Greetings Adlandpro family, i want first than you for voting on my forum for the Best Forum Award of July. Now on to what i like to do, in this weeks Sunday Showcase features one of many encouraging ladys here of Adlandpro, she perhaps sent you a PM today? She is a proud grandmother, a sweet friend and a business lady, she hails from a town called Demotte, Indiana. 
As of the census of 2000, there were 3,234 people, 1,297 households, and 897 families residing in the town. The population density was 900.7 people per square mile (347.8/km²). There were 1,361 housing units at an average density of 379.1/sq mi (146.4/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 99.01% White, 0.06% African American, 0.06% Native American, 0.06% Asian, 0.25% from other races, and 0.56% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.61% of the population.
There were 1,297 households out of which 30.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 58.8% were married couples living together, 7.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.8% were non-families. 28.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 17.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.44 and the average family size was 2.98.
In the town the population was spread out with 25.0% under the age of 18, 7.5% from 18 to 24, 26.5% from 25 to 44, 20.1% from 45 to 64, and 20.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 88.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 83.8 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $37,557, and the median income for a family was $44,583. Males had a median income of $36,705 versus $22,941 for females. The per capita income for the town was $19,059. About 7.0% of families and 7.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 7.5% of those under age 18 and 6.5% of those age 65 or over.Did you know the first race held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was a motorcycle race in 1909? IMS will get back to its roots on September 14, 2008 with the Red Bull Indianapolis GP. 
Most of Indiana has a humid continental climate (Koppen climate classification Dfa), with hot, humid summers and cool to cold winters. The extreme southern portions of the state border on a humid subtropical climate (Koppen Cfa) with somewhat milder winters. Summertime maximum temperatures average around 85 °F (29 °C) with cooler nights around 60 °F (16 °C). Winters are a little more variable, but generally cool to cold temperatures with all but the northern part of the state averaging above freezing for the maximum January temperature, and the minimum temperature below 20 °F (-8 °C) for most of the state. The state receives a good amount of precipitation, 40 inches (1,000 mm) annually statewide, in all four seasons, with March through August being slightly wetter.
The state does have its share of severe weather, both winter storms and thunderstorms. While generally not receiving as much snow as some states farther north, the state does have occasional blizzards, some due to lake effect snow. Two major paralyzing snowstorms bear merit. The January, 1978 Blizzard, which affected almost the entire state, and the December, 2004 Blizzard, which primarily affected the Ohio Valley and later caused the severe flooding of the White, Wabash, and the Ohio Rivers in January, 2005. The state averages around 40-50 days of thunderstorms per year, with March and April being the period of most severe storms. While not considered part of Tornado Alley, Indiana is the Great Lakes state which is most vulnerable to tornadic activity. In fact, three of the most severe tornado outbreaks in U.S. history affected Indiana, the Tri-State Tornado of 1925, the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965 and the Super Outbreak of 1974. The Evansville Tornado of November 2005 killed 25 people, 20 people in Vanderburgh County and 5 in Warrick County. On the lighter side,
Indiana was inhabited by migratory tribes of Native Americans possibly as early 8000 BC. These tribes succeeded one another in dominance for several thousand years. By 900 an advanced culture of Mississippians became dominant building large cities of 30,000 inhabitants and massive earthworks in the state. For unknown reasons, their entire civilization disappeared sometime around 1450.The region entered recorded history when the first Europeans came to Indiana and claimed the territory for Kingdom of France during the 1670s. At the conclusion of the French and Indian War and one hundred years of French rule, the region came under the control of the Kingdom of Great Britain. British control was short-lived, as the region was transferred to the newly formed United States at the conclusion of the American Revolutionary War only 20 years later.
At the time the United States took possession of Indiana, there were only two permanent European settlements in the entire territory, Clark's Grant and Vincennes. The United States immediately set to work to develop Indiana. In 1800, the Indiana Territory was established and steadily settled. It was originally placed under the governorship of William Henry Harrison who oversaw the purchase of millions of acres of land from the native tribes and successfully guided the territory through Tecumseh's War and the War of 1812.
