The chairman of the Cattle Tick Advisory Committee says roadside cameras are proving effective in controlling cattle movements between Queensland and northern New South Wales.

Nick Keating says a two-day meeting being held at Wollongbar this week has studied compliance and eradication programs in the region.

Mr Keating says there were field trips to look at dip sites and the functioning of cameras set up to monitor traffic movements venta motos across the border.

He says the cameras are a significant weapon in stopping the spread of cattle tick fever.

“We saw yesterday how successful they are, because they’re now down pat, they’re catching people now nearly every week who are bolivia bringing in illegal animals or hay out of Qld, so they are working very well,” he said.

“We saw the program and we just want to go and look at them on the roads and just see where they’re placed and that they’re doing their job, that vehicles can’t get around and so forth.”

By Jonathan Weisman
For a Democratic superdelegate who is officially still unaligned, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (S.C.) is sounding more and more like a Barack Obama fan.

In an interview today, Clyburn blasted the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s former pastor, but he suggested Wright’s recent re-emergence had not done lasting damage to the Illinois senator.

“I have a daughter the same age as Barack Obama,” said Clyburn, the most senior African American in Congress. “I’ve tried to provide shoulders for her to stand on. And I was absolutely saddened when it became clear to me Rev. Wright, rather than providing a shoulder for his parishioner to stand on, was engaged in some kind of knee-capping operation. That’s not the kind of anatomical analogy we ought to be involved in.”

He took particular umbrage with Wright’s suggestion that attacks on him were attacks on the black church, writ large. But, said Clyburn, if Wright had done grievous damage to Obama, the candidate would not have picked up the endorsements over the past two days from former Democratic Party chief Joe Andrew or Rep. Baron Hill, who represents a conservative district in Southern Indiana.

“Just because one sets out to do damage doesn’t mean it will be successful,” Clyburn said. “I don’t think it was successful.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — Get rid of the federal gas tax — at least for the summer. Tax Big Oil to help the rest of us out. Get drilling in that Alaska refuge. Soaring gasoline prices are suddenly the nation’s No. 1 crisis, and all the presidential candidates are offering cures.

Never mind that economists and energy experts see little value in such measures, at least in the short run. Or that even some top congressional leaders are raising eyebrows. It’s election season, and presidential contenders and other politicians are jumping on the bandwagon.

The slew of proposals includes: a summertime suspension of federal gas taxes, backed by John McCain and Hillary Rodham Clinton; a windfall-profits tax on oil companies, supported by Clinton, Obama and many other Democrats; a cry for new refineries, nuclear power plants and drilling in the Alaska wilderness, sounded by President Bush and his GOP allies; calls by those in both parties to stop buying oil at $117 a barrel — only to pump it back into the ground for strategic reserves.

“I think we are in a political crazy time. Some of this stuff being proposed borders on the irresponsible,” said Frank Verrastro, director of the energy and national security program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

In particular, said Verrastro, the talk of suspending the federal 18.4-cents per gallon federal tax on gasoline and 24.4-cents per gallon tax on diesel fuel during the summer driving season “is just absurd. Economics 101 will tell you if you cut the price, you increase demand. That means you tighten the market. Then the price goes back up. It goes to oil companies.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., weighed in against the scheme Thursday, telling reporters that “there’s no reason to believe that any moratorium on the gas tax would be passed on to the consumer.”

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg also opposed the plan as a “ridiculous idea.” He argued “the last thing we need to do is encourage people to drive.” Many of today’s bold ideas on energy are echoes of past proposals of earlier political seasons when gas prices were also rising or supplies short. And while they may have enjoyed some popular appeal, they’ve mostly been rejected — only to be recycled again.

Experts suggest the reason gas prices are so high now is not because of shortages, as happened in the Arab oil embargo of the 1970s; current lack of refinery capacity or especially greedy oil companies. Instead, they cite ever-growing demand, especially in Asia and the Middle East. Also, oil is traded in dollars, so that the dollar’s long slide contributes directly to increases in global oil prices. Political instability in some oil producing nations and financial speculators are also distorting market forces, further bidding up prices. And the cost of finding new sources of oil continues to soar.

