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With the UK launch of PlayStation Vita just over a week away, the PlayStation Vita Rooms tour has been busy making its way around the country getting its shiny techno slab into as many hands and in as front of as many eyes as possible. The tour's latest stop was Scotland's largest city - Glasgow. And what did the citizens of this fine metropolis make of Sony's sexy gaming device? Access TV was there to find out.
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When lifetime Chestnut Hill resident Carinthia Bank, now 18, was a very small child, her parents would take her to see her older sister, Caroline, dance at ballet recitals. "At first I had no interest in it," Carinthia recalled last week, "but the more I saw it, the more it looked like fun, so finally I told my parents that I'd like to try it also."
When she was just in first grade at Germantown Friends School, Carinthia began taking ballet classes after school at the Wissahickon Dance Academy in Germantown and continued there from 2001 to 2008. Most children who take private music or dance lessons undoubtedly are rewarded with personal growth, self-discipline and self-confidence if they really do apply themselves, but the likelihood that they will have a professional career in music or dance is very slim.
But Carinthia is an exception, to put it mildly. In fact, when the acclaimed Donetsk Ballet of Ukraine brings its production of Peter Tchaikovsky's timeless ballet, "The Nutcracker," to the Philadelphia area this month, among its 18 professionals will be Carinthia Bank. (Formed 66 years ago, Donetsk Ballet is based in the city of Donetsk, Ukraine. They perform works of classical ballet and contemporary dance, and they tour internationally. They have about 60 dancers in all of their touring groups, of whom Carinthia is the only non-Ukrainian. In the past, however, there have been four dancers from the Philadelphia area in Donetsk.)
After attending primary school at GFS, Bank went to the prestigious Kirov Academy in Washington, D.C., a private boarding school where she studied ballet as well as academic subjects. Upon graduation this past May, she was invited to join the Donetsk, led by artistic director Vadim Pisarev. Already accepted to Princeton University, she opted to defer admission and traveled to Ukraine.
Bank spent September and most of October rehearsing and dancing in Ukraine. Then she and a group of fellow dancers went to France, where the Donetsk company toured with its production of "Swan Lake." (The Chestnut Hiller, who "could not believe I was dancing in France," saw the highly controversial movie "Black Swan," and her reaction was: "It's good that ballet is seen by so many people, but I did not enjoy the movie at all.")
Carinthia wants everyone to know how much respect and love she has for Wissahickon Dance Academy, which nurtured her and helped develop her talent. "It is not a professional school," she said, "and you can go there just for fun, but if you want to go farther, they are very encouraging. There are about four to 10 students per class, and the teachers are very focused and dedicated, and they will give you all of the individual attention you may need. They are not mean.
"Elena Tiuriakulova, who teaches at Wissahickon Dance Academy, has by far been one of the most important people in my journey. She is an amazing person and has always supported me in ballet and everything else. Together, she and Nancy Malmed — the director, who in my opinion is one of the only ballet school directors with the vision and knowledge to make a small school of truly good quality — make Wissahickon the great little ballet school that it is. I am so lucky to have gone there.
"Also, my sister is very supportive (and good at everything), and her successes have always inspired me. For example, the reason I applied to Princeton was that I saw how amazingly happy she was at Stanford University, and I realized that if I put in effort, I could also find a college that was the right fit. Then I visited Princeton, loved it and was lucky enough to actually get it in. And, of course, none of this would exist without the environment my parents brought us up in. I still can't believe how lucky I am to have all these wonderful people in my life and to have things work out so I can have these great experiences."
The Donetsk Ballet is known worldwide for the consummate artistry and technique of its dancers. Company stars Maxim Valchik and Irina Komarenko will be featured as principal dancers in a dozen or more performances of "The Nutcracker" in a three-week tour this month of the Philadelphia area and New Jersey. Bank will be dancing some solo roles as well as in ensembles, mostly at area schools.
Is there a language barrier for Carinthia with the Donetsk Ballet Company? "The teachers do not speak much English," she replied. "Most of the dancers studied English in school, so they speak a little, and the ones who are more comfortable with their English —who went to school in Europe or studied English in their Ukrainian university — are very kind about helping me out. Sometimes I have no clue what's going on, but they've all been very understanding and willing to talk slowly in Russian or find someone whose English is better to explain things for me."
Late this month Carinthia will return to Ukraine, where she will perform and then again to France. The Donetsk season will end in June, and then Carinthia will decide whether to continue dancing full-time or whether to start college at Princeton. Besides her sister, who is 20, Bank's family in Chestnut Hill consists of her dad, Brad, a lawyer who spends much of his time these days renovating old houses, and mom, Daryl, an obstetrician/gynecologist who formerly worked at Chestnut Hill Hospital and is now at an Albert Einstein Medical Center. Carinthia, by the way, is named for a friend of her mother's. "I never met anyone else with my name," she said.
The Donetsk Ballet will perform locally on Saturday, Dec. 15, 6:30 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 16, 2 p.m., at Plymouth/Whitemarsh High School, 201 E. Germantown Pike, Plymouth Meeting. Joining the professional company onstage are 40 local student dancers selected through open auditions held by the International Ballet Exchange (IBE), a Philadelphia nonprofit. Bank and her new colleagues from Ukraine will also stop at George Washington High School on Thursday, Dec. 13, where they will present a special performance for students of the Philadelphia School District through the auspices of the International Ballet Exchange.
For the Dec. 15 and 16 performances at Plymouth/Whitemarsh High School, tickets are $18 for students and seniors; $28 for adults. To purchase tickets in advance, call 215-849-7950 or 1-800-849-4919. Tickets will be available at the door as well.


