Wave jumping and boogie boarding were big hits as was making a sand castle. Sand Key also has a huge amount of smaller shells (less than an inch). You can practically scoop them up by the bucketfuls. There was also evidence of larger shells but they were almost always broken. The south part of the beach seems to be better for the larger shells. My guess is that low tide would be a great time to look for shells.

There are more events and fun outings listed at Family Fun Life for those of you who live in Clearwater, Florida or any of the surrounding areas.

Whether you realise it or not, you are looked upon as a role model both by children and by other adults.

You don’t think so?

Well, the office junior fresh from school looks up to you; the kids next door have a respect for you, even that colleague who just nods as you walk past thinks that you ‘know your stuff’.

It’s irrelevant whether you actually do ‘know your stuff’ or not. These people lookup to you because of who are (or appear to be), and because of your position at work, or your job in society.

Well, okay, so now what? Regardless of how many people look up to you, most of us could improve things to some degree. For instance, what’s the one thing you can do today to improve the impression you give?

Often it’s the little things that make the difference. Smartly ironed clothes. Getting in on time. Not taking long lunches. Producitng great products without supervision. Not taking part in office gossip. Thanking a friend.

You can improve the impression that you give quite dramatically – just by working on a small thing until you’ve got it right – and then moving onto the next one.

Award winning scientist Shane Ellison talks about the inner workings of corporate drug making (and dealing). My most important lesson: Not all drugs are bad. Some are really bad. Take the so-called antidepressant Prozac as an example.

My friend, Tina Turbin, will be on two LIVE radios interviews on Wednesday, August 5, 2009.

Tina Turbin is a published children’s author, writer, humanitarian and researcher. Besides Tina’s “Danny the Dragon” series, Tina has strong interest working and writing on topics relating to family, children, the role of parenting and its importance. She is quite involved with child nutrition and education, research and writing on gluten-free sensitivity and eating as well as Celiac Disease, an auto immune disease.

1:00PM EST on Lynn Serafinn’s Garden of the Soul at BlogTalkRadio.com

She addresses community leaders and others who are actively making a positive and inspirational impact upon the world.

She will be discussing children’s literature, our responsibility as parents and leaders and will offer a tip-sheet for anyone with goals in writing children’s books.

Then at 6:00PM EST this same day the “Single Again! Now What?” Talk Radio Show- www.SingleAgainNowWhatRadio.com.

She covers many issues to help others and this title is misleading, as it is not just for single parents.

In the interview she will be talking about children’s literacy, children’s literature, schools and family.

She will be offering a different tip-sheet for this show.

Her new book series, “Danny the Dragon” will be a topic in both of these shows!

Again, these  two “Live” shows will take place on Wednesday, August 5, 2009 @ 1:00PM and 6:00PM EST.

If you listen to them, write a comment or send me an e-mail and let me know what you thought.

When it comes to kids and ill-mannered behavior, who is to blame? Is it the family, school or is it them. I recently had my eyes opened to another look at this while attending a library reading given by Tina Turbin on her new “Danny the Dragon” (http://DannyTheDragon.com) series of children’s books. Tina Turbin is not only a children’s author (she also wrote “Show Biz Kids”, http://ShowBizKids.com), but is also a researcher and humanitarian. While listening to her read to many local school children and home-schooled children, I realized that there is a good solution to raising well-mannered and responsible children.

This children’s author, Tina Turbin, got my attention while I sat amongst the other 96 attendees at her reading. After getting familiar with the large audience of kids, she conducted a remarkable questions and answer period. Her responses were honest and she addressed these young children with respect and honor. At one point, she also spoke to the parents. It’s what she said to the parents that really impressed me. This woman may just be onto something.

One child asked her when she had started writing children’s literature. To be honest, I was in the back and could not hear that reply, but then she started addressing us adults a bit after this point. Speaking louder to the back of the room, she stated what the importance of a parent or adult is to a child. She said that we should treat a child with respect, listen to the child’s goals at an early age and nurture these goals. She went on to say that children could possibly change their minds a few times but so do us adults. She also pointed out that many adults are not really living their dreams and asked if this is what we want for our children.