Polls have shown that economic concerns, now primarily higher food and fuel costs, have replaced the Iraq war as the issue of greatest concern to voters. And just 27 percent of citizens approve of Bush’s economic management, an Associated Press-Ipsos poll showed. Regular unleaded gasoline averaged $3.60 a gallon last week.

The major proposals:

_ A summer “tax holiday” between Memorial Day and Labor Day, first proposed by McCain. “Just give the American people a little break for the summer. Maybe they can go a little further, maybe they can buy a better meal,” says the Arizona Republican. He has also called for greater conservation and more emphasis on nuclear power and alternative forms of energy.

_ Clinton, trying to revive her chances, jumped aboard the McCain plan — and upped him one by proposing paying for an estimated $9 billion in lost tax revenues with a windfall profits tax on wealthy oil companies. The New York Democrat launched a TV ad in next-up primary states Indiana and North Carolina attacking Obama for saying “no” to the gas tax holiday. “Senator Obama won’t provide relief, while Senator McCain won’t pay for it,” she said at a campaign stop in Indiana.

Obama decried the proposal as a gimmick not designed to ease Americans through driving season but to get McCain and Clinton “through an election,” even though he supported a state-gas-tax repeal as a state senator in Illinois. He said it would, at best, save drivers 30 cents a day, or “less than you can buy a cup of coffee for at 7-Eleven.”

_ President Bush, who can’t run again but sees his party’s hopes of doing well in November as hinging on issues like energy, blamed Congress for failing to reduce gas prices. At a Rose Garden news conference this week, he dusted off old proposals to allow oil and gas exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and to facilitate the building of more refineries and nuclear power plants. “These are very difficult economic times,” he said. He said he would study the gas-tax holiday proposal, but didn’t sound enthusiastic about it.

Democrats in the House and Senate are also separately working on energy packages designed to restrain gas prices, such as holding OPEC accountable for price fixing, cracking down on price gouging, and repealing subsidies to the most profitable oil companies.

“These are almost identical to proposals that were made in 1973 and 1974 when I was working for Hubert Humphrey on energy. There’s nothing new there and there’s no free lunch,” said James Thurber, director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University.

“Unless people running for office are willing to have a fundamental change in the way we produce energy and use it, we’ll continue to have these problems. And they’ll only get worse in the future. And none of these proposals will do anything to stop the current problem,” Thurber said.

Congress enacted a windfall profits tax in 1980, during an earlier era of high oil prices, but repealed it in 1988 amid concerns the tax was discouraging domestic oil development. Last year, the House approved $18 billion in new taxes on the largest oil companies, but it was blocked by Republicans in the Senate.

The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, established in underground salt caverns in Texas and Louisiana in the aftermath of the 1973-74 oil embargo, has been a political football since the beginning.

In 2000, then-candidate Bush charged that President Bill Clinton had engineered a price-relieving release of oil reserves to aid Vice President Al Gore’s presidential bid. However, it seemed to have little affect, either on gas prices or Gore’s candidacy.

As president, Bush has moved to keep filling the 700-million-barrel reserve, a policy he reiterated this week. He did allow the reserve to be tapped once: soon after Hurricane Katrina, to refiners whose supplies were disrupted by the storm.

EDITOR’S NOTE _ Tom Raum has covered Washington for The Associated Press since 1973, including five presidencies.

As a clinical research consultant working in North Carolina’s Research Triangle, Meribeth Howlett knows how to get to the bottom of things.

Her latest project was deciding whether to vote for Barack Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primary Tuesday. Now she’s made her choice and voted by absentee ballot.

The Associated Press has been keeping up with Howlett, 43, since late last year as part of an AP-Yahoo News series of polls going back to the same group of people to see how their thinking about the campaign evolves.

For those living in Indiana and North Carolina, both holding their primaries Tuesday, it’s decision time.

In the last few days, Howlett decided “I’ve heard enough from the pundits” and began reviewing campaign literature with the practiced eye of one who reads medical charts and oversees clinical trials.

