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In 1983, President Reagan wrote an essay for the “Human Life Review” entitled, “Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation.” This brief writing of his pro-life philosophy was published in book form a year later. It was expanded to approximately to 95 pages with lengthy afterwords by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop and British essayist Malcolm Muggeridge. Reagan’s brief composition is probably one of the better well-argued pro-life essays ever written. It is also significant as it was the first ever by a sitting President. It was President Reagan’s attempt to awaken a nation to the implications of abortion. In this short book, President Reagan gives an account on how important the issue of abortion is to the “conscience of a nation.”

President Reagan’s essay is only 26 pages of the book, but it is well structured. He believed that diminishing the life of the unborn diminishes the value of all human life. He tackled the pro-abortion “quality of life” argument and compared it to the Dred Scott slavery issue. Reagan likened the pro-abortion argument to slavery and drew parallels between the Roe vs. Wade decision and the Dred Scot decision that divided America over a century earlier. According to Reagan, the quality of life argument is an argument for quality control of the population.

Reagan surmises that legalized abortion is a very slippery slope. He says that unborn babies are being killed because they are simply not wanted or come at an inconvenient time. He also states that many are killed because they will be unable to lead a “normal” life as the result of birth defects. Such babies are considered to be of less value and thus denied human rights. He claims this denial of human rights is accomplished by activist judges who frame the interpretation of the US Constitution through the lens of their own pro-abortion beliefs.

Reagan believes that the arbitrary evaluation of unborn lives must stop. He states that this philosophy will lead to further the crimes of infanticide and illustrates this by citing the Indiana case of “Baby Doe.” Baby Doe was allowed to starve to death because the child had Down’s syndrome. The essence of Reagan’s argument is that no nation can survive and prosper when a group of individuals look at a child and declare whether that child has value as a human being. Reagan goes on to say,

“Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide. My Administration is dedicated to the preservation of America as a free land, and there is no cause more important for preserving that freedom than affirming the transcendent right to life of all human beings, the right without which no other rights have any meaning.”

The pro-life movement will not be disappointed with Reagan’s essay, and will conclude that it contains very powerful and logical anti-abortion arguments.

If you are doing business online then you must have an email contact list.

It is absolutely essential that you be able to email your list of subscribers, customers, hot prospects or general permission based list of non-customers with information about whatever product or service that it is that you are involved with.

Email, after all, is the foundation for communication on the Internet.

Whether you have your own established list of email addresses to contact or if you use one of the 1000’s of online safe email lists to get your message out, you can boost your sales response by using a simple yet valuable email tool; an email announcement.

An email announcement is essentially an ‘Alert’ or bonus email.

You can provide your established customers an email alert about timely information on product releases or new services being offered, even before your non-customers find out about it from you or someone else.

This gives your established customers preference.

But you can use the same technique with total strangers, like those from a safe list that you recently joined, by wording your email to show that it is a “Special Announcement”.

All of us allow our attention to be captured when we see an email alert of this nature.

Whether or not our attention is retained by that email has less to do with the actual wording of the alert than with the subject matter and whether it holds any interest for us personally.

But the important thing to remember, is that the ‘Alert’ itself can capture the attention of your potential audience just long enough for them to decide if it is of interest for them.

Capturing the attention of your target market will always BOOST YOUR SALES!

Sales and executive management love to focus on closing sales – and rightfully so; if deals don’t close, revenue has no chance of being recognized. But while all of the focus and attention is on closing deals and getting business “done” this month and quarter, our real emphasis should be on getting more qualified meetings – more qualified meetings than necessary to meet revenue expectations. If you don’t get more face time with real prostpects, you don’t get more sales, you don’t get more revenue. It all begins with a continual, healthy, and ongoing pipeline of real prospects…qualified meetings.

While you’re closing business this month, what about sales next month, and the month after, and the month after that? Without focused attention, effort, and action to get more meetings, you’re likely to create peaks and valleys in your revenue – big revenue months followed by voids of significant sales.

Companies should have ongoing programs to create more and more qualified meetings, creating more sales time with prospective customers, resulting is ongoing increases in their revenue.

