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This short article aims to quickly cover some of the possible bets when playing Craps online. It is important to remember that it is possible to place a bet in craps, even if you are not the shooter.

Types of Craps Online Bets:

1) Pass Line Bet: This, also known as the “Front Line”, and is by far the most popular and simplest bet in craps in that you bet that the shooter wins his game. This bet can be made at any time but is generally made before the “Come Out” roll. A player wins on this roll if the first dice roll is either a 7 or 11, and loses if a 2, 3 or 12 is rolled.

2) Don’t Pass Bet: This is exactly the opposite of the above, because you bet the shooter does not win his game. This bet is also known as the “Back Line”.

3) Odds Bet: When the shooter establishes the point in the “Come Out” roll, you can place an odds bet as an option to your Pass Line or don’t Pass wager. In this bet the casino has absolutely no advantage because you don’t bet against it. Basically you strengthen your “Pass” or “Don’t Pass” wager.

4) Come Bet: The “Come Bet” works exactly like the “Pass Line” bet, but you make the bet after the point is established. The next roll becomes the “Come Out” roll for your bet. A “Come Bet” wins with 7 or 11 and loses with 2, 3 or 12. All other rolled numbers cause your wager to be moved to that particular number. For you to win, the point has to be re-established before a 7 is rolled.

5) Hardways: A 4+4 is known as a Hard 4, a 5+5 as a Hard 5 etc. Collectively, all these doubles are known as the “Hardways”. This is a place bet on one of the doubles, 2+2, 3+3, 4+4 and 5+5…Read More:Craps Online Betting

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A Tribute to Goodness … and those friends I have met on the
street, who gave to me the gifts of fairness and compassion,
adventure and lust.

By Punkerslut

It is a crime, I confess, on the books of our government to
take another’s property without consent. It is this that is
called stealing. But it was just this that I did. One store or
another, I would walk in, and obtain property, without the
consent of the owner. I stole food, and I gave it to those who
could not afford it. I gave it to men who looked more ragged
than any Hollywood movie could envision, and I gave them a
little more than just food to fill their stomachs. I gave them
the promise that there is forever at least one Humanitarian in
every generation, a hope that life one day will not be one of
poverty, a desire to be free and live life well. I am a thief,
and I have stolen that the poor, hungry masses might not starve.
In the eyes of the state, I am a merciless criminal. I vow to
forever battle the peoples’ hunger of food as much as I vow to
battle for their hunger of liberty. As long as the shimmering
star of life continues to burn in the heavens, there will always
be a revolutionary there to resist the brutality of the state’s
iniquity. And as long as there as we can see more than just
green when we see a forest, as long as we can see more than just
white when we see a cloud, as long as we can see more than just
blue when we see the ocean, as long as our souls are not deaf to
beauty’s inspiration and depth, and as long as our minds are not
dormant to the possibilities of hope, we will forever be one
marching mass, constantly reaching and clawing, diving deeper in
creativity and love, learning more and more by reading the books
of experience, and as long as we march on past the blistering
winds with our companions, we will enjoy a type of freedom that
comes with integrity, and we will have a type of hope that
renders results. To this degree of existance and meaning, I can
only say this: there are few things I would rather be a part of.

www.punkerslut.com

For Life, Punkerslut

As I look through my various forum links and review some of my
company email, I keep coming across questions relating to
generating inbound links to increase web site ranking. No matter
who you are, if you have a web site online you are always
looking for ways to improve your link popularity. While most SEO
practitioners will tell you that getting other related,
non-competing, websites to link to you should be high on your
priority list if you want better PR from Google or better
rankings, most web site designers miss the most obvious way to
get these valuable one way inbound links. There is a way to do
that plus generate additional content for your web site at the
same time. You can get those quality inbound links while
expanding your content which will bring the search engine
spiders to your web site more often. By following my
suggestions, you will be able to kill two birds with one stone,
and make your visitors happy while increasing your rankings and
making the spiders happy all at once.

Everyone is an expert at something.

It’s true, everyone has many years of experience at something.
Maybe you have been in a job for the past 20 years and know just
about every aspect of it, or maybe you’ve been making paper
airplanes as a hobby for just as much time. Either way, you have
20 years of knowledge about something that others could be
looking for information to read on those topics. Maybe you have
already built a web site taking advantage of that knowledge and
are looking to use it as a means to make a living, or maybe it’s
about a hobby and you want to make a living with that. Either
way, each of us has valuable knowledge that other people might
want. Why not take some time, sit down and think about your
business experience or hobby, and then write some “How To”
articles about it? If you have a web site that already uses that
hobby, or work experience, then it is a good way to add content
to your web site, and it’s also a good way to help you get those
inbound links you need to increase your rankings.

