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Publisher: Mary Wilkey
Volume 6 - Issue 3 - January 24, 2006
Published every Tuesday
A very warm welcome to all.
To bring you up to date with my Himilayan Goji Juice experiences, last week I reported a large increase in energy and a noticeable increase in my spirits being uplifted.
Well, hang onto your hats! Now my blood pressure has gone down from 146/88 to 131/85, and my pulse has been reduced from the racing rate of 95 to 85. And—get this—I took my measurements after 2.5 weeks of drinking Goji and had lost 5-7/8 inches off my waist, hips, and "love handles"!
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The ad contest will return next week to allow for a paid top sponsor ad. We do have a winner, who will be announced in next week's issue.
We also have a number of new subscribers, and I'd like to invite you all to send me your personal bio . . . you know, like who you are, family stuff, what you do, where you live, a little about your background, etc. Please don't make it sound like an ad, but you may include your email and/or website, if you like.
Hope you enjoy this issue and will stick around for many more!
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"Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and heal their land."
—2 Chronicles 7:14
Contents:
Sponsor Ad
Ad Contest
A Healthier You
Feature Article
Test Your Bible Knowledge
Classifieds
Today’s Chuckle
Today's English Lesson
Internet Tips & Hints
Guest Article
Memories
Inspiration
Etcetera
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A Healthier You
Drop 10 Pounds of Belly Fat—Just by Avoiding One Food!
A calorie is a calorie, right? Wrong!
It turns out that some foods are much worse than others. And the worst culprit of all is high fructose corn syrup.
High fructose corn syrup (HFS) provides a double whammy. It shuts off the switch that controls your appetite! And it turns into fat more easily than any other carbohydrate!
You see, carbohydrates cause your body to produce insulin. This causes the carbs to be burned up for quick energy . . . or stored in your muscles for later use . . . or as a last resort, turned into fat.
But HFS is different from other carbs. It doesn't stimulate insulin production. So instead of burning the calories for energy, you end up storing them as fat right from the get-go!
How much fat? The average American consumes 228 calories' worth of HFS per day. That's enough to add ten (10) pounds of ugly fat in just six (6) months!
But wait. It gets worse. Without insulin, your appetite has no shut-off mechanism. So while eating a 570-calorie burger may make you feel fuller, you could drink an entire liter of soda, and your body will hardly notice that you've had any calories at all!
Bottom line: The most painless way to drop ten pounds is to avoid foods and beverages that contain HFS. Just read the nutrition label. If the product has more than 8 grams of sugars, and if HFS is prominent on the list, avoid it at all costs!
Note — The above was excerpted from "Men's Health" magazine.
Feature Article
How I Choose an Article for Publication
First, let me say that we publishers are inundated with article submissions daily. So we can be choosy.
As for this publication, I usually use only one of those articles a week.
Sometimes I get duplicate submissions, which only adds to my sorting/deleting job.
So I decided to publish some guidelines for submitting articles to this ezine. I believe I did this a couple of years back, but I'm sure there is more fodder this time.
To start off with, I immediately delete any article whose author has let the text run clear across the page. To do so is very inconsiderate of the reader. I suggest formatting your articles to no more than 60-65 characters per line.
Then, to add insult to injury, many writers fail to break long text up into paragraphs, so that the reader has one solid page of long, unbroken text to sift through. Not good! And not many publishers have either the desire or the time to do so!
Secondly, I immediately delete what may be an otherwise good article at the first misspelled or misused word
I find. I just deleted two—one that used "loose"
instead of "lose," and one that used "trail" instead
of "trial."
There is just no excuse for this carelessness. If you have trouble proofreading, try starting at the bottom and reading each sentence in reverse sequence. Errors become more obvious using this technique.
Finally, apostrophes (see today's English Lesson) improperly used just seem to jump out at me. This practice irritates me so much that I cannot get to the "delete" key fast enough!
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Answer — Nineveh. Jonah 1:2
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the faster it will slip away, or—if it's a
person—lose his interest in you after
first taking you for granted.
Today's Chuckle
Coincidences?
Year 1981 —
1 — Prince Charles got married.
2 — Liverpool crowned soccer Champions of Europe
3 — Australia lost the Ashes tournament.
4 — The Pope died.
Year 2005 —
1 — Prince Charles got married.
2 — Liverpool crowned soccer Champions of Europe
3 — Australia lost the Ashes tournament.
4 — The Pope died.
In the future, if Prince Charles decides to remarry . . . someone had better warn the Pope!
Living in abundance doesn't replace happiness. Not even slightly. There's no harm in being surrounded by luxury, as long as the price of abandoning mere contentment was not too high. However, there's nothing wrong with choosing to opt for less either!
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!
Ax those apostrophes!
Why, oh why, on God's green earth do people insist on putting those little marks in words where they have no place or purpose?
Example: This editor goes berserk whenever she see's this happen! Aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrgh! Can anyone tell me one reason why an apostrophe should be added to "sees"? Of course, not!
Use apostrophes to indicate possession or contractions. They have no place in simple plurals. Period.
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Stop it! It's no use to try to catch every butterfly that flutters by. When you sit still and quiet, your serenity will attract the most exotic species, and it will settle right in the palm of your hand. Do your part, and God will do His. This theory flies just as well for business deals as for private partnerships.
Internet Hints & Tips
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Think about the last time you felt a negative emotion—like stress, anger, or frustration.
What was going through your mind as you were going through
that negativity? Was your mind cluttered with thoughts? Or
was it paralyzed, unable to think?
