<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829790436213317670</id><updated>2011-04-21T20:53:53.310-07:00</updated><title type='text'>May</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mccoyctzrtnwwy.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8829790436213317670/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mccoyctzrtnwwy.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>stephenjjxbhwfv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11006392031004200012</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>44</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829790436213317670.post-679898188045166261</id><published>2008-06-02T05:36:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-02T05:36:33.182-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Genuine Recipes From Romania With Cheese And Cabbage</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Romanians are really fond of various types of tasty food preparations. There are everyday preparations, cooked whenever you feel like it. Again, there are preparations that are cooked only on special occasions. Here we are going to talk about two recipes: traditional cheese ball &lt;a href=http://www.pharmacy.shop24-7-365.com/Quetiapine-Seroquel.php&gt;Quetiapine&lt;/a&gt; cabbage rolls.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Well, Romanians do not like wasting time when they decide on a nice meal; so let us start off without delay. The first preparation we are going to choose is the cheese ball, which finds its place in every Romanian cookbook. It takes nearly an hour to cook.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The basic ingredients for this dish are corn flour sauce and the stuffing. For the sauce, you will need 350 grams of corn flour, half a teaspoon of salt, a litre and a half of water. For the stuffing, you will need 4 eggs, 50 grams of butter, and 300 grams of cheese. The cheese should ideally be of two types, and the most suitable types are bellows cheese ("branza de burduf") and "telemea", a salty cheese.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first step involves boiling the eggs and cooking the soft corn flour sauce. You have to use an earthen pot, a symbol of authentic Romanian cuisine, to get the original flavor. But first, you need to immerse the pot in water for about 15 minutes and butter up the &lt;a href=http://www.shop24-7-365.com/Insurance/Car-Insurance/auto-insurance.php&gt;auto insurance companys&lt;/a&gt; of the pot adequately. This will ensure that the cheese balls do not stick to the pot when you cook them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once the corn flour sauce has been prepared, flake the bellows cheese with a fork. Next, pour one third of the sauce into the pot and put in the bellows cheese, a teaspoon of butter and two halved boiled eggs. The next step is to cover it with another third of the corn flour sauce, and putting the salty cheese and two boiled eggs upon it. Top it up with the final third of the sauce and the authentic Romanian cheese ball is ready to serve.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cabbage rolls are another preparation that finds a pride of place in any Romanian cookbook. Normally it takes around half an hour or so to prepare the ingredients. 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For more information visit: www.amish-furniture-home.comwww.amish-furniture-home.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8829790436213317670-2913401691712914006?l=mccoyctzrtnwwy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mccoyctzrtnwwy.blogspot.com/feeds/2913401691712914006/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8829790436213317670&amp;postID=2913401691712914006' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8829790436213317670/posts/default/2913401691712914006'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8829790436213317670/posts/default/2913401691712914006'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mccoyctzrtnwwy.blogspot.com/2008/05/know-your-softwoods.html' title='Know Your Softwoods'/><author><name>stephenjjxbhwfv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11006392031004200012</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829790436213317670.post-5942786480932600432</id><published>2008-05-11T06:44:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-11T06:44:56.760-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Why Buy A Digital SLR Camera?</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;The digital single lens reflex technology has improved &lt;a href=http://www.weird-encyclopedia.com/Lilith.php&gt;Lilith&lt;/a&gt; image quality. 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All in all, the digital SLR is a great camera.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8829790436213317670-5942786480932600432?l=mccoyctzrtnwwy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mccoyctzrtnwwy.blogspot.com/feeds/5942786480932600432/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8829790436213317670&amp;postID=5942786480932600432' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8829790436213317670/posts/default/5942786480932600432'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8829790436213317670/posts/default/5942786480932600432'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mccoyctzrtnwwy.blogspot.com/2008/05/why-buy-digital-slr-camera.html' title='Why Buy A Digital SLR Camera?'/><author><name>stephenjjxbhwfv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11006392031004200012</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829790436213317670.post-2190742216467175977</id><published>2008-05-10T06:45:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-10T06:45:56.877-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Resume Samples - Fast Track Your Resume Using Samples</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Not interested in writing your own &lt;a href=http://www.mad-monsters.com/&gt;monster movies&lt;/a&gt; Or not having the success you would like with your current resume? 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Removing the irritating substances from coffee has not really been the challenge all that time. Rather, it has been removing them while retaining the taste and the flavor  things that make coffee interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;that is exactly what the new techniques have achieved. The best Arabica beans are chosen for Hevla-processed coffee, and the roasting goes on as usual. Roasting creates the flavour, but unfortunately also gives rise to the substances that connect heartburn and coffee. The Hevla high pressure steaming method is able to remove these substances without compromising on the taste and flavor.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So if you are one of those people who are thinking of giving up on coffee because of heartburn, despair no more. The link between heartburn and coffee has been broken. 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However, it is easy to make mistakes valuing a property, and transaction costs can eat up your profits if you are a little bit off in your assumptions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is the most obvious way to make money with anything, right? Of course selling high is the more problematic part of the formula. But then again, if you buy low enough, you can even sell low and still make money. So the big question then, is how to buy for less.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are many ways to pay less. What is the simplest way? Offer less. This is the oldest and simplest negotiating ploy of real estate investing. Everybody knows this technique, at least in it's crudest versions, but most are afraid to use it. Why? Well, it can be &lt;a href=http://www.feelingretro.com/toys/Boy-Toys/six-million-dollar-man.php&gt;Six Million Dollar Man&lt;/a&gt; and it can be a &lt;a href=http://www.weird-encyclopedia.com/Bermuda-triangle.php&gt;Bermuda triangle&lt;/a&gt; of time if you don't do it right. On the other hand, do you really mind being a bit embarrassed if it saves you $20,000?