But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for,
Is their monument to-day, and for aye.  ~Thomas Dunn English

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.  ~Author unknown, sometimes attributed to M. Grundler

In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.  ~José Narosky

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.  ~Elmer Davis

But fame is theirs - and future days
On pillar’d brass shall tell their praise;
Shall tell - when cold neglect is dead -
“These for their country fought and bled.”
  ~Philip Freneau

Freedom is never free.  ~Author Unknown

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.  ~Gary Hart

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?  ~George Canning

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.  ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.  ~Michel de Montaigne

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, “Mother, what was war?”  ~Eve Merriam

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.  ~Cynthia Ozick

Lord, bid war’s trumpet cease;
Fold the whole earth in peace.
  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!  ~Maya Angelou

When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.  ~Chinese Proverb

The most persistent sound which reverberates through men’s history is the beating of war drums.  ~Arthur Koestler, Janus: A Summing Up

The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.  ~Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.  ~G.K. Chesterton

How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
  ~William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, much later adapted to “So shines a good deed in a weary world” by David Seltzer for the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.   ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935

What Veterans Day Quotes do you know?

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I am traveling from Detroit to Newark, then to Mumbai and finally Coimbatore.

It will take about 24 hours total with the layovers.

I hope to have an interesting, but not too eventful trip.

Anyone curious, can check my twitter for updates.

I am the 11th most successful marketer in Tissa’s APS program.
9th if you do not count Tissa and his wife Carolyn. This is out of over 787 paid affiliates.

I also make about $560 a month from GDI and the other income streams available in this system.

The way to make money online is by learning how to PROMOTE programs.  Most people fail to realize this - which is why most people FAIL at making money online.

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And yes, Tissa’s program is FREE.  You are not required to buy hosting or pay Tissa anything to earn the Referral Fees above (including the guaranteed $125).

Some of the other income streams do have costs, but they are totally optional.

If you are interested in checking this program out, you can sign up for free at
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If so, you already understand the most important aspect of building your business is growing your downline team.

Without a doubt, that is true–at least partially. The whole truth is that you must create a downline team that is effective at consistently, over time, growing their sales and building their downline teams too. So, the real question you should be trying to answer is:

“How can I develop a downline team that is constantly motivated
and effective at building their downline teams?”

The answer is creating a dynamic environment where your team learns, collaborates, and shares. An environment that brings together all the resources of your team into one collaborative “think-tank” that evolves and grows organically over time from the shared wisdom of every single one of your teammates.

Right! So how do you go about creating a dynamic team environment that gets the results you need? Well, that’s not so obvious, especially when most teams quickly spread to virtually anywhere in you country or even across the globe. Fortunately, it can be done and as you will discover, “virtually,” it is possible.

The Base Concepts

The Factors, Metrics, Tools
Building a dynamic team learning environment for your business is a journey well worth taking. But, before getting started, there are a few basic concepts you should be aware of:

1. Several factors must be carefully considered as you design your plan:

• The differing learning and motivational styles that make up every team.
• The limitations on your time.
• How to overcome geographic and time zones constraints.

2. Two important team metrics drive the financial return for your business. Make sure you have a way to track them and then the flexibility to adjust your team development efforts as your numbers dictate.

3. There are many “low-to-no” cost tools you can use for your team building program. Finding the ones that are right for you and your team is an important consideration.

The Factors

As you have probably discovered by now with your team, not everyone learns and is motivated in the same way. Some individuals are more computer savvy than others; some are avid readers, others not so much. Some learn and apply things quickly; others are more conservative and will grow into their new world slowly as it fits into their comfort zone. In this business, some people are more motivated by quick results and financial measures. Others are more motivated by recognition and peer interaction. Most need quick and consistent results and, whether they will admit it or not, have an appreciation for personal recognition. So, the challenge confronting you is to provide a team development setting that successfully caters to all these various learning styles and the diverse motivational complexes of such an assorted group of wonderful individuals, all trying to achieve common goals of building their businesses the best they can.

