Maricar Reyes became an instant celebrity when she was featured in a sex video distributed over the internet and DVD retailers. Maricar is a practicing medical doctor and a model. She has everything to lose with the scandal she was involved with. But Maricar keeps her silence on the issue, unlike Katrina Halili who is very vocal in the issue. Instead of coming from the open and talk in national TV, she continues with her life as a doctor and a model and as an actress.

With Maricar gaining instant celebrity status, ABS-CBN capitalized in it and gives Maricar more shows. Before the scandal, Maricar was already given a break by the Kapamilya Network in “Betty La Fea”. Her performance was exemplary but she didn’t get the nod of majority of Filipino audience.

With the shows she was given after the scandal, people are waiting for her appearance in the small screen. She already appeared in “May Bukas Pa” and “Precious Hearts Romances Presents: Bud Brothers” where the rating of the episodes where she appeared rocketed to their highest levels.

Maricar is yet to have her biggest show, where she will play the lead role. She will be featured in “Your Song Presents: Gaano Kita Kamahal” with Jodi Sta. Maria. She is also scheduled to do an important role in KC Concepcion – Piolo Pascual starrer “Lovers In Paris”. Here, Maricar’s talent will be slated against the afformentioned premiere actor and actress.

With Maricar’s perseverance amidst the scandal involving her, she is rewarded with many projects and serve as a role model to be strong when faced with adversaries.

Almost more than anyone in any other profession, an actor needs to take excellent care of his or her body. This is for a much more important reason that just fitting into the Hollywood mold of good looks. That is a trend which will pass in time. The reason being physically fit is so important for an actor is that your ability to play diverse and physically interesting characters is limited only by your own physical capabilities. This means that in order to be the best actor possible, you have to be as fit as you can possibly be. Don’t forget, fit doesn’t mean thin! Fit means being flexible, being strong, and having the stamina for this very difficult job.

Flexibility was mentioned and with good reason. Being flexible is one of the most overlooked areas of fitness, and only the recent yoga craze has really emphasized how much flexibility training can contribute to one’s overall fitness levels. Being flexible is good for your body in all ways, and makes you much less prone to injury. This makes your body much more able to withstand the stresses that acting places upon it. For many people that sounds silly, but most of the time acting on a film or TV set means long days with a great deal of repetitive motion. That can be hard on even the healthiest body, so it is important to take good care of yourself. There are many things an actor has to worry about maintaining and training at all times, and physical fitness is a very important item on the list.

While flexibility is important, so is stamina. Those long days require a great deal of cardiovascular fitness. Not to say that more out of shape people can’t act, but the chances are that by the end of a twelve hour shoot they will be giving much less than their best performances. Given the choice between that actor, and the one who is still giving it 110% at the end of the day, which one do you think the director is going to want to hire for his next big project?

Water ski racing is a fast, action packed sport and without the correct safety equipment, a skier can suffer a lot of injuries if they should have a big enough fall. The correct equipment can prevent many serious injuries from happening.

Dead arm, is a common water ski racing injury. This is where the nerves in the shoulder are severed of permanently damaged during a fall where the skiers arm is twisted over the skiers head rotating at the shoulder socket. This injury normally results in partial paralyses of the affected arm.

Helmet: a correct fitting helmet should be worn by the skier. The helmet needs to cover the ears and have a firm strap with a clip rather than a buckle. The helmet will prevent head injury in the event of impact with the skier’s race ski or any number of other objects. The clip on the chin strap enables the helmet to come from the skiers head if the water grabs the helmet. This can prevent neck injuries.

Goggles: Goggles are more for comfort as at high speed the wind and water spray can nearly blind a skier. Yet they are required for safety also. Correct fitting goggles should be worn and should be specialised H2O goggles. H2O goggles are manufactured using materials that are water resistant so that the goggles last longer.

