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Book Review..
This book is worth reading and is well written even though for me I just had to put it down a lot because the story made me feel bored and so based on that I was not actually into to reading it..

Business in a Box!!

I just got up early this morning and immeadiately got to thinking about how business is like a box in which you package it correctly and it sells what ever product or service you want to market. The idea is ammittedly quirky but then all business solutions are just that type of thing anyway. Well if you want to market a product or service and get your customers to notice them you got to package them correctly. The knowledge of your product or service must be very good before you engage in selling it to your customer base. I  want to show here the new business start ups how to get your business going and what you will have to do to accomplish that task. Most new peple to business have very little idea how much paperwork and time invested is involved in setting up a new business. so going on that premise I think I will get into showing you how to get started in your own business from a prospective of my own experiance of building business and fortune 500 companies. The first thing is deciding on what you want to do which is allways the hardest part to do since there is so many choices out there to choose from these days. In this technology driven age most business start ups have some kind of techonolgy attached to them which is going to be the back bone to there new business venture. So let us say you are starting a lemon store for example that will sell lemons,lemonade and lemon cups of frozen lemon ice cream. You want top go about and incorporate your business start up to get the tax write off from Uncle Sam tax collector then you better use a 940 form and other forms to get you started but before you can fill out any other forms you will need 600 dollars just to incorporate your business and then you got to got to your state treasury and department of business regulation office to get your sales and use tax forms and state licensing filed so that you are legal business entity. You will also need to show proof of insurance in order to get your paperwork approved and get your licences given to you the same day. The same day you do this you should also file your federal forms so that is corresponds with your stae forms and insurance documents. You will need to be proactive and have a lot of patience doing all thises forms as well as waiting in line for the clerks to serve you at the counter windows in state and federal offices. Well now assuming you got all that done you are now a legal business that is ready to go make money. Your next step is to start advertizing so allways start with the cheap way of doing it and use any means that is free or costs very little such as email  and telemarketing to get you started in your new venture. Ok .. So your ads are doing well and you got some customers that are paying but your still struggling to meet your new bills like advertizing,telephone,business location (office),gas and electric etc. So now what? You got to get radio and internet ads to grow your business so you no longer have to sweat the next bill payments which now come every week. Don't forget to add putting up a new sign on your office or store so that you can be found and make sure you note that location on Google and other search engines. This will help you get to the point where you can start hiring employees to do all the different tasks that that you can nolonger do your own self due to being overwhelmed by a work load. Your point is to build a business that eventually runs itself and you reap the profit benefits and your enterprise just keeps growing and you get rich from it. This is a business in a box type of company that you should be striving for achieving this kind of success. This is just a very simple overview of what you be doing as a single person just starting out in a new venture and what you will need to do to succeed.

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Economic Meltdown!!

Starting this week with some fresh new data to look at I want to share with my readers about jobs,commerce data and other important information. Now that we are at the end of the normal business week being that it is friday it is good to look at in depth what we allready know and what we me might expect in the weeks and months ahead. First I was as all my readers know the first to accurately predict this so called economic recovery as a farce because the numbers don't lie and neither does the GDP (Gross Domestic Product Index) that index shows how much this country has grown overall. It is really a small number that it is awefull considering what we as a nation are capable of doing. I can't understand how Congress is so easy to go along with being bamboozeled by The Fed Chairmen on the data? So I am going to get into some hard core facts here and show you why when I last wrote about those GREEN SHOOTS that The FED talks about they are not being honest with America and Congress is being blinded by faulty data. Well first off let us put everything on the table and so that you can see the data and judge it for yourself. The number one thing is jobs and that is about 14 percent average unemployment depending on which state you live in America and it is harder to live on a paying job if you even have one at all. With 14 percent unemployment combined with wages that have actually decreased steadily over the last 12 years while inflation has steadily risen by 41 percent over the same period of time means we are all feeling the pinch in our portfolio. In other words the cost of living is more expensive than it was even last year by 33 percent and real saving is down due to higher prices for all goods and services. The dollar valuation has also taken a big hit if you do the math the real value decline to being 86 cents to every dollar bill according to the Commerce Dept. figures. Gas has gone to average $4.20 a gallon and worse for other fuels like home heating oil and natural gas which are seeing record high prices. Here is some other shocking figures that will interest you about the state of American economic health which is failing at a alarming rate.
Just yesterday, we learned that retail sales growth is cooling rapidly and
The gains in employment are slowing. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that wholesale price inflation is rising much faster than expected — up 0.8% in April alone and up 6.8% in the past 12 months!
Bottom line: The scenario presented here is America’s Financial Meltdown
ever-increasing economic pain plus soaring prices — is being played out before your very eyes!

WHY has the Fed just rated the United States a mere two levels above “junk” status?

Is the U.S. really likely to default on its debt? If not, will the crisis end or just get progressively worse?

Is the latest correction in gold and silver opening a window to buy them as a hedge against inflation? What’s the best way to invest in the precious metals?

Specifically which investments are the most certain to rise when the dollar falls?

Should I sell just my long-term treasuries? What about Treasury bills?

How about U.S. Savings Bonds? Municipal bonds? Corporate bonds?

Which investments should I be buying now for maximum profit potential as inflation and interest rates rise?

Does your higher rating on countries like China, Malaysia and South Korea mean I should be investing in their stocks and ETFs as well?

How will soaring interest rates impact the value of my home? What are your recommendations?

A crash in treasuries means that the U.S. dollar would get slaughtered — right? What should I be doing right now to protect my family from skyrocketing prices?

What will happen to my Social Security benefits if the dollar ends up buying next to nothing?

In the worst case scenario, will U.S. stocks continue to trade? Or will the markets be shut down like they were after on Black Monday?

Which stocks will get hit hardest by soaring interest rates and the crashing dollar? Are there any that will actually BENEFIT from this crisis?


Are my money market accounts safe? How about my CDs?

These questions are on the minds of everbody who is in business and employees as it effects everyone from the rich to the very poor in America. This is only part of a larger problem which include Real Estate property values going into the tank and consumer spending going at a snails pace. This is combined with the largest national debt ever recorded at 154 Trillion Dollars in national debt and we are still writing more rubber checks and debt to fund just even paying our debt payments as as well as other pork pet programs that we don't even need. To sum it up we either get our financial house in order in this country and start bailing our country out of the red ink debt load we carry or we are going to really regret not doing the right decisions now later on by our own generation and the next few generations beyond us. Hope everyone has a great day and enjoy your weekend.

Business Location Value

I want to talk about the most important thing in your business and the future of it this in this post. everyone might think that if you just happened to put a certian type of business in a location that you like does not allways mean that you are going to be a success. It is really more important to do a lot of research on your demographics and who your prospective customer base is going to be and what they might buy so you can choose the right location and business that fits that specific location. I am thinking of it from the point of any new business start up that wants to succeed. Not allways do things work out the way you want them to but you can make a big difference in what pofitability that your going to have both in the present and the future. So the location of your store or what every type of business you are starting into is really critical to it being a success or failure of it. The first three to five years is where most people either give up on it or go bankrupt doing their new business venture based on real statistics. Most new people that start a business make this poor judgement on location and never do the proper research on who is going to be buying the products or services. Think that big companies don't do resaerch before pouring millions or even billions into that loaction think again because they analize every aspect before putting even one cent into buying the land or existing building. I thought I would give some solid advise base on exsperiance of my ventures and other business people. So you want to be a success and you don't have much money to spend to get your new venture going? That is ok because most new business people don't have alot money available so that makes the choices more limited. But what it boils down to is lease,own or rent what ever the case may be do it with a level head and take your heart out the equation so that you make the right decision. Your future really depends on what choices you make and who you get in your network of business support. So why does location and network have to do with being a successfull business? Well they both are intertwined because they are both needed to bring your business into getting out your message that you are here to make money and have great place to come to and fantastic products and services that you can offer to your customer base. So in closing if you think smartly and choose the right business and location combined with a good message and network of people then you can start making money that is going to bring your business up from nothing into a well respected vendor of quality and good customer service and great products and services..