Another critical consideration is to recognize you can’t do it all yourself. You have limitations on the time you can commit to your team building efforts, as you still need to focus on your own personal goals and recruiting efforts.

Finally, consider this. While most sales teams start out as a fairly centralized local group, they will soon expand geographically to all areas of the country and in some cases, across the globe. Having a team development model that accounts for this scenario is imperative.

In a nutshell, to make your team building program workable for you, you must construct a process that:

• Addresses the varying learning and motivational styles that exist or will exist on your team.
• Doesn’t hinder your personal efforts to focus on your sales and recruiting efforts.
• Is deployable from virtually anywhere to virtually anywhere (i.e., no geographic or time zone boundaries).

The Metrics

As with any team building effort, you want to pay special attention to the results you are getting so you know what is working and what is not. Keep this in mind, with any direct sales business, typically there are two key Team Metrics that determine your businesses financial return:

1. Team Sales Growth. Are your team sales growing over time? At what rate of increase?
2. Team Sponsorship Growth. Are your team’s recruiting rates increasing? At what rate of increase?

In analyzing your results, you want to be assessing each of these key metrics independently over time. If you have the numbers available, it can be very useful to go back one year to compare your results prior to adding any new team building programs. You will know you are on the right track if these metrics are accelerating at increasing rates over your historical growth rates, prior to implementing your team building programs.

By tracking and monitoring your team metrics, you have the data you need to guide your training and development efforts in the direction that best optimizes the return for your business. It takes a little time at the end of each month to calculate your team metrics, but it is well worth the effort.

The Tools

We are so blessed in this day and age to have available a plethora of useful tools that can help us in our team building efforts. And the really great thing is, most of them are free! The key is in selecting the tools that work best for each situation. The challenge is to review all of the various tools out there and narrow them down to those that meet your specific team building objectives.

An important consideration is to align tool selection with specific team building needs. For example, you need to keep in mind one of the key factors, that people learn and are motivated in differing ways. Tools that address different learning and motivational styles are an important consideration, amongst others. No one tool addresses every aspect you should consider. Most are intuitive and the results speak for themselves. Read that as the effort is worth the reward!

The first thing is that this is in Pre-Launch. You are right at the beginning. The founders (first 1000) get extra benefits and there’s no binding commitment till January.

It’s an amazing program but you must watch the videos to completely understand.

If you haven’t looked yet, take a quick few minutes. I think you’ll be glad you did.

What a concept!  I love this offer.   The product is garden-grown organic produce that you can eat, sell or donate (actually have sold for you thru the site or donated on your behalf).  The first 1,000 members of Organic Acres will receive extra discounts and benefits, including a share of 4% of the company profits!  If you pre-register now, at NO cost and with NO commitment, you should be one of the lucky first 1,000.

Go here and pre-register. http://go-gvo.com/organicacres

Then log in.  Watch the My Organic Acres movies, understand the concept and get the full scope of the business plan.

There is a membership for every budget, starting at $14, but for now, just get one of those top 1000 positions by pre-registering at NO COST now.

The generous Affiliate Program is AVAILABLE Worldwide.

Have an organic garden grown FOR YOU, producing delicious Organic Produce — available first in the USA and soon going worldwide!

You choose what is grown and it is shipped to you or sell it in the online Farmer’s Market or donate to foodbanks, etc.

Pre-register now to be a Pioneer (1,000 only) to share in company profits — with no obligation until the launch –which should be around January 2010.

Only a limited amount of gardens will be available in 2010, so be sure to pre-register now to reserve one with no obligation.

Organic Acres is a very innovative program that will allow you (in the USA the first year) to have an organic garden grown for you on a plot which could be anywhere.  You can watch your garden grow daily by webcam, to see your personal expert gardener working in the garden. You choose what vegetables, herbs or berries are planted.  You can choose to have the produce and other non-toxic household products shipped to you, or have part or all of the produce sold for you at the Farmer’s Market.  You can even donate your excess to a food bank, charity, etc.

After the first year, Organic Acres will include organic farmers in other countries to grow organic gardens for members in their countries.

