The more I study the life of Elvis Presley for my website research, the more I learn about what an amazing and generous man he was. This article is just one example of his charitable Christmas spirit.

It was Christmas time, and in the local paper there was a short article about an old woman in North Memphis, it was near the area where Elvis lived while he was growing up.

The man and woman were old, black and very poor. They lived in a two- room house with only a tattered curtain dividing the rooms, in the poorest part of Memphis. The old woman had been confined to a wheelchair all her life. She had no legs and her old wheelchair had become worse from age, she wasn't able to use it anymore and left her unable to move around her home.

The story was written by a charitable woman who knew of the old lady's circumstances and decided to do what she could, and try to raise enough money to buy the old lady a new wheelchair. When Elvis read the article he turned to Marty Lacker and said, "Moon, take care of it for me. Get her a new chair."

Marty made a call to the phone number which was with the article, and asked the woman who answered the call, if she was still looking for a wheelchair for the crippled woman?

She said, "We are taking donations and will very much appreciate anything you can do." Marty then asked how much had already been raised; so far the donations received totaled a little over eighty dollars. Marty explained to the lady, he is acting on behalf of someone who would like to remain anonymous but would like to buy the old woman a new wheelchair.

The lady on the phone said, "Oh, you want to donate some money." Marty replied, "No, we want to buy a new chair for her. You take the money that has been raised and give to her. We'll get the wheelchair. "The lady seemed to be unsure about the caller, until Marty asked for the old woman's address and reassuring her that they would get the old woman her chair, she then seemed satisfied this call was genuine.

She said to Marty, "You are very kind," then she offered to pick up the wheelchair and send the bill on to them, he said, no, ma'am. "We will pick the chair up and personally deliver it, there is somebody who wants to do this for the old lady." "God will surely bless you and your friend." She replied.

After getting the elderly woman's address Marty made another call to a hospital supply company in Memphis, where Marty and one of the other guys found a really nice electric, automatic wheelchair and bought it, put it in the trunk of the car and went back to Graceland to show Elvis the chair before they delivered it to the old woman.

When they got to Graceland, Elvis and Priscilla were dressed to go out. Marty asked Elvis if he wanted to see the wheelchair before taking to the woman, Elvis answered "Priscilla and I are both going with you."

Elvis, Priscilla and Marty got into one car and two of the guys followed in a second car, using the second car was normal procedure for security, or in case anything happened to the car Elvis was traveling in. They drove to one of the poorest neighborhoods in Memphis. It was the pits, and they all wondered how people were living like that and yet, most of the guys had begun their lives in little better conditions.

Marty went to the door making sure they were at the right address; an old man let him in. It was a shock to see what these people lived in, he noticed the newspapers, which were there to try and stop the wind from coming in the windows, there was an old wood stove in the middle of the floor.

It was the poorest place Marty had ever seen, and the shocking fact was this place was in the city. It was a run down shack, not a house.

Marty explained to the old man three or four times why he was in the neighborhood, even then it's not certain the old man understood. Then Marty saw the old woman sitting on a wooden chair in the other room, he then told the man he would be right back.

While outside, he told Elvis the old lady was in the house and got the other guys to put the wheelchair together. Elvis carried the chair into the house, with Priscilla, Marty and the others following.

Tears welled in everyone's eyes at the sight of these dear old people during such poverty. Elvis went to the lady and said, "Hello, I came to give you this chair as a gift for Christmas".

The dear old woman didn't understand why this white man was in her home to giving her a new wheelchair. She kept looking at the chair and Elvis while he explained and showed her how it should be operated.

Suddenly she seemed to understand this wheelchair is truly a gift to her, then she tried her hardest to get off the wooden chair to her new chair wheelchair, but she struggled and was unable to do so. Elvis then gently picked her up and carefully placed her in her new chair.

As her tears began flowing from her old eyes she cried, "Praise God! God bless you!" The moment was filled with genuine emotions, with Elvis on one side and Priscilla on the other, sharing this "happy sadness" moment with the old lady.

Even the tough members of the Memphis Mafia couldn't control the powerful emotions floating in the room; each of the guys came forward and put their arms around the old lady and clasped the old man's weak hand.

The general feeling that surfaced from this special visit was the love felt for the elderly couple, Priscilla and all that were present, but most of all they truly loved Elvis and the sincerity with which he gave his true gift, himself.

Before leaving the couple, Elvis turned to Marty and said, "Look at the way they're living," each person involved in the experience felt thankful for what they had. Elvis then asked Marty to give him a couple of hundred dollars; Elvis then placed two one-hundred-dollar notes in the old woman's hand wishing her a Merry Christmas.

Elvis gently kissed her, then turned and walked out...

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This beautiful large size poster will soon become the center of your Elvis collection. Why? Because Elvis became the King through his love for his Mother. Unlike the advertising posters, this poster is a rare and true view of the reality of the King himself.

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It's that time of year again; sixty five men's college basketball teams in four regions around the country begin playing on March 20th. The women's teams start their playoffs on March 23rd. By April 5th it's down to the final four with the championship game played on April 7th.

Is this going to be the year that sports fans watch the games in HDTV? Andrew Eisner, director of content at Retrevo says, "There's still plenty of time to use Retrevo to help select the best value in HDTV , find an HD provider, install a set, and sit back and enjoy the games."

Who's Broadcasting in High Definition?
Starting this year CBS will broadcast all games in the men's tournament in High Definition. If a TV set can receive CBS HDTV over the air or via cable it should be in good shape. For the women's games, fans will have to get ESPN which will be broadcasting many games in HD.

DirecTV offers a 'Mega March Madness' package for $69 but only broadcasts 'select games,' in HD. DirecTV is also not allowed to broadcast games available on local stations and uses the subscriber's zip code to black out those games.

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Basketball can be very demanding for HDTV. A fast moving foreground (the action on the court) against a complex background (people in the stands) make it is challenging to compress, decompress, and difficult to display without artifacts and blurring.

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For a little more money, Retrevo recommends taking a look at the brand new 40 inch Samsung LN-T4081 which is the first LED backlit LCD TV to hit the market and costs around $2500. The Sony BRAVIA KDL-52XBR5 52 inch LCD offers 120 Hz refresh and 1080p and goes for around $3200. The Toshiba 46lX177 offers 120 Hz refresh in a 46 inch LCD TV that gets mostly good reviews and is priced at $2400.

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The 50 inch Panasonic TH-50PZ700U is a highly rated Plasma TV that will cost you around $2500. This is the Plasma TV that Consumer Reports said was the 'best flat screen ever tested.'

Pioneer dominates the Plasma TV market. The Pioneer PDP-5010 is part of their new KURO line that features 1080p resolution, 4 HDMI ports, and anti-glare treatment. The Pioneer PDP-5010 will cost you around $3200 but received high marks from reviewers for great black levels and colors reproduction.

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Out of the top 10 values on Retrevo.com in LCD TVs, three are Syntax Olevia. They are all 720p/1080i but then again all the games will be in either 1080i from CBS or 720p from ESPN. In fact, pretty much the only reason to get 1080p aside from future-proofing your purchase is to play 1080p Blu-ray DVDs or 1080p games on consoles like the Sony PlayStation 3. Otherwise all programming is currently in 1080i or 720p.

The Syntax Olevia 242T is a 42 inch LCD TV that gets very high ratings and good reviews and can be purchased for a little over $700. Syntax has a brand new 1080p version called the 242T FHD that features fast pixel response and motion processing and sells for under $1000. Syntax Olevia recently started selling a 52 inch LCD TV, the 252TFHD with features to handle fast action sports. It's selling for under $2000.

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Easter is on its way and it is time now to start preparing ourselves. Easter is celebrated a bit differently by people around the world, and in fact there are many who do not recognize Easter. But for those of us in America Easter is a time for celebration. Many of us look forward to a large meal on that special Sunday while others like to approach Easter in a faith-based recognition of the holiday's true meaning. But needless to say everyone starts to think about candy around this time of year. Its true, candy is a staple around American's homes come Easter time.

Easter comes in right behind Halloween for candy purchasing. We consume around 8 billion pounds of candy a year in our country, and Easter time generates a significant amount candy purchasing.

Every year the markets swell with beautiful pastel and chocolate candies displayed to tempt the heartiest of saints. Store shelves are filled with colorful Jelly Beans, chocolate bunnies, chicks, and eggs, as well as those adorable little Marshmallow Peeps. By the way, reports say that in "1957 it took 27 hours to make a Peep and today it only takes 6 minutes." M&M's now come in lovely spring pastels rather than the usual reds, greens, and browns to help us celebrate Easter.

The candy celebrations at Easter feel like they have been around forever, but it appears that is not the case. There are some treats that popped up in Europe that could have lead to our sweet tooth around Easter each year. An English tradition of hot cross buns for breakfast on Good Friday could very well be the original Easter treat. Many Europeans also enjoyed baked pretzels as a special treat around Easter. In the 1800s chocolate became more readily available in Europe and boom, there you have it, the start of Easter candy madness. Chocolate could be made in all kinds of shapes and sizes, most importantly an egg shape, and thus became hugely popular, especially to those with a sweet tooth.

And so, we celebrate the Easter season with all its symbolism, both Christian and pagan. We remember our family traditions and gatherings. For many it is a time of religious reflection and for some it is more secular in character. We celebrate with Easter bunnies and chocolate eggs. We give and get baskets full of grass and sweets. We watch our little ones rise on Easter morning with awe on their faces and delight in their eyes, and we know once more a sugar induced wild spree is on the horizon. Oh, well, sit down and enjoy one more Peep before you start the day. It's Easter!

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If you're a hopeless romantic, nothing can bring a smile to your face quite like cute love quotes can. The problem is, finding cute love quotes that aren't cheesy can be a bit harder than one might imagine. That being said, they are indeed out there. Here are 20 cute love quotes that are anything but cheese.

1. "Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means." ~ Leo Buscaglia

2. "Love builds bridges where there are none." ~ R. H. Delaney

3. "Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great." ~ Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

4. "Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell." ~ Joan Crawford

5. "When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out." ~ Elizabeth Bowen

6. "Love is too strong a word to say it too early, but it has too beautiful a meaning to say it too late." ~ Kurt Cornish

7. "What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork." ~ Pearl Bailey

8. "Love is the only gold." ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson

9. "LOVE: The irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." ~ Mark Twain

10. "Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it." ~ Josh Billings

11. "I don't want to live-- I want to love first, And live incidentally." ~ Zelda Fitzgerald,

12. "Love is like an hourglass with the heart filling up as the brain empties." ~ Jules Renard

13. "Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle." ~ Crystal Middlemas

14. "Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." ~ Franklin P. Jones

15. "Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise." ~ Samuel Johnson

16. "It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it." ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

17. "If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools." ~ Katherine Mansfield

18. "Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence." ~ H. L. Mencken

19. "Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love" ~Albert Einstein

20. "Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is." ~ Diane Ackerman

Who says cute love quotes have to be cheesy? These twenty love quotes prove otherwise. The next time you find an anti-romantic in need of romantic inspiration, share these cute love quotes with them and prove that love is worth pursuing!

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If you ask most kids today what “Easter Eggs” are, they’ll probably tell you that they’re undocumented features found in computer games and DVD’s. Of course, when it comes to the history of Easter gifts, it refers to brightly-colored eggs. The egg tradition associated with Easter is an old one, predating the arrival of Christianity in Europe. It has long been a fertility symbol in many cultures.

One the other hand, Easter – which in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches is considered the main observance of the liturgical year – has a close connection with the Jewish holiday of Passover, or Pesach, which celebrates the exodus of the Hebrews from Egypt. During the traditional seder meal, hard-boiled eggs flavored with salt water are eaten. (In fact, the “Last Supper” was actually a Passover celebration.)

Colored eggs are also part of traditional Easter gift baskets, and many of these are works of art. In Russia, Ukraine, the Czech Republic and other Slavic-speaking countries, Easter eggs are painstakingly painted with highly elaborate geometrical patterns in vivid, contrasting colors such as brilliant whites, reds and yellows against black dark maroon and deep blue. This decoration method is known as pisanka.

In Iran, colored eggs have been part of the Persian New Year celebration of Nowruz for over 3,000 years. Nowruz coincides with the spring equinox.

It nearly all of these cultures, the egg represents dormant life waiting to be born – a fitting metaphor for Spring, and for Christians, symbolic of the resurrection of the founder of their faith, Yeshua ben-Yosef, or Iesus Christos as he was named in Greek.

In the Roman Catholic Church, Easter also marks the end of a forty-six day period of fasting and privation known as Lent. During Lent, it was traditional to give up eating animal flesh and/or dairy products as well as eggs. Of course, one’s chickens didn’t stop laying during that time, so it was common to boil them in order to preserve them and avoid wasting food. Hard boiled eggs are an ingredient in many traditional Easter dishes, such as hornazo, a savory pork-and-egg pie eaten in Spain.

Today, eggs are often as not made from chocolate and are a welcome part of children’s Easter baskets. If you are in Scotland during the Easter season, you might even be able to get your chocolate Easter egg deep fried from a fish-and-chips establishment!

Other Easter egg traditions include numerous games, such as the Easter egg roll, a speed contest in which hard-boiled eggs are pushed along with a spoon; rolling eggs down steep slopes; and of course, the ever-popular Easter egg hunt. It’s possible nowadays to get “beeping” Easter eggs that allow children with visual impairments to join in the fun, as well.

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The symptoms of SAD that you will experience if you are in fact, affected by the disease, will occur annually every winter—as soon as the days grow shorter and the dark hours increase. Depending on where you live, symptoms will begin approximately between late September and last up to the end of April.

The following are some of the telltale symptoms of SAD:

1)Trouble Sleeping:

Very often the patient or affected individual will suffer from a persistent desire to sleep and will have difficulty staying awake at all. However, despite taking naps, if the patient or affected individual does take naps, he or she will also suffer from extreme fatigue. This is because often the patient or affected individual will experience very interrupted sleep, with many moments of wakefulness breaking up his or her sleep cycle. Often this symptom will be accompanied waking very early in the mornings.

2) Lethargic state of mind:

There is in many cases, in addition to the fatigue, a sufferer may also exhibit signs of having trouble carrying out his or her obligations. The daily routine of the individual will be disrupted by a lack of desire to do anything, he or she may feel a bit guilty because of their unexplained unproductive nature, but this is typically ignored as a result of the illness.

SAD, if the case is extreme enough, has cost people their jobs and affected their families as well.

·3) Depression:

The patient or affected individual will experience depression. This is the very most common symptom of SAD. Especially feelings of guilt, low self-image, hopelessness and misery, or the depression can take a different route and numb him or her completely, the apathetic state of depression can be very destructive as well.

·4) Overeating:

Overeating is a very common symptom of SAD. The affected individual experiences cravings, primarily for foods containing sugars and other forms of carbohydrates, this usually results in weight gain and can therefore perpetuate the symptom of depression.

·5) Anxiety:

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The sufferer often tends to avoid social contact with almost anyone, they also experience irritability and frustration concerning social situations.

b)General anxiety:

Inability to cope with stress, (often stress relating to problems perpetuated by apathy and inability to perform everyday tasks), by loss of libido, and decreased physical contact with anyone, even his or her significant other.

On the flip side, the sufferer will often experience short periods of what is called hypomania, which means over-activity during the spring and summer. However, this kind of anxiety (if you would call it that) vanishes in the spring along with all of the other symptoms of SAD.