Using the Knowledge to Gain Link Popularity through Article
Writing.

Let’s say you have 20 years of experience with a company where
the only thing you did was to conduct interviews to hire new
employees. Let’s further say you were so good at this that it
was the only thing your company wanted you to do. Because your
results were so good, it’s the only thing you did do. Maybe your
prospects always worked out and were some of the hardest and
most competent workers your company ever hired. You could write
some articles on how to interview job candidates to get the best
employees, or maybe write articles telling job seekers what
companies are looking for in their potential employees. If you
have a web site for job seekers, or a web site for learning how
to interview employees, you could then use the articles for
additional web site content. It’s already a known and proven
fact that the search engine spiders can be conditioned to visit
your site more often through your patterns of adding content.
The more often a site updates, the more often the spiders come
to visit. The more often they visit, the better chances that
your web site will begin to jump in rankings because it is
viewed as a fresh content site that updates frequently and would
be more valuable to visitors.

Some might think there are just some topics so vague or
uninteresting that it wouldn’t be worth writing anything in that
topic area, but the professionals know there are readers for
almost any topic area, and no one topic is to be avoided because
of poor readership. It all comes down to your writing style,
ease of reading, and your credibility. If you can write gripping
content that pulls your readers in and informs them, then it
doesn’t matter what you write about. In the end, the reader will
be looking for you and not your article. This is not something
that happens over night. It takes a lot of writing and a lot of
time to hone your skills to that point. It takes writing daily
and forcing oneself to try different topics. It’s good to start
out with what you like, but to become a professional and have
flexibility, you have to write about other things too. Not only
will this experience help you become a more professional writer,
it will also help to develop your communication skills in the
written format. As you continue to use better forms of writing
and grammar, you will begin to write content pages for your site
that rank better with the search engines. It’s a win-win
situation all the way around.

Articles to Increase One-way Inbound Links and Web Site
Ranking.

Speaking of those rankings, that reminds me of those one-way
links I spoke about earlier. After you write your article, you
can submit it to other places online which will post it to their
web site, offer it to other web sites as free content, or both.
Most of these places will allow you to submit your own
information for an “Author’s Box” or “Author’s Bio” area which
they publish at the bottom of each article. These are things
like information about you, your web site, and LINKS you can add
back to your site. There you go, instant high quality in-bound
links without the need to add the other web site’s link to
yours, no begging, no paying extortion amounts of fees for an
ad, just good old fashioned content to promote your own
abilities and web site. It’s the easiest way to get a one-way
in-bound link to your site IF you can develop your writing
skills and your content viewed as valuable to another web site.
If you write garbage, your information isn’t credible and is
full of factual holes, or your writing puts people to sleep,
then chances are that your articles aren’t going to do anything
more than waste your time. That’s why it’s critically important
to get into the habit of writing often and learning the flow of
your chosen language.

You see, the more you write, the more you train your ear to
listen to the written words, and the more you learn what
“sounds” right and what doesn’t quite seem to make sense. As I
write an article, I am talking within my mind while I write.
Yes, maybe I am a bit strange, but it works for me. I add my
intonations and elevate my voice for emphasis, and I try to find
ways to convey that in my writing. I’m no “expert”, but this is
what works for me, and I have a decent amount of articles
published, which means I must be doing something right.
WebProWorld and WebProNews seem to like me, or at least my
writing style or the topics I cover. Maybe it’s just my
sincerity LOL. Hey, I do my best. I try to offer the facts and
ensure that I do my research before I write any article outside
my field of knowledge. Character helps to build a writer, and a
healthy dose of commitment to the reader doesn’t hurt either,
but you have to find ways to build credibility and trust.
Without those two things, nobody is going to read what you
write, and if they do, they aren’t going to be likely to click
on links back to your site. You have to get their attention and
compel them to want more of your writing. That’s what will make
your one-way inbound links even more valuable.

The Most MISSED Secret to Link Popularity through Writing
Articles.

