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The men’s volleyball team and the Redeem Team as they are being called in basketball both brought home gold medals Sunday. Sunday was the last day of the Olympics and it was nice to see the men’s basketball team back on top of the world. The best basketball players do play in the United States and it was good that we proved it this year. The Spanish team did put up a good fight and it was a close game all the way to the end, but Team USA did hang on to beat the Spanish team in China. Brazil was the team that came up short in volleyball to the Americans. It was also a well-played game by both sides, but the team from the States proved to be a little too tough for our South American friends. I guess we have to wait 2 more years now for the Olympics to go winter on us and they will head up to Canada to do the Olympics in 2010. Great job by all the teams and athletes from the USA and we are proud of them all!

The more education you have these days will result in more money you have to spend. If you quit high school or didn’t go to college; you haven’t missed out yet. It’s very easy to get a degree online these days. You can still keep up your normal lifestyle while you earn a degree at home on your computer. You can choose to study and complete assignments when it’s convenient for you and this has worked out for a lot of people already. You don’t have to settle for minimum wage jobs or the lower salary jobs; when all you need is more education. There are now no excuses to why you shouldn’t be making more money these days. Go back to school and earn your degree from home and in a few years you will be glad that you stopped now and made the sacrifice! So all you need to do to start making more money is to get more education.

Well you know the saying, but it is true and what we eat is so important. A good balance of food is the best diet anyone can have. Instead of trying to focus on a dozen of real healthy foods, try to eat the most variety as possible. Yes, even the things they say are bad are fine to eat, but only on rare occasions. It doesn’t matter what you eat, just don’t eat the same thing everyday. You will feel so much better when you start trying a variety of foods and if you can go through one week and never eat the same thing, you will see a big difference in the way your body feels. It’s ok to eat a hamburger at one fast food restaurant and then try another hamburger at a different place. No two hamburgers are the same (if you order them from different places) and you will get different things with each. You don’t want to eat 5 hamburgers in 5 days at different places, but a couple of different restaurants are fine and the toppings, bread and even the meat will have different nutrients for your body. Just make sure you don’t eat too much in your variety week or you might need some weight loss pills. So eat in moderation and the more variety the better!

My two older nephews are beginning to get up there in years and I think the trouble that comes along with it too. One is 15 years old and the other is 14 years old and those are the ages they begin to see what kind of trouble they can get into. I know their bodies are changing and they are going through their early adult years or at least they think they are. They still need the acne cream and have to do their homework for school, but I can see it won’t be long until I am taking them to the pool halls and out with me. I believe we got an early taste of that this year in Daytona, Florida; where we spent time cruising around the strip down there together. We had a good time cruising and turning the radio up down in Florida on vacation. They are just learning about teen life, but we all know those years don’t last long and soon they will be getting jobs and having bills to pay like the rest of us.

It’s so important that you take steps to clean your computer as much as possible. I run a couple of different spyware removers almost each day and I have 1 virus program that looks for viruses. You can also use a scan disk with IE and that will remove unwanted files from your computer system. Keeping these files removed and taking away the spyware and cookies that get on our computers, will save us time when we surf on the Net. You do want to be careful and not delete something your computer needs to run on. I have done this in the past and it can be a pain trying to retrieve the information from your hard drive. Just don’t panic and if this happens to you, just find help to get you back up and running. Don’t forget to use the defrag either and this will help compact all your lose files and you can gain a little extra speed here too. So keep your computer as clean as possible and you will see that surfing can be done a lot faster with a clean one; as opposed to one that is bogged down with files and spyware.

Have you had a chance to see the new channel that is called Chiller? I really like this new channel and I wish it would have come out when I was a kid. It features nothing but horror movies and scary shows on the Chiller channel. I have seen some really good movies already and I also like the different television series they show. Friday the 13th the series is shown regularly; you can also see Night Gallery, Tales of the Crypt and Tales from the Darkside to name a few. It’s not too much longer until Halloween will be here and I’m sure they will have a marathon of movies for us to watch on Chiller. I like watching all of the Freddy, Jason and Michael Myers movies they are. These horror pictures never get old and I can watch them over and over again. Halloween and Friday the 13th are my favorite movies, but Nightmare on Elm Street and Child’s Play is also high on my list. I think Freddy and Chucky have the comedy down and they will make you laugh as they terrorize and kill people in the movies they are in. Amytiville Horror is also a great series of movies that I think is a must watch if you have never seen them. A lot of these movies I am naming do come on Chiller and you can see other great scary movies too. I have Dishnetwork Satellite and the Chiller Channel is on 199. I’m not sure if cable has it yet or if Direct TV has been able to add it to their line up. If you have Dish, then just turn it to channel 199 and you can see horror shows and movies 24 hours a day. I mean you will get all the gore and blood you can handle and the scare never ends on the new Chiller station.

