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Volume 2 - Issue 26X - September 26, 2002
Regular issue published every Tuesday evening
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Guest Article
Today’s Chuckle
Internet Tips & Hints
Guest Article
Inspiration
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Hydrogenated (and partially hydrogenated) oils are absolutely unnecessary and have no place in your diet or in any of the foods you eat. The number one dietary prescription from this chapter is to totally eliminate all hydrogenated oils from your diet. Unfortunately, it's not as easy as it sounds. Food manufacturers have put them in almost every food they manufacture. The good news is that, if enough people refuse to buy foods that contain trans-fatty acid oils, manufacturers will stop putting them in their foods.
You also want to eliminate refined oils and manufactured polyunsaturated oils from your diet. What oils are good? Virtually any raw natural oil is good. Olive oil is the best. Use lots of extra virgin olive oil in your cooking. Surprisingly, butter is cool—provided that you can get butter that doesn't contain antibiotics and bovine growth hormone and all the rest of the nonsense that many dairy farmers use.
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GUEST ARTICLE
SOME GOOD ORGANIZATIONS TO JOIN
by Richard Lowe, Jr.
There are many organizations all over the internet which are
useful to webmasters and other people on the internet. This
is a list of some of the ones which I find useful.
Americans For Computer Privacy — This is the organization to
take a look at if you are interested in privacy matters.
Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) — One of the oldest
organizations of all. This group is huge and has so many benefits that it's impossible to list them here. It can be highly technical and tends towards the theory and practice of
computing. They have dozens of publications, and for about a
hundred bucks you get access to a huge online library of white
papers and technical works.
Better Ethics Online (BEO) — A great group all about the ethics of the online world. They have several lists of known spamming email addresses, which can be used in filtering software.
Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email — Want to learn
about spam and how to prevent it? This is a great organization
to join and join the fight.
HTML Writer's Guide — This organization has lots of good
web-based courses and a certification program (Certified Web
Professional). This group (which has merged with the
International Webmasters association) has many other great
features. Yearly membership is about fifty bucks, and this gets
you the courses at half price.
IEEE — One of the very largest and oldest computer societies.
In fact, computers are only a portion of what this organization
offers. Thousands of papers are available online to members,
and dozens of publications are published. This group tends to
be highly technical and very in-depth.
Internet Engineering Task Force — Interested in helping the
internet as a whole? This group helps maintain the structure
and operation of the entire internet. This group is perhaps
second in importance (and it could be classified as first
according to some) to the W3C. They also archive and maintain
RFC's, which are the documents which describe the protocols and
standards of all of the internet.
Web Master World — Want to learn about the web from
professionals who actually know what they are doing, with a
strong emphasis on promotion (especially using search engines)?
If so, visit this forum, lurk for a while, then start posting
your own opinions, experiences and questions.
World Of Webrings — A group dedicated to promoting all of the
webring systems. If you want to find out about webrings, this
is one of the best places to start.
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) — One of the heavyweight groups of the web. These people define many of the standards,
including HTTP, HTML and XHTML. This is the best place to
begin looking for information about web related specifications
and documents.
Visit our website any time to
read over 1,000 complete FREE articles about how to improve your
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Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints. The same must be true of your success.
—Napoleon Hill
A BIBLE RIDDLE
To whom did Jesus tell to get up and enter the city and it would be there this person would be told what he was to do?
ANSWER: Saul, as found in Acts 9:6, "And he (Saul) trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do."
You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing you cannot do.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
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TODAY'S CHUCKLE
ONLY IN AMERICA
1—Only in America.....can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.
2—Only in America.....are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.
3—Only in America.....do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.
4—Only in America.....do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke.
5—Only in America.....do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.
6—Only in America.....do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.
7—Only in America.....do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place.
8—Only in America.....do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight. (THIS ONE ALWAYS BUGGED ME!)
9—Only in America.....do we use the word "politics" to describe the process so well: "Poli" in Latin meaning "many"' and "tics" meaning "bloodsucking creatures."
Another of Ben Franklin's prescriptions for moral perfection:
"Sincerity. Use no hurtful deceit. Think innocently and
justly; and if you speak, speak accordingly."
There is always room at the top.
—Daniel Webster
INTERNET HINTS & TIPS
BUTTON TIME
Here is a pretty neat way to show what time it is
—in a little button! When the page is loaded, JavaScript
will show a little button with the time! Check it out!
Knowledge and action = the power to get rich.
—Russ von Hoelscher
School is never out for the pro.
