Astounding Language

March 1, 2005

The average household freezer is a silent slave. It operates
year in and year out, requiring nothing other than a constant
supply of electricity. Eventually, though it may need to be
replaced.

The following are a few considerations that will allow you to
make an informed decision about its purchase.

Most consumers have only a few concerns (other than price) when
purchasing a freezer:

1 … What size do I require? 2 … How much electricity will it
consume? 3 … What (if any)options do I need?

Size ————————————–

Size of course depends upon your needs. Generally though, most
people purchase too large a freezer. They base their judgement
upon perceived usages rather than real usage. Their reasoning
is: We “might” need a larger one in case there “may be” a
special at the grocery store on something. The reality though is
that most freezers end up being operated only half full.

Also, remember that all frozen foods should be consumed within
six weeks. Foods stored longer than that can become dehydrated
no matter how well wrapped. As the moisture leaves the food both
taste and nutritional value will be lowered. So anything stored
longer than six weeks will probably end up being thrown out. As
an example, how much ice cream have you thrown away because ice
crystals started to form inside the package? That ice forming
inside the package is dehydration at work.

Therefore, when trying to decide how big a freezer to purchase
we suggest using what we call the “six week rule”.

To use this rule you first approximate how much “frozen” food
your family consumes in a six-week period. Then envision how
much space those items would require if stacked on your kitchen
counter. That will give you an idea of the physical size of
freezer you require.

Lastly, don’t forget that the chest style freezer will require
twice the floor space of an upright. This may be an important
factor if you live in an apartment.

Electricity consumed ————–

Although freezers are efficient consumers of electricity they
will definitely increase your electrical bill.

An upright freezer consumes more electricity. This is because
every time it is opened the cold air spills out onto the floor.
Consequently, it runs more frequently. Also today’s uprights are
often frost free, which by their nature consume much more
electricity. So we have to pay for the advantage of not having
to defrost it.

Chest freezers are more efficient consumers of electricity
because the cold air lies inside even though the lid is lifted
to access the contents. But, chest types are manual and will
need to be shut down and defrosted once a year.

Are there ways to lower the electrical consumption of our
freezers? Perhaps.

To lower electrical consumption some people only use their
freezer seasonally. During summer and fall, when freshly grow
food is available, they clean out the freezer and turn it off.
It is started back up again for winter and spring usage. This
practise is common with gardeners who primarily want to store
their fall vegetables. Seniors also do this because getting out
in the winter is more difficult. Therefore they use a freezer to
reduce the number of trips to the grocery store.

Some people are now suggesting a practice called freezer
blocking to lower consumption. This entails filling any unused
space in the freezer with blankets or boxes of insulation. The
theory is that only the food area would be cooled because air
circulation is being blocked off from unused sections. The
smaller the space being cooled, the less the freezer should
operate.

Others suggest filling unused space with containers of water.
They would become frozen and act as a thermal media that in
theory would lower the run time of the freezer. The jury is
still out on these ideas. To me seems like an over reaction by
people who bought too large a freezer in the first place.

Options required ——————–

Since most freezers are relegated to the basement they are not
an appliance that needs to look pretty. Neither do most
consumers feel a necessity for them to have many options. Most
are simply regarded as large storage boxes where frozen foods
are kept for later usage.

Recently though manufacturers they have been offering a few more
options. Things such as frost free, built in alarms, digital
temperature displays, push button controls, and quick freeze are
now on the market. All options on a freezer can serve a purpose
but must be offset with the possibility of increased complexity.
The more complex a device the more possibility of it breaking
down. Plus, along with complexity usually comes increased cost.

One of the more unusual things you will see comes from Haier
America. It is a chest style freezer with a pull out drawer at
the bottom. The upper half is a basic chest freezer for long
term storage. The lower half allows quick access via a drawer
that slides out. The idea is that the drawer section is for
items that need to be frozen - but will be used within a few
days.