The affiliate program is open world wide and even basic members with no farm land can earn by introducing others to register for a garden or other memberships. When you pre-register, choose any option.  You can change your selection at the launch.

Even if you are outside the USA, you can have a garden and sell the produce at the Farmer’s Market at a nice profit!

EVERYONE eats and we all need to eat more vegetables.

Can you imagine what a fund-raiser this could be for organizations?  Everyday people who hardly EVER refer are referring in this one.

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Another new virus is spreading through social networks, this time, via Facebook. This one – known as Bredolab – masks itself as a “Password Reset Confirmation Email,” appears to come from Facebook, and attaches a file that purports to contain a new password.

That file is actually a trojan horse that will download a host of nasty files from the Web and infect your computer with them.

“Bredolab is a Trojan Horse that downloads and executes files from the Internet, such as rogue anti-spyware. To bypass firewalls, it injects its own code into legitimate processes svchost.exe and explorer.exe. Bredolab contains anti-sandbox code (the Trojan might quit itself when an external program investigates its actions).”

The way to avoid this one: if you didn’t request your password from Facebook, there’s no reason you should be getting a password reset confirmation email, so don’t open it.

Further, even if you did, Facebook would not send your new password as an attachment. Finally, f you’re still not sure, take a look at the full details of the email – if the mail server’s don’t belong to Facebook, you know the message is not legit.

Has your FB account ever been attacked?

Here we have an exclusive inside look into the new home page, engagement ads, and more. Below, we provide a detailed explanation of the new Facebook home page.

Changes to the Home Page

In this four page document, Facebook outlines the benefits of the redesign to advertisers who will clearly be affected. First, Facebook states its goal for the new homepage: “simplifying the user experience on the home page by introducing Top News and Recent Activity streams.”

Here’s Facebook’s full explanation:

“Facebook is simplifying the user experience on the home page by introducing Top News and Recent Activity streams. Now, when users log on to Facebook for the first time in a while, they will see the most important stories that they missed while they were away. From there, users can navigate to the real-time stream and toggle between both views throughout their sessions. In addition to making it easier for users to view content that is most relevant to them, this change also speeds up the time it takes for the home page to load and makes birthday reminders more prominent.

Ultimately, Facebook believes these changes will increase engagement on the home page by surfacing more relevant stories to users.”

Summary: The new home page emphasizes on toggling between views and feeds in order to personalize the experience. It also decreases Facebook’s load time, which will likely have a major impact on time on site and bandwidth costs.

News Feed Changes

Facebook then details the changes to the News Feed. There are two different ways to view it: the summary view (Top News) and the real-time view (Recent Activity). The first filter is a prominent feature of and likely the FriendFeed team had something to do with building Top News. It also looks like Facebook is removing the Highlights section on the right hand sidebar of the home page in favor of the Top News filter.

Oh, there is one more doozy: Facebook is bringing back a lot of new information to the News Feed. From Facebook’s document:

“Facebook has also put information back into the stream that people have asked for, including photo tags, friend acceptances, relationships, Event RSVPs and group memberships. In addition, birthdays are now viewable above the fold.”

We’ve heard complaints about losing these news feed items from the last redesign, so it’s a plus that the world’s largest social network is bringing them back.

Engagement Ads and Fan Pages

Facebook believes the upcoming changes are a boon for brand advertisers. The first piece of news: fanning, RSVPs for events, and virtual gifts will reappear in the social stream organically, which makes it easier for brands to expand their reach across Facebook. The right column of the homepage is also stripped down, which will make ads on the home page more prominent.The last thing Facebook addresses is the new designs impact on Pages. The company believes it will increase the number of new fans on Facebook pages. Their explanation:

“The opportunity to acquire Fans increases with this new home page design. This is due to several reasons including the migration of Fan stories into the center stream, and the increase in “Suggestions” from one to two connections.”

There is no indication of when this new design goes live.

What do you think of the possible upcoming changes?

Own your own Piece of an Organic Acres Farm, Sell most of your produce and get the rest for free.