—Dan Kennedy
GUEST ARTICLE
TIPS ON STAYING SAFE . . . FOR WOMEN
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I've lost the name of the author of this piece, but it's still worth passing along. You never know when one of these little tips will save you from disaster.
I learned from my children's karate classes that the
elbow is the strongest point on your body. If you are close enough to use it, do!
If you are ever thrown into the trunk of a car, kick
out the back tail lights and stick your arm out the hole and start waving like crazy. The driver won't see you but everybody else will. This has saved lives.
At a personal safety workshop, given by an amazing man, Pat Malone, who has been a body guard for famous figures like Farrah Fawcett and Sylvester Stallone, this jolted me. Pat works for the FBI and teaches police officers and Navy SEALS hand-to-hand combat.
This man has seen it all, and knows a lot. He focussed
his teachings on HOW TO AVOID BEING THE VICTIM OF A VIOLENT CRIME. He gave us some statistics about how much the occurrences of random violence have escalated over the recent years, and it's terrible. Something like 99% of us will be exposed to, or become a victim of, a violent crime.
Here are some of the most important points:
1—The three reasons women are easy targets for
random acts of violence are:
(a) Lack of awareness—you MUST know where you are
and what's going on around you.
(b) Body language—keep your head up, swing your
arms, stand straight up.
(c) Wrong place, wrong time—DON'T walk alone in
an alley or drive in a bad neighborhood at night.
2—Women have a tendency to get into their cars
after shopping, eating, working, etc., and just sit (doing their checkbook, or making a list,etc). DON'T DO THIS! The predator will be watching you, and this is the perfect opportunity for him to get in the passenger side, put a gun to your head, and tell you where to go. AS SOON AS YOU GET INTO YOUR CAR, LOCK THE
DOORS AND LEAVE.
A few notes about getting into your car in a parking lot or parking garage: Be aware—look around you, look
into your car, at the passenger side floor, and
in the back seat.
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.
Look at the car parked on the driver's side of your vehicle, and the passenger side. 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.)
ALWAYS take the elevator instead of the stairs.
(Stairwells are horrible places to be alone and the perfect crime
spot).
If the predator has a gun and you are not under his control, ALWAYS RUN! The predator will only hit you (a running
target) 4 in 100 times. And even then, it most likely WILL NOT be a vital organ. RUN!
As women, we are always trying to be sympathetic: STOP IT! It 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 was when he abducted his next victim.
Pat Malone told us the story of his daughter, who came out of
a mall and was walking to her car when she noticed two older ladies in front of her. Then she saw a police car come towards her with cops who said hello. She also noticed that all eight handicap spots in the area were empty. As she neared her car, she saw a man a few rows over calling to her for help. He
wanted her to close his passenger side door. He was sitting in the back on the driver's side and said he was handicapped. He continued calling until she turned and headed back to the mall, and then he began cursing at her.
In the meantime, she wondered why he didn't ask the two older
ladies, or the policeman for help, and why he was not parked in any of the empty handicap spots. As she got back to the mall, two male friends of hers were exiting, and as she told them the
story and turned to point at the car, the man was getting out of the back seat into the front, and the car sped away.
DON'T GET CAUGHT IN THIS TRAP.
PLEASE BE SAFE AND NOT SORRY! ALWAYS BE ALERT AND USE YOUR
HEAD!!! Never let your guard
down.
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INSPIRATION
THANKS FOR INCONVENIENCE
Thanking God for the good things He has given us comes pretty easy. But thanking Him for an enduring "inconvenience" can be difficult.
Moira MacLachlan (a pen name) experienced a shattering, life-altering event when she was raped and became pregnant. Because of her decision to rear the child, there would be a daily reminder of this violent disruption of life.
Moira cautiously likens her situation to Mary's unexpected pregnancy. She writes, "This world considers any disruption of its thoroughly detailed preparation for a life of convenience a rational excuse for unbridled anguish and rebellion. To [the world], the thankful prayer I raise to God for the radical explosion that took place in my life is akin to insanity. The disruptions in the plans of Mary and me served to bring us both to the same conclusion: Sometimes God's purpose in shattering the peace in our lives is to remind us that He has a purpose for everything."
Moira thanks God for her beautiful child and concludes, "Don't pray for a life of convenience, you might get it—and wouldn't that be too bad?"
If you're enduring a long-term "inconvenience," consider thanking God for what He has taught you through it.
I thank You, Lord, for bitter things.
They've been a friend of grace.
They've driven me from paths of ease
To seek the Father's face.
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