Indiana was admitted to the Union in 1816 as the nineteenth state. Following statehood, the new government set out on an ambitious plan to transform Indiana from a wilderness frontier into a developed, well populated, and thriving state. The state's founders initiated a program that led to the construction of roads, canals, railroads, and state funded public schools. The plans nearly bankrupted the state and were a financial disaster, but increased land and produce value more than four-fold. During the 1850s, the state's population grew to exceed one million and the ambitious program of the state founders was finally realized.
During the American Civil War, Indiana became politically influential and played an important role in the affairs of the nation. As the first western state to mobilize for the war, Indiana's soldiers were present in almost every engagement during the war. After the Civil War, Indiana remained important nationally as it became a critical swing state in U.S. Presidential elections, which decided control of the federal government for three decades. Following the Civil War, Indiana industry began to grow and an accelerated rate across the northern part of the state leading to the formation of labor unions and suffrage movements.
During the early 20th century, Indiana developed into a strong manufacturing state, then experienced setbacks during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The state also saw many developments with the construction of Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the takeoff of the auto industry in the state, substantial urban growth, and two major United States wars. Economic recovery began during World War II and the state continued to enjoy substantial growth. During the second half the of the 20th century, Indiana became a leader in the pharmaceutical industry, as Eli Lilly and other companies settled in the state.
According to the Indiana laws, Town Council members serve as both the executive and legislative branches for small communities incorporated as towns within the state. They consist of three or five members, depending upon the town's population.
Unlike some states, Indiana councilmembers must declare a political party affiliation, if any, when they file to run for office. Upon election in November, they are sworn in before January 1 of the following year, where they serve a four year term. There are no state term limits affecting how many times a candidate may run for reelection to office.
The first meeting after an election, members of the town council hold an organizing meeting, where they elect a leader to set future agendas and act as an official spokesman for the town or as liaison between the town and state and county government.
Indiana town councils work in conjunction with an elected town clerk, who manages the day-to-day business of the municipal government. As an elected official, the town clerk is solely executive in function and operates independently of the town council. But the council has final say on budgets which clerks depend upon to operate.
In addition to a clerk, the council can authorize the hiring of other staff to run the operations of government, including law enforcement officers, utility workers, park and recreation employees and town managers. These employees serve at the pleasure of the council.
Most Indiana counties use a grid-based system to identify county roads; this system replaced the older arbitrary system of road numbers and names, and (among other things) makes it much easier to identify the sources of calls placed to the 9-1-1 system. For this reason, the system is often called "9-1-1 addressing". Such systems are easier to implement in the glacially flattened northern portion of the state. Rural counties in the southern third of the state are less likely to have grids and more likely to rely on unsystematic road names (e.g., Franklin County); there are also counties in the northern portions of the state that have never implemented a grid, or have only partially implemented one.
Many counties set up this grid as follows: the county is given an east-west division line, dividing the county into northern and southern parts, and a north-south meridian line, dividing it into eastern and western parts. Roads are numbered by taking the distance, in miles, from the appropriate baseline and multiplying it by 100. Thus, a north-south road that is 1-mile (1.6 km) east of the meridian line is county road 100 E; and an east-west road that is 4.75 miles (7.64 km) north of the division line is county road 475 N.Indiana is known as the "Brain Bank of the Midwest" as Indiana's colleges and universities attract the fourth largest number of out-of-state students in the nation and the largest out-of-state student population in the midwest. In addition, Indiana is the third best state in the country at keeping high school seniors in-state as Indiana colleges and universities attract 88% of Indiana's college attendees. Indiana universities also lead the nation in the attraction of international students with Purdue University and Indiana University ranked #3 and #17 respectively in the total international student enrollment of all universities in the United States. This exceptional popularity is attributed to the high quality of the research and educational universities located in the state. May i introduce to you Rachelle we all know her by (Shelly) Mucha! WE LOVE YOU SHELLY!
Hello My name is Rachelle, but my friends call me Shelly. I'm a wife for going on 40 years, and loving every min.. of each day.
I'm the Mother of 3. Grandmother of 9, and Greatgrandmother of 2.