Summing Up ————————-

Food preferences have changed significantly in the last decade.
We are eating less beef and more poultry and vegetables.
Consequently, consumers now store less than 50 pounds of beef at
any time.

Twenty years ago freezers sold would average fifteen to twenty
cubic feet. Today the most popular size for a freezer is seven
to twelve cubic feet. Again a reflection upon the fact that more
people are consuming fresh foods rather than frozen.

Household freezers come in either a chest style or an upright
style.

If you are looking for convenience, then the upright freezer
is for you. Obviously, its design allows you to get to the food
easily. Simply reaching into an upright requires less
flexibility than leaning into a chest freezer.

Chest freezers tend to be more efficient to operate and
consume less electricity.

Chest freezers are usually manual and will need to be
defrosted once per year. Many upright freezers though are
self-defrosting.

If you expect to use the freezer for long-term storage a chest
is better because they operate at a lower temperature than an
upright.

So it is time to finally make that choice of what to buy.
Hopefully, some of the ideas above will help you make an
informed decision. Remember to take a close look at the
Energuide before purchasing. It offers a lot of information to
help with an informed decision. But more on the Energuide in
future issues.

It is not a coincidence that when I look back at my school days and I think about who did what with their life. I quickly realize that those who had few false starts with their education had a member in their family go to college before them.

Some people are lucky if one of their parents, aunt or uncle had trod the path before them and can hand them over the treasure map. Perhaps the treasure map is outdated but it will have enough landmarks for them to find their way through the labyrinth of graduate education that include things like how to carry out a college scholarship search and how to search for your college of choice .

If you are the first in your family to go to college sometimes you have only second hand information to go on. But second hand information can still be good enough.

My defining moment was when I found out from the friend of a friend who incidentally heard from the son of our careers officer that they had been able to find money to go to college. Interestingly he didn’t call it money those are my words. He called it “A Scholarship” I later found out that this was “Free Money”. Yes free money. As in, you don’t have to pay it back.

Here my story begins.

I asked around to make sure that what I had heard wasn’t gossip and yes it was confirmed by some of my teachers. I suppose the moral of the story at this point is that if you don’t ask you don’t get.

I found the office. It was a charitable organization based in the main library of our town. I had been to the library many times before. I had even seen the closed door to the scholarship office before, but because there were no signs on the door I had always assumed it was access to the library store room and guessed it was kept closed for security reasons. Nothing is what is seems, so be diligent.
A quick chat about eligibility followed. Application forms were handed over. They were promptly completed and returned to the office and to my amazement within a month I was called for an interview.
I can tell you now that my academic record was not responsible for me getting the scholarship. It was just above average with some false starts. Startled by this I hand to find out. So I asked. Their response was.

“You were so enthusiastic about your subject during the interview process despite your false starts that we were confident that you could overcome any problems in the future.
We like to support people that can overcome obstacles as you will encounter many in your life. You have shown that you can, with some of your false starts.”

Thanks to this charitable trust I was able to go to college and study Applied Biology on a four year scholarship. I don’t want to blow my own trumpet here because that is not what I am about but bigger and better things followed. That is a full time job with a biotechnology company with a two year grant to study for a master’s degree in molecular pathology in part time mode. I graduated with distinction and this led to an offer of a three year grant to study for a PhD in chemical pathology. All this from the humble beginnings of a visit to a charitable trust in my local town library that I had always thought was a store room. Be diligent and persevere.

Kenneth Harrison is the author of the report Find Scholarships Fast. Drop by http://www.learnaboutscholarships.com/report.htm for your free copy whilst it is still available.

“In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect
savings from confiscation through inflation.” ~Alan Greenspan,
1966 One of the things every investor quickly discovers is that
there are no sure deals or “can’t lose” investments in this wild
and wooly world. There is always risk in the marketplace.
Always. The key to success is to weigh the pros and cons of
every investment, and determine the prospects of success. I
remember a time when we were told that old rare coins were a
“guaranteed” moneymaker. During the 1970s and 1980s, Salomon
Brothers published an investment index that showed that the
price of rare coins had never declined.