You’re always at risk when you send vital information from one network to another. You can guard against this by changing up the products you use to secure your systems at home or in the office. The big companies like IBM, Intel, Boeing, Coca Cola and Bank of America already have this in place and now you can too! A Telnet Server can allow you to pass sensitive information from one computer to another and never having to worry about someone else seeing it. That is why the big companies already use the services of Pragma Systems and you get all of this security with speed built in too. You will have all the abilities to have remote access and work your management tools; while keeping all of your information private. The protocols of Telnet, SSH and SFTP are all programs that will work effectively with Pragma Systems. Step up in the 21st century and you can start by using Pragma’s software!

The YouTube Sensation Alex has been tearing it up lately! She has compiled a nice collection of videos at You Tube and now you can vote on which one you like best. Go see what the top choices are and select which video you think Alex has done the best on. I have compiled all of her best videos at Single Source Writing (my other blog) and you can head over there and check them out.

Good Enough by Alex

This is one of the latest videos done by the YouTube Sensation. You can choose between this video or one of the other 4 videos and see which video is the best ever from the Mexican Teen. Go watch all 5 videos of Alex and see which one is the best one ever! Alex has done a lot of videos at YouTube and has a big fan base that seems to grow daily. It’s been amazing to watch this talented teen from Mexico entertain people with her videos that she uploads at home. She has improved so much over the last year and it looks like she is just getting started to achieving success in the music industry some day. Alex doesn’t know exactly what she wants to do in the future, but she wants to be a part of the music business. She has desires in composing music, playing music or singing when she gets older. She will be putting her touch on the music industry one day and now is your chance to get a glimpse into the future and seeing the early stages of a star in the making.

No one can walk into a car dealership these days and buy a new car with the cash in their pocket. I’m sure very few of us could afford to write a check for one too, so that makes getting a car loan very important. If you’re someone that has had credit problems in the past or don’t feel like your credit history is good enough for an auto loan, don’t give up hope yet. Bad Credit Car Loans are out there to help people that have not had spotless credit histories in the past. The sales people at the new and used car dealerships want to sell you a car and they will use the lenders that will help them out the most. So everyone wants to see you driving a new car, it’s just a matter of finding the right lender that will help you get behind the wheel of one. Customers nationwide have been finding help with auto loans they get online and if you do a little homework, you can also find these online car loans that will help you find a new car to take home. So don’t think you can’t get a new car due to bad credit and be sure to check out all of the opportunities that exist out there today.

Fay has already hit Florida 2 times and it’s not totally impossible for a 3rd time. It first came across the Flordia Keys and then Fay hit the penisula around the Naples area. Fay was packing 60 mph substained winds when she first hit the Florida shoreline and has actually gone up 5 mph to 65 as she is now over land in Southern Florida. The pressure inside the hurricane dropped right before landfall and this allow more winds to come rushing in and once it caught up with the eye of the hurricane, the winds actually went up. So it is unusual to see winds increase over land, but that is exactly what Fay did in South Florida today. It was around 5AM when the hurricane made it’s 2nd contact with the Sunshine State.

Now Fay might not be through with Florida and a lot of interesting things are setting up. The hurricane is moving really slow right now and it’s causing major flooding for the people in Florida. The hurricane could actually go back out to water on the eastern side of Florida and then return back to the east side of Florida. The fronts are setting up that could allow Fay to ram back over the coastal areas of places like Daytona Beach, Flaggler Beach or up around the Jacksonville, Florida area. The storm is officially a tropical storm and needs wind speeds of 74 to be a hurricane, but when a tropical storm is this close to those marks, I just go ahead and chalk it up to hurricane status. So this isn’t a tropical storm in my book and Fay is a hurricane as far as I am concern. I’m sure they are many people that would agree with that in the southern portion of Florida right now. So be sure to stay tuned and keep up with your local weather, because Fay is not finish with the U.S. yet and has only begun her soaking rains and high speed winds on the state of Florida.

