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STEP UP! Help A Working Mother In Dire Straits

Hey folks,

This story is not an easy one to tell. And the courage it took for the woman to let me tell it to you is immense.

Her name is Cy. She’s a sweet, hard working mother of 4 kids. One of them just 20 months old. Right now, all 5 of them are stuck in the middle of nowhere with no money, no place to stay, and I assume nothing to eat.

I’m telling you this story because you can help. Her kids need help. And I feel compelled to use my influence on the internet to persuade you to help.

Imagine your boyfriend breaking your hands so you could no longer use the internet. Imagine having your head slammed into the doorway. Imagine having your ribs busted by someone you lived with and had a relationship with.
After you watch that video, ask yourself a question: If it was a close friend of yours, what would YOU do to help?

No one should have to suffer domestic abuse like this. Obviously, you now see why I need your help. Please take a few seconds to watch the video below and see how you can help get Cy to a better place tomorrow…

Here’s what Cy needs…

Some money to get to a new city. She has a safe place to go and once there, will start looking for shelter for her kids. Right now she is stranded with nothing. In fact, her Paypal is -$250 after this monstrous ordeal.

I urge you to please dig deep into your heart and do whatever you can to help out Cy and her kids. I told her I would only help if she promised to move to the new city, start a new life, and surround herself with supportive people.

Right now, she just needs some supportive people. I’m not asking a lot from you, just whatever you can possibly do. Maybe it’s just tell a friend. Maybe it’s just a prayer. Please help however you feel comfortable doing so.

You can view Cy’s Product here…

If you are not interested in the product, but would like to just help with a couple bucks for daily needs, please send paypal payment to the email below….

cyprice @ gmail.com ( obviously without the spaces )

Thank you everyone, it means a lot to me and many of Cy’s friends.

The Copy Editor - Exciting new Online Gift Shop for Writers

Are you a writer, an editor, English teacher? Do you need a wryly humorous gift for your favorite proofreader, journalist or lover of the English language? If so, you simply must take a look at the new online store, The Copy Editor !

Stocked with a whimsical variety of T-Shirts, shopping bags, caps, coffee mugs and beer steins, BBQ aprons, journals, mouse pads and magnets designed to appeal to those who craft with words, either for a living or as a hobby, The Copy Editor's
wares feature headlines, journalistic bloopers, and funny sayings for the "thinking person".
The items are divided into sections, including Headline Bloopers, news headlines that make you look and think twice; Journos, designed to appeal to reporters and journalists; Language at Large, a grouping of more general merchandise; and Unsung Heroes, dedicated to copy editors. Many of the gifts have the "yellowed parchment" look, reminiscent of old writings, newspapers, and important documents. There is even a "Value" section, with modestly priced t-shirts that do not skimp on either quality or originality.

Don't see quite what you are looking for? Is there a motto or headline that you would like to see emblazoned on a t-shirt or mug? Never fear! The Copy Editor
is at your service, and will create a custom gift item for you to give to your favorite Wordsmith (or, to keep for yourself!) This online store is very user-friendly, innovative and is constantly updating the merchandise with new designs. There is even an order-by-phone option for those hesitant to give their credit card information online.

So, why wait for the back-to-school or holiday rush? Surf on over to The Copy Editor and start your shopping early!