I realized then that she may be onto something. If a child is on his or her own goal and given some simple support and guidance, as Tina mentioned briefly, I can only assume that that child would be less distracted by peer pressure, feel more loved and have his or her own thrust in life. The result would be a happier child and most definitely a happier stable adult in later years.

The adults and children alike were fixed on her story to the end while Tina read her book, “Danny the Dragon Meets Jimmy” with all the life, charm and imagination that her book imparts. Not only does her book convey acts of kindness in the subtlest of manner to children, Tina Turbin’s approach to writing as a children’s author and to her audience was a sheer pleasure for us all.

After the reading, she conducted an exciting activity time for the kids. I had the pleasure to meet Tina and ask a bit more about her interests and background. She is very pleasant, with a sincere care for children and families and a love for writing. She is going strong at her goal in these areas.

I am sure we shall see and hear much more about this woman. I can see through her efforts why she is deemed a humanitarian as well as a popular children’s author already. She uses her knowledge and background to help those around her through her research and she writes in a manner that easily speaks to both the young and young at heart.

Mr Chabasinski, appeared by teleconference in US District Court for the Eastern District of New York, on January 3, 2007, before Judge Jack Weinstein, on behalf of MindFreedom, a non-profit human rights organization, in response to a motion by Lilly basically filed to keep the incriminating information hidden, to defend the public’s right to know the contents of the secret Lilly documents concerning Zyprexa.

Mr Chabasinski told the judge that the documents are evidence of Lilly executives’ “”criminal behavior”" and “”willingness to kill people for profit.”"

The court granted MindFreedom ’s request for more time to respond to Lilly’s motion, and another hearing is set for January 16, 2007. Meanwhile Judge Weinstein said that he was taking “”no position”" about those people who were not named but who already have copies of the Lilly files on Zyprexa.

Prior to the hearing, in a letter to the judge, Mr Chabasinski pointed out that while the underlying case in which the documents were under seal is civil, the documents reveal criminal behavior on the part of Lilly’s executives. “”They have chosen a course of action,”" he told the judge, “”lying about and hiding the real effects of Zyprexa, that they knew would lead to the injury and death of literally thousands of people.”"

“”If this isn’t criminal,”" he stated, “”I don’t know what is.”"

The company documents also show that Lilly engaged in a massive illegal off-label marking campaign to get primary care physicians to prescribe Zyprexa for uses never approved by the FDA to increase profits.

The whole saga began when Dr David Egilman, MD, MPH, revealed the documents to Alaskan attorney, Jim Gottstein. Dr Egilman reviewed the documents and learned of Lilly’s illegal conduct a few years ago when he served as an expert in a lawsuit. However, the case was settled out of court, and Dr Egilman was effectively muzzled when the judge granted Lilly’s request to keep the documents secret with a court order.

To settle the lawsuit, Lilly agreed to pay close to $700 million to roughly 8,000 Zyprexa victims or their family members, with the provision that each person would sign a confidentiality agreement not to discuss Zyprexa or the terms of the settlement agreement in return for the money.

Being Lilly obviously planned to keep the information about Zyprexa a secret, as a physician, Dr Egilman likely found himself between a rock and a hard place. If he did not find a way to warn the public, at best he would be guilty of negligence, and at worst considered complicit in Lilly’s elaborate scheme to use the court system to keep the information hidden so as not to effect the booming sales of its top selling drug bringing in over $4 billion a year.

Mr Gottstein obtained the documents for use in another lawsuit, and after seeing that Lilly knew 10 years ago that Zyprexa caused drastic weight gain and diabetes and realizing the extent of the off-label marketing of the drug, he turned the documents over to the New York Times, obviously in hope that the Times would warn the public and medical professionals who were prescribing Zyprexa for every ailment known to mankind, without knowledge of the serious health risks associated with the drug.

Since the New York Times’ articles were published, Lilly’s legal team has been working day and night right through the holiday season trying to use the court system to muzzle the messengers and get the incriminating information back under seal.

In reviewing all the legal paperwork including letters, injunc tions, and motions flying around on the internet, its worth noting that not once do Lilly attorneys, or the judges handling the case, refer to the underlying illegal conduct disclosed in the documents that Lilly is working so hard to keep hidden.

