Referral Events can be an awesome ways to expand your sales. If you’ve ever been to networking events you know that they come in all shapes and sizes. Some are very abrasive (everyone selling everyone else). Some a very clickish and it seems that as their guest that you’re crashing the party. And yet others are warm, but you’re left wondering how any business will ever get done.

The simplist way to find a BNI Chapter, a Chamber of Commerce Event, a Networking Event "for Women" or a list on business networking sites is the new Networking Event Finders Web Site. You can find networking events, rate networking groups and ask questions in their business forums anytime night or day!

Selecting Chambers of Commerce that host high quality networking events, is a challenge. The cost of making a mistake is both time and money. Spending half a day and $20 to $40 to attend a bad event can ruin your day. Networking Event Finders allows you to rate networking events, networking groups and networking venues. More importantly you can see the ratings from others.

Finding the best networking site social events to fits your personality and your business needs requires time and energy when both seem to be in very short supply.

Start Business Networking by finding networking events in Long Island. When you find an event that works for your calendar plan to attend 3 meetings for each group and actively interview 3 to 4 members of each group.

What to look for in a Networking Group:

• Do they return your calls?
• Are the members complaining?
• Are you welcomed?
• Does it feel like High School? (different clicks)
• Is there a clear method to join and participate?
• Will you reveice a Mentor Member?

Business Networking requires a commitment of both time and money. Most small business people can’t afford to squander either. So visit several groups to see which business networking group will bet meet both your business needs and you personality. There’s nothing worse that driving to a networking event dreading having to go!

Cats are the coolest animals on the planet. Yes, that statement is rife with conjecture and straight up personal opinion—based on personal pet preference. But they really are amazing creatures.

Cats have their own laundry or body soap solution, and can wash themselves in all areas except the one area Moms used to nag about—behind the ears…at the nape of the neck. Oh, and they can be picked up (with teeth!) by that nape of the neck, without ever flinching or griping or calling out in pain.

Cats don’t hassle or pounce, relentlessly, when you enter a room. They have little interest in your command performance attention—the quality and quantity of which had better be delivered, according to their mortal foes, dogs, or you’ll get a face full of slobber, a front full of mudprints, or a shove to the ground because the dog thinks he’s a lapdog when he is, in fact, a Rhodesian Wolfhound weighing in at over a 100 pounds.

Cats are so intuitive they know when you need them. That is, if you are weeping, depressed, lonely, or ill, they will first stare at you for a minute, likely picking up which vibe it is they need to address, and then will come close. This is not hyperbole or conjecture on my part. Numerous studies have been done to indicate that pets in general but especially cats have been introduced into high-stress people’s homes and hospital wards—and the illnesses decreased, the stress levels reduced, and the feeling of well-being returned to degrees of something around 15% improvement.

I mentioned that cats stare. Yeah, this is one I still am trying to figure out. They will position themselves in statuesque stillness, focus on one spot, thing, or you (shudder), and with unblinking, undeterred pose will penetrate whatever (or whomever) it is they stare at. I have paid close attention to this particular behavior on many an occasion, and can only see not a bored soul just watching the air molecules move about but a profoundly knowing being…whose eyes, when you look deeply into them, reveal eras and ages of reincarnated mystique, reveal the origin of their many dimensioned essences.

I may be interpreting this because I know the cat's history. Or know what others know thus far. Cats were a revered animal in Egypt. They were found buried in the tombs and sarcophagi of the royalty. They were reportedly so esteemed that a person was caught harming a cat that person was executed. (Wish we had held onto this one archaic law, especially when I see how cats are sold in markets for food in some countries, or how cats are tortured by cults or kids with nothing better to do and no more brain cells than to set a now defenseless domesticated creature on fire. Makes me very angry, actually.)

And back to the physical wonderment of cats…that whole hairball thing, while at first may be disgusting or may seem pitiful (I always go into apoplectic sympathy mode as the cat looks at me to shut me up so she can be sick), is really fascinating (and makes sense). The cat is licking her hair every day and night, many times. She is of course collecting the fallout. In her gut. She then, on scheduled intervals of time, hunkers, hacks, and hawks until the perfectly bundled thing is expelled. And then she begins the cycle all over again.

Cats have (students and professors at Cornell studied) 100 different vocalizations. My favorite is the rrow-rrow-rrow one as if my cuddly baby is chirping with giddy delight. (It is happy, it is friendly, and it is a greeting. It is also an expectation—of goodies.)

I am really not all that intellectual about cats, though I do acknowledge a deep respect for and kind of metaphysical fascination with cats. So I am always learning something new, coming to understand their biological imperatives—that they wash immediately after eating (or after you eat, even) so they don’t (their cells recall this from jungle days eons back) appear as food or prey. Duh. I didn’t think of that. They scratch and claw stuff not only to sharpen their claws. They do so to leave scent for those competitors (in our case, the raccoons) that might even think about approaching for a nice warm bed, lots of healthy food, much smooshy affection, and the occasional starefest. Which still kinda creeps me out.

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Harmful substances in your drinking water may be a serious health and safety concern for you and your family.  If you suspect your water supply is contaminated, there are things you can do to make sure it doesn't flow from your own faucet.  There are several water filtration systems for the home that can remove most of these impurities in the water you use for drinking and cooking.  Reverse osmosis systems are one of these popular methods for cleaning up the water that comes out of your kitchen faucet.

At the heart of the reverse osmosis system is the membrane.  The size of the pores in the membrane is .001 microns.  Many of the impurities found in water such as bacteria, pyrogens, viruses, pesticides, hydrocarbons, radioactive contaminants, turbidity, colloidal matter, chlorine, detergents, industrial wastes, asbestos, dissolved solids, sodium, calcium, magnesium, sulfates and cadmium will not pass this barrier.  Instead, they are drained out.  What passes through is pure water.

Pre-filters and post filters are also part of the reverse osmosis system.  Pre-filters are placed before the membrane.  They prevent the heavier or larger impurities such as sand, silt and dirt from passing through.  In some systems, an additional carbon pre-filter is also set up before the membrane if the membrane is constructed out of TFC (thin film composite) or TFM (thin film material).  This additional pre-filter removes chlorine which may harm the effectiveness of membranes using these types of film.  A post filter place after the membrane removes any remaining odor or tastes from the purified water.

Many of the reverse osmosis systems available consists of the same basic components and function in the same way.  The critical difference is in the quality of the filters and membrane used.  When making a decision on which system to install in your own home, the quality of these parts should be considered.  A RO system does require some maintenance and eventually replacement of parts, so finding the right one should not be based solely on the initial cost.  If you are a handy person, you can install it yourself.  However, if you don't consider yourself mechanically inclined, then a plumber familiar with reverse osmosis systems can install it for you at a reasonable hourly or flat fee.

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