The next time you find yourself in the middle of a very
stressful time, or you feel angry or frustrated, stop. Yes,
that’s right, stop. Whatever you’re doing, stop and sit for
one minute. While you’re sitting there, completely immerse
yourself in the negative emotion.
Allow that emotion to consume you. Allow yourself one
minute to truly feel that emotion. Don’t cheat yourself
here. Take the entire minute—but only one minute—to do
nothing else but feel that emotion.
When the minute is over, ask yourself, "Am I willing to keep
holding on to this negative emotion as I go through the
rest of the day?"
Once you’ve allowed yourself to be totally immersed in the
emotion and really feel it, you will be surprised to find
that the emotion clears rather quickly.
If you feel you need to hold on to the emotion for a little
longer, that is okay. Allow yourself another minute to feel
the emotion.
When you feel you’ve had enough of the emotion, ask
yourself if you’re willing to carry that negativity with
you for the rest of the day. If not, take a deep breath and, as
you exhale, release all that negativity with your breath.
This exercise seems simple—almost too simple. But, it is
very effective. By allowing that negative emotion the space
to be truly felt, you are dealing with the emotion rather
than stuffing it down and trying not to feel it. You are
actually taking away the power of the emotion by giving it
the space and attention it needs. When you immerse yourself
in the emotion, and realize that it is only emotion, it
loses its control. You can clear your head and proceed with
your task.
Try it. Next time you’re in the middle of a negative
emotion, give yourself the space to feel the emotion and
see what happens. Keep a piece of paper with you that says
the following:
Stop — Immerse for 1 Minute — Do I want to keep this
negativity? Breath deeply, exhale, release. Move on!
This will remind you of the steps to the process. Remember,
take the time you need to really immerse yourself in the
emotion. Then, when you feel you’ve felt it enough, release
it—really let go of it. You will be surprised at how
quickly you can move on from a negative situation and get
to what you really want to do!
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Memories
A Few 60's Memories
1960 — The Xerox copier went on sale.
1961 — Start of the Berlin Wall
1963 — Martin Luther King - "I Have a Dream" speech
1963 — President Kennedy is assassinated.
1964 — The Beatles arrive, and music is changed forever.
1967 — First heart transplant
1968 — Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinated
1969 — Armstrong and Aldrin land on the moon.
1960 - The Apartment
1961 - West Side Story
1962 - Lawrence of Arabia
1963 - Tom Jones
1964 - My Fair Lady
1965 - The Sound of Music
1966 - A Man for All Seasons
1967 - In the Heat of the Night
1968 - Oliver!
1969 - Midnight Cowboy
1964-1965 Top TV Shows
1 — Bonanza
2 — Bewitched
3 — Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.
4 — The Andy Griffith Show
5 — The Fugitive
6 — The Red Skelton Hour
7 — The Dick Van Dyke Show
8 — The Lucy Show
9 — Peyton Place II
10 — Combat
Inspiration
Science and the Bible
Anesthesia
The use of anesthesia for surgery was suggested by Humphry Davy, a British chemist. However, it was not put into use until Horace Wells, in 1844, tried it on himself. He was an American dentist and used it on himself while having a tooth pulled.
In 1842 Dr. Crawford Long, a Georgia doctor, used ether on a patient until he was unconscious. In 1845, Dr. Long used ether when delivering a child. In 1849 he began to publish his results. However, prior to his publishing his results, a dentist, W. T. G. Morton, started to use anesthesia in tooth extractions. It was not until the 1930’s that medical schools began to have formal training in its use.
Do you know that it took man nearly 6,000 years to catch up with God? How, you ask? Do you remember when God put Adam to sleep prior His removing a rib from Adam to make Eve?
"And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof." Genesis 2:21
Prior to surgery, God knew it best to put Adam to sleep and then do the surgery that was needed to create Eve. Why did it take man nearly 6,000 years to figure this out? Man is not as smart as he thinks he is. Science can never out think God.
There is an old story of how a few scientists got together after they were successful in cloning a man. They said, "We have been able to clone man. We have made test tube babies. Why do we need God around any more? Yea, right. Let's tell Him that we don’t need him anymore." So they did, and God said: "Okay, let’s have a contest and see who can make man faster." The scientists said, "Great!" Then they went over to get some dirt to make man in a test tube, and God said, "No wait! You have to make your own dirt!"
Now I know that this story did not happen, but it is so true. Man cannot create as God has. He created something out of nothing, and he created something from something. He spoke the world into existence, then He made Adam from the dust of the ground. Science continues to try to copy what God has done but cannot.
God made a man without a woman. (Adam)
God made a woman without a woman but with a man. (Eve)
God made a man without a man. (Jesus)
Man will spend the rest of time trying to match all of the above! However, he never will be able to make something from nothing as God did!
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You know, readers, I was going to publish the above article as is for what it is worth, but after thinking about it for awhile . . . I cannot remember where I got it . . . I'm not so sure.
After all, the Lord said, "Great things than these shall you do," didn't He?
However, I cannot bring myself to believe that man, even with all the necessary raw materials, could ever create another human being from scratch. (Technology for cloning, however, is a reality, sadly.)
But, getting back to speaking things into existence, I absolutely do believe that this is not only possible for mankind but, following in Jesus' footsteps, it is what happens when we pray. That is why verbalized prayer tends to accelerate this process more than silent prayer and why group prayer (whenever two or more are gathered in My Name, there am I in the midst) does also, if the prayers are in one accord.
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