Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Too much fear, dont fear

There is too much fear going on these days. In life how do you know if you don't try.
Me? I am willing to jump noted with a urge I have been thinking about lately.
With a lady I fell for about going panhandling together in another town.
She would have sunglasses on and a baseball cap no one will know her.
Make our cardboard signs and just do it. We could see who made the most money
later. That is about getting her out to the living! To be good for her!
Yes I am for real! That is how I am. I earned my way to be supportive!
But the point is to put away the fear and go panhandling for a short time!
Living a long time! That is better than being that person going to 60 in no time at all,
looking at your wall full of certificates degrees and no one caring but you.
In reality it's just something that you did like 30 years ago long past and obsolete
as progress rolls over those 30 year old certificates and degrees!
At the end of the road those things are a farce! 

A better priceless thing is to look a photo on the wall of you panhandling smiling 
saying I did that! Much better view for the living, not the zombie land of past  
certificates and degrees! Getting out and living is far worth gold, 
papers are just papers in the end!

You loose nothing and gain everything! 
It's a point noted to all for a new year! Things can only get better!

~~~~~Fear of success and fear of failure are, apparently, fear of the 
same thing: fear of the unknown. So I say, don't fear the unknown! 
Everything is unknown until it is known. 
"There's nothing you can do, that can't be done": that's what John Lennon sang, 
and he basically meant that anything is possible - you just have to believe it, first.

Again, not fearing success (or failure) is easier said than done. It is still possible
just take the first step, and then the next...

"Many people are blinded by fear of seeing something different, or of seeing anything 
differently, or by the inability to differentiate between what they know how to see and 
what they could see if they knew how." - Vincent Price

~~~~~Don't be afraid of the words training and work. You are not required to do 
impossible things. A training program for peace of mind starts with simple actions, 
which you can incorporate in your daily life. They include a change of attitude, 
being more positive, developing a certain degree of mental focus and emotional 
detachment, and more. In a more advanced stage, there special meditations aimed 
toward increasing the level of inner peace.

Stress, anxieties, worries, fear and panic start in the mind. 
They start as thoughts, which grow in strength and affect your behavior, 
actions and habits. Your thoughts and attitudes act like a filter, a screen or lenses, 
through which you see the world in a particular way, which does not always 
depicts reality. Your aim is to be more aware of them, and use certain techniques 
to stop their power over you. There is no reason to go on through life being at the 
mercy of uncontrolled thoughts, feelings, anxieties, worries and fears.

You can transform your life! You can change the state of your mind! 
Even a small amount of inner peace would do a great deal to you. 
Are you afraid of some effort? Can't you spare just a few minutes for 
making your mind and life a little calmer, with less fear and worries?
'Peace of Mind in Daily Life' is a book that goes into detail about this most important 
subject. It teaches in simple and easy to follow progressive steps how to attain this 
coveted state of inner peace, right here where you are, without the necessity of making 
any outer changes in your life. True peace starts from the inside, and is independent of 
external conditions.

Tips to help you start:
  1. Learn to use the replacement method, of changing every negative thought, as it arises, into a positive thought. Don't fight negative thoughts, just divert your attention a positive thoughts or mental images.
  2. Write down and keep a list of inspiring and uplifting quotes, and read them several times a day.
  3. Think positive and inspiring thoughts before falling asleep.
  4. Though it might not be so easy, try to keep an attitude inner detachment in dealing with difficult or unpleasant people. Don't take too personally their remarks or criticism.
  5. Don't watch thrillers or action movies on TV before going to bed or falling asleep.
  6. Reduce the number of times you listen to the news on the radio or TV. Know what is going on in the world, but there is no need to constantly fill your mind with news that cause you stress or fear.
  7. Repeat positive affirmations several times a day. Do so also when you experience stress or fear.
    - "I feel peace and tranquility filling my mind and body."
    - "My mind is calm, like a lake on a quiet summer day."
    - "I feel calm relaxed and peaceful."
    - "I am a center of peace, calmness and happiness."
  http://www.successconsciousness.com/stress-fear-gaining-peace.htm
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Friday, December 18, 2015

What Fasting Does To Your Brain

This is something that I figured in my own life noted in the workplace (Walmart)
where I am busy working 10,000 LBS of pallets a night.
(The LBS are labeled on the pallets) If I eat a lot of food before I go to work or a
big dinner I get sluggish. Also if I get hungry and shaky it goes away in time.
I view it as like a detox but really it's your body burning fat for fuel. 
It's a good thing vs heading toward Diabetes by eating and eating more than 
you can burn. But I also know it's my brain changing for the better to adapt 
to my body's environment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixEV13jggvY

There is real research pointing to why that is. And points to a light of how we are 
and where we are going. Diabetes popping up it's head more than it should.
Ever thought why? Are we eating too much too often?