OK, so now you have the knowledge to write articles and submit
them as a means to gain valuable one-way links to your web site,
what are you going to do with it? Are you going to sabotage your
own web site by failing to pay attention to the link you
formulate in the articles submitted? The more articles I read, I
tend to find a common error repeated by authors all over the
internet. Now granted, these are writers, not SEO specialists,
but this is just an example where it pays to round out your
knowledge in many areas of web site promotion, ranking, and
design. The BIGGEST mistake I see authors make when attempting
to gain inbound links is the keywords they FAIL to use within
those links. You see, so many writers worry about branding their
name. That works just fine for writers building portfolios for
selling their copy writing abilities where name recognition
becomes the search term a searcher looks for, but if you aren’t
a writer and are just using your knowledge to gain inbound
links, then you need to use your keywords in those links back to
your web site. It’s so simple that most times it’s overlooked.
Many will also use a company name as the link back to their web
site. Many of my articles have ended up that way because I
overlooked the obvious too. Nevertheless, by following this
method, it is a sure way to increase your company name, or your
name, but does NOTHING to increase the link popularity for the
keywords applying to your site.

Take for instance Sanders Consultation Group Plus. That’s my
company’s name. We provide web site design services, image and
graphical art services, business consultation services, SEO
services, and just about anything else to get your web site
promoted, up, and running. I tend to take a page-by-page view of
our site and link popularity. What I mean by that is I take
various areas, choose specific keywords, and search terms I want
our site to gain in rank popularity. I have recently done some
page optimizing for our web site design area; incidentally, web
site design has been the most searched term for web site design
services. It corresponds to one of the services we offer, and
it’s the most popular search-term people use when searching for
that type of service. Let’s say I write an article talking about
web site design. The next article I write on web site design
will include the company name, Sanders Consultation Group Plus,
but it will also include the term “web site design” linked to
the page we have recently optimized for our web site design
services. As I already said earlier, this is such a simple
concept that most people often overlook, and it can be a
detriment to your link popularity goals. And as we optimize each
area of our site, I will continue to write articles based on the
area keywords and phrases, and will then place links in my
Author’s Box to link back to those optimized pages.

It’s a reported fact that one-way in-bound links are worth more
than reciprocal links. However, for many web site designers and
webmasters, the ways to gain them has been somewhat elusive.
Many fear that imparting their knowledge will give competitors
an edge over the writer’s own business. What most fails to
consider is the number of people that start out as the “do it
yourselfer” and then realize there is more work than they
intended to do. When they find your articles, you become a
source for them to get their work done without their need to
invest large amounts of time on the project. This is where the
benefits of article writing will pay off, especially if you gain
credibility and trust through your readers. Even if a competitor
does notice one of your articles, sometimes they can be so
impressed and overwhelmed that they’ll write things about you,
include links to you, and you still come out on top. I’ve seen
it happen before. Someone reads something so profound that it
changes his or her life. They tend to tell others about the
change and how the change occurred.

Articles are a valuable way to get recognition, gain reputation
and credibility while increasing your link popularity. Done
wrongly, and it will do nothing but increase your reputation and
credibility. Done correctly, and it can raise your ranking
popularity and bring you added customers on top of the other
benefits. Take the time to learn how to write effectively. Write
daily and learn the flow of your chosen language. Write
truthfully and credibly. Make sure to give provable facts while
keeping the hype to a minimum. Use keywords in your Author Boxes
and find highly trafficked sites to submit to. Learn to write in
such a way that engages your readers’ minds and makes them want
to read more of your writing. If you can do all this, not only
will you become a trusted expert, but you will also gain
increased traffic to your web site and leverage your web site
income goals through increased link popularity and higher search
engine rankings. At the least, it will give you plenty of
content to update your web site and increase search engine
spidering.

Nobody is perfect and therefore no portfolio is perfect. They say that the market is always right, so there will always be something wrong with your portfolio. Or to put it more positive - there is always something to improve.

And therefore you need a watch list. A watch list is a list of investment instruments (like stocks) that you do not own (yet) but which are out-performing some others you do hold in portfolio. Should this be a reason to change (your portfolio) all the time? Swap from the ones you have to those on the watch list?

Trading too much will cost you an average return (on transaction costs), you have to earn additionally with out-performance.

The watch list will not tell you how to manage. You should already know that. In the same way that you know your investment preferences.

Yet the watch list will keep you awake.

A benchmark, like a general stock index is not the same as a watch list. It will also not keep you awake. When you experience that your portfolio is underperforming against the index, you will still not now what to do. You are not presented a set of alternatives.

Keeping up a watch list does provide you this set of alternatives.