The drug maker has been able to obtain injunctions ordering Mr Gottstein to return the documents and requiring him to provide the names of all persons and organizations that he provided them to or discussed them with. The injunctions bar further disclosure and specifically name individuals and organizations who are believed to have copies of the documents.

Mr Chabasinski is representing author, Judi Chamberlin, and MindFreedom International, who are both named in a December 29, 2006, temporary injunction. “”As everyone is aware at this point,”" Mr Chabasinski says, “”there are thousands of copies of the documents in question circulating on the Internet and in the hands of innumerable people.”"

He says Lilly knows full well that any attempt to recover the documents is a “”futile gesture”" and there is no way to keep them secret. “”While the injunction purports to be an attempt to recover the documents,”" Mr Chabasinski wrote in the letter to the judge, “”it is clear that its real purpose is to intimidate Lilly’s critics, and the court should refuse to cooperate with this.”"

As for Lilly’s payment of $700 million to settle the lawsuit, Mr Chabasinski told the judge, “”when a company is making billions of dollars from some drug, a few hundred million
dollars is simply a cost of doing business.”"

“”But if drug company executives know they may face long prison terms for their willingness to kill people for profit,”" he states, “”they will think more than twice about what they do.”"

“”If executives can go to prison for stealing their companies’ money,”" he told the judge, “”surely those who steal people’s lives deserve at least the same fate.”"

Mr Chabaskinski says Lilly’s biggest worry is that the documents will be reviewed by some prosecutor and that the real purpose of the injunction is to frighten people into giving up their First Amendment right to petition the government for redress of grievances, “”which in this situation,”" he says, “”means putting these documents into the hands of as many potential prosecutors as possible.”"

He points out that Lilly has created a massive public health problem by convincing doctors to prescribe Zyprexa to many thousands of people, whose drug-caused disabilities will now drain the public health system for years to come. “”It is not in the public interest,”" he told the court in the letter, “”to keep documents secret when it will have the effect of making it much more difficult to prevent the disability of thousands of people.”"

The pursuit of Mr Gottstein by Lilly attorneys could almost be likened to being chased around the country by a group of terrorists. Lilly wants the court to charge him with criminal contempt compl ete with sanctions.

Their conduct is clearly an abuse of the legal system, funded by the ill-gotten profits of Zyprexa, to run up costs for Mr Gottstein, by harassing him and anyone that he may associate with. At the court hearing on January 3, 2007, Lilly attorneys asked the judge to issue an order requiring Mr Gottstein to travel to New York City for a deposition within 5 days, and:

“”Requiring Mr Gottstein to immediately produce … copies of any and all documents and information including, but not limited to, all computer(s), hard-drives, other electronic storage media, hardcopy documents, emails, e-documents, text messaging, instant messaging, phone records and voice mails, that refer or relate to Zyprexa”".

And talk about chilling the freedoms of the First Amendment, Lilly wants the court to force Mr Gottstein to produce: “”Communications he had with anyone relating to these documents, including but not limited to, his dissemination of or discussions relat ing to the documents”".

Lilly also asked for the order to include individual reporters and the top experts on psychiatric drugs in the US, in demanding that Mr Gottstein’s disclose his communications with “”any person, organization or entity who received these documents including, but not limited to, Terrie Gottstein, Jerry Winchester, Alex Berenson, Dr. Peter Breggin, Dr. Grace Jackson, Dr. David Cohen and Bruce Whittington, Dr. Stefan Kruszewski, Laura Ziegler, Judy chamberlin, Vera Sherav, robert Whitaker, Steve Shaw, Will Hall, Singeha Prakash, or anyone associated with the Alliance for Human Research Protection or MindFreedom; and his efforts to retrieve these documents from the individuals to whom they were improperly disseminated.”"

Lilly is also requesting that if anything responsive to their request has been deleted or destroyed in computers, that Mr Gottstein be required to haul “”any and all relevant computers”" to New York City for the deposition, and permit “” forensic examination and recovery of such documents.”"

