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July 8, 2009

In This Week’s Issue

Cool Links, Inspiration, Information, The Healing Power of Laughter, and these articles:

·    News – Canada: Saskatchewan Needs 120,000 More Workers

·    News – Canada: Loonie Gets Slight Boost Ahead Of Friday Jobs Data

·    News in Pictures: Independence Day Fireworks

·    Politics – USA: Who’s Eating At The Expense Of U.S. Taxpayers?

·    Politics – USA: Biden: We Misread the Economy

·    Politics – USA: Cap Taxes, Trade Congress

·    Global Warming Scam: Eyes Only – Global Warming Facts

·    Investing: Seven Lessons I Learned From Bernie Madoff

·    Real Estate: June Home Sales ‘Amazingly Strong’ In Ontario And Western Canada

·    Personal Finance – Home: Homemade Surface Cleaners

·    Personal Finance: Ten Ways That Banks Rob You Blind

·    Personal Development: Selling Yourself in a Challenging Market

·    Money: Good-Bye, Microsoft Money! 16 Powerful Personal Finance Programs

·    Travel: 50 Things To Do For Free In Europe

·    Health: Canadian HIV Vaccine Ready For Human Tests

·    Health: The 20 Healthiest Foods for Under $1

·    Health: Vegetarian Diet Linked To Weaker Bones

·    FREEDOM: The Total Takeover Of America Enters Its Final Phase

·    Computers: 10 Ways to Find People on Twitter

·    Computers: Top 10 Google Products You Forgot All About

·    Information: Actual Cost To Make Popular Gadgets

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“A short saying oft contains much wisdom.” ~Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)

“A man of conscience is one who never acquires tolerance, well-being, success, public standing, and approval on the part of prevailing opinion, at the expense of truth.”

—Pope Benedict XVI

(Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, 10th Workshop for Bishops, February 1991, Dallas, Texas)

“If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal.

If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re conservative.

If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate.

If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist.”

—Joseph Sobran (1946-) Columnist 1995

“People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.”

—Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729) an Irish writer and politician, remembered as co-founder, with his friend Joseph Addison, of the magazine The Spectator.

“Give everyone more in use value than you take from him in cash value. Then you are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction.”

—Wallace Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich, Chapter 6

“Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it.

Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don’t count on it.

Today is ready cash: Use it!”

—Edwin C. Bliss, Author

INSPIRATION

Learning to Dance in the Rain

“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass... it’s about learning how to dance in the rain!

—Vivian Green

How true it is! We all face adversity in our life. However, it's not the adversity, but how we react to it that will determine the joy and happiness in our lives. During tough times, do we spend too much time feeling sorry for ourselves, or can we, with gratitude...learn how to dance in the rain?

It almost sounds too simple to feel important, but one word... gratitude, can change your attitude, and thus your life, forever. Sarah Breathnach said it best...

“When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that’s present… We experience heaven on earth.”

Watch the video (2:30) Learning to Dance in the Rain

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ROGER FEDERER NEW NIKE AD – 15 MAJORS!

Congratulations, Roger! 30 second Nike commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZo1kOeHB40

THE HEALING POWER OF LAUGHTER

We don’t stop laughing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop laughing! 

Evian Roller Babies

Live Young – Video (1:01)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PHnRIn74Ag

The Chasers – Mac vs. PC

The Chasers War on Everything Mac vs. PC – Video (2:27)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7aOVChs7xs

POST-IT LOVE

Video (3:24) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWlQeuMrIEw

NEWS – CANADA

Saskatchewan Needs 120,000 More Workers: Report

By Annie Mcleod, Saskatchewan News Network | July 4, 2009

Saskatchewan’s labour force will need an additional 120,000 workers by 2020—an average of 10,000 per year—or there will be little population growth and a stagnant provincial economy, says the Saskatchewan Labour Market Commission (SLMC).

“Population growth has always been a challenge to the province, so in order to generate 120,000 new workers, we’ve projected the need to grow the population in the province to 1.3 million by 2020,” said SLMC co-chair Holly Hetherington.