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first piece of real estate I ever bought was a small lot for which the seller was asking $4,500 (now that's cheap real estate). Fortunately for me, in my ignorance, I didn't know then that offering 22% less than the asking price was considered insulting. Looking back on it, I now understand why the realtor didn't want to present the offer. In any case, the seller accepted my offer of $3,500, because he was anxious to sell his last property before moving.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A friend bought a home on a lake for perhaps $40,000 less than it was worth. How? He made the offer. He was always making low offers as he shopped for a home, and of course this meant he had most of his offers rejected. I might have even hinted to him that he was wasting his time. Good thing he didn't listen. Would you be willing to have a dozen offers rejected if it meant buying a home for a savings of $40,000?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then there is the investor from &lt;a href=http://www.pharmacy.shop24-7-365.com/Meridia-Sibutramine.php&gt;meridia online&lt;/a&gt; who routinely made dozens of offers at a time on houses - without even look at them. He wrote the offers for 25% less than the asking price, and included an inspection contingency and other &lt;a href=http://www.saturdaymorning.pop-cult.com/monster-squad.html&gt;Monster Squad&lt;/a&gt; to protect himself. Most sellers said no, of course. Most did, but not all. He occasionally got some very cheap real estate this way.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cheap Real Estate - Lowering Expectations&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;During a seminar, a real estate investor once told me,"If you aren't embarrassed by your offer, it isn't low enough." Considering that he's made millions in real estate, he may be worth listening to. &lt;a href=http://www.christmas-almanac.com/Christmas-Carols/rockin-around-the-christmas-tree.html&gt;Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree&lt;/a&gt; need to understand, however, that a truly low offer will almost never be accepted. Is it a waste of time then? Not at all, because there will often be counter-offers, and a low initial offer is just a way to alter expectations.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let's suppose you think your home is worth $300,000. You mention to a friend that you are considering selling it, and he says, "You should be able to get $250,000, right?" You ask another friend what he thinks the home is worth, and he tells you $260,000. How confident would you be about your $300,000 estimate of value now? You might lower your expectations, right?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is one of the primary functions of a low offer; to alter expectations. When a seller is asking $300,000, and you offer $250,000, will he accept your offer? Probably not. He'll almost certainly reject it. Getting cheap real estate isn't going to be that easy. He may counter-offer, however. Suppose you go back and forth, and finally agree to $182,000. He might not have considered selling this low before, but maybe now it even seems like victory to him after starting at $160,000.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You'll lose a lot of potential properties this way. Sellers sometimes won't even take subsequent offers seriously once you have offended them with your extreme offer. You might avoid this by assuring the seller that his property may indeed be worth what he is asking, but that it only works for your purposes at a lower price. On the other hand, so what if you have a lot of rejected offers. Isn't a bit of rejection worth it to get really cheap real estate?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Note: remember that if your plan is to simply buy for a low price and immediately sell the property, you should carefully consider the transaction costs and holding costs. Transaction costs include all the costs of buying the property, as well as all the costs of selling it, and can easily top 10% of the sales price if you pay a full sales commission.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The holding costs include property taxes, insurance, utilities, and any other ongoing costs while you own the property. Estimate the monthly costs of these and multiply that figure by an estimate of how many months it will take to sell the property to arrive at your total holding costs. Leave lots of margin for error if you want a safe investment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Copyright Steve Gillman. For a &lt;a target="_new" href="http://www.housesunderfiftythousand.com"&gt;Free Real Estate Investing Course&lt;/a&gt;, and to see a photo of the home we bought for $17,500, visit: &lt;a target="_new" href="http://www.HousesUnderFiftyThousand.com"&gt;http://www.HousesUnderFiftyThousand.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8829790436213317670-1596781667963390085?l=mccoyctzrtnwwy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mccoyctzrtnwwy.blogspot.com/feeds/1596781667963390085/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8829790436213317670&amp;postID=1596781667963390085' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8829790436213317670/posts/default/1596781667963390085'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8829790436213317670/posts/default/1596781667963390085'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mccoyctzrtnwwy.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-to-buy-low-and-sell-high.html' title='How To Buy Low And Sell High'/><author><name>stephenjjxbhwfv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11006392031004200012</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829790436213317670.post-7642380840022045284</id><published>2008-05-06T05:47:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-06T05:47:35.591-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Benefits Of Using Flow Diagrams in Presentations</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;First off, let's start with defining what a data flow diagram is in the first place. A data flow diagram is a graphical representation of data flow in a process or information system. These diagrams can become and invaluable asset in your presentation if used properly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Usually this &lt;a href=http://www.comic-covers.com/Marvel/MarvelC-D/Conan/index.html&gt;Conan&lt;/a&gt; starts with a very high level graphical representation showing and overall picture of the &lt;a href=http://www.movies.pop-cult.com/blazing-saddles.html&gt;Blazing Saddles&lt;/a&gt; and processes and continues down to the lower levels of the process through the presentation. This is often called top-down expansion. By presenting this analysis, the audience can literally walk with you through the process and see &lt;a href=http://www.lemonlaws.shop24-7-365.com/dc.html&gt;District of Columbia Lemon Laws&lt;/a&gt; discrete point as you lead them through the presentation. This is especially useful with investment stakeholders who have a stake in the work flow or process you are discussing. Often times, they may not have ever seen the high level view of the given process or flow.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To get started, simply start with a context diagram. This is usually a simple representation of the entire system, process, or data flow your are discussing. Next, follow up with a level 1 flow diagram; which provides an overview of the major functional areas of the investment. At this point, don't get &lt;a href=http://www.saturdaymorning.pop-cult.com/lidsville.html&gt;Lidsville&lt;/a&gt; the details. Keep the level 1 diagram at a high level and start addressing all the areas of interest that your audience has a stake in. Make &lt;a href=http://www.pharmacy.shop24-7-365.com/Donepezil-Aricept.php&gt;Donepezil&lt;/a&gt; you are using terminology that makes sense to them. The easiest way to lose your audience is to use acronyms or terminology that they cannot relate to.