During this time, Harry Browne appeared in an ad on the Howard
Ruff Show holding a silver dollar, and declared, “They aren’t
making any more of these…”

But limited supply isn’t the only determination of price. Demand
is also important, and demand for collectibles fell sharply
after 1989. The Professional Coin Grading Service produces a
long-term rare coin index: the PCGS 3000 Index. For the past 10
years, rare coins have had their ups and downs. Right now, they
are enjoying a major bull market, though they have a long way to
go to match the dizzy heights of the late 1980s.

Now Is a Good Time to Buy “Old Money”

I’ve always had a fascination with historical coins and
currency, and now is a good time to buy. Old money is hot! I
recommend you buy coins you actually enjoy owning and learning
about. For example, several months ago I bought two Roman coins
for my wife. She teaches Sunday School, and was thrilled to
receive as a birthday gift coins with the image of Caesar
Augustus, the Roman emperor who ruled in the New Testament
period.

One day, she passed around the coins to her class, and everyone
was fascinated to hold coins that existed in Jesus’ time. She
told the story of when Jesus was asked if it was okay for Jews
to pay taxes to the Romans. Jesus asked to see a coin. “Whose
image is on the coin?” he asked. “Caesar,” they said. Then Jesus
declared famously, “Render unto Caesar the things that are
Caesar’s and unto God the things that are God’s.”

Roman coins sell for several thousand dollars apiece, depending
on condition and rarity. (At a sale of Roman gold coins in May
in Zurich, some top-quality coins sold for double their
estimates.)

Valuable Coins, Valuable Lessons…

Last year, I taught a class on Money and Banking to 120 students
at Columbia University. I spent some time educating them on the
origin and mysteries of money, and why paper money has value
today - even though it’s not redeemable in gold, silver or other
assets.

The great Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises answered this
puzzler with his “regression theorem.” Un-backed paper money has
value today because it used to be backed by gold and silver -
until we went off the gold standard in 1933 and the silver
standard in 1964. I drove home the point by giving each student
an 1881 uncirculated silver dollar. Why 1881? Because it is the
date that Ludwig von Mises was born. I buy “Morgan” silver
dollars in rolls of 20 - in uncirculated condition - and give
them to friends and relatives as gifts, and sometimes as tips
for a job well done. The Rare Coins I’m Buying Now: Unusually
Good Deals for Extraordinary Currency

Lately, I’ve been buying the 2005 American Eagle Silver Dollars,
which are slightly larger than the Morgans, and have exactly one
troy ounce of silver in them. The American Eagles cost less than
$10 each - a real bargain. Common dated Morgan silver dollars in
BU condition sell for less than $30. (Lately, rare coin dealers
have been hoarding the Morgans and repackaging and selling them
on television, thus driving up the price. Buy them now before
it’s too late.) Your best bet is to buy high quality coins. I
also love to collect gold coins, especially the Saint-Gaudens
Double Eagles and the foreign gold bullion coins, such as the
Mexican 50 Peso, the Canadian Maple Leaf, and the Vienna
Philharmonic (with musical instruments on one side and the opera
house on the other).

As you can see, you do have some choices when it comes to
investing in rare coins. But do be sure to buy high-quality
coins, whichever ones you choose.

What’s Lurking Beneath The Waves?

People often seek ocean vacations to escape their winter woes. Ocean dangers do exist, especially when daring people venture into the ocean on their own.

Sharks are probably the first threat people think of, especially since the movie “Jaws” was released. Although highly-publicized, shark attacks are relatively rare.

Other dangers involve currents such as rip tides and undertows. Proper instruction and flotation devices can assist one in surviving unpredictable ocean currents.

There is one threat that most ocean visitors are at a total loss to deal with: jellyfish.

What’s So Bad About Jellyfish?

