Vol 1 Issue 25 November 17, 2007

A-Team


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Marilyn Martin
Editor


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Venerina Conti
Lead Designer


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Nan Herring
Co-Designer


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Rick Martin
Content Manager


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Judy Smith
Co-Content Manager


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Donna S
Proofer


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Mary Hofstetter
Lead Writer

 

ADLANDPRO COMMUNITY NEWS

THE TREASURE HUNT GAME!
by Marilyn Martin


WE HAD A WINNER!!

Yes, indeed we do have a winner of the last Treasure Hunt game! Congratulations to MR JOHN JOHNSON, you are our winner! You just won some great advertising credits donated by our very generous CEO, Mr Bogdan Fiedur.

Don't forget to play the new Treasure Hunt game here in this issue and maybe you will be our next lucky winner of some great advertising credits!! We can all use advertising credits, right? So, Good Luck and Have Fun Playing!


******************** LETTERS TO THE EDITOR!********************


A RECENT EMAIL I RECEIVED THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE

I want to share another email that I received from one of our readers in response to the statement I made below in the last issue of the Newsletter.

Marilyn,
Yes we REALLY need to remember that our community is a wide and diverse community. Thanks for emphasizing that I think it is really important. I have strong held religious beliefs, but ordinarily they don't come into my dealings with people here. I'm not here to sell my religious beliefs. The way it should be.

Joe Wissler
Forteau, Labrador Canada
709 931-2025
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Helping Yourself and Many Others Too
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"The Newsletter is about the AdlandPro Community as a whole, so to say that this is a Christian Newsletter would not cover everyone in the Community. AdlandPro has a very diverse Community with people from all walks of life. Some people are religious and others are not, some believe and some do not. However, you will see forums about God or Prayer Groups within the Community. Does that make it a Christian Community? Absolutely not...it makes it a mutli-cultural, multi-faith Networking Community. I do not view the Newsletter as being part of any religion in particular, nor religious in nature, even though we do add prayer requests in the Newsletter. It is simply a service we provide to the Community as a whole."

Please submit questions or comments to me here:

Marilyn Martin


SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

The Newsletter has TWO NEW MEMBERS added to our Team, and we would like all of you to help us welcome them. WELCOME ABOARD MARY HOFSTETTER and MS JUDY SMITH. We are all very happy and excited to have them with us! Congratulations Mary and Judy and Welcome to the Newsletter Team!

PRAYER REQUESTS

We have a couple of Prayer Requests that need to go out this time around!

We would like to continue to send our prayers out to MS LISA WESTBERRY and her family. Lisa's little girl Elizabeth has a very rare form of cancer. The family is still in Durham, NC where they have been since October 1st. Elizabeth under went chemotherapy for a week and then received a stem cell transplant. Elizabeth is still very sick, but all of her blood counts are up enough now whereby they could all go and stay at the temporary apartment now instead of being at the hospital all the time. Soon Elizabeth will have the next phase of the treatment, which will be radiation. Please keep praying for Elizabeth, Lisa, George and the rest of the family and friends.

We would also like to send our thoughts and prayers to Judy Hortin. Judy had a stroke a couple weeks ago, so please ask God to watch over her, and to lay His loving and healing hands upon her and help her to get better.

If you know of someone that needs praying for please send us the information and we will add them to our prayer list in the next Newsletter. Thank you.


Written By: MARILYN L. MARTIN

BIRTHDAYS


To All Of Our Members Who Will Be Celebrating A Birthday In November



The Newsletter Team would like to wish all of our November babies a very "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"! We pray your special day is a wonderful one, filled with peace, love, joy, and happiness; may you have all of your friends and family around you today to enjoy the day with you. May all your wishes come true today!


HAPPY BIRTHDAY EVERYONE!!!





 

THE BEST PICTURE AWARD

We are adding a new section to the Newsletter starting with this issue! We will now be featuring the winners of The Best Picture Award here. AdlandPro has been getting some really great pictures sent in, and nominated, so the Team will be presenting the winners in each issue of the Newsletter from now on!

The very 1st Photo Contest ended up having a 3 way tie for 1st Place!

The 3 people and pictures that won were;

THOMAS RICHMOND
Photo: Beautiful Rose

JOHN SANCHEZ
Photo: The Tree Of Life

MERNIE?
Photo: Waterfalls

The Newsletter Team would like to Congratulate all 3 winners on a job well done! All of the winners pictures are absolutely beautiful, and they all did an excellent job taking the pictures. Looks like they have a new career they can get into!

Make sure to visit The Best Picture forum and vote for your favorite photo please.







 

 

COMPETITION AREA

**WIN**WIN**WIN**



It's time to play the next Treasure Hunt game everyone! This is a scavenger hunt, and all you have to do is read the Newsletter and find the answers to all the questions.