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now that you have your level 1 diagram, you are ready to create the level 2 investment flow diagram. Continue to peal the layers of the process back in your presentation going deeper at each level. Typically, you will want to keep it no more than three (4) layers deep. Any deeper and you will lose your audience for sure. A good approach is provide hand outs that the attendees can take with them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Identifying the existing investment processes, using a technique like data flow diagrams, is an essential step to investment process re-engineering, migration to new technology, or improving any work flow related to your investment. Here are a few pieces you will need in your flow diagram: External Entity&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;An external entity is a source or destination of a data flow which is outside of your process. This could be anything where data originates outside of your process. The symbol used is an oval containing a meaningful and unique identifier.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Process&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A process shows a transformation or manipulation of data flows within your system. The symbol used is a rectangular box which usually contains three elements. The first is a number that appears in the upper left hand corner.1&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Firstly an identification number appears in the upper left hand corner. This is allocated arbitrarily at the top level and serves as a reference. Second, you must put a identifier that describes where in the system the process takes place. An example is a piece of hardware, or department. Finally, a descriptive title is placed in the centre of the box. This should be a simple statement with a specific verb, for example 'maintain vendor records' or 'find need'. Data Flow&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A data flow shows the flow of information from its source to its destination. A data flow is represented by a line, with arrowheads showing the direction of flow.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Data Store&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A data store is a holding place for information within the system: It is represented by an open ended narrow rectangle. An example might be a batch of invoices or a queue in a system that stores records before processing. Resource Flow&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A resource flow shows the flow of any physical material from its source to its destination. The physical resource needs to be identified and labelled. Now you are set to create an informative and compelling presentation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Matt D Murren owns and operates   www.flow-diagram-advisor.comwww.flow-diagram-advisor.com -   www.flow-diagram-advisor.com"&gt;Flow Diagram&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8829790436213317670-7642380840022045284?l=mccoyctzrtnwwy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mccoyctzrtnwwy.blogspot.com/feeds/7642380840022045284/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8829790436213317670&amp;postID=7642380840022045284' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8829790436213317670/posts/default/7642380840022045284'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8829790436213317670/posts/default/7642380840022045284'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mccoyctzrtnwwy.blogspot.com/2008/05/benefits-of-using-flow-diagrams-in.html' title='The Benefits Of Using Flow Diagrams in Presentations'/><author><name>stephenjjxbhwfv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11006392031004200012</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829790436213317670.post-5009744345109363096</id><published>2008-05-05T05:56:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-05T05:56:16.346-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Works of Christopher Radko</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Christopher Radko has been making, designing and producing keepsake ornaments for almost two decades now. Apart from ornaments he also makes gifts and home dcor for various occasions and seasons. His specialty is the hand-made, brightly colored and glittering ornaments and holiday decorations. His lovely decorations decorate millions of homes including celebrities and collectors to your neighbors and maybe your house as well. His unique and sparkling creations have become popular gifts and they will last for generations. Radko's creations are usually associated with keeping &lt;a href=http://tomorrowetnnxalvxq.blogspot.com&gt;Tomorrowetnnxalvxq&lt;/a&gt; touch and making a lasting relationship with friends and families. Christopher Radko is considered to &lt;a href=http://thisiubpkih.blogspot.com&gt;Thisiubpkih&lt;/a&gt; one of the best creators of holiday decorations for homes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In 1984, Christopher Radko replaced a rusty old Christmas tree stand with a new gleaming new aluminum model. But a week before Christmas the new stand gave way. The tree crashed to the floor and shattered most of the decorated ornaments. The decoration ornaments sold that time in the United States were made of plastic and Styrofoam. The glass ornaments that had shattered were handmade treasures collected over generations. Once when Christopher was in Poland he looked glass ornaments to replace the one's which were broken because of him. He could not find the glass ornaments but he &lt;a href=http://chipsbomfqc.blogspot.com&gt;Chipsbomfqc&lt;/a&gt; a man who was interested in making the same. With Christopher's support and encouragement the man was able to recover antique ornament molds. Radko also gave the man sketches of his own childhood favorites. New designs were also made from imagination. Various ornaments were produced but they never made it to the family tree. Christopher's friends in New York purchased all of them. When he went abroad once more he brought back more ornaments. This time they made it to the family tree and the extras were sold out as well. His first collection of 65 ornaments was in 1986. Today Christopher proudly displays more than 10,000 unique glass designs in his home for the holidays and various occasions. His company now has more than 3,000 people who work in cottage workshops in Poland, Germany, Italy and the Czech Republic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Christopher Radko makes his ornaments from European glass in the old method, hand made. &lt;a href=http://www.feelingretro.com/toys/Games/toss-across.php&gt;Toss Across&lt;/a&gt; each ornament takes 7 days to complete. They are hand painted Christmas ornaments with the finest detail. His ornaments still brighten the world of many families and stay with them for generations. 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The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has been slowly tightening its grip on how people can share music. The massive python has squeezed peer to peer networks and their members since the beginning.