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I’m sure you have already heard about Empire Today 800-588-2300!! Listen carefully to this Jingle:

Oh!! I knew you would remember it. “800-588-two-three-hundred, Empire Today”. This Jingle was recognized everywhere and sang by almost everybody that saw the commercial.

For more than 45 years Empire Today has been helping people with home improvement and furnishing. Being in the market for so long, this company became an expert in this field and they have solutions and opinions for each new project they have.

Starting has a family business, Empire Today has grown impressively and has been awarded several times:

• 2006 Torch Award Winner for Marketplace Ethics: Chicago and Northern Illinois BBB
• 2007 Angie’s List Super Service Award – Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Dallas, Detroit and Orlando
• 2007 American Business Award Finalist
• 2008 American Business Award Finalist – Best Overall Company
• 2008 American Business Award WINNER – Best Customer Service Organization

The Empire Man, in the first years, was represented by a real person but later was replaced  by an animate persona. A lot of commercials were made featuring the Empire Men real person and later the animated Empire Man became a brand symbol of Empire Today.

Here is an old commercial of Empire Carpet:

Empire Today works on a next day delivery basis on the following materials:

• Carpet
• Hardwood Flooring
• Laminate Flooring
• Ceramic Flooring
• Window Treatments
• Bath & Shower Liners

They offer low prices, no-payment and no-interest credit options.

The in-home service is a great feature of Empire Today. How many times do we go to a store, buy some articles for our house and when we arrive home they just don’t fit or don’t match? With in-home service a specialized person goes to our home with all the samples available and we are able to choose what we want in loco, in the exact place where the product is going to be installed. This gives us an instant view of how the final installation will look like.

After the installation is done you are asked to see the final results before the personal leaves your house, anything you think is not right can be changed on the moment. There is also a follow up within two weeks of the installation, a Empire representative will call you to check on your satisfaction.

You can check the Wikipedia Empire Today page where you can find all the information about the company and several reference links.

It’s been two weeks since I published my last light recipe, my goal is to publish one recipe a week.

Today, when I checked AllRecipes page, I realized that the Daily Recipe was my favorite drink – Sangria. This is a very simple recipe that is perfect for the warm nights we will be having this Summer. The fruit can be chosen according to your preferences and remember “Fruit is good and healthy!”

So here is: Stirrings Red Sangria

INGREDIENTS

• 7/8 (32 ounce) bottle Stirrings Red Sangria Cocktail Mixer
• 7/8 (750 milliliter) bottle Cabernet, Zinfandel or Chianti
• 2-3/4 sliced fresh cut fruits (oranges, strawberries and lemons)

DIRECTIONS

1. Simply combine entire bottle of Stirrings Red Sangria Cocktail Mixer with 1 bottle of red wine.
2. Garnish with slices of fresh cut fruits like oranges, strawberries and lemons.

This recipe was submitted to AllRecipes by thebar.com

Buying an engagement ring is never an easy thing. You can spend hours, days even, wracked with indecision about buying this token of your love. How do you know if she’ll like it? What type of metal does she like? What sort of cut should you get for the diamond? It would all be much simpler if you could just ask her, but that’s not likely to win you any points.

However, there are a few tips to help you get the best engagement ring for your fiancé. The first step is to educate yourself about diamonds. Now, this doesn’t mean that you need to take a gemological class; it simply means that you need to learn about the 4 C’s. These are Color, Cut, Clarity and Carat. Each of these plays an integral role in the value of the stone, the price you pay for the diamond and how much she’ll like it.

You’ll need to pay special attention to the shape of the diamond. The Princess Cut is the traditional choice for engagement rings, though there are quite a few others available, such as the marquis cut, pear or teardrop shapes, oval cuts and many more. The choice of stone shape should be based on what you know about your significant other, her likes and dislikes and her personal sense of style.

You’ll also need to know about the options for the band. There are several different metals that make wonderful ring bands. Yellow gold is an obvious option, but so is white gold, platinum and even silver. Of all the choices available, white gold and platinum are the two current favorites. White gold has a similar look to platinum, without the high price, of course.

We can say that Cancer is all over the place, it only varies the location and the symptoms. Regular exams (like the Pap Smear I’ve done last week) can detect cancer at a very early stage when the chance of cure is still possible.

Most cancers appear unexpectedly, without notice and warn, age is not a limitation, cancer can appear and develop at any stage of our life. However there is a kind of cancer that can be expected, it’s called mesothelioma. This cancer appears in people that were in contact with asbestos. Here is a video where a Doctor explains the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of this terrible disease.

If you are looking for more information or advice follow this link: mesothelioma.

This is a product you probably want in your kitchen.