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Signs of inflation are everywhere. Yesterday's Wall Street Journal article "U.S. Business Price Growth Came in Hotter Than Expected Last Month" is headlined, "Latest data a sign inflation pressures may be building in the economy".
The article says: A gauge of U.S. business prices grew more than expected in March, the latest sign inflation pressures may be building in the economy.
The producer-price index, a measure of the prices businesses receive for their goods and services, rose a seasonally adjusted 0.3% in March from a month earlier, the Labor Department said Tuesday, while economists had expected a smaller 0.1% increase.
The surprise came because of a sharp rise in food prices and continued robust price growth in the services sector. Final demand food prices ballooned 2.2% in March, the largest one-month increase in about four years. Meanwhile, prices in the services sector rose strongly for the third-straight month, with price growth coming in at 2.9% in March from the prior year, the largest annual change in almost eight years.
Overcoming debt is one way to contain the risk of inflation.
We recently sent our Purposeful Investing Course subscribers the 32 page annual Keppler Asset Management Asset Allocation Report. (2)
One fact revealed is that investments in equities have been the best investment of all… by far, over the past 92 years. A dollar invested in US large shares grew to $7,353 compared to $62.72 for gold or 31.53 for homes.
Yet the report gave a huge warning as well.
The warning shared the danger of market timing. Investors who missed the best 48 months, just 4% in that 92 years saw the $7,353 fall to only $21.74, making the shares just about the worst investment of all.
Then the report showed the power of compound investing. $1,000 a year invested for 45 years, rose to $573,186, when invested… and left in US shares over the four and a half decades. Just $83 bucks a month. Those who saved that through their lifetime… had an extra half million bucks plus enough to buy a really fancy vehicle.
These simple facts about asset allocation is why one of the favorite workshops I teach is "Early Wealth" for kids.
The course begins by showing a dollar bill and a candy bar and letting the kids choose which they would prefer. Some choose the candy, others cash. But twenty-six more dollar bills are taped to the first and they then unfold. The $26 is what they will have if they invest the dollar with compound interest over their career. Now the kids see twenty-seven dollar bills dangling before them and they are asked to choose again.
Kids are not stupid. When if properly educated they take the twenty-seven bucks and in the process learn the power of compounded interest.
Then we have the banker's race. Two children are selected. One is a large boy. The other is a small girl.
They race as they drag a fifty pound bucket of sheetrock mud that sits on a blanket.
Each selects five other children (who we call her bankers) to be in the race with them.
The difference is the girl has been good and saved money. Her five bankers help her pull the bucket.
The boy, who has been bad and borrowed money, has to drag the bucket and his five bankers.
You can guess who wins the race.
This is an important workshop because we live in a sick society and our kids are being blasted with the idea of spending and borrowing from the moment they can watch a screen. They are imbued with the idea to borrow for their education…. borrow to buy a car… borrow to take a vacation… borrow to buy a house… borrow on their credit card… borrow…. borrow…. borrow.
Too many children, who become debt slaves from the getgo, can't even save $83.33 bucks a month.
The debt problem is about to get worse and is explained in the New York Times article "Why the Tax Law Might Make Your Car Payments Go Up" (3).
The article says (bolds are mine): The United States just started another epic borrowing binge. And if you borrow money — through a credit card, a mortgage or an auto loan — you could end up paying the price.
It is a phenomenon that economists call "crowding out." Large-scale government borrowing sucks up the supply of available funds, driving up financing costs for just about everyone else.
The tax cuts that President Trump signed into law in December will decrease the amount of money the federal government brings in by an estimated $1.5 trillion by 2027. There are no plans to reduce government spending by that much. In fact, the budget passed last month increases spending by hundreds of billions of dollars.
During and after the Great Recession, borrowing was easy for the United States government.
Now all that is changing.
Because the economy has largely recovered, the Fed is reducing the amount of government bonds that it holds. Corporations, banks and households are spending their money or investing it in riskier assets — with bigger potential payoffs — rather than stockpiling it. And, amid optimism about the economy's prospects, more consumers and institutions are looking to borrow money themselves, rather than park their cash in safe havens like government bonds.
So the government has fewer places from which to borrow money. In essence, the government is competing with individuals and companies to borrow money from a limited source of lenders.
Intensifying competition for investment funds is good news for savers and other lenders who can demand higher interest rates.
But it's bad news for borrowers who have to pay those higher rates.
Here are three steps to help combat the problem of rising interest rates.
#1: Reduce debt.
#2: Spend less than you earn.
#3: Save every month.
#4: Earn extra income.
#5: Earn in ways that allow you to live well and use the new tax code to reduce instead of increase taxes.
Live Well and Be Free – 5 Global Earning ExperiencesHere are 5 global income experiences and 7 business secrets that can help you live well and free anywhere.
I began my international business over 50 years ago and have been creating and running international micro businesses since.
During that time my wife, Merri, and I have been able to live, work and earn all over the world… literally anywhere we wanted because of seven secrets we gained which we share here with you. We have been blessed with global earning experiences that helped us make millions… but were also fun, such as with British Lordships.
See how this one micro business helped us rub elbows with British Royalty.
One of Merri's businesses that worked with British Royalty was featured in Doonesbury.
Global Earning Experience #1: Lepers. Our micro businesses have been fulfilling. Merri started her international business in her 20s (long before she knew me) importing Italian clocks to the USA. This earned so much ($80,000 in the first year) that she created other micro businesses helping orphans in the Yucatan and Haitian lepers (at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital) produce crafts she sold for them in the USA.