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The whole mess started in May of 1999 when Shawn Fanning started &lt;a href=http://tellmeyjwcsoxj.blogspot.com&gt;Tellmeyjwcsoxj&lt;/a&gt; "little" service called Napster. The instant massive popularity of Napster forced the RIAA's hand. They sued Napster on December 7th, 1999. Since that time, the RIAA has been on &lt;a href=http://riflebzbltdfob.blogspot.com&gt;Riflebzbltdfob&lt;/a&gt; mission to squash the insurgency. At first, the RIAA went after major online brokers like Napster to stop the tide. Once those services had been culled, they moved onto major nodes of activity. These were individuals who were important players on the Peer to Peer (P2P) networks like Kazaa, Grokster, Morpheus, etc. On May 2, 2003, the RIAA reached settlements with three college students. Though the fines were small, the message that they brought was much more important. That message was that the RIAA would prosecute anyone, big or small, who engaged in music swapping activity. It seemed like the RIAA had effectively made the offenders run for the hills. But those victory cries were soon drowned out by a disturbing trend.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you have been monitoring the music scene, you will have noticed a strong rise in independent artists. &lt;a href=http://retroandfun.blogspot.com&gt;his blog&lt;/a&gt; is the cause of such a move? Well, in large part, it is the artist herself. Artists have become disenchanted with the strategies and priorities of large recording companies. What they see is a massive disconnect between music companies, the artists, and their audience. And that has left a massive vacuum. But that's for another article. Let's focus our attention on the P2P landscape.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Recently, the RIAA sued Limewire for $150,000 for each song that was downloaded as part of that service. That sum, as you might have guessed, is astronomical. Limewire has now counter sued the RIAA for an interesting claim. They are claiming that the RIAA is acting in a monopolistic fashion. This indicates a total shift in thinking and strategy. Most P2P networks have just fallen by the wayside. They fight for a while, but &lt;a href=http://www.saturdaymorning.pop-cult.com/fat-albert.html&gt;Fat Albert&lt;/a&gt; they bend the knee before the RIAA. But Limewire is not defending. Limewire is now going on the offensive once morest the monolith. And how we just love underdogs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But even if the RIAA wins this battle, haven't they lost bigger ones in the process? Will what we're &lt;a href=http://www.feelingretro.com/toys/Boy-Toys/mego-batman.php&gt;Mego action figures&lt;/a&gt; in the independent music movement translate to the consumer? Or will the consumer just turn a deaf ear to the position? I guess that's all up to you.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Paul McGillivary has been a technologist for 15 years. In that time, Paul has experienced thousands of technology dilemmas, challenges, and products. 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If youre a professional who has often talked about tape backup plans but has been hesitant to invest in one, keep these facts in mind:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1. Tape Backup Is Cost-Effective&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sure, &lt;a href=http://www.feelingretro.com/toys/Misc-Toys/weebles.php&gt;Weebles&lt;/a&gt; might be spending money up-front on a tape backup system, but if you ever need to use the tape backup data, itll be worth its weight in gold (at least proverbially speaking!) Your initial investment pales in comparison to the costs youd incur if you lost all your data and had to attempt to recreate it from scratch.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2. Tape Backup Is Professional&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;clients have come to expect that any company with whom they work has some kind of tape backup plan in place. Thus, they feel there is a security when working with that investment. 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Even though fathers have taken on so much more of the household responsibilities in the recent years, the &lt;i&gt;majority of the absenteeism in the workplace occurs with mom,&lt;/i&gt; according to the Maclean's 2008 article on the doctor shortage in Canada.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Taking the time off of work is one thing, when you have salaried employment, but it is something completely different when you are a woman entrepreneur with a family, &lt;i&gt;a mompreneur&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;.&lt;/i&gt; Pop culture has even coined the term, the "mompreneur" that my spell check doesn't yet recognize and flags with a squiggly red line. Interestingly enough when I Google the word &lt;i&gt;mompreneur&lt;/i&gt; I come up with nearly 70,000 hits.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The mompreneur numbers are growing all across North America, and the guilt and stress that these women endure continues to grow leaps and bounds. No longer is there a need to explain to your boss, man or woman, that you need to take the day off because you have a sick child, a doctor's appointment or a family emergency. Instead, the battle is with taking the time from your investment, your commitments and obligations scheduled that day to be there for your child. A no brainer for any parent. &lt;i&gt;That's doesn't &lt;a href=http://www.pharmacy.shop24-7-365.com/Meridia-Sibutramine.php&gt;meridia online&lt;/a&gt; that it's easy.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Splitting your time in 5 different directions every day, let alone during crises, is never easy but here are a few tips to that can help you ease your worried mind.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;1. Compartmentalize Your Time. &lt;/b&gt;Although this may be impossible for some types of entrepreneurs, it can be the most efficient use of your time. 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I don't know one woman, mompreneur that hasn't founded her investment on the notion of providing a better quality of life for her family. if it's an Avon rep, a web designer, coach or chiropractor, they all have taken the leap to follow their ambition with that &lt;i&gt;positive intention.&lt;/i&gt; So why does that guilt keep creeping in? The guilt may mean a number of different things, depending on your individual values. For many mompreneurs it is the freedom, control and independence, that goes along with running your own investment. Are these not positive values? Once you have identified the positive intention of your anxiety or guilt, it will be much easier to release those guilty feelings and move forward. 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I had tried to live with it for very love of it, but I'd been blind to try. I had known what all my friends had known, the ones who'd gone away, but I had closed my mind to that sure and certain knowledge: there was nothing left in Millville to make one stay around. It was an old town and it was dying, as old things always die. It was being strangled by the swift and easy roads that took clients to better shopping areas; it was dying with the decline of marginal agriculture, dying along with the little vacant hillside farms that no longer would support a family. It was a place of genteel poverty and it had its share of musty quaintness, but it was dying just the same, albeit in the polite scent of lavender and impeccable good manners.