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We have seen countless articles, books, manuals, and videos over the years on how to make money blogging. Most of these are fragmented in nature. We have also pointed out to our readers that “content is king” and that patience is a virtue when it comes to monetizing your website. Our site for instance has been active since 2003, 6 years and we have learned how to not only cover our server costs, but also generate a modest revenue stream to reinvest in our site, other products and generate additional services for our readers and customers.
This past week I had a chance to review, WordPress Wizard 2.0 program , developed by Max Blog Press, is one of the more comprehensive approaches for generating revenue from a WordPress based website I have seen in our 6 years of on-line publishing. Their site contains an excellent video to help you understand their program. The program itself consists of over 50 step by step videos that demonstrate HOW to use all the common tools out there — not just “conceptually how”. It’s not free of course, but if you are serious about generating income with your site, and/or have formed a business in your state related to eCommerce from your website, an investment of under $100 for one of the best step by step programs we’ve seen is a super bargin. Especially when compared to prevailing formal commercial B2B internet marketing and consulting fees. Its like the LegalZoom of the top SEO eCommerce consultants. We use just about every one of these marketing tools today on our site, and in fact learned about a few more that we haven’t even considered!
While the landing page itself may seem a bit over marketed, the materials and approach on the other hand are very sound.
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Shocking information about directives on Pages 425-430 of the House Health Care Bill.
Listen to the details regarding Pages 425-430 in the Health Care Bill focused on by Dr. Betsy McCaughey, former New York Lt. Governor and Chairman of the Committee To Reduce Infectious Deaths, in a Fred Thomson Show interview. She has actually taken to time to READ the details in the proposed House Bill of 1018 pages and was especially shocked at page 425 – 430. Page 430 mandates a “New Benefit” for patients and families which is essentially counseling on how to cut your life short. The government over time will begin to shape these “directives” and the conseling to reduce cost to the overall system. Translation, encourage the removal of life sustaining treatments. Counseling on foregoing antibiotics, nutrition and hydration to promote the termination of life. Now the government will be encouraging and counseling families, patients and doctors on how to withhold treatment to decrease the cost of treating the elderly.
Who will be paying for the health care bill ??? The elderly will pay indirectly by have access to LESS care as it rationalizes the value of life as the government regulates who should and should not get medical procedures.
HEAR THE FRED THOMPSON / Betty McCaughey Interview
PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU CHECK THIS OUT AND WRITE YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES!!! (Unless of course you agree with this approach!) Let your friends know about this insanity unfolding in Washington and get active an write your representatives. Help STOP THE INSANITY !!!
Additional FOLLOW UP Interview with Betty McCaughey – Health Policy Expert and Patient Advocate also Founder of the Committee to Reduce Infectious Deaths in Hospitals.
DANGEROUS ASSAULT ON THE ELDERLY
Comparative Effectiveness Research — code for denying Care based on a patient’s birth date is being promoted in the plan. This is all about big brother government taking over your freedom of choice!!! The amount of power the government will have over the physician and nurse practitioner is mind boggling when you read it.
On page 425 it says in black and white that EVERYONE on Social Security, (will include all Senior Citizens and SSI people) will go to MANDATORY counseling every 5 years to learn and to choose from ways to end your suffering (and your life). Health care will be denied based on age. 500 Billion will be cut from Seniors healthcare. The only way for that to happen is to drastically cut health care, the oldest and the sickest will be cut first. Paying for your own care will not be an option!!
Now, CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVE IN WASHINGTON!! Tell them to read page 425 if they don’t read anything else. Surely some of them have parents.
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The elderly are going to especially hit hard by a socialist scheme to help pay for the health care plan. The modern day equivalent of putting the elderly out on an ice flow to be eaten by polar bears when they cannot contribute to the society and are increasing costs to the community.
Page 425 shows just to what degree the radical left is willing to push through in order to establish socialized health care in this country.
See other articles at: defendyourhealthcare.us
See also pages 16 and 17 of House Bill which confirms you will be forced to switch health plans to the one being pushed by the House of Representatives according to Ms. McCaughey.
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Saturday - Nov 29th, 2008
9:30 pm
Sci/Tech
Look to the southwest after sunset on Dec. 1 for a close conjunction between three bright solar system objects: the moon, Venus and Jupiter. If you have binoculars, you might even be able to fit all three of them in the field of view. Between now and then, you can see Jupiter and Venus getting closer together each evening.
Every once in a while, something will appear in the night sky that will attract the attention of even those who normally don’t bother looking up. It’s likely to be that way on Monday evening, Dec. 1.
A slender crescent moon, just 15 percent illuminated, will appear in very close proximity to the two brightest planets in our sky, Venus and Jupiter.
People who are unaware or have no advance notice will almost certainly wonder, as they cast a casual glance toward the moon on that night, what those two “large silvery stars” happen to be? Sometimes, such an occasion brings with it a sudden spike of phone calls to local planetariums, weather offices and even police precincts. Not a few of these calls excitedly inquire about “the UFOs” that are hovering in the vicinity of our natural satellite — [Hat Tip: Joe Rao/MSNBC]
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Updated for 2010: How To Completely Uninstall and Remove All Traces of iTunes – (So it can be properly reinstalled or deleted!)
Are you going crazy trying to completely uninstall iTunes from your PC?