Excellent income ($80,000 in the 1970s was a lot of cash)… incredible contacts… working with Dr. Larimer and Gwen Mellon who created the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Haiti… and enormous satisfaction. Merri still cries over 40 years later when she tries to speak of the gratitude of the lepers and her time and life in Haiti.
Plus she gained lessons that allowed her to live and earn… in many places and many ways.
Then we got together.
Global Earning Experience #2: Lords. Another of Merri's ideas (in the mid 1980s) was to broker British titles to wealthy Americans. We made a ton from that… even gained 15 minutes of fame when Gary Trudeau learned about this business and immortalized it by having B.D. Zonker buy a title!
What fun… profitable, plus stimulating, meeting and working with the Blue Bloods of Britain… visiting their castles… invited to their events and affairs.
Before I get ahead of myself, may I ask you a question?
Would you like to have a lifestyle and a front yard like this… almost a thousand acres of hacienda overlooking the Andes?
Would you enjoy living in two, three or even more places wherever and whenever you choose? Would you be happier with more freedom, lack of debt, and a life of riches, adventure and travel? Would you be glad to feel confident that you can discover interesting and fun business ideas again and again that not only bring in extra income but also help the poor and improve the environment?
If so then read on… because… that front yard above is ours in a remote Andean hacienda. This is only one of several homes that we have gained (to live and use in business) from the secrets we'll share below.
In the summer, we retreat to our 250+ acre farm high in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina. Here's our front yard in these mountains and the view from my home office.
Home offices in all your homes are important by the way. They are part of one global micro business secret and you'll see why have two home offices (and using two cars in business) can save thousands in taxes.
When you have an international micro business that involves your home and car, the tax benefits are fantastic.
A group of readers visiting our North Carolina home after learning how to gain freedom with a micro business.
You can also enjoy such a lifestyle because after years of search, I found business secrets that you can use and enjoy.
Waterfall at our North Carolina Farm. See enjoyable benefits of a micro business in water.
Global Earning Experience #3: Hospitality. Here's a hotel we owned and operated in Ecuador. Once we sold this we joined the sharing economy and began offering rentals in our North Carolina cabins through AIRBNB and houses in Florida. We became designated super hosts within months and added thousands of extra dollars to our income every month.
Caring is just one example of how to live anywhere and earn. If you provide genuine care in anything you can be anywhere and beat out big businesses in your niche because big business has created an uncaring world and everyone craves care.
Having a variety of places to live is part of one of the secrets on how to earn more, have a better life with more fun, adventure and greater freedom.
Global Earning Experience #4: Import-Export. Here I am at our Florida house showing clients how to import.
I was wearing a hand tailored, made to order, high quality wool suit from Ecuador that could be imported into the US for as little as $135 . Plus that Panama hat was made in Ecuador. This is odd but true, all genuine Panama hats are made in Ecuador. We imported Ecuador roses year round as well, all from one of our tax deductible US home office.
The secrets we'll share below are not about how to buy suits or flowers though. The secrets show ways to make money (while helping others) marketing products and services wherever you are and much more…. globally.
Global Earning Experience #5: Green Produce. We have an orange grove and lake at our Florida home and
are among the first to test new organic ways to make citrus farming better for the environment and the consumer. In North Carolina we cultivate Wild American Ginseng as well as aquafarm.
These are just a few of the business experiences that can help you have the freedom to earn globally. They are shared in our emailed correspondence course, International Business Made EZ. This course helps you learn how to earn and live wherever you choose!
The course teaches a system based on seven secrets so powerful that it creates money for you regardless of where you are: in town, out of the country, traveling or even in places as remote as we live.
These secrets have worked for us in real estate… titles… tours… agriculture… clothing… hospitality… alternative health… spirituality… printing… publishing and art businesses for Merri and me all over the world.
I searched for these elusive secrets of opportunity for over twenty years, looking for a way to gain incredible, outlandish, unbelievable profit potential.
I finally found them and after years of proof and would like to share with you. The opportunity I sought had to be enormously profitable yet also safe. It had to work in good times and bad and had to be flexible so it could evolve as times changed.
These were not the only standards. I wanted to find unbelievable profit and high safety and freedom but also wanted this incredible investment to offer the ultimate tax shelter, something so perfect it would not be even a little bit questionable. It had to be so tax foolproof that Congress would never change it.
I wanted a tax shelter so good that it would be encouraged by the government.
I feared deep down inside that what I wanted was impossible. Nevertheless, I scoured the world for over twenty years looking for it. I looked in Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines. But I didn't find it in Asia. I went to the Middle East and searched all over Europe… all across the USA and Latin America. I hardly missed a country. After twenty years and millions of miles, I guess I gave up. Only then (as these things so often happen) was it that I found the best opportunity in the world.
This opportunity was not only perfect but I discovered that it was wherever I wanted it to be, in my own back yard, in Florida and our remote home in the High Country of North Carolina and our even more remote cloud forest home in Ecuador.
Merri and I have created a special program we call "Live Well and Free Anywhere" that makes it possible for you to enjoy extra income doing something you love. You can gain full or part time and enjoy excellent profits as you have fun and do something good in the world.
My search stumbled on the fact that most millionaires make their money in business. This discovery led to a study of rich businesses, ones that generate everlasting wealth. Here are five of seven secrets we learned and have used in our micro businesses:
Secret #1: They must enjoy the multiple effect. A product once created must produce profits again and again, almost on a never-ending basis. Each investment made needs to make huge returns.