It is widely expected that animals communicate with each other using brain waves rather than voice. In fact much of the behavior of animals in large groups, swarms, schools, flocks and troops seem to indicate that there is non-verbal communication going on which is in much greater detail than once thought.

It would make sense from an evolutionary standpoint that those species which relied on their safety in numbers would also have developed was to quickly communicate with each other to survive. Indeed it appears in watching the behavior of herds that many of the animals all look up at the same time when one animal catches a glimpse of something triggering an anomaly reaction of curiosity, fear or alert. Are these animals tuned in their minds to the same frequency and therefore connected through a global consciousness in their local group?

Many books and research papers have been written on this subject and some have noticed that vulture type birds may fly from up to 60 miles away after one bird finds a dead animal to eat, yet we know there is no way for these birds to communicate via verbal techniques at that distance; so how do they do this?

What we need is to do more research and figure this out and use the eyes and ears of nature to help us, along with technically assisted UAV robotic craft to help us with surveillance and defeating our enemy. Once completed, we can thank the birds with the spoils of war, namely road kill enemies to eat. Think on this in 2006.

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Dreams do tell us who we are and what interests us. Dreams help creative persons to create their best.
Goethe solved many definite scientific problems in his dreams and also composed poems.

La Fontaine composed ‘The Fable of Pleasures’ in his dream.
Coleridge was in deep sleep, when 200 to 300 lines of the, ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ came to him and he was fortunate enough to wake instantly and write them. The same process occurred with Kubla Khan’.
Bernhard Palissay made one of his most beautiful ceramic pieces on dream inspiration.

Maury confesses: “I have had in dream ideas and inspiration that could never have entered my consciousness when I awake.”
R L Stevenson’s ingenious plots were evolved in his dream state. The chapter on ‘Dreams’ by him in his volume ‘Across the Plains’ contains a description of most successful dream experiments thus far recorded.
Yeats, Tennyson, Walter de la Mare, Richard Church are the poets to whom inspiration came in dreams.

Materlink also frequently dreamed parts of his books and wrote, “Unless we are guilty of
Systematic and childish incredulity, we are compelled to admit that prophetic dreams have always existed and they must definitely be classed among the most defensible acquisitions of metaphysics.”
Srinivasa Ramanujan, the great mathematical genius of Tamilnad, India worked out mathematics during dreams.

Mr. Subbarayan wrote:”Ramanujan was staying for sometime with my father in Triplicane, Madras. Both of them used to work mathematics on slates till 11.30 pm.

On several days during this period Ramanujan would get up from sleep at about 2 p.m and write down something in the slate in the dull light of the hurricane lamp. In regard to this action, he used to say that he worked out mathematics in his dreams and was jotting down the results then and there to remember them the next day.

The celebrated mathematician, Henri Poincare, tried day after day to discover some general method by which a whole group of equations could be solved. He related that one night he retired to rest, after thinking deeply on the problem for a long time, and on getting up the next morning discovered to his intense surprise on his table several sheets of paper on which he had worked out a complete solution to the problem.

In 1932, the famous naturalist Professor Agassiz was busy with his monumental study of fossil fishes. In one case he could not reconstruct the fish from the imprint left on the slab. At this juncture he experienced three dreams of the fish on succeeding nights. In the third dream the entire fish stood reconstructed before him. He then drew on paper in the dark a copy of his vision and on consulting the slab in the morning found that the dream reconstruction was correct.

There are hundreds of such incidents one may quote.
One after other the great writers, poets and artists confirm the fact that the work comes to them from beyond the threshold of consciousness.

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Many products today require some kind of integration with other products:

• Integration with corporate IT infrastructure.
• Integration with other applications.
• Integration with legacy hardware or software.
• Integration with new or up-and-coming hardware or software.

The ability of a software application to work cohesively with other applications or within different flavours of operating systems with very few integration issues is called application sociability.

When you build your application you need to consider whether integration with any of the above product types would add value to or reduce the complexity of your application. Annexing your application to a larger corporate application would add value to it. Using another application’s functionality provided via an interface can reduce the complexity of your application by making another application perform arduous tasks.