How voters make their choices can be a mystery, even to themselves. AP asked some of the poll respondents from Indiana and North Carolina to describe how they are making their decision.

Howlett’s account:

“OK — I made a decision, but I should say up front that I’d be happy to vote for either Hillary or Barack. However, I voted for Hillary Clinton. Yes, I’ve been on Web sites and found the two to have plans that are remarkably similar and so it came down to a more philosophical decision, who do I BELIEVE will do a better job. Because Barack Obama identifies himself as the best candidate to be an agent of ‘real change in Washington,’ I was expecting to see some details outlining innovative plans to achieve change, but I did not see anything that stood out as greatly different from what Hillary proposes.

“Hillary has deep roots in D.C. and that has pros-cons. I am viewing it as a positive in that I believe she understands how to navigate the system to make changes (as well as knowing what won’t work). Another plus for me is that she has spent more time than any of the candidates researching the health care issue and can build on what she learned back when her husband was president.

“My husband believes Barack is less beholden to corporate ties and therefore will be less influenced by the lobbyist-corporations that heavily influence policy makers. This is the first time that we will not be voting the same way.

“I will confess that I’m saddened that I’ll be lumped in the polls as just another middle-aged white female voting for Hillary since it has absolutely nothing to do with gender or ethnicity.”

Her husband, Mark Mintz, 53, is a cartographer for the state.

THE RACE: The presidential race for Democrats nationally

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THE NUMBERS – Pew Research Center

Barack Obama, 47 percent

Hillary Rodham Clinton, 45 percent

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OF INTEREST:

Obama had a 10-percentage point lead over Clinton in March. His image among Democrats is not as strong as it was, though he’s still viewed more favorably than his rival for several attributes, including being more inspiring, honest and down-to-earth. Clinton is also seen less positively now, yet she has improved her standing among working-class whites and white voters under age 50. An increased number of Democrats — about half — now think the lengthy Democratic race will hurt the party. Yet a Clinton race against Republican candidate John McCain and an Obama matchup with McCain are both viewed as being close. That represents little change in a Clinton-McCain race but a drop in the 12-point advantage Obama had over McCain in March.

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The poll by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center was conducted April 23-27 and involved telephone interviews with 1,502 adults. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 3 percentage points. Included were interviews with 651 Democratic and Democratic-leaning registered voters, for whom the margin of sampling error was plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.

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COMPLETE RESULTS: http://people-press.org

THE NUMBERS – CNN-Opinion Research Corp. poll

Barack Obama, 46 percent

Hillary Rodham Clinton, 45 percent

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OF INTEREST:

Obama’s narrow March lead in this poll has dwindled to a tie, though he still has a 20-percentage-point margin when Democrats are asked who they think will win the party’s nomination. About six in 10 say the controversial comments by Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s former pastor, have not affected their opinion of Obama, while about a quarter say it has made them think less of the candidate. Obama and Clinton both have slender leads among all adults when matched up against John McCain, the Republican candidate. More people view all three contenders negatively than did so at the beginning of the year, though Clinton’s remain highest with nearly half having a negative view of her.

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The CNN-Opinion Research Corp. poll was conducted by telephone from April 28-30. It involved interviews with 1,008 adults, for whom the margin of sampling error was plus or minus 3 percentage points. It included interviews with 441 registered Democrats, for whom the margin of sampling error was plus or minus 4.5 points.

COMPLETE RESULTS: http://www.cnn.com

ATLANTA, May 1 (Reuters) – Private equity firm Sun Capital said on Thursday its three nominees were elected to the board of Furniture Brands International Inc (FBN.N: Quote, Profile, Research) by a substantial margin, based on an estimate by its proxy solicitor at the close of the polls.

“The election of Sun Capital’s nominees is a victory for all Furniture Brands shareholders,” Sun Capital Vice President Jason Bernzweig said in a statement. “Today’s results demonstrate shareholders’ desire for constructive change at Furniture Brands, and we are gratified by their support for our nominees.”

