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That freebie again

This has turned out to be a winning deal, apparently. Your author has just noted that 21 of you wonderful IKN readers have taken up this free gratis no-strings-attached deal for a subscription to Global Finance Magazine via these pages, so by way of celebration here it is again to give more of you the chance. Click through, sign on, get it delivered every month. Nothing could be easier.

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We haven't done one of these for a while, but this offer looks pretty good and may interest readers out there, so check out the free subscription offer link for World Oil magazine below. If you decide to apply for your totally, 100% absoutely gratis for nothing free sub you get the most popular trade mag on hydrocarbons out there and your author gets a couple of pennies commish for sending you over. It's an all-round winnah winnah chikkin dinnah, so take advantage today.

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It's time for a free finance magazine offer. Get yourself signed up to this special (note US residents only) and they'll send you it for free....yeah no joking, it's free. What's more, they give IKN a buck fifty for getting them a new subscriber so if you sign up and then we get together later, the beers are on me.

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Hopefully you'll order your free copy, as the publishers will then pay me a small commission for my services, which helps to pay the blog costs. It's always struck me as a good deal to be able to cover expenses and offer quality freebies to you guys out there at the same time. Here comes the blurb, thanks in advance.

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Freebie Friday

Here we go with our Freebie Friday post. Remember that all the quality offers below (I've chosen five titles to give you a choice this time around) are 100% free to you on request. Zero cost. Zip. Nothing. No joke.

So have a peruse, pick the title (or titles...request them all if you want) that takes your fancy and get your brain chock full of useful info. Enjoy!

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Why you should read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
This book was a publishing phenomenon in the early 1990s, and it deserved to be. Stephen R. Covey managed to repackage an ethical and moral tradition thousands of years in development and make it meaningful to a late twentieth century, secular audience. Most of what you find in this book you will find in Aristotle, Cicero, Benedict, Tillotson and their heirs. Covey adds a few references to psychology, a twentieth century science, and many to Viktor Frankl, a sage of the Holocaust. Covey wraps the mix in a distinctively American can-do program of easy-looking steps calling, mostly, for self-discipline. The result is a quite worthwhile, useful manual for self-improvement. getAbstract.com believes most readers can learn something useful from this book, though some will find the style too familiar and easy-going, and the prescriptions easier to agree with than to act upon, much less adopt as habits.

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Here's a good offer to boot on to you guys. Request your free subscription to Global Finance Magazine by clicking through here.

Here's the blurb below. TIA

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The Trend and Value Letter is the service run by Lucas of the same-named blog. It's an impressive daily service that gets sent straight to your mailbox five days a week. The price is also way too cheap for the frequency and quality of analysis on offer (remember, this is the guy who called the S&P bottom to within two points months before it happened). As well as the indices, Lucas is particularly strong on currencies and precious metals having previously been a precious metals broker before moving to independent analysis services.

Therefore it's with great pleasure (and prior permission) that IKN offers today's Trend&Value letter as a sample of Lucas's wares. Just click here to download your copy and find out how just how good the guy is at this analysis game. And while reading this free sample of today's report (really, it's today's dated April 9th and everything) reflect that the monthly fee for this letter is just U$28, which means the typical production of 20 letters per month will cost you just U$1.40 a copy (for more details on that, check Lucas's blog on this link and mail him).

So I hope you check out the free copy on the above link (and just to make sure it's on this link too). And by way of disclosure, I get no commission or anything of the sort if you decide that Lucas's letter is for you and sign on for a trial month. All I want to do is to make you aware of the excellent service that's on offer. Thank you for your attention.

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In this summary you will learn:

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Warren Buffett is “everyman” as multibillionaire. Despite his vast wealth, he has always eschewed ostentation. He pays himself about $100,000 annually, which in today’s U.S. economy places him in the upper-middle-class. He lives in the same simple Omaha, Nebraska, house that he bought in 1958 for $31,500. He prefers an old gray suit to expensive London tailoring. In Buffett’s early days, when he was only a multimillionaire and not a multibillionaire, he walked around with holes in the soles of his shoes. To Buffett, wardrobe doesn’t matter; what matters is making money.

He is better at this pursuit than anyone else in the world. In 2008, Forbes magazine ranked him as the globe’s richest man, with a net worth of $62.3 billion. Author Alice Schroeder does a masterful job of chronicling Buffett’s improbable, inspiring life. As a former superstar research analyst, Schroeder uses her expert knowledge of finance and commerce to detail Buffett’s investment philosophy and business activities.

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LEGAL ASPECTS OF INCIDENT INVESTIGATION

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What you will learn by tuning into the Legal Aspects of Incident Investigation Webinar? Importance of competent initial response Statements that can help or hurt the organization Use of digital photography Pitfalls regarding recording of and preparation of written witness statements Preservation of chain of custody for physical evidence Management of an evidence locker Statutes of limitations Spoliation of evidence Document handling Investigation-report writing Question and answer period Who Should Watch It? Anyone with responsibility for incident investigation in the United States or where American law is applied will benefit from this FREE Webinar. Even many experienced investigators are not well-versed in the legal pitfalls that can ensnare the unwary investigator, and there are many presented under American law. Request your free webinar Presenter: Kathy Adams

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