Wetsuit: A custom fitted buoyancy wetsuit should be worn. The suit should have at least 3 torso straps, knee straps and knee braces. A correctly fitted wetsuit helps support the skier’s joints and helps protect the body from injury upon impact with the water. Sufficient buoyancy should be built into the suit to keep the skier afloat in the water, especially after a fall, where the skier could be unconscious.

Neck Brace: A neck brace is recommended to be fitted to the suit to enable support of the head and neck in the event of a fall. This can assist in preventing serious neck injuries.

Arm restraints: Correctly fitted arm restraints are recommended as they can prevent dead arm in the event of a fall. Arm restraints can be purchased attached to a neck brace, or they can be fitted to a short sleeve wetsuit. The arm restraint restricts the travel of the upper arm preventing it from being wrenched.

Ski Bindings: ski bindings should be correctly fitted so that they are snug, but not too tight. In the event of a fall your feet should come out of the bindings to prevent injury while tumbling with the ski still attached. The binding should not be too loose either as a snug fitting binding is required for proper ski control while racing.

That covers all the necessary safety equipment for water ski racing. Many skiers may use other items for comfort or injury prevention for existing ailments, but the above items are the main necessities for a safe seasons water ski racing. If the above equipment is correctly fitted and worn religiously while practicing, training and racing injury can be minimised or even prevented in the case of a minor or even serious fall.

Mobile Application Development has been defined as one of the leading technical advancements in the present world. Developing a mobile app depends on various factors- the budget, the customers, and the demand for a specific app. From a mobile app developer’s perspective the budget and knowledge of a programming language can decide its success. These are few commonly used App developing tools and some tools used by the traditional web programmers.

Some of the most advanced Mobile Application Development tools

Apple iOS Developer Program- Developers who wants to create iPhone apps need to register with the Apple’s Developer Program and an annual fee of $99 is charged for the program. Once registered, the user can develop applications using the programming language- Objective C. The Apple Development Center consists of tools, guides, and run debug tests for building apps of any purpose.

Android OS program- Most of the Android based apps are created using Java programming language. By downloading the Android SDK (Software Development Kit) the user can start on building new apps for Android. The Android based starter kit consists of sample projects, development tools, source code, and an emulator, which is used to test the new app. One can gain more information on Android app development from the available videos, technical articles, and step-by-step process docs. The Android developer registration charges include a one-time fee of $25.

BlackBerry OS Developer program- the apps on a BlackBerry OS is mainly developed using Java Micro Edition (ME) programming language. An authorized BlackBerry App developer needs to pay an amount of $200 for every 10 apps they submit. Although, waiver plans are constantly offered as a part of their promotions.

Some of the most known App Development Tools used by Traditional Web Programmers

Appcelerator Titanium- One of the most common and renowned tool for building apps for the Apple iOS and Google Android OS. It has the Titanium SDK and creates programs using CSS, HTML or JavaScript code unlike using new programs like Objective-C or Java. The developer can download and create apps for free from the Titanium Community, which also hold a Professional and Enterprise version as well.

MotherApp- Mother App builds apps for Apple, Google Android, BlackBerry, and all other mobile platforms. The Programmer need not be proficient in various languages instead he can learn the specific MotherApp HTML code for creating apps. The MotherApp HTML code is a subset of the HTML with special markdown tags. These tags are send in code to the MotherApp and it builds app is ready for use.

PhoneGap- PhoneGap develops apps with the standard HTML, CSS, or JavaScript. The developer writes the code later upload it and other files to PhoneGap Build services. PhoneGap is presently supports Android, Palm, and BlackBerry OS.

Free football bets are one of the main types of free bets that are currently released by bookmakers as a means of raising interest and awareness of the service they provide.

Betting is a massive industry and bookmakers are able to release free football bets as a way of getting potential customers to sign up and try out a service before committing large volumes of their own money.

There are various ways to find free football bets. The most popular way is to go online and search through a free online betting website. There are a variety of football free bets that are offered by the many different online bookmakers, and some of these offers are only valid to customers who sign up to a website online.