== Brand Application Considerations ==

Let us begin by considering the integration of your applications with each other. Imagine that you have two applications:

• A medical patient history application.
• An inventory application for goods.

Why not allow the two to communicate with each other via:

• A database sharing paradigm.
• COM setup
• TCP connection.
• Library/events interface for each application.

You could make the inter-communication of your software applications a saleable upgrade or addition. With your two applications listed above you could allow a doctor to prescribe a remedy through the “Medical Patient History” application that shows a list of remedies currently available requested from the “Inventory Application” held by an in-house chemist. An order can be sent directly to the chemist so that when the patient arrives their prescription it is ready to go.

Consider when building your application what sort of functionality could be useful to future applications you build.

• Does the application incorporate a major interfacing component to some other application or to a web service?
• Is there some kind of specialised functionality or calculation that could be leveraged by another application?
• What sort of integration would allow the user to create macros or scripts to automate your application?

== Latest Technology ==

Integration with the latest technology is a winning strategy for software sales. Consider how many applications were quickly available to interface with Apple’s iPod. Mobile phone technology is another example of successful application integration utilising the latest technology. Part of your integration strategy with new technology should be to choose a programming language that provides integration libraries fairly rapidly after or before a new technological release. Java is one such language with free compilers, libraries and free IDE’s available for download from Open Source archives. The Python language was incorporated into the Nokia 60’s series mobile phones allowing developers to write scripts to customise Nokia phones.

Many vendors of new technology provide free libraries and specifications to their systems to promote the creation of useful applications for their products thus increasing the their product market value.

== Corporate Systems ==

Corporate systems are usually behemoths comprised of off-the-shelf products customised to meet the company’s specific needs and smaller departmental applications built to meet each department’s individual needs.

Departmental applications usually require some kind of integration with their corporate databases. Corporate database connection is a simple integration and need not be considered here except to say you need to know the connection string or interfaces to company data repositories.

How do you integrate with corporate applications though? Applications such as Hummingbirds ‘DM5′ document management system and Telelogic’s ‘System Architect’ provide integration ability through COM objects and published object models. In fact both Hummingbird and Telelogic use Microsoft’s VB6 and VBA libraries to incorporate their own applications into the corporate environment. Applications built for the Apple Mac provide both Apple Events and the use of Python, Java and Cocoa to integrate with Apple applications and the Apple OS.

Integrative applications can:

• Increase the marketability of your applications.
• Make use of current company data.
• Reduce the complexity of your applications by leveraging from functionality provided by extant company applications or other applications you have built.
• Utilise the latest technology increasing the value of both the latest technology and the software you build.
• Provide an end-to-end solution option when your applications can integrate with each other.

My miracle happened when
I was born in this world
In one disabled body
With limited world and motion
Where hardship’s a way so common.

My miracle happened when
God called out my name
To read life between the lines
To hear His voice in dire frustration
And feel with the helpless and alone.

My miracle you see
Is not in events nor happenings
That seem spectacular or grand,
It came in little, baby steps
And in the people who gets blessed…

By God’s little miracles in me:
That in my weakness He is strong
All my “walks” He carry on,
And many see Him in my frailty
Many praise Him for what I’d be.

So if only for that and no more
There’d be no chance to ever walk
It’s fine by me so long as mine’s
A life where they see God in it
With arms they know they have a friend in,
I think it’s all worth it.

May 21,2000

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With recent hi-tech advancements for example digital TV, Hi Def Telly, Freesat and home cinema systems, if you’re existing TV machine is greater than 5 years old, then its a terrific time to purchase a brand new television. Nonetheless, as equipment develops more or less on a daily basis, obtaining a new TV machine might be incredibly complex & mystifying. John Lewis (www.JohnLewis.com) offers a range of Flat Panel LCD Televisions and Plasma TVs from top high-street brands.

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Often all the Web Surfer will see is your title, Your Title will determine if your article gets read or not. You can use these techniques together or in combination to get your articles read.