Scenario: Your latest download of iTunes got corrupted on your system somehow, or was interrupted during installation. Doesn’t matter how. It happened to me. I realized I had to uninstall and then reinstall iTunes. So I thought I would just download the latest version first and try reloading it. No dice. So I thought ok, I would first remove it using the ADD/REMOVE feature in the control panel and try again. Not so simple. Lo and behold I could not remove the iTunes program off the Programs list! Reloading itunessetup.exe gave errors and would not start! In my ensuing hours of Google research I found many posts of folks with just this very same issue. Let me share with you some answers, tips and software that I found from the all forums I researched that will help you solve this problem:
First here is your overall objective:
1. Before you can reinstall iTunes you must first remove all remnants of the following applications listed including all “left over” files from your registry. Yep… that scary place on your PC !! :
First try removing each of these with their own “uninstallers” or your ADD/REMOVE application in your Control Panel in the order you see them below. If your lucky you will be able to remove them all with your ADD/REMOVE program. However!! You may find you cannot get some of these “helper” programs completely uninstalled!
- iTunes Software
- Quicktime
- Apple Software Update
- Apple Mobile Support
- Bonjour (especially Bonjour, the most problematic and most difficult component to remove properly! )
- Apple Application Support (iTunes 9 or later)
- iPhone (if you have it loaded)
- and anything else related to iTunes — that’s the tough part where you need to be very careful
If you are lucky the above process will work. IF all else fails there is a great eManual / Guide with Removal Software written and designed specifically to REMOVE ALL TRACES of iTunes from your PC. It includes special removal software. You can obtain it from the links below. It is worth it and it’s cheap. It kept me from spending hours going nuts trying to fix this. They include detailed step by step instructions and also the software that does the registry changes automatically. You have to follow the instructions STEP by STEP however and be sure to read all the instructions carefully first and it will work fine in the majority of cases (it works for > 95% of users that don’t have other serious problems with their PC registry). It worked perfectly for me and also judging from the feedback here, it has also worked for the majority of our readers who have tried it. See the positive comments below. Here is a source where you can download it if you need it:
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For those of you who use Blogger as your blog publishing tool, I suggest that the logo you see above currently displayed on the Google search engine has nothing at all to do with Halloween. But everything to do with what we are calling the “demise of Blogger.” The above image captures it all. It’s really a depiction of the horror that has become the Blogger publishing experiance! If you tried to post over the weekend (and you did not switch over to their Beta version for many really valid reasons I might add) you will know what I am talking about. The bandages and the skeletal hand are more than appropriate to depict how many users feel about Blogger right now. The reliability of this platform since Google purchased the company last year has gone completely down the toilet. Not to mention loss of confidence and credibility of the support staff and expecially the management who obviously don’t give a rat’s ass about redundancy in their hardware archetecture. Yet 1.6B was spent by Google to seek to acquire YouTube. If you have a site with any serious traffic and readership it has become a disaster! The Beta version, which has been in beta for for months now, is still in beta and loaded with issues along with a myraid of conversion headaches for all but the most simple sites. We are sure they will work them out. The question is WHEN?? For you FTP users who have your own domain and ISP… (like this site) you’ll just have more outages to endure until they provide an FTP version. The question is WHEN?? Lord only knows what bugs and issues everyone will be experiancing when FTP is available!
Here is an excerpt from Stuck on the Palmetto who replied to one of the recent Blogger Status Updates… I reprint it here in the name of every Blogger user that was frustrated during the past three days… Italics are from the recent Blogger Status update… LOL…
In the short term, we’re replacing quirky hardware and increasing our monitoring to stop problems before they start (forgive me my clichés?).
You mean like this morning’s publishing problem that went on for over 8 hours? Sorta slipped through the cracks, this one, right guys? (forgive me my clichés.)
In the long term, we’re developing a new version of Blogger with some great new features that is built on technology and hardware that has proven, Google-quality reliability.
Excuse me for one minute. HAHAHHHAHHHAHH HAHHAHHHHAH HAAAH HAAHAHHHAHHAHHA. Okay, I’m back with you. “Google-quality reliability?” You’ve had Blogger now for how long, Google? And how many times a week is it going down? You can’t even make the old one work but you want us to believe that the new one is going to be better?
And then literally in the next breath, these Silicon Valley dweebs tell us that just to show us they’re serious about this fixin’ up thing, they’ve updated their “status blog” with the new Blogger beta. The “status blog” is essentially where they tell us about how terribly sorry Blogger is about the outages. Oh, and excuse the “bugs” with new “status blog.”
…I’m pleased to point out that our status blog is now powered by the new version of Blogger. This means that we will be free of the Catch-22 of problems with the current version of Blogger preventing us from reporting about the problems with the current version of Blogger. (And we’ll fix that bug that makes it look like all the posts came from me. We’re on it.)
They haven’t even been able to figure out how to match up the correct author with the posts. These are the guys bringing us the new “Google-quality” Blogger. — Rick / Stuck on the Palmetto
By the way…. check out the announcement on YouTube and see what we mean!!! Plenty of money to burn on a website… we are scratching our heads how this fits into Google’s future vision. Could they find themselves becoming the not so “big brother” of George Orwell 1984 fame? Say perhaps in 2020? Hmmm….
Monday - Feb 16th, 2004
9:27 pm
Sci/Tech
By Zardoz Z. Bachman
Just to keep our worldly events in perspective, consider for a moment that as you read this, humanity, the self proclaimed “intelligent” life form on this planet, has been uncovering incredible, sobering and humbling knowledge of our universe at a magnitude and pace never before achieved in the history of man! This is of course ironically being accomplished, quietly, while our world media is pre-occupied with Janet Jackson, her nutty brother Michael, and all of the antics of the US and Global political process – not to mention world hunger, terrorism, A-Rod, Nascar, and who is doing what, to whom, and where on any particular reality show on any particular evening !
Witness THE most distant galaxy in the universe CURRENTLY known to man uncovered this past week.
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