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There is a mathematical curve called the bell curve, from low to high at first, then gradually fall back to its original height, like a bell, like a hat or a small hill.
A recent humorous picture depicts the definition of Success in Life,

This is a bell-shaped curve:

• The success of the age of four is not wet pants.
• The success of the age of twelve with a group of friends.
• Seventeen success is a driving license.
• Thirty-five age success is money. (This is the upper half of the curve.)
• Fifty five-year-old's success is still money.
• 70, success is still a driving license.
• 75, success is still a group of friends.
• 80, success is still not wet my pants.

(This is the curve of the lower half.)
You can see the upper half of life is work hard to "get",
The lower half of life is to secure not "lost."
Unfortunately, work hard to "get" is relatively easy vs endeavor not to "lose"
The first half is Man proposes, the second half is God disposes,
Old and degradation is the way to go through life ........
Saw this bell-shaped curve is a refrigerant cooling off the ambitious young adults fervent for their bright future. All plots and fights end up with a success of a kid by the end of the day
One who does not wet his  pant at age 4, like
The aging hero at 80  does not wet his pants.
Today,  upon the receipt of  a meaningful text message
I decide to share it with you.
I hope it will bring blessings to you!
If  the volcanoes don't erupt  in 2012, mother land don't crack, no house falls, and no flood on man's land,
You would live as  he (she) still loves,
In the January 4, 2013 we have to celebrate it forever!
Because this is a rare 201 314 (love you for life).
If you truly Love a person, please put the information forwarded to 17 friends,
Also includes me! Back if there are three individuals,
Your wish will be come true on Christmas Day 12.25 !
You have to send the message out  because I want you happy!

Source: unknown
Translated from following
Chinese version

數學上有一種曲線叫鐘形曲線，先是由低向高，然後逐漸降落，回 到原來的高度，像一座鐘，也像一頂帽子或一個小山丘。
◎最近看到一則描繪人生成功定義的幽默，
就是這樣的一條鐘形曲線：
四歲時的成功是沒有尿濕褲子。
十二歲時的成功是擁有一班朋友。
十七歲時的成功是有駕駛執照。
三十五歲時的成功是有錢。（這是曲線的上半截。）
五十歲的成功是仍有錢。
七十歲的成功是仍有駕駛執照。
七十五歲的成功是仍有一班朋友。
八十歲的成功是仍沒有尿濕褲子。
（這是曲線的下半截。)
可以看到人生的上半截是努力求「得」，
而人生的下半截是力保不「失」。
可惜努力求「得」比力保不「失」還較為容易，
因為上半截還可謀事在人， 下半截往往成事在天，
老和退化是人生必經之途........
看了這個鐘形曲線，對胸懷大志想有一番作為的青壯年來說,可能是一服冷凍劑，讓他們知道機關算盡、血肉橫飛的廝殺之後,到頭來，
人老了，所謂成功不過跟四歲的幼兒一樣，
能夠不尿濕了褲子已值得慶幸了..
今天收到了一位摯友寄來的短信，覺得非常有意義。
所以決定發給您。
希望它能帶去我對您的祝福！
如果2012年火山沒噴 、 地沒裂 、 樓沒倒、家沒淹 、
你還在 、 他（她）還愛，
請在 2013 年 1 月 4 日慶祝一下吧！
因為這是千載難逢的 201314 （愛您一生一世）。
如果你真心 Love 一個人 , 請把這條資訊轉給 17 個朋友 ,
也包括我 ! 如果有 3 個人回 ,
你的願望將在 12.25 日紫色耶誕節實現 !
不准不發 ( 不要小氣 ), 因為我要你 幸福 !
 

I got the following email from my buddy.    It is thought provoking and compelling.  I am pleased to share it with all readers.  Here goes the message: 


Thought I forwarded this before, but while advent is coming, why not to share it again.  I have to admit that I was so politically correct to greet my co-workers happy holidays, but for the past few years, I revert to greet everyone Merry Christmas...no one seemed to be threatened!


Apparently the White House referred to Christmas Trees as Holiday Trees for the first time this year which prompted CBS presenter, Ben Stein, to present this piece which I would like to share with you. I think it applies just as much to many countries as it does to America .



The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.


    My confession:


I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are, Christmas trees.


 It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu . If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.


I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.


Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God ? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to.


In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.


Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her 'How could God let something like this happen?' (regarding Hurricane Katrina). Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, 'I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?'


In light of recent events... terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbour as yourself. And we said OK.


Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said okay.


 Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.


Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.'


Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.


Are you laughing yet?


Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it.


Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.


Pass it on if you think it has merit.



If not, then just discard it.... no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.


My Best Regards, Honestly and respectfully,


Ben Stein
     

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Yesterday I spend hours to tune up my blog as I think it is necessary sharpening it to work faster.  This job has been pending there for several months as I was busy working hard to improve the bounce rate, pageviews per visit, referral sites, etc.  Indeed the improvement of the readership has been substantial in its depth only.  The breath is still not enough as it is critical to be able to reach out to the millions of readers.  In a nutshell, the traffic to the blog hence the readership is not good enough.  I think one of key problem with my blog is the validity of its URL.  I have noticed the error message from Feedburner that there were  URL invalid xml errors in my blog.  I checked around the internet for the relevant solution.  I was disappointed each time I Google search for the appropriate solution for the problem. 


Today, after much trials and errors I successfully burn a valid feed for my blog through Feedburner.  Now people can access perfectly to my DIY -eBusiness Solutions for Baby Boomers via this Feedburner feed.   However, I need to redo some updating such as there are some links missing.  Anyway,  I am glad that I validate URL.  I wish it may gain more traffic for the blog through the new feed.

  

If you or someone that you love needs an electric mobility scooter to help you get around safely and you have invested the money into purchasing one, then you will want to make sure that you are performing regular maintenance on your scooter to keep it running properly at all times. While this may seem like a daunting task, it actually takes very little time to do.

One of the most basic things that you can do to maintain your scooter is to inspect the tires regularly. You will want to make sure the tread has not worn down to less than 1/32 of an inch; if it has, then the tires will need to be replaced. While you are inspecting your tires, you will want to double check the air pressure of any inflatable tires. You want the air pressure to be between 30-35 PSI to get the maximum usage out of the tires. Many scooters are equipped with flat free tires and don't need air, so check your owner's manual to make sure you know which type you have.

Along with maintaining the tires on your scooter, you will want to make sure that you regularly check the battery terminals. If there is any corrosion, you will want to get it cleaned up as soon as possible. Doing this will ensure that you are getting the maximum battery life out of your battery. Treat corroded terminals with a mixture of baking soda and water, and dry them prior to reconnecting the battery.

Now that the tires and battery are fully functional, you will want to check all wires regularly as well. If there are any frayed or loose wires, you will want to get the scooter to a technician to have them repaired or replaced as quickly as possible. Failure to do this can lead to electrical shock or possibly a fire.

If you are not planning to use your electric mobility scooter for an extended period of time, it is important that you fully charge the battery and then disconnect it from the scooter prior to storage. You will also want to store it in an area that is not too hot or too cold, as extreme temperatures will affect the life of the battery.