Jellyfish are marine invertebrates having a bell-shaped, jelly-like substance enclosing their internal structure. Most species have tentacles covered with stinging cells that can stun or kill other ocean life. Most jellyfish use this stinging defense to catch prey or to defend themselves.

Most jellyfish are not very dangerous to humans, but a few are highly toxic. A recently discovered Australian species is suspected of causing two deaths there.

You may be swimming with jellyfish and never even know it. Many are tiny with unnoticeable stings. However, if you ever get caught in the stinging tentacles of a larger jellyfish, panic is likely, as this author can attest.

What To Do If Stung By A Jellyfish

Try not to panic! Thrashing will only increase the amount of stings you will receive. Next, notify someone immediately who can help you get out of the water. If you are stung by a rare and toxic jellyfish, drowning is possible, so get to the beach or on board a boat.

Seek a doctor’s assistance immediately! Most people won’t even know what happened to them. Only trained medical help can properly evaluate the severity of the stings and the appropriate treatment.

Most people will not seek medical help. Instead, they rely on home remedies for jellyfish stings seen on television or told to them by locals. It is a mystery why sting victims don’t seek immediate medical assistance.

If you were bitten by a snake, would you wait and see what happens? Of course not - you would go to the emergency room as fast as possible! Stings or bites from any sea creature, including jellyfish, sea urchins, rays and others, should be considered the same as a snake bite and treated accordingly.

Jellyfish sting home remedies usually involve the application of human urine, a solution of meat tenderizer, or fresh water to the site of the stings.

Some of these home remedies are wrong, and will make the situation worse.

Why Most Home Remedies For Jellyfish Stings Are Wrong

The jellyfish evolved in the ocean, so it’s stinging defenses are optimized for use in salt water. The use of fresh water will increase the venom injection of any stingers still stuck in the victim!

Likewise, massaging the sting area, or using alcohol, spirits, ammonia, or urine will also encourage the release of venom.

The mythical urine cure is probably the most misunderstood, yet is likely the most well-known. It was popularized on the television comedy “Friends” in the episode “The One With the Jellyfish.”

How To Deactivate Jellyfish Sting Venom

If you can’t get to a doctor, the first step in properly treating jellyfish stings is to deactivate the stinging cells still stuck in the victim. The following deactivation solutions may be used:

* A 5% percent acetic acid solution (available commercially as white vinegar) is the preferred method.

* Solutions of meat tenderizer, or sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) will neutralize any stingers that have not yet released their poison. Meat tenderizer should not be left on the skin for more than 15 minutes.

* None of these substances should be used in the eyes. In the case of stings on or near the eyes, dip a towel in the deactivating solution and dab it around the eyes, but not directly into open eyes.

* Salt water can be used if none of the above products are available.

Removing Jellyfish Stingers

After the stingers are deactivated, persons with protective clothes and gloves should carefully remove any tentacles from the victim.

Any remaining embedded stingers should then be removed. This can be done by applying shaving cream to the affected area. Carefully scrape the sting area with a sharp surface, such as a razor, a knife blade, or even a sharp plastic edge such as a credit card.

Mild skin irritation can be soothed with the use of over-the-counter antihistamines containing diphenhydramine (such as Benadryl ™).

These Treatments Are Not Substitutes For A Doctor

Always see a doctor if you are stung or bitten by a jellyfish or any other sea creature. These jellyfish sting home remedies are not meant to replace a doctor’s expertise. You may wish to begin applying the proper care as first aid while waiting for the ambulance. If you do, tell the paramedics and doctor what steps you have taken.

But whatever you do, please don’t urinate on your jellyfish-stung friend. Although it makes for a funny story later, it will make your friend’s pain - and humiliation - worse.

To learn more about using common ingredients to cure uncommon illnesses, please refer to the resource shown below.

Doug Smith offers free home remedies at www.SuperHomeRemedies.com Use mayonnaise, duct tape, yogurt, banana peels, cola, mouthwash, peroxide and common items to cure embarrassing conditions.

