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I found an interesting software package that I can hardly wait to get my hands on.

It’s called: The Gold Collection Software - Quality tools for Webmasters and Marketers. Listen to what is included:

1. Instant Membership Site Software
2. Thank You Page Maker
3. Child’s Play FTP - Quick And Easy Fully Automated FTP!
4. Affiliate Diamond - Increase Your Affiliate Commissions Automatically!
5. Download Page Protector - Stop Thieves Stealing Your Products
6. Spambot Guardian - Stop Spammers Grabbing Your Email Address
7. Weblink Checker - Avoid Broken Links Costing You Visitors And Sales
8. Easy Resell Plus - The Quick And Easy Way To Customize Ebook Mini Sites
9. Affiliate Customizer - Help Your Affiliates Sell More Of Your Products
10. Form Protector - Protect Your Forms From Hacking Attacks
11. Frame Buster - Stop Other Webmasters Misusing Your Content
12. Mini Site Customizer - Get More People Using Your Ready Made Mini Sites
13. Full Master Distribution Rights On The Whole Collection Included Free!

Are you excited yet? I can hardly wait to take all of these programs out for a spin. Number 13 sounds especially interesting. It sounds like a ton of applications that I can really use.

Check out this site! Review software in a huge variety of subjects and receive a free license to the software!

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Happy Weekend to you! Here are a few GOOD news stories from this past week. Enjoy!

Born last Wednesday by cesarean section, baby “Ai,” (means LOVE) was born to Zhang Xiaoyan, who was rescued from a building after the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan. The mother and her mother were rescued after over 50 hours in a crumbling building. Both survived and the baby was named in honor of the rescuers.

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To save a spectacular home a Canadian family is moving this 3,360-square-foot, two-story house from a suburb east of Seattle to Vancouver Island. The former owners bought the house and property for $9.4 million but they only wanted the lot. So they contacted Nickel Bros. House Moving, who listed the home for $335,000 (including the cost of the move).

The house was floated across Lake Washington, then through the Ballard Locks and out through Puget Sound. It crossed the border around noon Wednesday and was expected to arrive at its destination on Thursday.

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Doctors successfully separated twin boys joined at the head and said that the 9-month-olds are expected to have a ”very good chance” at a normal life. Doctors at Christus Santa Rosa Children’s Hospital in San Antonio performed the four-hour operation.

The babies may go home in about a week, doctors said. They were also delivered at the same hospital where the surgery was performed. Conjoined twins occur in one out of 200,000 live births, and of those only one in 50 are joined at the head.

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Troy Molde was awoken at 3 a.m. yesterday to police flashlights shining in his face. Two uniformed police officers were in his bedroom, knocking on the wall to wake him up.

They announced they were there to warn him to keep his doors closed and locked.

Their surprise visit was part of a public service campaign that sent officers across the city to leave notices on doors to remind residents how to prevent thefts by keeping garage doors closed, not leaving valuables in cars and to lock windows and doors.

For some reason at Molde’s house they went further.

His two young sons and 5-year-old twin nephews were having a sleepover in the living room. They awoke to find the officers in the house.

“I was violated, but … I wasn’t physically damaged,” Molde said concerning what he considers an invasion of privacy.

The officers told Molde his garage door was open, the TV was on, keys to his truck were left in the ignition and the door to his house was left partially open.

Police said their intrusion was justified because initial knocks by the officers went unanswered. Police then entered to see if anything was wrong.

The children were afraid to wake their dad so the officers went upstairs.

Molde, 34, said he went upstairs to bed at midnight. Molde did leave the garage door open but he remembers leaving the doors to his house closed — but unlocked. The kids fell asleep watching TV.

Three hours later he awoke to police in his bedroom. He immediately thought something was wrong.

Apparently officers left pamphlets Thursday at eight other houses in friendly reminder of ways residents can avoid becoming victims of crimes.

Police say many crimes originate with open garage doors.

Lakeville police gave Molde a reminder he won’t forget anytime soon.

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Are you a font addict? I admit it - I really, really love fonts. I even had to move all of them out of the default windows font folder and onto a special font application because I have so many. I literally have thousands. Not exaggerating! When you work with graphics at all, you develop a thing about fonts, I think. At least that’s where my love of fonts came from.

Now that I’m dabbling in internet marketing and am starting to create some websites, I’m also finding that webmasters love fonts, too!

As a person who loves fonts, finding sources of free fonts always perks up my ears. Hacking Ball Z is a huge spanish online community that has very popular sections…one of which is a new fonts section. Listen to this: They have over 31,000 “True Type Fonts” that are available for free download.