Another way of fining free football bets is by looking through the sports section of a newspaper or going into bookmaking shops in order to find offers. However this would obviously take a lot longer and not many people have the time to do this on a regular basis. Therefore for most people, using a free bets website is likely to be the best option.

Free football bets will work in two different ways. Firstly, there will be the matched bets. These offers will work on the basis that the bookmaker will match the first bet that you place on any football related betting market.

The second option is a certain amount of capital that will be released by bookmakers as a completely free bet. These offers will work on the basis that no deposit is required but a unique bonus code is required. Customers can enter this code into their online account and the funds will be released for them to do with as they please.

Football is one of the biggest sports in the United Kingdom and record numbers of people are still going to watch matches despite the current state of the UK economy. Betting is also more popular now than it ever has been and free football bets are a good way for football lovers to enjoy their favourite sport just a little bit more.

The main reason why there are more free football bets than any other type of bet is because there is a greater number of matches to bet on than in any other sport. Premier League sides have 38 games to play each season in the league, and Football League sides play 46 games. There are also cup competitions and international matches. This means ample opportunity to use different bookmaker bonus offers to make a profit on football.

There are certain rules and regulations that bookmakers have to abide by when it comes to offering bonuses and incentives. These regulations are put in place simply for the protection of the consumer, because gambling is one of the most serious addictions that any person can have.

Free football bets are unique in the respect that they can be used across dozens or even hundreds of different markets in the sport. Some other types of free bets may sometimes be restricted in the respect that they can only be used in a certain market.

This makes free football bets more appealing to a customer because they are more flexible and give more opportunity to potentially make a risk free profit.

Even though it’s stuck on the bottom end of the “Dark Continent”, the city is large, sophisticated, modern and more European than African, with all amenities to match. Cape Town has accommodation to suit all requirements from the exclusive colonial style Mount Nelson through guest houses, bed and breakfasts to basic backpacker hostel. They all there and there are plenty of them.

When looking for somewhere to stay you want to know if it’s suitable, of good standard and how to get there.

Finding a slew of places is quite simple. While many have their own websites, which may or may not pop up in Google, there are many general accommodation sites offering a huge selection.

Finding good accommodation is then straight forward and where about in the city to stay in Cape Town is also straight forward.

In the nineteen forties and fifties Cape Town was blessed with a dynamic and far seeing city engineer, Dr.Solly Morris and the city’s comprehensive, easily navigable dual carriage way system is his legacy. It is world class and makes getting from point to point quick and painless. This means, choose somewhere with quick access to the system and the city is your oyster.

Cape Town is a uniquely beautiful city. There is almost no part which is not outstandingly scenic so you can stay anywhere and have great surroundings.

These co-ordinates are (-34.00000, 19.28995) on Google Earth. This will give you a good bird’s eye view of the road system. Even better would be to get a Street Directory (not a Street Guide). A directory is a book of maps, while a guide is a big fold out map, very difficult in a car.

These maps clearly show the routes up and down the Cape Peninsula, on either side of the mountain, the trunk roads leaving the city centre to the West Coast (N7), Paarl then Johannesburg (N1) and South Coast (N2) and their interconnecting highways.

With the Table Mountain system always in sight, it’s easy to keep your bearings.

To find your way about on arrival is simple as you can only arrive on one of the three main trunk roads whether by road or air. The airport is on the N2, about twenty minutes from the city centre.

Sandals Emerald Bay Resort, located in a private, tucked-away Bahamian island named Great Exuma, is a vacationer’s dream-come-true. Offering exquisite restaurants, relaxing spa treatments, and all of the natural exotic allure of the Caribbean, this deluxe Sandals resort in the Bahamas has all of the amenities (and more) of a premium vacation destination. Visit the Sandals Emerald Bay website for information and specials. Here are just a few of the resort’s highlights:

Luxury Accommodations

Sandals resorts go the extra mile to make you feel not only comfortable, but also luxuriously pampered in their suites. Every room features a 4-poster king-size bed, premium Serta mattresses, genuine mahogany furniture, “His & Hers” bath robes, a fully-stocked bar, and many other frills that make life wonderful. You may never want to leave the room! In accordance with each room’s distinctive features, Sandals suites vary in price, but you are guaranteed complete satisfaction!

