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When was the last gladiatorial combat?
Constantine abolished gladiatorial combat in A.D. 325, but
the brutal entertainment continued anyway. In the fifth
century, Honorius abolished them again, but we don't know
for sure that the ban did the trick! In truth, we don't know
when the last fights occurred.
Were there female gladiators?
It looks like there were. The remains of what is believed to
have been a female gladiator were uncovered two years ago in
a Roman graveyard in London. The woman, who died while still
in her twenties, was buried with ceramics, including a dish
decorated with a fallen gladiator and other vessels adorned
with symbols associated with gladiators. According to Jenny
Hall, curator of early London history at the London museum,
it is "70 percent probable" that the woman was a gladiator.
There is other evidence supporting female gladiators as
well. An inscription in Pompeii refers to women in the arena
and a second-century relief carving of two women fighting
bears an inscription identifying the combatants as
"Amazonia" and "Achillea," a feminine form of the Greek hero
Achilles. Emperor Septimius Severus, who ruled from A.D. 193
to 211, was said to have permitted combat by women.
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1. STRANGE BITS AND PIECES!
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2. OPTIMIZE LIFE NOW!™
with Dr. Rhoberta Shaler
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Six Secrets To Ensure Success
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3. MEDICAL COLUMN by Karin Henderson
A Very Simplistic Explanation of
Free Radicals and Anti-Oxidants
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4. THE SAGA OF PINEHILL by Ken Darby
At Sonora's
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5. WHY DO WE SAY IT?
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6. THINK ABOUT THIS TODAY!
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Six Secrets To Ensure Success
If there were only six secrets and they did ensure success,
would you want to know? It brings a responsibility with it.
Once you know the secrets, you will never be able to ignore
them, or, to complain about the lack of success in your
life.
If these six secrets ensure success and you know them, will
you do what it takes to be successful?
Years ago, when I owned a health retreat center, I would
give seminars to large numbers of people. My assumption was
that they wanted to be healthy. Some did. Some didn't.
But, they all wanted to know how. How many success secrets
do you already know? You likely do know how to be
successful. You could give great advice to a friend, right?
Now, are you following your own advice?
I'm going to make an assumption once again. I am going to
assume that you to want to know the secrets... because you
want to be successful. Am I right? You know, it could be
that some folks want to know them so they can talk like a
person who is going to really do something, but, of course,
that's not you. You are ready! Good for you.
Napoleon Hill wrote an amazing book called Laws of Success.
After researching long and talking to hundreds of very
successful people, he narrowed it down to sixteen laws.
It's a very thick book and every page is gold. Think about
these things. Spend a half hour after reading this
considering the place of these six in your life. If they
need to be magnified, now is a good time for that.
ONE: HAVE A BURNING DESIRE
These days we call that 'passion'. When you look that word
up in the dictionary, it says, in part, 'an intense,
driving or overmastering feeling or conviction' and ' a
strong liking for, desire for or devotion to some activity,
object or concept'.
What is it that you can pursue tirelessly? What is it you
do that allows time to pass without notice? What absorbs
you? Fires your imagination and enthusiasm? Inspires you?
Lofty words. It is important, though, to wrestle that
concept to the ground and come up with one or two things.
Until you know your burning desire, you are may feel short
of a starting place for your success journey.
TWO: HAVE SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE
Everyone can be an expert at something. All you have to do
is decide to become one. My grandson went through an early
teenage phase of answering most questions with a shrug
accompanied by "I dunno". He seemed to be afraid to risk
committing to an opinion, an idea, or, even a preference.
Fortunately, that has passed.
How about you? Do you know what you know and what you want
to know? Specialized knowledge is a saleable commodity. In
the manufacturing world, I've read examples of line workers
who took their contributions so seriously that they made
them an art form. You can do the same. Acquire the
specialized knowledge that will fulfill your burning desire.
THREE: BE GOAL-ORIENTED
You would not likely walk into a travel agency to buy a
ticket, and, when the agent asks 'Where to?" say "Surprise
me!" There are many people who seem to live their lives
that way. And, most of them complain like crazy!
As it says in Alice in Wonderland, if you don't know where
you want to go, any path with take you there. On the
contrary, you can cut down on your travel time enormously by
choosing your destination and mapping out the shortest or
most scenic route.
Goal-achieving is one straight road to self-esteem. It
allows you to give up excuses and save that energy for new
goals. Take the time to think through and write out your
goals.
FOUR: BE DECISIVE
Oh, this is big! Successful people make up their minds
quickly and change them slowly. Others make up their minds
slowly and change them quickly.
Napoleon Hill says never trust a man who has enough the
facts and will not make a decision. I would add 'because
he/she is likely to be a perfectionist'. Perfectionists are
not happy decision- makers because they are so afraid of
making a mistake. They truly believe that, if they could
just get a little more information, they would make a better
decision. Problem is, they seldom think they have enough.
