Author Joseph Yakel presents his own blend of humor and melodrama in this country boy comedy. Offered as a light-hearted, fun adventure with a feel-good edge, Yakel said he was looking to amuse his audience with something a little different. “With Juggin Joe, I wanted to create a funny, but identifiable character, and his own unique ‘hook’, that would draw readers into his world. Hopefully, I’ve done that with this comedy adventure, and Joe and the rest of the gang will strike a good chord amongst readers.”

Yakel describes “The Legend of Juggin Joe” as an over-the-top fictional humor story that takes place in and around the Town of Westerlo, NY, and centers around the life and times of a hillboy dubbed ‘Juggin Joe’, for his uncanny musical abilities with the jug. Yakel said, “This book is a country boy comedy/melodrama that I’ve written in ‘country speak’, which makes the story that much more fun to read. It’s a light-hearted, clean, fun adventure, suitable for all audiences.”

Have you ever watched a country movie, and, in a good natured way, tried to imitate the characters’ accents and dialogue? Sure you have, and more than likely, you had yourself a good laugh with the trying. Now then, have you ever read a book with such a dialogue? Probably not, and further, you’ve likely never even seen such a book. Until now, that is. After you read ‘The Legend of Juggin Joe’, you’ll be able to respond affirmatively that, not only have you satisfied your longing to fill this heretofore literary void, but that you had a hilariously good time in doing so! Once the rhythm of the dialogue takes root in your mind, you’ll actually start thinking and talking like the characters! And that, my friends, is the key that unlocks your door to Joe’s world!

As the story begins, you’ll laugh at Joe’s country ways, and, perhaps, perceive him and the rest of the gang, merely as ‘bumpkins’. But, as the comedy-melodrama unfolds, you’ll quickly realize that there is more below the surface of that Westerlo topsoil than you had initially suspected. As you wind your way through the chapters, your laughter will gradually shift from being aimed at Joe, and somehow become laughter shared with Joe! By the time you realize that this subtle transformation has occurred, the hook has already been set! All the while, the secrets to unlocking Joe’s full potential in the world are slowly revealed.

It’s easy to identify with Joe. You’ll root him on, share his joy, and feel his pain, as he weathers the storms of life. By the time the book ends, you’ll have gained a newfound respect and admiration for Joe, his good-natured antics, and for his unmistakably simple perspective of life. Simply put, Juggin Joe transforms those around him, and brings balance to the world - it’s what he does.

If the grind of everyday life and work is putting you to sleep, worry your troubled heart no more. A remedy is now at hand. Good humor is a powerful antidote to the ‘environmental lethargy’ weighing you down. So, go ahead and read, “The Legend of Juggin Joe”, and count yourself among those who have awaked!

“The Legend of Juggin Joe”
* ISBN 1-4116-2588-9 * Pub date: March 2005 * $9.00 paperback * 123 pages *

About the Author:

Among his credits, Joseph Yakel has three books. He describes “The Legend of Juggin Joe” (March 2005) as a ‘country boy comedy/melodrama’ delivered with a writing style he dubs ‘unconventional’. Joe categorizes his two other works as ’slightly more serious’ genealogy books. The Autograph Memories of Mary Yakel (December 2004) is a 19th century memoir, and The JACKEL, JECKEL, JAECKEL, IEKEL, YAKEL Family History Book (March 2005) is a family chronology, tracing 350 years of his Rheinish ancestry. First published in 1998, Joe’s articles have appeared in publications such as Communications Technology, The Pipeline, and Army Reserve Magazine.

His articles have also been highlighted on USAWOA Online, USAR Online, and other Internet websites. Previews of his books can be viewed at http://www.lulu.com/yakel

To achieve great things, you need a team. Building a winning
team requires understanding of these principles. Whatever
your goal or project, you need to add value and invest in
your team so the end product benefits from more ideas,
energy, resources, and perspectives.

1. The Law of Significance

People try to achieve great things by themselves mainly
because of the size of their ego, their level of insecurity,
or simple naiveté and temperament. One is too small a number
to achieve greatness.

2.The Law of the Big Picture

The goal is more important than the role. Members must be
willing to subordinate their roles and personal agendas to
support the team vision. By seeing the big picture,
effectively communicating the vision to the team, providing
the needed resources, and hiring the right players, leaders
can create a more unified team.

