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Founders Larry Bedell and Chuck Rappe are the only franchisors in the men s fitness niche with actual fitness experience. Their 20-year partnership includes ownership in Gold s Gyms and creation of La Femme, a women s fitness chain. Nitro has more than 20 franchise locations from Arizona to Nova Scotia. The pair expects to open 200 clubs across the country by the end of 2006. Nitro targets men over age 30 with a 30-minute core circuit training program that provides men with one of the most effective ways to burn fat, lose inches from their waistlines and improve overall health, says Bedell. The program is designed for the time-starved adult males who are trying to re-introduce fitness into their lives and become functionally fit. Core training gives men the everyday fitness they need to start the lawn mower, carry a ladder, swing a golf club and play with their kids or grandkids. Investors have found the Nitro Fitness clubs to be well...

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If you want to make a decent living and have a good, strong, sustainable IT consulting business, sooner or later you are going to come to this conclusion that the sweet spot of small businesses is the place to be. You need to know where to look and how to verify that the small business you are pursuing is going to be gratifying enough to work with and lucrative enough of recurring revenue to make them a good sweet spot client. Sweet spot IT consulting clients are no more than a 30-50 minute drive of your IT consulting home base. This way you can gets lots of face time with them. You can also get there quickly if there s an emergency. You don t want to spend a lot of time driving around and sitting in traffic. Even if you are charging for travel time or charging a service fee or a van fee, driving time is not your most profitable IT consulting time. You can certainly rent direct mail lists that are in that geographic range 0-50 miles, or...

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Fathers always buy their children enormous baseball gloves; it s a fact of childhood. The gloves are oversized and never fit on the poor kid s hand, but dad insists that they will grow into it. Eventually. Once you reach adulthood, you tend to realise that dad probably just wanted to save himself the price of two baseball gloves: one for when you were 6 and had no hope of any kind of achievement in baseball, and the other when you were 10 or 12 and playing on an after school team. Dad was thinking. Despite the fact that kids tended to hate the size of their first baseball gloves, they really did grow into them. What made that glove last until the age of 10 and still be in good shape was completely dependent on the original choice. Was the glove plastic or leather. What sort of basket did it have. Was the stitching sound. The attitude of the parents largely affects the condition of a child s baseball glove come Little League time If...

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How do you come up with gift ideas. It can be such a headache, even if you know the recipient well. I know I dread shopping for my husband. However, with a little thought I generally come up with something perfect for him without resorting to his Amazon Wish List. I do so love to surprise him. I start by thinking of what the person I am shopping for enjoys. My husband can be hard to shop for, since he rarely says what he wants, but I know he enjoys a wide range of subjects. Like me, he s something of a geek, so gadgets appeal to him quite a bit. He also enjoys antiques. I don t mean flowery tea cups although he can appreciate them, I don t think he d enjoy one as a gift. Just not his style. But he loves old tools, ironwork, old books and so forth. That s the kind of thought process you need to go through to find the perfect gift for someone you know. Go through their interests until you think of something you would enjoy giving, then...

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Defensive driving is quite an important thing that we have. People simply need to know that while you can control your own actions most of the time, you cannot control or know what is happening with other drivers. Defensive driving courses offer a wealth of information for people who are looking for solutions to prevent accidents and problems from happening. So, what is defensive driving all about. It is a method of driving in which you take every possible precaution that you can to prevent problems from happening. This method of driving is an excellent way to keep you and your family safe. Here are some of the rules of defensive driving: . Its starts by being prepared. Checking such things as tire pressure and oil, gas, and water levels before leaving are important. You will want to check mirrors, seats as well as make sure that you have all the insurance and other documentation that you need before heading out. Never display or react...

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