Secret #2: They need to be greater than their owner's time. They must produce income even when the owner doesn't put in day-to-day effort. You may already be wealthy or earning a high income. You may not even need another business or extra income, but some day you might. One surgeon explained it this way. "I am making a fortune because peoples' lives are in my hands. Once my hands are no longer steady, my income stops. My entire financial well being will then be in someone else's hands!"
Secret #3: These money making systems should be enjoyable and fun. Sadly most people make money for the sake of making money. Many spend their lives working, just to have a few precious hours having fun. The most important fact about making and keeping wealth is that those who were richest absolutely love what they were doing. Money is of secondary importance to their effort. And as things are, this means they actually ended up making more money.
Secret #4: These money making systems need to be flexible. No matter what the economy brings, your ability to make money should work regardless of inflation, recession or even depression.
Secret #5: These businesses usually start small, but grow quite large. Good money systems work for large or for small amounts and can be operated on either a full or part time basis. Most businesses start with a learning curve. During that time it is essential they are small. Once the lessons have been learned and the system is operating properly, then it needs to grow for larger and larger returns.
These secrets created a fantastic way to make money with my own international micro business doing what I love!
You too can have everlasting wealth by turning your passion into profit.
Before discovering these secrets I had a business but to be honest could never get ahead. I was almost penniless, in debt and living from month to month, check to check. Then I discovered these seven secrets…and how to apply them around the world.
Since then our international micro businesses have brought in millions. We gained all the physical possessions we desired, plus more than enough money in the bank.
We do not have one penny of debt and we have leisure time… though when you love your business… why not work?
This is most important, we have fun and feel that we do something beyond just making money every day! Merri and I do what we love and have learned that through our global business we can accomplish far more important goals, gain self fulfillment and be of service to our community. In short we can help make ourselves and the world better.
Among our greatest thrills is being able to help others through foundations we have started that help the environment and the poor.
More importantly we have the freedom to do all this from many locations (some are remote-you have seen the pictures) that we really enjoy.
You too can have the freedom to do what you love from any place you like, even operating (actually preferably) from your bedroom, dining room or den if you wish.
What do you love? Rare cars? You can make a fortune creating a business around them. Do you prefer fine art? Or do you love beautiful jewelry, coins, gems, real estate, furs, model railways, dolls, scientific equipment, war memorabilia, old and rare books, or whatever? Do you prefer social subjects rather than objects?
Are you concerned with the environment or humanitarian problems, with crimes, war or poverty? Would you like to help wipe these social problems out in the course of your business?
Are you a golfer? Do you love to travel? Why not make all kinds of money in a global business related to golf?
Would you like to help the world be a more spiritual place, help people get along better together? You can do something good for the world, increase your income and live wherever you please in the process!
Whatever your passion you can learn how to earn by creating an international micro business based on it. You can be international if you love to travel or not. Regardless of your skills and position there is some approach that will work for you.
Take fishing, for example.
I am no great aquafarmer, but the numbers and lifestyle work on a small scale. We pay about $3.50 a pound to stock the fish, they double, triple, even quadruple in size and we sell them at a local butcher shoppe for a modest profit. This is not a big deal, but does generate income, helps attract guests to stay in our rental cabins, puts some great trout dinners on our table and is a thoroughly enjoyable part of my daily labor. I need this to counter balance sitting in front of a computer.
Over a couple of months the fish grow… a lot.
We are lucky to have a perfect but natural place to raise the trout. On busy holidays when our monster trout are in demand I have to work hard fishing at that pond. Pity me!
This pond is just below our house, so raising the trout is EZ for me.
Millions of people love fishing but don't have a pond. This does not mean they cannot be involved in fishing. Here are just a few of many ways that others have profitably matched this passion with profit.
Two of my friends, John and Lou, grew up near me in the Oregon mountains. They were outdoor adventure types and moved to Canada, where they homesteaded 1,200 acres on a trout-filled lake in mid British Columbia. They built a fishing camp that attracts fisherman from around the world.
Duncan Kinderman on the other hand loved fishing and castles. He bought a castle on the River Tay, a great Scottish salmon river, and offered time shares for fisherman from Britain, Europe and the US.
Another entrepreneur I know was from Montana. His skills were in marketing so he sold fishing trips for fishing camps. He attended rod and gun exhibitions, met owners of these camps and arranged to sell their fishing trips to the US, Argentina and even in Russia to fisherman around the world.
Ralph Kylloe on the other hand loved fishing and photography so he created the book, "Fishing Camps", which was published by Gibbs Smith publisher. This allowed Ralph to travel across the country enjoying fishing camps as he photographed and wrote.
Steve Ambrose, another friend of ours, had family commitments at home so he set up a bass fishing business in Florida that served Americans, Germans, Canadian, Dutch and Belgians. Later as his children grew, he used his client base to arrange fishing trips in Argentina.
Each of these people had provincial backgrounds and differed in age, situation and skills. Their common link, the love of fishing, led each to a global micro business. Each was able to blend a unique nature and set of skills to develop a global business that surrounded them with fun, like minded fishing souls.
Also, imagine what an international business means to your world travel. Every trip you take can be tax deductible! You can honestly write off every trip that is related to your business. Every journey becomes a research oriented adventure and a TAX DEDUCTIBLE EVENT.
For example if you have your own business you can gain $12,976 by using two vehicles for business because IRS Form 4562, which is filed by proprietorships and corporations, contains spaces for up to six vehicles.
There are similar benefits by having a second home office defined in IRS publication 463 and IRS publication 587.
These are huge tax benefits that can be gained when you have an international, at home, micro business.