Natural Beauty at your Fingertips

One of the unmistakable highlights of this Sandals resort in the Bahamas is its simple, natural, tropical beauty. From your private villa, you will have a view of the breath-taking Exuma cay and its translucent emerald waters. A few footsteps will take you to a mile-long private beach where you can swim, boat, or take a relaxing, romantic stroll on its white sand.

Private Butler Service

During your entire stay at Sandals Emerald Bay Resort, you can be waited on hand and foot by one of Sandal’s exclusive butlers, trained to offer impeccable and timely service combined with ultimate discretion. By simply calling your butler’s cell phone, your request will be granted immediately – be it to unpack your bags, confirm dinner reservations, or to prepare a bath, your personal butler is at your service any time of the day or night.

Indulgent Spa Treatments

No resort vacation would be complete without a day at the spa, and Sandals Emerald Bay Resort will definitely not disappoint. The Spa itself, called Red Lane, is just shy of 30,000 square feet and encases sixteen different treatment rooms. Skilled massage therapists and skincare experts administer dozens of rejuvenating treatments such as deep thermal and full-body massages, Caribbean sea wraps, and premiere Dermalogica facials. Red Lane also features salon services such as bikini waxes, manicures and pedicures, as well as a steam room and fitness center outfitted with Yoga and Pilates exercise equipment.

Champion-Inspired Golf Course

Designed by renowned golf champion, Greg Norman, the golf course at Sandals Emerald Reef Golf club is as challenging as it is awesome. Relaxation meets competition as the winds whip across the sea-side fairway. New to the game? No worries! PGA golf lessons are available at the resort, as are club and shoe rentals. After the game, you can kick back and enjoy lunch and a drink or two with friends at the clubhouse lounge and restaurant.

Delectable Dining

The Emerald Bay Sandals resort in the Bahamas offers unparalleled dining experiences that balance romantic and exotic atmospheres with the finest cuisine in the Caribbean. And do not fret that your palate may become bored; the resort takes pride in serving various exclusive dishes in their five unique restaurants, including American, Italian, and even Irish fare. At any time, you can indulge in a seafood feast!

Activities Galore

Whether you choose surf over turf or vice versa, the Sandals resort at Great Exuma can satisfy your preference. You will undoubtedly find something to keep you busy, if you are so inclined. Land-lovers can opt for ground activities such as beach volleyball, tennis, golf, and shuffleboard, whereas those wanting to make a splash can enjoy unlimited scuba-diving and snorkeling, or a venture out to sea on a sailboat, kayak, or hydrobike. With so many activities at your disposal, you can customize your vacation experience to include thrills, relaxation, or a little of both. And the fun does not stop when the sun goes down; different forms of nightly entertainment such as live bands, dance explosions, and talent shows are presented for your evening amusement.

The Last Word

The Emerald Bay Sandals resort in Great Exuma, Bahamas has truly pulled out all the stops to ensure that your vacation is indeed a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Situated in a tropical paradise with all of the conveniences a city-dweller could possibly desire, this Sandals resort is sure to leave you with lasting memories, not to mention a desire to return to this exotic place of beauty and wonder!

The goal for sports punters is to earn a profit whilst enjoying our favourite sport. The sad truth is that for the majority of gamblers, this is an elusive dream. However by developing and carefully following a stratagem anyone can make this dream a reality.