Stock Market Data!!

Well after pouring over data from the analysts I want to wiegh in on the new emerging market. Question are we on a doom and gloom curve or is this really a turning point for Wall Street? I have covered many different types of of ups and downs but this one really is very interesting to me and it should be to all of you too who read my blog. The reasons are not allways obvious to the naked eye but they are still there if you want to go through the pain of analisys of it. Yup the makets sure has been giving some unually different signals lately and not many of the gurus got it right except for me. I said last time that we are going to have a short period of sunny economic data and then we are going to see a even worse crash than we ever had before except if Congress cuts out the redicules spending that it has been doing. This sudden growth is unfortunately only short term and we still have the worst budget deficit in all of our history of America. That is just one factor in the larger piece of the pie which does not include the facts of the other economic woes that are hurting us all. Let us start out with the other facts likes falling home values and prices and credit is very tight and hard to get from lending banks and credit card companies. Ok most people would say that is not great but we can manage that over a short term policy change in the FED Bank and tax structure. But wait a minute before you get to far in to the sun you got to see the red ink thatwe all have to deal with both in goverment and in personal budgets. You see that over the last 30 years the average rate of saving in this country has steadily declined while wages have also either stayed the same aor in most cases lost value maening the average middle class working wage is not kept up with inflation. Oh man that old buzzard is back and that is called inflation and it is increasing it's grip on the pocket of every working man and woman including businesses and investors. Simlple put into prospective we are all having to pay more for everything while we get less value for all that we buy. I could not help for instance a guy I met in passing at the local gas station who complained about the price of a gallon of milk and eggs as well as $4.26 a gallon for gas to fill up his car which was echoed by another woman standing on the opposite side of the gas pump after I was walking past her pumping gas in to her SUV truck. Just think if we are all feeling squeezed now and think about how business is doing with this new sunny but volitile economy? Well mixed review I get from talking to other company CEO'S who welcome the good news that they can plan on maybe expanding and Wall Street seems bent on pitching this new green shoots as a turning point in a better economy to come. The facts of dat don't speak to that at all and any shrewed business CEO knows that it is time to wait and see if this will last any length of time for economic recovery. If history is any judge then we can all see this robustness in data and the results are sadly fleeting given that businesses in this country has been through this all before and have no disire to get burned by Wall Street and FED bank hype. this is really more a overdue market correction which should have happened last year but failed to happen due in part to goverment bailouts and shoddy management on Wall Street and the list goes on of the woes we suffered through last year. The climate of business and investing this year has been a little better but we are still over shadowed by debt burdons in goverment and the private sector companies who are struggling to pay down the amount of debt owed and still remain functionally liquid. You just need to look at this new growth and see how many millions of people who are still losing their homes,savings and yes businesses to see how hard it is to have such a rosey picture of a growing economy. I am not going to sit here and say that all this sun is a bad thing and actually it is great just to have it but we still have a rough economic climate for investors and businesses to expand and to pur money into a emerging growth economy. With all the maket signal ponting both ways it is hard as a investor to decide what way the wind is blowing these days but one thing is for certian you had better read your data and play it conservative so that when the next shoe drops and it will your not going to wipe out your a part or your entire portfolio. So you ask where should I invest presently and how much should I do that? Get the latest market data and it clearly points to energy and telecom stocks as well as raw materials such as corn and sow beans but also to going big on certian technology makers that make circuit boards for aerospace and mobile phones. Stay away from bonds and the Tresury FEd T bill notes for now as they are a poor investment. By following this advise you can not lose your money ...

Business Travel!!

I thought I would do a change of pace for my readers here and touch on a subject that is on everyones mind these days. That is the cost of travel in perticular business travel which I as a Executive happen to know a lot about since I have and still do travel a lot for work as a executive of my own company. I just got to doing some research on this over the last few days and wanted to share soome interesting data on business travelers and their attitudes. Like for instance did you knoiw that the average business person is online on a weekly basis almost 12 hours a day every day of the week and on weekends the mobile phone with mail etc. is a constant useage. How about the fact the fact that on average business people travel about 30,000 plus miles a year by ground and air travel. Well that shows you how much the pace of business has changed to be more demanding and faster pace. This is why the averaage executive in a high level position now a days only lasts only ten years and they are burned out both physically and mentally. The sad thing is business people suffer the worst decline in average life span because of stress and worry which in turn effects their overall attitude and proformance. Being constantly moving and juggling too many things at the same time does have a short and worse long term effect on your body. Technology has made it so you have no time off in most cases and this is why so many get to mid life and look like they are 100 years old yet they are olny 45 or 50 years old. Statistics are sometimes not always accurate but the facts speak for themselves that the higher the level is in business the faster the burnout rate is with corporate types of people. We live in a day in age of conastant change and the only way to succed is to becoe one of the movers and shakers in business or be left behind by your business peers. I know how most CEO's are feeling cause I talk to them all the time and they have the same list of certian compliants as I have but if you want to succeed then you go to either go with the flow or get off the moving train that is the facts that everyone in modern business has to deal with now. The reality is being is business and a growing company is a challenge in of itself but you add the daily problems and other things like email and board meeting and constant phone calls and more then you begin to see the strain by the time friday morning comes to having to go to the office. That is not the half of it to for many people in business just end up losing it on customers or employees because they are so tired by the end of the woork week that they only think about when is my next vacation and where am I going to get away from this maddness hectic job. Yes vacations are great but you know that will only solve the problem for a short time and the only way for it to stop burning you out is to retire. The sad part is most peopele in business today don't have the luxury of retiring because of the economy being so poor and have a family and bills to pay so they are forced to keep working well into the age 70 or above now a days. It is the sad situtaion that most business people now that retirement is only a far fetched dream that they hope to achieve some day before they die. To be in businees is a full time comitment but it can be fun and intetrewsting to if you pace yourself and take short breaks during your day that is the only way to become less stressed out and more a effective leader in your company. Trust me your employees and customers will apreciate you more for it and being level headed makes the decision making process better and quicker which helps everyone have a better understanding of where your going and who your networking with on a weekly basis. Take time on your business travel to smell the flowers and enjoy where you are evevn if it is just getting a cup of coffee and a short walk t the local store if there is one close by your area as this will help you refocus your mind on the tasks at hand in your work day ahead. Allways book your travel plans in advance so you can change them if you need to and be on time for everthing is the best way to be a good corporate traveler and a executive of your company.. Have a really great day now and enjoy your week end!!!

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Market Swing!!

Hey everybody hope you all had a great day trading yesterday and made some dough doing it. I just wanted to throw some soup on the hot fire and sip my cold drink as the data pours in at mid day. Wow oil is hot today and look who is cleaning up well what do you know if this company did take take tarp money and be bailed out the story would be different today. Goldman Sachs (GS.N) rocked oil markets for a second day on Tuesday by calling for a near $20 fall in the price of Brent crude oil in the coming months, saying speculators have pushed prices ahead of crude while demand increased. Can the rally continue? Sure it can but it will be a short term rally before you see the course correction and prices will top out at 116 dollars a barrel then reverse back to 80 dollars a barrel before summer hits full swing in most of the countries. I see this correction due to external political problems in the Middle East and lower oil reserves here at home in America. I think the glut of crude oil that is now in storage and also being pumped is going to run low sooner then the market will have a knee jerk reaction to the this and you will see institutional investors first running for the exit gate. This is a good sign of a beginning worsening of the economy as well as spending on consumer goods will also slow down more than it already is at current date. Overall current market data suggests that by mid summer prices on everything from bread to gasoline will continue to out pace inflation by a two to one margin and orders for new products will climb only slightly for the mid quarter of this year. Gold continues to top the list of good investments and so does some commodities such as corn and sow beans used to make alternative fuel. This year so far is a mixed bag of some rally by the bulls on good days on Wall Street but mostly with the Macd chart and Candle Sticks charts topping out much lower than other years we are all in for a rough ride so far this year. Be careful to chart the better companies like YUM Inc. and Microsoft,Verizon are all good to buy into but watch your dividend shares as these companies might have stock splits in the future and you can profit very well from them. If you watch the ratings on Moody,Barrons,Morningstar you can get a real sense of how far the stock or fund is going to do and when to buy and sell it for a good price providing you include your research with your tracking charts to complete the picture of the proformance. Well hope you line your pockets today and have a great day...