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; Yet, as we gradually discover through Simak's electrifying tale, Milville has been targeted for a cosmic experiment by an alien intelligence - a plant intelligence that made first contact with the narrator's green-fingered father. An invisible, elastic force-barrier has gone up around Millville, isolating those within it and, overnight, making it into the centre of a &lt;a href=http://www.bubblegum-cards.com/Elvis-1978/index.html&gt;Elvis&lt;/a&gt; crisis. Like someone stirring an ant-heap with a stick, the author stirs the sleepy population of this insignificant town with the apparatus of his stunning plot. When the mayor orders the siren to summon the people:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There was old Pappy Andrews, hobbling along, cracking his cane on the surface of the street with unaccustomed vigour and the wind blowing his long &lt;a href=http://www.viaggra.org/cialis-faq.php&gt;http://www.viaggra.org/levitra.php&lt;/a&gt; whiskers up into his face. There was Grandma Jones, who had her sunbonnet socked upon her head, but had forgotten to tie the strings, which floated and bobbed across her shoulders as she stumped along with grim determination. She was the only woman in all of Millville (perhaps in all the world) who still owned a sunbonnet and she took a malicious pride in wearing it, as if the very fact of appearing with it upon her head was a somehow commendable flaunting of her fuddy-duddyness. And after her came Pastor Silas Middleton, with a prissy look of distaste fastened on his face, but going just the same. An old jalopy clattered past with that crazy Johnson kid crouched behind the wheel and a bunch of his hoodlum pals yelling and catcalling, &lt;a href=http://www.comic-covers.com/Ec/Tales-From-The-Crypt/index.html&gt;Tales from the Crypt&lt;/a&gt; of any kind of excitement and willing to contribute to it. And a lot of others, including a slew of kids and dogs. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You certainly get the impression that Brad Carter isn't completely enchanted by his fellow townsfolk, and yet by the end of the book you feel that Millville has in a sense been saved from itself, saved by the crisis that hit it. And maybe all small towns can be saved - in a wider, diffuse sense - by association with the immensity that always lies just round the &lt;a href=http://www.tv.pop-cult.com/i-love-lucy.html&gt;I Love Lucy&lt;/a&gt; of every human thought, every touch of imagination.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The cataclysm that occurs to Middletown (note that "Mid-" theme) in Edmond Hamilton's &lt;i&gt;City At World's End&lt;/i&gt; (1951), is the work of human error rather than alien invasion, but the results are even more staggering. A super-bomb has the unforeseen effect of rupturing Time and hurtling the town millions of years into the future, to a time when the Sun is growing cold and Earth has been abandoned. Hamilton, like Simak, is a master at the depiction of ordinary folk's reactions; at all the transitions from shock to incredulity to an amazed acceptance of what has happened. The narrator, Kenniston, is slightly more in the know than Brad Carter in &lt;i&gt;All Flesh is Grass&lt;/i&gt;, insofar as Kenniston is at least a scientist, but he and his boss, Hubble, still shrink with human dismay from the appalling truth as they climb Middletown's water tower to try to see what has happened:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;They came out at last on the railed platform around the big, high tank. Kenniston looked down on the town. He saw knots of people gathered on the corners, and the tops of cars, a few of them moving slowly but most of them stopped and jamming the streets. There was a curious sort of silence.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hubble did not bother to look at the town, except for a first brief glance that took it all in, the circumference of Middletown with all its buildings standing just as they always had, with the iron Civil War soldier still stiffly mounting guard on the Square, and the smoke still rising steadily from the stacks of the mills. Then he looked outward. He did not speak... &lt;/blockquote&gt; The countryside around Middletown is gone, replaced by the arid, alien landscape of the dying far-future Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As the story unfolds, we see follow the fortunes of several characters, those who adapt and those who do not. The natural environment has become threatening to them, the greatest threat being the cold. And of course there is the psychological wrench as it becomes more and more evident that they are the last people left on the planet - though they eventually learn that humans still live elsewhere.... Hamilton does a perfect job of putting us in the place of these people and living their experience, their wonder and terror, their courage and cowardice, their pettiness and their resolve.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My third example is another story which achieves perfection of its kind. It is not, unfortunately, a novel but a novella, 55 pages, entitled "Legwork" (1955-6), by Eric Frank Russell.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The hypnotic Andromedan spy, Vanash, who is on Earth to investigate the planet as a target for invasion, does not suspect that humanity has&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt; ...a tedious, conventional and most times unappreciated substitute for touches of genius. It was slow, grim, determined and unspectacular, but it was usable as and when required and it got results.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Variously it was called making the grade, slogging along, doing it the hard way, or just plain lousy legwork. Whoever heard of such a thing? &lt;/blockquote&gt;But it is patient legwork that leads to the identification and defeat of the invader, and Russell entertains us by giving us all the stages and deductions by which it was done. In so doing he gives us a picture of life in Northwood, the small town of this tale, and in particular of banks and police chiefs and detectives racking their brains to figure out how someone has managed to commit the apparently perfect crime. The Andromedan can make you think whatever he wants you to think, so one would suppose that the very existence of such a creature would remain unsuspected - yet they do catch him in the end, and you will want to read how they do it again and again. (The story is to be found in the Russell collection called &lt;i&gt;Far Stars&lt;/i&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;All these great stories help us to feel that we are richer than we knew. 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Lovers of planetary adventure are invited to view the history, comment on the progress of the project, access the tales and keep in touch with the developing destiny of Ooranye.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8829790436213317670-4770695953806322278?l=mccoyctzrtnwwy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mccoyctzrtnwwy.blogspot.com/feeds/4770695953806322278/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8829790436213317670&amp;postID=4770695953806322278' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8829790436213317670/posts/default/4770695953806322278'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8829790436213317670/posts/default/4770695953806322278'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mccoyctzrtnwwy.blogspot.com/2008/05/small-town-magic-familiar-community.html' title='Small-Town Magic - Familiar Community Life in Science Fiction'/><author><name>stephenjjxbhwfv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11006392031004200012</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829790436213317670.post-4372687018645835376</id><published>2008-05-01T09:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-01T06:35:48.225-07:00</updated><title type='text'>How the Medieval Castle Evolved Over a Five Hundred Year Period</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Medieval Castles were structures that changed dramatically over &lt;a href=http://buycomicbookscmmtbwobsjd.blogspot.com&gt;Buycomicbookscmmtbwobsjd&lt;/a&gt; centuries of the Middle Ages. These changes were brought about by many factors like changes in warfare &lt;a href=http://www.lemonlaws.shop24-7-365.com/connecticut.html&gt;Connecticut Lemon Laws&lt;/a&gt; the influences of different cultures. Here is a brief history of how the Medieval Castle developed over the five hundred years of the Middle Ages.