Lovely To Make A Profit

Written By:  Andrew Eide

Which is better to accomplish in your business? A profit? A loss? Break even? Anyone with any sense will, of course, state that making a profit if what being in business is about.

I’m going to use an example of selling book sets to families where you, the business owner, purchase the set of books for $200 per set and then you sell the set of books for $400. On paper you make back your $200 and make a $200 profit on each full sale of $400. However there are various ways of calculating things.

Say you sell 10 sets of books per month. You must purchase the 10 sets of books at a cost of $200 each for a monthly expense of $2,000. If you sell all 10 sets of books for $400 each you will make $4,000 which is a profit of $2,000. If you sell all 10 sets of books for $250 each you will make a profit of $500.

In most cases a smart business owner would ask for a minimum down payment from the customer that is what they paid for the books for sale. In our example today the business owner purchases a set of books for $200 from the book publisher and then they ask for $200 deposit from the person purchasing the books. This way the business owner will break even and not lose money and since the person purchasing the books made an investment of $200, which is 50 percent of the purchase price, they are likely to pay the business owner until the account is paid off rather than default on payments and have the books taken away.

In the example above if I am a business owner and I purchase 10 sets of books from the publisher at $200 each I spent $2,000 for inventory. If I only get from customers $200 each as a down payment I have made back my investment of $2,000 and I break even. Some would argue if that’s all I end up getting from the customers then I lost $2,000 but I say no that is not the case. Breaking even doesn’t mean you lost money. You broke even and didn’t make a profit. There’s a huge difference.

If you purchase the book sets for $2,000 and get full payment of $400 for each set sold you made $4,000 which means you recovered your $2,000 outlay for inventory and you made $2,000 profits.

There are some in business who, when confronted with this scenario, don’t want to accept that they broke even of made only 25 percent to 50 percent of what they expected to make after covering costs. You simply do not LOSE money when you reach the break-even point and for sure you do not LOSE money if you make even One Dollar over what you spent for inventory.

The concept is so simple that’s what makes it hard for some people to understand.

Is Oncology Good Or Bad

Written By:  Andrew Eide

Today I’m likely to irk a hell of a lot of people including family members who are Doctors and Nurses and who work in Oncology which is the study and treatment of cancer.

When I lived in Redlands, California, my last wife, who passed away in July 2009, had cancer. She was scheduled to see Doctor Godfrey at Loma Linda University Medical Center in Loma Linda, California.

While walking my dog, Lucky, I came across my friend who asked how my wife was doing and if she was going to see an Oncologist. I told them yes and gave them Doctor Godfrey’s name. Then they told me this story.

They said a friend of theirs had cancer and was referred to Oncology at Loma Linda University Medical Center to see Doctor Godfrey. Their friend related the story that when Doctor Godfrey came into the room he yelled at him rudely and said (I am paraphrasing what he said here):  “WHY ARE YOU HERE? YOUR CANCER IS TOO FAR GONE FOR ME TO TREAT YOU! YOU ARE NOT GOING TO GET HELPED BY ANY TREATMENT! YOU ARE WASTING MY TIME! GET OUT OF MY OFFICE!”

I asked my friend if this doctor was reported to the Board of Directors at Loma Linda University Medical Center for his insensitive and rude treatment of a patient. My friend told me there are dozens of complaints about Doctor Godfrey but the other Board members refuse to take action against Doctor Godfrey because he is a high ranking Board member, a high amount financial donor to Loma Linda University Medical Center, so they look the other way even though he abuses patients.

I feel Doctor Godfrey should have been removed from Loma Linda University Medical Center and should have had his Medical License revoked by the State of California.

My friend then related to me that their friend went to Cancer Treatment Centers of America just outside of Los Angeles for treatment. Although their friend is not “cured” of cancer they were able to get it into remission which means it is not getting worse.

Don’t take abuse from doctors even if they are a specialist as often they are there for the money and not for the benefit of the patient.

Best To Leave Cancer Alone

Written By:  Andrew Eide

It is best to leave your cancer tumor alone rather than remove it from your body. Okay you are screaming at me right now but once you are informed you will understand why I made this comment.

Back in the 1970’s and 1980’s cancer “treatment” was still in the early stage where doctors had no clue what to do. It was an era of experimenting with anything and everything in hopes of finding something that could reduce, or eliminate, a tumor from the body.

The biggest hurdle doctors faced is that once they removed a large tumor from patients the majority of patients immediately developed a few, up to dozens, of tumors throughout their bodies. This baffled doctors since they removed the large tumor.

A doctor, who was not into the specialty of treating cancer, and he was also not an Oncologist, came up with his reason why people who have a large cancer tumor removed usually develop a few, to dozens, of tumors all around their bodies after the large tumor was removed.

He reasoned that the largest tumor probably drills tendrils into the blood system and then it released growth inhibitors which cause all the other tumors in the body to stop growing. He reasoned once you remove the dominant tumor that also removes the growth inhibitors it was inserting into the blood stream to prevent other tumors from growing. He said without grown inhibitors in the blood stream all the other tumors that are tapped into the blood system now grow rapidly and take over a person’s body.