Market Investing!!

I want to step up to plate today and look more in depth into the stock market and show you how to make money. The old addage is still true you buy low and sell high but in a ever constantly shifting tide on Wall Street you dont want to go running with the bulls every time the herd goes big into one market or more market areas. Thinking more sensible is a better way of doing it don't follow the herd and be a leader by sifting through the data and going against the market leaders is sure to line your pockets a lot faster than if you follow with your herd and heart and feeling,when the herd is shifting it's position. To be a smart investor is to buy on the dip or watch the bounce much like a ball and get in on your pips when the candlesticks show you to buy not when you try to read the market crest or the market will beat you every time. If you follow simple logic then you stand to gain handsomely from not following what all the other guys are doing. This is really the first rule to investing in a volitile market where you can make a fortune or lose your shirt if you don't follow the rules. Rule number two allways and I can't say it strongly enough read the MacD and also chart the earnings reports for every stoc or bond fund that your vested into so that your not going to get some nasty unexpected suprise like what happened with Bears Stearn and Leaman Brothers when the stock went into the tank and lots of investors lost very big those days when it happened. Rule number three to be a success in this market you have to treat it like a business and that means refer to the other prior rules which includes in perticular not using a buy and hold long term stratergy. If you short your stocks and options on a time frame of one day to 90 days maximum then you reduce your risk by half which will improve your portfolio and keep you vested longer with a good growth margin. This is the best way to do market investing I have found and if you learn these techniques then you will beat the market by a 8 or 10 to 1 margin every time while reducing your cash flow output. I know this sound very technical but follow these steps and your wwell on your way to make a fortune on Wall Street and why not all the other mover and shakers are doing this so you can do it to. In rexcent month the bond maket has been in the tank and the T-Bill and other bonds have declined so they are not a good investment in the early part of this year. The tech stocks have done better in some areas with Facebook,Microsoft, and Verizon leading the edge of higher earning but still the overall sector is a mixed bag right now. Just look at the data the bigger companies are down sizing and merger are the normal way of business becoming like hot cakes on a griddle in order to stay in business this is how they are reacting to the the global shift in technology and manufacturing. Consumer Goods index is showing a slow down which means that manufacturing is being hurt by the loss of revenue which in turn effects everything else including employment. If you look at the current employment data along with consumer lending and credit by the nations bigg3est banks you start to see the overall picture that your better to short your stocks and buy into gold ETFs then buying into the tech giants like Apple right now. That is a smart move currently to do since the next quarters economic data is not out yet so it is better to wait and watch everything before jumping both feet back into a market the will burn your portfolio to seared lobster. Granted there are some good buys out there and if you can buy them on the dip and wait for the short bounce and sell them high then do so knowing that the risk is still there but at least your minimizing them to your portfolio. Allways hedge your risk and do your research before you buy in to any security on the market so that way you go in with your eyes open and then you keep your business running smoothly with positive growth of at least 6 percent a quarter. Investing is a good way to promote wealth at what ever age your at just you have to be smart and keep your feeling out of it at all time that way you win. Have a really great day and read more again...

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Wisdom in Business!!

Generally when we think of doing a good job we think of how much money and capitol investment we have made. This is not always true since some of the most successful companies don't measure their success by the by total invested but instead by how much productivity and new products or services that they have achieved since the beginning of each quarter and calender year. When thinking of how to gain wealth you must what? Well create a market share and have a product or service that everyone wants such as what Apple has done with the Ipod and sharing services and now Apple TV. You have to know your demographics and know how to exploit them to be a better profitable company in this age of technology. Working on a good model like Apple is will show you how to adapt to a market that is constantly changing and so your products or services have to evolve all the way with the changes. If your profits sink because of lack of innovation and they will if you don't keep up with current trends then you are not doing well because your shorting your customers on what they want. Most business will see this and add other value added products or services to offset the loss in profitability. This is the only way that a company can weather bad economic times and keep growth going or risk going out of business.

The Welfare State!!

This morning I got to read another writer work and it inspired me to write about the views of to many people that I run into on the street and some friends that I have. I find it interesting to learn from listening from people how government is supposed to care for you if you fall down or just get plain rich robbing the tax payers to support your own needs. It seems that as a nation we have become used to big government caring for everything instead of the individual caring for themselves. The idea that government programs are supposed to support your everything from food to drug addictions and housing is absurd. The fact that everyone now is getting some kind of government no matter weather your rich or poor and have nothing I also think is crazy. What happened to the idea that work and creative ideas can make your life better and increase your standard of living which is dependent on in part money? I have to ask this question since everyone with a few exceptions are self proclaimed government leaching. I am not saying that some people don't need a occasional helping hand but we in America have created a bigger problem with programs like welfare, general public cash assistance,food stamps, foster care payments and the list goes on and on. What a shock it would be to have everyone in America work instead of getting Social Security Disability at age 25 or 35 or some other government entitlement and leaching off all the tax payers who work for a large portion of their lives. We in America have become lazy and say to ourselves that if I don't want to work that is OK since government will support me the rest of my life and with all the programs available I can live better than those who work for a living. I find it is appalling the attitude that the following generations have created by the baby boomer generation that raised kids to be slacker and the lower generations have become even more lazy beyond that. I know that many will disagree with me but I see the future of America as a more grim reminder that we are not schooling our kids to be independent minded and reach for their dreams. i just was talking to a guy today that said he is fifty years old and has two college degrees but can not find work doing anything. This I am finding is not unusual for people in my generation and younger to be on some kind of public aid which they seem to have no problem with taking from some government program. I see it differently having never had any government program or assistance in my life except for college education to better myself. This notion that welfare instead of work and if you work or not you should be sucking on some government gravy train program is just sheer madness. I will never forget my father saying to me that he lived through the great depression and my grand parents and him never took not even one red cent of government assistance in his lifetime and I should do the same thing too. My father had great wisdom in saying this because if you start believing that government will care for you then your life will amount to nothing and he is very right about this as I meet to many fellow Americans who have turned into government lazy leaches and their lives certainly reflect it with accomplishing nothing every day and week,year of their lives. It is a sad lament that we as a free people have given up so much of our sovereignty to our own lazy way and attitude of life that used to never exist a even a hundred years ago. In a mere hundred years we have come to a abyss in our great county were we no longer care for our own well being which is a sad thing for such a great people of creative innovation and wealth. This story is very seriously missed by the main stream media and it should be front page news but instead it is never even barely written about which is shocking to me. In closing I think we need to change our attitude and the way we as Americans live our lives by going back to a prosperity of work and limited government so that we all become better citizens of this great country called America.

Japan Crisis Worsens!!

TOKYO–>> Japan's nuclear crisis appeared to be spinning out of control on Wednesday after workers withdrew briefly from a stricken power plant because of surging radiation levels and a helicopter failed to drop water on the most troubled reactor.

In a sign of desperation, police will try to cool spent nuclear fuel at one of the facility's reactors with water cannon, normally used to quell riots.

Early in the day, another fire broke out at the earthquake-crippled facility, which has sent low levels of radiation wafting into Tokyo in the past 24 hours, triggering fear in the capital and international alarm.

Japan's government said radiation levels outside the plant's gates were stable but, in a sign of being overwhelmed, appealed to private companies to help deliver supplies to tens of thousands of people evacuated from around the complex.

"People would not be in immediate danger if they went outside with these levels. I want people to understand this," Chief Cabinet Secretary told a televised news conference, referring to people living outside a 30-km (18-mile) exclusion zone. Some 140,000 people inside the zone have been told to stay indoors.