Why not build a Christian family enterprise with the energy, funding, and infrastructure that would otherwise build the state or private educational institutions?

It is common knowledge today that serious moral problems exist in families, churches, schools, colleges, corporations, and political arena. These problems have academic, moral, and philosophical roots reaching back centuries, and have been promoted by the systematic separation of knowledge from faith in God. The significant amount of teaching required to equip people with the ability to discern the times and apply Scripture by faith to all areas of life, requires diligence in all areas of learning, and at all levels of education.

Secular universities are openly hostile to the Christian worldview, and the best of the Christian colleges cannot replicate the family away from home. Nehemiah Institute worldview assessment of 1177 students in 18 Christian colleges over 7 years demonstrated that Christian students are graduating from Christian institutions with a secular humanism worldview, even where their professors have a Biblical Theist worldview. Even the above average Christian colleges are little better than their secular counterpart because the curricula are developed under the same institutional accreditation guidelines, the same text books are used, many of the faculty were trained at secular institutions, and the family learning context is ignored.

Even the best of Christian distance education does not purposefully involve the family in the learning process, nor couple with individual family convictions, nor uses the family knowledge base, nor earns family income. It is time to unplug institutional higher education and bring higher education home.

The establishment of family universities and networks based on the fellowship of the church is one solution. This can help individuals and families implement the Christian philosophy of education through developing their own family university and complementary business as a part of the dominion mandate (Psalm 8).
University education needs to be reinvented with a Biblical understanding to strengthen the family and church. Christian people can easily learn how a family university can uniquely provide the humble, relational, and Spirit led ideal Biblical higher education for their young adults to participate in building a strong Christian family, church and culture.

The benefit of a network for learning was forseen by Ivan Illich, philosopher of the 1970s who spoke in favor of home education. He stated that “If the networks I have described could emerge, the educational path of each student would be his own to follow, and only in retrospect would it take on the features of a recognizable program. The wise student would periodically seek professional advice: assistance to set a new goal, insight into difficulties encountered choice between possible methods. Even now, most persons would admit that the important services their teachers have rendered them are such advice or counsel, given at a chance meeting or in a tutorial. Pedagogues, in an unschooled world, would also come into their own, and be able to do what frustrated teachers pretend to pursue today.” Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society, 1970.

There is only one such family university network in operation at this time, but the time has come for this concept and therefore this is likely just the beginning of home schooling expanding into home college.

Dr. James Bartlett, PhD, PE ret., is President of Bartlett University which hosts the Family University Network with its Christian business incubator. Dr. Bartlett and his wife Lynn homeschool four boys in the Turtle Mountains of North Dakota. Dr. Bartlett can be contacted by calling 701-263-4574 or visiting http://bartlettuniversity.com.

Every business requires sales to function. Every business owner often wonder, how do I get more sales?

Most businesses often start with the traditional marketing methods such as flyers distribution, mailing of sales brochures, cold call, cold fax and of course word of mouth.

Now, all there any more cost effective marketing method? There definitely is .

Search engine marketing to lower the cost of acquiring customer and branding. It has effectively done so for many fortune 500 companies and SMEs, so why not you?

What is search engine marketing, pay per click? Yahoo and Google, two of the biggest search engine offers an online marketing service which you will pay to them to display your advertisement when people search for keywords related to your business.

Example

I am in the web design industry. I selected the keywords, Web design company. (There is broad base, exact match and other options when defining your keywords which I will touch on later.) Someone on the internet either uses Yahoo! and Google search for the word, web design company and my advertisement in text will show up. For Yahoo!, on the top of the search results while for Google either on the top 2 of search results or the right side of the search results.

How can this lower cost for acquiring customer?