This doctor was ridiculed, medical journals refused to print his articles, and the medical community refused to let him speak at events. Then in the early 2000’s it was discovered by cancer specialists that this doctor was right about the dominant tumor inserting growth inhibitors into the blood to prevent other tumors from growing. Once that dominant tumor is removed, along with the growth inhibitors, the other tumors run amok and take over the body.

The best treatment when you have a cancer tumor? If it is not a hazard to your health, such as blocking your intestines or blood flow, then you are best to leave the tumor alone, keep your immune system healthy, and exercise if you can.

If you have the dominant tumor removed you have probably around a 90 percent chance of all the smaller tumors, which were being prohibited from growing by the dominant tumor, of taking over your body.

Cancer Is Not Lovely

Written By:  Andrew Eide

I will start by stating my father, my second wife, and my sister in-law, passed away due to the ravages of cancer. It is a horrible affliction (notice I don’t call it a disease since there is no virus or infection that causes it) and I’m here to tell you the truth about cancer.

When a cell in your body divides- reproduces) the body’s immune system does a “Quality Assurance” check on that dividing-reproducing cell. If the body’s immune system determines the cell is dividing without errors it allow it to continue to divide and reproduce. Since the body’s immune system gave the go-ahead the cell is allowed to continually divide-reproduce. However if the cell is defective in reproducing the normal procedure is the body’s immune system destroys the defectively dividing cell.

If the body’s immune system makes a mistake then the cell that is reproducing incorrectly is allowed to continue to reproduce incorrectly and they turn into a mass of cells, or tumor, that we call cancer.

There is no infection or virus that causes cancer. Only abnormally reproducing cells are the cause for cancer to develop in the body. A failing immune system is a contributing cause as an incorrectly functioning immune system allows abnormally reproducing cells to continue to reproduce abnormally.

When you hear doctors and scientists claim they are finding “cures” for cancer they are lying. There’s no way to battle cancer cells when there is no cause except for an incorrectly functioning immune system. What do Doctors do? The first thing they want to do is totally destroy your immune system with chemotherapy and radiation. Why in the world would you totally destroy your immune system when that’s the only thing that protects you? You need to think hard on that one.

There is a radio talk show host out of the San Francisco Bay Area named Michael Savage. He graduated from University of California Berkeley which is a medical school.

His final thesis was on how cancer is caused only by a weakened or incorrectly functioning immune system and that the only way to prevent cancer, put cancer in remission, or to eliminate it from your body, is to keep your immune system healthy by eating a well-balanced diet and get enough exercise.

The Professors at UC Berkeley praised Michael Savage on his thesis and said it was  true and one of the best they’ve ever read. When Michael Savage asked the Professors if what he wrote is true, and that there is no medical or chemical cures for cancer, only having a properly functioning immune system is the solution why then are the Professors telling the world about it?

They replied to his question “IF WE INFORMED THE PUBLIC THERE IS NO CURE FOR CANCER EXCEPT FOR A GOOD DIET AND KEEPING THEIR IMMUNE SYSTEMS WORKING PROPERLY WE WOULD LOSE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF GRANT MONEY FROM THE GOVERNMENT FOR US TO STUDY AND TRY TO FIND A CURE FOR CANCER! WHY WOULD WE DO THAT?

Michael Savage presented this on his radio talk show. He turned away from UC Berkeley and never looked back. He asked how Doctors, who take the Hippocratic Oath to protect and help people through their medical skills, can continue to allow people to die from cancer so they can get Government Grant money for the study of cancer was beyond his ability to comprehend. This proves that a lot of people in the medical field are only after money and they don’t care about their patients.

Lovely Things

Written By:  Andrew Eide

Although I can come across as being insensitive, and I’ve even been called cynical, I am not those things.

For the reader who doesn’t know the main definitions of the word cynical here is what it means. To be cynical means you believe that people are motivated by self-interest and you are distrustful of human sincerity or integrity. You may be doubtful that something will happen or whether it is worthwhile.

Do I believe most people are motivated by self-interest and I tend to distrust most people? Yes to a certain extent. I’ve been hurt enough times to err on the side of being cautious so that I reduce the chance of being hurt again. When you have politicians who are money hungry and motivated by self-interest over serving their Constituents of course I’m cautious with them.

Do I often doubt something will happen? Yes and I believe most people do. When you understand why I do this it makes sense. When we were trying to purchase a home toward the end of 2017 every time I was so sure we would get the house we put the bid on something would happen to screw it up and we didn’t get that house so we had to continue searching. This happened numerous times and then we came upon the house we own now. When we put the bid in on the house I changed from being optimistic to one of caution. I mentioned that if we get the house then fine. If we don’t get the house then fine and we can continue looking. I was asked why I was being so negative and my response is that I don’t want to be discouraged again. I figure if I am in the mindset of if we get the house it is okay and if we don’t get the house it is okay and we keep looking.

So what happened? We got the house. Since I put my mind on good if we get it and if not we keep looking had we not been able to purchase this house it would have been okay and not a big disappointment. But we did get the house and it brought a larger amount of joy and satisfaction to me.

Let me close with a list of things I enjoy as I feel they are lovely. My family. Watching the sunrise. Watching the sunset. Taking a walk in the park. And many many more. I enjoy a lot of things that people don’t know I enjoy. All they need to do is ask and I will tell them all the things I like and that I feel are lovely things.