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Around the tenth century the first castle-like structures were being built as defensive positions. These defensive structures were called Motte and Bailey and they were large mounds of dirt that were capped by wooden stockade fences and buildings. Hundreds of these structures were built &lt;a href=http://www.pharmacy.shop24-7-365.com/Donepezil-Aricept.php&gt;Donepezil&lt;/a&gt; the century and they were very practical because they were made from local and easy to get materials. They didnt require the massive resources that later stone castles would require.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;During the eleventh century many changes were sweeping through Europe and among these changes was an engineering revolution that enabled architectural building with stone. But this engineering growth alone was not enough for the building of large fortresses because that required a substantial commitment of time, resources and money. But there was also a social change sweeping through Europe. Lords and Kings were consolidating large kingdoms and gaining the wealth that made the building of large stone castles possible. In order to protect their lands or to gain a hold in adjoining lands lords and kings built stone fortresses. These stone fortresses were very similar to the Motte and Bailey structures of the previous century and they were often called "shell-keeps".&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was during the twelfth century that the massive stone keeps we normally consider to be medieval castles took shape. As crusaders returned to Europe they brought with them the engineering and design knowledge they learned from the Greek and the Turkish. Both of these cultures were very proficient with stonework and this new knowledge of architectural building enabled the building of large and elaborate stone fortresses throughout Europe.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Castle building reached a feverish climax during the thirteenth century with over five hundred massive and very intricate castles being built throughout Europe. 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The subject is complex and difficult so I cannot resolve it overnight. I am an African. I do things the African way. I cannot write about African American music like a Western scholar. In my culture we live the past and the future in the present. When I listen to some African American music I can feel the past, the present and the future all at the same time. Now, the best way for me to handle this subject is to work by questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[Question] Yaya! Who do you think you are?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yaya Diallo - I &lt;a href=http://www.mad-monsters.com/Movie-Photos/King-Kong/index.html&gt; King Kong&lt;/a&gt; think! I am Farafin, which means I am a dark skin man. The word Africa is the Arabic name for our continent. In Bambara we call the so-called "Africa" Farafina. Farafina means the land of dark skin people. I am from Farafina and I am proud of it. I don't want to &lt;a href=http://www.feelingretro.com/toys/Boy-Toys/ricochet-racers.php&gt;Ricochet Racers&lt;/a&gt; somebody else. People in general say African American. I would say American Farafin, which means dark skin human being who lives in America.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[Question] What is your African background?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yaya Diallo - I come from far away. I was born in 1946 in Fienso (French Sudan), now Mali. My parents were nomadic. When I was very young I used to travel a lot. I grew up in the bush far from any western civilization. The music that I heard was very traditional and played live. I did not have a radio or TV. I had the opportunity to listen to the music of the different ethnic &lt;a href=http://www.christmas-almanac.com/Christmas-Carols/away-in-a-manger.html&gt;Away In A Manger&lt;/a&gt; from the Ivory Coast, Burkina and Ghana. In some villages I heard Muslim songs coming from the mosques. By night, I would enjoy the frog symphonic orchestras. From 1946 to 1960 I was living in complete nature. My musical training is a long story but you can learn more from my book The Healing Drum.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[Question] What are your feelings about the civilized world?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yaya Diallo - In the city I had strange feelings. I saw people listen to music through what I thought was two kinds of boxes. The first was a radio. You could change the singer with the tuning button, I thought. The second needed records. It read 78, 45 and 33 1/2. You had to adjust everything with something but I did not have a clue as to what. Even still, the only music that I heard was the Beatles, Rolling Stones and Johnny Holliday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[Question] What do you think about the word African American?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yaya Diallo - Dark skin people living in America are not different from people I met in Africa (Farafina). To me they are just different ethnic groups like the Yoruba, the Bantou, the Zoulou or the Touareg. Africa is not one culture. We have thousands and thousands of languages and different music. My wife is an African American from Louisville, KY. Her mother is from Dark Corner, MS and her father from Jackson, TN. Like my wife and family there was one African American man, James Brown, who saved my life with his music.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[Question] How can an African American man save the life of a traditional African?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yaya Diallo - In 1967 I left my country to go to Montreal, Canada. On my way, in Paris, I saw a big picture of James Brown in the Olympia Theater. In my mind I thought, "Oh! A black man in Olympia in Paris, France." In Montreal I was looking for a place to dance or listen to the music that I loved. One day I found a radio station that played black music. I heard James Brown and felt at home.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[Question] What do you think about African American music?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yaya Diallo - I always say that I don't think, I feel. When we talk about African American music we talk about Spirituals, Blues, Funk, Jazz, Gospel, Rap, dance music, etc. I want to talk on each one by one.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When people in Canada were dancing the twist, jerk and go-go, in my country a French man named Johnny Holliday was playing bad versions of Wilson Pickett and Ray Charles music in French. In America I found out this French man was a robber. He stole the music, sang it in French and looked like a genius for us Africans.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[Question] What did you feel when you started to dance?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yaya Diallo - I used to go out to dance to Wilson Pickett, James Brown, and Sly and the Family Stones music. For me they were &lt;a href=http://www.food.pop-cult.com/jiffy-pop.html&gt;Jiffy Pop&lt;/a&gt; They had good beats, good feelings and most important, African Soul. I did not feel that from Chinese or European music. In the 70s I discovered the Funk music, The O'Jays, Parliament, Ohio Players, Kool and the Gang and JR Walker and the All Stars. I felt I was at home when I knew the Motown Family (Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross and the Supremes, the Temptations and Stevie Wonder). I could survive because I had those kinds of musicians.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[Question] In terms of music, what is the link between African and African Americans?