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—Marcus Aurelius
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Sponsor Ad
Ad Contest
Subscriber in the Spotlight
Feature Article
Today’s Chuckle
Today's English lesson
Internet Tips & Hints
Guest Article
Inspiration
Etcetera
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After I had been on the 800 mg Tagamet for more than a year, I went to my regular doctor for my annual checkup, and his nurse is told me the 800 mg should have been a temporary thing. The doctor changed my prescription to 400 mg and said to take one to two per day.
It was around this time that I started using the MegaZyme+ from Healing America. After taking the MegaZyme for a week or so, I noticed that I wasn't getting the heartburn after every meal—as I had been, even when taking the Tagamet—so I decided to stop taking the Tagamet and see what happened.
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Our greatest weariness comes from work not done.
—Eric Hoffer
SUBSCRIBER IN THE SPOTLIGHT
The first subscriber to submit his or her personal profile sharing with the rest of us all about who he/she is, background, family, location, interests, hobbies, goals, dreams, etc., will be spotlighted right here next issue—and yes, an email and/or URL may be included!
This week's Subscriber in the Spotlight is Tony Miranda.
My name is Tony Miranda. I live in Leonardtown, Maryland with
my wife of 25 years, Betty, and two daughters, Lindsey (20)
and Michelle (12).
I graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1975 while I was on active duty in the Navy. I then spent five years in the Navy Nuclear Power Program. The last three years were spent in Hawaii.
I left the Navy in 1980 and went to work with Baltimore Gas
and Electric at the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, where
I have been working as a Project Manager for the last 22 years.
I have been marketing on the internet for almost five years,
mostly promoting nutritional network marketing products.
In my spare time I enjoy horse racing and reading. My
marketing goals are to help pay for Lindsey's and Michelle's
college education and to be able to retire in the next few
years.
I enjoy working with people I meet over the internet to
help them learn how to market their programs, regardless
of what those may be.
Well, folks, I don't know where it's all going to end, but I recently tried to place a little old classified ad in our local newspaper. I've run a similar ad for years in that same publication, and I've enjoyed freedom of the press—not any more.
I've always worded my ad to start at or near the beginning of the alphabet, so that it would be printed at the top of the particular category. Today I was told that that is no longer possible, because the publisher has a new policy of printing the location as the first word of the ad. (I'd wondered why I was getting so few calls, and now I think I know.)
In other words, even though I'm paying for the ad, I no longer can word it the way I want it. So we got past that, and then I was told I no longer can use the word "quiet"—innocuous, right? WRONG!
For years, the ad has read: "Clean, cool, quiet room . . . "
You're just not going to believe this: the reason the word "quiet" has been outlawed is because it "could" be construed as discrimination against children! The rep actually told me that, were they to publish "quiet" in the ad, both the newspaper and I could be sued! Have you ever heard such tripe?
Well, we don't rent to people with custody of their children, because this is an adult sleeping room complex, and our residents need their rest. They cannot get it with children running through the building. Years ago, allowing children would not have been nearly the problem it would be today, because back then children were disciplined and trained. We're talking in generalities here, of course.
Something similar happened with my ad a couple of years ago. At that time, I was informed that I could no longer use the term "non-smoker." No, it had to be "non-smoking"! I mean, we certainly wouldn't want to offend a puffer—sorry if I sound a little prejudiced against them here, but for eleven plus years I put up with nicotine-stained ceilings, walls, blinds, windows, woodwork, furniture, and carpeting, so I finally decided I'd had enough of scrubbing (or trying to) yellow stains off everything. Not to mention breathing the stuff, or picking up cellophane tops off cigarette packs blowing around outside, or putting up with butts all over the ground, when plenty of ashtrays were available in the same area, or burn holes in sheets, pillowcases, mattress pads, bedspreads, curtains, carpeting, and furniture.
(Sorry to have digressed so, but if you'd had the bad experiences with these things that we've had, you'd feel the same way.)
Little by little, our freedoms are being eroded. Again, where is it all going to end?
A few weeks ago a (now former) subscriber wrote me with a lengthy objection to my anti-ACLU article. Of course, I jumped at the chance to defend my position and invited her to comment in particular on a couple of points. I haven't heard from her since. Wonder why? (tongue in cheek)
Next, someone will want to try to tell all of us ezine publishers what we may and may not write.
When that time comes, and I'm convinced that it will, I'll join Patrick Henry and say, "Give me liberty or give me death!"
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Feel free to reprint the above article with this info intact: Article penned by Mary Wilkey, publisher of 'elf Expressions Ezine: http://elfexpressionsezine.com
Whom did "Esau" marry, who was his father in-law, who was his sister-in-law, and what names did his wife go by?
ANSWER: Esau married Mahalath, who was also called Bashemath. She was the daughter of Ishmael (Abraham's son), and her sister was Nebajoth. So Ishmael was Esau's father-in-law, and Nebajoth was his sister-in-law. See Genesis 28:9 and Genesis 36:3.
Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
TODAY'S CHUCKLE
AN UPSIDE DOWN WORLD
If a man cuts his finger off while slicing salami at work, he blames the restaurant.
If you smoke three packs a day for forty years and die of lung
cancer, your family blames the tobacco company.
If your neighbor crashes into a tree while driving home drunk, he blames the bartender.
If your grandchildren are brats without manners, you blame
television.
If your friend is shot by a deranged madman, you blame the gun
manufacturer.
And if a crazed person breaks into the cockpit and tries to kill the pilot at 35,000 feet, and the passengers kill him instead, the mother of the deceased blames the airline.