3. The Law of the Niche

All players have a place where they add the most value.
Essentially, when the right team member is in the right
place, everyone benefits. To be able to put people in their
proper places and fully utilize their talents and maximize
potential, you need to know your players and the team
situation. Evaluate each person’s skills, discipline,
strengths, emotions, and potential.

4. The Law of Mount Everest

As the challenge escalates, the need for teamwork elevates.
Focus on the team and the dream should take care of itself.
The type of challenge determines the type of team you
require: A new challenge requires a creative team. An
ever-changing challenge requires a fast, flexible team. An
Everest-sized challenge requires an experienced team. See
who needs direction, support, coaching, or more
responsibility. Add members, change leaders to suit the
challenge of the moment, and remove ineffective members.

5. The Law of the Chain

The strength of the team is impacted by its weakest link.
When a weak link remains on the team the stronger members
identify the weak one, end up having to help him, come to
resent him, become less effective, and ultimately question
their leader’s ability.

6. The Law of the Catalyst

Winning teams have players who make things happen. These
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who are naturally intuitive, communicative, passionate,
talented, creative people who take the initiative, are
responsible, generous, and influential.

7. The Law of the Compass

A team that embraces a vision becomes focused, energized,
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going there. A team should examine its Moral, Intuitive,
Historical, Directional, Strategic, and Visionary Compasses.
Does the business practice with integrity? Do members stay?
Does the team make positive use of anything contributed by
previous teams in the organization? Does the strategy serve
the vision? Is there a long-range vision to keep the team
from being frustrated by short-range failures?

8. The Law of The Bad Apple

Rotten attitudes ruin a team. The first place to start is
with your self. Do you think the team wouldn’t be able to
get along without you? Do you secretly believe that recent
team successes are attributable to your personal efforts,
not the work of the whole team? Do you keep score when it
comes to the praise and perks handed out to other team
members? Do you have ahard time admitting you made a
mistake? If you answered yes to any of these questions,
you need to keep your attitude in check.

9. The Law of Countability

Teammates must be able to count on each other when it
counts. Is your integrity unquestionable? Do you perform
your work with excellence? Are you dedicated to the team’s
success? Can people depend on you? Do your actions bring
the team together or rip it apart?

10. The Law of the Price Tag

The team fails to reach its potential when it fails to pay
the price. Sacrifice, time commitment, personal development,
and unselfishness are part of the price we pay for team
success.

11. The Law of the Scoreboard

The team can make adjustments when it knows where it stands.
The scoreboard is essential to evaluating performance at
any given time, and is vital to decision-making.

12. The Law of the Bench

Great teams have great depth. Any team that wants to excel
must have good substitutes as well as starters. The key to
making the most of the law of the bench is to continually
mprove the team.

13. The Law of Identity

Shared values define the team. The type of values you choose
for the team will attract the type of members you need.
Values give the team a unique identity to its members,
potential recruits, clients, and the public. Values must be
constantly stated and restated, practiced, and
institutionalized.

14. The Law of Communication

Interaction fuels action. Effective teams have teammates
who are constantly talking, and listening to each other.
From leader to teammates, teammates to leader, and among
teammates, there should be consistency, clarity and courtesy.
People should be able to disagree openly but with respect.
Between the team and the public, responsiveness and openness
is key.

15. The Law of the Edge

The difference between two equally talented teams is
leadership. A good leader can bring a team to success,
provided values, work ethic and vision are in place. The
Myth of the Head Table is the belief that on a team, one
person is always in charge in every situation. Understand
that in particular situations, maybe another person would be
best suited for leading the team. The Myth of the Round Table
is the belief that everyone is equal, which is not true. The
person with greater skill, experience, and productivity in a
given area is more important to the team in that area.
Compensate where it is due.

16. The Law of High Morale

When you’re winning, nothing hurts. When a team has high
morale, it can deal with whatever circumstances are throw
at it.

17. The Law of Dividends

Investing in the team compounds over time. Make the decision
to build a team, and decide who among the team are worth
developing. Gather the best team possible, pay the price to
develop the team, do things together, delegate responsibility
and authority, and give credit for success.

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Nowadays, as a lot of business and directors are looking at online video websites as an excellent place to upload content to grab the attention of their customers, it is essential to understand the basic principles of utilising online video promotion channels.

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Web video marketing is one of the best and fastest techniques of advertising your firm at the moment.

