Compound Interest.....the Most Powerful Force in the Universe!

The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest, according to Albert Einstein. Everyone understands that compound interest applies to money. You can invest in something and accumulate interest that compounds and makes you money. Or you can borrow money and pay interest that when compounded costs you money. In both cases one day of interest is minor, yet when compounded it becomes huge. This is the financial principle of compound interest.

Principles Apply To Everything.

Just like the law of gravity, the principle of compound interest applies to everything it is applied to. There are no exceptions. Compound interest applies to life, business, and also to your health. Maybe we eat a big bowl of ice cream today. Chances are that it will not kill you. If the results of poor eating choices were immediate, then fewer people would be unhealthy. The the fear of death would stop them from continuing to make poor choices. If you eat a quart of ice cream every day that compound interest takes effect and becomes a powerful force which brings ill health to you. The choice of eating an pear today will not result in immediate health benefits, yet when eaten daily the power of compound interest will kick in and pay off for you with a healthy body.

Compound Interest Is Working For You or Against You

If compound interest is not working for you, then it is working against you. Albert Einstein said compound Interest is the most powerful force in the universe! Deb Bixler says: Life Is a Razor Blade. Think about your business or career, your health and your entire life as a razor blade. This is an old fashioned razor blade standing on edge, straight up and sharp. Life is a razor blade and you are sitting on the cutting edge. We make millions of choices each day and every choice is a slice made with the razor blade of life. Every choice you make is, in itself, only a razor-thin slice of life and has little or no major impact on the future. Every slice/choice of life you make is either positive or negative and alone it is weak. Every slice of life is compounded with the others to create the most powerful force in the universe. Think about every choice you make in your life and do your best to make razor-thin slices on the positive side of life. They will compound to become the most powerful force in the universe and thus drive your future in a successful direction. When you slice too many slices on the negative side of life, compound interest will work against you. When you slice more on the positive side of life, you will leverage your results by using compound interest on your behalf.

Every Choice Makes A Difference

You can change your future. In your career, business or in regard to your health, every choice is minor in immediate results, yet in the long term the most powerful force in the universe will be working for you or against you. Successful people understand that life is about taking razor-thin choices each day to direct the future and put the principle of compound interest to work for them. Life is a razor blade. You can change your life using compound interest as leverage by choosing to take positive slices of life each day.

Check out Deb Bixler at www.DebBixler.com

Deb Bixler is a motivational speaker who believes in living life to it's fullest. Her focus is to teach families skills that will enable them to make better living choices one day at a time. www.DebBixler.com

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Hidden Utilities XP
Hidden Utilities XP isn’t a computer repair tool in itself but a menu to access hidden repair utilities that are built into all copies of Windows XP. System information, diagnostics, repair tools and more in both Windows and Command Line utilities can now be easily opened.
Hidden Utilities XP includes easy access to 53 Windows tools and 43 Command Line utilities.


The 232 KB Hidden Utilities XP can be downloaded at http://camtech2000.net/Programs/HiddenXP.msi . Press the “Launch” button to access items on the left hand side, and “Run” to run the command line utilities on the right hand side.

Sweet Home 3D
Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application that helps you placing your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview. It is provided with a help system that describes all its features.
You can watch a video tutorial at http://sweethome3d.sourceforge.net/documentation.html#videoTutorial to discover these features in action. An FAQ can be browsed at http://sweethome3d.sourceforge.net/faq.html. Sweet Home 3D is an open source project distributed under GNU General Public License. It can be run on Windows, Mac OS X 10.4 / 10.5, Linux and Solaris. Sweet Home 3D requires Java version 5 or 6.
The 11 MB Sweet Home 3D, v.1.2.1 can be downloaded at http://sweethome3d.sourceforge.net/SweetHome3D.jnlp if you’re not sure of the Java configuration of your system, you can download the 25 MB all-in-one Sweet Home 3D installer bundled with Java at http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sweethome3d/SweetHome3D-1.2.1-windows.exe


AV Video Karaoke Maker
AV Video Karaoke Maker is a stand-alone karaoke-mastering tool. Features include to create a new, or open a previously saved karaoke project by importing sound and lyrics, video or static backgrounds from different formats; synchronising lyrics and sound; previewing the current karaoke project and exporting the karaoke project to different video formats.
The 6.06 MB AV Video Karaoke Maker for WWin2k/XP/Vista can be downloaded at http://dvd-player.audio4fun.com/video-karaoke-maker.htm

ClipFinder
ClipFinder searches, streams, and downloads videos. It can search up to 14 video Web sites at once. ClipFinder’s video window includes quick links for downloading and adding to a favorites list.
The interface appears as a long panel and within it are a series of long film strips. Each strip represents a video Web site.
You can choose the options of which 14 video portals should appear. However, new portals cannot be added. The ones available include all the major video sites: Google, YouTube, Yahoo, iFilm, Veoh, DailyMotion and others. When you start the utility, the strips will be empty. After you start the search videos, they will appear as frames in the strip. ‘CopyURL’ copies the video URL to your clipboard with one click, while ‘Add’ adds the video to your ‘My Videos’ panel.
To get access to the full range of ClipFinder’s features, you need to register. The 2.63 MB Ashampoo ClipFinder v.1.34 for Windows 2000/XP/Vista can be downloaded at http://www.download.com/Ashampoo-ClipFinder/3000-13632-10654066.html?part=dl-AshampooC&subj=dl&tag=button

Holistic Living in a Modern World

For years we have been conditioned to trust our doctors implicitly, even if at times our instinct tells us otherwise. With malpractice law suits at an all time high and health care insurance coverage at an all time low in the west, more and more people are beginning to take control of their own health and well being. The more they learn, the more they are beginning to doubt what they have been taught all their lives in favor of considering alternatives to traditional western medicine.