The European Union's energy chief, told the European Parliament that the plant was "effectively out of control" after breakdowns in the facility's cooling system.

Workers cleared debris to build a road so fire trucks could reach reactor No. 4 at the Daiichi complex in Fukushima, 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo. Flames were no longer visible at the building housing the reactor.

High radiation levels prevented a helicopter from dropping water into the No. 3 reactor to try to cool its fuel rods after an earlier explosion damaged the unit's roof and cooling system.

The plant operator described No. 3 -- the only reactor at that uses plutonium in its fuel mix -- as the "priority." Plutonium, once absorbed in the bloodstream, can linger for years in bone marrow or liver and lead to cancer.

The situation at No. 4 reactor, where the fire broke out, was "not so good," the plant operator added, while water was being poured into reactors No. 5 and 6, indicating the entire six-reactor facility was now at risk of overheating.

"Getting water into the pools of the No.3 and No.4 reactors is a high priority," a senior official at Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Administration, told a news conference, adding the pool for spent fuel rods at No. 3 was heating up while No.4 remained a concern.

"It could become a serious problem in a few days," he said.

A military helicopter may be used again to try to drop water and troops mobilized to help pump water by land, he said.

Nuclear experts said the solutions being proposed to quell radiation leaks at the complex were last-ditch efforts to stem what could well be remembered as one of the world's worst industrial disasters.

"This is a slow-moving nightmare," said Dr Thomas Neff, a physicist and uranium-industry analyst at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Japanese Emperor, delivering a rare video message to his people, said he was deeply worried by the country's nuclear crisis which was "unprecedented in scale."

"I hope from the bottom of my heart that the people will, hand in hand, treat each other with compassion and overcome these difficult times," the emperor said.

Panic over the economic impact of last Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami knocked $620 billion off Japan's stock market over the first two days of this week, but the Nikkei index rebounded on Wednesday to end up 5.68 percent.

Nevertheless, estimates of losses to Japanese output from damage to buildings, production and consumer activity ranged from between 10 and 16 trillion yen ($125-$200 billion), up to one-and-a-half times the economic losses from the devastating 1995 Kobe earthquake.

Damage to Japan's manufacturing base and infrastructure is also threatening significant disruption to the global supply chain, particularly in the technology and auto sectors.

CHINA SUSPENDS NUCLEAR PLANS

Scores of flights to Japan have been halted or rerouted and air travelers are avoiding Tokyo for fear of radiation. On Wednesday, both France and Australia urged their nationals in Japan to leave the country as authorities grappled with the world's most serious nuclear accident since the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine in 1986.

Russia said it planned to evacuate families of diplomat on Friday.

In a demonstration of the qualms about nuclear power that the crisis has triggered around the globe, China announced that it was suspending approvals for planned plants and would launch a comprehensive safety check of facilities.

China has about two dozen reactors under construction and plans to increase nuclear electricity generation about seven-fold over the next 10 years.

Russian President Medvedev said nuclear power was safe provided power stations were built in the right place and designed and managed properly. Russia ordered checks at nuclear facilities on Tuesday.

In Japan, the plight of hundreds of thousands left homeless by the earthquake and devastating tsunami that followed worsened following a cold snap that brought snow to worst-affected areas.

Supplies of water and heating oil are low at evacuation centers, where many survivors wait bundled in blankets.

"It's cold today so many people have fallen ill, getting diarrhea and other symptoms," said Takanori Watanabe, a Red Cross doctor in Otsuchi, a low-lying town where more than half the 17,000 residents are still missing.

While the official death toll stands at around 4,000, thousands are listed as missing and the number of dead is expected to rise.

At the Fukushima plant, authorities have spent days desperately trying to prevent water designed to cool the radioactive cores of the reactors from evaporating, which would lead to overheating and possibly a dangerous meltdown.

Until the heightened alarm about No.3 reactor, concern had centered on damage to a part of the No.4 reactor building, where spent rods were being stored in pools of water, and also to part of the No.2 reactor that helps to cool and trap the majority of cesium, iodine and strontium in its water.

Japanese officials said they were talking to the U.S. about possible help at the plant.

Concern has mounted that the skeleton crews dealing with the crisis might not be big enough or were exhausted after working for days since the earthquake damaged the facility.

Authorities withdrew 750 workers for a time on Tuesday, briefly leaving only 50. All those remaining were pulled out for almost an hour on Wednesday because radiation levels were too high, but they were later allowed to return. By the end of the day, about 180 were working at the plant.

RADIATION IN TOKYO NOT A THREAT TO HUMAN HEALTH

In the first hint of international frustration at the pace of updates from Japan, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said he wanted more timely and detailed information.

"We do not have all the details of the information so what we can do is limited," Amano told a news conference in Vienna. "I am trying to further improve the communication."

Several experts said the Japanese authorities were underplaying the severity of the incident, particularly on a scale called INES used to rank nuclear incidents. The Japanese have so far rated the accident a four on a one-to-seven scale, but that rating was issued on Saturday and since then the situation has worsened dramatically.

France's nuclear safety authority ASN said on Tuesday it should be classed as a level-six incident.

At its worst, radiation in Tokyo reached 0.809 microsieverts per hour on Tuesday -- 10 times below what a person would receive if exposed to a dental x-ray. For Wednesday, radiation levels were barely above average.

But many Tokyo residents stayed indoors. Usually busy streets were nearly deserted. Many shops and offices were closed.

Winds over the plant blew out toward the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday.

Japanese media have became more critical of Kan's handling of the disaster and have criticized the government and plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. for their failure to provide enough information on the incident.

Nuclear radiation is an especially sensitive issue for Japanese following the country's worst human catastrophe -- the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

The full extent of the destruction was slowly becoming clear as rescuers combed through the tsunami-torn region north of Tokyo where officials say at least 10,000 people were killed.

There have been hundreds of aftershocks and more than two dozen were greater than magnitude 6, the size of the earthquake that severely damaged Christchurch, New Zealand, last month -- powerful enough to sway buildings in Tokyo.

About 850,000 households in the north were still without electricity in near-freezing weather, Tohuku Electric Power Co. said, and the government said at least 1.5 million households lack running water. Tens of thousands of people were missing.

Japan EarthQuake!!

I think that everyone should be helping out our neighbors in Japan as they really need help due to the devestation that just recently happened. Give generouly to all charity organizations that support food and relief to the battered people of Japan. Go to International Red Cross and donate your help..

New Group!!

Hello,
I just wanted to update everyone on the new business group on Google that I have started last week. If anyone is interested you can join the business discussion on (Modern World) and have a interesting chat about what business ventures are doing to combat the sagging economy and a whole lot more. Everyone is welcome to post to this group and talk about the new markets that you have found or products that you know about or are creating presently. I hope this will be a lively group of business people sharing ideas and products development and marketing.. Have a really great day now and chat live on the group (Modern World) as it is active on Google Groups.

Growing A Global Business!!

Hello all my friends and assocaites I just wanted to let everyone know that I am back from vacation and ready to continue growing our business into a global enterprise. We will be going into new partnerships and ventures in the near future that will be most productive. Over the last year I have gone through a lot of personal problems and I have seen the economic changes in business. Some people I know have knocked me for not doing more to make this company a global enterprise. I have taken friends and partners comments into consideration and decided to make bigger changes to our business. In a effort to make a greater business I have not watched the stock market as much as I should have and that has resulted in our retail business has gone bad. I have instituted some new policy changes that i feel will help get us on the right track again. I have decided to dump the current phone provider and we in the short term future will be going with a better phone service much sooner. I will keep everyone posted on the new changes and update everyone as to what they all are after they are implemented. Hope everyone has a very blessed day!!

Growing our Business!!