There are two factors to consider to profit from sports gambling:

• Bet Selection
• Staking Plan

Bet Selection

The first, Bet Selection, is obvious – we need to back winners at least some of the time. Let’s consider Horse Racing, anecdotally there are many professional punters who earn a comfortable living from picking horses, but the key word here is professional. Research and analysis of each horse in the 59 racecourses across the UK takes a sizeable amount of time and experience. If you want to be successful then it’s a full time job! For the majority of us this means we have to use the advice of experts to do some of the legwork for us.

Horse Racing Tipsters

UK horse racing has no end of self-proclaimed “experts” on the Internet charging up to £100 per month. When selecting a horse racing tipster the most important factor we need to consider is long term results.

The Internet is awash with tipsters who have had one good month but then go on to post a loss for the next six – but you will only see this one month on their home page! Never follow any tips without first checking the tipster’s full result history. Choose a tipster who publishes all their horse racing tips history, ideally where the results of the tips are published the next day along with a complete history of all their tips.

Take a look at a Tipster Proofing site such as Racing-Index who grades the results for a number of tipsters. Consider which tipster gives you gave for money and fits with your own betting profile – can you actually place the 100s of tips each month some tipsters require?

Following tipsters alone is not likely to earn us riches – the best tipsters are locked out for new members or charge such high rates that any profits are lost immediately. The solution is to develop our own system using tips from expert sources combined with our own research. This is the strategy successfully used in greyhound racing by followers of the site. As with most things; the more you put into your system the more you will get out.

Staking Plan

Once we have a betting strategy in place it is time to look at a staking plan. The simplest is Fixed or Level Stakes where we simply bet the same amount, for instance 2% of our initial betting bank, each time on our selected horse, however we would want to increase our wagers as our betting bank grows. This leads to Percentage Staking where a percentage of the current betting bank is wagered each time. This means as we win our stakes are larger and conversely the stakes shrink when the betting bank decreases.

However, intuitively we know these staking plans to be overly naive as we would be putting the same amount of money on a horse with low odds compared to a horse with high odds. As we are looking to maximise our profits we should be putting a larger stake on a low odds bet as the return will be less.

To find the optimal staking plan we could take a correspondence course in statistics and dedicate several years into research. Fortunately we live in age where this research is at our fingertips. From probability theory we have the Kelly Strategy where the optimal percentage of our betting bank is calculated from the odds of the bet and our own estimate of the probability of the horse winning.

Using an online Kelly Strategy Calculator just feed in the values to get the percentage of the betting bank to put on each horse. Now the Kelly Strategy can give us some scary percentage stakes if we have an initial run of high odds horses so we could adapt it to a Half Kelly Staking Plan where we wager half the percentage advised by the Kelly Strategy. This would result in a slower accumulation of gambling profits but a less hair-raising ride.

The most important sports gambling advice to heed is only bet with funds you can afford to lose. Always gamble responsibly – if you feel you need help and advice with problem gambling visit http://www.gambleaware.co.uk.

Nurse Jackie is one of Showtime’s hottest shows this season. Featuring Edie Falco, an HBO veteran from the hit The Sopranos, as an amoral emergency room nurse dedicated to saving lives, while cheating on her husband and indulging in powerful painkillers to combat her back pain, the show transcends typical medicine dramas popular in primetime television by focusing on those who heal, not those who diagnose.

This Showtime drama also features The West Wing’s Anna Deavere Smith as Gloria Akalitus, a nurse-turned-hospital administrator. Akalitus is the butt of many a joke in the show, getting giddy off of Jackie’s Percocet-laced coffee, accidentally tazering herself in an elevator, and questioning a gay nurse about how to obtain adoption papers for a child left at a nursing station.

Where lies the line between fact and fiction in the characterization of this hospital administrator? Frankly, the line zig-zags. Hospital administrators play an important part in the inner workings of the hospital, and help to keep everything running smoothly. But in a dark comedy like Nurse Jackie, Akalitus is a walking punch line, providing a much needed dose of laughter amidst so much darkness. However, if her employees behaved themselves, Akalitus would most likely seem like an average nursing supervisor.