My Organic Acres is like no garden you’ve ever seen before. You will lease and have access to your own 240 or 120 square foot Organic Garden 24/7 from the comfort of your own living room through the magic of the computer.

You will tell your own personal gardener what favorite products you wish to plant. The only thing you will miss is that pungent compost odor that wafts through your garden.

You will have an expert gardener assigned to till, plant, hoe, and harvest your crops for you. You can then choose to sell all or a portion of your crops in our farmers market, have all or a portion of your crops shipped direct to your house for dinner or give all or a portion of your crops to feed the hungry.

All of this will be handled for you by the expert staff at Organic Acres. All of your crops will use only products certified as organic by the USDA and all of your crops will be guaranteed.

Let me say again you have never seen anything like this!

Organic Acres has created the ultimate way to obtain verifiably organically raised foods for you and your family and have it shipped fresh to your door for a price that you won’t believe.

Think of it this way, if you owned your own organic farm you and your family would eat the best foods for FREE. Because you sold the rest of the crop and covered your expenses.

You can also earn from referring others to the program.

Tell others about this amazing program and you can earn up to $10 every month for every Garden Member you help join and up to  $10 every month for every Garden member they help join!     For 5 levels deep!!

There is no limit as to the number of new members you may sponsor and get paid on. However this next year there will be only 4,000 full Gardens or 8,000 half Gardens available to be leased!

There is no obligation or cost to pre-register.

After pre-registering you can attend our live online meetings and invite others to see this amazing system!

You don’t want to miss this launch !

Halloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it. - Lindsay Lohan

Eat, drink and be scary. - Author Unknown

This Halloween the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him. - Conan O’Brien

Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite, All are on their rounds tonight; In the wan moon’s silver ray, Thrives their helter-skelter play. - Joel Benton

A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween. - Erma Bombeck

Where there is no imagination there is no Horror. - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.

Witch and ghost make merry on this last of dear October’s days. - Author Unknown

Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. - Steve Almond

Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the “spirits” of things. - Dee Snider

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go, Back to their quiet graves below. - Theodosia Garrison

‘Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out, Contagion to this world. - William Shakespeare

Hold on, man. We don’t go anywhere with “scary,” “spooky,” “haunted,” or “forbidden” in the title. - From Scooby-Doo

When witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers, ‘tis near Halloween. - Author Unknown

Bring forth the raisins and the nuts, Tonight All-Hallows’ Spectre struts, Along the moonlit way. - John Kendrick Bangs

From ghoulies and ghosties, And long-leggedy beasties, And things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us! - Scottish Saying

This Halloween the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him. ~Conan O’Brien

‘Tis the night - the night, Of the grave’s delight, And the warlocks are at their play; Ye think that without, The wild winds shout, But no, it is they - it is they. - Arthur Cleveland Coxe

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing, Material place. - Emily Dickinson

Those seemingly interminable dark walks between houses, long before street-lit safety became an issue, were more adrenalizing than the mountains of candy filling the sack. Sadly Halloween, with our good-natured attempts to protect the little ones, from the increasingly dangerous traffic and increasingly sick adults, has become an utter bore. - Lauren Springer

Where there is no imagination there is no horror. - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. - George Carlin

There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery. - Joseph Conrad

Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn’t even the star of his own Halloween special. - Chris Rock

Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold. - Judith Olney

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about but few have seen. - Author Unknown

Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it’s like an excuse for Halloween everyday. - Gwen Stefani

A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night. - J.M. Barrie

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story. - Mason Cooley

Proof of our society’s decline is that Halloween has become a broad daylight event for many. - Robert Kirby

Hark! Hark to the wind! ‘Tis the night, they say, When all souls come back from the far away-, The dead, forgotten this many a day! - Virna Sheard

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. - Henry David Thoreau

When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam, May luck be yours on Halloween. - Author Unknown

There is nothing that gives more assurance than a mask. - Colette

Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve…. And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon. - Kim Elizabeth

Look, there’s no metaphysics on earth like chocolates. - Fernando Pessoa

Forget love - I’d rather fall in chocolate! - Sandra J. Dykes

After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers. - Emily Luchetti