Make up your mind. Take action. Do-o-o-o something!
FIVE: SURROUND YOURSELF WITH A MASTERMIND TEAM
None of us is as smart as all of us! Open yourself to
supporting and learning from other like-minded, like-focused
folks. Join together with them regularly to move your life
or business forward consistently.
That's why I offer regular group coaching sessions. It
gives people an opportunity to meet regularly by phone with
five other people over several months. The advice,
experience and expertise that is available in those sessions
is invaluable. Everyone wants everyone to achieve what they
most want... and they help them get there!
SIX: BE PERSISTENT AND CONSISTENT
Ever been around a person who always has a new good idea.
That's wonderful, but, do they follow through on their
ideas? One way of avoiding success is to just keep thinking
and never acting. Makes great conversation but very little
is ever accomplished.
When you get a new good idea, create yourself a safe parking
lot for it. Write it down. Capture it for further thought
or another time. Incorporate it when you have achieved your
current goal. It will be there waiting for you.
There's a very good reason that someone said 'When the going
gets tough, the tough get going.' That's a description of
consistency and persistence. And, when the tough get going,
they keep going. Not blindly thrashing and flailing through
the mire, but keeping their eyes on the prize while skirting
any obstacles in the way. They get going intelligently.
Many success writers have said that too many folks give up
just before they would have accomplished their goals. Don't
let that be you.
There are many more secrets and you likely have heard them
all. The secret part, though, is putting them into action.
Go for it!
© Rhoberta Shaler, PhD, San Diego, CA.. All rights
reserved worldwide.
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is an expert motivator. She gives you the strategies and
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Avoiding that still, small voice from within, or choosing
not to listen to it will result in missing out on a blessing.
Learn to pay attention and your life will take a turn for the
better.
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MEDICAL COLUMN - - - -
by Karin Henderson
A Very Simplistic Explanation of
Free Radicals and Anti-Oxidants
This is going to be a completely simplistic explanation of
these terms and how they relate to you. However, it is
important for you to have some understanding of these
mechanisms so you can make conscious, informed decisions as
to health, nutrition, and lifestyle.
Free Radicals -
are considered the "bad guys" or enemies of the body. In
medical terms, they are the "unpaired electrons". When they
are "paired" they don't cause a problem. It's only when they
are alone (unpaired), that they cause "oxidative stress" and
need to be "neutralized/made harmless".
Sources: any unusual, foreign "things" coming in the body
that isn't supposed to be there… poor food choices such as
white flour or sugar, fumes, smoking, fertilisers,
preservatives, chemicals..
Anti-Oxidants -
these are considered the "good guys" in the body. They
neutralize the free radicals and keep the body "balanced",
healthy.
Sources of anti-oxidants: your body produces some and the
rest MUST be found in foods eaten. They used to be called
vitamins and come with different names now. Foods that
supply them will be your fruits and vegetables. And for many
people this will hint at the fact that finding them in their
diet will be difficult.
Examples of degenerative conditions caused by free radicals
are Fibromyalgia, Arthritis, Parkinson's, Lupus, Cataracts,
Macular Degeneration.
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THE NET'S BEST KEPT SECRET
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THE SAGA OF PINEHILL
by Ken Darby
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Eloise Henry, age 18 when the story began
and David Wylie, age 20, were selected by a
stranger in town to take a dangerous trip,
together. The idea was that each was to take
only the clothes on their back and go
anywhere in the world where the stranger
took them. They were to be left there to find
their own way home. They had no money,
no identification, and no idea where they
were. If they arrived back home, there
would be a million dollars waiting in each
of their bank accounts
The story deals with their adventures along
and leads to the only way they could survive.
The story leads to many friends, many adventures
and many places.
The Saga Of Pinehill, The Adventure
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As you read enjoy. It continues . . . . . . .
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Billy found it hard to sleep. He was tossing and turning
most of the night until exhaustion alone took him to sleep.
He was thinking about the incident with Sonora. It took him
from clear thinking back into lust and it stayed with him
for a very long time. He was becoming frustrated with it. He
wanted and needed sleep.
He was becoming concerned because he knew Sonora wanted
to talk of marriage in the morning. He wanted to marry her,
too, but he did not want it to be because of lust for he was
wise enough to know that soon wore off, especially when
there were children. He knew his motivations should be
because he was in love with her and that he really wanted to
spend the rest of his life with her. He knew they had to be
friends, always, especially after lust was not the
issue.
Billy thought long and hard on that issue that night. He
had to think about whether he really wanted to be with
Sonora, through thick and thin, for the rest of his life.