In one notable episode, Akalitus urges Jackie Peyton to make a dying man vacate a bed due to overcrowding. Jackie asks her to look at the man again, not as a healthcare administrator, but as a nurse. Akalitus allows Jackie until the end of the day to find him another place to stay, because she realizes that he’ll be dying soon.

This aspect of Akalitus’ character may be legitimate. It would be logical for a nurse to become a supervisor. Many hospital administrators began as healthcare workers. However, it’s not a simple jump from nurse to administrator. Most have at least a Masters degree in Health Services Administration, although some pursue degrees in public or business administration. Hospital administrators with financial backgrounds may go on to become Chief Financial Officers or Chief Executive Officers.

Education includes a year of interning in a health care center, and most administrators begin as administrative assistants for large hospitals, before pursuing higher positions in smaller institutions. Therefore, it’s unlikely that Akalitus would be working alongside her former peers, as she probably would have needed to move elsewhere to find a position.

In another episode, Akalitus stays late to oversee Jackie making the time schedules, having noted that she always seems to be working with friends. One of the responsibilities of the hospital administrator is the maintenance of the budget. The hospital administrator would be responsible for the schedule of the nurses being overseen.

Finally, Gloria Akalitus appears to work alone. This is definitely true. There is often only one hospital administrator in a small hospital, and larger hospitals need a single administrator for each department. All Saints, the fictional hospital at which Nurse Jackie works at, seems like a large hospital. As a result, it would be common for a health care administrator to oversee the entire department alone.

Ideally, one should plan and implement a marketing campaign many months before the actual launch of your book. Lay the foundation for success early and then be consistent with ongoing marketing well after your book has been released.

Here are seven tips to do while you book is being edited or in process of production and you have a bit of extra time on your hands since the book is being worked on by others.

Tip #1: Review all your social media profiles and update them. Put information in the profile indicating that your book is soon to be published, and add a date if you know one, and a brief overview of what the book is about.

Tip #2: Begin to do searches on all social media platforms of your target audience and join groups, “like” pages, and subscribe. For example, you were writing a book about a dog, your target readership might be dog lovers. Spend time finding out where dog lovers hang out both physically and on the internet. Perhaps visit the actual locations in your community where dog lovers go and build relationships with owners of stores and leaders of organizations related to dogs.

On the internet, begin interacting with members of groups related to dogs and just enjoy the conversation. In forums and groups, it is best to spend several months in friendly interaction before ever suggesting a call to action such as buying your book. If the membership enjoys your comments in the groups, they will be much more willing to actually buy a book from you at a later date.

Tip #3: Build your lists. Accelerate your efforts at adding followers to your lists. Those lists might be friends and fans on Facebook, your email distribution list, and blog subscribers. Wherever you have lists, build them to greater numbers. Allot a certain amount of time each day to list building activities to increase your connections.

Tip #4: Begin to inquire about joint venturing with others who have large lists. Leverage the lists of synergistic people in your niche by suggesting a mutually beneficial partnership of cross promotion. Perhaps they will promote the launch of your book to their lists if you feature them on your blog or they have the opportunity to give a bonus to your list when someone buys your book.

Tip #5: Draft press releases and email and social media announcements so you are prepared for the big launch day when it arrives. You may edit these drafts as the day approaches, but you will have these important promotional pieces in a ready state.

Tip #6: Create interview questions that you would love to answer on radio shows or blog interviews. Those who might interview you appreciate you making their job easier, and you have a chance to practice your answers so they sound smooth and natural.

Tip #7: Place information about your book release in the signature line of your emails such as “Author of the soon to be published book entitled (your book’s title)”.

Remember that marketing needs to be a part of your routine every week consistently before and after your book comes out. Keep a constant stream of exposure to your target market for your book’s success. Whether you traditionally publish or self-publish, you will be in charge of marketing your book, so start early and be persistent!