If you are reading this, chances are you have at least a passing interest in learning more about alternatives to modern health care. The Center for Healing Arts was founded to be a one-stop repository for people like you and me who want to increase their experiential knowledge of holistic health care methods in a non-threatening environment. Holistic medicine is enjoying a tremendous surge in followers around the world who are seeking a return to a time when mind, body and spirit worked in perfect harmony and Center subscribers are finding the answers they seek with a new full-length DVD every two months on a variety of holistic methods.

The Crisis of Modern Health Care

In the United States, health care coverage has become a luxury that many cannot afford. According to a 2007 estimate, there are over 301 million people in the U.S., and the birth rate is nearly double that of the death rate. Of that number, an estimated 47 million Americans are left without any health care insurance coverage at all. Though a smaller percentage of the population is not covered by choice, the majority of those people do not have adequate health care insurance because they simply cannot afford the ever-increasing premiums. This crisis of inaccessibility has caused many to rethink their approach to health care entirely and increasing numbers of people are finding other ways to take care of themselves and their families.

Looking to the past for answers

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

The words penned by poet and philosopher George Santayana in 1905 could not be more applicable to the current state of health care in the world today. Modern science and technology have made tremendous strides in medicine and health care but these modern approaches and practices have left centuries of wisdom to fall by the wayside. What important knowledge are they ignoring in favor of expensive research and development? How is their cure-based “modern” approach preferable to the approaches that were rooted in the overall well being of mind, body and spirit?

An healing arts community called The Center for Healing Arts may well have found the answer to these and other burning questions. By seeking the wisdom of revered experts in various fields of holistic study, they have created a DVD film series that can help subscribers to answer these questions by taking a look back to see some of the contributions given to us by cultures of the past and how these healing methods are alive and shaping the future.

The Native Americans embraced their environment by domesticating, breeding and ultimately cultivating a tremendous array of plants that are widely in use around the world today. Few people are aware that we owe a much larger agricultural debt to these early people including such everyday crops as pinto and lima beans, tomatoes, peanuts, avocados, squash and even tobacco. In all, over fifty percent of the domesticated crops being cultivated today originated with the indigenous peoples of the Americas. How wise is it to dismiss the herbal healing methods of such an accomplished agricultural society?

Many other cultures have made similar contributions in other areas. The ancient practice of Ayurveda in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka for instance, was among the first to incorporate surgical procedures with other health care methods as well as formulating sulfur-based drugs many years ago. Centuries before anti-anxiety medications were first conceived, people embraced meditation, yoga and other similar techniques for stress relief and overall health. The traditional development of the healing arts is based on results, if people were not made better the healing arts tradition would not survive.

The idea of regaining and maintaining health of the whole being appeals to a society that is tired of treating symptoms (when they can afford it) and being overmedicated and from what I’ve seen, The Center for Healing Arts may be exactly what they need!

Divne Pointer is a novelist and freelance writer with a special interest in holistic health and a fan of http://thecenterforhealingarts.com The Center for Healing Arts' films on healing

Corrupted Windows Installer Database

My system has the following software installed:
1. Windows XP SP2
2. MS-OFFICE XP
3. MS OFFICE 2000 The problem I face is that when I try to open the Visual Basic application, a screen prompts me to locate `Data1.msi."
A prompt comes up with the Title "Windows Installer" and the problem is: "The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable.
Click ok to try again or enter an alternate path to a folder containing the installation package `DATA1.MSI' in the box below."
I have no MS-Office 2000 installation CD but I have Office XP.
When I try to uninstall Visual Basic, it gives an error number: "setup error 544. Setup is unable to open the data file `c:program files\microsoft visual studio\commmon\setup\1033\setup.stf'; run setup again from where you originally ran it."
When I click ok, the system again displays the following message: "Setup is unable to open the data file `c:program files\microsoft visual studio\common\setup\1033\setup.stf'; run setup again from where you originally ran it."
When I click ok, it says "cannot be completed". How can I get back my system to its original state?
I have checked my system with Registry mechanic 4.5, RegSupreme 1.3 and advanced system optimiser. But the problem persists. Please suggest a solution.
Vishnu Vikram

These types of troubles are mainly due to problems with the Windows Installer database, which might get damaged due to registry corruption.
In such a scenario, you will not be allowed to reinstall or uninstall the affected applications.
There is a tool known as "Installer Cleanup Utility" which is typically meant for situations like this.
You can download it from http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;290301
Please install and start the tool. You will get a list of all the applications installed using Windows Installer.
Using this tool you can select the problem-causing applications and remove them.
Removing these applications from this tool will remove all the entries related to the selected applications from the registry so that you can reinstall the application again.
When reinstalling, you need to reinstall the application into the same directory path as it was installed before.
In your case you will have to first remove Office 2000 using the tool and then try reinstalling Visual Basic 6.
If the repair fails, please remove VB6 using the tool and reinstall it into the same directory as before.
Another way to solve this problem is by using System Restore.
By using this method you can switch back your system to a previous date, a date before this problem cropped up.
This is made possible because Windows XP takes a snapshot of your system periodically or whenever a significant system events happens, such as an application/driver installation.
You can access the `system restore' wizard by going to Start -{gt} Programes -{gt} Accessories -{gt} System Tools -{gt} System Restore.
System Restore basically works like the `Undo' command in Microsoft Word.
You will be presented with a calendar and you can select a date when the system was running stable and restore the system to that date.
The point to note is you will lose all system change made to your system since the selected date.
For the detailed procedure for restoring, please look up http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q306084
For more details on System Restore, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/ getstarted/ballew_03may19.mspx