For different industry, the cost is different, but for most industry, it cost between $0.50 to $1.50 per click to bring one visitor to their web site. Now, assume your average cost per click is $1.00 and assuming your web site is well built to convert visitors contact you to become a sales lead. We assume a 10% conversion to sales lead per 100 visitors. So, for 100 visitors, it will cost you $100.00. In every 100 visitors, 10 people will contact you regarding your business products or services. So, $100.00 divided by 10, it will be $10.00 per sales lead. Now, isn’t this the cheapest way of acquiring sales lead?

No? Consider word of mouth marketing, if you value your work at $20.00 per hour and it takes you 1 hour to get the message across for every person you meet to promote your business. Wouldn’t that cost you more than $10.00 per sales lead?

The best part of search engine marketing?

Search engine marketing is targeted, people who only are interested in your products will search for keywords related to your product. (Of course you got to know what is the best keywords to advertise.) Search engine marketing budget is restrictable. You can set whatever budget you want for your marketing effort online. The process is always the same except the result is only vary by the amount you are willing to spend.

Thus, many companies who think they cannot afford to market are wrong. Search engine marketing is available for every business, however, do it the right way by doing some research yourself or hire the professionals to get the best result.

Adrian Lee is CEO of VibrantStyle
A Singapore Internet marketing company that builds web sites that focus on professional SEO friendly web design & web application.

Practice is something you should try for every day. Give it all
you can. If you have difficulty with any part, slow down,
practice slowly. Try introducing an interval of at least 1
second between each count until your playing accuracy has
improved. It isn’t necessary for you to play any piece at the
correct speed right from the start. If you slow down a bit your
accuracy will improve and then you will find it easy to speed up.

Practice should not be a chore and a bore but an interesting
journey of discovery. You should have no trouble getting
motivated to practice because you should look forward to it as
an enjoyable experience. You should practice as often as you can
and practice slowly and carefully. You will be surprised at how
quickly you can progress with careful repetition. What at first
seems almost impossible suddenly becomes easy.

You see, playing music well happens when you cease making a
conscious effort. A concert pianist, for example, doesn’t sit at
the keyboard and think; “Right! I will now depress the C key
with the 3rd finger of my left hand and at the same time depress
the E with the 1st finger and the G with the Thumb and at the
same time I must remember to play 5 keys with my right hand”
etc. etc. What happens is that he sits down, calmly and plays.
There is no conscious thought commanding the muscles of his hand
to move his fingers. He relies on MUSCLE MEMORY. This happens
when something is practiced so often that conscious thought is
no longer necessary. It is subconscious and the muscles react
automatically. If you find this hard to believe then I suggest
you suspend your disbelief until you have proven it to yourself
and prove it you will. It always surprises me that I can sit
down at the keyboard and attempt a piece I haven’t played for a
year or so and find that my hands produce the tune
automatically. There is no thought as to what is the next note,
my fingers are there playing them. Hard to believe? Well any
accomplished musician will tell you the same thing.

It’s the same with anything that requires muscle coordination.
Golf for instance. If you had to repeat to yourself all of the
things you had to remember regarding stance, eye on the ball,
right arm straight etc etc, you would be a lousy golfer. It is
only when you stop thinking about these things and rely on
muscle memory that your golf game takes off.

And what does all this boil down to? Practice. Constant, careful
repetition.

Now, we all have varying degrees of talent. Some people seem to
pick new ideas up very quickly and some are a bit slow but the
people who do the best are the people who do it the most. Take a
person with only average musical ability who makes a special
effort and that person will become far more successful than the
person with exceptional musical ability who, perhaps because
they are gifted, make little or no effort. Look at some of the
most successful entertainers today. It is not that they are
particularly gifted. They succeed because they try harder and
believe in their success more. Did you know that anybody can
sing? It isn’t a special gift given only to a few. The truth is
that anybody with vocal chords can sing. It’s just that some
like doing it and practice it to the point were they become
outstanding at it. It’s the same with keyboard instruments. You
can become an outstanding musician with patient, constant,
careful repetition.