This is a Fruit Slicer that can be used with pears, apples, oranges and several other fruits. Besides cutting the fruit in 8 slices it separates the core from the rest. With only one gesture you have fruit ready to eat, to prepare pies, cakes or shakes.

This Fruit Slicer will save a lot of your precious time, can be stored in a small space and it can be washed in the dishwasher.

It can be found at Amazon.com and can be bought for $8,99.

Mexico is a preferable destination for a lot of tourists. Good weather, beautiful beaches and lots of places to visit.

Sea Side Reservations is a site that helps people making their reservations for a Rocky Point beach vacation. Here you can make hotel and condos reservations, get directions, get travel information and check what activities are available for you to do.

There are several Puerto Penasco activities you can do like: fishing, kite surfing, horseback riding, jet sky rentals and much more. You can also opt for a quiet and relaxed beach sunbath. Mexican food and shopping is something you will enjoy and miss when you leave.

Sea Side Reservations site is very easy to navigate and has a lot of useful information for you to have a great vacation in Mexico

These last few months have been very painful for me. Besides some small problems, the back pain I have been feeling is getting worse and I had to see a doctor last Friday. A preliminary diagnosis indicates Sciatic Nerve Pain. Of course I have to do some tests to check it for real but I already did a little research on the net to realize what Sciatic Nerve Pain is. Here is an article that describes the symptoms and causes of this diseases.

Sciatica or sciatic nerve pain is a term often used to describe all sorts of back pain. In fact, less than 5% of people who suffer from lower back pain will have sciatica.

Sciatica is caused by a sciatic nerve irritation. This is most commonly caused by a disc bulge in the lower back.

What is the sciatic nerve?

To understand this you need to have a bit of an idea about human spine anatomy.

* The spine is made up of large bones called vertebra.
* These bones are separated from one another by spinal discs.
* Each vertebra overlaps the next at the back to form a joint called a facet joint.
* Running down through the middle of the spine is a channel called the spinal canal, its here that the spinal cord sits.
* The spinal cord is the main structure that passes messages from our brains to our bodies.
* At each vertebra the spinal cord branches out to form a nerve root, these nerve roots leave the spine via a gap between each vertebra and then bundle together to form much larger nerves.

In the legs there are two main, large nerves, the femoral nerve at the front and the sciatic nerve at the back. The sciatic nerve passes down through the buttock area into the back of the thigh and leg.

What causes sciatic nerve pain?

The most common cause of sciatica is a disc bulge. The disc is a very misunderstood structure; it has been blamed for back pain ever since it was discovered. Over the years we have started to believe that the disc is a really weak and vulnerable structure.

The term slipped disc makes it sound as if it can slip about inside. In truth the disc can’t slip anywhere, it is firmly fixed at the top and at the bottom to the vertebra above and below.

The disc can and does cause problems however. Sometimes the central area of the disc bulges, usually backwards and sideways. This can cause an irritation of the nerve root as it leaves the spine. Occasionally the bulge is severe enough to actually squash or trap the nerve but this is fairly rare.

When the nerve is irritated by the disc bulge it can become inflamed. Remember what it feels like to hit your finger with a hammer or catch it in a door for a moment. Following the nasty sharp pain you are left with a dull ache. The finger may become red and swollen; there may be some heat or warmth there. After a while, those symptoms settle and everything gets back to normal. Its very similar with the sciatic nerve. It becomes very sore and can give you a lot of pain, even though it is not actually trapped or squashed.

An important thing to know is that many people have disc bulges and have no symptoms at all.

There are some other conditions that can cause sciatic nerve pain but they are much less common. These include degenerative disc disease, severe osteoarthritis, spinal stenosis or spondylolisthesis. Fractures, tumours and infection can also cause sciatica.

What are the symptoms of sciatica?

If someone has true sciatica then they often have pain in the legs, usually in the buttock, back of the thigh or calf. There may also be pins and needles and numbness in parts of the leg.

In severe cases the leg may feel weak and the strength may be reduced. Often, disc bulges cause no back pain at all; the symptoms are felt only in the legs.

Why are so many people given the diagnosis of sciatica?

Very often, as soon as anyone has any lower back or leg symptoms they are told that have sciatica. However, there are other things that can cause leg pain; a strained facet joint for example can cause pain in the buttock and thigh. But if the sciatic nerve is not irritated then it is not sciatica.

The best way to tell if it is sciatica is to undergo a series of test that your physiotherapist or doctor can perform. These simple clinical tests will be enough to identify if the problem is an irritated sciatic nerve.

Paula Fitzpatrick is a British trained physiotherapist specializing in the treatment of back pain. Visit http://www.lower-back-pain-toolkit.com for more up to date, reliable information about the causes and treatment of lower back pain.

Read much more about sciatica including treatment suggestions at http://www.lower-back-pain-toolkit.com/lower-back-pain-sciatica.html

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