Before morning Billy had his answer. He knew this was
the right decision. He wanted to be with her.
Sonora, too, tossed and turned. She was going through
the same pains of thinking, wondering, decision making and,
of course, the lust that came from remembering what they
nearly did on the hill.
Lust is a funny thing. It is chiefly responsible for
populating the planet, but usually once it's allowed free
rein then it is most difficult to stop. Because of that it
causes untold trouble and difficulty for men and women all
over the world. Some societies understand what it is and
permit rather free sexual activity. Others pronounce it
wrong and cause untold damage among their people because the
churches call it a sin. It seems there are few places where
the sexual experience can be free, without guilt and yet not
cause an inappropriate population growth. One of the
difficulties, of course, is that the body is capable of such
feelings long before the mind and character are willing and
able to look after the responsibilities that come from such
unbridled freedom.
If humans could drop their young and have them self
sufficient in a season or in a year as do the animals that
would be a different story. However, it takes 20 years and
sometimes more before a youngster is thought to be self
sufficient and that time period requires parents who bear
the load of responsibility for that youngsters life.
Maybe we should consider that in a spiritual sense.
Maybe we should look at the statement that we are made in
the image of our Maker and consider the responsibility our
Maker has taken on for us. Maybe we should know that like
the birds, as youngsters, we toil not neither do we gather
into barns, yet we are fed, clothed and sheltered from the
instant we draw our first breath. It might be wise for us to
think that the laws that feed us when we are young are the
same laws that feed us when we are old. It might be wise for
us to explore those laws and use them after we are mature as
we did before.
Billy rose a little later than usual. He didn't get much
sleep. Even so he was up before Sonora.
He laughed when she finally appeared in the doorway,
rubbing her eyes and yawning. "So, I thought you were the
one who was always up and at it in the morning. Look at you,
the last to see daylight and the day is half over."
"Oh, be quiet. I suppose you think you're Mr. Up And At
It, this morning. I couldn't sleep last night. I tossed and
turned nearly the whole night through."
"I know. I went through the same thing. I just about got
up and went to sit on the hill. Oh well, I've been told a
woman will do that to a guy!"
He got up and began to run when he saw her coming. He
laughed as he ran.
Mombudo was sitting quietly by the fire and had a smile
on his face that stretched from ear to ear. The sight of
these two teasing one another brought back cherished
memories for him.
Kenyata, too, while preparing the morning meal, could
hardly keep from laughing. It was a joy to have young love
back in the house again.
Billy let Sonora catch him and beat on him. Then he put
his arms around her and hugged her. Kissing her forehead he
casually mentioned that she'd have to get up earlier than
that if she was going to be able to inflict pain on him.
She started swinging again, but he held her close. All
she could do was land minor little thumps on his back. She
was laughing now as was Billy. Finally he let her go and the
pair of them walked back to the fire, hand in hand.
"I gather you two are going to have a serious talk
today. You will have to make some plans or you'll drive each
other crazy. Even I could hardly sleep last night for all
the noise my daughter was making turning from one side to
the other side, then back again. You two better make up your
mind what is going to happen so I can get some rest."
Kenyata was teasing them, laughing as she did so.
The morning meal was wonderful. There was love in the
air, true, real love, amongst all who sat around the
breakfast fire that morning. The older ones, Kenyata and
Mombudo lovingly tolerated the foolishness and silliness of
the two young lovers. Hemno, he just sat there, loving them,
but somewhat disgusted at their foolishness. He did not yet
wholly understand. His day would come, but for now he was
that young so he did not understand and that old that what
he saw he thought foolish and silly.
After breakfast Billy and Sonora walked back of the hut
to sit on the hill once more.
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TOMORROW - - - At Sonora's
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WHY DO WE SAY IT?
Hammer and Tongs: How die we come to use the phrase "hammer
and tongs" to mean "energetically"?
The allusion is to the vim and vigor exhibited by a
blacksmith showering blows with his "hammer" upon the iron
taken from the forge fire with his "tongs".
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THINK ABOUT THIS TODAY!
The successful people are the ones who can think up
stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
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wife phoned us."
There was a long silence, and then my husband heard the man
on the other end say,
"Honey, it's for you......someone wants to talk to you about
your relatives."
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"Few will have the greatness to bend history, but each
of us can work to change a small portion of events, and
in the total of all those acts will be written the
history of this generation." -- Robert F. Kennedy
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REMEMBER! - IF YOU SEE IT IN thePEBBLE - IT IS SO!
Ignorance is no excuse under the laws of your Maker any more
than they are under the laws of man. The laws exist. If you learn them
and use them to your advantage you prosper. If you decline and
continue to conduct your life as if they do not exist then it is an
absolute certainty you will do less, have less and be less than your
peak.
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