There has been a lot of publicity lately centered on the issue of child molestation. Child molestation is a horrific form of child abuse that leaves its victims with a deep loss of self and the inability to cope with life’s challenges.

Another form of child abuse, that leaves its victims powerless and confused, is incest. Incest is a topic that most families refuse to discuss and sometimes deny that it ever existed. The Laid Daughter, by Helen Bonner is such an example.

In this riveting novel, the author discusses her own issues with incest. What is so unique about the novel itself is that the author has been journaling her strange feelings and dreams for over 20 years before she realizes that her journal entries depict her true life experiences.

The author takes us on her journey through self discovery and healing by allowing us to see her daily struggles in life. She is plagued with failed marriages and her inability to have honest and open relationships with others. She cuts herself off from her family and friends. There is however, something very striking about Ms. Bonner’s character. She is able to hold down a job and build herself a lucrative career while dealing with the incest issue.

Going through the healing process was not an easy road for Ms. Bonner. Early on, she was given erroneous advice from some early therapist. She found herself dropping out of therapy with the belief that somehow she could conquer her demons on her own. She then seeks therapy through a wonderful therapist by the name of Glenda Parkinson who discovers that Helen was not just a survivor of incest, but she also suffered from a Multiple Personality Disorder.

Glenda Parkinson also expresses how quickly Helen was able to work through her demons as shown by the following excerpt:

“Helen spent only a year in intense psychotherapy with me. The average length of treatment time is somewhere between five and ten years. She was highly motivated and followed her gut instincts in making therapeutic decisions for herself. She read. She wrote. She practiced suggestive directives. She attended a national conference for adult survivors. Her art work was another vehicle for self-understanding. She used relaxation techniques when feeling panicky. She begin to fill her new “house” by acknowledging and fulfilling the needs of her integrating selves. Decisions Helen made for herself rather than against herself were the catalyst toward wholeness.”

As you can see by the above excerpt, healing from incest or any other form of childhood abuse can be done with hard work and determination. I would recommend this fine piece of work to anyone who has suffered the pain and anguish of child abuse or to anyone who wants to discover how they can make changes in their own life that can help them move forward to living life to its fullest.

ISBN: 1884178235

Author: Helen Bonner
Publisher: Kairos Center

Faye Brown, Author of the upcoming novel, Strange Fruit In A Small Town. (http://www.lookingforbooks.blogspot.com)

Copyrighted 2005: Faye Brown: All Rights Reserved.

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The OSGA is in fact an independent federation which currently keeps tabs on the offshore sports gaming trade in an attempt to present gaming devotees the means to select respectable companies to play games on, without unease. The association seeks to protect client’s rights, not to mention they do not impose any association costs. The Offshore Gaming Association are a well qualified not to mention unbiased third party company who voice non-biased judgments, indicated by customer feedback, unprejudiced analysis, conversations, inside advice and additionally imparts inside news.

The Interactive Gaming Council are a non-profit-making administration. The organisation has been created to provide a forum for worried individuals to address recent subjects moreover to boost relevant matters in the worldwide web-based gaming profession, in an effort to establish fair and also healthy industry codes and habits which improve end user confidence in world wide web based wagering commodities and services, and in addition to aid as the industry’s generic practise spokesperson moreover the IGC works as an info center.

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The FTGA was set up in a venture to compose a standard which will reform the standards of on-line sports gambling operations. The agency suggest that doing business solely with partners of good reputation, they are able to bring about a membership of the most trustworthy and most efficient offshore gambling businesses worldwide.

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“I enjoyed reading this book. The characters were portrayed
very well. Jack, a multimillionaire who experiences mid-life
crisis and ends up finding meaning to his life - but it costs
him millions of dollars and emotional pain. Adele is a
heavy-drinking, free-living, multimillionaire with an
independent mind and a sense of humor. Wendy, a single
mother who finds the love of her life. Mixed up educators
playing with their students’ lives in their conquest and the
retiring professor who resists this plot has a big secret. A
married advisor carries on an affair with another man and
when he is discovered, he thinks his world has ended.

I would say this fiction is a light comedy that is quite
entertaining and has some romance elements as well.
Author Robert Mercer-Nairne brings attention to common
human frailties with a sense of fun. He clearly reveals the
desire to ‘get rich quick’ in North American Society.
Members of this society tend to hear what we WANT to hear
and perceive the greener pasture out there somewhere -
rather than in the here and now.