1 – Use Precise Numbers

Precise numbers seem more believable and less canned. Precise numbers working best. Here are some examples

Instead of the Title ‘How You Can Earn $500 a Day,
Use How You Can Earn $503.52 A Day

Instead of How To Lose 30 lbs in 30 Days,
Use How to Loose 42 and 1/2 Pounds in 41 Days

2 – Appeal to the Curious Side

Anything that asks a question or makes them go hmmm. Titles like

The Secrets of Rabbit Multiplication

Do you Know The Most Common Mistake People Make That ….

3 – How To

Everyone wants to know how To. How to Lose Weight, How to Save Gas. How to Make Your children Eat

4 – Emotions

Appeal to their emotions.

5 – Enumerated Lists

Enumerated list articles are very popular.

The top 10 things you can do..

7 ways to …

Do You know the 5 Most Important.

The numbers 5, 7, 10 seem to be used a lot. I find that numbers like 8, 9, 11 and 17 work best. Avoid the Dreaded 13.

6 – Guarantee

Titles with the word Guarantee seem to work great.

7 – The Best

Titles with the word the Best seem to work Great

8 – Combine Methods.

This Title Combines the below Methods
10 Tips to Get Started in The Best Home Based Business for Practically Anyone from 18 to 83 Guaranteed. Do you See How?

Use Precise Numbers

Enumerated Lists

Guarantee

The Best

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I’m going to reveal a lead-generation selling formula, you can make a fistul of dollars with.

It’s a lot of fun to use, but it’s often over-looked.

Want to know what it is?

O.K., I’ll tell you. It’s…

Sweepstakes!

And here’s how you can start using sweepstakes as a lead generation tool, to build your list of prospects:

Let’s say you own a retail furniture store. Here’s what you do:

You run a display ad (or even better yet, you use several press releases) that says you’re going to be giving away a brand new set of living-room furniture valued at $10,000 Dollars, delivered to the person who comes into your store… registers for the contest… and comes closest to guessing how many square feet your entire furniture showroom display area is.

The person who guesses closest, gets the furniture delivered straight to the front door of their home.

You should film that entire delivery, by the way, and have that video clip playing on a television monitor over-and-over again at the front of your store, to build enthusiasm up for your next sweepstakes.

Also, if you’re really clever… team up with a local interior decorator and tell people you’ll be giving away a professionally designed custom layout as well, courtesy of this interior decorator.

Let your sweepstakes entrants know, the charge for the interior designer alone is worth “X” dollars.

Or, you could even team up with one of your furniture suppliers, and instead of having a “Guess how many square feet our showroom is” contest, you can have a “Tell me how many king size [insert your furniture supplier's name here] beds we have in our showroom” contest.

See which of your suppliers would be willing to share the cost of your contest with you, or maybe they’d spring for the whole shebang.

Anyway, you call your lead-generating contest:

“The $10,000 Dollar Sweepstakes!”

Then, you promote the living daylights out of it!

You do a direct mail piece promoting it (postcards may even work in this case)… use your local val-paks… run display ads… have banners announcing your sweepstakes all over your store… and you give every single interior decorator and moving company you know, brochures about it, to hand out to their clients.

This does 3 things for you:

First, it gets people interested in you.

Second, it forces people to come into your store to sign up and register to win the sweepstakes. You automatically get foot-traffic, and the names and addresses of qualified leads, you wouldn’t have had without the sweepstakes.

And third, since your prospects have to guess how large your showroom is, it forces them to walk around your entire store in order to make any kind of accurate “square footage” guess, right? And do you have any idea what each-and-every one of these qualified leads will be doing when they’re browsing up and down each of your lovely furniture showroom aisles?

They’ll be checking out all your furniture!

Mom’s will be thinking “Oh, this would look so nice in the baby’s room.”

And seniors will be saying “Wow, that would look great outside on our patio.”

And crooked CEO’s like Ken Lay from Enron will be licking their chops, saying “Hey, I can use a bunch of my shareholder’s money to buy all those brand new top-of-the-line Herman Miller chairs, for all the guys back at the office!”

Whatever.

