Helping Those Who Help, and Help Yourself

In our current financial crisis, we all can use additional money.


In responce to this need, the Autism Resource Foundation and Vitamist Spray Vitamins have teamed up to create then "Give Back to the Community" fundraiser program. Our program helps families and the charity of their choice earn additional (and potentially significant) income.

When you introduce this FREE fundraiser program to charities, we compensate you for your efforts. We also provide financial incentives for helping others do the same.

Simply stated…NO GIMMICKS! There are NO sign-up/registration fees, No membership dues, No contractual obligations, No start up kits to purchase, No selling and No meetings to attend or host. What could be better than providing than financial assistance to your family by helping your favorite charity and the community?

For more information, please visit us at http://www.fundraiser-usa.com/ or email us at info@Fundraiser-USA.com

How you can support Charitable Organizations from home

Charitable organizations play a vital role in our populace. Most everyone has a passion related to a charitable endeavor (non-profit group, school, place of worship, etc). Charitable organizations have been adversely effected by current economic climate just like the general population. Our fundraiser business enables members to accommodate their favorite charity without doing anything out of the normal routine.
The charitable organizations for their involvement have NO investment, NO contractual commitments, NO inventory to maintain/distribute and NO money to collect. The charitable organizations simply let their associated members know about the fundraiser program (NO cost for marketing materials/help tools).

Our program is completely RISK FREE!

Autism Resources

Looking for resources for you autistic family member?  The Autism Resource Foundation has many links, therapy providers and information to assist you and your family.

Check them out Today!

SEO the SEO co-op Way

SEO co-op brings real people harmoniously and coordinates their enterprise to promote each other. These are internet marketing tools that truly work. We will make sure your articles get socially bookmarked by the other members of the co-op. It’s overnight fame and instant recognition for your efforts. just about anyone can write a admirable article, getting it noticed and socially bookmarked is the agonizing part. SEO co-op makes sure your articles are recognized and passed on through Twitter, Digg, Reddit, StumbledUpon and many other social bookmark sites. You post your article, tell us where you posted it and we will deliver members out there to Digg it. Let the co-op know which site you are promoting and SEO co-op will make sure your link is posted by other members as a reference site on related topics. Using the power of the co-op membership we make sure each and everything you do gets noticed and shared. SEO co-op brings people together from all over the country and coordinates their efforts in promoting and sharing the co-op sites. There is on other SEO marketing association that takes SEO to this level. SEO co-op is a incredible set of internet marketing tools.

Code Amber - Amber Alerts

Every day, children are taken by strangers.  It is very sad and disheartening.  Lucky we have a tool to help, CodeAmber.  I am placing the Ticker on my website and everywhereelse that I can.

You can also get one for your desktop.

I am an affiliate with D.N.A. as many of you know.  One of the things we are doing is creating a database of Plates and locations to assist law enforcement in locating these missing children.  Won't you join us today?

Vitamist and the Autism Resource Foundation are proud to present:

The “Give Back to the Community” Fundraiser Program

The program has three simple yet powerful objectives:

1. Supporting Charitable Organizations
2. Financial Aid to Families
3. Healthy Living (including group health insurance)

 

Supporting Charitable Organizations

⇒ Charitable organizations play a vital role in our community. Most everyone has a passion related to a charitable endeavor (non-profit group, school, place of worship, etc). Charitable organizations have been adversely effected by current economic climate just like the general population. Our fundraiser program enables members to support their favorite charity without doing anything out of the normal routine.
⇒ The charitable organizations for their involvement have NO investment, NO contractual commitments, NO inventory to maintain/distribute and NO money to collect. The charitable organizations simply let their associated members know about the fundraiser program (NO cost for marketing materials/help tools). Our program is completely RISK FREE!

Financial Aid to Families

⇒ In our current economic crisis, we all can use additional money. Our fundraiser program helps families earn supplemental (and potentially significant) income simply by helping support their favorite charitable organization.
⇒ When you introduce this FREE fundraiser program to charities, we pay you for your efforts. We also provide financial incentives for helping others do the same.
⇒ Simply stated…NO GIMMICKS! There are NO sign-up/registration fees, No membership dues, No contractual obligations, No start up kits to purchase, No selling and No meetings to attend or host. What could be better than providing than financial assistance to your family by helping your favorite charity and the community?

Healthy Living

⇒ The “Give Back to the Community” Fundraiser Program is a collaborative effort with VitaMist to help provide families with better health. It is no secret that vitamin supplements are crucial to healthy living and likely part of your family’s daily routine. No doubt, you have heard the claims from vitamin companies that their products have the best ingredients. The truth of the matter is most all vitamin supplements are similar.
⇒ What makes VitaMist’s 50+ oral spray products better? In one word…ABSORPTION! You can have the best ingredients, but if your body is not absorbing them, what good does it do you?
⇒ Our fundraiser program also provides affordable health insurance coverage for its members. Health insurance plans start as low as $62 per month for individuals and $120 per month for families (pre-existing conditions are eligible through our group health insurance plan).

