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TAURUS – April 20th to May 20th
Symbol: The Ram
June is definitely your month for romance Taurus. Try to enroll your heart this month and take a chance on love, you
never know it be Ms. Right or Mr. Right.. Try taking a long vacation as in maybe a week to 4 days away in the jungle
of your mind and heart plus physical exercise.
Your investments have paid well, still be cautious in your contracts, doesn’t hurt to let an attorney look them over to be on the safe side.
Start working on Plan B for this fall now. Saturn is direct so start laying down some options for finances and survival just in case.
Keep the faith Taurus and everything should be fine. The month will start out slow and end in fireworks. So be prepared for the unexpected.
ARIES – March 21st to April 19th
Symbol: The Ram
This is your month June for “poetic justice”. Just don’t let that ego show, deservedly so just be careful. Love is in the air of permanence. Time to seal that relationship, Aries. Announce you are a couple, get married, get engaged, but it’s time OK!
Work is getting progressively better. Finally the Managers are understanding your point of view about time uh. Look for a raise by the end of July. Hold on don’t get happy spending $$$, keep a little back for emergencies.
There might be various visitors over the summer, welcome them with open arms. You are anxious to share your abode. All in all June will be your month to pop your collar so to speak. Yes you do get your way.
Good information to know.
5 Things You Never Knew Your Cell Phone Could Do
For all the folks with cell phones. (This should be printed and kept in your car, purse, and wallet. Good information to have with you.)
There are a few things that can be done in times of grave
Emergencies.
Your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for survival. Check out the things that you can do with it:
FIRST
Emergency
The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112. If you find Yourself out of the coverage area of your mobile network and there is an Emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to Establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly, this number 112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked. Try it out.
SECOND
Have you locked your keys in the car?
Does your car have remote keyless entry? This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your keys In the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their phone from your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot >From your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you. Distance is no object… You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other ‘remote’ for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk).
Editor’s Note: It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a cell phone!’
THIRD
Hidden Battery Power
Imagine your cell battery is very low. To activate, press the keys *3370#. Your cell phone will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your cell phone next time.
FOURTH
How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?
To check your Mobile phone’s serial number, key in the following Digits on your phone: *#06#. A 15-digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe.
If your phone gets stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless. You probably won’t get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can’t use/sell it either. If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.
And Finally…..
FIFTH
Free Directory Service for Cells
Cell phone companies are charging us $1.00 to $1.75 or more for 411 information calls when they don’t have to. Most of us do not carry a telephone directory in our vehicle, which makes this situation even more of a problem. When you need to use the 411 information option, simply dial: (800)FREE411, or (800) 373-3411 without incurring any charge at all. Program this into your cell phone now.
This is the kind of information people don’t mind receiving, so pass it on to your family and friends.
Are you discriminated because of your age, when applying for a job, please call us and let us know your experiences. Baby Boomers are being hit hard right now. By job reductions, lay offs, companies going out of business, now what?
Please call in Sunday at 6:00pm PST for my show “Talk 2 ME”, we will be discussing this very important
factor, now that baby boomers are the largest generation on the SSI rolls, or maybe just want to work.
www.blogtalkradio.com/Lennis “Talk 2 Me” at 6pm PST
Phone number 646-727-2914
Look forward to hearing from all my fellow bloggers are this issue. Together maybe we can come up
with a solution that benefits all.
The Difference between FOCUSING on PROBLEMS and FOCUSING on SOLUTIONS
Case # 1 : When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out that the pens would not work at zero gravity (ink will not flow down to the writing surface).
Solution # 1 : To solve this problem, it took them one decade and $12 million. They developed a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down, underwater, in practically any surface including crystal and in a temperature range from below freezing to over 300 degrees C.
Solution # 2 : And what did the Russians do…?? They used a pencil.
Case # 2 : One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was the case of the empty soapbox, which happened in one of Japan ‘s biggest cosmetics companies. The company received a complaint that a consumer had bought a soapbox that was empty.
Immediately the authorities isolated the problem to the assembly Line, which transported all the packaged boxes of soap to the delivery department. For some reason, one soapbox went through the assembly line empty.
Management asked its engineers to solve the problem.
Solution # 1 : Post-haste, the engineers worked hard to devise an X-ray machine with high-resolution monitors manned by two people to watch all the soapboxes that passed through the line to make sure they were not empty. No doubt, they worked hard and they worked fast but they spent a whoopee amount to do so.
Solution # 2 : But when a rank-and-file employee in a small company was posed with the same problem, he did not get into complications of X-rays, etc., but instead came out with another solution.
He bought a strong industrial electric fan and pointed it at the assembly line. He switched the fan on, and as each soapbox passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of the line.
Moral
· Always look for simple solutions.
· Devise the simplest possible solution that solves the problems.