 

Doing all of these things regularly will ensure that your electric mobility scooter will last you for many years.

I did an experiment this morning comparing the search results of my own article versus an article by someone from Ezinearticles.com

• The article by David Au

  DIY - Free Software for Download - DIY e-Business Solutions

• The article by someone from Ezinearticles.com

     DIY - Computer Virus! How To Perform A Virus Scan,
     Clean It, And How To Protect Your Computer



Copy and paste the first article title into Google search box, the  article appears on the first Google page with a link by millionbabyboomers.com (David Au)

Copy and paste the second article title into Google search box, the article appears on the first
Google page with a link by ezinearticles.com (someone) and some other links using the same article source.

From the above result, it is apparent that it is definitely better to write your own article.  If you use someone else articles, you are promoting them and not yourself.  However, there is always some good reasons to use other 's articles.  For example, an outstanding article with excellent information is worth posting it on your own blog.  It is possible that it is an exceptional busy day,  you don't have time to write your own article. Then, it is a good alternative. By the way, it is good to mention the source of information if you post someone else article into your blog.

In my previous post I briefly touched on this subject which is something I would like to talk in more details today.   At the moment of writing, I am still perplexed at the thought of creating my own product on the internet.   The reason is I am already very much engaged with affiliate marketing which is selling other people 's products.   There are plenty of affiliate products out there,  e.g. Clickbank, Commission Junction, Linkshare.  I am busy over writing articles and reviews as well as blogging stuff I have interest.   You may remember I also help people to build their websites.   I do all these things as hobbies which bring in money as a reward. 


My satisfaction is not achieved yet with what I did above.   I think I would be more happy if I have my own product.   I admire my friends, for instance,Alison McLellan-Ansah.  She made her own handcrafts and sell her hand made products on her Facebook and website.  I love that.  The next guy I admire is Dr. Mani.  He is a surgeon and author.  He wrote an  ebook which taught other  people how to make a ebook to earn money online.  

Meanwhile, I have my own mini-services:

• website design - introduces products/services
  
• blog design - interacts with customers
  
• Google Adsense - adds revenue to business
  
• Google Places - help customers to find you in Google maps
  
• Attraction Marketer's Manifesto FREE
  
• Hot Ads
  

If I am going to make my own product, most like it would be my own ebook.  I still not decided which subject,  may be something on organizational behaviors.  It is a very interesting topic in working places/offices.  The other subjects may include something related to  internet and marketing,.   The time table is not set yet.  Hopefully, it will start next year.   How about you guys?  Do you have something interesting in mind making your own product?

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Most likely you guys found I have made some modifications to my blog here.   I have added the following:

• a self made video presentation at the top right hand corner just the very top of the sidebar
• an opt-in form immediately beneath the new video

The main purpose of the above additions is for the better communication with my readers.  Interaction and communication among us is what I would like to improve further.   With the help of Google Analytics I notice that on average a visitor spent about slightly over two minutes per visit on my blog.  Each time they visit my blog they read about 17 pages. And, the bouncing rate is less than 2%. I am very pleased with these findings.   In this respect, I would think, I have done pretty well.  However, I need to improve the breath of readership reaching out for more people in more countries.  I would still cling to the organic search engines way.  I don't like the short cut via the 'black hat' methods which would eventually lead to being blocked or banned by the major search engines like Google, Yahoo. etc..   


By the way,  the new video I made is possibly the most economic production in the net. If you like to know the details just read on.  


It is very easy to make a video for your blog. For this purpose there are several things you need:

• A desktop computer
• Webcam with built in speakers and microphone
• A Facebook account
• Word processor e.g. MS Words
  
• You as the artist

Yes, that is what you need for the audio video production. 

Now let us by position yourself in front of the webcam camera, your face at eye level with the webcam as you are facing the  computer monitor.  Do follow these steps:

• Login to your Facebook account.  Click 'Add/Video'
• Click 'Use Webcam'
• Now the webcam is ready as you see yourself in the computer monitor.
• Shrink the Facebook page to half page and position it on the right hand side.
• Go to Microsoft Words and type in your transcript and saved it. 
  
• Bald the words for easy reading 
• Shrink it to half page

• Position it to left hand side.
• You have now two half pages on your screen,
• on the right is your Facebook page with the webcam camera ready to roll
• On the left is your transcript for the video ready.

• Now click the webcam red button to start rolling the webcam recording.
• You should play your roll as the artist.   Read the transcript loud and clear.

• When you finish reading the transcript,  click the Facebook webcam red button to stop recording.

• Click the 'Play' button on Facebook page.

• You have made your own audio/video
• Play it to check it out if you like it or not
• If you like it, post it to Facebook by clicking 'Post' button.
• If you don't like it, you simply redo it until you like it.
• You can share it with your friends via Facebook.
• You can also share it by copy and paste the embed code of that audio/video  to your blog and website.

In my next post I would talk on the opt in web form for my newsletter in my blog re  DIY eBusiness Solutions for baby boomers.   Have a very good day.


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This is a follow up of the post on Attraction Marketer's Manifesto.   I told you guys about its download link.  If for some reason the link didn't work right...

Here it is again for your convenience.

Click here to download your special report.


This Manifesto has been in the works for a long
time and I believe for many people it brings
a defining moment in their business career.  Some like it as it has brought them the breakthrough in their career and business. 

Let me tell you also there are people of the 'old school' who hate it as Ann's new concept brings more and more believers.  This is a huge threat to their market position and interest.  
   

I read Ann's manifesto I believe that many people will begin experiencing life-changing results in their businesses as the result of reading this document.

But don't take my word for it.

Here's what a couple readers:


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I applied just one of the principles today
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My upline is almost mad at me for no longer
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I made some serious changes on my website
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The Attraction Marketer's Manifesto is better
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That might be taking it a bit far, but who knows?

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Click here to download your special report.

And when you're done, will you do me a favor?

Leave some feedback and tell me which part of the report was your favorite.

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secret to quickly and easily becoming the top
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It'll only take a second.

And I would really love hearing from you.


Honestly, this upcoming lesson might be the most
important message you've ever read. Especially if you can't get anyone to take you,your products, and your opportunity seriously.

Yesterday was a day packed with lot of activities.  When I was home I went to bed right away without my usual daily post for the blog.   I got up early as usual and posted here some good Steve Jobs cartoons sent to me yesterday by a friend from the Angus Glen Community Centre.  They reminded me of Steve 's famous speech to the students at Standford University in 2005.   Here below is his message to them: 

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

A letter from my mentor, Ann Sieg ... a lady I respect for her knowledge and experience.  Above all her heart in people 's continued education for self betterment.   Here below is her letter:

 I Felt Like a Deer in Headlights

I remember when I first started doing research about how to build my business online.

I felt like a deer in headlights.

I had reached the point where talking to my warm market just simply wasn't an option anymore.

I had literally burned through my entire names list 3-4 times and the thought of making one more phone call to a friend about meeting me for coffee at Starbucks was enough to make me feel ill.

My son was making a good living online as an affiliate for companies like Walmart and Best Western and he told me I needed to get on the internet so that people who were already looking for what I had could find me.