I must have lived too long to understand the world as it is
any more. So, if I die while my old wrinkled butt is parked in
front of this computer, I want you to blame Bill Gates . . . okay?
You can get anything in life you really want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
—Zig Ziglar
TODAY'S ENGLISH LESSON
Seeing the same elementary mistakes over and over again has prompted this publisher to write an English lesson each issue.
Dilemma: When to use "everyone" vs. "every one"? (one word or two?)
Answer: "Everyone" refers to a group of people, e.g., "Everyone enjoyed the movie."
"Every one" refers to any other items which can be counted or numbered, e.g., "Every one of those chickens lays eggs."
Reminder: We offer a reasonably priced editing/proofreading service for articles or even entire ezines. Just email: editingservice@elfexpressionsezine.com
"If you tell the truth you'll never have to remember anything."
—Mark Twain
INTERNET HINTS & TIPS
How To Create A Vortex Text
What's a vortex text? It's a text message that comes out spiralling as if coming from a vortex.
You may want to put something like this in
your page to spice it up.
Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
—Dag Hammarskjold
"Part of managing to grow old gracefully is that you just take the next step and hope you don't fall when you take it."
—Walter Cronkite
GUEST ARTICLE
How to Prioritize and Grow Your Home-Based Business
by Ken Leonard, Jr.
Life is all about making choices and setting priorities. You have made a choice to get away from the "work at a job" world, to pursue making a living at home using your PC, or you wouldn't be reading this right now.
Once a choice is made, your priorities must be organized to
to fully support the choice. Are your actions helping you
achieve your intended goal? If not, you need to look at your
present situation, and decide what areas or factors can be
changed to better suit the direction you wish to go.
Since making a living from home always involves advertising
your product or service, your ad budget should be at the
top of your priority list. Adjusting your finances, doing
away with non-essential costs, will allow you to spend money
on things like educational materials, websites, domain names,
and business services that will give you a return on your
investment.
The only way to learn the "ins and outs" of making a living
from home is to study the people and information products that will make your goals happen. There are quality, essential information products available online that are must-haves, if you plan to succeed. There is also a lot of garbage going around the 'net.
Doing your homework and reading recommendations from other
successful home-based entrepreneurs can help you to find the
information that will help you greatly, not wasting your time and money.
It's all about learning from the top dogs who are making a
living online. One great place to start is the awesome online
marketing member-only website owned by Terry Dean.
NetBreakthroughs is a virtual diary of Terry's marketing
efforts, testing, successes, and failures. It is one of the
most respected online marketing member sites on the internet.
His online marketing forum is one of the best on the web.
To be able to take advantage of this great pool of information, one would prioritize his spending to make it possible to pay a low monthly membership fee and not feel the
burden of another bill to pay. If you could cut out a
small expense each month, giving you room to be able to
join one of the most helpful sites on the net (to the up-and-
coming home business person), would you make it happen?
The persons who can prioritize their cash flow can learn
and make strides toward their goals that others can't. I bet
if you look at your monthly expenditures, you can find a few
things that you can do without.
Making the right choices and setting proper priorities
will mean the difference between success and failure in
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Direct marketing veteran, Ken Leonard Jr., publishes
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INSPIRATION
CHAIN OF LOVE
"How do you account for your remarkable accomplishment in life?" Queen Victoria of England asked Helen Keller. "How do you explain the fact that even though you were both blind and deaf, you were able to accomplish so much?"
Ms. Keller's answer is a tribute to her dedicated teacher. "If it had not been for Anne Sullivan, the name of Helen Keller would have remained unknown."
According to speaker Zig Ziglar, "Little Annie" Sullivan, as she was called when she was young, was no stranger to hardship. She was almost sightless herself (due to a childhood fever) and was, at one time, diagnosed as hopelessly "insane" by her by caregivers. She was locked in the basement of a mental institution outside of Boston. On occasion, Little Annie would violently attack anyone who came near. Most of the time she generally ignored everyone in her presence.
An elderly nurse believed there was hope, however, and she made it her mission to show love to the child. Every day she visited Little Annie. For the most part, the child did not acknowledge the nurse's presence, but she still continued to visit. The kindly woman left cookies for her and spoke words of love and encouragement. She believed Little Annie could recover, if only she were shown love.
Eventually, doctors noticed a change in the girl. Where they once witnessed anger and hostility, they now noted an emerging gentleness and love. They moved her upstairs where she continued to improve. Then the day finally came when this seemingly "hopeless" child was released.
Anne Sullivan grew into a young woman with a desire to help others as she, herself, was helped by the kindly nurse. It was she who saw the great potential in Helen Keller. She loved her, disciplined her, played with her, pushed her, and worked with her until the flickering candle that was her life became a beacon of light to the world. Anne Sullivan worked wonders in Helen's life; but it was a loving nurse who first believed in Little Annie and lovingly transformed an uncommunicative child into a compassionate teacher.
"If it had not been for Anne Sullivan, the name of Helen Keller would have remained unknown." But if it had not been for a kind and dedicated nurse, the name of Anne Sullivan would have remained unknown. And so it goes. Just how far back does the chain of redemption extend? And how for forward will it lead?
Those you have sought to reach, whether they be in your family or elsewhere, are part of a chain of love that can extend through the generations. Your influence on their lives, whether or not you see results, is immeasurable. Your legacy of dedicated kindness and caring can transform lost and hopeless lives for years to come.
You can never overestimate the power of your love. It is a fire that, once lit, may burn forever.
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