I just wanted to note that our business has major brand name affilliates and big well known companies added to our marketing program which will increase sales and as more join our company our business keeps expanding into new markets. With the additions to our marketing program and the using of social media now we are reaching a larger market share than we ever did in the past. We are going soon to partner with Satalite radio and use that to promaote our brand name which will reach a whole new spectrum of radio and video readership. in about three months Vimeo and Itunes will begin streaming our content live online and hope to similcast that on satillite radio channnel on Sirrius XM if they agree to it. Let us hope that they will sign on to be our partner and we will either have a show on one of thier channels or maybe even our own channel so we will see how this negotiations go with them sooner. The talk show is almost ready to begin and I will be the host for the new show on BLOGTALKRADIO.com called MODERN POLITICAL THINKING and so I hope that everyone will join the show and make it a great success. In ernest with a bigger growing business we are going to be back on E-Bay selling our products as the page is allready there for usage. A new store page on Amazon and PayPal will also feature our new product base and other companies have allready agreed to sign up annd partner to feature thier products and brand with us. So look for new things coming and hope that our company brand will grow and we will be a bigger success in year 2011.. Oh by the way I have tried to get VOICE America to feature a talk show with me as the host of the show but as of to date they have snubbed me so I will keep trying to get them into our network affilliation and Hope that is successfull sooner. Everyone have a really great day and enjoy your week..

Learning about Social Media!!

Hello my friends,
I though I would start out by saying that now I am using
socail media for more than just personal things like I did in the past. I have been reading the power of using social media such as facebook and myspace and twitter etc. to publicize my busineeses and my talk show and music like I never did before. Ok call me late to catch on but it hit me recently that if you want to drag customers to your sites to buy or use your products then you should be using social media to bring in into your customer base and generate sales. When I started out thirty five years ago on bulliton boards and began learning how to be a programmer in Basic language who would have thoought that technology would come so far and so fast that in a generation about 33 years that business would need to use socail media to build a good customer base and good public relations would depend on the internet and using social media. well fast forward top the present day to the fact that if your not incorporating social media into a business plan such as I am doing then your business ventures are bound to fail. I have this year started to do what alot of other big busineses have allready done and that is to use social media to promote my companies and my music,talk show and other things that I am into. As of this point my companies are affilliated with alot of giant well known name businesses and I continue to see new market shares open up because the internet is a global medeuim in which you can make money and share the good will and possible phlanthophy of all the businesses that I am doing. I recently reading the biographies of Mark Zuckerberg who created Facebook which many things in his book made alot of sense about creating and builing a business. I came away with a new understanding of how public media is a great platform for business who want to grow and prosper in this new world of the digital age. Your company image really depends now on a good website with a shopping cart and public media to draw in uour customers to it as well as using other things like print and television ads. Lets face it folks the world has radically changed in how it buy and looks for products and services and so as a business if you want to be a success then you had better jump onto the internet and use it's resources to build your business or your going to be lost in the shuffle by your competitors. If you look at the top 100 world wide companies who are making billions they all use the internet and social media such as facebook and twitter etc. to keep up with thier image and to promote new products and services that they are getiing into as well as the ones that the brands that they allready handle both on and offline. So Even the Stock market is all online now and most everything offline is now online in this digital age so creating a new start up company or growing a existing one really depends on putting your company on the internet. So I drink to you and heres to your success everyone and to good cheer today lets go make some money as President and CEO of our business ventures since that is what makes everyones life much better.
With the new invention and growing usage of modern age devices that are mobile and connect to the internet it just makes a even bigger market share that as a business you can tap into and become a additional customer base for the for seeable futher so I am going ahead with a plan to use this untapped base for my businesses and you should be too if you want to grow your company profits for now and the future of your business.
Have a great day now and be blessed by GOD and pad your wallet... BIG SMILE!!!!

My Talk Show!!

Hello all my friends around the world I am hard at work on my new talk show called MODERN POLITICAL THINKING on www.blogtalkradio.com and will launch my new talk show in two weeks. I hope to work out all the bugs before that and get things going soon as this is going to be exciting hosting my new show worldwide. I will be updating the information on the date of my first show and what tiime it will be so stay tuned and come enjoy sometthing new..
Have a great day now...

My New Show!!

Hello everyone on earth I just wnted to let the world know that I now have a new talk show live on air coming in the next week or so on www.blogtalkradio.com and it is a political talk show. My show is called Modern Political Thinking and you can find me live on air talking and taking phone calls. I will be the host of this new radio talk show and plan on making alot of commentary and bringing the current news to a primary focus and talk about what is on everyones mind. So stay tuned and I will update this information as I get the new show up and running soon. Oh yes by the way you now can go to my Youtube video page at www.youtube.com/yaway2 and watch my new travel history series and soon much more videos made by me will be on YouTube too watch including my music videos etc. So Have a really great day now and watch for my updates..

Year of 2010 and Decade comes To A Close Tommorrow!!

Well all my friends as I sit here and reflect on this year and the this decade coming to a end I have alot of things on my mind. I have alot of people who have made a big difference in my life and I want to thank them for all they have done. To my family and close friends I thank you for putting up with my sometimes changing personality and ideas over this year and decade. I want to thank George And Laura Bush The past President and first lady of America for their support of me and for offering me several White House cabinet jobs and for thier personal friendship and kindness, generousity over a long time. I want to Nancy Reagan for her kindness and help over the phone and for her insights and coaching that she has done over about two decades and thanks Ronald Reagan also and sad to see you dead and gone. I am greatly thankfull for the interesting phone calls and the friendship of Queen Elizebeth of England even though sometimes we have had a occassional misunderstanding this year and past years. I wish to thank Queen Elizabeth for offering to make me a Knight in a public ceremony and for all the other wonderfull things she has offered me this year and in past years. I want to thank past Prime Minister Tony Blair for his thoughtfull phone calls to me and for all the other people who have made my life richer at 10 Downing Street London,England and Buckingham Palace for thier knidness and interesting chatting on the phone with them and for all thier help. I decided to come forward and thank the people who around the world have made my life interesting and helped me. I don't gain any money or anything else by doing this writing about all this just thank I want to thank the people who I have met and also those I have talked to on the phone at great length about the status of the world today. I want to thank German Chancelor and President Angela Merkel for her friendship with me and phone conversations about world problems and her openness and willingness to listen to my thoughts and ideas this year and for her offer to insist on my attendance to the Nato meetings in Brussells Belgium and the G_12 economic summit as a representitive of America. I want to thank current President Barack Oboma and His wife and White House cabinet people including Attorney General Eric Holder,Defense Secertary Donald Rumsfeld and others from the White House with the interesting phone conversations this year. I also want to thank Barack Oboma for offering me a cabinet level job as Secertary of State to replace the current person Hilliary Clinton and to take over her job and to consider me for a duel role as head of running the campain reelection team for Barack Oboma's second term in office. I wish to be your friend still as you asked me Barack if we could be friends and work together the answer is still yes to that and I enjoyed talking to you alot and thanks for inviting me to lunch with you and meet with you at Camp David. To Vladimir Putin of Russia thanks for calling me several times and you got lots to talk about but sorry I was in so much of a hurry when you called me so I could not get alot of my points across to you this year. To murdered India Prime Minister Benazear Butto I miss talking to you on the phone and your friendship and as you had much to talk about and opened your heart to me about many things. I talked to Benazear Bhutto's son who asked me if I could get Nato to provide protection for him and his family fearing his whole family would be soon murdered and he wants to run for Prime minister in his country in the footsteps of his mother. I want to thank Donald Trump for his invatation to be on his tv show the Apprentice and his hope that I would win and all his kindness and help from the Trump organization in perticular his staff. I want to thank the tv shows producers in Hollywood California for asking me to join the TV show THE BIGGEST LOSER this year and for offering me a plane free plane ticket and all exspenses paid to their tv show set on location. Oh Yes I do want to thank Jimmy Carter for his phone calls to me this year and for his support and his solid advise on dealing with world leaders and the powerfully rich I thank you it helped greatly. If I have missed anyone in the world who I have forgotten who called me or met me in person or both I do appologize for my error and will gladly add your name to my list of public thanks.. This year has been a busy year for me and so too this decade and I just want to give credit to all the nice people and foriegn goverments who have come to me for advise and for all the great things offered to me by them, I thank you.. I hope that year 2011 will be a great new year and another chance to make hopefully a bigger difference in the world and promote my country of America and the Christian values that I hold dear to and become a greater success for myself too. In passing thought my life has been biszare in many ways but very much interesting and sometimes very dangerous to live with the secret enemies I have to deal with on this planet earth which are allways a real threat to my continued life and freedom but I have learned to manage it all with Gods help. I want to also Thank God and Jesus Christ for allways being here for me and for saving my neck from being ruined or worse dead. Have a blessed day to all my friends around the world and to my ex wife Michelle,my family and my two dogs Buddy and Brownie.... Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!