So I began researching dozens, probably hundreds of different websites.

I opted in to lots of different newsletter lists.

I got on forums, asked questions, and looked at what everyone else was talking about.

I wanted to do my due diligence because I was not about to get sucked into something again that would leave me with nothing but credit card debt after years of spinning my wheels.

Soon my inbox was FILLED with emails from gurus, all promising the same thing.

Everyone said they had the solution, the right way to do things.

I knew there was something to this online thing, it was obvious that some people were making a lot of money.

But it was hard to know what was real and what wasn't.

And there were so many options it made my head spin.

I felt like a clueless American tourist in some crazy marketplace in South America with hundreds of booths and merchants all shouting at me, everyone asking for my money and shoving trinkets and doodads in my face.

I didn't even know which foot to put in front of the other, let alone how to build a website that was supposed to generate me leads.

Then I got a phone call from a man named Curt Johnson.

I had filled out a form requesting a free CD and he was calling to let me know there was a real person behind the website and to see if there was anything he
could help me with.

Had I not talked with Curt that day, there's a good chance I may have given up in confusion and never gotten started online.

I might have never gone on to finally crack the code to becoming a sponsoring machine in MLM and enrolling 20 new people every month into my business...

Then 50 new people a month.

I might have never gone on to earn $3,000/mo and be able to support myself completely from home.

If Curt hadn't taken me under his wing that day I may never have gone on to make $90,000/mo and then $200,000/mo and build a business that completely freed
me financially and allowed me to live the life I always wanted with my husband.

7 years later I'm happy to still be working with Curt.

He's the head coach here at The Renegade System and now he's available to you.

If you look around online you see people EVERYWHERE lost and confused and that makes this whole business look a lot harder than it really is.

You can eliminate this part entirely from the beginning by getting real one-on-one help.

Building the business of your dreams and living the life that you hear others talking about really isn't that hard.

I have thousands of students from all kinds of different businesses, backgrounds and experience levels who have proven this.

But if you try to do it on your own it is hard.

I don't want you to get confused and give up.

I don't want you to waste any more time not living the life of your dreams, with a business that gives you the freedom you want.

Maybe you're brand new or maybe you're a veteran who's been spinning their wheels.

Life is too short and it's never too late for you.


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By Bob T Andrews

Google Plus is the newest social media star in the internet.  Now, anyone who has a Google account (including Gmail) has access to the network. Google Plus skyrockets as soon as the network was made available after its beta phase. It is integrated tightly with various other Google services, e.g., Gmail, Calendar, Photos, Reader, Docs, Google Talk, etc.  It offers easier sharing and social connection.


The interface:
When you have completed your registration and set up your Google Plus
account,  it would display the home page which is similar to Facebook. Here
the videos, posts, photos and links are displayed. It allows you to add "+1" button, just as "Like" button in Facebook.

On the top of the home page is a horizontal black bar with links to other Google
applications Gmail, Calendar, Photos, Reader and Docs. You can also activate the chat client Google talk similar to Skype.
 
Four major navigation buttons are available; Home, Profile, Photos and Circles. For social networking people, things may be familiar but Circles is a huge feature which might confuse the new users.




Circles
Google Plus has introduced a friend lists segmentation concept which is called
"Circles." to organize online contacts like your colleagues, friends, family
members, following,  etc . This helps in filtering the posts and updates so that
you can send more related and specific information to selected circles and not
all. You can create as many circles as you want and name it whatever you want,
and your friends cannot see the name of your circles.


Hangouts
"Hangouts" is an exciting feature in Google plus.   Facebook does note have
this feature.  It is the first social network site which have video chatting concept
with social friends. Here you can video chat among multiple people within your
circles at once.You can get all your friends together and chat in the same place, which is an unparalleled social networking feature.All you will need are: a headphone, microphone and a webcam. With today's laptops with all these
accessories in-built. there is no problem at all. Now, you can talk with your
friends face to face in the net..


Sparks
Sparks is a new feature which operates just as a RSS feed. It operates for topics rather than specific sites. . In order to track your interest and search for new things, sparks makes it easy.


Huddles
Huddles are a group chat using text message. This is useful for collaborating at work or getting friends together. It can be organized for the entire circle. Therefore, Google Plus can be used as a social marketing platform to promote and create business online. 


I would recommend you to Plus University  to learn more about how to use Google Plus.   It has everything you'll need to master the Google Plus. 

Meanwhile, enjoy the following video re Google Plus:

Good morning friends.   It is very nice to get back to Monday after the activities packed weekend and Sunday.   As I check into my email,  I found something I would like to share with you guys. The email is from ShareThis Team which provides social media services in the internet.  Again, it is free but exceedingly instrumental.  

The statistics below represent the sharing activity for the following websites over the last week (Sunday - Saturday):
millionbabyboomers.com

Total Shares This Week = 36
This represents the aggregate total number of times that content on your website has been shared.

Total Clicks This Week = 44
This represents the total numbers of clicks generated by sharing activity on your site.

Social Traffic Generated This Week = 48
This represents the total number of pageviews generated by sharing. This number also includes the number of pages visited by the user after clicking on a share, in that same session.

Top Channels This Week (shares, clicks, traffic)
These are the top 5 social channels that your content is being shared to.

1. facebook (21, 41, 45)
2. twitter (15, 0, 0)
3. email (0, 3, 3)
4. N/A
5. N/A

Top Content This Week (shares, clicks, traffic)
These are the pages where maximum sharing is occurring on your website (ranked in descending order).

1. 10 ways businesses are catering to aging Baby Boomers. (3, 0, 0)
   http://www.millionbabyboomers.com/2011/08/10-ways-businesses-are-catering-to-aging-baby-boomers.html
2. Articles - DIY e-Business Solutions for Baby Boomers (3, 0, 0)
   http://www.millionbabyboomers.com/boomers-generation.html
3. DIY - Do It Yourself Electric Mobility Scooter Maintenance - DIY e-Business Solutions for Baby Boom (3, 0, 0)
   http://www.millionbabyboomers.com/2011/10/diy---do-it-yourself-electric-mobility-scooter-maintenance.html
4. Boomers Wisdon - Pencil & Eraser - Baby Boomers Retirement Journey (3, 3, 3)
   http://www.millionbabyboomers.com/2011/07/boomers-wisdon---pencil-eraser.html
5. DIY - Effective Prospecting with Facebook Friends Segmentation - DIY e-Business Solutions for Baby B (3, 0, 0)
   http://www.millionbabyboomers.com/2011/09/diy---effective-prospecting-with-facebook-friends-segmentation.html
6. DIY - Set up your Facebook Like Box at the sidebar - DIY e-Business Solutions for Baby Boomers (3, 0, 0)
   http://www.millionbabyboomers.com/2011/09/diy---set-up-your-facebook-like-box-at-the-sidebar.html
7. DIY - Use Free Classified Ads to Boost Blog Traffic - DIY e-Business Solutions for Baby Boomers (2, 2, 6)
   http://www.millionbabyboomers.com/2011/10/diy---use-free-classified-ads-to-boost-blog-traffic.html
8. DIY - 'Boomers into Business' New Book - DIY e-Business Solutions for Baby Boomers (2, 0, 0)
   http://www.millionbabyboomers.com/2011/10/diy---boomers-into-business-new-book.html
9. DIY - 10 Free Software Programs for Students Back to School - DIY e-Business Solutions for Baby Boo (2, 1, 1)
   http://www.millionbabyboomers.com/2011/09/diy---10-free-software-programs-for-students-back-to-school.html
10. DIY - Baby Boomers "Don't Retire Yet ... Refocus" - DIY e-Business Solutions for Baby Boom (2, 0, 0)
    http://www.millionbabyboomers.com/2011/09/diy---baby-boomers-dont-retire-yet-refocus.html

Top Influencers This Week (shares, clicks)
These users have brought the most traffic to your site by sharing your content.

