This Too Shall Pass

This was taken from a NASA Blog..It is really cool….

What do NASA techies do with their spare time? They make rock-n-roll videos. Not the big-hair, booty-shaking, smoke-and-fire kind. They help make rock videos that would make their daytime colleagues proud or jealous, or both.

Click Here===>   This Too Shall Pass – OK Go – Rube Goldberg Machine   <==== to Watch On YouTube….

The rock band OK Go prides itself on creative visual expressions of their music, and they wanted an extra dose of gee-whiz fun for their song “This Too Shall Pass.” In early 2010, the group enlisted the help of Syyn Labs — a self-described “group of creative engineers who twist together art and technology.” The Syyn Labs fraternity included (or ensnared) four staff members from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

OK Go requested a Rube Goldberg machine as the centerpiece of a video. To borrow from wikipedia, a “Rube Goldberg machine is a deliberately over-engineered machine that performs a very simple task in a very complex fashion, usually including a chain reaction. The name is drawn from American cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg.” Think of the classic board game Mousetrap or your favorite chain reactions from Tom & Jerry cartoons.

More than 40 engineers, techies, artists, and circus types spent several months designing, building, rebuilding, and re-setting a machine that took up two floors of a Los Angeles warehouse. The volunteers went to work after work, giving up many nights, weekends, and even some vacation days to build a machine that has drawn more than 13 million views on YouTube.

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Moon Over the North Pole

This is the sunset at the North Pole with the moon at its closest point last week.

A scene you will probably never get to see in person, so take a moment and enjoy

God at work at the North Pole.  And, you also see the sun below the moon,

an amazing photo and not one easily duplicated. You may want to pass it on to

others so they can enjoy it.  The Chinese have a saying that goes something like this:

‘When someone shares with you something of value, you have an obligation to share

it with others!’   I just did.. Your turn

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NES2…Great Speakers…You Should Not have Missed It!!

Hello There…. NES2 was last weekend and I had a great time there. They had an outrageous lineup of industry leaders sharing what is working for them. I am going to try and share what i got out of each speaker. I took some pretty good notes so will try to convey their message.

First up was Ray Higdon.  Ray is a leader in his primary business and he likes to promote online and offline. He has been in the people business for quite some time as he was in the Real Estate business. Real Estate Agents make great network marketers because the already posses most of the skills needed to succeed in this business. They for the most part have excellent communication skills and they have learned that they only get paid on their efforts. They have been independent businessmen working for commissions…so there isn’t a need to teach or develop those skills.

Ray shared some of his insights about the business. He pointed out that no one is looking to join some opportunity….they want to change their life.

What Ray likes to do is basically interview  people to see if they are a fit for his team and his time. He will do no begging to get someone to join. He likes to throw it out there and find out if who he is talking to is open to a side project that won’t necessarily interfere with what they are currently doing. He says that “It may or may not be for you” but I might have a solution to your life situation. He looks to find out what has (or hasn’t) changed in their lives that has them open or looking for a home based business.

Ray shared numerous traffic strategies….one that I thought was great was one of the old bandit signs…..

$225,000 Per Year

Working From Home

Don’t Believe It….Don’t Call

805-550-9773

I don’t know about you…but can you imagine that on a billboard somewhere??

Anyway…I have lots of other things to do…so will close for today and write about the other speakers in the days to come.

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We’ve Become a Nation of Takers, Not Makers

I have copied this article and take no credit for it. I hope that you read it and then share it with those that you love. Learn to do things differently. Be a Maker and not a taker.  Become your own boss, create wealth for yourself, gain time and financial freedom, start your own business, and help get America Back.  We were at one time a community of the Butcher, the Baker, and the Candlestick maker. We were a self sufficient Country….now we rely on other nations for our goods.

We’ve Become a Nation of Takers, Not Makers

More Americans work for the government than in manufacturing, farming, fishing, forestry, mining and utilities combined.

·  By STEPHEN MOORE

If you want to understand better why so many states—from New York to Wisconsin to California—are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, consider this depressing statistic: Today in America there are nearly twice as many people working for the government (22.5 million) than in all of manufacturing (11.5 million). This is an almost exact reversal of the situation in 1960, when there were 15 million workers in manufacturing and 8.7 million collecting a paycheck from the government.