Readers are shown the foolishness of following others
blindly and the danger of where our greed can take us.
Innocents can have their life irrevocable altered by someone
else’s desire to climb a corporate or social ladder. The
benefit of spiritual leaders to help ground the characters in
this novel, helping them learn to forgive themselves and
move on in life is used at several points in the story.

I recommend this book for anyone looking for a light,
entertaining read.”

ISBN#: 0974814105
Publisher: Gritpoul, Inc
Author: Robert Mercer-Nairne

~ Lillian Brummet - Book Reviewer - Co-author of the book Trash Talk, a guide for anyone concerned about his or her impact on the environment Author of Towards Understanding, a collection of poetry.
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Author of multiple poetry books, Michelle True, uses creativity and honesty to propel readers of True Identities into visualizing themselves in today’s jungle, using instinctive and prehistoric skills to survive.

The fear, pain, danger, beauty, love and grace of life: they are all here. Insightful statements like “All battles fought, are in the mind” could not be truer. I personally related to her struggles to listen to and enjoy life while resolving to make a difference in every moment of every day.

True Identities is filled with entertaining and mind-stretching poetry and I recommend it to anyone who enjoys poetry.

ISBN#: 141146002
Author: Michelle True
Publisher: Publish America

~ Lillian Brummet - Book Reviewer - Co-author of the book Trash Talk, a guide for anyone concerned about his or her impact on the environment - Author of Towards Understanding, a collection of poetry. (www.sunshinecable.com/~drumit)

Imagine publishing an ebook only to learn that you’re making no sales, no traffic to your website and no profits. How depressing will that be…

A while ago my friend, Peter Vincent just finished writing and
publishing his new ebook called “How To Be A Good Retail Worker”. He has no problems with writing an ebook. He knew how to write, he knew how to organize his work into a structured way. But he had one problem - He couldn’t sell it in the end!

Why? Because he failed to see how big the demand was for information on Retail working work. He didn’t research before he published his finished ebook. He lost hope and didn’t have any confidence anymore. He was assuming people will buy his book and he was hoping that a lot of people were looking for information about this subject. He failed miserably!

To be frank, without doing your “research” you’ll go no where with your ebook venture. You’ll be brain dead and you’ll be like a blind man going no where but the wall in front of him. Without researching before hand you’ll:

- Waste a lot of your time (and time = money).

- End up having no hope and momentum.

- Wonder if you’re ebook will ever sell or not.

- You’ll need to guess and hope a lot. Hope, hope & hope.

Most people fail to do their research FIRST before they write their ebook because they think that it will sell good. They hope in wonders that it’ll sell like the best ebook anyone has seen. They think that they’ll “get rich overnight”. Listen, just because you’ve got good knowledge about a certain topic, it doesn’t mean that it will sell! (Sorry if you studied ten years on that subject).

To check and see how many people are actually looking for that topic, search that topic in your favourite search engine such as Yahoo.com. Just for an example you can search a topic about “How to make money”. You’ll literally get over 3.7 billion results. Do you think that this “product” will even sell? Look at the competition it has. The business sector makes up most of the population of all subjects.
So my point here is that you need to create a product that either no one has or create a product better than your competitors. You can create an ebook based on a niche market.

If you do your research on the topic of your ebook, you’ll benefit immensely because:

- You’ll know your competition & how large it is before hand.

- You’ll know if people will even buy your ebook.

- You’ll know how much to sell it for because you can compare prices with your competitors.

- It’ll save you a massive amount of time.

- You’ll have more confidence in writing the ebook because you’re absolutely certain that it will be a “winning product”.

There are many tools and resources that offer you to research hot markets.
Three tools I personally use to find hot markets include:
Keyword suggestion tools - Such as Overture’s keyword suggestion tool.
Hidden tools that not many people make use of. If you want to find very niche markets try looking at Ebay’s categories such as Books & Comics > Business > Ebooks. One other “hidden” tool that not many people use is eBay’s “Pulse”. This tool will show you the top 10 keywords searched on ebay. You will find this tool on the homepage, called “eBay Pulse”.

- Forums - Take a look at the forum that relates to your topic. If your subject has something to do with weight loss then search “weight loss forums” in your search engine. You’ll find a lot of people posting their questions and problems.
- Surveys & Questionaries - If you have an opt-in list why don’t you survey your list about the topic? Ask them what is the biggest problem in __________.