1. D*******, Last shared on 2011-10-07 12:17:19 via facebook (27, 15)
2. D*******, Last shared on 2011-10-14 05:48:23 via twitter (2, 0)
3. N/A
4. N/A
5. N/A
6. N/A
7. N/A
8. N/A
9. N/A
10. N/A

Be sure to stay tuned for even more great features from ShareThis.

Thanks,

The ShareThis Team

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To make my own product is a wish for some time.  I have given thought to it
repeatedly.  No trace of where to start and how to start.  So, time goes by and I
am still doing the same old things: blogging, selling ad space,  affiliate marketing, doing the Google Adsense, writing articles, etc.  These are the things I do to make the living fine.


To stand out among the pack in any competition, people need to change.  In the internet world is similar.  May be I can start doing something which I have not done before.  Things such as building my own image in the internet.  It should be natural and truthful doing the natural things I usually do.  Yes, that is doing myself.   I like to share things with people, friends in the communities and friends in social media.   These things would include my experiences, knowledge, and know-how which I picked up during the years undergoing the various assignments of life.   I would post them in my blog here sharing with my readers,   


I am not genius nor smart.  I do stupid things like any buddies.  However,  I have ability to think independently and work hard with discipline.  I learn from the mistakes I made.  These little tiny trivials I would note them down on my posts so that I won't  do it again.   Likewise, I ask God His Almighty to take care of me, my health, and my family as well as my friends.   From Him and through his creations I learn and enjoy his unconditional love and resourceful wisdom strengthening me to move ahead in the years to come.

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If there were a hundred years in life, the baby boomers are already in the later
half of life.  The next ten years are our golden years.  What should be our primary goals?  Gold, diamond, money, houses?  Knowledge, skill, experiences, know -how?   No, all these have to be left behind.    They are to be used by others who have to continue undergoing their assignments of life.  


This is the moment for the boomers to think deep on the subject of giving or
taking.   What is your choice?    Think along this line and feel good for you
have taken your fair share of  the Communion of Life.   What is the image I would leave behind among people?  

These days the short term memory is going south among my buddies. Being the first batch baby boomers, I have similar problem. For instance, where exactly I have parked my car say 15 minutes ago.   I cannot figure it out instantly as I were younger.   I have to think backward before I can remember the approximate location.   I told Julie one way to help us remembering where we parked our car in a busy parking lot is to memorize the details of the park location, e.g. the signs, the numbers, the company name, the exit/entrance name/number,  take a photo with our cellphone camera.   You know what, most of the time when we get out of the car we just do one thing.  And that one thing is dash to the destination and the rest is simply forgotten.   When we have to get back to the car, we notice then and there that we have forgotten to memorize the location.   This is not uncommon among us and a lot of our buddies.  


To help myself better organized for the daily activities and schedules, I started using the Google Calendar.  I found myself much better organized since using this method.  Hence, I would like to recommend it to you guys.


 I start in the morning brushing my teeth and washing my face as a routine.   After that, I would go to start my desktop computer.   Then I click into my Google Calender by logging in with my email address and password.   I note down what I  need to do for the new day.   Put down the little tasks I would like to do during the different hours of the day such as morning exercises in which community centre.  I also note down other activities such as tea party meeting, walking, singing, blogging, reading, posting in Facebook & Skype (social media), follow up emails to prospect and customers,  etc.   This calendar helps me to remember what to do and do it at what hour and the exact location.  It is cool.


I do schedule the various tasks on the need requirement basis as well.  For example, I need to re-paint the exterior walls of my bungalow say in spring.  I would put a brief reminder in the beginning days of spring.   Similarly I note down things such as window chalking during the fall.  Changes of furnace setting for winter and summer.   Whenever, something of this similar nature, I put it down to my calender.  It helps.


The Google Calender works on different formats:

• hours, e.g. posting to social media such as Facebook, Skype
• days, e.g. birthday party, wedding party
• weeks, e.g. weekly planning, weekly shift
  
• years, e.g. annual renewal,
  

Navigation among the formats are simple and smooth just at the click of the  mouse.  It is not just a calender, it is an excellent time management planner in its true sense for your planning throughout your selected time even years. 

With Google's free online calendar, it's easy to keep track of life's important events all in one place.

• 

  Share your schedule

  Let your family and friends see your calendar, and view schedules that others have shared with you.

• 

  Get your calendar on the go

  Access your calendar from your phone using its built-in calendar or mobile browser.

• 

  Never forget another event

  Get event reminders via email or have text messages sent right to your mobile phone.

 It helps to make planning more organized and structural.   If you want to have your own Google Calendar, here is the link for your registration.  Simply follow the instructions then you are done.  Have a very good week end.

• Learn more about Google Calendar »
• If you like to know LATEST NEWS about Google Calendar, here is the link.

It is very easy to make a video for your blog. For this purpose there are several things you need:

• A desktop computer
• Webcam with built in speakers and microphone
• A Facebook account
• A Youtube account
• You as the artist

Yes, that is what you need for the audio video production. 

Now let us by position yourself in front of the webcam camera, your face at eye level with the webcam as you are facing the  computer monitor.  Do follow these steps:

• Login to your Facebook account.  Click 'Add/Video'
• Click 'Use Webcam'
• Now the webcam is ready as you see yourself in the computer monitor.
• Shrink the Facebook page to half page and position it on the right hand side.
• Go to Youtube and type in a karaoke song,  e.g. 'Exodus' karaoke instrumental'
• 'Exodus' karaoke comes out full page
• Shrink it to half page

• Position it to left hand side.
• You have now two half pages on your screen,
• on the right is your Facebook page with the webcam camera ready to roll
• On the lift is your Youtube karaoke page 'Exodus' ready to play.

• Now click the start play button of the karaoke song. Also click the webcam red button to start rolling the webcam record.
• You should play your roll as the artist.   Sing the song along with the music and lyrics.

• When you finish singing the song,  click the Facebook webcam red button to stop recording.

• Close the Youtube karaoke page
• Click the 'Play' button on Facebook page.
• You have made your own audio/video
• Play it to check it out if you like it or not
• If you like it, post it to Facebook by clicking 'Post' button.
• If you don't like it, you simply redo it until you like it.
• You can share it with your friends via Facebook.
• You can also share it by copy and paste the embed code of that audio/video  to your blog and website.