She said the addition of 120,000 new workers is like adding the equivalent of another Regina or Saskatoon to the province, when taking their families into consideration. The projection was based on provincial workforce information from various sectors and a moderate gross domestic product (GDP) projection of 2.5 per cent annually.

In its final report released Friday to the government, the SLMC focused on the themes of information and communication, workforce and workplace enhancement and the attraction and retention of highly skilled individuals. Based on the themes, the report offers 19 recommendations to government.

Read the StarPhoenix Article

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Loonie Gets Slight Boost Ahead Of Friday Jobs Data

Reuters | Wednesday, July 08, 2009

TORONTO – Canada’s currency rose slightly versus the U.S. dollar on Wednesday morning to recoup a sliver of the ground lost during the prior session, but the move was capped ahead of key domestic jobs data due later this week.

Investors opted to shy away from big commitments given the data due on Friday that is expected to show Canada's economy shed 35,000 jobs in June while the unemployment rate moves to 8.7% from 8.5% in May.

At 7:45 a.m., the Canadian unit was at C$1.1653 to the U.S. dollar, or 85.81 U.S. cents, up from C$1.1661 to the U.S. dollar, or 85.76 U.S. cents, at Tuesday's close.

Read the article

NEWS IN PICTURES

Independence Day Fireworks

NEW YORK (AP)—Fireworks lit the night sky above New York with a kaleidoscope of colors shooting 1,000 feet into the air on an Independence Day that began with the Statue of Liberty’s crown opening to the public for the first time since Sept. 11, 2001. It was the nation’s biggest fireworks display, with more than 22 tons of pyrotechnics exploding Saturday over a mile-and-a-half of the Hudson River, a new vantage point for New York’s festivities. Millions of spectators watched from both sides of the river. While the recession forced many communities to scale down, or even cancel, their fireworks, “we’re a country of survivors and fighters, and we try to make things work,” said Gary Souza, whose family-owned, California-based company is staging the New York display as well as hundreds of others across the country—including the nation’s capital. In Washington, the daylong celebrations started with a parade along Constitution Avenue and ended with fireworks over the Washington Monument as a band played a medley of patriotic music.

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POLITICS – USA

Who’s Eating At The Expense Of U.S. Taxpayers?

Who makes how much at the White House

According to the WhiteHouse.gov blog

“Since 1995, the White House has been required to deliver a report to Congress listing the title and salary of every White House Office employee.”

There are 487 people on the list this year. The highest income earners earn $172,200 including: Obama’s top aides, such as Senior Advisers David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, press secretary Robert Gibbs and Jon “Favs” Favreau, Obama’s head speechwriter, whose title is listed as: “ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF SPEECHWRITING”.

You can view the list two ways:

1.      Scrollable and searchable table

2.      PDF file

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Biden: We Misread the Economy

Monday, July 6, 2009

WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama and his advisers do not favor second stimulus package now to cut the highest U.S. unemployment rate in nearly 26 years, Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview aired on Sunday.

Looking back to January when Obama took office, Biden said: “The truth is, we and everybody else misread the economy… We misread just how bad the economy was.”

“So the second question becomes, did the economic package we put in place, including the Recovery Act, is it the right package given the circumstances we’re in? And we believe it is the right package,” Biden told ABC’s “This Week” in an interview taped during a trip to Iraq.

Asked if another stimulus package was needed, Biden said, “I think it’s premature to make that judgment.”

Government data last week showed that employers cut another 467,000 jobs in June and the U.S. unemployment rate hit 9.5 percent, its highest since August 1983.

Read the article

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Cap Taxes, Trade Congress

By Kyle-Anne Shiver, americanthinker.com | July 07, 2009

I’m all for cap ‘n trade; it’s a nifty idea. Simply splendid. Positively stupendous. Brilliant beyond brilliant.

I just have a different take on the whole notion. I prefer very stringent caps on taxes and spending, coupled with a 2010 trade-in of the entire U.S. Congress.

What in holy tarnation do those people think they’re getting paid to do?

While these Roman throwbacks attempt to save the planet, pagan style, so they can set up their Darwinian nirvana on earth, the rest of us have enough sense not to try to make the state our church.