Remembering A Friend!!

Today is a deeply sad day for me as I have lost a good friend and the entire family mark the passing yesterday of a great personal friend of mine Gina White. I know that thoughout the past ten or more years that I have been fortunate to know her and be friends with her that she has allways helped me alot even sometimes when she sensed I needed it but did not ask for it. I just want to send my condolences to all her family and to say that i will miss her niceness,caring,giving and her smile and humor. This wonderfull person of real faith in God and lover of the Christian Church will be be surely missed by me,my mother and both my dogs who are friends of Gina White. As I sit here at ths computer counsole I remember a person who posessed more in good caracter,wisdom and personality than most women i have met in my life yet still she had not much for physical wealth but sure made up for it in a Masters Degree being blind and not able to see. Gina taught everyone that nothing is impossible if God is involved and to reach for your dreams allways no matter how many enemies you make and bad people that try to sell you out or drag you down as she allways said that to me including about a week ago. Her motto is allways been life is too short to to fail God and not persue things of Godly nature to include work,school and relationships etc. So I sit here and as a public statement of caring and appreciation for Gina White who loved everyone and shared everything she had I thank you Gina White for everything good that you gave me and done for me in my lifetime and being a good friend and a mentor to me all the years I have known you. Rest In Peace My Friend... Yours allways===>> Rick Norton

Your Money Invested!!

Hello Friends,
I woke up this morning with alot of ideas and money on my mind today and how it is best to invest it. I have been reading the financial section like I do every week and something really hit me that I don't think many other editors have written about much and that is the price of gold and other more valuable commodities. I just struck me that with all the Federal Reserve Bank is doing to prop up our failing economy that none of the markets and the Fed bank are really protected by a dollar bill currency that is backed by anything that has any real value tied to gold or diamonds. I know that statement might be considered wrong because over many decades the Federal Reserve has put real gold bullion into the vault at Fort Knox and possible another location but if you put the total value of all the gold that this country owns verses the amount of paper money printed then you see that the value of the dollar changes to almost nothing or no value. This all compared to the meager value of all precious metal including gold presently stored in any safe holding area means that our dollar bill as a currency is worth only the paper it is printed on and no more than that. No wonder why we have become the largest debtor nation on earth and yet we continue to out spend our own GDP and real net worth in gold by a huge margin. This is why we are a economic melt down is slowly happening in his country and why we are losing jobs and productivity due to our high tax and wastefull spending habits as a nation. Every time we increase the national debt ceiling we increase the amount of pain that the current generations have to bear which includes a poor economy but also the future generations of young kids who are going to find it even harder to make something of themselves due to our lack of financial sanity.So you be asking your self so why does this effect my own investing strategy and how much will I have to work until I can retire and live on my savings and investments? Good question for my readers to consider and look at thier own net worth. Well heres the answer and that is takes about $300,000 dollars in accumulated wealth to just live what little years you have left after you retire to still have a home and food and some bills paid based on current inflation. The current value of the dollar bills you have you would get about 9 years living that way and your investment accounts and savings accounts would be broke which is why so many Americans are allready broke or facing being broke due to the national debt and cost of living. So my prediction is that gold will hit $3000.00 a ounce by March of year 2011 and that is why it is a good idea to buy gold now intead of waiting for some time later. While some blue chip stocks are a good investment still and most people run to bonds when the stock market goes sour but nothing beats the real value of gold and other metals and diamonds. So investing in a hard currency that has a value and will never completely lose that value is allways a smart decision. Look at your own debt to net worth ratio and see where you can increase it and decrease your overall debt and also add more value by buying gold,diamonds and other valueable metals that is a good way to weather the poor economic ressession that we as all Americans are going through. Have a great now my friends and enjoy your day of Wednesday and stay warm!!!!

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Winter Cold Blast and Climate Changes!!!

Hello everyone today well well cold sure has come to this northern region and today it is 14 degrees here which I say is nice for the snow lovers but not for me. Yup you know that christmas is coming soon and in fact 15 days it will be here. Wow this year has surely gone fast and this year has been a strange one for me and alot of people I know. Can hardly believe that it is perdicted a foot a snow for tonight and a warming trend this weekend if you call fifty degrees warm. I see the weather map and most of the country is in a artic type freeze right now. Just a few weeks back old man winter dumped about three feet of snow in Chicago and the twin cities of Minnapolis and Saint Paul Minnasota. I have been to that area and you can tell the climate change from the rest of the country as even during summer it is still sometimes during the day bitter cold and never gets past fourty degrees day time temps. I don't know how those people can stand that type of cold and want to continue living with it full time. This year is even more different as the extreme south of the USA is getting bitter cold temps just the sameas new england is getting this December. I think the whole country has changed due to major climate changes that are reflection of the slow deterioration of planet earths noorth and south poles as well as the deforestation of the amazon rain forest and other key parts of the worlds eco system. One recent study suggested that I watched on discovery channel suggests a more grim prospect for the future of earth and that is going to have another Ice Age which would wipe out most of life thst currently exists. My opinion is that after watching and studying the data from various sources of information and different core samples from earth plus much more it all points to some where in future time this planet is going to suffer a catastrophic event that is goiing to change earths core and crust to a frigid cold or blazing inferno. Either way the search for another planet is a neccessasary thing to do and will give the hoe to all animal,human and plants and treees etc. when this planet is no longer habitable. You also have to look at the large metorites in space as a real continued threat to our existance on earth due to the size and number of them. The fact that we as earthlings have already experianced the destructive power of this kind of event hitting earth and we can look at a good example of that event that created the grand canyon in Arizona. So that alone could set this planet into another ice age or worse. Another more recent type of climate change example is Mount Penatubo when it erupted and spewed lava and ash that covered most of the earth with it. The ash other particles were carried some as far as 15,000 miles away from the mountain itself which harmed plant and amil and human life for many years to come. These are just some climate events that lead me to think that with the cold being so exstreme this year and each year it ha s gotten worse that on a scientific basis I think it worth noting that with all the wars and famine and poverty and other things that plague this planet are revelavant but not as important as where earth is headed to and why and how are we not going to prevent our race and all plant and animal life from being wiped out by natural events such as a Ice Age or metorite slamming into our planet from some far away place.. I think we as a human race have much more to learn from our planet and galaxy history and present as to how and what is going to be a real threat to our continued existance and how best to prevent this planet from from dieing on us. some more recent estimates show from scientific data that Nasa Space agentcy and independent research suggests a far more darker prospect for the overal longeveity of earth based on it's current rate of decay that we may only have only have another mellenium or about one thousand years of life of time left before this planet is a dead planet for life and resources. That is not a good prospect for earth and something that is more to fear and get to understand about earth that we all live on than man made problems. even though some of those are acellerating these planet and climate changes. Some important things for my readers world wide to ponder and do something abot to improve earth. Have a great day everyone and enjoy your weekend!!! BIG SMILE!!!!!

Recconnecting with People!!

Hello I just wanted to note that a stroke of good fortune happened today as a life long friend contacted me and offered to help me today. Wow it sure has been a while since I last talked to him and it is wonderfull to read his mail today. I am greatfull for his kindness and understanding thoughout all the years I have known him. I just wanted to sit here and say thanks to him and all the friends I have which is not many but they are all important to me. I know that many times when no one would step up to help me these people have done that and I am fortunate to have friends like them. So Have a blessed day to all my friends that I know in person and stay well and happy!! Take care now!!