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The athletes competing in Beijing, China are not really getting a solid gold medal if they win their respective competition. The gold medals in the Olympics do have real gold in them, but they are not pure gold. Based on the gold prices right now and the amount of real gold that goes into an Olympic gold, the shinny medal is worth about 158 dollars. I think this would shock some people that these gold medals are not valued more than this. I’m sure they do have value to the people that win them or someone that collects Olympic memorabilia, but the net worth is 158 dollars for each gold medal. I would assume that a gold medal on Ebay would get more than 1,000 dollars and people would pay more than what they were really worth. So the value of a gold medal is measured more in blood, sweat and tears better than a dollar figure.

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It appears that with 6 billion people on the planet and the bigfoots that exist on Earth, they have finally managed to get caught. Two boys up in North Georgia have stumbled across a dead bigfoot and even more amazing they saw 3 more that they were able to take pictures of from about 50 feet away. So with a find like this you would think they would be showing a lot of people to show them that bigfoot actually exists. Well not exactly and this is where the story starts to lose it’s crediability. One of the men said about 8 to 10 people has seen this dead big foot they have in a freezer and it’s been almost 2 months ago since they stumbled across the hairy creature.

DNA results have come back as human, possum and undetermined when samples were submitted. They actually took parts of the guts and gave up as samples to be tested in a lab. I don’t think I would have gave guts and cutting a small piece of skin with hair attached to it would have been the way I would have submitted a sample for testing. They end up calling a guy all the way across the country in California to help them solve this dilema of having a bigfoot on their hands. So if you wanted to create a hoax and you lived in California, the story might stay local if you find the body in the Northwest Pacific somewhere, because that is where the most sightings have took place. If you could pick a place on the other side of the country this story would have the chance to go national and sure enough that is what happened.

I have lived in North Georgia all of my life and I have never seen anything resembling a bigfoot. I only have 2 bigfoot stories to tell from all of my friends and what has been said that my ears have heard. I do have a friend that claim to see something with long red hair by the tail lights of his car at night time. This was on Conns Creek Road in Ball Ground, Georgia and this is also near the Etowah River where two Cherokee County Sheriff employees saw one floating down the river and then walked out of the water. The story involving the Sheriff Deputies did make our local paper, but I don’t recall it making Atlanta News and certainly not national attention like this latest story has gotten. So I am a Georgia resident that has heard the bigfoot story in the past, but as someone that has hunted and fished all over North Georgia and the people I know that have did the same and even coon hunted with dogs in our state, the sightings would be more frequent if Bigfoot was really out there.

I also know the time and attention it takes to make a website and someone just finding a bigfoot would not be concerned with a website when you have the real thing to parade around. I think a book and website would be things you might do years down the road, but already talking about money and these things within a 2 month time frame and the fact you haven’t let a credible source see the body screams foul all the way around. As much as we would like to hope that a story like this would be true some day,  the truth is that no bigfoot has passed away in Georgia.

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If your a lottery player, please be sure to share your strategies for coming up with your numbers each week. I have a set number I like to play a lot, but mostly get quick picks. It would be nice just to hit 5 out of 6 numbers and that money would do some damage on the bills. I would have a hard time spending millions of dollars but it would be a nice problem to have. Please be sure to share your ways of choosing numbers or a system that someone else has that you know. I am looking to find a system that works and if I do win, I won’t forget who told me the winning trick!

What would you spend your lottery winnings on? I know I would focus mostly on investments and a lot of my money would go into the stock market buying stocks and mutual funds. I would put a big portion into interest bearing accounts, so I could continue to grow my wealth. I could sit here and say that I would buy a big house on a nice piece of land and all of the cars and boats I would buy too, but who knows what we would really buy if we won millions from the lottery. I think most people would not buy everything they say they would and realize they are other things they would want if they actually had the money to buy it with. Dreaming as a poor person is much different than spending as a rich one, so the only true way to know what we would actually buy with our lottery winnings is to go out and win the darn thang! Good luck on your next dollar that you spend on the lottery and if this post caused you to buy a ticket and you win, please remember me! Feel free to leave any replies on what you would do with a jackpot that you won from a state or multi-state lottery.