It is not just practice though. It has to be meaningful practice
and if you are lucky to be learning with the “Learn To Play
Keyboards” course it provides a step by step guide to keep you
on the right track. You see, if you practice the wrong way of
doing something, you will become very good at doing something
the wrong way. For your practice to be worthwhile you have to be
sure that you are practicing the right things. Trying to play a
keyboard instrument without the right guidance will severely
limit your progress and you will eventually give up. Stick with
doing things the right way and your success is assured. The old
saying ‘Practice makes perfect’ is quite true. The more you do,
the better you will be and the quicker will be your progress.
Please realise that by regular practice your playing will be
more enjoyable and you are paving the way to success, fun and
friendship when your standard of playing improves and your
talent becomes known to others.

Remember your elementary school days when drawing a picture of a flower at school would suffice as a beautiful piece of artwork to display on your refrigerator? At least, your mom and dad thought so…

This time around, you are older, and you probably do not have the desire to draw, nor post your personal art on the family fridge. But mentioning this does have meaning, because Christmas is approaching, a time to reflect on your loved ones, and the memories that you treasure with them. Specifically, your parents, recipients of your many pieces of childhood art, can be reminded of your sentimental artwork with a decorative flower picture.

Giving your parents a flower picture will be a reminder of your childhood artwork. This time though, you have opted to give them such a picture that can hang as a decorative ornament, not just on your fridge. Displayed in the kitchen or living room walls, or as a bathroom decoration, a flower picture will add beauty to the setting of a room.

A distinctive kind of picture

A unique style of art, this kind of picture brings fresh flowers pressed and preserved between two pieces of glass, and enjoyed as an exquisite display of floral art. Real flowers, whether displayed in a frame or in a vase, will add a colorful presence to the room. Especially during the holidays, when decorations are frequent, flower pictures or displays will bring a refreshing outdoor creation into the home.

A unique decoration

Especially during Christmas, decorations in the home will be frequent with a Christmas tree in the living room, a holiday wreath at the front door, or Christmas lights radiating the home. Likewise, a décor as small as a flower picture will capture the holidays with ivy leaves or red verbena, displayed on the wall.

This Christmas, think a bit outside of the box and don’t refer to the traditional gifts you’re used to giving your parents. Instead, decorate your parents’ home with a wall decoration, perhaps a flower picture, or something else to help beautify the home you grew up in. Your parents will appreciate a home decoration such as a flower picture because it brings on sentimental value. Only this time around, your flower picture will be more deserving than being placed on a refrigerator door!

Wall-Art-Concepts offers one-of-a-kind, handcrafted, pressed floral art, including flower pictures for the walls of your home.

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A friend in Atlanta sent me a private email directing me to a website he thought I ought to check out. He knew I was disillusioned with affiliate marketing and had all but chucked in the towel.

And with good reason; I had never earned a dime for all my efforts spanning almost three years. But I’d spent money; money I’d accumulated from marketing my own produce, loads of money on this and that piece of software promising to get me out of the rut and into the money.

But it never happened.

That is until I opened my friend’s email, visited the website he suggested, and had my eyes opened to where and how I had been going so wrong for too long.

What I was witnessing is the only genuine training and resource center on affiliate reselling that I have ever come across; no hype, no hard-sell, no rash promises; just a whole raft of workable tools, tips and techniques - and all in bite size chunks that even the newest newbie would have no problem in understanding.

I read the solitary web page from tip to toe, read it all again, and decided to try out just one of the recommended strategies and give it a week or so to produce even a glimmer of a result.

Here’s what happened just a few hours later…

I signed in at ClickBank to check on the returns for my own personally generated products only to discover that small unidentified amounts had been tricking into my account totally $157. These represented my first ever affiliate commissions and by the end of the day had amounted to $210.

Not a bad return on my subscription fee of less than ten dollars for lifetime membership to this remarkable resource center. And now, four days later, and although the daily totals are smaller, the money is still trickling in each time I clock into ClickBank.

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