It gets worse. More Americans work for the government than work in construction, farming, fishing, forestry, manufacturing, mining and utilities combined. We have moved decisively from a nation of makers to a nation of takers. Nearly half of the $2.2 trillion cost of state and local governments is the $1 trillion-a-year tab for pay and benefits of state and local employees. Is it any wonder that so many states and cities cannot pay their bills?

Every state in America today except for two— Indiana and Wisconsin—has more government workers on the payroll than people manufacturing industrial goods. Consider California, which has the highest budget deficit in the history of the states. The not-so Golden State now has an incredible 2.4 million government employees—twice as many as people at work in manufacturing. New Jersey has just under two-and-a-half as many government employees as manufacturers. Florida’s ratio is more than 3 to 1. So is New York’s.

Even Michigan, at one time the auto capital of the world, and Pennsylvania, once the steel capital, have more government bureaucrats than people making things. The leaders in government hiring are Wyoming and New Mexico, which have hired more than six government workers for every manufacturing worker.

Now it is certainly true that many states have not typically been home to traditional manufacturing operations. Iowa and Nebraska are farm states, for example. But in those states, there are at least five times more government workers than farmers. West Virginia is the mining capital of the world, yet it has at least three times more government workers than miners. New York is the financial capital of the world—at least for now. That sector employs roughly 670,000 New Yorkers. That’s less than half of the state’s 1.48 million government employees.

Don’t expect a reversal of this trend anytime soon. Surveys of college graduates are finding that more and more of our top minds want to work for the government. Why? Because in recent years only government agencies have been hiring, and because the offer of near lifetime security is highly valued in these times of economic turbulence. When 23-year-olds aren’t willing to take career risks, we have a real problem on our hands. Sadly, we could end up with a generation of Americans who want to work at the Department of Motor Vehicles.

The employment trends described here are explained in part by hugely beneficial productivity improvements in such traditional industries as farming, manufacturing, financial services and telecommunications. These produce far more output per worker than in the past. The typical farmer, for example, is today at least three times more productive than in 1950.

Where are the productivity gains in government? Consider a core function of state and local governments: schools. Over the period 1970-2005, school spending per pupil, adjusted for inflation, doubled, while standardized achievement test scores were flat. Over roughly that same time period, public-school employment doubled per student, according to a study by researchers at the University of Washington. That is what economists call negative productivity.

But education is an industry where we measure performance backwards: We gauge school performance not by outputs, but by inputs. If quality falls, we say we didn’t pay teachers enough or we need smaller class sizes or newer schools. If education had undergone the same productivity revolution that manufacturing has, we would have half as many educators, smaller school budgets, and higher graduation rates and test scores.

The same is true of almost all other government services. Mass transit spends more and more every year and yet a much smaller share of Americans use trains and buses today than in past decades. One way that private companies spur productivity is by firing underperforming employees and rewarding excellence. In government employment, tenure for teachers and near lifetime employment for other civil servants shields workers from this basic system of reward and punishment. It is a system that breeds mediocrity, which is what we’ve gotten.

Most reasonable steps to restrain public-sector employment costs are smothered by the unions. Study after study has shown that states and cities could shave 20% to 40% off the cost of many services—fire fighting, public transportation, garbage collection, administrative functions, even prison operations—through competitive contracting to private providers. But unions have blocked many of those efforts. Public employees maintain that they are underpaid relative to equally qualified private-sector workers, yet they are deathly afraid of competitive bidding for government services.

President Obama says we have to retool our economy to “win the future.” The only way to do that is to grow the economy that makes things, not the sector that takes things.

Mr. Moore is senior economics writer for The Wall Street Journal editorial page.

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When its OK to use Swear Words!!!

Recycle anyone??

Split Hull Anyone??

Did the rock land where you wanted it??

I fell through the Ice Once Also!!

Why did the engine Die??

Who forgot the PLUG??

Help...I have no traction!!

I hope that my lunch box is OK!!

I should have gotten one more to equalize!!

Turn left and I'll meet you at the Pond!!

Mechanic my Ass!!

I hope he is taking off and not landing!!

Anyone know how to finish Concrete?

Like my new End Table?

I wonder if He will remember this day?

A little less space than I thought!!

A good operator could fix this...of course if it was a good operator it wouldn't have happened!

Who Forgot the PLUG 2?

Better keep your eyes on the road next time!

Talk about revenge!!