This is a spanish service, but don’t let that scare you. It’s easy to use for any Internet user. By the way…if you’re wondering…fuentes means fonts! HBZ also offers a preview of the fonts with the option to select the color of the preview. The most exciting thing is the extensive collection I found here…it’s just huge! Additionally, HBZ offers a daily updated list of proxys.

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Have you joined the big party yet?

I admit I was sorely tempted to download…really, I wanted to. Even went to their site and almost clicked. But then I decided to browse around on the support forums a bit first to see what other folks were saying and I got scared off. While I’m sure the majority of downloaders went happily on their way, some of the problems were just so nasty…and with my luck I’d be in that boat, too.

So….I’m waiting a bit. I also want to make sure that all of my most important plug-ins will work so I’ll give those authors a little more time.

I did think this was cute though. Microsoft sent a congratulatory cake to Mozilla today. It was delivered in person and was graciously accepted by the Firefox crew.

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Let’s face it. Your web host can make or break your web site and your presence on the internet. If you decide to cut a few corners or you don’t have enough experience to choose a host with all of the services and features that are essential, you WILL regret it. There’s no doubt about this.

If you are looking for a new webhost either for the first time or because you maybe didn’t make the best choice the first time, a good place to find information about the best web hosting may be Web Hosting Geeks.

This is actually a web hosting review and resource guide. They review and rate all of the web hosting services so that you can make an informed decision about the best web host for your needs.

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Food has become the new gold. Investors weary of the real-estate bubble-burst have poured millions of dollars into grain futures. This has succeeded in driving up prices even more. Now we are witnessing a global panic as nations are waging a run on our wheat harvest.
Foreign investors have begun to stockpile wheat by placing orders on US grain exchanges that are two or three times larger than normal. This has led US mills to place large orders in the fear that there would soon be no wheat left at all.
Asian countries have placed huge orders with little concern over how high the prices are going. Grain prices are currently rising more in one day than they have in entire years. Regardless of the price the grain is selling. People need to eat.
Food prices are causing upset worldwide. We are seeing an unprecedented wave of hunger rolling through the poorest nations of the world. Between early 2005 and early 2008 prices rose 80 percent according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization. So far, most of the increase is being absorbed by distributors and processors but consumers are feeling the pinch as well.
The world’s food supply and demand has grown into a situation of civil turmoil. After violent riots in Port-au-Prince, Haitian Prime Minister Jacques-Édouard Alexis was forced to step down recently. At least 14 countries have had food-related violence occur recently.
To control the unrest, some countries are digging deep to increase food subsidies. The U.N. World Food Program has issued warnings of an alarming surge in hunger in areas such as North Korea and West Africa.
Wheat has now begun to moderate slightly as farmers rush to plant more wheat now that profits are rising. Analysts predict that prices may come down possibly 30 percent in the next few months. Even so, this would still leave prices up 45 percent. Prices are not expected to go back down to where they were in early 2006 so this means that the world must accept the reality of more expensive food.
Countries that have driven up the food demand are now dealing with the cost of their own success - rising prices.
China is trying to reassure its people by announcing reserve grain holdings of 30 to 40 percent of annual production, but fears persist. There are widespread reports of grain hoarding. In India, the government recently restricted all import duties on cooking oils and banned exports of non-basmati rice. The impact in India is being felt the most among the poor.
Even in Japan, a country with a distinct aversion to genetically modified grains; manufacturers are taking a risk by importing them for use in processed foods for the first time. Inflation in the EU hit 3.6 percent in March, the highest rate since the euro was adopted almost a ten years ago. Food and oil prices are mostly to blame.
Back in the US, consumers are reducing quality and increasing quantity if something can be purchased at a better unit price.
The root cause of price surges varies from crop to crop, but the crisis is being fueled largely by an unprecedented linkage of the food chain. A big reason for higher wheat prices is the drought in Australia.
Wheat prices are also rising because U.S. farmers have been planting less or moving their wheat to less fertile ground. This is due to the fact that they are planting more corn for biofuels. At least a fifth and possibly as much as a quarter of the U.S. 2008 corn crop will be allocated for ethanol. As food and fuel combine, it has given American farmers a huge opportunity for large profits after years of stable prices.
The global food trade never became the kind of well-organized process that made the price of manufactured goods such as electronics uniform around the world. Where food has been concerned, subsidies designed to protect farmers have distorted the real price of food globally and prevented the market from normal price adjustments as global demand has risen.
If market forces had played a larger role in food trade perhaps the world would have had more time to adjust to the gradually rising prices. As it stands now, higher food prices are here to stay.

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If you are a regular user of online forums such as Craigslist or Backpage, then here is a new software application that will enable you to post ads and will give you many more features than adsoncraigs.