Well the research is pointing that way! *But I have to note if you are Diabetic you 
do need to eat small but often being you need to keep yourself in check with the
blood / sugar! It helps to eat better and in that helps you in being less dependent
on the insulin.

It's not about why "Big Pharma" won't study it. It's just they are way behind.
Food has changed from the past years and has gotten bigger and bigger as many
fast food places have been pushing for better sales from poor consumers.
They are trying to be healthy but it's the confine of low payed consumers running 
things. Healthy tends to cost too much!

But also to that there is a big push by Doctors in medicating people getting the 
Pharmaceutical money coming. Yes I do see that people are over medicated. 
As in elderly people being on three types of blood pressure medicines etc. 
And about the medicines for ADD, ADHD, they might not need them.
It might be boredom in the classroom smarter kids surrounded by stupidly they would be 
labeled ADD, ADHD. I'm not making fun of the stupid but facts are facts! Think about it!
The kids are trying to get from point A to point B with people wanting to stay at point A.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-ocd-monster/201208/its-not-necessarily-adhd

~~~~~Neuroscientist Shows What Fasting Does To Your Brain & 
Why Big Pharma Won’t Study It
Fasting is a challenge to your brain, and your brain responds to that challenge by adapting
stress response pathways which help your brain cope with stress and risk for disease. 
The same changes that occur in the brain during fasting mimic the changes that occur 
with regular exercise. They both increase the production of protein in the brain 
(neurotrophic factors), which in turn promotes the growth of neurons, the connection 
between neurons, and the strength of synapses.

“Challenges to your brain, whether it’s intermittent fasting [or] vigorous exercise 
is cognitive challenges. When this happens neuro-circuits are activated, levels 
of neurotrophic factors increase, that promotes the growth of neurons [and] 
the formation and strengthening of synapses. . . .” 

Fasting can also stimulate the production of new nerve cells from stem cells in the 
hippocampus. He also mentions ketones (an energy source for neurons), and how 
fasting stimulates the production of ketones and that it may also increase the number 
of mitochondria in neurons. Fasting also increases the number of mitochondria in nerve 
cells; this comes as a result of the neurons adapting to the stress of fasting 
(by producing more mitochondria).

By increasing the number of mitochondria in the neurons, the ability for nerons to form 
and maintain the connections between each other also increases, thereby improving 
learning and memory ability.

“Intermittent fasting enhances the ability of nerve cells to repair DNA.” 
He also goes into the evolutionary aspect of this theory – how our ancestors adapted 
and were built for going long periods of time without food.

A study published in the June 5 issue of Cell Stem Cell by researchers from the 
University of Southern California showed that cycles of prolonged fasting protect 
against immune system damage and, moreover, induce immune system regeneration. 
They concluded that fasting shifts stem cells from a dormant state to a state of 
self-renewal. It triggers stem cell based regeneration of an organ or system.

Human clinical trials were conducted using patients who were receiving chemotherapy. 
For long periods of time, patients did not eat, which significantly lowered their white 
blood cell counts. In mice, fasting cycles “flipped a regenerative switch, changing the 
signalling pathways for hematopoietic stem cells, which are responsible for the 
generation of blood and immune systems.”

This means that fasting kills off old and damaged immune cells, and when the body 
rebounds it uses stem cells to create brand new, completely healthy cells.

“We could not predict that prolonged fasting would have such a remarkable 
effect in promoting stem cell-based regeneration of the heatopoietic system. 
When you starve, the system tries to save energy, and one of the things it can do 
to save energy is to recycle a lot of the immune cells that are not needed, 
especially those that may be damaged.  What we started noticing in both our 
human work and animal work is that the white blood cell count goes down with 
prolonged fasting. Then when you re-feed, the blood cells come back. ” 

Valter Longo, corresponding author A scientific review of multiple scientific studies 
regarding fasting was published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2007. 
It examined a multitude of both human and animal studies and determined that fasting is 
an effective way to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer. 
It also showed significant potential in treating diabetes.
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Monday, December 14, 2015

Reset Button, How Psychedelics Saved My Life



I am for the use of Psychedelic drugs for healing. The foundation / support for it
needs to be set. You need to be with a Psychologist or like, so you will be able to 
break that shell.

Like it did for Amber Lyon is an Emmy Award-winning former CNN investigative

Age also is a concern, are you too young. You are never too young on the
Psychedelic drugs part being that you will be with a Psychologist.
Vs Marijuana use in kids. It does not heal and in fact slows down the growth
making kids stupid being the brain is still adapting and the part that would benefit
from the Marijuana is not there yet. Or it's slowing down your brain growth!
Vs Psilocybin mushrooms. "Are not neurotoxic, non-addictive, and a study
from University of Southern Florida shows they can repair
brain damage from trauma." So you see the difference in the drugs for healing.

Keep in mind I am saying Psilocybin mushrooms would be good for kids with
a Psychologist present because of the mental work that would have to be done
as the trip is on it's way! The trip would be pointless without direction and is the
point the foundation / support for it needs to be set.
Bad trips surrounded with stupid people makes stupid happen to you.
Why have a kid be put into a juvenile facility because of it.
It's best for the kid to take the trip with a Psychologist!

Being too old is a give in relating to heart condition.
You fall apart after 50, enjoy life when you can! 
So it's a matter of heart condition vs Psychedelic therapy.

is a good way to heal with support.

To hit the Reset Button is valued. This is nothing new in history.
And even noted as how we came to be. If Psilocybin mushrooms can repair
brain damage from trauma. It shows how we popped up to where we are today
from the cave man days.

