietary health, the Food Allergy Survival Guide takes the lead. So, if you are one among the thousands of people who are suffering from food allergy, you should consider purchasing this book. Knowledge, practice, and medications are at your hand. You can deal with food allergy with a more positive and affirming outlook.

A Few Ways To Stay Safe Around The Water

People have been going swimming to get away from the heat during the summer for thousands of years, but these days some of us have the luxury of a swimming pool in our backyard that is free from all the wildlife and hazards that swimming in a creek, river, or ocean could give us.

Even though the danger of wildlife and disease are mostly done away with when you have this luxury, other dangers still present themselves simply because the water is there.

The most important thing when you have a swimming pool is to teach your entire family how to swim. Your baby can swim even before they can walk, since the water will support them and they are free to exercise their arms and legs as they please.

Your baby has an inherited memory that reminds it how to swim, but by the time the baby is a year or a year and a half old, this memory is lost, so the sooner you introduce your baby to the water, the better. Start in the bath tub and work your way to the shallow end of the pool.

Even though your child is born basically knowing how to use their arms and legs to swim and you can teach them to use this skill before they're even walking, you will still not want to let them outside near the pool without you there.

To prevent this, you should invest in a product called Safety Turtle. It acts as a beacon of sorts that attaches to your child's wrist via a strap and when it comes into contact with water, a base station located in the house emits an alarm to let you know he or she is in the pool.

Another thing that you can do to protect your children and others in the neighborhood is to build a fence around the entire pool and have the gate to it locked. This will help prevent other children in the neighborhood from getting into your pool and possibly drowning.

Teach your kids that running around the pool is not acceptable behavior and make sure that the older children and young adults in the home lead by example, since running around the pool can cause serious injury or even death. It is not very difficult to slip and fall, especially if the surface area around the pool is excessively slippery.

A Few Tips For Employers To Protect Employees And Business Against Mold

When we go to our daily work place, we usually like to believe it to be a very safe environment. However, one safety aspect that is often and sadly overlooked is that of mold infestation. We usually believe that mold is not a problem to have to deal with in the work place and that mold is a problem that is only dealt with in the home.

However, any building is equally susceptible to mold infestation. If you are an employer, you are therefore responsible for the safety of every person who is inside the building. If you do not make sure that mold is not in the building, you could be liable for any medical expenses that one of your employees may have as a result of exposure to mold in the work place.

If you suspect that there may be mold in your building, you must first conduct your own testing. If you do, indeed, find mold, it is your responsibility to send off the mold samples to a laboratory that specializes in mold identification. You should receive your results within a few weeks to a month.

The first thing you should do upon finding out that there is a mold infestation, and what kind of mold it is, is to inform your employs that there is a problem. You should inform them of what measures are to be taken.

You should next call an inspector as to determine how extensive the contamination is and if the case is mild, and can be dealt with in a short amount of time, or if the case is serious and could take up to several weeks to remedy.

If the case is extreme, you should notify your employees that they are being laid off for the duration of the remediation process. You should tell them when the process will begin, and give an approximation of when the process will end.

You should also ask your employees if they have been experience any kind of health problems since working for you. Specific health problems that you should look for are respiratory problems, skin rashes, and any other kinds of complications commonly associated with mold.

If your building is indeed contaminated, it should never be ignored, be it your home or work place. If you can afford to pay for the medical bills of others, you still do not want there to be health problems for yourself.

A Few Of The Different Arthritis Treatments One Can Use To Get Relief

A very simple yet effective arthritis treatment method is using heat as well as cold in different situations to get relief from the stiffness and pain in your joints. For heat treatment, using hot water bottles or a hot wheat pack and even a heat lamp over the exact spot where the pain is occurring will help you get relief. Or, you can use an electric blanket and take a warm shower and even bathe to relieve you off your morning stiffness and start a new day on a more positive note.

Having To Learn New Habits

For cold treatment, using cold packs over an inflamed and hot and tender joint should provide considerable relief, while in instances of severe pain, a physiotherapist may advise you a deep heat therapy treatment such as ultrasound. When applying different arthritis treatments, it is necessary to learn some new habits that will relieve your pain and help your body cope with arthritis and also mean not having to take drugs for relief.

Pain is a way in which the body warns you that something has gone wrong and you should pay heed to these signals, and you must try and stop the activity before it further tires the joints and causes excess pain. Also, you should try and plan your activities in a way that they do not end up causing you more pain. Another arthritis treatment you can use to get relief is to make sure that you only use your strongest muscles and joints. An example of this would be to use thigh muscles instead of the back muscles when lifting a heavy object, or using forearm muscles instead of the wrists to carry or lift or hold objects.

You could also think of using joint-saving gadgets as a form of arthritis treatment which is very helpful in making your routine tasks such as turning a tap and getting ready for work much easier. However, the usual arthritis treatment that most arthritics use is to take an arthritis drug, which have different effects on different people and which can also result in some unwanted side effects and adverse reactions. It also common for some people to take pain killers and analgesics as an arthritis treatment because they help control the pain that in turn is very necessary for the proper treatment of arthritis.