The other interesting aspect about the list is that you will always find stocks that are against the trend. If the market is crowded with bears, you will always find a bull somewhere in the stock prairie.

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Senior citizens above the age of 65 years can sell their unwanted policies to other parties and get a lump sum settlement in cash. Such a Life Settlement is done when the person requires money for some urgent purpose, to invest in business or to simply fulfill some lifelong desire.

Life Settlement for seniors is usually done with brokers. These brokers help in scrutinizing the policies and then auctioning them to various interested parties. The party which offers the highest bid gets to buy the policy and becomes liable for paying all the premiums for the policy in future. They settle the policy by paying the senior citizen a lump sum amount in cash.

Selling the policy is a long but simple process if a broker is involved. First the policy has to be evaluated. For this, an application is filled out. Medical tests may or may not be necessary. Information of the policy release is filled in the application form. Specific information is then requested by the broker from the company on which the policy is written. Once this information is obtained and filled in the application form, its copies are sent to several interested buyers.

The buyers then place bids on the policies. The owner of the policy decides which offer is the most lucrative and sells the policy to them. The original owner’s liability for the policy ends here, and further payments are done by the buyer. During this entire process, the funds from the owner are collected in an escrow account, which is then accounted for and paid in lump sum to the owner.

Policies that can be sold for settlement can be owned as well as bought by individuals or companies. Their terms and tenures can also be flexible. However, there may be a change in the face value of the policy when it is bought by a new owner.

Insurance policies are actually financial assets and they can be cashed in just like any other asset. The settlement procedure helps to do just that. Generally, the payment received by the owner of the policy is much higher than the actual value of the policy at that moment.

Senior Settlements provides detailed information about senior settlements, senior life settlements, senior life settlement providers, licensed senior settlement company and more. Senior Settlements is the sister site of Cash For Annuities Info.

Creating a home business is never easy; however, marketing online using affiliate programs as a stream of income is one of the simplest as well as most economical ways to begin earning an income from home.

What is affiliate marketing? Simply put, it is when an online marketer promotes a company’s products and receives a percentage of all sales that result from this promotion. The online marketer may have a website, blog, and/or mailing list that he or she can promote various products through. Because the vast majority of affiliate programs are free to join, the costs associated with this type of online business are minimal. This is one of the reasons affiliate marketing has become so popular as an alternative to the more traditional type of home-based business.

Affiliate marketing has many other advantages for the work at home entrepreneur as well. Because there are so many companies who now have an online presence, there is a plethora of industries from which to choose. The secret to affiliate marketing success is to uncover niche markets whose products are in demand and then promote to that particular market segment those companies whose products fill that demand. The cost of doing business online is so small compared to a brick-and-mortar business, an entrepreneur can built a series of niche websites promoting a variety of affiliate programs and using various online marketing techniques can soon develop streams of income from their sites - all done on a very economical level.

Best of all, once the initial work is done, most of the websites then become an almost automatic stream of income. Content does need to be added as well as updated, but once a website is up and running, the work at home entrepreneur is then free to explore and develop additional niche markets. Each website then adds to his or her income stream on a regular basis.

There is a period of time before any income can be realized, but once profits from affiliate program marketing begin to flow, the secret to continued success from affiliate marketing is to increase the number of websites and related content so that the income is coming from several sources.

It takes time and effort to get an affiliate marketing business up and running, but the rewards are significant. Unlike many other internet business models that have come and gone, it is a way of earning an income online that has stood the test of time and continues to be profitable today.

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VoIP Phone System is the latest revolution in the field of phone
systems, where you can send and receive the voice calls through
a computer network, instead of using a traditional telephone for
the same purpose. VoIP Phone System is very simple to use. What
you require is your traditional phone, an adaptor to make your
traditional phone completely ready for using talkdigits VoIP
Phone Service, and a broadband Internet connection. Is this all.
Hang On! Hang On!.You do need another very important thing,
subscription to talkdigits to carry forward the use of VoIP
Phone System.

VoIP Phone System uses the secure, reliable, and fast mode to
transmit your data from one end to another. We use a very simple
methodology. For example, You dial your friend’s talkdigits
number. Your friend picks up the receiver and says “Hello”. The
conversation between two of you is started. What we do is, we
convert your voice into tiny packets of information and transmit
those tiny packets across our talkdigits VoIP phone network. You
can say a path to carry forward your voice. When these packets
reach to the other point, it is converted back into your
original voice. This is our technology and this complete
procedure is completed at the blink of your eye. You can rather
say at the speed of light. While transmitting, your data is in
the coded format so it is absolutely secure.