Read the article

INVESTING

Seven Lessons I Learned From Bernie Madoff

Minyanville Staff, Minyanville Business News | June 29, 2009

While Bernie clearly made off with billions of other people’s hard-earned dollars—and is now going to be spending the next 150 years in jail—I think there are some important things to consider.

Brace yourself, because what I’m about to say may be unpopular—especially among Madoff’s victims.

Here goes: We should thank Bernie for reminding us of some key life lessons.

In order to wrap our heads around that idea, we should start by spending less time raging at Bernie and instead focus on what we’ve learned. Only then can we transform this horrible event into a positive experience. We can’t change the past—so there’s no point in living in it.

Life lessons from Bernie Madoff:

1. Never put all your eggs in one basket.

2. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

3. If someone makes their product sound like it’s reserved for the elite—and that makes you want it more—be skeptical. There’s more to the story.

4. People are way too trusting and easily manipulated, as P.T. Barnum told us a long time ago. There really is a sucker born every minute.

5. Always ask questions, especially when things are going well.

6. Do your own research—don’t just blindly trust a friend’s recommendation. What if they didn’t do their homework, either?

7. Take responsibility for your own personal and financial decisions.

Minyanville Headlines

REAL ESTATE

June Home Sales ‘Amazingly Strong’ In Ontario And Western Canada

By Drew Hasselback, network.nationalpost.com | July 07, 2009

Garry Marr writes in Tuesday's National Post that despite all the talk of a housing downturn and economic crisis in Ontario, Toronto and Ottawa saw record housing sales last month for the month of June.

“Vancouver sales were up about 76% from a year ago, the second best June ever for them. Calgary sales were up 27%, and Edmonton sales were up 38%. A lot of people emerged from their foxholes over the winter and have been brought in by low mortgage rates or a belief the economy is going to improve.” —Doug Porter, deputy chief economist at BMO Capital Markets

Read the National Post Story

GLOBAL WARMING SCAM

Eyes Only – Global Warming Facts

Posted at YouTube.com July 06, 2009 | Video (3:30)

The global warming movement has gained an amazing amount of social acceptance without any kind of hard scientific evidence to support such claims. But with the help of the corporate owned main stream media the environmental movement has been hijacked and converted into a mass political movement with its goal in not preserving the planet but rather creating further forms of taxation and halting the development of the third world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_heRPK9TU4

For further information on the hoax please watch the documentary film “The Great Global Warming Swindle”.

1 hour 16 minute documentary:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=288952680655100870

PERSONAL FINANCE – BANKING

Ten Ways That Banks Rob You Blind

Minyanville Business News | July 6, 2009

Keep a wary eye on your accounts: Many banks are imposing new fees in an effort to boost earnings.

Charges—including late fees, overdraft charges, and loan-origination costs—now generate about half the banking industry’s income. A bounced check can cost as much as $30 at some banks. Then come new credit-card fees.

Major banks such as JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Wells Fargo (WFC), and Bank of America (BAC) offer the convenience of easy-to-find branches and an extensive ATM network. But regional banks such as The Apple Bank for Savings or M&T Bank (MTB) may offer a better deal to individuals. Shop around.

Planning and good money-management practices can help you avoid most fees.

Here’s what you need to know

PERSONAL FINANCE – HOME

Homemade Surface Cleaners

HOW TO MAKE THINGS ~ HOW TO DO THINGS ~ HOW TO MAKE DO

Bathrooms:

Learn how to make your own spray cleaners.

These homemade cleaners are cheap to make and always ready to use.

7 Cleaner you can make at home

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Selling Yourself in a Challenging Market

From nlp-times.com | July 2, 2009

The past 12 months have seen economies tank around the globe. Both small and large business almost everywhere have suffered and fallen (the only ones that don't seem to have experienced this fate, have been the ‘vice’ businesses). And among all the news of economic downturn we have layoffs.

The big reality hitter whether full time employee or not, there is no such thing as a sure thing or long-term employment. So how can NLP help you sell yourself in the changing economy? Can it really give you an ‘unfair advantage’ as some online companies claim.

