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In this issue:
Brainpower | Finances | Security | Health/Fitness | Factoid | Product Highlight | Thought for the Day
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1. Brainpower tip
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Mental health experts advise us to avoid toxic people (another word for such a
person is a--hole). Taking a cue from them, if you want to be smarter then
avoid stupid people. Complete avoidance of either kind of person is not
possible. But here's the thing. If you make a point of associating with
people who are smart, their smartness will rub off on you. This happens for
many reasons. You can bring a bit of happiness to the smart people in your
life by identifying something each one does to help you be smarter and then
telling each person what you identified. |
2. Finance tip
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The economy is so bad Exxon-Mobil laid off 25 Congressmen. Just kidding.
Unlike us lowly citizens, members of CONgress don't get laid off. They
"might" lose an "election," but have you ever heard of one of these
folks not being a millionaire when that happens? Now you know where so
much of your hard-earned money goes. members of The Party vacuum it up
and send it to their cronies.
Stop this nonsense by voting Libertarian. |
3. Security tip
I live in a very active neighborhood. Consequently, burglaries here are
almost unheard of. What do I mean by "active?" Here are some things I
have observed:- Kids play outside. This is a huge deterrent to burglars. There's always some adult oversight of some sort, too. This is an even bigger deterrent.
In our neighborhood, kids have full access to driveways and yards and
play in all of them. In summer, my sloping drive is a skateboard
place and in winter kids go sledding here.
- Neighbors visit each other. If you were casing homes to break
into, this would not be a good omen.
- Lawns are kept up. If a neighbor takes a trip, their lawn gets
mowed and their leaves raked. They don't have to ask. It just gets
done. Same thing for winter walks and drives.
- People watch each other's property. They also watch the roads
and driveways. Sitting in a car to case a home is out of the
question.
- People pick stuff up, rather than walk past trash. No signs of
apathy, here.
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4. Health tip/Fitness tips
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People sometimes say they don't know
what I eat or don't eat, as if
there's some list of "good" and
"bad" foods. We can take a cue
from Jack LaLanne, who says, "If
it's made by man, I don't eat it." I
don't entirely agree with that, as I
consume protein powders and various
other supplemental foods. But in
principle it's a great guide to
selecting your foods.
Generally, you want to limit
grains altogether and if you eat
them you want them as unprocessed as
possible. So, regular oats not quick
oats.
But are there "bad" ingredients in prepared foods? Yep. Those
include such nasties as hydrogenated
oil, high fructose corn syrup, and
various forms of processed sugar.
Read the label to find these. The
label will also provide you with the
serving size. When you see "only X
calories per serving!" you can
reliably suspect it's a tiny serving
and the product you're looking at is
fully of empty calories. |
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Here's an article that explains more about the topic:
http://www.supplecity.com/articles/navigatingfoodlabels.htm
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As regular readers know, I'm 48 years old in the picture (above,
right), taken in December 02 2008. I don't
diet down for summer. I don't have
good genes for maintaining a lean
body, I really have to be
conscientious and disciplined about
it. That doesn't mean I suffer, eat
bland foods, or starve myself.
At
www.supplecity.com, you'll find plenty of informative, authoritative articles on maintaining a lean, strong physique. It has nothing to do with long workouts or impossible to maintain diets. In fact:
- The best workouts are short
and intense.
- A good diet contains far more flavors and satisfaction than the typical American diet.
Nor does it mean being hungry all
the time (you are less hungry on six
small meals a day than three large
ones), being weak from hunger (on a
proper dietary regimen, you will
have much more energy than
otherwise), or "giving up pleasures"
(I have no idea where this concept
comes from, unless a person
considers being sick a "pleasure."). |
5. Factoid
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A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. In that
amount of time, the Pentagon burns $3500 of YOUR money on
"acquisitions." Only 5% of these ever see the light of day, meaning
$3,325 is burned in a jiffy. Ask the Pentagon to stop burning money for
1/100th of a second and send you a check for the $3,325 in savings.
"Defense" contractors aren't the only people entitled to YOUR money. |
6. Product Highlight
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The 14-Language Lingo Explorer TTX-14 translates words in all directions
for: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek,
Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
It has foreign language characters; phonetics, voice output, 840,000
words, 46,200 phrases.
The Lingo Explorer is a very solid tourist-level translation device. And it's on sale now. |
This model no longer offered; see link below for others. |
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7. Thought for the Day
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If you look for faults in other people, they will more clearly see
yours. |
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