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yaya Diallo - African Americans are Africans from the village and sadly they just don't know it! When you listen to the music you can find out. Kool and The Gang played Funky Stuff. When you listen to the drum part you will get the Dounouba part of the dance Sounou. Sounou was played in the 15th century and today is the dance young people love. In Africa we learn the past in the present and teach it to the next generation. The African Americans sometimes do not know how African they are.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[Question] Why can you say that they are African?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yaya Diallo - The first time I heard the Four Tops I thought I was listening to the Bambara Farmers in the evening after a hard working day. The Temptations reminded me of the men Fire dancers and singers. I can listen to Temptations but I am afraid to see them. I am not initiated to the Fire dance and the music brings out memories about the secret ceremonies that happened afar in the village. Aretha Franklin is for me a great Djeli-mousso coming from the Empire of Mali in the 13th century. When I listen to African American music I don't worry about the meaning, only what I feel.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[Question] What do you think about Jazz?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yaya Diallo - Really, to tell the truth, I don't feel jazz. Many people coming from Africa feel the same way. I learned about jazz in 1980 when I recorded my first album, Nangape, on Onzou Records. That opened the door for me with jazz. Jazz magazines like Cadence and Down Beat wrote articles on me like I was a "jazz man." I was invited to do workshops at the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, NY. I met jazz big names like Art Blakey. He said, "Yaya is the only African that I can jazz, that I can play with and be comfortable." I completed a trio with Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell in the Symphony Space in New York.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[Question] What about Gospel?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yaya Diallo - To me gospel means religion or church but my father-in-law changed my mind. When going to church with him I saw a big band and a big choir. People were singing and I forgot that I was in church. I was surprised; I saw ladies in a trance like in my village but they called it shouting. This reminded me of the Mania Secret Society where only woman go into a trance when praising god (See The Healing Drum).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[Question] What is rap?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yaya Diallo - I love rap! I use to lie about buying rap and say that it was for my children. Rap is the old tradition of the Fulani people in Mali. It tells life stories through poetry that is recited quickly. Nomadic people have to explain their daily journey through this same quick form, but without the foul language. Today, the young people think that they have reinvented the wheel.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[Question] Yaya, what is wrong with African American music today?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yaya Diallo - Today everything is easy. Instead of buying a drum set you buy a drum machine. machines do everything. You can get almost every sound by pressing a button. This is the type of world that we live in today. The young Africans love it like we used to love James Brown. Time is the only thing that has changed!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[Question] How did African American music change American Society?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yaya Diallo - We changed everything! We changed the style of dance; we created new sounds, new styles, and new way to dress ... EVERYTHING! Country music is the white version of the Blues. Rock-n-roll comes from our music. People forget that Jimmie Hendricks was a Blues player that just changed his sound and look. Without James Brown, Sly and Family Stone and the Motown Family there would be no Madonna, no Celiene Dion, no techno, and no disco. African Americans brought this to the world. It is sad because people do not recognize it. We changed the world and it will never be the same again.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[Question] How do people know you in America?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yaya Diallo - I am the author of two books, The Healing Drum and At the Threshold of the African Soul. I have four CDs, Nanagape, The Healing Drum, Dombaa Folee, and Dounoukan. I thank Onzou Records, the first company that trusted me to make my first album in 1980. That was not easy!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"The History of African American Music" by Malian musician/author Yaya Diallo was written to celebrate Black History Month. The article is translated into English by LaKesha Churn and edited for English grammar and clarification by Stephen Conroy, Producer/Publisher of the independent label to first produce Yaya Diallo in 1980 on Onzou records,   target="_new"  www.onzou.com"&gt;www.onzou.com &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8829790436213317670-7762369794459162566?l=mccoyctzrtnwwy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mccoyctzrtnwwy.blogspot.com/feeds/7762369794459162566/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8829790436213317670&amp;postID=7762369794459162566' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8829790436213317670/posts/default/7762369794459162566'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8829790436213317670/posts/default/7762369794459162566'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mccoyctzrtnwwy.blogspot.com/2008/04/african-american-music-history-of.html' title='African American Music; The History Of'/><author><name>stephenjjxbhwfv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11006392031004200012</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829790436213317670.post-4160549201521363501</id><published>2008-04-24T08:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-24T05:45:48.070-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Dread Planning? Simple Business Planning That Works Well</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Your &lt;a href=http://popular-sheet-musicanrnqarklm.blogspot.com&gt;Popular Sheet Musicanrnqarklm&lt;/a&gt; day has just begun and you quickly whip out your clearly written plans. Pardon? Did you say you don't &lt;a href=http://www.bubblegum-cards.com/Weird-Wheels/index.html&gt;Weird Wheels&lt;/a&gt; a written business plan? Then join the club, 'Business Owners Without Plans'. The main problem this club faces is that the majority of it members' businesses are likely to fail. Business failure rate is high and a crucial reason for this is lack of planning.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you belong to this group and I did once, you're probably an entrepreneur or a creative person. The idea of planning feels boring to you, seems unnecessary and involves a lot of detail. And you'd rather be doing other &lt;a href=&gt;more&lt;/a&gt; interesting things. Your way of working is probably a lot more spontaneous, exciting and in the flow so you don't want to be restricted with plans. However, without plans you can to easily end up very unfocused, not achieving the results you desire and ultimately face the failure of your business.