For more information, please email your name and contact information HERE

Your Windows XP running slow?

If you are like me, when the computer starts running slow, you just want to "send it out the Window!"  Well, thanks to my friends at TechRepublic.com I just might be able to assist on this issue.

Lets start with the pagefile.  The pagefile is, for all pratical purposes, more memory.  Ok, not MORE, just additional.  Trust me there is a difference!  RAM, or memory, is/should be REALLY fast, the pagefile is a space on the hard drive where Windows will put stuff when you aren't accessing it as much. 
Like all programs, the pagefile can befome fragmented.  And like all programs, this leads to SLOWNESS! 

For those of you who know me, I defrag my hard drives at the least every two days.  A messy drive leads to a messy mind! On most XP (Windows in general) machines, the pagefile is set to a system managed size.  This allows the operating system to expand the pagefile as needed.  This can cause the pagefile to fragment and we know what that means!  Windows comes with a built in defragmentor, dfrg.msc.  You can run it from the command line (Start / Run / dfrg.msc) or you can right click My Computer, Left click Manage, select Storage and there it IS! 
Click on Analyze and XP will check out the drive.  When it is done, you get a results popup.  Click on View Report and you will get: 
1)  A little about your drive.
2)  A list of those files that are fragmented.
Scroll down the Volume Information window and you will find the Pagefile Fragmentation.  This morning, mine is PERFECT!  2.00GB  - only 1 fragment.  You can not defrag the pagefile while it is in use so, you have a couple of options here, DiskKeeper or temporarily move the page file to another location.

To remove and recreate the page file, follow these steps:

1. Right click My Computer
2. Left click Properties
3. Click the Advanced tab
4. Click the Settings Button in the Performance box
5. In the Performace Options window, click Advanced
6. Click Change
7. In the Virtual Memory window, click on the C drive
8. Make sure the Custom size is selected
9. Set both Initial Size (MB) and Maximum Size (MB) to zero (0)
10. Press SET
11. Ok (three times) back to the windows desktop

You will be prompted to reboot your machine.  Reboot it!

Now you have NO page file.  Before you re-create the pagefile, I recommend that you defragment the C drive.  You can use the built in defragmenter (dfrg.msc) or use any one of a dozen or more aftermarket defragmenters.  Now, unless you want to slow the process, leave the computer to it's defragmentation.  Yeah, LEAVE!  If you are opening programs, saving documents, etc, you will slow down the process.  Once you get the drive defragmented, running it once a week will keep you in tip-top shape and up to speed! 

Windows isn't the only defragmentor out there.  There are the paid ones like Disk Keeper.  Great program if you are in charge of an office.  Home users, might want to use Disk Keeper Lite or Disk Keeper Home Edition.  As for me?  I use Defraggler from Piriform.  It is FREE, easy to use and you can schedule your defrags. 

Now, we need to put the pagefile back.  Go back to the above list and when you get to #9, you have a couple options.  You can select a Minimum and Maximum size (I recommend the following:  Minimum = Physical Memory Size, Maximum = 2.5 * Physical Memory) or the System managed size.  I suggest the System managed size option for most users.  Select it, press SET, and be ready for a reboot! 

Ah, your XP is up and running at full speed!  Run the defrag analystic tool once a month, keeping an eye on the pagefile (and disk) fragmentation.  Defrag your hard drive(s) as needed and when your pagefile gets a "messy", following the above steps will clean it right back up!
Happy Computing!

Autism and Vaccines

As of this post, there still is no proven link to Autism and the MMR vaccine.  That being said, there are many well-meaning parents refusing to get their children vaccinated.  This is resulting in cases of measles and mumps increasing.

Did you know that worldwide, there are an estimated 10 MILLION cases of measles with 164,000 deaths each year (CDC) ?  Thankfully, the illness can be prevented by a vaccination.  Unfortunately, the unproven link between Autism and the MMR vaccine has many parents refusing to get their children immunized.

The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)  states that after four independent studies have been unable to find any link between Autism and the MMR vaccine.  The link was originally believe due to the appearance of austic signs or symptoms and when children get the MMR vaccine.  The Institute of Medicine also concluded that there is no link between Autism and thimersol, a preservative, used in some vaccines.

Do the research, ask the questions, be educated...

"Always Believe, Never Lose Faith and Keep Moving Forward"

"Not Being Able To Speak…Is Not The Same As Not Having Anything To Say"

>sources and inspiration:  CDC website, Autism Resource Foundation, Pamela Nguyen - LA Times Online
CDC MMR and Autism FAQ