You can enjoy the benefits of VoIP Phone System, which is
completely changing your lifestyle, providing you a smooth and
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and utilize other benefits such as international calling, 3-way
calling, conferencing, faxing, audio blogging either free of
cost or on the cheapest possible rates.

Commercial Equity Line of Credit, abbreviated as CELOC, is best suited to meet the industry’s changing financial needs. It is mainly used by small businesses, especially start-ups. A Commercial Equity Line of Credit requires a zero balance for a specific time annually. CELOC provides easy access to money when the borrower needs it. Using checks provided, the money can be easily accessed.

A Commercial Equity Line of Credit allows the mortgager to borrow money on a regular basis to finance transactions and for business purposes. The amount borrowed depends on the company’s collateral and cash flow needs. In this method of borrowing, the borrower mortgages company assets, rather than personal assets, as collateral. Even though it is harder to obtain, it provides greater borrowing power.

With the help of a Commercial Equity Line of Credit, the borrower can regulate cash flow by borrowing only what is needed. It reduces interest expenses often incurred by over borrowing. The interest rate equals or exceeds the prime rate.

A Commercial Equity Line of Credit provides almost all the benefits that are available with a Home Equity Line of Credit. The line of credit can be used to improve cash flow or expanding business. Also, it is used for other expenses such as purchasing equipment and increasing inventory. A major advantage of CELOC is that the borrower has to pay the interest only on the amount accessed.

Also known as Operating loans, a Commercial Equity Line of Credit plays a vital role in the business field. By providing quick access to cash with the option to pay overtime, CELOC ensures flexibility to the borrower.

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Are you looking for places to buy shrimp online? They’re not so easy to find. That’s what we’re here for. We’ve done all the hard work for you and researched which online stores sell the best and reasonably priced shrimp. If you’re a seafood lover or buying for a friend or loved one, it’s never been easier to get shrimp on the internet than now. You also have a nice variety of sizes to choose from. Of course, merchants lean towards selling the larger shrimps, but you can usually find 31-40/lb count and as big as 16-20/lb.

Due to freshness concerns, most companies will ship your shrimp frozen in special containers to make sure you receive the highest quality shrimp possible. Something else to consider - the shrimp you’re buying may not be from the U.S. This poses no risks at all, but if you’re expecting Cape Cod or Pacific shrimp, you may not be getting it. Not all merchants will tell you where the shrimp comes from, but unless you’re extremely picky, just enjoy it!

Of course, we must talk about price. Now, because prices can fluctuate at different times of year, I won’t be specific. What I can tell you is having priced shrimp at the grocery store (and who knows how old it is!) and the shrimp I’ve found online, the prices are not only comparable, but in many cases much cheaper than in brick and mortar stores. Shipping is always a factor, but many merchants have free shipping specials or price levels. Visit our Meat & Seafood page (http://www.gourmet-food-gifts.com/meat-gift.htm), shop around and try and find the best deal. Just make sure you’ve eaten a big meal first - you’re likely to buy out the store otherwise!

About the Author

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From birth to young adulthood, the prostate grows from about the size of a pea to about the size of a walnut. Most men experience a second period of prostate growth in their mid- to late 40s. At this time, cells in the central portion of the gland - where the prostate surrounds the urethra - begin to reproduce more rapidly. As tissues in the area enlarge, they often compress the urethra and partially block urine flow. Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is the medical term for this condition. It should be noted that the prostate may also become enlarged due to bacterial infection, the term used for this condition is acute or chronic bacterial prostatitis. There is also another non-bacterial form of chronic prostatitis which is actually more common than its counterpart, the cause for it is unknown.

Prostate enlargement affects about half of men in their 60s and up to 90 percent of men in their 70s and 80s. The presence or absence of prostate gland enlargement is not related to the development of prostate cancer.

Conventional treatment depends on your signs and symptoms and may include medications, surgery or non-surgical therapies such as acupuncture, herbs, and nutritional supplements.