Check out the following audio/video,  it is made according to the way I told you above:

To boost the blog traffic I only use the organic way through the search engines primarily Google and Yahoo, Facebook, Bing, Ask, etc.    I have talked about this in my previous posts (link).  Today,  I would like to share with you my new experiment using the free classified ads. 

There are plenty of places for classified ads, e.g. Craigslist, Kijiji, Toronto Star Classified, etc.,  where you can place your advertisement free. Simply go to Google search, type in 'Free Classified Ads'. Check them out and use the ones that best meet your requirement.  For each one of them, you need to do the registration,  create your username and password before you can start.  Follow the instructions filling in the required information.  Below is a classified ad specimen.   Enjoy and have a very good day.







Kijiji
Ontario Kijiji > Toronto (GTA) > Markham / York Region > community > other >

Hi, buddies, boomers, friends and strangers!

 Your journey is heading where?  Going up where the sky is the limit?  Going along with the mass on the highway?   Going down under the water like the current economy?  What we boomers have plenty in retirement is time, knowledge, experience and know-how.   However, finance is shaky.  For most boomers, we need to build for ourselves new incomes as lifeboats.   Building your own website is a very good option. It is easy to learn how to do-it-yourself. It doesn't take long, and you can have a website or blog up and running within a few days as there is  the online mentor  who walks you through the process step by step.  http://millionbabyboomers.com/blog


Today's  internet allows you and me to enjoy the benefits of mass communication. In the old days only the very large corporations and wealthy millionaires could do it.    Now we can reach out to people 10, 100 even 1,000 times with the same message for little or even no cost at all.   Now, you and me  are able to create MORE results with less work and less time.  Boomers and retirees for once making a truly part time business a reality for the average person with a full schedule and a limited budget. The internet is now the primary method for doing market research and making purchasing decisions due to its speed, efficiency and practical applications.  With your I-Phone or Blackberry you can find and select the restaurant of your choice with detailed description and exact location, thanks to Google Map and Google Places for their innovative applications.  What is most amazing is that these tools are completely free.

email me at aushukan@rogers.com
or visit my blog http://millionbabyboomers.com

David Au

I got an email from Ann Sieg.  It is powerful and inspirational. I want to share it with all you guys. Come along and join me reading her story:



Back in the 1800's, in the middle of the gold
rush, a man named R.U. Darby traveled west with
his uncle to dig and grow wealthy.

They stopped in Colorado, and Darby's uncle
stake a mining claim. Both men worked tirelessly -
from sun up until sun down - using nothing but
picks and shovels.

The work was back-breaking, however both were
driven by a burning desire to strike it rich!

Finally after much toil and struggle, Darby and
his uncle discovered what they had risked everything
and traveled thousands of miles for... GOLD!

Needing heavier machinery to bring the shiny ore
to the surface, they quietly covered up their find
and went back home to Williamsburg, Maryland to
tell their family and a few friends what happened.

As you can imagine, everyone was thrilled to hear
the news!

They all pitched in to buy the necessary equipment
and had it shipped back to Colorado.

As a result, the work went a lot faster, and their
first load of ore was mined and sent to the smelter
- a factory where the metal was melted.

The money made from this confirmed they had stumbled
upon one of the richest gold mines in the state.

Darby and his uncle were overjoyed!

Just a couple more loads like this and they'd be
completely out of debt - scooping up nothing but
pure profit.

Then something horrible happened.

The gold just vanished.

GONE. Nowhere to be found!

Both men frantically continued drilling, trying to
rediscover the vein that had supplied them with so
much elation and hope.

However, this time their work didn't pay off - the
vein had simply dried up. (So they thought)

Discouraged and bitterly disappointed, they decided
to give up and quit.

Before catching the train back home, his uncle sold
all the expensive mining equipment to a "junk man" for
only a couple hundred dollars.

This junk man was smart.

He quickly hired an expert - a mining engineer, to
find out for sure if the vein had gone dry.

After some inspection and further calculations, the
engineer said the project had failed because the
two men weren't familiar with the mine's fault lines.

He predicted the vein of gold would be found three
feet from where R.U. Darby and his uncle stopped
drilling!

And sure enough, that's exactly where it was
discovered once again.

----------------
ARE YOU JUST
THREE FEET AWAY?
----------------

Anyone who sets out to achieve anything worthwhile
in life will face this situation at some point.
Unaware of how close they are to success - most
will abandon all hope and quit, right before making
it BIG.

Maybe you're at this point RIGHT NOW.

Maybe it seems like this dream of firing your boss,
working from home (or anywhere else you want), and
calling your own shots is something that only works
for other people - not you.

Maybe you just got stood up by a prospect for the
twentieth time in a row.

Maybe you just lost your top distributor. The one
you thought was going to help fund your retirement.

Maybe you just posted your first Youtube video online
and NOTHING happened.

Whatever the case, remember this...

500 of the wealthiest people in America told Napoleon
Hill (author of "Think and Grow Rich") their BIGGEST
success and achievements in life came RIGHT AFTER
they were completely overwhelmed by failure!

So anytime I experience what appears to be a major
setback, or my goals start to seem out of reach...

I always come back to Napoleon's book and remind
myself of this fact: "Failures" and "setbacks" are not
actually failures. They're simply a necessary step
in the process of figuring out what works - and what
doesn't.

Or as ad-writer Ted Nicholas says, "There's no
failures. There's only tests and results."



1To Your Success,


Ann Sieg


P.S. - The "junk man" made millions of dollars not
because he kept digging aimlessly like the Darbys...
but because he stopped and got a different perspective
on the situation by seeking the advice of an outside
expert.

Are you digging aimlessly in your business?

http://davidau.therenegadenetworkmarketer.com

Last couple of days, I talked about 'How to Build a Small Business Website with Google Blogger', then,  'How to Build a Small Business Interactive Website with Google Blogger'.  Today let us talk about  'Connect customers to your business with Google Place'.


Google Places is free.  Yes,  what I am telling you is completely true.   People in the internet world are familiar with Google Map. It is free to use for every body.  Simply type in the Google Map search box your friend 's address or any genuine address,  it will show you the detailed map, the road direction and the satellite view of that particular location.  It is a great piece of computer technology which Google offers to all and it is Free.  

Google Places is a big step forward for people who endeavor to do business both online and offline.   Today's people, when they want to buy something, they would Google it for related info. Even when they want to go to a restaurant, they would Google it and find it in the Google Map. All these are now being done on the smart phones such as iPhone and Blackberry.

With Google Places you have an excellent tool to help your customers to find you easily in the iPhone and Blackberry, e.g.  my favorite Chinese restaurant Maple Yip Seafood Restaurant in Scarborough .   At Google Places, people can get their required information just by typing in the company name.


If you like to use Google Places, you need to register first.   Access here for free registration and simply follow the instructions.  It is simple.  Better still, it is free!   In case you need help just email me.    Have a good day.

Check out this specimen which brings you to my information at Google Places.

To all my Brainy Friends,  It is an enlightening article on forms of government.