As a real international business person, you'll have one of the most respected and tax protected businesses in the country. Every country needs to do business abroad, and most governments have created many programs to encourage their citizens to do business overseas. Many of those benefits come in the form of reduced tax. Other benefits come in the form of legal protection and even subsidies and grants.
There is such an abundance of opportunity that Merri and I have created this program to help you have your own international micro business that can be managed almost anywhere. This program is unique because Merri and I are unique. We started our global business together. Since we're almost recluses, we decided to do the whole business by ourselves… thus we create micro businesses that do not require large staffs.
We began working at home. Today, though we have tens of thousands of buyers and have made millions, we still work at home on our remote farms and employ only a few people to help.
You can do the same with a system contained in an electronic correspondence course called International Business Made EZ. The course reveals all you need to know about how to start and run your own global business all by yourself. It answers your questions and gets your business started!
Thousands have profited from this course which has been updated in its fifth edition.
For example, Ben, an investor from Pennsylvania used International Business Made EZ and wrote:
"Jam packed with vital information. My head is spinning. Thank goodness this is all backed up by your manual. This is a true and cherished gift. Your tips on low cost business are a blessing! Thank you once again for an outstanding course. The value far exceeds the price."
In just a week, you can be well on your way to income and freedom to live wherever you choose! International Business Made EZ shows you how to take advantage of the five secrets mentioned above and the remaining two secrets below:
Secret #6: Look for ways to gain 1,000% returns in business. The wealthiest families in the world today come from global businesses. Learn how margins can be so incredible that few would believe them. Learn how to use stories to make huge shifts in the value of products. Take for example our friend Earl who is a dog trainer. On a trip to Ecuador clay whistles in the market place were for sale at .35 cents each. By calling them dog whistles Earl was able to sell them at $9.95, a whopping 2,700% mark up!
Secret #7: Create and market your product everywhere using niche marketing. There are 11 steps to create the perfect product. You learn them with International Business Made EZ. Understand how to review ideas, test focus, aim at markets. Learn where and how to get your data and get others to provide your marketing material for you almost FREE.
Learning how to market is the key to successful business. Knowing how to turn pennies into dollars is good marketing focus. International Business Made EZ gives you this winning marketing knowledge.
You'll learn how to turn advertising dollars into a fortune. You'll learn how to create your own ads and when to use the internet… search engines… pay per click… classifieds, space ads, direct mail or word of mouth… even flea markets and roadside stands in some cases.
See how to build a PR list and social business network on the World Wide Web to gain thousands of dollars in free publicity. I even share my most secret results on my marketing so you will know why sometimes you sell more units of a product at $49 instead of $29.
Learn how one couple used ads about retirement to supplement their retirement income and received free trips all over the world.
Learn how we have made money over the Internet (specific details, specific experiences, hard earned knowledge over the last 13 years!) With an inexpensive computer you can easily run a business from home and still have tons of time left over – even if you are computer challenged. Merri and I have certainly proven this. We were one of the first to run a successful website and still rank high today even with millions of competitors. The secrets in the course include a step-by-step approach.
Merri and I with our webmaster, David Cross, were leaders in beginning internet micros businesses and have sold millions over the web. You gain ways to earn global income over the net from that experience as well.
At www.garyascott.com our emailed messages are regularly sent to over 20,000 readers.
You learn the income producing power of defined focus and immediate repetition to get good search engine rankings and sales.
You can earn successfully while living anywhere because people of all ages are doing this. Technology wiped out any disadvantages of age and gender. A USA Today article entitled "The new entrepreneurs: Americans over 50" explains that older business people often start one person ventures in home offices using technology that did not exist a few years ago. The article gave an example of Franny Martin who launched a cookie company at age 56 and said she built revenues to over $500,000 a year. Yet her web site which attracts cookie customers from around the world cost only $3,000 to build.
International Business Made EZ is arranged in an easy to understand style. Everything is explained in vivid detail. We share all, how we have done it ourselves. The course is full of business ideas and case studies based on our 48 years of experience.
The course describes on a step-by-step basis, how Merri and I built a multi-million dollar international micro business in just 7 years and how you can do the same.
Terry T., an attorney from Germany took the course and enjoyed this fact when he stated, "What I like most is that it is a nuts and bolts course-not pie in the sky.
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readily said "A carrot cake". I thought of a Martha Stewart carrot cake recipe that I had made for Easter a couple of years ago, which was very well-received.
Carrot-Ginger Layer Cake (Martha Stewart)
- Unsalted butter, for pans
- 3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pans
- 1 cup (3 ounces) pecan halves
- 1 pound large carrots(with carrot greens, to use for marzipan carrots), peeled
- 3 large eggs, room temperature
- 1/3 cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 1/2 cups vegetable oil
- 1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Heat oven to 375 degrees. Butter two 8-by-2-inch round cake pans. Dust pans with flour, and tap out any excess. Set pans aside. Spread pecans in a single layer on an ungreased baking pan, and toast in the oven until lightly golden, about 10 minutes. Remove pan from oven, and let stand until completely cool. Reduce temperature to 350 degrees. Finely chop pecans, and set aside.
- Using the smallest holes (less than 1/4 inch in diameter) of a box grater, grate carrots, yielding 2 1/2 cups. Place carrots, eggs, buttermilk, vanilla, sugar, vegetable oil, and ginger in a large bowl; whisk until well combined.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Using a rubber spatula, fold the flour mixture into the carrot mixture until combined. Fold in the toasted pecans.