Once you know all the answers send them to me, Marilyn Martin, be the first one with all the correct answers and you WIN!!

Okay…GOOD LUCK TO ALL!

1) Who was the 58th *Shining Star*?

2) Who was featured in the Poetry Corner?

3) Who was the winner of the last Treasure Hunt game?

4) What forum won the Best Forum Award in this issue of the Newsletter?

5) Who won the Best Picture Award in this issue of the Newsletter?

6) What is the title of the Poem in the Poetry Corner?

7) Who is featured in the Art Corner?

8) Who is behind Mystery Link #5?

9) Name the 2 people that just joined the Newsletter Team?

10) Who took the picture of the beautiful Rose that won in the Best Picture Forum?

11) What new section was just started in this edition of the Newsletter?

12) Name one of the 2 paintings titles features in the Art Exhibition forum.


Send your answers to

Marilyn Martin

 

NOVEMBER HOLIDAYS & CELEBRATIONS


We have a very diverse Community here at AdlandPro, and I thought it would be nice to have a section on Holidays being celebrated around the world. I will list and explain the Holidays that will be celebrated during the month, along with the date the Holiday is celebrated. This should be lots of fun, and a great learning experience for everyone.

I will have this section ready for the next Newsletter in 2 weeks....so look forward to reading it then!

 

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THE BEST FORUM AWARD WINNERS


The Newsletter has added a new feature to our Newsletter. We are listing all of the winners of the The Best Forum Award here. This forum was created by Bogdan Fiedur to give recognition to some of the best forums created in the Community. Each month a new forum is judged and voted upon by a panel of judges, and the winner gets $200!

That is really awesome, and very generous of Bogdan to do! So get going on writing some truly great forums and you may be one of the next lucky winners!

WINNER OF THE AUGUST 2007 AWARD

The forum "Inspirations of Samiplus" by Sam Sunday won the award in August.

Sami is our first international forum host to be so honored. Like all of us there was great concern when no visited the first post. But unlike many, this was not a determent as futher posts continued to be put up for the reader who truly wanted to be inspired. From Feb. 2007 to the present, the forum hosted threads of inspirational notes, comments, stories, and poems. The forum threads motivate people to action, change attitudes, and therefore change our lives.

Early in August a new format appeared with a guest person who delivered thoughts to inspire. Sam also recruited a team of people to endorse the offering of the guest and also promoted the series to the greater Adlandpro public. Now the inspiration came from others, and was promoted by others as well. This truly is a forum of inspiration...it's no wonder why Sami's forum was chosen Best Forum for August 2007.

Written By: MARY HOFSTETTER
"Old teachers still have class"
http://eslohio.en101.com
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**Parade of Stars** Winners

 

Marilyn Martin and her team members work very hard to bring this forum
to you each and every week. Everyone loves the forum, and lots of people write and tell the Team how they look forward to it coming out each week, and enjoy reading it.

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Introducing our 57th Shining Star: MS ALLYSON LIER.

ALLYSON(ALLY) is a very sweet caring lady from Canada with a beautiful spirit who lives to help more people. Some of her interests are general health, holistic, photography, networking and friends just to name a few. Please help us Congratulate this very beautiful lady. HERE

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Introducing our 58th Shining Star: MS LORRAINE SMITH.

LORRAINE is a lovely kind lady from the state of FL. She is a retired RN, and has 2 lovely cats. Some of her interests are general health, puzzles, friends and anything left handed, which she also has a great forum on that subject to check out. Please help us Congratulate this lovely lady. HERE

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Introducing our 59th Shining Star: MR STEVE MAUGHERSON.

STEVE is a very nice man and he is a father to one little boy. Steve is into advertising, gaming, and a couple affiliate programs...SFI to mention just one. Steve's interests include his family, music, cards and games, just to name a few. Please help us to Congratulate Steve on becoming one of our *Shining Stars*! HERE

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Introducing our 60th Shining Star: MRS MARY EVELYN SIMPSON.

EVELYN as she prefers to be called is a lovely sweet lady from Tennessee with a beautiful soul. She is married with children and grandchildren, enjoys family friends and Internet. Please help us to Congratulate this beautiful caring lady on becoming one of our *Shining Stars* HERE


Written By: RICK MARTIN

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********* THE POETRY CORNER *********

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In this issue of the Newsletter we are featuring another one of AdlandPro's poets, MRS. TRINA SONNENBERG. Trina writes some of the finest poetry I have ever read...it is poetry with a purpose. Trina is a friend of mine, and we have even linked our websites together, so it is a great honor for me to be featuring Trina here.