This will make you Think!

I hope they have had lunch already!

Mechanic my Ass #2 !

That looks like a "gimme"!

Ever Have a Day like any of the above????

If so…Leave a comment and share the embarasment!!

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Worry Ends where Faith Begins…. Believe in Yourself

I was traveling down the road and I saw this sign..I said “opportunity” is knocking….I had gone about a mile down the road and I decided to turn around and make this video….I hope you enjoy it and get the message I was trying to give to you.

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Unstoppable…Like a Runaway Train….

Greetings from Sunny and Warm Florida.

This is a video I was inspired to make after seeing this broken down shore break.

I was in Florida for a company meeting and decided to visit for a bit before returning

home.

We are living in some hard times and sometimes we can’t see the forest for the

trees….an old Amway recording I will have to figure out how to share with you says it all…

“Pigs don’t know Pigs Stink”

People…there is a way out of these financial times…you just don’t know it yet. We can still

have our dreams….no matter what we have been taught. I hope you enjoy the video….

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Tips on Starting your Own Online Business

Don't know What or How?

Have you thought about starting your own online business, but have become overwhelmed by all of the technical mumbo jumbo, it’s like a foreign language. I know that you have heard experts talking about terms like niche markets, traffic generation, SEO, link building, article marketing, affiliate marketing, network marketing, and MLM. That is just the tip of the iceberg.

I most definitely don’t want to discourage your online entrepreneurial spirit. I just want to discuss some of the things you should do before jumping in with both feet. My desire is for you to be able to organize your thoughts and nail down a few of the “must do’s” before wasting your valuable resources (time and money).

1.            The very first thing that you need to do is find a product or service that gives people real value, and that there is a need for it, ie;  meaning that people are looking for it.

2.            What are you passionate about? Being passionate about something will make it easier for you to promote it. I say easier because if you know just about everything there is to know about the product or offering, you will be able market it like a professional, an expert in  your niche, and you will enjoy doing it.

So, let’s take a closer look at niches. If you like horses, have horses, or  work with horses, you have knowledge that can be shared. Your experiences can be valuable to others.

3.            The next step to start your own online business then is to define your product. You will need to decide if you are going to sell a digital product or a physical product. If I use horses as an example, you have a choice to sell information on cribbing or some other ailment, perhaps a training that makes horses more manageable; or you can become a distributor of a line of physical products and use the internet to distribute them.

The second option, to sell a physical product, is without a doubt the most difficult to accomplish. With digital products all you need is a way to display the pages where the document can be downloaded and a way to for them to pay (merchant account). With physical products, you will also need a website (and all that goes with it, domain name, hosting account,web designer if you are not one). You will need a merchant account, and storage if you can’t drop ship the products, and a logistical system for delivering and tracking the product.

4.            So now all you have to do is to set up your site for your own online business. You can do this yourself or hire a web designer. The more work you can do before calling a web designer the better. Web Designers are not cheap and finding a good one will cost you anywhere from 199.00 and up just to get started. The more they do, the more it will cost. However, if your online store or presentation is not professional, you will have a harder time getting people to respond to your offering.

It might be a good idea to buy a web design for dummies manual or something similar to get a good idea or understanding of what will have to be done. You could do a lot of the upfront groundwork. This could save you some money when questions come up and when the quotes come out.

Wow, finally, your site is up and running but you see little to no traffic. Taking your business online is not like it is in the movie “Field of Dreams” where if they build it, they will come. In fact without marketing, you will spend the money to build it, but they will never show up.

If this at all sounds like too much to be able to handle on your own, to start your own online business, there is an easier solution to starting an online business and learning all that you would need to know about how to accomplish setting  it up. You can come back here as I will be discussing all of this in more detail. Better yet, learn how to “Earn” while  your “Learn” the business of working online and all of the above and more at MarketingSolutions22.com .

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Let me be myself…

“Is it okay that I fight to ‘be myself’, even if others don’t approve?”

Is the world missing the real you because you’ve been conditioned to play it safe?

It can be a really crazy world out there at times — a world driven by misleading, crowd-thinking,

old fashioned political correctness,  and outdated philosophical nonsense that is bombarding you to “fit in.”

Close your eyes and think of the words to this song, feel how powerful they are….you do not need to look

at the images of Shrek….he had his mountains to climb..what are  yours.

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