- Divide batter between the two cake pans, and bake until a cake tester inserted into the middles comes out clean, about 1 hour. Remove pans from oven, and transfer to a wire rack to cool, 15 minutes. Turn cakes out onto rack; let stand until completely cool.
Place one layer on cake stand and add some frosting. Place second layer on top and completely frost the rest of the cake. I then dusted around the entire edge of the cake with some of the ground chocolate cookie crumbs(from marzipan carrot directions). Transfer to refrigerator and chill at least 4 hours or up to 4 days, covered with a cake dome. When ready to serve, place marzipan carrots around the edge of the cake.
- I kept the cake at 2 layers, not 4. If you want to make 4 layers, do the following:
Using a serrated knife, trim tops of the cakes so surfaces are level. Slice each layer in half horizontally. Place a layer on a cake stand or cardboard round, and spread 3/4 cup frosting over top. Place a second cake layer on top, and spread with another 3/4 cup frosting. Repeat with third layer and another 3/4 cup frosting. Place last cake layer on top, and spread the remaining frosting over the top and the sides of the assembled cake. Transfer to refrigerator, and chill 3 to 4 hours, or up to 4 days, covered with a cake dome.
Orange Cream-Cheese Frosting
- 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter room temperature
- 3 packages (8 ounces each) cream cheese room temperature
- 2 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted
- 3/4 teaspoon finely grated orange zest
- 1 tablespoon freshly grated, peeled ginger
- Pinch of salt
- Place butter in bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, and beat on medium-high speed until fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add cream cheese, and beat until well combined and fluffy, about 2 minutes more. Add sugar, orange zest, ginger, and salt, and beat for 5 minutes.
Marzipan Carrots
- 7 ounces marzipan (found on the baking aisle in most grocery stores)
- orange gel-past food coloring
- 5 chocolate wafer cookies, very finely ground
- fresh carrot greens (reserved from carrots for cake)
With a toothpick, add a dash of food coloring to the marzipan and knead with fingers to combine, continue until desired shade is achieved.
Shape a teaspoon of marzipan into 12 balls, and place on a clean work surface. using your hands, roll each piece back and forth ( I had better success rolling it between the palms of my hands) to form a 2-inch log. Using your fingers, shape one end of each log into a tapered point to form a carrot shape. Use the tip of a skewer or toothpick (that's what I used) to make a small hole at the top of each carrot. using a paring knife, make small grooves across (working down) the surface or each carrot. Carrots can be kept at room temperature, in an airtight container, for up to one week.
When ready to serve, roll carrots in cookie crumbs, lightly brushing of excess, and insert carrot greens into the holes.
This cake is a labor of love and is well worth the effort!
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For Immediate Release, September 17, 2012
Contact: Timothy Ream, (415) 632-5315
Suit Filed to Protect Rare Greenback Cutthroat Trout
Off-road Vehicles Threaten Survival of Colorado's State Fish
DENVER— The Center for Biological Diversity filed suit in federal court today against the Pike and San Isabel National Forest to protect rapidly declining populations of greenback cutthroat trout, federally protected as threatened since 1978, from off-road vehicle use. According to the lawsuit, the national forest is harming Colorado's state fish by allowing ORVs on trails adjacent to Bear Creek, located just west of Colorado Springs and one of the last places where the native trout can be found. The ORVs are causing severe erosion, polluting the stream and severely harming the valuable trout.
"The Endangered Species Act couldn't be clearer. You can't authorize a motorcycle playground in greenback cutthroat trout habitat without bothering to ask how it's going to affect the fish," said Tim Ream, a Center attorney. "The folks at the Pike and San Isabel National Forest seem to feel the Endangered Species Act doesn't apply to them."
A recent habitat assessment, commissioned by the national forest itself, shows erosion from ORV trails is destroying trout habitat by filling deepwater pools the fish need to survive winter and drought and to hide from predators. ORVs can also spread diseases and start wildfires. According to the Colorado Division of Wildlife, greenback in Bear Creek are in steep decline.
The Endangered Species Act requires federal agencies to consult with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to study possible impacts of federal actions on endangered and threatened species. In documents filed in federal court last year, the national forest admitted that it did not consult with the Service before authorizing ORV use in Bear Creek, claiming that the law didn't apply in this case.
"The Forest Service has known for years it has a serious ORV erosion problem at Bear Creek," Ream said. "This beautiful cutthroat, the state fish, is a unique piece of the identity and history of Colorado — it's hard to understand why it's being treated this way."
The Center for Biological Diversity has proposed rerouting the ORV trail out of Bear Creek — something the national forest has admitted would be relatively easy — and closing the trail to ORV use in the meantime. Bear Creek ORV trails also run through land owned by the Colorado Springs Utility. Neither the national forest nor the utility has acted. The Center has notified the utility that it is illegally affecting trout, and may bring legal action later this year.
"We've tried to be reasonable with the national forest, simply asking it to close the trail while it takes an action it's already admitted is needed: moving this destructive ORV trail," Ream said. "But they've effectively told us the only way they're going to comply with the law is if a federal judge orders them to. That's a sad failure."
The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 375,000 members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.
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These are some serious barkeeps, the lads and gals who shake and stir in Boulder, and probably every one of 'em competed for the "best mixologist" banner. Kudos to Sutevski, a bartender at Salt Bistro, for nailing his "Sunfire," a combination of blood orange, rosemary syrup, 303 vodka, fresh lime juice, agave nectar and soda.


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If you're in charge of planning corporate meetings for your company, the first decision is likely whether you're going to have it within your own company's office or if you should use an off-site venue for your corporate event. While the right choice depends on a number of factors, including the size of your company and your meeting's agenda, here are some things that an off-site business meeting can provide your company.