~~~~~How Psychedelics Saved My Life
I invite you to take a step back and clear your mind of decades of false propaganda.  
Governments worldwide lied to us about the medicinal benefits of marijuana.   
The public has also been misled about psychedelics.

These non-addictive substances- MDMA, ayahuasca, ibogaine,
psilocybin mushrooms, peyote, and many more- are proven to rapidly and
effectively help people heal from trauma, ptsd, anxiety, addiction and depression.

Psychedelics saved my life.

I was drawn to journalism at a young age by the desire to provide a voice for the ‘little guy’.  
For nearly a decade working as a CNN investigative correspondent and independent 
journalist, I became a mouthpiece for the oppressed, victimized and marginalized.  
My path of submersion journalism brought me closest to the plight of my sources, 
by living the story to get a true understanding of what was happening.

After several years of reporting, I realized an unfortunate consequence of my style
I had immersed myself too deeply in the trauma and suffering of the people I’d interviewed.  
I began to have trouble sleeping as their faces appeared in my darkest dreams. 
I spent too long absorbed in a world of despair and my inability to deflect it allowed the 
trauma of others to settle inside my mind and being.  Combine that with several violent 
experiences while working in the field and I was at my worst. A life reporting on the edge 
had led me to the brink of my own sanity.

Because I could not find a way to process my anguish, it grew into a monster, manifesting 
itself into a constant state of anxiety, short-term memory loss, sleeplessness, 
and hyper arousal. The heart palpitations made me feel like I was knocking on 
death’s door.

Prescription medications and antidepressants serve a purpose, but I knew they were 
not on my path to healing after my investigations exposed their sinister side effects
including infants being born dependent on the medicines after their mothers couldn’t
kick their addictions. Masking the symptoms of a deeper condition with a pill felt like
putting a Band-Aid on bullet wound.

I was made aware of the potential healing powers of psychedelics as a guest on the  
Joe Rogan Experience podcast in October 2012. Joe told me psychedelic mushrooms 
transformed his life and had the potential to change the course of humanity for the better. 
My initial reaction was one of amusement and somewhat disbelief, but the seed
was planted.

Psychedelics were an odd choice for someone like me.  I grew up in the Midwest and was 
fed 30 years of propaganda explaining how horrible these substances were for my health.
You can imagine my jaw-dropping surprise when, after the Rogan podcast, I found articles
on the prodigious effects of these substances that behave more like medicines than drugs.  
Articles like this one, this, this , this, and this.   And studies such as this,  this, this, this,
this and this all gut-wrenching examples of how we’ve been misled by authorities who
classify psychedelics as schedule 1 narcotics that have ‘no medicinal value’
despite dozens of scientific studies proving otherwise.
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Sunday, December 13, 2015

Absinthe Please



What is Absinthe? You will be surprised!
Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine,
Arthur Rimbaud, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso,
Vincent van Gogh, Oscar Wilde, Aleister Crowley, