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Publisher: Mary Wilkey
Volume 10 — Issue 19 — October 26, 2010
Published every other Tuesday
Greetings, everyone ... we're back in the groove! It has been a long haul since the rash of computer woes that began right after the last issue went out waaaaaaaay back on August 24! If you did not receive the explanation I sent out last week, four issues arose in rapid succession, beginning with the loss of my long-time host (which is now defunct), followed by my long-time list server's going berserk. (That issue was resolved only about a week ago.)
Next thing to go was my hard drive ... it seems that the boot sector became corrupted; how or why, no one seems to know. But the most devastating (and costly) issue was that my desktop's motherboard, modem, keyboard, and even my mouse were toasted with a monumental electrical surge about three weeks ago. Had to work with my laptop in conjunction with a docking bay until Saturday when I finally was able to get a new desktop.
I don't know if you've ever experienced anything like this, but trying to restore all the programs, utilities, files, etc. is not my idea of a picnic ... I prefer the kind with ants! :-)
Anyway, it's good to be getting things back up to snuff and to be able to communicate with you all at long last!
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If my people, which are called by my name,
shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek
my face, and turn from their wicked ways,
then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive
their sin, and will heal their land.
—2 Chronicles 7:14
Contents:
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Weekly Contest
A Healthier You
Feature Article
Test Your Bible Knowledge
Today's Chuckle
Today's English Lesson
Guest Article
Inspiration
Etcetera
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—Ronald Reagan
A Healthier You
A few notes about getting into your car in a parking lot or parking garage:
1 — Be aware: look around you, look into your car, at the passenger side floor, and in the back seat.
2 — If you are parked next to a big van, enter your car from the passenger door. Most serial killers attack their victims by pulling them into their vans while the women are attempting to get into their cars!
3 — Look at the cars parked on both sides of your vehicle. If a male is sitting alone in the seat nearest your car, you may want to walk back into the mall, or work, and get a guard/policeman to walk you back out. IT IS ALWAYS BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY. (And better paranoid than dead.)
4 — ALWAYS take the elevator instead of the stairs. Stairwells are horrible places to be alone and the perfect crime spot. This is especially true at NIGHT!
5 — If the predator has a gun and you are not under his control, ALWAYS RUN! The predator will only hit you (a running target) four in 100 times; and even then, it most likely WILL NOT be a vital organ. RUN, preferably in a zig-zag pattern!
6 — As women, we are always trying to be sympathetic: STOP it! Doing so may get you raped or killed. Ted Bundy, the serial killer, was a good-looking, well educated man, who ALWAYS played on the sympathies of unsuspecting women. He walked with a cane or a limp, and often asked "for help" into his vehicle or with his vehicle, which is when he abducted his victim.
7 — Another safety point: Someone just told me that her friend heard a crying baby on her porch the night before last, and she called the police, because it was late and she thought it was weird. The police told her "Whatever you do, DO NOT open the door."
The lady then said that it sounded like the baby had crawled near a window, and she was worried that it would crawl to the street and get run over. The policeman said, "We already have a unit on the way; whatever you do, DO NOT open the door."
He told her that they think a serial killer has a baby's cry recorded and uses it to coax women out of their homes thinking that someone dropped off a baby. He said they have not verified it, but have had several calls by women saying that they hear baby's cries outside their doors when they're home alone at night.
(The Crying Baby Theory was mentioned on America's Most Wanted when they profiled the serial killer in Louisiana.)
8 — Water scam! If you wake up in the middle of the night to hear all your taps outside running or what you think is a burst pipe, DO NOT GO OUT TO INVESTIGATE! These people turn on all your outside taps wide open, so that you will go out to investigate and then attack.
Men, please pass this on to your mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, et al.
"I hope we shall crush in its track the aristocracy of our monied corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
—Thomas Jefferson.
Feature Article
People Don't Buy What They Need—they Buy What They Want!
Need proof?
I can tell you this is so firsthand. For many years, I've been involved in the preventive health industry, and let me tell you, it is a HARD sell. Not because people don't NEED what we offer, but because they'd rather spend their money on what they WANT, rather than on what they actually need.
Oh, they'll spend money for the basics, like housing and food and clothing, but once these are taken care of, they choose—more often than not—to opt for less serious things instead of taking care of their health.