Furniture Brands, maker of Broyhill and Thomasville furniture, had urged a vote against the Sun Capital nominees.

Dan Stone, vice president of strategy and business development at Furniture Brands, declined to comment on the voting, and said final results would be released after the vote verification process was completed. The annual meeting was held on Thursday in St. Louis.Sun Capital, which owns 9.5 percent of Furniture Brands and had expressed interest in buying the company earlier this year, nominated Yale law professor Alan Schwartz, former Claire’s Stores Chief Financial Officer Ira Kaplan and Sun Capital Managing Director T. Scott King to the board.

Shareholder advisory services including RiskMetrics Group’s (RMG.N: Quote, Profile, Research) ISS Governance Services, Egan-Jones Proxy Services and Glass Lewis & Co had urged support for Sun Capital’s nominees.

In February, Sun Capital offered to buy Furniture Brands at a “substantial premium” to its stock price, which was then $10.18. Furniture Brands has also received buyout interest from its largest shareholder, Asia’s Samson Holding (0531.HK: Quote, Profile, Research).

Results at Furniture Brands have weakened in the past two years amid the U.S. housing slump, and the company has said that it expects a turnaround plan announced last year to help it swing to a profit for this year. Continued…

NEW YORK: The number of women accusing the financial data and news service company founded by Mayor Michael Bloomberg of discrimination has risen from three to 58, with more likely to be added, a lawyer told a judge Thursday.

The disclosure widens the scope of a lawsuit against Bloomberg LP that became a distraction for the mayor during his second term.

Bloomberg is not a defendant in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming discrimination against women who take maternity leave — and he bristled as he was asked about it. He said he had “absolutely no idea,” berated the reporter who asked the question and abruptly ended an unrelated news conference.

Bloomberg resigned as chief executive officer of Bloomberg LP to run for mayor in 2001. He retains a 68 percent stake in the company.

EEOC senior trial attorney Raechel Adams told a judge presiding over the case Thursday that the number of women joining the class-action lawsuit will rise as the EEOC continues to interview 478 women at the Bloomberg agency who have gone on maternity leave since 2002.

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The EEOC said the New York-based company with 9,000 employees engaged in a pattern of demoting women, diminishing their duties and excluding them from job opportunities after they disclosed they were pregnant.

The company has said the allegations are without merit.

Bloomberg lawyer Anna Conlon Aguilar said the company has turned over to the EEOC more than a million pages of data related to Bloomberg employees over the last 10 years. She said the company also planned to turn over e-mails related to women who went on maternity leave.

Attorney William J. Dealy, who represents the original plaintiffs, said his clients were pleased that other women were coming forward.

“They’re encouraged because in unity there’s strength,” he said.

The next hearing in the case was set for September.

Before he became mayor, Bloomberg was the target of a lawsuit by a female sales executive who accused him of sexual harassment while he was Bloomberg’s chief executive.

It claimed Bloomberg and other male managers at the company made “repeated and unwelcome” sexual comments, overtures and gestures, contributing to an offensive, locker-room culture. The suit also alleged that he displayed a discriminatory attitude toward pregnant women and new mothers and that this culture was fostered at the company.

Bloomberg adamantly denied the accusations; the suit was settled in 2000.

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Associated Press Writer Sara Kugler contributed to this story.

Active File Compare is a piece of software application that is very much needed in the business setting. The software performs a simple function. But as simple as this function may be, many businesses all over the world have to perform this function so many times in a single work day. This is a strong indication that businesses should consider making that worthwhile investment of purchasing Active File Compare software.
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For a lot of us, our lives are chaotic and jam-packed. Our work, taking care of the kids, the endless errands, exercise, social events, and the daily stresses of life can invade our days so much that the last thing we think about is this: am I getting enough sleep, and is it the right kind of sleep I need?
It’s astonishing that 40% of adults do not get the sleep they need to function to their optimum potential. A lack of sleep is vital to our well-being and can have serious repercussions if neglected.

What I’d like to do today is do a “fly-by” into the sleep world: You’ll find out what it is, how it works, why we need it, and the amount we need to be healthy. So, off we go into the mysterious world of sleep.

