Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life’s setbacks — including death itself — at the university’s 114th Commencement on June 12, 2005.

Watch on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

Transcript of Steve Jobs’ address:
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

Stanford University channel on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/stanford

This is by far the best explanation of the Muslim terrorist situation I have ever read.

His references to past history are accurate and clear.

Not long, easy to understand, and well worth the read.

The  author of this email is said to be Dr. Emanuel Tanay, a well-known and well-respected psychiatrist.

A German’s View on  Islam

A man, whose family was German aristocracy  prior to World War II, owned a number of large industries  and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism. ‘Very few people were true Nazis,’ he said, ‘but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many  more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.’

We are told again and again by ‘experts’ and ‘talking heads’ that Islam is the religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to  make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the  spectre of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.

The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars  worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter  Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic  wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honour-kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the  stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers.

The hard, quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the ’silent majority,’ is cowed and extraneous.

Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists  were responsible for the murder of about 20 million  people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. China’s  huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.

The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet.

And who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery? Could it not be said that the majority of  Rwandans were ‘peace loving’? History lessons are often incredibly simple and  blunt, yet for all our powers of reason, we often miss the  most basic and uncomplicated of points:

Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant  by their silence. Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don’t speak up, because like my friend from Germany, they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.

Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians,  Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have – yes that includes us Americans as well – who suffered and died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it  was too late. As for us who watch it all unfold, we must  pay attention to the only group that counts–the fanatics  who threaten our way of life or our lives.

“absolutely incredible” (practitioner)

<< Source: Margaret Shepley

I just received the report of my HemaView Live Blood Test that I did on 13 July 2010 by DH-Natural Medicine Clinic in Sydney, Australia.

On the following pages (in the link to the report) you can see before and after photos and the analysis by the qualified health practitioner.

A couple of sample photos and quick summaries are shown below.

Please take into consideration that I am 72 years old.

I did not tell her (the practitioner) anything about the product that I wanted to test before we started.

Live Blood Analysis – BEFORE (normal)	Live Blood Analysis – AFTER (2 mins later)

The BEFORE Test

The before test was performed as per normal procedure to gain a confirmation of a “baseline” or “control” state.

She reviewed the test and found a number of problems…

My red blood cells had formed long chains (rouleaux) and there were signs of inflammation.

I have had Osteoarthritis for years so I was sure there would be plenty of inflammation in my system. Candida infestation and acidity were also noted.

A large aggregation of platelets was present as well as protoplasts.

The AFTER Test

I sprayed 4 sprays of 360 Mist under my tongue.

We waited 2 minutes… and took another blood sample for analysis.

She just said WOW and called her husband in from the shop to show him what happened in two minutes.

She could not find large platelet aggregation or large protoplasts after the 360 MIST test. The platelet aggregation was small.

She was not sure if the spray would reduce the platelet aggregation even though there were only small ones in the after test.

She did say it would be a good idea to repeat the test after using 360 Mist for a while to look for any longer term improvements.

Conclusion

When I left she said “absolutely incredible” and she is going to have a look at the 360 Mist product info.

Please review the before and after photos and analysis on the next few pages. If you know anything about live blood then your decision should be obvious.

Download the Full 4 Page Report

Margaret Shepley

Tel: +61 2 9534 6468 – Email: mshepley@tpg.com.au

PS: To receive more information on this product or how to obtain 360 Mist (ZorbMax) please contact the person who shared this information with you.

Sent: Friday, 2 July 2010 4:25 PM
Subject: My products have arrived!!

I was scurrying out of the house today to catch a bus into the city and realised the postie had already been…. and left me a package with my products. Yippee!!

As I sat at the bus stop I ripped the package open and gave myself the
obligatory 4 sprays. Before my bus had arrived at Roma Street, a 10 minute
trip, I could feel my cerebellum really buzzing…

Within another 20 minutes I was aware that my ‘brain fog’ had lifted and I felt
more alert. I also became aware as I walked around the city that I was taking
deeper breaths and my chest seemed to expand. I was diagnosed with asthma when
I first moved to Brisbane about 5 years ago and this cold weather we are now
experiencing exacerbates it. Although I have never had real problems breathing
I didnt realise until this afternoon how little air I was really able to take
in. I can definitely breathe more freely and deeply this afternoon, and my
sinuses are clearer.

Can’t wait to see what else is going to happen as the days progress.

I also have some PM. I have had restless and disturbed sleep for years – it
will be interesting to see how I go tonight.

Rondo

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From: Greg Degenhardt
Sent: Saturday, 3 July 2010 4:50 PM

Subject: What I have noticed so far about the effects of Zorbmax on my body

I am not the best guinea pig when it comes to testing new products as I also
take my essential oils and other supplements that have a balancing effect on my
nervous system and red blood cells etc.

So here goes:

For the past 2 days I have taken the ZorbMax  as directed  4 sprays under the
tongue 3 times a day

What I have noticed is that for the past 2 mornings I have woken up more
refreshed and that I seem to become more alert after spraying ZorbMax in my
mouth and the spray may have opened up my lungs more effectively when I went
for a run today.

For instance about 12pm last night I was bit tired and was not going to watch
the 2nd 1/2 of the soccer between Brazil &amp; the Netherlands so I sprayed ZorbMax
into  my mouth and after a short while I felt more alert so I watched the end
of the game and went to bed about 2am and had a restful sleep and woke up
refreshed the next  morning …prior to this I have been waking up feeling
sluggish lately due to late nights working and then watching a bit of soccer or
tennis.

Also I have just started training for the City to Surf run in about 5 weeks
time. So my body is a bit out of shape aerobically and I am carrying a few
extra kilo’s due to going off the bandwagon with my nutrition and through lack
of exercise. So my body, sinus’s &amp; lungs are a bit congested…so the possible
effect on my lungs is of interest. (I had a glass of water before and after my
run then sprayed the ZorbMax in my mouth before and after the run to assist my
body during the run and with recovery afterwards.)

One thing I would mention is to make sure you drink water regularly throughout
the day to help the ZorbMax  work to its optimum. i.e. you need water to help
keep the body hydrated so that in can absorb nutrition, oxygen and get rid of
waste on a cellular level.

I am  also looking forward to getting my LiveFit product next week..(which also
contains ZorbMax)  that should help shift the extra kilo’s by race day.

The ERA pack I ordered included the full range 360 of products. So I will keep
you posted about my progress with the products as they arrive and I begin using
them.

Greg

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From: Night White Swan
Sent: Tuesday, 6 July 2010 11:19 AM

Hi,

Franny is having a great result.  She’s been taking it for a few days.

She’s had pneumonia and ongoing chest congestion and intense pain and it has
cleared up in 48 hours of being on the product!  (360 Mist)

Good – some encouragement!  I certainly needed it.

Hope it helps,
Swan

PS: Just talked to one of Franny’s friends who said the pain in Franny’s chest had decreased 50-75% and she had increased energy.

Source: The Fortune Institute

Siimon Reynolds was the ideas man behind the “Grim Reaper” AIDS adverts back in the 80’s.

He started his own advertising agency at the age of 23 and the company he started (Photon Group) is now worth over $500 million on the ASX.

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• Leveraged Products/Services
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• Nothing happens until someone buys
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Source: The Fortune Institute

Sources: Stephen Hemsley, Don Miguel Ruiz

In a training provided to me many years ago by a very astute Network Marketer, I was given the following advice. In order of importance, to build a business, should be the following.

• Attitude – How you view the business, product, company, upline etc
• Activity – Prospecting, presenting and Asking for business
• Skills – Learning how to e-mail, operate your back office, do a presentation etc

Most people build their business in the opposite way, asking for the development of skills first before they will go out and build the business. With this in mind there are many people who have joined LiveSmart360 who may be a little concerned about what they have joined, is this a scam, where are our products, when do we get our commissions etc…

I have put a lot of trust and faith in Donna Valdes and the trust and faith she has put in the people she is working with. I appreciate that many of you joined our group because of that trust and faith and you have passed that down to your teams.

I will be putting together an e-mail update that will hopefully help solidify that trust and faith but in the mean time, may I suggest you read the following extract from a book called “The Four Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz. I encourage you and your team to obtain a copy and read it.

We and our whole team need to operate by the “Four Agreements” as this will help us over these challenging times at the start of a new business venture and also help out team members operate with integrity within their teams as well. These are the Four Agreements:

1. Be Impeccable with your word.
2. Don’t make assumptions
3. Don’t take it personally
4. Always do your best.

Let’s use the Four Agreements as “guidelines” for our whole team to follow and we will all get what we want. They apply to us ALL.

THE FOUR AGREEMENTS

BE IMPECCABLE WITH YOUR WORD - Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

DON’T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY - Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinion and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.

DON’T MAKE ASSUMPTIONS - Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement you can completely transform your life.

ALWAYS DO YOUR BEST - Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self judgment, self abuse, and regret.

Here’s some great stories from business leaders that should inspire you.

Corporate Testimonial Conference Call – 2 June 2010 (61:14)

Extracts: Ariana (Short – 5:54) – Ariana (Full – 18:08)

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Corporate Testimonial Conference Call – 3 June 2010 (36:21)

Extracts: Paige Pacetti (3:37) -  Herschel Wright (1:59) -  Wydell Madisson (2:10) – Willford (4:11) – Bob Schaffer (1:01) -

You will hear the audio of John’s story on this Conference Call (3.1MB mp3)

• As a 10 year old his mother had her first heart attack. Her weight was 320 lbs
• His father told him to get fit, exercise and eat right
• At age 13 he was into reading about nutrition and fitness and his mother had her second heart attack. Still at 320 lbs.
• At age 15 he started body building
• At age 16 his mother had her third heart attack and nearly died at the age of 42.
• He started his mum on a good nutrition, fitness, strength training and supplement program.
• In 22 months she shed a total of 140lbs moving from 320lbs to 140 lbs. He had “saved the life of the person that had given him life”
• She is now 77 and has an incredible life. She has recently done whitewater rafting, she goes roller blading 3 days a week and square dancing 3 days a week.
• John is now 52 and from the age of 18 has changed people lives and helps people understand about the challenges of heart disease, cholesterol control, blood sugar control with nutrition and exercise.
• For the last 20 years he has been implementing a program of products that helps,
  • fat burning,
  • increasing energy,
  • improving the uptake of amino acids for collagen regeneration, improving skin tone, muscle development, immune system and brain chemistry etc….
  • Facilitation the loss of excess water retention and sodium.

• He is an advocate of generating lean muscle via strength training. Muscle works for you to utilise energy which in turn burns fat.
• At the age of 30 he became Mr America. It was not the “be all and end all” for him. He wanted to be known as a person that helps people.
• He operated a business with 350 trainers under him and has had exposure on many media outlets such as 20/20, Hard Copy etc.
• He had been working with a unique program called “UltraFit”, since 1982, with many people offering him ways to bring it to market but he had always had a dream that his knowledge would be able to be exposed to a global market.
• Strength training is a big part of the program and he has recognised that too much cardio work will actually eat away your lean muscle mass, particularly from the age of 30-32.
• Women have been losing an average of 25lb in 6-7 weeks.
• Men have been losing an average of 35lb in 6-7 weeks.
• He had met with Mark McCool from Cyberwize in 1998, but the timing was not right.
• Now, the timing is right and he has an exclusive agreement with LiveSmart 360 to bring the Ultrafit product, but now labelled as ‘’LiveFit 360”, to a GLOBAL market with LiveSmart 360.
• The program will include when to eat, what to eat, shopping lists, exercise programs, suppplements etc. “Food is not the problem. Food is the solution”. It is a LIFESTYLE and easy to follow.
• You can now earn a living changing people’s lives.
• Your dreams and visions create your destiny
• John works 17 hours a day but “Lives it and Loves it”.
• He is on Facebook and Google his name John DeFendis for a more comprehensive history.

Thanx to Stephen Hemsley for this great piece of insight…

I (Stephen) was doing a little “research” and found this little gem. I am sure this explains why the numbers of 360 are growing as they are. Have a read and you will understand what I mean.

How to use the information it contains?

1.       Find a common ground with your people. What matters is their life. Family, occupation, recreation and motivation?

2.       Find out if what they are doing now is contributing to what matters to them. Are they happy?

3.       Find out if 360 might offer them an avenue to generate extra income that will help them with what matters in THEIR life.

4.       We all need money to do the things we want to do. The timing of 360 could be just what is needed to help them make a change for the better in their life.

5.       We are a TEAM. Together Everyone Achieves More.

6.       Join SuccessTeam360 and use the power of numbers as Reed’s law suggests.

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Excerpted from Smart Mobs – Howard Rheingold – 2002

“In the social sciences, prediction is necessarily fuzzy. In the economics of computer-mediated social networks, however, four key mathematical laws of growth have been derived by four astute inquirers: Sarnoff’s Law, Moore’s Law, Metcalf’s Law and Reed’s Law. Each law is about how value is affected by technological leverage.

Sarnoff’s Law emerged from the advent of radio and television networks in the early twentieth century, in which a central source broadcasts from a small number of transmitting stations to a large number of receivers. Broadcast pioneer David Sarnoff pointed out that the value of broadcast networks is proportionate to the number of viewers.

The often-cited Moore’s Law is the reason the electronic miniaturization has driven the hyper-evolution of electronics, computers, and networks.

In 1965 Gordon Moore, cofounder if Intel and one of the inventers of the microprocessor, noted that the number of elements that could be packed into the same amount of space on a microchip had doubled every eighteen months in the future.

Anything that doubles and redoubles grows large very quickly, from 2,250 elements in Intel’s first processor of 1971 to 42 million elements in the Pentium 4 processor thirty years later.

Computers and electronic components have driven industrial growth for decades because they are among the rare technologies that grow more powerful and less expensive simultaneously. Without the efficiencies discussed by Moore’s Law, the PC, the Internet and mobile telephones would have been impossibly large, unintelligent, and expensive.

What happens when you link devices based on Moore’s Law? When ARPA wizards gathered at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in the early 1970s to create the first personal computers, one of the engineering aces, Bob Metcalf, led the team that invented the Ethernet, a high speed network that interconnected PCs in the same building.

Metcalf left PARC, founded 3Com, Inc., cashed out and came up with Metcalf’s Law, which describes the growth of value in networks. The math is simple and is based on a fundamental mathematical property of networks: the number of potential connections between nodes grows more quickly with the square of the numbers of nodes.

If you have two nodes, each with a value of one unit, the value of joining them is four units. Four interconnected nodes, each still worth one unit, is worth sixteen units when networked, and one hundred nodes is worth one hundred times one hundred, or ten thousand.

When value increases exponentially more quickly than the number of nodes, the mathematical consequences translate into economic leverage connecting two networks creates far more value than the sum of their values as independent networks.

David Reed has a graying beard and a wicked twinkle in his eye. He’s not the type of fellow to pound on the table to make a point. He’s more the kind of fellow who genially proves he is right with equations on a whiteboard.

As we sipped lobster bisque in Kendall square, I asked him what led him to Reed’s Law. ‘I had the first ‘eureka’ when I thought about why eBay was so successful’.

eBay, which has turned out to be the only hugely successful profitable e-commerce business, doesn’t sell any merchandise; it provides a market for customers to buy and sell from each other. eBay won because it facilitated the formation of social groups around specific interests.

Social groups form around people who want to buy or sell teapots or antique radios. At that time I had been reading Fukuyama about social capital. Fukuyama argues in his book Trust that there is a strong co-relation between the prosperity of national economies and social capital, which he defines as the ease with which people in a particular culture can form new associations.

I realized that the millions of humans who used the millions of computers added another important property – the ability of the people to form groups. I remembered that when it became possible to send and reply to entire groups in email, it became possible to create ad hoc discussions.

Since then all sorts of chat rooms, message boards, listservs, buddy lists, auction markets, have added news ways for people to form groups online. Human communication adds a dimension to the computer network. I started thinking in terms of group – forming networks (GFNs).

I saw that the value of a GFN grows even faster-much, much faster than the networks where Metcalf’s Law holds true.

Reed’s Law shows that the value of the network grows proportionately not to the square of the users, but exponentially. That means you raise two to the power of the nodes instead of squaring the number of nodes.

The value of two nodes is four under Metcalf’s law and Reed’s Law, but the value of ten nodes is one hundred (ten to the second power) under Metcalf’s Law and 1024 (two to the tenth power) under Reed’s law – and the differential rates of growth climb the hockey stick curve from there. This explains how social networks, enabled by email and other social communications, drove the growth of the network beyond communities of engineers and to include every kind of interest group.

Reed’s Law is the link between computer networks and social networks.

Reed, using his law to analyze the value of different kinds of networks, believes he has discovered an important cultural and economic shift. When a network is aimed at broadcasting something of value to individuals, like a television network, the value of services is linear. When the network enables transactions between the individual nodes, the value is squared. When the same network includes ways for individuals to form groups the value is exponential.

Reed, using his law to analyze the value of different kinds of networks, believes he has discovered an important cultural and economic shift.

When a network is aimed at broadcasting something of value to individuals, like a television network, the value of services is linear. When the network enables transactions between the individual nodes, the value is squared. When the same network includes ways for individuals to form groups the value is exponential.”

Thank you Mr. Rheingold

Good article on Personal Mental Attitude…

By John Abdo © 2010 Nightingale-Conant Corporation
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As a former strength and conditioning coach for numerous Olympic and professional athletes and teams, I know that when athletes pessimistically think about their weaknesses, failures, fears, or injuries; are intimidated by their competitors; or have the slightest doubt in their performance abilities, chances are that those athletes will validate what they’re thinking about … and fail. These failures – which I’ve seen more than I care to admit –  prevail even when the athletes have a superior win-loss record and physical attributes when compared with their opponents.

All champion athletes will tell you that when it gets down to the wire, when they’re consumed in the heat of fierce competition and everything’s on the line, their chances for success rely on a very predictable performance ratio between physical ability and mental fortitude. In fact, after many months, even years of training, on the day of competition, when it’s all on the line and nothing else counts but winning, the ratio requirements for the mental aspect of performance is claimed to be as high as 90%.

Just because an athlete has inferior physical abilities in comparison with his or her competitors doesn’t always mean that athlete is sure to lose. We see it all the time, especially now in the fastest-growing sport in the world, Mixed Martial Arts. A champion fighter gets into the cage, surging with adrenaline and testosterone, sporting a win-loss record that’s splattered with a string of KOs; or as a champion, he’s fiercely determined to defend his title and win the prize money that will allow him to continue to support his loved ones. But minutes, sometimes even seconds, after the 1st round’s bell rings to begin, the fighter gets clobbered by his underrated (underdog) opponent and is knocked out cold.

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By John Abdo © 2010 Nightingale-Conant Corporation