The short answer to both is Yes. One of the businesses Tom, at nlp-times.com, runs outside of NLP Times teaches professional and graduate job hunters interview and career success skills. And a major part of what Tom teaches is an application of NLP.

Can NLP and NLP interview skills help you? Learn more at the following link.

Seven Tips Succeed In The Interview

MONEY MANAGEMENT

Good-Bye, Microsoft Money! 16 Powerful Personal Finance Programs

Wednesday, 1st July 2009 (by J.D.) 

As of today, Microsoft Money is no longer available for purchase. Microsoft has essentially conceded that there’s no demand for the product. From the website:

“With banks, brokerage firms and Web sites now providing a range of options for managing personal finances, the consumer need for Microsoft Money Plus has changed. After suspending annual updates of Money Plus in 2008, Microsoft is announcing today that we will no longer offer Microsoft Money Plus for purchase after June 30, 2009.”

Now that Microsoft has thrown in the towel, where does that leave existing users of Money and Money Plus? Some of them are worried. I’ve received several e-mails about this recently, including this one from Lee G.: “Microsoft just left us in a lurch by killing Money. Any suggestions on finance software? I’m not really a fan of Quicken, but would entertain it.”

First, it’s important to note that Microsoft intends to support Money Plus at least through 31 January 2011. Until then, you can still get stock quotes and use the software’s billpay feature. After that time, the online functions may (read: “probably will”) expire. If you’re a Microsoft Money user, you still have 18 months to find a replacement. The Money FAQ offers this helpful advice to guide you:

“A number of online personal finance management and planning tools are available, many for free, on the Web. Other software solutions may be for sale from companies other than Microsoft. For general account information and transactions, your bank Web site may provide the best solution.”

It would have been nice if Microsoft had provided a list of these “personal finance management and planning tools”. Since they didn’t, I spent a couple of hours surveying the current options. Here are 16 powerful personal finance programs to take the place of Microsoft Money:

16 powerful personal finance programs

TRAVEL | PHOTOGRAPHY

50 Things To Do For Free In Europe

Travelling to Europe this summer? Want to know how to get in to the Louvre without paying a cent? Or how to get a free meal in Milan? Check out our top fifty things to do for free in Europe...

50 Things to do for Free

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Six Most Beautiful Marshlands of China Pictures

Unique China Tours

Images/Photos

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Vivid Sydney light show

Vivid Sydney 2009, a festival of music, light and ideas takes place in Sydney, Australia until June 14. Each night a changing light show will be beamed on to the Sydney Opera House.

(15 images)

HEALTH

Canadian HIV Vaccine Ready For Human Tests

CBC News | July 1, 2009

An HIV/AIDS vaccine developed in Canada has passed safety tests in animals and the researchers are awaiting approval to begin human trials in the U.S.

“It is a very important milestone for us,” said Yong Kang, a professor of microbiology at the University of Western Ontario in London who has been working on the vaccine for 20 years.

Kang said he expects to get the go-ahead soon from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin human toxicology tests and two phases of clinical trials in the United States.

If all three trials are successful, the vaccine should be available within the next decade, Kang told CBC News on the phone while attending a meeting in South Korea.

According to a 2008 United Nations report on the global AIDS epidemic, 33 million people were living with HIV in 2007. Two million people died of causes related to the disease that year.

Read the article

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The 20 Healthiest Foods for Under $1

By: Brie Cadman at divinecaroline.com | First published July 2008

Food prices are climbing, and some might be looking to fast foods and packaged foods for their cheap bites. But low cost doesn’t have to mean low quality. In fact, some of the most inexpensive things you can buy are the best things for you. At the grocery store, getting the most nutrition for the least amount of money means hanging out on the peripheries—near the fruits and veggies, the meat and dairy, and the bulk grains—while avoiding the expensive packaged interior. By doing so, not only will your kitchen be stocked with excellent foods, your wallet won’t be empty.