In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of
Edinborough, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some
2,000 years prior:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a
permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until
the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts
from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for
the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with
the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal
policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of
history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations
always progressed through the following sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage."
The Obituary follows:

Born 1776, Died 2011
It doesn't hurt to read this several times.


Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul ,
Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the last
Presidential election:

Number of States won by: Obama: 19 McCain: 29
Square miles of land won by: Obama: 580,000 McCain: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Obama: 127 million McCain: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Obama: 13.2
McCain: 2.1


Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won was
mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country.

Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income
tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the
"complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy,
with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached
the "governmental dependency" phase.



If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal
invaders called illegal's - and they vote - then we can say goodbye to the
USA in fewer than five years.
 
 
Sounds very familiar doesnt it?

This is to continue yesterday post 'How to build a small business website with Google Blogger'.  The objective of building a website is to make this website a useful tool to bring in prospects and customers to you.  The website we built yesterday is very basic with four pages of essential information for the visitors. What if these visitors want to find out more? A channel for such communication is required.   That is an opportunity for turning  a random prospect to become a warm potential customer.   For any business new potential customers are indispensable.  In this respect, Google Blogger provides interactive gadgets.

There are some features in Google Blogger which we can use to help our interaction with the visitors through the website.  For example, visitors feedback, comments, what are their needs, what they like, what they dislike, etc.  Briefly, I would go through them with you:

Basic Gadgets

	Follow by Email (New!) Make it easy for readers to follow your blog by email. By Blogger
	Popular Posts (New!) Displays a list of popular posts on your blog. By Blogger
	Blog's stats (New!) Displays your blog's stats. By Blogger
	Pages Displays a list of stand-alone pages on your blog. By Blogger
	AdSense Earn revenue by displaying relevant ads on your blog. By Blogger
	Followers Displays a list of users who follow your blog By Blogger
	Search Box Search over your blog, your blogroll, and everything you've linked to. By Google Custom Search
	HTML/JavaScript Add third-party functionality or other code to your blog. By Blogger
	Text Add some words to your blog - like a welcome message - with our rich text editor. By Blogger
	Picture Add a picture from your computer or from somewhere else on the web. By Blogger
	Slideshow Add a slideshow of your photos to your blog. By Blogger
	Video Bar Display clips from YouTube and Google Video for your readers to watch without leaving the page. By Blogger
	Poll Survey your visitors by adding a poll to your blog. By Blogger
	Blog List Show off what you read with a blogroll of your favorite blogs. By Blogger
	Link List Add a collection of your favorite sites, blogs, or web pages. By Blogger
	List Add a list of your favorite books, movies, or anything you like. By Blogger
	Feed Add content from an RSS or Atom feed to your blog. By Blogger
	Newsreel Automatically add current headlines from Google News to your blog. By Blogger
	Labels Show all the labels of posts in your blog. By Blogger
	Subscription Links Let your readers easily subscribe to your blog with popular feed readers By Blogger
	Logo Choose from a variety of Blogger logos to add to your page. By Blogger
	Profile Already added Display information about yourself. By Blogger
	Blog Archive Already added Display links to older posts. By Blogger
	Page Header Already added Display your blog's title and description. By Blogger

Choose the gadgets which meet your need.  Set them up is simple ... just by click.  Check them out and have fun.   Have a very good Thanksgiving holidays!

Today almost every major retailer offers the service to purchase their products
online.  Consumers on the go would look into iPhones, Blackberry and those at
home would search the internet for information pertaining to the goods or
services they want. 


In this respect the small businesses are following the trend.  More and more of
the small businesses want their presence in the internet.  However, building a website for their business is intimidating, e.g., the initial cost and time taken to create the site, the know-how for maintaining, for updating and hosting it.


Among baby boomers,  there are some simply afraid to touch the computers
not to mention building a website.  For them and those who are too busy and don't have time on designing and building their site, the best way is to get someone to build their websites.  Here to my Hot Ad Page to find the pricing. 


For those who would like to build their own website,  I would share with them my experience using  Google 's Blogger as a tool for building and maintaining a small business website.  It is simple and free.  You can do it completely free if you don't need your own domain name.  Click here to a specimen.



Now, let us go to Blogger and do the registration.   Fill in the required personal
data as required.  You  need to create your own user name (your email address)  and password.   After this simple registration, you would be informed via an email your log in link together with your username (your email address) and password.   


With your username and password sign in to your Blogger account.  Then you
do the following to create your small business website:

• Click 'Create a Blog'
• Name your blog by filling the Blog title  
• Complete Blog address (URL) remember check url availability
• Word verification ... Type the characters you in the picture
• Click continue
• Choose a starter template ... select Dynamic Views
• Click continue
• Your blog has been created
• Click 'Start Blogging'
• Now you have a new page where you can do the blogging
• Click 'Edit Pages'
• Click 'New Page' - you can have up to 20 stand alone pages
• Type in Page Title: for example 'Introduction'
• Then on the worksheet (blank) type in the content.  Text, images and videos are OK
• When you are done with the above, click 'publish
• Click 'save and publish' again
  
• You can 'View Page' or 'edit page'
• Now you are done with the first 'Home Page'
• You can create the second page that is the 'About Page'
• Click 'Edit Pages'
• Click 'New Page'
• Type in Page Title: for example - ' About Small Businesses'
• Type in the content, add images or video as requried
• Click 'Publish Page'
• Now you can 'View Page' or 'edit page'
• This page is done.
• In similar way, you can create the 3rd, 4th until 20th pages.

For small businesses, generally the following pages are essential:

• A 'Home Page' (landing page)  a little about the business + communicate with  prospects and customers
  

• An  'About Page' with more detail about the business and what it offers

• A 'Contact Page' details with location, telephone numbers, email address

• A 'Products/Services Page    

There are plenty of free templates available. Find the ones that is consistent with your business theme. Add your business logo in the header section.  Of course you can add images of products and videos as well.


Personally,  I prefer to remove the 'Post Author' to make the Blogger website
appearing  like a business website.  Keep the comments as this allows better
interaction with prospects and customers. 



For related articles on building a website go to the 'Search Box' at the top right hand corner and type in 'build a website'.  Enjoy and have a great day.

With the first hello Love bonds H2 and O
This gave new meaning to the empty world
Now the earth has rivers, ponds, seas and oceans
Earth reborn as water of life made all living fine
The world has fishes, birds, animals and insects of all kind
All lives love the world enriched with water 
The sun embraces the world with his warmth
Water warmed and became vapor rising high
To where angels sing songs among shrines
Misty clouds fill the air with so much love
How long does these clouds stay
Can they be measured by the hours in a day
How long the misty clouds take to become rain
Rains will shower all over the plains
Can rain enlighten all living beings with grace
Somewhere in very cold places high in the sky
Little water droplets become tiny flakes
They are white, light and bright
How long do the snow flurries fall
Now they cover earth with wonder and awe
Can snow stay on for a little long
People rejoice their snow winter with joy

Advocate Sees Greater Purpose
For Internet Communities and Games in Caregiving

Being a caregiver is the toughest job that no one ever talks about.