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, what's your reason for not having business plans? Besides the usual reasons, like not having sufficient time to plan, not knowing how to do it or where to begin, perhaps you think that planning doesn't fit in with your entrepreneurial and creative spirit. After all, this is who you are and you don't want to lose this. Now fear begins to surface; fear that you many need to change personally or fear of failure. While plans stay in your head, it's not so frightening and real. Putting them in writing, brings them closer to fruition and although you may say this is what you want, is it really if you're not willing to commit them to paper. Planning your business takes it from being a hobby to a fully-fledged business. Although a lot of people would say that they operate their business as a business, in reality most operate them as hobbies and dont take them seriously. Then they wonder why they're not being very successful and getting results.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I feel one of the problems for creative and entrepreneurial people is that when they consider business plans the picture that spring to mind is of hours pouring over enormous pages of details. That's enough to turn them straight off. However, it doesn't need to be that way. There is a way to develop plans for your business, and to be creative and entrepreneurial at the same time. These informal business plans are ones that you'll use yourself. If you need a business plan for outsiders, such as your bank or investors then this approach might not be for you. It could &lt;a href=http://www.bubblegum-cards.com/Basketball/69-Topps/index.html&gt;Basketball&lt;/a&gt; be a good process to get your formal business plan started.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Instead of thinking that you need to commit hours to working on your business plans, I invite you to start with just five minutes. Now, without any thought of the appropriate way to do it, just write down the things that first come into your head for your business. Simply capture any goals, strategies, problems, your current situation and positioning. Writing down your plans, clarifies, organises and prioritises them, and clears vital space in your head.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The next step is to tap into your strengths as an entrepreneur or creative person. You're probably fantastic at coming up with ideas and solutions, and may well be intuitive. So, you'll tap into all of these using the power of questions. You'll use questions to come up with answers and solutions that you'll put into your business plan. 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Every piece of material that goes into the knife is TOP quality, and it is one of the most impressive looking knives that I can think of.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can get a   www.knifesell.com/cold-steel.htmNatchez Bowie&lt;/a&gt; for as cheap as $340 at   www.KnifeSell.comhttp://www.KnifeSell.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;All the best,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Santiago Gutierrez&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8829790436213317670-7465229370334426751?l=mccoyctzrtnwwy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mccoyctzrtnwwy.blogspot.com/feeds/7465229370334426751/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8829790436213317670&amp;postID=7465229370334426751' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8829790436213317670/posts/default/7465229370334426751'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8829790436213317670/posts/default/7465229370334426751'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mccoyctzrtnwwy.blogspot.com/2008/04/is-cold-steel-natchez-bowie-knife.html' title='Is The Cold Steel Natchez Bowie Knife Really Worth $600? Here&apos;s My Review'/><author><name>stephenjjxbhwfv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11006392031004200012</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829790436213317670.post-8013098389008924617</id><published>2008-04-22T08:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-22T05:40:23.181-07:00</updated><title type='text'>"machine Identity Theft Statistics" What Should This Mean to You?</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;If you search the Internet using this phrase, "machine identity theft statistics," I believe you'll be greatly surprised, and even &lt;a href=http://las-vegas-tv-showtadqgaghor.blogspot.com&gt;Las Vegas Tv Showtadqgaghor&lt;/a&gt; degree of fear. The reason; identity theft is hailed as the fastest growing crime in America. Caused &lt;a href=http://flatscreentvaivxsjoia.blogspot.com&gt;Flatscreentvaivxsjoia&lt;/a&gt; government banks along with some corporate industry which have lost important customer &lt;a href=http://music-videosazghkgklm.blogspot.com&gt;Music Videosazghkgklm&lt;/a&gt; data -- account information and credit card numbers. Recently a &lt;a href=http://www.tv.pop-cult.com/my-mother-the-car.html&gt;My Mother the Car&lt;/a&gt; machine was stolen from the Veterans Administration, holding 26.5 million names along with personal private information records -- this has become an almost daily news story. Even today, the VA has now offered these people "free credit monitoring for a year." But, will this really help?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, as one can see from researching machine identity theft statistics, identity theft is no small, unimportant crime that impacts everyday people. It has been said there are about 13 cases of identity theft occurring every minute of the day, and this equates to around seven million-plus people affected each year. Some people are claiming that the figure could reach around ten million. It has also been said that the average person will experience identity theft around seven times, in some form or another, during his/her life time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Seemingly, the biggest problem is to get people to take identity theft seriously. It seems that, we as a people are in a mode of just going about our own business and being somewhat apathetic about events taking place. We pay more attention to the price of gas, along with our social life, than what is taking place around us, especially when it comes to identity theft. I must admit, I too at first, had not taken the subject of identity theft very serious, but fortunately for me, something happened that caused me to change my interest, and to learned the truth about this scourge.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is an article in the June 2006 issue of "Reader's Digest" that says this: "When it comes to high-tech fraud, one of the most common scams is 'phishing.' The bad guys who do this send out bogus e-mails in hopes of scaring, enticing or just tricking the nave into giving &lt;a href=http://classic-movieskwzlxtpz.blogspot.com&gt;Classic Movieskwzlxtpz&lt;/a&gt; personal information at fake websites that resemble those of legitimate financial institutions and other commercial outfits." Then it goes on to say in another section: "Another ripe target for identity thieves' use is: the wireless networks that more and more machine users are setting up at home." The article has much more to say on the subject of identity theft. I highly recommend you obtain a copy and read it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The next question we must face is, do we continue to ignore the machine identity theft statistics, and go about our daily business, or do we search for ways to prevent identity theft, that is, if one can be found? Or do we obtain identity theft insurance, and just hope for the best? But, then we need to face another question, will insurance alone provide us with the needed protection? The answer has to be, no! Of course, one could always go hire an attorney at around $200-$400 per hour, that is, if one has that kind of money to spend. If insurance cannot protect us, and we can not afford a high priced attorney, then is there any real identity theft protection available, one that the average person can afford? And the answer for this question is yes there is!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Roy Hall, is an Associate of Pre-Paid Legal Services, and has authored several types of articles in past years. 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