Unlike non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, these pain killers cannot help relieve inflammation, which means that you may have to take narcotic analgesics, especially when your pain is extreme and severe. It is really up to you and your doctor to decide which form of arthritis treatment is best suited for your particular condition.

A Fatty Diet And Obesity

Trans fats are often found in packaged baked goods, like cookies or crackers. They are also in fried foods like french fries and doughnuts. Trans fatty acids, also known as trans fat, is an artery-clogging fat that is formed when vegetable oils are hardened into margarine or shortening.

It is found in many other foods besides margarine and shortening, however, including fried foods like french fries and fried chicken, doughnuts, cookies, pastries and crackers.

Oils and shortening used to deep fry yeast dough and cake batter are not included in the first deadline. Oils and shortening used to deep fry yeast dough and cake batter are not included in the first deadline.

Obesity is one of the most pressing health problems in the U.S. Despite the growing number of diets that are being touted throughout the country, Americans just keep getting fatter.

Obesity and overweight related problems have overtaken smoking and are now the single most preventable cause of illness and death in the United States! According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):- "Obesity rose 6% nationally between 1998 and 1999, The increase affected all regions of the country and all demographic groups.

In the United States, an estimated 300,000 deaths annually are attributed to obesity and the carrying of excess weight.Diabetes, heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, blindness, high blood pressure and amputations have increased by a staggering 33% as a result of obesity.

Trans fats, saturated fats and cholesterol are less healthy than polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats. Trans fat that amounts to less than 0.5 grams per serving can be listed as 0 grams trans fat on the food label. Though that's a small amount of trans fat, if you eat multiple servings of foods with less than 0.5 grams of trans fat, you could exceed recommended limits.

Nutritional Genomics is the future of nutritional science. In time, we will be able to take the guesswork out of which foods/nutrients will work best for individuals under virtually any circumstance. Nutritional treatments have been used with success in treating many cystic fibrosis patients. These treatments include high protein-high caloric diets, pancreatic enzymes, and fat-soluble vitamins.

Weight loss is a basic equation based on eating the right foods and doing the right exercises. The Icon Diet is designed from the ground up to take full advantage of this concept.

Weight loss should be mentioned in the context of CR, even though it is not the primary goal of a CR diet - if you eat fewer calories, you will slim down. Research indicates that being overweight, or carrying excess body fat, is harmful to your long term health in many different ways. Weight loss is due to a sudden drop in calories - some of this may be fat - but most will be from water loss.

Healthy living doesn't happen at the doctor's office. The road to better health is paved with the small decisions we make every day. Healthy people may not be very much affected by foods grown in distant climatic regions.

A Fatty Diet And Healthy Living

Trans fats, saturated fats and cholesterol are less healthy than polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats. Trans fat that amounts to less than 0.5 grams per serving can be listed as 0 grams trans fat on the food label. Though that's a small amount of trans fat, if you eat multiple servings of foods with less than 0.5 grams of trans fat, you could exceed recommended limits.

Fat cells produce leptin--the more fat, the more leptin. The blood gathers the leptin from all the fat cells and carries it to the brain. Fat delays the rate at which the stomach empties ? You might think that this is a good thing, but remember that a high-fat diet is not necessarily a healthy diet.

Fats provide the most concentrated form of energy; in other words, when they are burned in the body, they supply more than twice the number of calories per gram available from carbohydrates. They are also high in cholesterol.

Eating this many vegetables has got to be healthy. I always try to mix in a bit of bread for breakfast, though, so that I don't get dizzy. Eating well is specific to you - to your special nutritional needs and to your schedule of training and competition. This booklet will help you to meet the challenges. Eat the correct foods and a bit of excercise on the edge. Using it the incorrect way wont work at all.

Eating your USUAL amount of food on those alternate "Food Days" actually HELPS you lose weight! It's "rule number 2". Eating a vegan diet reduces waste and devastation of earths precious resources. Consider the enormous energy put into growing grains to feed cattle. Eat french fries once a week instead of daily. Walk for 30 minutes at least four times a week.

Eating a lot of different foods can help alleviate and prevent these cravings. Eat any fish with fins and scales but avoid fish or water creatures without them (Lev. Those to avoid include smooth-skinned species such as catfish or eel and hard-shelled crustaceans such as crab, lobster, or clams.

Eating a low fat diet does not mean sacrificing flavor and taste. You can enjoy many of the foods you love with just a few changes. Eating the right food is one way to help control hormones called ghrelin and leptin.

Eat at least 3 ounces of whole-grain cereals, breads, crackers, rice, or pasta every day. One ounce is about 1 slice of bread, 1 cup of breakfast cereal, or 1/2 cup of cooked rice or pasta. Eat primarily foods that contain live enzymes , "life force" and nutrients.

Over time, if you keep eating a poor diet, this congestion builds up, layer after layer, eventually forming a hardened layer of plaque in the intestin . Eat what you like, workout as much as you can and keep those calories to a certain number. At your weight u can probably do 2500-3000 to start so try that and see if you drop any pounds, if not cut down a little more.