The point is, people aren’t just going to come in, see your “$10,000 Dollar Sweepstakes” sign-up booth at the front desk, fill out the form, toss their entry into the box, and then leave.

Now at first blush, you might think giving away $10,000 Dollars worth of furniture is a lot to give away for FREE.

But au contraire… let’s look at the numbers here. Remember, before you ever make any kinds of marketing decisions, you must look at your numbers.

Because…

You are in the numbers business first, NOT… the marketing business!

So… here are some numbers:

Let’s say, over a 90-day period, you get 1,500 people to sign up. That’s an average of 17 people a day, which… between you and your interior decorator, and maybe a local moving company (who will do the delivery)… should be very do-able, especially with all the “weekend” traffic, furniture stores tend to attract.

(Oh, and by the way — depending on the sweepstakes rules in your state, you may even be able to say up front “This sweepstakes is only valid if we receive 2,000 entries.”, or whatever numbers work for you.)

And… let’s say your average customer sale is $1,000 dollars.

This means, you’ll need to make 10 sales to at least break even on the deal — now. Plus, whatever it costs you to promote your sweepstakes, so… let’s say you need to make 12 sales to make this promotion break even.

What you have to ask yourself, is… will you make 12 sales, to the 1,500 people who’ve come into your store and signed up for your sweepstakes?

That’s one sale, to every 125 people who come sauntering through your front doors.

Can you do this?

Honestly, I don’t know.

It depends on what your conversion ratio of prospects-to-customers is. Meaning, how many of your prospects, do you actually convert into paying customers?

But at least, now you have a working formula to use, so you can figure out what numbers you need, to make this sweepstakes of yours work!

Plus remember… you’re using this sweepstakes to generate leads for future sales, not for making sales today, right?

So what you also have to take into consideration, is…

How many sales will you make over the next 12 months, by sending out a monthly marketing piece to all these 1,500 qualified new leads you’ve now got?

After all, isn’t that what you’re supposed to be doing with your qualified leads, anyway?

And this translates into, “Will you be able to make a sale to 1 out of every 125 people who came through your doors, sometime during the next 12 months?”

Well, even if you’re only a halfway decent copywriter… as long as you’re consistently making these prospects a compelling offer each-and-every-month…

You Should Be Able To Do That!

Sweepstakes are especially good for retail stores, since they seem to have a hard time building their prospect list up.

It’s tough to get people’s name and address when they come in your store, especially if they’re just browsing and they don’t buy anything.

And why are sweepstakes so effective at generating qualified leads for you?

The answer is simple: For the most part, people don’t go out of their way to enter sweepstakes for items they don’t want, or wouldn’t buy at some point in time, on their own.

And really, almost any business can run a sweepstakes.

Like if you’re a hotel, raffle off an overnight stay in one of your better rooms. Then you do the same thing the furniture store owner did — you make a consistent offer to each and every person who signed up to win the overnight stay.

When you’re running a sweepstakes to generate leads, you must remember the purpose of “lead-generation”. And that is, sometimes it’s easier to build up your list of leads, so you can make consistent offers to your prospects, than it is to just try and sell them something directly.

(For more information on using “2-Step” lead-generating selling formulas, see my article and “2-Step” writing samples here.)

And running a sweepstakes is a fun and exciting way to get your prospects motivated and all fired-up about your business.

Do you know the most popular sweepstakes ever ran? (Yes, even more popular than “Ed McMahon’s Publishers Clearinghouse Sweepstakes!)

Well, the most popular sweepstakes ever ran, was put on by AOL in April, 2004. Over 1 Million people entered the contest to win a Porsche Boxter seized by federal authorities, from a major internet spammer.

And let me ask you this: Do you think AOL did just a “little” marketing to those 1 million entrants?

Did you know, if AOL only got a 0.25% conversion rate, of entrants who eventually became AOL subscribers (that’s 1 out of every 400 people)… even at the lowest AOL subscriber plan of only $24 Dollars a month, this turns into…

$60,000 Dollars A Month… or… $720,000 Dollars A Year… Forever… For AOL!

Ka-ching! Not bad, hey?