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Have you ever attended a business meeting where more time was spent trying to get the audio/visual equipment up and running? This situation is all too common and is frustrating for both attendees and corporate meeting leaders. By holding your business meetings or corporate events at a location with professional audio/visual equipment, you'll ensure that your time isn't wasted trying to get the microphone or presentation equipment working.
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Inspired by the Goddess
Carol P. Christ writes about the rebirth of the Goddess, feminism, ecofeminism, feminist theology, societies of peace, and the Goddess Pilgrimage to Crete.
Matriarchy: New Definition
For me the word "matriarchy" expresses the certainty that "another world" can exist—a world not based in domination and hierarchy or violence and war.
The word "matriarchy" makes people's hair stand on end as they imagine the mirror-image of patriarchy: societies in which women dominate men, beat men, rape men, hold men as slaves, and demand obedience from men. Some who do not protest very loudly or at all against patriarchy are horrified by the very idea of matriarchy. To be fair, most feminists have also been schooled not to use the "m" word.
Early in my academic career, I read "The Myth of Matriarchy" by Joan Bamberger and learned that the idea of matriarchy gone wrong has been used by men to justify patriarchy. From other academics I learned that in matrilineal societies, uncles have a great deal of power—so therefore there never was a matriarchy. I was also aware that Jungian and other proponents of a "matriarchal stage" in the development of culture have argued that matriarchy had to be succeeded by patriarchy in order for societies to evolve to a "higher" stage. Unlike many of my colleagues I stubbornly held onto the belief that there must have been "a better way" prior to patriarchy.
But I also learned that to use the "m" word was equivalent to committing academic suicide. So I choose my words carefully and spoke of "pre-patriarchal" societies where women were honored, people lived in harmony with each other and nature, and there was no war. Or like Marija Gimbutas, I spoke of societies that were "matrilineal and matrilocal" and worshipped the Goddess as the symbol of the cycles birth, death, and regeneration in all things.
I didn't have a clear picture of how such societies might be organized until I read Societies of Peace by Heide Goettner-Abendroth. Through her work and that of a growing cohort of indigenous people who have come forth to speak about their own societies, matriarchy has been given a new and more precise definition.
Goettner-Abendroth rejects the common definition of matriarchy as "mother-rule" with the connotation of "female domination." Instead she argues that matriarchies are societies that honor mothers and consider care and generosity–values they associate with motherhood–to be the highest values. In affirming values associated with motherhood, matriarchal societies are not essentialist. They do not affirm that only women can be nurturers of life. Quite the opposite, they assert that the highest role for anyone–male or female or other–is to nurture life. This is so far from the way we think, that it will be easy to misconstrue what is being said.
Matriarchal societies are generally in the early stages of agriculture (small scale or before the plow), they are egalitarian, they are matrilineal (tracing descent through the motherline), and they are usually matrilocal (with women and sometimes men staying in the mother clan).
In matriarchal societies, men are not dominated, and as anthropologists have long understood, men do hold power as brothers and uncles. However, men do not dominate, because mothers and grandmothers also hold power. Together great-uncles and grandmothers create an egalitarian system where everyone's voice can be heard. The power to dominate is not held to be the highest value.
In matriarchal societies sex and love really are free because they are not tied up with providing for a family or caring for children. The matriarchal clan remains at the center of life; children are brought up by the maternal clan, including mothers, aunts and grandmothers, brothers and uncles. Lovers are free to come together and to part.
Land is held by the female clans and inequalities are erased by a wide-spread practice of gift-giving. Those who have more hold parties and feasts where what they have is shared rather than hoarded. In matriarchal societies the earth is generally understood to be a Great and Giving Mother and her generous gift of Life is celebrated in rituals that celebrate her as the Source of Life.
In some parts of the world matriarchies have been superseded by patriarchy, but not everywhere. Matriarchal societies still exist today in the Himalayas and in parts of Indonesia, as well as in areas in Africa and the Americas.
When I first read Societies of Peace a few years ago, I found it to be the "rosetta stone" that made sense of a series of individual insights I had about the ancient culture of Crete. Among those are the following.
Over years of visiting museums, I realized that a large number of the artifacts from ancient Crete were pouring vessels. As most of these were found in ritual contexts, it made sense to think of them as having been used to pour libations of liquid onto altars and the earth, returning the gifts that had been given to human beings to Mother Earth.
Over the years I have been struck many times by the generosity of the Cretan people, especially those who live in rural areas. Could it be, I wondered, that the idea that the earth is a Great and Giving Mother is connected to the "teaching" still alive today in Crete that nothing is more important than to give and to receive in the circle of life?
It seemed to me that the spirit of great generosity I experienced in Crete was not rooted in the idea of giving as self-denial that I had been taught in Sunday school. Although I experienced great generosity in my childhood—especially from my grandmother who fed us all on Sunday afternoons—I was also taught that "giving to others" is a duty and that it should be done "selflessly" with no expectation of return, and perhaps "joylessly" as well.
In Crete I learned a different lesson. I met people who love to give and who consider giving to others on a daily basis to be a part of life. The people I met also enjoyed receiving. For them life is a circle that includes self and other. Self-denial was not a part of it. To give is to live. But so is to receive. Recognizing the two together is, I believe, the essence of the matriarchal worldview.
Recently, I have begun to use the words "matriarchy" and "matriarchal" even though recognizing that they may be misunderstood. For me the word matriarchy expresses the certainty that "another world" can exist—a world not based in domination and hierarchy or violence and war. I have experienced matriarchal values in Crete and learned about them from the work of Heidi Goettner-Abendroth and her colleagues, but these values were also passed on to me by my grandmother.