Rick N.

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Correction of Error of Post!!

Hello Friends I just wanted to quickly get this update done as I made a mistake on the page address I called it www.1source.com actually it is www.suite101.com so for the mistake but now it is fixed.. have a great day now!!!!

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Hmm. Learning About My Readership!!

Hello friends I just got myself quite a shock at the list of countries that read my blog as I never been to that menu and oh my I can say I am stunned at how many people have come to my blog page. Ok Ok I been been ignorant and thought no one was reading this page at all till I just clicked on a world view map and got my eyes opened. Ok my life is not easy and right now it is very hard but I guess I thought no one would ever read my blog here. Hmmmm.. Guess I am wrong and sorry to my reader for being blind as to what I post here and not knowing that this page is read in I counted about 19 countries around the world. I appologize for not knowing and since it is that well read it means I will try now from here on to improve this page with more content and less of my personal woes and pain of life. Since I am the editor I will try to bring more quality journalism to this page and who knows maybe this page will the catalist for starting a regular newspaper online which I have thought of doing many times. I have written many books and some are published with those that did get published making it to the New York Times best seller list so that i am still proud of. So with that note at the end of the day I will continue to write to this and improve on it since now I know it is worth while doing it.. I also want to note that I just started today writing on a journalism forum called 1source.com and hope to make some good things happen with that soon. I started a new music page to promote my music on OURSTAGE.com/JohnNorton and in spite of my lifes woes I still plan on making a music video and show of my tunes that I have written. I unfortunately have not done anything with my www.exploretalent.com/johnnorton page to get movie and modeling contracts but I will have to turn to doing more about that sooner. Have A Blessed Day Now To EVeryone!!!!!!!

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Recent Update to Blog And My Life!!

Well all my friends it is the beginning of the worst part of the year that ugly nasty thing called winter is here being that is December 7th today. I see that my readership has increased recently which is just really great as I finally got to putting a page counter on this page that actually works. I tried many different page counters but they all failed till Google finally put this available to me and I love it cause it works with no bugs. I just proofed my page and I do see a few links have failed to work and shortly I will get to fixing them sooner. Sorry my friends and visitors for the not being as prompt on the updates this year but I still am dealing with computer and bad money problems. I would love to be here more and keep this page more interesting but I am financially failing and about all I own this month. To add insult to injury my car blew a fuel pump and it is stranded at my friends house while I work out how to get money to fix car. Well as of November 30th I got evicted out of the temporary apartment that I was living in and the same week I got my supplemental income cut off too. So the money I planned to use to go home to Forida at the end of November is a no a total zero as in I am broke and stranded in a place I hate with a passion with winter cold. Well since December 1st I have slept in my car until my friends have told me politely that they don't want to see me very often about 4 times a month. I am told by all my variety of friends how wonderfull their lives are in comparison to me being stuck in a winter place that is going to end up killing me sooner if I can't get a real house to live in and money from somewhere. Tonight I am forced to walk the streets freezing to death and it makes me really realize how little people really care about me when I have no job and and I am stranded in a place that is going to end my life. Even if I go back to my car at a friends house they don't want me hanging around and trying to keep on living with what I own including seeing my dog which they have been caring for since December 1St.. I appreciate all the help I have gotten from these people but they never are able to see my point of view and that is I never have had much in life and all I got I worked for and some came more recently from a family trust fund for me. I am trying to hang on to what little I still own and my two vehicles and my dog and when you don't live a life of over $4000.00 a week in income like all my other friends do you learn how to do the impossible and live with little to nothing for money. You really find out how much people care about you when your given a lecture about being a fourty something yer old man who is a failure and given 4 bucks and dumped at a homeless shelter and told bye and see you next week or in a few weeks. I now know this is why I hate this state and the attitude of people here who only care about you if you got money and a fancy house and plenty of toys. As soon as you show themyou got nothing the tune changes to what are we goiing to do with hima and get lost loser and come back a week or so or never from a homeless shelter and sorry pal I am not paying your bills or anything else. Real friends would not care about how much it costs or how long you would stay with them just that you would have a place to live away from the freezing cld of winter that kill people. You soon learn none of that matter if you don't show any money and other things of wealth.. this is my story today!!!

Major Update Now!!

Hello my friends I just added a whole lot more to my page so come check it out and see the new page.. I think eveyone is going to agree that it looks nicer and runs much smother than it did before... big smile today...

Joiin My New Music Page!!

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Changing Careers

Well it is Monday for sure and today I am feeling kinda stuck creative wise so I decided to write something. It all ways seems that Monday is the harderst day to get something done and be involved in a work project. I still think a career based on productive output is better than stagnation.it is difficult to change a career when you have done it for so long and like it. Money issues all ways put a limit on ones life and achievements. Living longer is a blessing and something to appreciate but money and career can and will lift you up or sink your life. Funny how one single thing in life called money has the power to bring good to you and increase your life or totally destroy it. Unfortunately most people fall into to category of being wrecked by money and that is from being broke most of the time. I guess that is why the bible says money is the root of all evil when you never gave it or enough of it to live long on earth. Just think if everyone has a million dollars then no one would die early in life and the entire population of earth would be a achieving and globally advancing civilization. Food for thought given the state of our current economic woes that all nations face currently. If everyone on earth was rich then who would need war and all its weapons. If every living person on earth has a million dollars then all the crime and poverty would disappear then as a human race we would not need prisons and a justice system or for a matter of fact much of any social programs that we bow have. Life for all humans would be great and even the animals would benefit too from our new found wealth and freedom. Think about how much better everything would be for all of earth. This is my thoughts for today and a proposal to improve all of earth and mankind. Blessing to everyone and have a wonderful day now my friends.

a new year!

Surely I got a lot of changes recently that make me look younger and a pretty young blonde told me my age is not a factor in her mind cause she thinks I sm youth looking for my age. I smiled and thanked her for her kindness. very nice to be commented on what she said I'd good looks. I never put any efforts into my looks since I feel that would make me look shallow person which I am not. Time sure has gone fast and you do notice that age number more past fourty something..
Well it sure has been a while since I posted to here. I just had a new birthday and now I am 42 but some days I feel older.

Meeting New People!!

I thought I would reflect on this days events and in perticularly one younger women. I met her today while riding the bus to get some food that I needed and she told me that she is twenty nine years old and has lived in many places. I am amazed to hear her describe all the places including Italy and California etc. that she has lived and been too. She was most imformative about all aspects of the places she has been which was interesting to me since I never have been there. The more I talked to her it made me realize how much she had accomplished in her life and that my life has gone pretty much no where compared to hers and she is about half my age. It forced me to reaccess my own life while talking to her and learning from her alot of new things about what it is to be a traveling successfull person. I thought in my life that I have seen and done alot but then you meet someone new and listen to their life story then you realize all the things you have missed out on. It is hard to swallow that someone who is half your age has gone more places and done more fun and interesting things in life than you have done which really is awefull. My age is a further insult that I have not done all the interesting things that she has done including living in many interesting places which I have never even seen let alone ever have lived in nice places like her. Granted I may come across as being jealous but in truth I am not at all feelling that way but instead just realize how much of a small box my life has become unfortunately for me. So I just decided to write about it here as a way of venting my frustration at how life has become so stuck in a box and seemly not many ways of changing it these days. That is all I got to say for today but it is allways good to share things sometimes when your out of ideas and creative process which I find this year is all about.

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Actor John Forsythe Died Yesterday!!!

I wanted to comment on John Forsythe Death today and include his obituary peice as I allways thought he would someday follow in the footsteps of Ronald Reagan and become President of The United States. He sure had the personality and caracter to do the job and when he was on the tv show Dallas he just made me more convinced he show go run for the Presidential Oval Office. He Would have made a great President and probabily would have also been reelected to a full second term in the White House. It is sad we will never know how great he could have been in the Oval Office since he has died now. Sometimes in life you meet a person and it just screams out a certian caracter that is right for public office and this man sure had the right stuff. Here is his obituary and this is my tribute to a real great man who should have been called and elected MR. PRESIDENT.

