1. Today's Motivation

 SUCCESS IS WITHIN YOU!
 

How things look on the outside of you depends
on how things are on the inside of you.

Your thoughts have brought you to where you are today.
And as a result your actions mirror your thoughts.

Where you are and what you are doing can help you
understand what you have been thinking.
Your mind is your true Champion.

Your behaviour out there continually reveals and
reflects you. What you do, tells everyone who you are.

Change your thoughts and you change
where you are right now.
Nothing changes until we do.

Where do you want to be?

Cheers Shelley Taylor-Smith
 
http://www.championmindset.com.au/

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2. Inspirational quote.

President Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:

"I believe that banking institutions are
more dangerous to our liberties than standing
armies. If the American people ever allow
private banks to control the issue of their
currency, first by inflation and then by
deflation, the banks and corporations that
will grow up around them will deprive the
people of all their property until their
children will wake up homeless on the
continent their fathers conquered."

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3. Today's Useful Sites.

About Blogging

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5 Editors notes

Hi

Welcome to this edition of the Australian Weekly Newsletter

Thanks for opening this mail and reading. It makes our task
so much more rewarding when you do that.

My son, Chris and I are working to change the whole
format of this newsletter, to make it less formal and more
open to parcipitation from you, our readers. This will happen
over the next few weeks. We were thinking of looking for a
new domain name as well!

Back over here in Geraldton we are approaching summer
somewhat cautiously, warm for a few days and then rain!
Then warm again, gets like that right up to Christmas time
and then the heat turns up!

Still a bit of gloom and doom around the world. Our Prime
Minister, Kevin Rudd, Labour party, which is probably best
described as a little left wing, or mild socialist. They
are funding the banks and putting up guarantees as much
of the rest of the world is to keep the ship from sinking.

I read a report yesterday from a good source that over in
the USA the mass of people have stopped drawing down on
their house mortgages for their shopping because they cant
but are moving big time into spending from Credit Cards!

That's a bit of a worry long term for any chance of a gradual
return to a balance in the economic system worldwide, I think
anyway? What about you?

But you and I can't change the world, we can only change what
we actually do on a daily basis and how we look at things.

I do know that downtown here in Geraldton, some shops have
reported slower sales and some mining companies have shut
down or are putting a few people off. Also it is a fact that
Internet Marketers are not getting the returns they were a
year or so ago off the net.

It appears that world wide we may see a shift towards socialism.

But enough of that from me.

I hope we can bring to you good news in the weeks to come
leading up to Christmas.

Kind regards

Stan Maley

Australia 0899652873

http://www.ozfamilyezine.com
mailto:webmaster@ozfamilyezine.com

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6. Article

Reverse Phone Search: How You Can Find Out Who's
Hiding Behind Any Phone Number

Got a phone number but don't know who it is? 
Maybe you've seen strange numbers showing up on
your teenager's cell phone bill. Or maybe you
picked up a number to call about an investment -
but you suspect a scam.  Or maybe you found a
mysterious number in your wife or husband's things. 
For dozens of reasons, we find ourselves with a
telephone number - but no name.

You're itching to find out who it is.  Not just
for curiosity's sake.  The safety of your family
or the security of your bank account could be at
stake.  You need a way to discover just whose
phone number you have.

There's good news.  You've got options.  I'm a
professional writer and researcher. I've discovered
four different ways you can find out who's hiding
behind any phone number. You can:

-    Call, pretending to be someone else
-    Look it up in a published crisscross directory
-    Befriend (or trick) someone at the phone company
-    Go online and search 

Let's see what's involved with each approach and
discover when they work best...

Call the Number

It's the simplest thing you can do.  Pick up the phone
and call.  But pretend to be someone else to avoid
recognition.  When they answer, ask for a person with
an unusual name not likely to be there.   Say
something like "Hello, is Lilly Becky there? No? Are
you absolutely sure? Well, who am I talking to then?" 
Be a little forceful. Even sound angry, as if you
think they're lying to you.  This approach can rattle
the other person and make them reveal their identity.

Avoid this one if you're not comfortable acting. 
And make sure you don't call from a number that can be
traced back to you!