I proudly use the "m" word in honor of her and of all of those who have taught me that "another way" is possible.
(However I intend to use the word precisely. Worshipping the Goddess or Goddesses does not make a society matriarchal.)
See "Matriarchy" by Peggy Reeves Sanday and my "Exciting New Research on Matriarchal Societies."
Carol P. Christ created a newly released new website for the Goddess Pilgrimage to Crete which she leads through Ariadne Institute. Early bird special for the spring pilgrimage extended. Carol can be heard on a WATER Teleconference. Carol's books include She Who Changes and Rebirth of the Goddess and the widely-used anthologies Womanspirit Rising and Weaving the Visions.
originally published on www.feminismandreligion.com
Monday, 17 February 2014
Well said, Carol. I have immediately ordered Societies of Peace. I have struggled with these same academic problems for 20+ years and I am more than thankful to have the conversation out in the greater world. When I did my diss fieldwork for feminist anthropology with the Cherokee of North Carolina, I continually found what you did in Crete. A people who will literally give all they have to someone who needs it. A reverence for all that the earth supplies and an enduring matrifocal/matrilocal lifestyle. Clans are still important and in the more remote parts of the Boundary grandma and great uncle knows best. I look forward to reading the book. Thank-you!!!
Monday, 17 February 2014
Another great book is Make a Beautiful Way by Barbara Mann, on Native American matriarchy, written by Native women scholars.· Christina Beard-Moose likes this comment.
Monday, 17 February 2014
As a psychology major, Geert Hofstede is a world renowned cross cultural statistician and also from the same country as Carl Jung (Denmark) has done huge studies on masculine a feminine cultures defined EXACTLY as you have with Patriarchal and Matriarchal and often uses masculine/patriarchal and feminine/matriarchal inner changeable so this concept still continues on to this day. Synergy is working
Tuesday, 18 February 2014
Not sure what you are meaning to say Greybeard. In the Mosuo culture and other matriarchal cultures there is not disharmony between men and women because both learn that nurturing life is the highest value. Where there is disharmony between men and women I would say this is a product of inequality. It is natural to resent being kept subordinate, and while it is not natural to be dominant, it is understandable that some resent being told that the dominance they were told was their right is not right. Thinking about and creting alternatives to patriarchy is in my view the best way to inspire harmony between women and men. Sweeping the problem under the rug will not make it go away.
Thursday, 20 February 2014
I loved reading this on feminismandreligion.com and doubley love to see it here! Thank you Carol for explaining so clearly what I've tried to do in conversations with others. Matriarchy always tends to be thrown in my face when I talk to others about patriarchy and the healing possibilities of the Goddess as spirituality or archetype. I will be sharing your writing with as many people as I can. Many blessings to you and yours!· Christina Beard-Moose likes this comment.
Thursday, 20 February 2014
thanks Paola.
Thursday, 20 February 2014
I stand corrected! Geert Hofstede is Dutch; however double checking resources both Sweden and the Netherlands rated very low on Hofstede's MAS (masculinity) index. Hofstede's studies also reveal that countries that are low on the MAS index have never had the historical influences of patriarchal/masculine/ego dominate cultures of Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Islam, and Muslim) or other highly masculine cultures such as the Roman Empire which conquered former highly feminine/matriarchal cultures such as Britain. Thus, indoctrination continued as Britain adopted masculine/patriarchal influences later indoctrinating Ireland and the United States in a domino-effect. Source: Hofstede, G., Arrindell, W. A., Best, D. L., De Mooij, M., Hoppe, M. H., Van de Vliert, E., . . . Williams. (1998). Masculinity and Femininity: The Taboo Dimension of National Cultures. Thousand Oaks, California , United States: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi:ISBN 0-7619-1029-8 (pbk)
Friday, 21 February 2014
So glad you said this. Women, and men need to be educated on this term and understanding what it means. Martriarchy does NOT mean women dominating men. There are no examples of societies that do that. But there are example of societies that are egaliterian. I am just reading, "Switching to Goddess" by Studebaker. Great book, fun read. Thanks again.
Saturday, 22 February 2014
For examples of Matriarchies where women dominate men some would point to Sweden or India. Some would include numerous other places. Your mileage may vary.· Greybeard likes this comment.
Sunday, 23 February 2014
There are powerful Goddesses in India, but India is so far from being a matriarchy that your comment does not make sense. Gang rape of women is unfortunately considered "acceptable" even by public authorities in India; abortion of females is rampant because people want sons not daughters; girls are given in marriage before they even reach puberty; widows may be abandoned even by their sons; and so on and on...
Saturday, 28 June 2014
I also frequently run into the misconception that matriarchy is a mirror image of patriarchy. I think it is because both words seem to imply heiarchy in our subconscious minds, due to years of association-- and since men are valued over women (in both power and value heiarchies) within patriarchies, it is assumed that the opposite hierarchy must be true in matriarchy.
I have found that it is easier to discuss this topic using the term "matrifocal" instead of "matriarchal," because it removes the implied hierarchy, and all the associations that are paired with a ridged heiarchical society (which most patriarchies are, because heiarchy is one of the key components of a patriarchical structure).
Friday, 29 August 2014
if we remove the gender part of these words and change them to arseholearchy and pleasantarchy perhaps that would help . I am not been flippant here . I just think using seemingly gender orientated terms does create misconception . The people who created and perpetuate the men are better than women crap are not Men , they are arseholes who just happen to belong to that gender
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