LOS ANGELES – John the handsome, smooth-voiced actor who made his fortune as the scheming oil tycoon in TV's "Dynasty" and the voice of the leader of "Charlie's Angels" has died after a yearlong battle with cancer. He was 92.

Forsythe died late Thursday at his home in Santa Ynez from complications of pneumonia, publicist Harlan Boll said Friday.

"He died as he lived his life, with dignity and grace," daughter Brooke Forsythe said.

Despite his distinguished work in theater and films, Forsythe's greatest fame came from his role as Blake Carrington in the 1981-89 primetime soap opera "Dynasty." Forsythe lent dignity to the tale of murder, deceit, adultery and high finance, which often brought Carrington into conflict with his flashy, vengeful former wife, Alexis Colby, played to the hilt by Joan Collins.

Forsythe was an important part of another hit series without being seen. From 1976 to 1981 he played the voice of Charlie, the boss who delivered assignments to his beautiful detectives via telephone in "Charlie's Angels."

Forsythe evidenced little of the ego drive that motivates many actors. He viewed himself with a self-effacing humor, considering himself "a vastly usable, not wildly talented actor."

In a 1981 interview by a reporter, he also said: "I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God. I'm in the next bunch."

With his full head of silver hair, tanned face and soothing voice, Forsythe as Carrington attracted the ardor of millions of female television viewers. "It's rather amusing at my advanced age (mid-60s) to become a sex symbol," he cracked.

While he had small roles in a couple of films in the early 1940s, Forsythe's first successes were mainly on the stage. While serving during World War II, he was cast in Moss Hart's Air Force show "Winged Victory," along with many other future stars.

After the war, Forsythe became a founding member of the Actors Studio, recalling it as "a wildly stimulating place for a guy like me who was a babe in the woods. I never suspected there was that kind of artistry and psychological approach to acting."

Declining a return to Warner Bros., Forsythe began appearing in television plays as early as 1947, and he continued his Broadway career. A role in Arthur Miller's "All My Sons" led to the awesome task of replacing Henry Fonda in "Mister Roberts."

He was next able to create a role of his own, as the naive Army officer in occupied Okinawa in "Teahouse of the August Moon." The play was a huge success, winning the Pulitzer Prize. "It gave me a sense of worth as an actor," Forsythe remarked.

The call to Hollywood was irresistible, and Forsythe came west to star in such films as "The Captive City," "The Glass Web" and "Escape from Fort Bravo." His best break came in 1955 when he starred in Alfred Hitchcock's one attempt at whimsy, "The Trouble with Harry," about a corpse that kept turning up in a New England town.

But Forsythe's film roles were limited because he was already busy in television. The comedy "Bachelor Father," in which he played a Hollywood lawyer who cared for his teenage niece, lasted from 1957 to 1962, appearing successively on CBS, NBC and ABC.

His later films included "Madame X" (opposite Lana Turner) and "In Cold Blood," Hitchcock's spy thriller "Topaz," "The Happy Ending" and "Goodbye and Amen."

"And Justice for All" (1979) marked a departure for the actor. Director Norman Jewison cast him as a judge with a kinky sex life.

"He wanted to create suspense on whether the judge was guilty of such dark deeds," Forsythe said.

He credited the role for causing him to be considered as the unscrupulous Carrington in "Dynasty."

"The producers didn't know what the hell they wanted," Forsythe recalled. "They talked to me in terms of J.R. in 'Dallas.' I said, 'Look, fellas, I don't want to play J.R. Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches; when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts."

He was born John Lincoln Freund on Jan. 29, 1918, in Penn's Grove, N.J.

He won an athletic scholarship to the University of North Carolina, had a stint as public address announcer for the Brooklyn Dodgers, then launched his struggle to become an actor against the wishes of his father. Having had his name mispronounced all his life, he adopted the name of Forsythe, which came from his mother's family.

He toured the country in a children's theater troupe with his first wife, actress Parker McCormick, and began appearing in radio soap operas and Broadway plays.

His first marriage ended after the birth of a son, Dall. During the run of "Winged Victory," Forsythe married another actress, Julie Warren. They had two daughters, Page in 1950, Brooke in 1954.

When not acting, Forsythe maintained a strong interest in politics and sports, often playing in charity tennis tournaments. A devoted environmentalist, he also narrated a long-running outdoor series, "The World of Survival."

In lieu of flowers, Forsythe's family asked that donations be made to the American Cancer Society.

The family said there will be no public service.

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Adding New Changes To Blog!!

I added new features this week so that I hope my blog is more interesting and user friendly. Thanks to my sponsor friends at Google for allowing this page to become more improved because they have added more options to blogger recently. I have added more advertizing and will continue to hopefully import more content into this blog page as I find out how to get it to function with this page. I still am not able to import my own videos and get them to work here and some page items keep flopping out of the page from time to time why I don't know. Guess I got to keep messing with the forms page and one day I will find out why I got some page errors. I also tried to add Amazon to this blog but for some reason it still won't work here on my this page. It is probabily some stupid check mark box I forgot to include in my adding Amazon to blogger page creation for this blog page. Oh, Well live and learn more every day and you hope you actually are able to solve all the page problems. Well, That is all for today folks and I will hopefully feel like writing more this week on this page.

I am Back at work here!!

Well I am finally back to work on my blog here after having a disaster with my computer crashing. It forced me to have to rebuild everything I have lost
since my last posting in November 2009. Sometimes you got to painfully start over and it is not pleasent to do that if you lost most of your files and password. I am still recovering from a Vista operating system that frankly really is awefull and only works when it wants to. I have added new hardware here over Christmas time to try to hopefully never go through another crash again as I am more prepared for it now. I am back to writing and weeekly updating this blog and doing many new ventures. It seems as you grow older your creative process seems to become more than what you were in your twenties. Well that old addage I guess is true that the older you are the wiser you are and become over time. It does work out that you allways are doing something for the better of yourself but that you hope you are making a positive impact on all the people you meet and all the people you have as friends. Christmas was really great for me and shared it with frfriends and my small family and had a good time with all them. I have had my share of ups and downs but I am still writing books and articles about subjects that are important to me which is allways good to do since that makes all my readers have a opinion and a voice as well as me. Finally I am glad to be back and posting to here and writing about thing like world events and much more that are interesting to me as well as everyone who reads my blog here. Look forward to new Ideas and articles from me here and alot of major blog improvement as I will be doing that too. So take care and blessed be everyone and have a wonderfull day.

Jesus Christ and education!!!

I had a recent descussion with my new women friend recently about the fact that their os a lack of freedom of choice for the younger generation to pray to god and Jesus in the public school system. In pure simple terms according to my women friend the lack of knowledge in younger generations of morals and of bible based education is turning out kids who know nothing and have no values. I say this is great that some people realize the problems that public education has and what needs to be done to fix it. Sometimes I realize that problems take longer to solve but that there is also a future solution that makes sense to do. Looking at the scope of prayer in public schools being denied by law and the refusal of many schools not allowing the use of the pledge of alledgence on school you can certianly see the erosion of our basic of education. Should this continue we will have kids who know nothing about god and nothing about our countries history. I ask the basic question if we do this what are the future leaders of America going to be like? The answer is shocking and that it will be a nation of know nothing kids with no direction in life and worse no nothing about faith and totally lacking in moral caracter. This is wrong for us as a people and a nation to be doing this to our younger generations. The other problem is all the bad debt that is going to be piled onto them from our wastefull excess spending that we do in this nation. We need to reverse this problem too so our kids and grand kids are not saddled with our stupidity of financial mistakes. This being fixed for both us and the younger people along with a change to a good Christian based education will turn out kids with college degrees and a good life foundation in christian faith. These changes are important to do for the well being and productiveness of our younger kids who all need this changes.
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