My friend Joy emailed some photos to me, including this one. She sent them from El Veijo, Nicaragua. She took some photos from a small village of Huipinte.

We take the blue bird school buses to this little dusty place where we find a little open hut filled with women making cheese they sell at the markets in El Veijo.

Her caption for this photo: "It is really rare that I saw a mother with a child. It was always some young sibling. As young as 7 years here. "

Good luck to you Joy! Keep sending the photos along, and take care!

Herbalife Goes Public

See more about this here or hear how the IPO went from my mentor, John, who was there at the closing bell.

Bloggerhacks

No upsells, please...

"Two snowmen are standing in a field. One says to the other, 'Funny. I smell carrots too!' "


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Look out, I'm audioblogging now

When you are in the line of your duty...

Thanks to Stephen for this. Be sure to read the rest of his post!

"My boy, never forget that when you are in the line of your duty your heart will be full of love and forgiveness..., and that when you get out of that straight line of duty and have the determination that what you think is justice... should prevail, you ofttimes are anything but happy."

Bible scholar.

Christmas is the only time you ever hear about Harold the Angel, and I'm pretty sure it's because the other angels were jealous of his vocal work with hymns and carols. As a result, they excluded him from all the cool projects that would have made him famous.

I'm sure Raphael said to Gabriel at some point, "No, we're not inviting Harold to help us map the course of the Euphrates River. He gets his time in the sun every damn December. For 30 days out of the year, all you hear is 'Hark! The Harold Angel sings.'"

From Geese Aplenty

I just need to comment that I love the Picture Book commercial by HP. Cool.

That song is, apparently, by the Kinks. I need to see if I can download it. 

BookCrossing

Seen any good books lately? Thanks to Amy for this link (that she got from Renee) and a tool I am excited about using! Coooooooool...

Click here to join BookCrossing

Profits and poverty

I'm very interested in this book. Its interesting, especially in relation to concepts on microenterprise.

The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid. Eradicating Poverty Through Profits.: "IF WE stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognising them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs and value-conscious consumers, a whole new world of opportunity will open up. That simple proposition begins a controversial new management book that seems destined to be read not just in boardrooms but also in government offices. "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid. Eradicating Poverty Through Profits" (Wharton School Publishing), is essentially a rallying cry for big business to put serving the world's 5 billion or so poorest people at the heart of their profit-making strategies. It has already been praised by everyone from Bill Gates, "a blueprint for fighting poverty," to a former American secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, "if you are looking for fresh thinking about emerging markets, your search is ended."

Thanks to ProvoPulse for the link

Has anyone ever wondered WHY "theyyyy're GREAT!" I was just thinking that. I had some Frosted Flakes for the first time in like 5 years and I am thinking, "Man, these ARE actually pretty great!" But now, a few hours later, I am wishing I wasn't so excited about them. I'm excited for later when I get to have my shake! Ugh for processed food! 

I've always liked Othello

I've always enjoyed Othello.

I dunno, maybe it was the super-nice Othello board my Grandfather Robert H. had and I remember him teaching me how to play it at his home we called The Beaches on sixty-second street in Indianapolis.

Maybe it was because he and my older sister Chryssa would play Backgammon and I couldn't understand even the board just to save my life!

Now, Stephen has Othello online for us to rekindle our memories.

Like it? Check out Stephen at www.Zealous.org. I don't know him; I just blogged across him.

My favorite thing about ProvoPulse is that image.

some days when I am driving around town I look up and think I can almost see those 792-feet-tall letters.

...then, I regain control over my car, overcorrect on Center Street and almost runover one of Nuskin's top distributors.... 

www.Herbalife.com vs. www.StartHerbalife.com

Once again, the Herbalife corporate teams are working hard to be sure the distributors are getting the tools they need for success. Herbalife.com is such an incredible tool for all customers and distributors. Its also a valuable marketing tool for our company. www.herbalife.com is referred to in all press releases, statements, news articles, etc. People will instinctively go to herbalife.com to learn about Herbalife unless they have someone guiding them elsewhere.

The one special difference between Herbalife.com and StartHerbalife.com is that the latter is for distributors and people who have been referred by distributors.

Once a person clicks to StartHerbalife.com, they will not be able to contact Herbalife to find a coach or distributor. Instead, they will be asked to contact the person who referred them to the site.

See these examples--notice that, on the surface, the websites look exactly the same.

First, www.Herbalife.com

If a new web user goes to herbalife.com and clicks "Getting Herbalife" and then clicks "Get to know your... Distributor... today", this screen comes up, asking people to click where they came from:

• An Herbalife Distributor/ShapeWorks™ coach referred me.
• A friend sent me.
• I saw an advertisement
• Other

Still on Herbalife.com, if the person clicks "Be A Distributor", and click to the next page, they get four similar options

Either way, once a person clicks one of those options, a "cookie" is set in the browser remembering the preference and the person is either politely encouraged to contact their distributor or they're forwarded to the routing team because they either saw an ad, or they specified "other".

Next, www.StartHerbalife.com:
On StartHerbalife.com, the process is a little different. The corporate marketing team developed this site (and a companion www.StartShapeWorks.com that redirects here) for distributors who wanted to share Herbalife.com with their clients and prospects without fear of them somehow getting connected to another distributor!

So, the moment you click to startherbalife.com, your computer keeps a note saying, "This person already has a distributor!"

See below:


On STARTherbalife.com, however, if a person follows the same procedures, they NEVER get the option to choose where they came from. The website assumes that a distributor referred them to the site because Herbalife corporate will never use startherbalife.com in an advertising campaign, press-release or otherwise. The only people who will forward people to startherbalife.com, therefore, are distributors, or excited customers of distributors who know about startherbalife.com.

Similarly, choosing the "Be A Distributor" link causes the same type of procedure.

What's REALLY cool? (THANK YOU, HERBALIFE!) If you go Just Once to startherbalife.com, and then you go BACK to regular herbalife.com and you try to get connected to a distributor, it still knows you're already connected!. Herbalife has hired some very, very smart web developers down there and they deserve tips in their tip-jars for a job very nicely done!

Rename files with A.F.5

The Internet once again makes life easier!! Using the sweet programs Picasa+Hello to post photos to my blog worked great until I was trying to post to an FTP server that didn't allow spaces in my filenames. (See Google Groups Thread on this)

Grrrrr.

So, Alex Fauland's free Rename files with A.F.5 utility becomes my savior-of-the-hour, letting me move on to other very important matters in life.

Gee, it's almost lunch time....

Church Sign Generator

Got a favorite saying? Would it fit perfectly on a church sign? Now, you're just a click away:
www.churchsigngenerator.com lets you punch in your favorite one-sentence sermon and display it to the world, well, to anyone who you email it to, anyway.

See a few examples I put together, below

Thanks to the FOX 13 Archive for the link...

A Christmas Message 

I just had to do this one 

Grampa Frank, this one is for you! - Uncle Bud 

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