The 20 Healthiest Foods for < $1

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Vegetarian Diet Linked To Weaker Bones

By Joanna Sloame, Daily News Writer | Friday, July 3rd 2009

Vegetarians have been found to have slightly weaker bones than meat-eaters, Australian researchers announced Thursday.

A joint Australian-Vietnamese study investigated the links between the diet and bones of more than 2,700 people and discovered that vegetarians had 5% less dense bones than meat-eaters, said lead researcher Tuan Nguyen.

Vegans, who refrain from eating all animal products, were mostly affected, with 6% weaker bones.

However, Nguyen found that there was “practically no difference” between the bone density of meat-eaters and ovolactovegarians, who do not eat meat or seafood but include eggs and dairy in their diets.

“The results suggest that vegetarian diets, particularly vegan diets, are associated with lower bone mineral density,” Nguyen wrote in the study published in Thursday’s edition of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

“But the magnitude of the association is clinically insignificant,” he added. As to whether vegetarians’ lower bone density is linked to an increased risk of fracture has yet to be determined, says Nguyen, who is from Sydney’s Garvan Institute for Medical Research and collaborated on the project with the Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine in Ho Chi Minh City.

“Given the rising number of vegetarians, roughly 5% (of people) in Western countries, and the widespread incidence of osteoporosis, the issue is worth resolving.” Nguyen said.

Link to Article

FREEDOM MESSAGE:

“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.”

—John Adams (1797-1801) Second President of the United Sates of America

Life is a gift; Freedom is a responsibility!

“The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.”

—Samuel Adams

The Total Takeover Of America Enters Its Final Phase

Full frontal assault on every aspect of freedom kicks into high gear as the elite twist the knife into the rotting carcass of the United States

By Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet.com | Monday, June 29, 2009

The wholesale looting of America and the transfer of wealth and power over to a private banking elite who are setting up a world government, along with the complete obliteration of any remaining freedom to protest, resist, or even speak out against this agenda, is now entering its final phase as numerous different pieces of the jigsaw puzzle fall into place and portray a clear picture of tyranny.

We are about to sound the death knell for the United States if every one of the following attacks on our liberty, free speech, sovereignty, and right to not be ruled over by an unelected banking dictatorship is not fiercely opposed and crushed.

Almost identical programs of total enslavement are also being pushed through in almost every other major western country at the same time.

Read the article

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VALUABLE INFORMATION

“Know where to find the information and how to use it – that is the secret of success.”

--Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German physicist and Winner of the Nobel Prize for physics in 1921

COMPUTERS AND INTERNET

10 Ways to Find People on Twitter

July 2nd, 2009 | by Josh Catone

Twitter is all about facilitating conversations, but until you’re following some people, it’s just a blank page. Once you find people to follow and talk to, however, Twitter becomes exceptionally useful. You can share thoughts, ask questions, get updates about news, music, brands, and businesses, and discover helpful links and information. Finding good people to follow, especially for new users staring at a blank page the first time they log in, can be a bit daunting, though.

Thankfully, there are a number of ways you can find people on Twitter. Here are ten sites you can use to locate “tweeps” to follow.

10 Ways to Find People on Twitter

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Top 10 Google Products You Forgot All About

By Gina Trapani, LifeHacker.com | Oct 24 2007

Living in the shadow of Gmail, Reader and Calendar's got to be tough, but that's what a slew of useful Google products do every day. We give Google's front-running applications a lot of ink (or pixels, as it were), and the rest a passing mention in the fast-flowing river of news. Today's top 10 pays homage to the little brother and sister Google products that you forgot all about.

Link to List

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TOYS, GEAR & STUFF:

Actual Cost To Make Popular Gadgets

By KashemMiah at ziggytek.com | Sunday, July 5, 2009 10:59PM

The cost of some of the most popular electronics in the world have now been reported by BusinessWeek. The list includes such devices as the Apple iPhone, Amazon Kindle 2, and Sony Playstation 3.

Link to Article

COOL LINKS:

Great Pictures of Animals in Capture

24 Photos

The Power of Water

Water destroyed this road in the near of Freeport, Maine in minutes. Video (3:39)

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1971770/scarify_a_road_surface/

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David M. Voth

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