Creative Manifestation

Money is ethereal energy and reflects our current state of mind.  Our relationship with money reflects our relationship with self and others. Our understanding of money is deeply rooted in our psyche. We are ego driven beings and live in a robotic age. We either fall in the employee or entrepreneur category.  As employees, we turn into slaves at the expense of receiving a steady paycheque and being eligible for regular benefits. Even in our waking states, we are asleep. Our day-to-day activities revolve around a clock and we tend to believe that our lives are structured and orderly.  We get up in the morning, have breakfast and race to work like robots, implement our duties, inhale and exhale stress, return home exhausted and still resume in work mode, retire to bed and begin this vicious perpetuating cycle again at the dawn of a new day.  Our minds constantly race and work overdrive. For some of us, the routine becomes drudgery and turns into a rut. We hide our discontentment under a winning smile, deceiving self and others that we are content with our current status and aspirations in life. Some of us may be honest and throw a line as such—‘It is just a job…pays the bills’—amidst daily conversation. We go up the corporate ladder and earn a reputation for becoming successful. We become our ambitions and our possessions. We compete against our competitors, launch publicity campaigns, develop marketing strategies to commercialize our ideas and turn them into lucrative corporations and empires. Money then loses its ethereal sense.  It turns into a battle field with everyone struggling to grab it and hold on to it at the expense of greed and ego and not their highest good. We feel a pit in the depth of our souls and we sense that there is something missing. That something is the universal truth we seek. That something is the union with our higher power. That something is an opportunity to become one with all that is. That something is an everlasting divine ray of golden stream of magnetic energy that showers out the top of our head and cascades down all over our body. We suddenly find ourselves living in this world but not being part of it. That something lurks in the recesses of our soul until we are ready to rise from our own burning ashes and become enlightened beings.  Until that defined moment, we live a life filled with shattered illusion and suppress what may be perceived as hurt, pain, shame, humiliation, loss of money and suffering. The list is endless. It is the ego that feels pain and suffering.  We remain in a state of denial until we are faced with a crisis of some sort i.e. losing a job, becoming ill or losing a loved one. Crisis becomes our wake up call and awakens our senses. Crisis is the key that unlocks the door to our eternal bliss or ‘nirvana’. Crisis propels us along a path that is unknown and foreign to us.  This would be our opportune moment to discover self and transform into our authentic self. It is our authentic self that blossoms and moves toward the light. A healing cycle of deep reflection and self-evaluation then begins.  We begin the process of elimination in order to create room for creative manifestation.  We bring order to what appears to be chaos.  We get rid of clutter and purge away the old.  We let go of ego and take the path of least resistance. We focus on nurturing self and developing our intuitive powers. When we quieten the constant chatter in our minds, we learn to be still and listen. We begin to manifest our desires with the assistance of the universe, but we first let go of trying. We release any personal efforting and learn to creatively visualize our desired outcome. We trust that there is an incredible manifesting power inside us that will naturally and effortlessly create our desires for us. When we are in tune and aligned with our higher power, we become manifesting magnets and raise our perceptual awareness. We turn up our trust dial and our bodies' manifesting vibrations. Miracles then abound. We become the creators and conductors of our life and rewrite our own movie script. Work becomes a source of joy and inspiration and we find ourselves amidst infinite riches and blessings of the universe.

Exciting new weapon against Plagarism!

iPlagiarismCheck is a new service started in January of this year to assist high school and college students and their teachers and professors in combating Plagiarism. Idea-theft has been going on for years, probably since the dawn of formal education in Egyptian, Greek, and Roman schools of higher learning. However, in the last ten years, it has become an epidemic, thanks in large part to the internet. On Ebay and many other "paper mill" web sites, you see term papers offered for sale, either as downloads or on CD. There is a vast library of what is called PLR content, usually in the form of articles, which is also sold, although there are "back door" sites where PLR content can be obtained for free. The many article web sites are treasure troves of content. There is also the generations-old practice of "sharing" papers among friends or siblings, or stealing another student's work against their will and copying it. With so many sources of stolen content at a student's fingertips, validating a submitted paper as a student's original work in today's world has become a nightmare- almost an insurmountable challenge!

To meet the challenge, iPlagiarismCheck has developed a thorough, economical, and fast service to check documents for originality. When you submit a paper to iPlagiarismCheck, it is checked for originality against both online documents and printed works found in five huge databases, including Google, FindArticles, and term-paper sites, whether they be custom "research" sites or "paper mills". The service is not only for English-language papers, but also checks documents written in 20 other languages. iPlagiarismCheck's patented technology also scans documents for "masked plagiarism", in which text is imported into an editor such as Word Flood or Article Spinner, and systematically re-written, by substituting synonyms for selected words, and then submitted as original material. Originality reports are usually produced in only about three minutes, whereas other services take up to 24 hours for their turnaround time.

The service is useful both for teachers and professors and for students who want to stay honest and make sure that their work is "clean". A sample report is given on the company's web site: http://www.iplagiarismcheck.com/. There are packages available from $5 for a single documents- perfect for students on a budget; to a $65 package which allows unlimited submissions for a year- designed for teachers and professors, and other professionals.

The school year is fast approaching! For more information or to sign up, please visit the company's site http://www.iplagiarismcheck.com/.