Sleep: What is it?

Sleep can be defined as a state of unconsciousness. During sleep, the brain is more responsive to internal stimuli rather than external stimuli.

How Do We Sleep?

Researchers of human sleep have discovered five defined stages of sleep using EEG recordings and polysomnography. Their findings are as follows:

Non-Rem (NREM) sleep: Occupies 75-80% of total sleep time

Stage 1: This stage is sometimes referred to as “drowsy sleep”. It appears at the onset of sleep and acts as a transition stage into

Stage 2: This stage can be associated with hypnagogic hallucinations (dreamlike images, sounds or sometimes smells before falling asleep or waking up), a loss of muscle tone, and a conscious awareness of the external environment. This stage can be thought of as a gateway between wake and sleep, also be defined as “sleep spindles”. Conscious awareness of the environment disappears. This occupies 45-55% of your total sleep.

Stage 3: This stage is primarily a transition into stage four. This stage occupies 3-8% of total sleep time.

Stage 4: This stage is true delta sleep. It predominates the first third of the night, occupying 10-15% of total sleep time. This is the deepest stage of sleep, and is difficult to wake up a person while they are in Stage 4. Night terrors and sleepwalking occur in this stage.

Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep

Stage 5: This stage is associated with dreaming, including strange visual and random dreams. Rem sleep is largely found in the final third of sleep, linking it to our circadian rhythm (aids in coordinating the timing of our internal bodily functions, including sleep, as well as our interactions with the external world) and body temperature. In an EEG, his period is active in the mind and appears similar to that of Stage 1.

Why Do We Need Sleep?

For our health. Sleep plays a vital role in our daily regimen. As we sleep, our body is able to recharge and rejuvenate tired body organs and tissues while restoring the body to an alert state. This is also when your brain commits new information to memory through a process called memory consolidation.

For our waistlines. Chronic sleep deprivation may cause weight gain by affecting the way your body processes and stores carbohydrates and by altering levels of hormones that control appetite.

For safety. If you do not get enough sleep, you are more likely to feel sleepy during the day. This sleepiness increases your risk of falls and mistakes such as traffic accidents and work errors.

For happiness. A lack of sleep can result in irritability, impatience, problems with concentration, and moodiness. Sleep loss can also make you too tired to do activities you enjoy.

For a healthy heart. Research has found a link between serious sleep disorders and hypertension, increased stress hormone levels, and irregular heartbeat.

To stay strong. A lack of sleep weakens your immune system.

How Much Sleep is Needed?

The amount of sleep an individual requires varies from person to person due to lifestyle and health issues. But as a basic rule of thumb, most adults require an average of eight hours of sleep. Children and teenagers, because they are still growing and developing, require approximately nine to ten hours of sleep.

So as you can see, sleep is essential to our health and well-being. Make sleeping important to you and schedule it if necessary. You will notice that with enough sleep, you will be happier, more at peace, and have a sharper mind to make it through your sometimes chaotic day.

I wish you a wonderful slumber and many happy dreams!

There is a famous saying by Donald Trump, “As long as you’re going to think anyway, you might as well think big.” So, make sure that you have a big or monumental goal. It is very natural then, that later on you will eventually ask yourself: “How do I achieve this big goal?”

Our brain plays an important role when we set our goal and formulating plan to achieve it. It is important to note that when our brain is given a choice to do something or to put it off, we will always be pulled towards the more comfortable path, especially if the goal is so difficult to achieve. However, when we have no choice but to do something no matter how big it is, our brain will start taking us seriously and we will always find a way!

Therefore, to ensure that you achieve your big goal successfully, you must put yourself in a critical condition where you have absolutely no choice but to achieve the goal. You put yourself on the line where there is no doubt that the only option is to succeed. You focus on success, you think success, you breathe success, and you dream success. As Benjamin Disraeli said, “Life is too short to be small.”

Many successful individuals created the results they did because they simply had no choice. They put themselves in critical condition (their future was at stake) and this action eventually led them to successfully achieve their goals!