I also have a lovely little Toy Schnauzer dog that is named Miss Lovely, we gave her that name because she was born on Valentine's Day, and is very Lovely. We all live in the State of Indiana, and I am retied, and now in four great Home Base Business, and one day will leave to my love ones to enjoy, grow, and prosper, and be as happy with it as I was. May every day for you be greater then the next.
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Back then on 12-01-07, I was 141 pounds, and was a size 13/14 but really a 14! Started the Metabowize with my X2O Water, & since I started the products I have lost 1 pound a week, and feel so much better, Now today 12-11-07 I am in a size 11 & still feeling Great!
I was born breech and grew-up with Scoliosis, As I became a Woman Was also in so much pain, I thought this was the way my life was going to be forever, I was a 4 to 5 pot coffee drinker, and was told by Doctors I now had Osteoporosis, I was put on 70mg. Of a weekly tablet / pill, but as the years went by, I was so tried of taking tablet/pills, and feeling like someone I wasn't, I stopped, and started looking for something else to help.
Met a Great Lady Robin Lavoie, Here from Adland, That is now my Best Friend, and talk to daily, that had invited me to take a look at her website. Not to say I jumped at it, NO! NO! It took me some time before I desided to give it a try.
That was when I found X2O Water! When I started X20 Water, I had flu like symptoms, and thought I should just get off of everything, but to my surprise, it was over as fast as it came!
My body was detoxing itself, and that was one of the symptoms, I know now had to happen in my case.
I now drink 1 cup, if that of coffee a day!
I was one who never drink water, I should of known this with my back ground in Health & working in a Hospital back in the 60's, I knew that water was one of the most important things our bodies needed to keep us going, but like so much of our water back then, there was so much in it that could do more damage to us then good, maybe in the back of my head I knew this? I think that is why I stayed away from it, but Now with X2O "I AM A WATER DRINKER", and have found out it has done Great thing to and in my body!
I am a great believer of meditation along with everything else I do! I also with my Husband did T'ai Chi, and stertching to control my pain back then, which Now is very little, and doing this together I can say, I don't think I will ever be without X20 Water!
I would like to thank Robin Lavoie, for inviting me to take a look at this product.
I am going on 59 years old this June, and when I hit 50 I had a curve in my spine that came from my Scoliosis, in the shape of the letter (S) THAT WAS MORE TO THE RIGHT OF MY BODY, and I was in so much Pain from it and it was very noticeable.
I have been to see many Doctors about this, In the year 2000 we moved out of the City, and now I have One Doctor that I started going to at that time, when I couldn't take the pain.
Then went to my Doctor on 11-26-07 while being on the X20 Water, he said that he has noticed my curve isn't as noticeable, That was when I knew in my heart it will be getting better as time goes by! My Husband has also said the same thing!
Just to say to those of you with Scoliosis and have lived with this illness, also with the Pain that comes from it, There is help out there, you just have to know where to look for it, and know it will help you to live OVER 50%Pain Free!
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We all have to believe in ourselves, and do alot of checking around to know the product is safe to use, as well as look into the products we take.
.....UP-DATE....
It is now 02-04-08
I am still taking the X20 Water with the Metabowize, Now 138 pounds, and size 10!
I Now have noties two more Great things happening to my body!
Back in the 80's I noticed a wart that was giving me pain, and had it taken off more then two times, but always came back, so I just lived with it, now that I am on the X20 I have noticed it is getting smaller, and does not hurt me. I ask my Husband to take a look , and let me know if he thought it was getting smaller, and he said YES! It was hard like all warts, but now it is soft.
I also had Fungus on my right big toe nail, That Fungus NAIL like so many of us have, it is in and on all over the nail, started to look very bad, and it also hurt at times. When it became large and thick I went to have it removed. I heard before, and the Doctor said it came from a Fungus which I had already knew about and that was in my body, and wanted to have me take a Med. that would of worked from the inside out , and would of cost me over $300.00, at that time. I ask the Doctor if it would do the job, and would the Fungus come back?
He said there was a 50 / 50 chance it would. So I diesided not to take the Meds. and live with it just like every thing else. To my surprize the X20 Water was working from the inside out on me! My Fungus toe nail never looked as good!
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Thank you for you time,
Rachelle (Shelly) Mucha
Demotte, Indiana
219-789-4150
Skpe: shelly698
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