Then one day, "all of a sudden," something goes wrong. The health that they had taken for granted begins to buckle. Maybe it starts as a little discomfort here, a pain there. Sooner or later it escalates into something full blown, sometimes a major irritation and inconvenience, other times a life-threatening situation.
So then it's time for the quick fix. Instead of having partaken of God's natural "medicine" chest to maintain their good health, they've chosen to poison themselves systematically into poor health with their own lips and forks by ingesting chemical solutions (soda pop, among other things) and man-processed "foods." And no matter how many times a well meaning person tries to educate them about how they SHOULD be eating, they make the conscious choice to ignore it all.
And when their good health has departed, they cry, "Why me?" Well, for heaven's sake, why NOT them??? No one forced the junk down their gullets. And right away they run to the medical doctors for a magic bullet. (After all, their "health" insurance will pay for most of it anyway, right?) And what they get is MORE poison (prescription drugs manufactured and pushed by the pharmaceutical companies with loads of free samples handed out to doctors to distribute at their discretion—do I smell a guinea pig somewhere here?).
[To digress for a moment, not many people realize that the root word, "pharm," actually means sorcery and witchcraft! And if you are a Bible believer of any depth, you know that this is in direct opposition to the Word of God . . . the Bible plainly states that there is no healing medicine—He is the healer!]
And if the poison doesn't provide relief from their symptoms, the miserably ignorant willingly submit themselves to cutting and/or burning (surgery and/or radiation). (I've actually heard a doctor say, "We heal with steel!) What has happened to common sense here? I mean, if your car was "sick," would you take it to a mechanic and allow him to put strange, untried additives and lubricants into its carbuerator or transmission and, when that didn't solve the problem (or did exacerbate it), allow him to remove one of your vehicles's vital components? Ludicrous, you say?
Well, what on earth is more valuable, your body vehicle or your road vehicle?
It's high time people started taking responsibility for their own health instead of looking to medical doctors, whose sole training encompasses cutting (surgery), burning (radiation), and poisoning (prescription drugs and/or chemotherapy). Realize that, however well meaning many of them are, their training is woefully limited to addressing symptoms, not eliminating causes. Nurses receive more training in nutrition than they do, and this most of them will readily admit.
The good news, however, is that many medicos are beginning to wake up to the fact that symptom treatment just doesn't get it. And they also are beginning to realize that, unless they jump on the alternative therapy bandwagon, they will be left in the dust.
And the public gradually also is finally beginning to become aware of these things. (One of the top ten search items on the 'net is "health.")
Treating the human body with chemicals and radiation should be made illegal. Ever hear of anyone suffering from chemical or radiation deficiency?
Surgery should NEVER be exploratory or elective or routine. Surgery is an invasive procedure, and the only time anyone should use a surgeon is to repair something that has been broken, cut, severed, or ruptured that needs immediate attention—in other words, only in case of emergency. It should never be used as a "quick fix," just because the patient is impatient.
Conditions which are not life threatening should be addressed with natural means. And know this: Just because a medical doctor is unaware of an effective alternative treatment does not mean that there is none!
Now how does all of the above relate to marketing, you ask? I've just used a dramatic example to demonstrate that people spend their money according to the dictates of their HEARTS, not their HEADS!
This illustrates perfectly why your ads ALWAYS should tell about the BENEFITS the reader will derive from purchasing your product or service, NOT how wonderful your products or services are. This is especially true in classified ads, where you do not have space enough to sell, only to attract and motivate readers to WANT what you have to offer.
Question — What must Christians do to earn the bread they eat?
a — Pray without ceasing
b — Work diligently
c — Pay tithes
d — Give thanks always
Scroll down for the answer.
"One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't."
—George Bernard Shaw
Today's Chuckle
Wouldn't Take No for an Answer
A travel agent looked up from his desk to see an older lady and an older gentleman peering in the shop window at the posters showing the glamorous destinations around the world. The agent had had a good week and the dejected couple looking in the window gave him a rare feeling of generosity.
He called them into his shop, "I know that on your pension you could never hope to have a holiday, so I am sending you off to a fabulous resort at my expense, and I won't take no for an answer."
He took them inside and asked his secretary to write two flight tickets and book a room in a five star hotel. They, as can be expected, gladly accepted, and were off!