· Always focus on solutions & not on problems
Poet Maya Angelou threw a party in the backyard of her Winston-Salem, N.C. home on Thursday to celebrate her 82nd birthday, which included tributes from such celebrity attendees as filmmaker Lee Daniels and rapper-turned-actor Common. According to the Associated Press, about 100 guests gathered in her newly refurbished backyard garden to mark the occasion (her birthday was April 4) and to express what Angelou has meant to them personally. “She inspires me to tell the truth,” said Daniels, the Oscar-nominated director of “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Lee Sapphire.” “Her voice can’t be any more powerful. And she inspires me to do better work, to dig deeper in my soul and do better work.” Common, currently starring in the film “Just Wright,” said he first discovered Angelou’s poetry in the fifth grade on the South Side of Chicago, when her poem “Still I Rise” touched his soul. “It was always something that I could reference to at times when I was feeling down or doubting myself,” he told AP. “I just thought of that phrase, ‘Still I Rise.’ And it still resonates with me.” The party was sponsored by Lowe’s, the North Carolina-based home improvement store chain, and Harpo Radio, where Angelou has a radio show. Guests gathered under a tent with yellow and white drapes covering the tables. Sporting a pink pantsuit, a printed top and a mauve hat, along with fuzzy socks that helped her walk, Angelou Country stars Naomi Judd and Martina McBride sang “Happy Birthday to You.” Angelou’s next project, a cookbook titled “Great Food All Day Long,” is scheduled to be published later this year. The recipes are based on the idea of eating small amounts of food during the day, a way of eating that she said helped her lose 40 pounds over the last two years.
White Philly Cop Claims Black Man Shot Him, Later Confesses. Either someone is a white supremacist or someone was in a neighborhood doing something they had no business. Something happened the night Sgt. Robert Ralston shot himself. That’s right! He shot himself! But in his initial account of the events, he told the world that a black man had shot him in a predominantly black neighborhood of Philadelhipa called Overbrook. He said he was confronted by two men and one ran, but the other shot him. It isn’t clear whether he tried to claim that the two black men were trying to rob him, assault him, or what they were doing to him, but the result was a gunshot to the shoulder…grazing the shoulder.
NBA Hall of Famer Calvin Murphy told Houston’s ESPN Radio station Wednesday night that rumors of LeBron James’ mother having sex with his Cleveland Cavaliers teammate Delonte West are “absolutely true” and “absolutely horrifying.” “It ain’t no rumor. Unfortunately, my sources in the NBA tell me that it’s absolutely true,” said Murphy, despite denials from LeBron, who has called the reports “idiotic” and “off the wall.” “My sources, and they’re legit, tell me that the only people that didn’t know it was happening was LeBron and me,” Murphy said. “And let me tell you something. Delonte West now is one of these players now that is going to get what they call the old proverbial black ball…I could not imagine me being in that situation and him still being on my team cause one of us is going to be dead and the other one is going to be in jail.” Murphy, who was once accused of sexually abusing five of his 14 daughters (who were fathered with nine different women, only one of whom he married), says James “may take time off.” He also claims “there was another party… that West wasn’t the only” man involved in the alleged affair.
Prosecutors hoping to nail former Liberian president Charles Taylor for war crimes at a U.N.-backed court have asked judges to subpoena supermodel Naomi Campbell as a witness, reports the Associated Press. In a motion filed Thursday, prosecutors say they want Campbell to testify about uncut diamonds Taylor allegedly gave to her in South Africa in 1997. They say the runway diva told prosecutors through her lawyer that she was “concerned for her safety” and “did not want to involve herself in the case.”
Prosecutors claim Taylor gave arms and ammunition to brutal rebels during Sierra Leone’s civil war in exchange for diamonds. He denies the allegations. The prosecution is also seeking testimony from Mia Farrow, who claims Campbell told her about the alleged diamond gift. Farrow said she and Campbell were both guests at the home of South African president Nelson Mandela, where Taylor was also visiting. She said Campbell described in detail a middle of the night visit from two of Taylor’s men. “She said during the night, some men had knocked at her door and she, half asleep, had opened the door and it was representatives of President Charles Taylor and that they had given her a huge diamond,” Farrow told ABC News. “We were like, ‘oh my gosh.’”
Remember the simple pleasures of life:
Listen to your favorite music every day.
Always have flowers on the table.
On the weekends, take off your watch and forget about the time.
Take a nap.
Each week bake some cookies, bread, or pie. Try even if you’ve never done so before.
Surprise a loved-one or friend with an unexpected gift.
Put an inspirational quote somewhere where you can see it everyday.
Never miss an opportunity to have fun.
Never miss a parade.
Buy a box of crayons and color some pictures with a child.
Read a child a story.
Give people plenty of well-deserved compliments.
Try to save a quarter every day. You’ll be surprised about how much you’ll save within a short time. Spend it on a rainy day.
Keep a journal where you can explore your thoughts and feelings.
Give someone special a kiss and hug.
Call three friends and plan to get together with them.
Get out the camera and take some silly photos of yourself and a friend. Don’t be afraid to dress up.
Go outside and enjoy the beauty of nature.
Buy a gift for a child.
Go to the pet store and play with the kittens and puppies.
Read your favorite love poem and escape to romantic dreams.
Buy a book and some fresh flowers.
Visit a museum or art gallery.
Do something different.
Never forget that miracles happen every day.
Think something positive about yourself every day.
Think something positive about the other people in your life every day.
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