According to the National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP, more than 65 million Americans are caregivers to family members with a vast array of illnesses, including Alzheimer's disease, advanced diabetes, Parkinson's disease and many others.

According to government statistics, they experience a higher risk of stroke, double the rate of chronic health conditions and enjoy a 40 to 70 percent increase in the rate of suffering from depression. In addition, they cost businesses in the country more than $33 billion in lost productivity according to an AARP study, which makes job security an additional source of stress.

"What's more is that caregivers never give themselves a break," said Sharon Brothers, a social worker with nearly two decades experience with caregivers and their families. "Most caregivers are adding this role on top of their work, their children, marriage and other commitments. Just finding time for a break can seem impossible, given the increased demands on an already busy life."

Brothers is also executive vice president of Caregiver Village (www.caregivervillage.com), an omnibus Internet community and resource hub for caregivers that includes expert forum hosts and even an online caregiver game. Her view is caregivers need real tools with a side order of recreation to relieve their stresses.

"Caregivers really value contact with other caregivers who share their experiences and challenges," Brothers said. "Despite the large numbers of people affected, you'd be amazed how alone they often feel. And the truth is that no matter the situation that made them a caregiver, many of the challenges they face are the same. They have more in common with each other than just about any other group of Americans."

The lack of recreation is also a factor, which is why Brothers and the Caregiver Village team created an interactive online game for caregivers to help them enjoy a little guilt-free entertainment.

"Computer games are being used productively in a wide array of critical pursuits," Brothers said. "Just recently it was announced that a group of gamers used a puzzle game they created to help AIDS researchers map a key enzyme that could be used as a protease inhibitor for AIDS patients. Researchers had worked for 10 years to unlock the code that gamers deciphered in three weeks. If they can use games to save lives, we figured we could use a game that is based on the mission of caregiving to offer people a little relief from their daily grind. We've divided the game into episodes that can be played in a short amount of time and we've embedded information that can help caregivers in their mission. That way, they don't have to feel guilty about playing it - they're actually learning from it. At the end of the day, we believe some of these elements can help bring a little stress relief to people whose days never truly end."

About Sharon Brothers

Executive Vice President of Caregiver Village, Sharon Brothers, holds a Masters Degree in social work from the University of British Columbia. She built and managed some of the very first specialty care centers for people with Alzheimer's and dementia in both Washington and California, and has more recently developed an e-learning company for caregiving professionals. She works with family caregivers both in Caregiver Village and in her leadership of a family support group for her community hospital.

If you would like to run the above article, please feel free to do so. I am able to provide images if you would like some to accompany it. If you're interested in interviewing Sharon Brothers for a feature/Q&A or having her write an exclusive article for you, let me know and I'll gladly work out the details. Lastly, please let me know if you'd be interested in receiving more information about Caregiver Village.

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What is in your mind when your icon left? Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Inc. the legend, innovator and possibly the greatest inventor of our time and centuries to come.

Steve Jobs co-founder of Apple die at the age of 56.  Steve is the legend and innovator of this century.  He will be missed for his visionary and creative concept and marketing abilities.    To commemorate the hightech giant, let us revisit his speech to the students at Standford University:



This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something -- your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky -- I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation -- the Macintosh -- a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me -- I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything -- all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma -- which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

Source:
Standard University News

High tech Japanese toilet. It is a big concern while you are doing the big job. The door may automatically open after 15 mins. It's like shitting with door open while people stare inside looking at you shit lol.

Another concern.  What if you did not get out in time and were locked in there? Where is the sink to wash your hands? Guys, I like it. If you like it FB 'Like'

Timely New Book, "Boomers into Business", by Business Expert, Lisa Orrell,Addresses the Startling Fact That 47.2% of Baby Boomers Are at Risk of Outliving Their Retirement Savings and What They Can Do About It.


Lisa Orrell's book teaches people 50+ years old how they can monetize their career experience, hobbies or interests to make more income, part-time or full-time, now and into their golden years, for a more secure financial future.

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October 4, 2011 (San Jose, CA): Lisa Orrell, The Promote U Guru, an award-winning Branding and Marketing Expert, Certified Success Coach, Speaker and Author, has just released her third book, "Boomers into Business: How Anyone Over 50 Can Turn What They Know into Dough Before and After Retirement" (Wyatt-Mackenzie Publishing, Inc.). The book is now available on Amazon in both print and Kindle versions, and the demand is rapidly growing due to almost half of the Baby Boomers not having enough money to retire comfortably.


According to this 2010 report, The EBRI Retirement Readiness RatingTM: Retirement Income Preparation and Future Prospects, by Jack VanDerhei and Craig Copeland of EBRI.org: 47.2% of older Boomers (56-62) are at risk of outliving their retirement savings. And 43.7% of younger Boomers (46-55) are at risk of not having enough money for basic monthly expenses when they retire.


These sobering statistics have millions of Boomers currently wondering, "What can I do to generate income, full-time or part-time, that is flexible, interesting, fun, possible to start on a tight budget, and do way into my golden years?"


Orrell wrote "Boomers into Business" to answer those questions. Readers learn how to take what they know, from their career experience or hobbies, to develop a "topic expert" platform that can lead to consulting others, conducting training seminars online and offline, developing many strategies for on-going passive income, and much more. According to Orrell, it doesn't matter whether youve been an employee your whole career or whether you are currently self-employed. Nor do a person's education level, career background, or business experience matter. The book was written to take a lot of guesswork out of the process.


"Most everyone knows something, from their career background, life experiences or from a hobby that other people will pay to learn about. Whether youve been an HR professional your whole career, or a construction worker, homemaker, lawyer, Life Coach,  housepainter, or a lover of growing roses, my book teaches Boomers how to monetize what they know to create a good income, in a wide variety of ways, as a topic expert," explains Orrell.


The book not only teaches how to determine a topic focus and how to create a unique brand platform, but it also outlines the tools needed to launch. Orrell, along with 15 other business experts, then provides readers with over 20 more chapters on PR, marketing, and social media strategies, plus many more business-building and revenue generating ideas.


Orrell has already been receiving extremely positive feedback from early readers of "Boomers into Business":


"I'm now 50, a single mom with a teenage son, and I've worked at Title Insurance companies for over 20 years. I currently don't have enough money to retire comfortably in my 60's and have been trying to figure out what I can do make money on-the-side of my day job," says Kathy F. in San Jose, CA. " 'Boomers into Business' was a godsend! It opened my mind to possibilities I had never thought of before and I'm now developing ideas for an expert platform and consulting business that will provide me with the additional income I need to be more comfortable now and later in my life."


Orrell also hears from Boomers who are currently self-employed but benefit from the book because they learn how to expand on what they currently do for a living to increase their income.


"This book was so helpful, easy to follow and really fun to read! It's loaded with ideas that I can refer to again and again," shares Marilyn F., a 62-year old Boomer in Santa Cruz, CA. "I'm already self-employed but learned how I can expand my services to be much better off financially. Plus, I learned tons of new marketing strategies that are really effective. I highly recommend this book to any Boomers wanting to improve their financial futures or who are seeking ways to change their career path."