Signs & Symptoms
Prostate enlargement varies in severity from man to man, and doesn’t always pose a problem. Only about half the men with prostate enlargement experience signs and symptoms that become noticeable or bothersome enough for them to seek medical treatment. These signs and symptoms may include:

*Weak urine stream
*Difficulty starting urination
*Stopping and starting again while urinating
*Dribbling at the end of urination
*Frequent need to urinate
*Increased frequency of urination at night (nocturia)
*Urgent need to urinate
*Not being able to completely empty the bladder
*Blood in the urine (hematuria)
*Urinary tract infection
*Pain in the lower abdomen
*Discomfort during ejaculation
*Fever and chills (infection)

Traditional Chinese Medicine
Traditional Chinese Medicine generally sees the condition of prostate enlargement as an accumulation of Dampness and Heat in the lower portion of the torso (low Jiao), or as cold that has entered the Liver channel, quite often accompanied by a Kidney deficiency as an underlying root. This condition gives rise to all the troubling urinary symptoms listed above. Acupuncture, moxibustion, and laser acupuncture displays good results in helping restore normal urinary function (Luo YN et al. World Journal of Acupuncture-Moxibustion), and Chinese herbal therapy has been shown to eliminate the root causes of prostate enlargement. Together, Chinese herbal medicine and Acupuncture are an important choice in overcoming the battle with prostate enlargement. In one study, electro-acupuncture was also shown to help chronic prostatitis cases that were unresponsive to conventional therapies (Ikeuchi T, Iguchi H).

Treatments with acupuncture (traditional, electro, laser) and moxibustion (heat therapy) are usually once per week unless there is considerable pain 2-3 treatments per week for 1-3 weeks may be warranted. Chinese herbal therapy will be administered in the form of daily tea, pills, powders, or drops. Some nutritional supplements and western herbal therapy may also be recommended. Diet will also be reviewed from a traditional energetic point of view to help eliminate anything that may be aggravating the prostate condition.

Chronic non-bacterial prostatitis
The most recent scientific research claims that chronic non-bacterial prostatitis has unknown etiology (the cause is not known). This is an unfortunate situation considering it is more common that it’s infectious counterparts, acute and chronic bacterial prostatitis.

Symptoms include pain and discomfort in the pelvic region or CPPS (chronic pelvic pain syndrome), some low back pain, frequent urination, and an unfinished feeling after urination. There is usually no history of urinary tract infections (as in bacterial prostatitis), no redness, and patients do not obtain symptomatic relief with antibiotics.

There also seems to be more of a feeling of ‘cold’ (rather than ‘heat’ which would be associated with the infectious bacterial prostatitis). It should also be noted that emotional problems such as depression and erectile dysfunction more often than not accompany this chronic condition and should be properly diagnosed and treated.

Treatment Studies and Research
Some men say they find relief with NSAID’s (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs), although this is an avenue that cannot be undertaken forever as they suppress the immune system.

The Merck manual is quoted saying that hot sitz baths and prostate massage are two of the best ways to provide symptomatic relief.

A recent study showed the benefits of alternative therapies including phytotherapy (quercetin, bee pollen) and physical therapies such as acupuncture (Shoskes and Manickam, dept. or Urology Cleveland Clinic Florida). The relief from acupuncture displayed that there is a neuromuscular component to chronic prostatitis. This is further proven in another study done by Chen and Nickel at the King Street Medical Arts Centre in Mississauga Ontario Canada where acupuncture successfully ameliorated symptoms in men with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome.

Another study performed by Chen, Gao, Liu, and Shen at Zhejiang College Hangzhou showed promise with the use of laser acupuncture.

Other herbal supplementation has received scientific recognition as of late; pygeum for urinary symptoms, saw palmetto and quercetin for pain, and beta-sitosterol to aid with urinary flow.

Moxibustion, a form of heat therapy used with acupuncture has also shown improvement in patients that participated in a study at Fushun Municipal Hospital, and another showed significant improvement at Nanjing Medical University when a combination of antibiotics and acupuncture were used in the treatment of CPPS and chronic prostatitis.

Years of empirical evidence also gives hope to those that seek out the aid of a qualified Chinese herbal medicine practitioner.

Spence Pentland of Vancouver BC Canada received his five year Doctor of TCM education from the International College of Traditional Chinese Medicine Vancouver. To complete his studies he spent 500 hours at Anhui Hospital of TCM Hefei City, in the Peoples Republic of China. He is a licensed and registered member of the Canadian Traditional Chinese Medicine Association, is the President of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Association of British Columbia (TCMABC http://www.tcmabc.org/), and practices at Acubalance Wellness Centre (http://www.acubalance.ca/)where he treats only Men’s reproductive health (http://mens.health-info.org/)and Women’s fertility issues.