Craygo is a great new technology that enables you to maximize the time you spend posting ads on Craigslist (or Backpage) by cutting the time it takes to post your ad by over 50%. Craygo has more features than any other craigslist posting application out there. Craygo allows you to store your ads for future posting, automatically enters your ad data into the correct forms on Craigslist and properly submits the ads for you. Craygo even allows you to rotate and randomize an unlimited amount of email addresses. Craygo has the capability of reading and entering Captchas for you. This application can read the captcha image codes on craigslist AND backpage. You also have the ability to send an email report of your posting activity to a yourself or someone else. Craygo also allows you to specify delay or random delay before beginning your next ad posting, submitting the preview form, entering the captcha image, submitting the terms and other things.

Basic Craygo Features:

• Save all application settings and configuration

• Post as many ads as desired

• Update your copy with the click of a button

• Upload up to four images for each craigslist ad

• Design your ads exactly as you want with no HTML knowledge necessary

• Backup and Restore quickly and easily

• Preview your ads

• An up-to-date manual is included

• Support by email 7 days a week

• Post to any available city & category available on craigslist

• Use multiple emails

• Standard tokens such as time, day, wiki, month, etc.

• Bypass the “Similar Posting” message on craigslist

• Specify delay or random delay before beginning the next ad

• Create unlimited ads and campaigns

• Maximize the application for better viewing

• No need to load “post links/urls” for Craigslist

Updating your service to Craygo Elite will provide even more features and benefits and is an easy task. Definitely worth checking out if you use Craigslist!

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The health insurance system in the United States works great, as long as you stay healthy. It’s only people who need medical care who have problems.

Here is the basic scenario:

You go to the doctor and pay directly. You send your bill to the insurance company for reimbursement. You then get a form letter from your insurance company rejecting the claim. It happens frequently.

If you’re persistent, you call your insurance company and demand to know the reason the claim was rejected. The insurer gives you a form for your doctor to fill out. Your doctor fills out the form and returns it but still the insurer does not pay the bill.

If you’re very persistent, you call back your insurance company and demand to know the reason the claim has not been paid. The insurer tells you that they never received the form from the doctor. With irritation, the doctor fills out the form again. The bill is still not paid.

If you’re extremely persistent, you call the insurer again and demand to know the reason the claim was rejected. The insurance company this time tells you that the doctor filled out the wrong form.

In the end your persistence may pay off and you will get reimbursed for your claim. It helps if you are well-educated in your rights under the insurance contract, though.

What if this denial scenario involved someone who is not very well-educated, has a language barrier, or does not have the physical or mental ability to pursue the insurance company? That person might just have assumed the insurance company was right to turn down their claim and not contested the issue. Or, if they contested it once, they might have let it drop after the first round or the second.

An insurance company denies a claim initially almost as a matter of course. For the price of a stamp, they can save themselves a reimbursement that may cost them thousands of dollars. Worst case scenario, they encounter persistent people who demand that they honor their contract. When this happens they only end up paying what they would have paid in the first place and they are able to make money on the float until they do pay. They don’t face any fines or penalties for wrongly denying these claims.

What is the basis for denied claims? You can’t get that information. How often do insurers deny claims? You usually can’t have this information either.

This is not the only information that you can’t have. With most policies, when people go “out of network,” the insurance company will reimburse an amount that is 70 % to 80 % of the “reasonable and customary” rate. This rate will not typically be disclosed in advance by the insurer. This means that patients will not know how much a doctor visit will actually cost them until after the doctor submits the claim. Also, the insurer is free to change their reimbursement rate at its own discretion. In addition, the insurance company can, at its own discretion, change what procedures are and are not covered.

Most businesses don’t get to write their own rules. There is no reason to make an exception for insurers, especially since they typically are dealing with people with serious health problems. This being the most vulnerable segment of the population.

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I know we’ve touched on this before, but as summer gears up into full speed I feel it is worth mentioning again. Personally, I can use all of the energy and vitality I can get to keep up with my family as our schedules explode and everyone seems to be going in different directions simultaneously. As a mother with an active, busy lifestyle a little extra boost is something that would help me manage the many demands in my life.

One of the hottest trends in health and wellness today is vitamin B12 shots. Many influential people swear by this treatment for the energy they need to meet the demands in their lives. Simple searches on the web turn up tons of examples of how prevalently this is being used today.

Sublingual B-12 is a safe, affordable and painless B12 shot alternative. Try Sublingual B-12 from Trivita today.

B12 is a supplement that is recommended for people who have diabetes, dementia, gastric bypass and even vegans may want to consider this treatment. Trivita has sold over 10 million boxes because this is a safe and effective treatment option.

Visit www.sublingualb12.com for more information. If B-12 sounds interesting to you then why not look for an option that doesn’t require an injection?

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