How many people save up their money every year and head off to the Las Vegas desert with the hopes of winning something big? I guess this is what most Vegas vacations are made of and it’s the hopes of winning a large cash prize with one pull of a slot machine’s arm or just one bet that pays out in the thousands. Vegas wouldn’t be there if everyone’s dreams got answered, but if you could just some how beat the odds and be the lucky one; then your trip there would have been well worth it. It’s that type of thinking that gets millions of people each year to make the trip to Nevada and maybe, just maybe they will be one of the ones that have a successful trip. It’s fine to have the dreams of winning in Las Vegas, but you want to make sure you do know the odds are against you and leave something behind that you can return to; if you are just another person that Vegas has took more from than gave to you. I haven’t lost the first cent to Las Vegas, but I do plan to change that one day. I will one day get my chance to go out there with the dreams of winning something big, but I know I will probably be returning back to Georgia with less money than when I left. So keep the dreams of Vegas going, but never lose touch of reality and know that someone will win in Las Vegas, it’s just not going to be you.

The Atlanta Falcons made their preseason debut on Saturday night with a loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars. It was the first chance to see Matt Ryan in uniform for the Falcons and he played well. The other 3 quarterbacks for the Falcons played good also and it will be a tough cut for one of these quarterbacks that don’t make the roster. They all deserve to be a part of the team, but the Falcons will only keep 3 of the quarterbacks that played on Saturday night.

A field goal would have tied things up late in the game, but the Falcons elected to go for a touchdown and get the win. Not sure if that was exactly the thought process that was reported and if they were afraid of another missed field goal. Jason Elam had missed 2 field goals in the game and maybe there was just a lack of confidence in giving him the chance to tie the game up late. It’s a pattern that continues to haunt the Falcons and they play for field goals a lot and haven’t found a kicker that was up to meet the challenge of the field goal style of play. I guess we will just have to see how the Falcons come back and play a team like the Colts next Saturday and see if they can play for more touchdowns than field goals in this one.

Some of us are very careful to giving out our personal information to just anyone and most of these folks have never gotten their identity stole from them. Some people will freely give out information and trust everyone and these are the people that have to face identity theft on down the road. Even if you’re careful about giving out certain things like an address, telephone number or your social security number, the bad guys can still find ways to get their hands on it and hurt your credit score forever.

Sometimes we see commercials or a lot of advertising and we think that means a service or product is safe for consumers. This is a bad way of thinking and lots of advertising doesn’t equal safety. Just look at the freecreditreport.com people and look at all of the ads you see them on the computer, newspapers and even on television. Their credit report says “free”, but it’s actually not. This “free” service will cost you more than 14 dollars and if you don’t cancel it on your credit card, they will continue to charge you this each month. You will have to pay this fee if you want to see your “free” credit report and if you want to know about your credit history, the freecreditreport.com is not the guys you want delivering you the information.

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It seems the story of Brett Favre just keeps going and going and I’m not sure why. Finally he has found a team for the upcoming NFL season and hopefully this will slow down all of the talk surrounding Mr. Favre. The Jets was the one that won the Brett Favre sweepstakes, so Brett will still be in green next year and playing in cold temperatures, but he is no longer a Green Bay Packer. I’m not sure how good people really think this guy is and he’s just a QB that has stayed healthy and has been able to put up great stats that way. He doesn’t have a wide receiver tandem like he did in Green Bay and Favre will be very average as a Jets quarterback. I think the Jets would have won 8 games without Favre on their side and I think they still only manage to win 8 games with him there. Brett Favre will not make the Jets a playoff team and he is overrated in the NFL and media circles too. The Brett Favre story is old news and now maybe we can learn about other teams and players as the NFL is already starting up preseason football games. It’s a fun time of the year when it gets to the preseason and now we can start counting down the days until the games start counting for real in about 6 weeks.