In the category of sub-syndromal SAD, symptoms such as tiredness, lethargy, sleep and eating problems occur, but depression and anxiety are absent or mild. So just because you do not demonstrate all of these symptoms, you could still be a victim of Seasonal Affective Disorder.

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• Elevate Mood Levels
• Ease Seasonal Affective Disorder Symptoms
• Enjoy Sunlight Indoors
• Increase Energy
• 10,000 lux
• Fully EMF Shielded
• The WinterBright has 85 CRIs (Color Rendering Index)
• The WinerBright is UV shielded even though it has no UV bulb
• Proudly Made in the USA

Product Specifications:
A S.A.D. lamp is much different than a UV Sunlamp. A S.A.D. lamp is a type of Light Therapy Box which is a full spectrum Bright Light that emits NO Ultraviolet light so you cannot tan from a S.A.D. lamp. These lamps are used for treating S.A.D. (Seasonal Affective Disorder - Seasonal Depression & the Winter Blues).

The change in light exposure is the key to treating S.A.D. As your light exposure decreases in the fall and winter, the general consensus of the experts is that these changes in light exposure affect the body's natural rhythm and chemistry and induce Seasonal Affective Disorder. When S.A.D. lamp - Light Therapy Box is introduced, the majority of us will experience relief from S.A.D.

The WinterBright S.A.D. Lamp is perhaps the only fully EMF shielded light box on the market today. Behind it's highly dispersive virtually glare free dimpled lens is a fully grounded wire screen to shield the user from any stray electric fields developed by the light bulbs and internal electronics.

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Some people say that the tradition of giving Easter eggs began with the Chinese, who gave eggs as gifts in the celebration of spring. Regardless of its origin, there is no question that most people prefer chocolate Easter eggs today.

Here are a few of my favorite chocolate quotes that you can use in Easter egreetings, postal greetings and invitations, etc. -- or just to enjoy:

1. "Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces " ~ Judith Viorst

2. "Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate." ~ John Milton

3."Nine out of ten people like chocolate. The tenth person always lies." ~ John Q. Tullius

4. "Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate." ~ Charles M. Schultz

5."Forget love... I'd rather fall in chocolate!" ~ Author Unknown

6 "Once in a while I say, 'Go for it' and I eat chocolate." ~ Claudia Schiffer

7. "Chocolate makes everyone smile - even bankers." ~ Chocolatier Benneville Strohecker

8."Caramels are only a fad. Chocolate is a permanent thing." ~ Milton Snavely Hershey

9. "There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who love chocolate, and communists." ~ Leslie Moak Murray in ‘Murray's Law' comic strip

10. "Any sane person loves chocolate." ~ Writer Bob Greene

11. "Other things are just food. But chocolate's chocolate." ~ Writer Patrick Skene Catling

12. "Stress wouldn't be so hard to take if it were chocolate covered." ~ Anonymous

13. "Chocolate is cheaper than therapy and you don't need an appointment." ~ Anonymous

14. "Chocolate: Here today...Gone today!" ~ Anonymous

15. "Chocolate is nature's way of making up for Mondays." ~ Anonymous

16. "There's more to life than chocolate, but not right now." ~ Anonymous

17. "If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?" ~ Marquise de Sévigné (French writer and lady of fashion)

18. "Chocolate: the poor mans' champagne." ~ Daniel Worona

19. "The greatest tragedies were written by the Greek Sophocles and English Shakespeare. Neither knew chocolate." ~ Sandra Boynton

20. "Life without chocolate is life lacking something important." ~ Writers Marcia Colman Morton & Frederic Morton

21. "Nothing is more romantic than chocolate." ~ Ted, Queer Eye For The Straight Guy

22. "My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I've finished two bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already." ~ Dave Barry

I hope these chocolate quotes made you smile. Happy Easter!

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For 'Top 10' Lists of our very favorite chocolate quotes, check out Famous-Quotes-And-Quotations.com, a website that specializes in 'Top 10' lists of quotations in dozens of categories.
 

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