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					  <title><![CDATA[Don&#39;t Swear At The Insolvency Service by Email]]></title>
					  <link>http://myvesta.org.uk/articles/blogs/22/Dont-Swear-At-The-Insolvency-Service-by-Email.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[<body>I just sent an email to a friend of mine at the Insolvency Service and thought I could say something funny with a little curse word in it. Apparently not. The Insolvency Service must get so much angry email that they have to screen it. 
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DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE<br>
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This message has been quarantined by The Insolvency Service's email security system because the message contained a form of wording that failed one of the text analysis checks.
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Should the message be perfectly harmless, it will be checked and forwarded on immediately.
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Otherwise, CUST will keep the message in the quarantine area for 30 days pending a request from the InsS user after which time it will be deleted.
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					  <author>no@spam.com (Steve Rhode)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[ICE, ICE, Baby – In Case of Emergency]]></title>
					  <link>http://myvesta.org.uk/articles/blogs/21/ICE-ICE-Baby--In-Case-of-Emergency.html</link>
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<p>Here comes a good tip from the ethersphere.</p>
<p>If you were to keel over tomorrow and someone stumbled across you, who would they contact? Since almost all of us carry mobile phones, one suggestion passing around the world is to enter a contact in you phone that is labeled ICE. ICE stands for In Case of Emergency, logical, makes sense.</p>
<p>While ICE is not a universal approach to figuring out to call to claim you or help you, it is the best approach I&#8217;ve seen out there, except for wearing a tag.</p>
<p>The ICE abbreviation helps emergency responders to be able to easily get a clue about who to call, that is unless you&#8217;ve got a shortcut for the rapper Vanilla Ice or Ice-T in your contact list.</p>
<p>I am told that the idea was thought up by a paramedic who found that when he went to the scenes of accidents, there were always mobile phones with patients, but he didn't know which number to call. He therefore thought that it would be a good idea if there was a nationally recognized name for this purpose. </p>
<p>For more than one contact name simply enter ICE1, ICE2 and ICE3 etc. It&#8217;s a free and easy idea that will make a difference! Let's spread the concept of ICE by storing an ICE number in our Mobile phones today! </p>
<p>Help spread the word by emailing this article, because we all know that when you tell your friends and family things, they never listen to you anyway. :-)</p>]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Steve Rhode)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Blend Your Credit Cards]]></title>
					  <link>http://myvesta.org.uk/articles/blogs/20/Blend-Your-Credit-Cards.html</link>
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					  <author>no@spam.com (Steve Rhode)</author>
					  <pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Help Get Your Chores Done]]></title>
					  <link>http://myvesta.org.uk/articles/blogs/19/Help-Get-Your-Chores-Done.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[Here is an interesting site to help you get your chores done. Looks like it makes chores just a bit more fun. <a href="http://www.mychores.co.uk/">http://www.mychores.co.uk/</a>]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Steve Rhode)</author>
					  <pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Saying What Matters: Blogging and Writing About Money Problems]]></title>
					  <link>http://myvesta.org.uk/articles/blogs/18/Saying-What-Matters-Blogging-and-Writing-About-Money-Problems.html</link>
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<p>Sometimes I go back and read an old post and cringe when I see a missed capitalization or punctuation mark. Or used your instead of you&#8217;re. That one catches me a lot. Thank God for spell check. I swear that my spelling has become worse because I rely upon it so much. It&#8217;s a bit like relying on a calculator rather than being able to do math in your head. </p>
<p>Maybe it is bravery, or stupidity, but I refuse to let my fear of making a small error in the message stop me from getting the message out. There is so much to be said, or shared. So many people around the world need a voice and awareness about financial issues, concerns and problems. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m not saying I&#8217;m great because there are a lot of people that are smarter and lead lives that are more connected at the most high levels of commerce and government. I guess what I&#8217;m saying is that at least I try to do something each day to put one foot in front of the other to raise education and awareness about problems and issues. At the end of the day I&#8217;d rather go down fighting with a voice than simply suffer in silence.</p>
<p>I urge and invite you to get involved in issues involving consumer debt by commenting on my articles and blogs and to participate in the discussions that matter. Share something most valuable, your informed opinion. I care what you have to say and others do as well.<br/></p>]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Steve Rhode)</author>
					  <pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Consumer Debt is a Big Deal and Spreading]]></title>
					  <link>http://myvesta.org.uk/articles/blogs/17/Consumer-Debt-is-a-Big-Deal-and-Spreading.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[I just read a great article about <a href="http://www.cbw.cz/phprs/2007111929.html">consumer debt in the Czech Republic</a>. Oh if they only knew what was in store for them. They've only scratched the surface.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Steve Rhode)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Is This Only Odd to Me?]]></title>
					  <link>http://myvesta.org.uk/articles/blogs/16/Is-This-Only-Odd-to-Me.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[Anybody else curious why Consumer Credit Counseling Service in the UK is serving as a judge of the <a href="http://www.etelligent.co.uk/etelligent/published/credittoday/siteFiles/resources/DCA_award_4p_6_web.pdf">Debt Collection Agency of the Year Awards</a>?<br/><br/>The awards are to help set "...the standard for professional excellence and best practice in debt collection and purchase."<br/><br/>Why is Malcolm Hurlston, the chairman of CCCS listed in the flyer as a key industry player and respected authority of the debt collection industry unless CCCS is really a debt collection company?]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Steve Rhode)</author>
					  <pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Early Morning Thoughts About Money]]></title>
					  <link>http://myvesta.org.uk/articles/blogs/15/Early-Morning-Thoughts-About-Money.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[
<div>"The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.&#8221; This is certainly a quote worth pondering. </div>
<div><br/>Reminds me of that belief that if one person has, then another person must have not. Is that true or is there an unlimited amount of wealth in various forms that can be attracted by many?<br/><br/></div>
<div>Which has more power over people the pursuit of a rich life or a life of riches?</div>
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<div>More questions than answers this early morning.</div>]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Steve Rhode)</author>
					  <pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Rain Insurance for Financial Services]]></title>
					  <link>http://myvesta.org.uk/articles/blogs/14/Rain-Insurance-for-Financial-Services.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[<u><font color="#800080"><a href="http://www.weatherbill.com/home?indust=fs">http://www.weatherbill.com/home?indust=fs</a></font></u>&nbsp;<br/><br/>Users can also use WeatherBill to place cash bets on the weather in a given geographic area.<br/><a href="http://www.weatherbill.com/"></a>]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Steve Rhode)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[You&#39;ve Got To Have A Laugh]]></title>
					  <link>http://myvesta.org.uk/articles/blogs/13/Youve-Got-To-Have-A-Laugh.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[All this serious debt stuff can be depressing but today I stumbled across a site that made me laugh out loud if you like stupid jokes and T-Shirts. Click on the pictures below and take a look and if something here doesn&#8217;t make you laugh, the only thing you&#8217;ve killed by looking is some Internet, whatever that is.<br/><br/>
<div align="center"><a onmouseover="window.status='http://www.bustedtees.com/';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href="http://www.tkqlhce.com/4g108hz74z6MOUVORRRMONRSPQSV" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://www.lduhtrp.net/4d81nswkqo9BHIBEEE9BAEFCDFI" border="0"/></a> </div>]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Steve Rhode)</author>
					  <pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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