Likewise, you must know what is worth dying for. Spend some time reflecting this: “What in life would I not be able to stop doing, no matter what the consequences were?”

You must ensure that your goal is STAMPS: Specific, Time-limited, Action-oriented, Measurable, Purpose-driven and Stretching.

· Specific. The goal must be clearly spelled out.

· Time-limited. The goal must have a time frame and deadline which will force you to watch and put your best efforts to fulfill.

· Action-oriented. The goal must inspire action.

· Measurable. You must be able to measure the goal so that you have the idea in expressing it using figures of measurement.

· Purpose-driven. The goal must be reasonable, i.e. it has a strong “Why” behind it.

· Stretching. The goal must be very challenging, something which pushes you and yet is achievable.

The following five strategies can be used to put yourself in a critical condition to ensure that you achieve your big STAMPS goal:

1. “Burn the ships.”

You put everything you have on the line. Of the five strategies, this is the most daring strategy because the stake is very big.

In 1519, Hernan Cortez sailed his fleet of 11 ships from Spain into the harbor of Vera Cruz, Mexico, bringing with him soldiers, sailors, and horses. He landed in Mexico on 4 March 1519. Cortez did not want his troops to have any doubts about their mission, so he gave the order to “burn the ships” to make retreat impossible. His men no doubt understood that Cortez was very serious about this mission and really wanted results, and they had to focus on victory.

When I quitted from my profession to start internet business, I was tempted to go back to my old job when I did not see any money yet. However, I realized that if I did not “burn my ships” then I won’t fight very hard to succeed in this internet business.

2. Set a monumental goal.

You deliberately set a highly challenging and monumental goal with adequate time limit so that you will be forced to take a lot of thinking and efforts to achieve it. According to Tom Hopkins, “You can’t rest unless you set goals that make you stretch.” Remember, however that there is nothing courageous about boldly saying that you will successfully do something without the capacity — the skills or the resources — to do it.

In 1508, Michelangelo, the famous artist, was summoned by Pope Julius II to work on a painting project, which involved painting a dozen figures on the ceiling of Sistine Chapel, a small chapel in the Vatican. Once Michelangelo agreed to do the job (albeit reluctantly), he poured himself into it. He expanded the scope of the project to include more than 400 figures and nine scenes from the book of Genesis. He spent four agonizing years sweating in physical distress — his neck, shoulders and back ached, and his vision was damaged — as he worked to paint the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling and produced a real masterpiece.

What is your monumental goal in your financial? How much are you going to be worth in 2010?

3. Make a public declaration of your goal.

You make your goal and plans public, so that you will be more committed to following through with them. Thomas Edison called a press conference to announce his good idea for an invention. Then he would go into his lab and invent it.

Who should you declare your goal to so that there is no way you will back down?

4. Get other people involved in the process of attaining your goal.

You share your goal with some close friends or relatives, those who will be supportive to you. This will force you to be committed to achieve your goal, and at the same time enable you to get valuable support, advice and information from them. According to Tennessee Williams, “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends we choose.”

5. Make a financial commitment on your goal.

You set your goal associated with financial commitment, such that it will hurt you not to do it. What is the extra money you are committed to make or to spend? When it comes to real commitment on money, people tend to be more serious and determined, and put their thought and actions wholeheartedly. As Voltaire properly put it, “When it’s a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.”

By putting yourself in a critical condition, you put yourself on the line and tell yourself that the only option is to succeed. Failure is not an option regardless of the immense obstacles. You force your mind, body and soul to focus your efforts, play all-out to achieve your big goal successfully and pay the price to reach it.

Make a solemn commitment in your heart to achieve your goal. Commitment is the inner strength that keeps you pressing on when everyone else tells you to give up and getting up no matter how many times you are knocked down.

The only real measure of commitment is action — walking your talk. Therefore, measure your commitment based on your action: how much time you spend at work, in generating other income streams, in service, with family, etc. Then see if your actions match your ideals about the things in your life which you would not be able to stop doing. As Cecil B. De Mille said, “The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.” Take action to wealth creation here.

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