About a month later the little lady came in to his shop.
"And how did you like your holiday?" he asked eagerly.
"The flight was exciting and the room was lovely," she said. "I've come to thank you. But one thing puzzled me. Who was that old guy I had to share the room with?"
"What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself."
—Abraham Lincoln
Today's English Lesson
Seeing the same elementary mistakes over and over again has prompted this publisher to write an English lesson each issue. Look for some of these lessons to be repeated, because the mistakes are!
Okay, here's one for you: gait vs. gate. Since the writer's subject was horses, I suppose this could have been temporary absentmindedness.
"Right out of the 'gait' should be, of course, 'gate.'" And I shudder to think that there might actually be someone out there in cyberspace who does not know that "gait" refers to the pace at which a horse moves!
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse."
—Benjamin Franklin
Guest Article
Networking—
The Gateway to Internet Credibility and Revenues
by Stephen Wright
Becoming a home-based business and Internet marketing guru
is not something that happens overnight. It takes a
significant dedication to carefully developing your
knowledge, skills and abilities.
During the course of this
evolutionary process, you must develop the
relationships and respect of your peers and potential
clients/customers. This can be accomplished through an
ongoing process of networking.
Networking in this manner includes spending time in various
home business forums, relevant groups, boards, loops, and
discussion exchanges. Appropriately, each of these has a
primary purpose or relevance focus designed to facilitate
and enhance the field of Internet Marketing through ideas,
promotions, and topic exchange.
You then must personally participate in a significant
manner in these sorts of activities and venues. These are
where you have the opportunity to market yourself, your
ideas, suggestions, input, advice, and counsel in support of,
and in a contributory manner to, the field of running a home
based business and Internet marketing, as well as to the
betterment of others—your peers, all of which is
critical to building a proper foundation of service to
others.
There are countless numbers of groups for any given topic
or area of interest. And the best part is, many are
free to join. The array includes such popular Internet topics
as Internet marketing ideas and tips, eBay
buying/selling, work-at-home, employment, web hosting, etc.
As you start the effort of building your "online resume," a
word of caution: time management can be critical. It is
not uncommon to hear or read about the toll taken on
unsuspecting Web marketers, who get so totally and utterly
immersed in the Internet that it quickly
has a detrimental impact on their personal and physical
well being.
Being on the Internet can be both time
consuming and for many, addictive in nature. This is
compounded by the significant number of distractions
continually vying for our attention while interacting on
the Internet. You must find ways to carefully allocate your
time and resources, allowing ample time both on and off the
Web!
Diversification is a key element in building yourself and
your abilities. This means continuously taking information
and feedback you gain from the networking activities, to be
applied back with other activities.
For example, gaining
information and input from a product development forum
allows you to give information as a more informed user on a
user forum, exchanging information on similar issues. This
allows you to use your skills, knowledge, and abilities
and to continually refine your knowledge base.
This also helps
build credibility among various groups and users. It is a
known fact that people do business with those they know
or trust. Being successful with a residence based business is
no different.
Using this approach allows others to see you in a
supporting role, not necessarily as one "interested only in
profits and making a buck"! Networking in this fashion
allows you to establish yourself as a knowledgeable fellow
entrepreneur, not as someone only out for self promotion or
worse yet, a "spammer"!
The device of subtle self promotion
is a graciously accepted practice. Shameless and abrupt
advertising will get you nowhere. Once you have this
level of respect and credibility, the revenues and profits
won't be far behind. If you want real success, get started
networking your way there today.
"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
—Winston Churchill
Answer to Bible trivia:
b — Work diligently
See 2 Thessalonians 3:10
Inspiration
Optimism
In order to better understand people's views of the world, a researcher once placed two children, one a pessimist and the other an optimist, alone in separate rooms.
The pessimist was placed in a colorful room full of all kinds of imaginative toys. The optimist was put in a room filled with horse manure.
The first child played in the room for a little while, but soon came to the door asking to leave because the toys were boring and because they broke too easily.
Likewise, the young optimist soon came to the door ... but rather than asking to leave, she asked for a shovel. Of course, the researcher asked the child why she wanted a shovel.
She replied, "With all this manure around, I know that there must be a pony in here somewhere."
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