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Volume 2 - Issue 27XX - October 5, 2002
Regular issue published every Tuesday
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—Benjamin Franklin
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Guest Article
Today’s Chuckle
Internet Tips & Hints
Guest Article
Inspiration
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As promised, I've temporarily suspended publishing personal testimonies in this slot to include a few excerpts from the amazing book that started it all, "Lessons From the Miracle Doctors," by Jon Barron.
The following is from the chapter, "Vitamins, Minerals, and Phytochemicals."
You often hear doctors say that there's no need to supplement if you eat a balanced diet. Would that that were true. Unfortunately, the food we eat today is not the same as the food we ate 50-100 years ago. We have to compensate for the loss of "value" in our food.
—It takes 80 cups of today's supermarket spinach to give you the same iron you'd get from just one cup of spinach grown 50 years ago.
—According to a Rutgers University study, it now takes 19 ears of corn to equal the nutritional value of just one ear of corn grown in 1940.
—There is less than half the protein in today's wheat as in the wheat our grandparents ate.
—Much of our soil is so depleted that our farm crops depend ENTIRELY on the chemical fertilizers they are fed to grow. That means that most of the food we eat is devoid of virtually all the trace minerals we need for survival.
—And on and on.
When you thnk about it, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what's happened. We've exchanged quality for quantity. You can't keep increasing your yield per acre, at the same time steadily depleting your soil year after year, and not expect to lose something in the process. And what's been lost is the quality of our food.
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GUEST ARTICLE
5 TIPS TO CHOOSING THE RIGHT AFFILIATE PROGRAM
by Ken Hill
Affiliate programs can be a great way to make money online. You don't have to spend time developing your own product, worry
about taking orders, or take care of customer service.
If you already have a high traffic website or run an ezine you can stand to earn a steady flow of commissions every month
without a lot of extra work on your part.
To help you get started promoting affiliate programs, I've
provided the following 5 tips to help you choose the affiliate
programs that are right for you.
1—Choose affiliate programs that match the content of your
site. If your site targets a niche market than choose affiliate
programs that offer products to that niche market.
2—Choose affiliate programs that pay a high commission. For
example 30%-50% on your direct sales.
3—Join affiliate programs that pay two-tier commissions This
enables you to not only earn commissions on your own sales but
also on the sales of people who you introduce to your affiliate
program.
4—Join affiliate programs that offer a line of products so
that you can earn commissions when your referrals come back and
purchase other services or products.
5—Join affiliate programs that offer their affiliates great
marketing support. Many affiliate programs offer their
affiliates pre-written ads to use or get ideas from, sales
letters, marketing courses, and articles to use in promoting
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But I have seen the science I worshipped and the aircraft I
loved destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
—Charles Lindbergh
A BIBLE RIDDLE
How many stars were there in Joseph's dream?
ANSWER: Genesis 37:9 says, "And he (Joseph) dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and
the ELEVEN stars made obeisance to me."
Freedom is rarely lost in a single stroke. The danger lies in losing it bit by bit.
—Dennis Patrick, former FCC Chairman
TODAY'S CHUCKLE
Yet another idiot tale:
The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan at 12:50 am, flashed a gun and demanded cash.
The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't open
the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast. The man, frustrated, walked away.
Please note that these people are allowed to vote!
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is
in having lots to do and not doing it.
—Mary Wilson Little
“The Well of Providence is deep. It's the buckets we bring to it that are small."—Mary Webb
INTERNET HINTS & TIPS
JAVA MENU
Putting your links on a menu box definitely
saves space for your page.
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
—Aesop
All bad precedents begin with justifiable measures.
—Julius Caesar
GUEST ARTICLE
SAM WALTON IS DEAD . . . AND A DIFFERENT BEAT GOES ON . . .
by Jeff Johnson
A financial services group offering "family friendly mutual funds" has removed the nation's largest retailer from its offerings because of the company's marketing of sexually suggestive magazines to families and children.
The Timothy Plan, which describes itself as "America's first pro-life, pro-family, biblically-based mutual fund group," currently holds $135 million in assets. But the 9,200 shares of Wal-Mart stock the company previously owned are no longer part of its portfolio.
"We're not here to hurt anybody. But it's time we draw a line in the sand and say 'Wait a minute!'" Timothy Plan President Arthur Ally told CNSNews.com. "We've been accepting this stuff and backing up and moving the line back and back and back, for way too long."
Ally wrote H. Lee Scott, president of Wal-Mart, on March 22 about the company's marketing practices regarding sexually suggestive magazines such as Cosmopolitan—which Ally calls one of the "most blatantly aggressive soft core pornographic magazines in America."
"I would like to issue this challenge to you: Go into any one of your stores, publicly introduce yourself as the president of Wal-Mart, get on the speaker system and read aloud to your store's customers all the words on the cover of any issue of Cosmopolitan," Ally wrote Scott. "Then let me know how it goes so I can decide whether or not we have to add your company to our screen list."
He asked Scott to move the magazines from the checkout lanes to areas not visible to children, or to "hood" the displays so that the cover photos and text other than the name of the magazine were hidden.
Four letters and three responses later, Ally received a final answer from Wal-Mart on July 23.
"Dear Mr. Ally, I apologize for not being clearer in my response. Although we appreciate your position on the matter, it's our intention to continue merchandising magazines in the same manner that we currently do," wrote Don Harris, Wal-Mart's executive vice president for general merchandise. "Because of this it's possible that some of the titles you take exception with will be merchandised adjacent to the checkouts."
Scott never responded to Ally personally.
A Wal-Mart spokesman told CNSNews.com that the company makes its merchandising decisions based on customer demand and satisfaction.
"We strive to serve our customers in the best way possible," said Tom Williams. "There might be some people who are not accepting of that decision . . . there will always be some disagreements and we understand that and respect that."
The Timothy Plan has responded to Wal-Mart's decision by divesting itself of the company's stock, and invited a national network of 4,000 Christian financial planners and 10,000-plus Timothy Plan shareholders to boycott Wal-Mart stock and stores. The organization has also added Wal-Mart to its list of companies banned from their funds because of "involvement in pornography."
Ally believes his request was not the least bit unreasonable.
"We were not asking them to quit selling those magazines," he stressed, admitting that he would not be disappointed if that happened. "All we were asking them to do was just cover it up or get it to a less visible spot. That would be the family friendly thing to do.
"They thumbed their nose at that," he concluded.
Williams said the company is "open to various options," if customers desire a change.
"But, we're always going to strive to serve our customers," he added.
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Jeff Johnson is Congressional Bureau Chief of
CNSNews.com
INSPIRATION
A NEW PERSPECTIVE by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The little cares that fretted me,
I lost them yesterday
Among the fields above the sea,
Among the winds at play;
Among the lowing of the herds,
The rustling of the trees,
Among the singing of the birds,
The humming of the bees.
The foolish fears of what may happen,
I cast them all away
Among the clover-scented grass,
Among the new-mown hay;
Among the husking of the corn
Where drowsy poppies nod,
Where ill thoughts die and good are born,
Out in the fields with God.
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