Q. What is it that inspires you to write poetry?

A. I take up my pen whenever I have personal issues to work out; whether they are happy tidings or sad ones, writing is my way of expressing what I am feeling at the moment. As a battered woman, I used poetry, writing it, as a coping mechanism to get through my daily trials.

Q. How long have you been writing poetry?

A. I wrote my first short story at the age of ten. I began writing poems around the age of twelve.

Q. Can you tell me just a bit about what inspired you to write the poem that you are submitting?

A. I wrote this poem to communicate my feelings to my husband after a difficult period in our marriage.

Q. Is there anything else you would like to add?

A. Yes, I recently published a book of my prose, titled, 'My Journey, A Lifetime of Verse,' which is available in paperback, or download, from Lulu.com The book is a reflection of my life as an abused woman. It is illustrated with photographs taken by my husband, of the area in southwestern Colorado, where we have been living happily for the last 10 years.

Here is one of my Favorite Poems, "I Am Thinking About You Today".

I AM THINKING ABOUT YOU TODAY
By Trina Sonnenberg
Copyrighted

There are so many things I know not how to say.
Nor where to begin - should I keep silent?
My mind is stretched so thin; my emotions violent...
Inside me.
Through the years, my love for you has only grown.
A love like this, I have never before known.
Yet I am uncertain - Doubt, a heavy curtain... around my heart.
I pray, Dear God, why?
If my love for him will never die -
Our love truly is meant to be...
Why does he not feel the same for me?
By your side I will always stand.
Forever taking you by the hand-
In love and comfort till the end of time.
I need no reason or rhyme...
I love you.
Want for your happiness is all I see.
But does it lie with me?
If you love me, let me know.
Speak the words; let it show...
than my heart can heal.
I have forgiveness and given it freely.
Forgetting though, is not so easy.
Apprehension slips in, leaving me racked with pain.
Questions mark my mind like a bloody stain...
Will he leave me again?
If you love me, let me know.
Speak the words; let it show.
I need reassurance that can come only from you.
Help me to know that your heart is true.

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Thank you Trina for the wonderful Poem! It has been a pleasure interviewing you and helping our readers get to know you better.

God Bless!

Written By: JUDY SMITH


Jokes

Wedding Ceremony

A minister was planning a wedding at the close of the Sunday morning service.

After the benediction, he had planned to call the couple down for a brief ceremony in front of the congregation.

For the life of him, he couldn't think of the names of those who were to be married.

"Will those wanting to get married please come to the front?" he requested.

Immediately, nine single ladies, three widows, four widowers, and six single men stepped to the front.

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Wife Wanted

A man inserted an ad in the classified: "Wife wanted." Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: "You can have mine."


Kenny's Law of Auto Repair

The part requiring the most consistent repair or replacement will be housed in the most inaccessible location.

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How to Detect A Mental Deficiency

A noted psychiatrist was a guest at a blonde gathering, and his hostess naturally broached the subject in which the doctor was most at ease. "Would you mind telling me, Doctor," she asked, "how you detect a mental deficiency in somebody who appears completely normal?"

"Nothing is easier," he replied. "You ask a simple question which anyone should answer with no trouble. If he hesitates, that puts you on the track."

"What sort of question?"

"Well, you might ask him, 'Captain Cook made three trips around the world and died during one of them. Which one?'

The blonde thought a moment, then said with a nervous laugh, "You wouldn't happen to have another example would you? I must confess I don't know much about history."

Contributed By: DONNA S.


Community Interest


* * * *THE ART CORNER* * * *

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THE 19th ART EXHIBITION

This is a very special privilege and honor for me to be writing this article about the 19th Art Exhibition because this forum is absolutely fantastic! Just to mention one fact...this forum has won the "Best Forum Award" twice now...that is truly awesome! These 3 ladies, ROSE ENDERUD, JENNY SJ, VENERINA CONTI, really out do themselves presenting this forum to us every 3 weeks.

This time the Art Exhibition features another great artist, MR LUIS MIGUEL GOITIZOLO SILVA. Luis Miguel has been a member of Adland Pro since September 2005. and comes from Lima, Peru. He has a wonderful forum here called, GREAT ART OF THE WORLD. If you have never visited it please do so, it is a really great forum indeed!

Luis does paintings in watercolor and a little in acrylics. As he himself says, "My love for art has never really found a public way of expression until this very moment, with this opportunity to exhibit some of my painting in this excellent forum." Even though Luis has not "become famous" selling his paintings, he has proven to us here that he does have a wonderful and innate talent.

Here's just a little glimpse of some of the paintings you will see while visiting the 19th Art Exhibition forum.....

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"Sea Restaurant At Dusk"


"Alter-ego"

Written By: MARILYN L. MARTIN




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