In addition to the big bucks being made by thinking up ways to harass Mr Gottstein, Lilly attorneys at the Pepper Hamilton Law Firm are making money hand over fist by scouring the internet looking for more people to harass. On December 30, 2006, they were apparently working overtime on the Saturday of the biggest holiday weekend of the year, when they began threatening a private citizen, Eric Whalen, in emails ordering him to remove the Lilly documents from his web site stating:

“”You are facilitating the violation of a Federal Court order. Please immediately remove the link to the file “”ZyprexaKills.tar.gz”" (or its mirror), including all cached materials, or we will take further legal action against your website.”"

In another email, they told Mr Whalen, “”You have been on notice now for several hours that you are operating in violation of a Federal Court Order, and you have thus far, refused to assure your com pliance.”"

“”You must take the link down immediately,”" they wrote, “”or we will take further legal action to shut down your website, and seek all available remedies.”"

In his own defense, Mr Whalen replied to the emails and stated: “”The documents linked to on my website were downloaded from an anonymous source. As far as I know I’m not under any court order. Dissemination of the contents of the documents is clearly in the public interest. Is there a legal basis for you[r] request?”"

To avoid having my name added to the dastardly list above and the risk of being subjected to the harassment tactics of Lilly attorneys, I hereby declare for the record, that I did not receive copies of the Lilly documents from Mr Gottstein.

Evelyn Pringle
evelyn-pringle@sbcglobal.net

Evelyn Pringle is a columnist for OpEd News and investigative journalist focused on exposing corruption in government and corporate America.

And don’t blame the so called “”liberal media”". This is a lesson in a marketing & PR basic “”REPETITION OF MESSAGE”".

I just visited the web sites of the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee.

On the DNC web site their message comes through loud & clear “”we’re for the people!”". EVERY headline on the site is a search engine friendly sound bite. EVERY headline succinctly communicates exactly what they want the public to think about a given topic.

They have front page articles about every single message they want to communicate to ensure that the public (& search engines) are GETTING THEIR MESSAGE.

Our visit to the RNC web site observed the following: no clear message. In fact, it confirmed our suspicions about the republican PR leaders’ idea of what to say and what the American public thinks. (More on that later).

The headlines featured peoples names more than actual messages and were frankly, boring. There is obviously an assumption that people visiting the site know what they’re looking for. BIG PR MISTAKE. The democrats definitely understand that political approval is ALL ABOUT MARKETING. It’s a sales pitch. Period.

No one epitomises this more than James Carville & Bill Clinton. James Carville being the master strategist and Bill Clinton being the master executioner. The democrats online PR & marketing is strong, clear & syncronized with their well planned, established & worded off line messages.

Whenever you see a democrat on television, they have their message down pat. They don’t try to reason they just spout their message over and over. It doesn’t matter what the other guy says, they just keep spining & repeating their message.

Not since the days of Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh on TV have the republicans had even a glimmer of this type of synchronicity. And the election year they had it was a sweep. Remember that.

If President Bush and Congressman Delay want to win this battle and actually get their plans approved, they’re going to have to drastically change their public relations and marketing strategies.

Our basic recommendation is to follow the model from the days of Newt & Rush, add a little Carville & bring back William Kristol. — By Toli Cefail

Toli Cefail has been a marketing professional for more than 20 years accross a variety of industries from telecommunications to urban fashion.

The Creeds and Codes of Scientology
http://www.whatisscientology.org/html/part14/chp40

The Creed of the Church of Scientology
http://www.whatisscientology.org/html/part14/chp40/pg0728.html

The Auditor’s Code
http://www.whatisscientology.org/html/part14/chp40/pg0730.html

The Code of Honor
http://www.whatisscientology.org/html/part14/chp40/pg0732.html

Code Of A Scientologist
http://www.whatisscientology.org/html/part14/chp40/pg0734.html

The Supervisor’s Code
http://www.whatisscientology.org/html/part14/chp40/pg0736.html

The Credo Of A True Group Member
http://www.whatisscientology.org/html/part14/chp40/pg0737.html

The Credo Of A Good And Skilled Manager
http://www.whatisscientology.org/html/part14/chp40/pg0739.html

The Axioms Of Dianetics And Scientology
http://www.whatisscientology.org/html/part14/chp41

For more information regarding Scientology, go here:
http://www.whatisscientology.org