Based on Orrell's expertise and notoriety, she has been interviewed by, or written articles for, countless media, including: ABC, MSNBC, NPR, Wall Street Journal, NY Times, Cosmo, OPENForum.com, BNET.com and WomenEntrepreneur.com.


For media inquiries, to contact Lisa about her services, purchase her book, join her Promote U Mastermind Group, or to have her speak at an event, contact Lisa Orrell at: Lisa@PromoteUGuru.com, phone:             408-340-8789      , or visit her website: PromoteUGuru.com
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About the Author: Lisa Orrell, The Promote U Guru, is an in-demand Branding Expert, Marketing Consultant and Certified Success Coach with over 20 years of experience. And prior to starting this business she owned an award-winning Marketing Agency in Silicon Valley for 2 decades where she worked with clients ranging from technology startups to Fortune 500 companies. Recently she was voted the "Top 30 Most Influential Brand Gurus in the World", and she is also the recipient of over 75 awards for marketing excellence. Lisa works with small business owners, coaches, consultants, entertainers, academics, speakers and authors. Plus, she herself is the author of 3 business books and a professional speaker.


People follow Lisa's insights, tips and advice on Twitter @PromoteUGuru, through her Promote U Guru blog, on her Facebook Fan Page: Facebook.com/PromoteUGuru, and on her YouTube Channel: YouTube.com/ThePromoteUGuru. People also join Lisa's online Promote U Mastermind Group for on-going support to grow and build their small businesses.


Book Info:
Title: Boomers into Business: How Anyone Over 50 Can Turn What They Know into Dough Before and After Retirement
(October 2011: Wyatt-Mackenzie Publishing, Inc.)
ISBN: 9781936214440
Pages: 214
Versions: Paperback & Kindle

According to Wikipedia, bounce rate  is an Internet marketing term used in web traffic analysis. It represents the percentage of visitors who enter the site and "bounce" (leave the site) rather than continue viewing other pages within the same site.


In this regard,  I would like to share my experience with you guys.  My blog millionbabyboomers.com was called 'Million Baby Boomers', then renamed
'Baby Boomers Blog', and again 'Baby Boomers Retirement Journey'.  The original theme of the blog is about baby boomers.  It talked about anything about baby boomers.   Therefore, the content of the blog is very diversified encompassing almost anything in life.  I remember the bounce rate of the blog during that period was around 70 to 78%.  For two years the bounce rate remained there.  I was concerned about it. It is a warning to me that my visitors who entered my blog left the site rather than continued viewing other pages within the blog.


Google Analytics specialist Avinash Kaushik has stated: "My own personal observation is that it is really hard to get a bounce rate under 20%, anything over 35% is cause for concern, 50% (above) is worrying. I stress that this is my personal analysis."


I have to do something about my blog.  I changed the blog 's theme.  Now this time it is a focus theme, namely DIY.  Then I zoomed it a bit deeper to eBusiness.  And further zoomed in by linking the theme with baby boomers.   I changed the blog name to 'DIY - eBusiness Solutions for Baby Boomers'.


Within one month as I checked into my Google Analytics account, the bounce rate has improved from 70% to 60%.  Google Analytics is a great tool though it is free.  It tells you which are the entrance keywords,  the top landing pages as well as the referral links.   With this tool, I can fine tune my articles making the bounce rate further improved from 50% & 40%.  At the moment of writing this article, the bounce rate is less than 2%.  Thanks to Google Analytics.

Now, people visiting my blog stay much longer.  They start 'Like' my articles and put down their comments.  I would appreciate those who put down their comments with 'anonymous' would put their first-name there, even their initials are acceptable. 


Some readers are very nice.  They emailed me for placement of their ads  and articles.  I take the opportunity to thank them here again for their support.  Information regarding ad placement click ere

 
I hope the above experience of mine is useful for you guys.  Have a great day.

If you or someone that you love needs an electric mobility scooter to help you get around safely and you have invested the money into purchasing one, then you will want to make sure that you are performing regular maintenance on your scooter to keep it running properly at all times. While this may seem like a daunting task, it actually takes very little time to do.

One of the most basic things that you can do to maintain your scooter is to inspect the tires regularly. You will want to make sure the tread has not worn down to less than 1/32 of an inch; if it has, then the tires will need to be replaced. While you are inspecting your tires, you will want to double check the air pressure of any inflatable tires. You want the air pressure to be between 30-35 PSI to get the maximum usage out of the tires. Many scooters are equipped with flat free tires and don't need air, so check your owner's manual to make sure you know which type you have.

Along with maintaining the tires on your scooter, you will want to make sure that you regularly check the battery terminals. If there is any corrosion, you will want to get it cleaned up as soon as possible. Doing this will ensure that you are getting the maximum battery life out of your battery. Treat corroded terminals with a mixture of baking soda and water, and dry them prior to reconnecting the battery.

Now that the tires and battery are fully functional, you will want to check all wires regularly as well. If there are any frayed or loose wires, you will want to get the scooter to a technician to have them repaired or replaced as quickly as possible. Failure to do this can lead to electrical shock or possibly a fire.

If you are not planning to use your electric mobility scooter for an extended period of time, it is important that you fully charge the battery and then disconnect it from the scooter prior to storage. You will also want to store it in an area that is not too hot or too cold, as extreme temperatures will affect the life of the battery.

 

Doing all of these things regularly will ensure that your electric mobility scooter will last you for many years.

 

It is pretty easy to set up the Skype program on to your personal computer.Go to the Skype website. On the homepage there will be a green colored "button" which contains the word, "download Skype."When the download window opens, simply follow the user friendly instructions. Or you can follow the simple steps below with me:
    
Download from from Skype.com with this link:
http://www.skype.com/download/skype/windows/downloading/
    
A window will open asking what to do. Now click 'Save File'.
    
Follow instruction by the setup wizard.

When download is complete, click on SkypeSetup.exe file from web browser Downloads window to open Skype Setup Application.


Next, the Skype Setup Wizard will appear and guide you through the installation process.
     


      

Launch Skype Application.  


After the installation is complete, open Skype by clicking on the icon on your desktop or in your system tray.You are now ready to start enjoying and using Skype.

Lot of relatives and friends came upon Alison and Sam 's wedding.  Now, most of them left Canada.  They are back home or continue their travel to some other places.  We still keep in touch with each other through the Skype video call.   It connects people even they are oceans apart through the internet.  We can talk to each other face to face on the computer screen. What is most amazing about this great tool . It is free. (fees may apply for some services)

I talked to Kim and his wife Ah Yee who just left Canada continuing their trip to Taiwan.  We are connected through the internet with me sitting in front of my desktop computer at home in Toronto and Kim with his iPhone 4 while eating at McDonald's Cafe, Taipei.  


Yesterday, I talked face to face via Skype with Dr. Alex Chan an old friend back in 1960.  Now, he lives in Australia.  He came to visit the La Salle old boys here in Toronto and New York last year.   I also talked to Bruce a Facebook friend while setting up the Skype in my computer. 


Today, the world is getting smaller as people can reach and communicate with one another within seconds.

Skype would be an excellent tool for communication in the following areas: