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** Featured Article - World Economy by Bill Staton

** Stupid Quotes

** Trivia

** Biz-Tips by Dr. Kevin Nunley - Get Lots of Leads

** Brain Teaser

** Quote of the Day

** A Little Levity - Primitive Self-Expression

** Stress Tip by Dr. Rae Baum

** Health Tip of the Week - Less HRT = Less Breast Cancer?

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                                               **Featured Article**
 

World Economy by Bill Staton

"The U.S. is positioned to keep its place in the commanding heights of the world economy for decades to come. Both work force expansion and productivity - the two elements that determine long-term growth - clearly point in that direction. Projections by the Census Bureau show that by 2025, America’s working population will have increased by 55 million. Western Europe’s, meanwhile, will have shrunk by about 10 million.

"Productivity is the result of many things - education, culture, investment, technology. Here, too, trends strongly favor the U.S. From 1995 to 2004, U.S. total labor productivity grew on average 73% faster than the EU´s. In 2005, the average American worker produced close to $81,000 in real GDP; the average European produced $66,000, a difference of $15,000 or 22%.

"Barring an unforeseen catastrophe, the U.S. will be a healthy, growing economy for decades. Its real competition will be China and India."

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Bill Staton, MBA, CFA, America's Money Coach® Chairman,  The Staton Institute Inc. & Staton Financial Advisors LLC  bill@billstaton.com         mary@statoninstitute.com

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Stupid Quotes

"It's time for the human race to enter the solar system!"

- Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President on the concept of a  manned mission to Mars

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 Trivia

Have your ad pull in interested prospects.  Instead of having the ad do the selling, simply get lots of leads.  Sell to them using other methods like phone calls, personal visits, a sales letter, or via email.  Offer a free consultation, sample, or report.

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Biz-Tips by Dr. Kevin Nunley

Feverish Buying

Lots of evidence points to buying coming in feverish clumps.  People develop an interest, by a lot of items related to the interest, then quickly move on to something else.  If, for example, you become interested in pink flamingoes, you may visit a dozen or more pink flamingo sites, buying several in rapid succession.  After a while you get tired of pink flamingoes and your buying quickly tapers off.

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Kevin Nunley provides marketing and copy writing. Read all his
free tips at http://DrNunley.com

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Brain Teaser

A guy bet his neighbor $100 dollars that his dog could jump higher than a house. Thinking this not possible, the neighbor took the bet an lost. Why did he lose the bet?

Scroll down to find the solution to today’s riddle.

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Quote of the Day

"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it.  That factor is attitude."

 - Timothy Bentley, Leadership Coach and Author

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Solution to Riddle

Simple... a house cannot jump!

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A Little Humor

Primitive Self-Expression
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In Africa, some of the native tribes have a custom of beating the ground with clubs and uttering spine-chilling cries. Anthropologists call this a form of primitive self-expression.

In America, they call it golf.

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My buddy applied for a job as an insurance salesman. Where the form requested "prior experience," he wrote "lifeguard." That was it. Nothing else.

"We're looking for someone who can not only sell insurance, but who can sell himself as well," said the hiring manager. "How does working as a lifeguard pertain to salesmanship?"

My friend replied, "I couldn't swim."

He got the job.

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Doctor: "I see you're over a month late for your appointment. Don't you know that nervous disorders require prompt and regular attention? What's your excuse?"

Patient: "I was just following your orders, Doc."

Doctor: "Following my orders? What are you talking about? I gave you no such order."

Patient: "You told me to avoid people who irritate me."

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"Look at ME!" boasted the fit old man to a group of young people. "Every morning I do fifty push-ups, fifty sit-ups and walk two miles. I'm fit as a fiddle! And you want to know why? I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't stay up late, and I don't chase after women!"

He smiled at them, teeth white, eyes glittering, "And tomorrow, I'm going to celebrate my 95th birthday!"

"Oh, really?" drawled one of the young onlookers, "How?"

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Why do we say someone is Legally Drunk?
Isn't it Illegal to be drunk?

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Stress Tip
by Dr. Rae Baum

You will find this "Stress Tip Message" helpful to stay focused and on purpose.  You can put this message to work by reading it often throughout the day.

Collaboration is essential to creating miracles. Honor all of your relationships.

 - Dr. Rae

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You call a wrong number and they supply you with the correct one.

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Health Tip of the Week
by Dr. Earl Mindell

Less HRT = Less Breast Cancer?

In the aftermath of the Women’s Health Initiative, the study halted in July of 2002 because of an unacceptable increase in the risk of breast cancer in women who were taking Premarin plus a progestin; some 50 percent of women on HRT (hormone replacement therapy) quit cold turkey. It was probably the biggest health news story of that year.

Millions of women had been taking these drugs, trusting that not only were they controlling troublesome symptoms of menopause, but that they were also protecting their cardiovascular systems and their bones. They were right about the bone-protective effect, and they were protected against colon and ovarian cancer too—but they also were found to be at increased risk of heart attacks and strokes with this HRT regimen.

Even now, some three and a half years later, this is a big topic of conversation among physicians, health journalists, and women who are entering menopause. Some physicians continue to prescribe Premarin/progestin HRT to women who direly need help with menopausal symptoms. But in December of 2006, a study came out that seemed to put the final nail in the HRT coffin: the study revealed that breast cancer diagnoses had declined by 7 percent in all age groups, and by 14 percent for the type of breast tumor that is promoted by estrogen. (The rate had previously climbed by about 1.7 percent per year from 1990 to 1998; it then climbed more slowly, at 1 percent per year, from 1998 to 2002.) The study was led by Donald Berry, Ph.D., chief of biostatistics at the University of Texas’ M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, and was presented at the annual SABCS (San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium) on December 14.

The headlines shouted that it was the drop in HRT use that made the difference. Although I’m no fan of Premarin and progestin HRT, I find myself a bit skeptical on this front. The data in the study cover only a year’s time, finding that there were about 14,000 fewer breast cancer diagnoses in 2003 than in 2002. That’s a lot of women saved from a terrifying diagnosis, no doubt—but breast cancer is a disease that takes longer than weeks or months to develop. Many experts think that the withdrawal of the tumor-accelerating effect of HRT may be the reason for this shift; in other words, the cancers are still forming in women’s bodies, but they are growing more slowly and can’t be detected as soon.

The drop in diagnoses is probably due in part to less use of pharmaceutical HRT, but there are probably a lot of other factors in play. Maybe women are eating better, exercising more, losing excess weight, and taking better care of themselves. Maybe there are important differences between women who are entering high-risk age ranges now and those who did so in previous years (One guess: maybe more of these younger women breast-fed their children—a known protective factor).

Bioidentical HRT is still an option for women who have menopausal symptoms and want relief. Mainstream medicine doesn’t see any difference between BHRT and the kind of HRT that has been linked with breast cancer, but there is really a great difference. The progestin component of conventional HRT has been identified as the main problem when it comes to breast cancer risk. For example: women who took only estrogens (because they had had hysterectomies, and so did not need the uterine-protective effect of progestins) in the WHI study had no increases in breast cancer risk, and enjoyed bone and heart health benefits and protection against colon cancer.

I’m not suggesting you get a hysterectomy and start taking estrogen only! But natural progesterone, used as a transdermal cream, plus transdermal natural estrogen is a safe alternative to Premarin and progestins. Progesterone is not progestin, and never the twain shall meet. As always, I’ll recommend John Lee, M.D.’s books to those who are curious and want to learn more about bioidentical hormones.

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