Look in a Crisscross Directory

Crisscross Directories have been around since the late
1800s. They're like phone directories. But they organize
their listings by phone number, or street address,
instead of name.  These directories are still available
in print form even though most of the information is also
now available by computer. 

Such cross-references are primarily designed for business
use. Usually, sales departments rely on them to conduct
direct marketing, build lists of sales leads and gather
business intelligence.

The drawback is that they're expensive - costing in the
hundreds of dollars or more.  Still, you can usually find
copies in your library, especially for the local area you
live in.  If you're looking beyond your own town, you
probably won't be able to use the free version in the
library.

Get an Inside Connection

Having a buddy on the inside of the phone company was
classic approach for TV detectives.  If you recall the
Rockford Files or Mannix or any other old private eye
show, they were forever pulling over to a pay phone and
calling their friend, Ginger or Susie or Maggie, at the
telephone company.  The friend would dutifully give them
whatever information the PI needed to pursue the case.

Interestingly, this method actually works - even if it's
a little on the shady side.  If you know someone at the
phone company, you can probably talk them into helping.

Unfortunately, they probably won't help you once a week
like on the TV shows.  At some point your friend's better
judgment will take over.  You'll be left with nothing but
numbers again.  (Makes you wonder, doesn't it, just what
the detective had that you don't)

21st Century Answers - The Internet Search Solution

When it comes to finding out who's hiding behind a phone
number, the best way I've found is online search.  Yet,
search takes time.  And not finding what you want quickly
gets very frustrating.

To help, a number of businesses exist to make reverse
phone searching quicker and easier.  These businesses have
already found the best sources for reverse phone searching.
They take you directly to the databases that have the
information you need. You can find out names, addresses,
and much more, starting with just a phone number.

Some of these Reverse Phone Lookup services are free. 
The better ones cost a little. Quality always does, in
my experience.

If, in your case, it's not that important to get accurate
information fast, then give the free services a shot. 
They're mostly supported by pay for performance advertising,
like Adsense, which doesn't earn them much. That means the
free services rarely have the money to invest either in
buying data access or in creating more usable interfaces.

In my case, as a professional, getting quality information
quickly is important.  I pay the small fee and get reliable
information. 

But, even if I didn't write for a living and were just
casually looking up phone numbers from time to time, I'd
still go with a paid database service.  The cost is minimal.
Often a small, one-time fee covers one to three years or
even longer.  If I only looked up a number once or twice a
year, it would still be worth it in time saved.

Final Word

As important as it can be, finding out personal information
with just a phone number used to be nearly impossible. 
Today it can be quick and easy.  I've found four approaches
that work, but one proved the simplest and most effective.
It's using a quality, reverse-phone-search service online.

In a future article I'll talk about some of the reasons
reverse phone search can be so important in these times. 
You might be surprised to hear how it not only can satisfy
curiosity, it could even save your life.

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7. A little humour.

It was April and the Aboriginals in a remote
part of Northern Australia asked their new
elder if the coming winter was going to be
cold or mild. Since he was an elder in a modern
community he had never been taught the old
secrets.

When he looked at the sky he couldn't tell what
the winter was going to be like.

Nevertheless, to be on the safe side, he told
his tribe that the winter was indeed going to
be cold and that the members of the tribe should
collect firewood to be prepared.

But being a practical leader, after several days
he had an idea.

He walked out to the telephone booth on the
highway, called the Bureau of Meteorology and
asked, 'Is the coming winter in this area going
to be cold?'

The meteorologist responded, 'It looks like this
winter is going to be quite cold.'

So the elder went back to his people and told
them to collect even more wood in order to be
prepared.

A week later he called the Bureau of Meteorology
again. 'Does it still look like it is going to be
a very cold winter?'

The meteorologist again replied, 'Yes, it's going
to be a very cold winter.'

The elder again went back to his community and
ordered them to collect every
scrap of firewood they could find.

Two weeks later the elder called the Bureau again.
'Are you absolutely sure that the winter is going
to be very cold?' he asked.

'Absolutely,' the man replied. 'It's looking more
and more like it is going to be one of the coldest
winters ever.'

'How can you be so sure?' the elder asked.

The weatherman replied, 'Our satellites have
reported that the Aboriginals in the north are
collecting firewood like crazy, and that's always
a sure sign.'

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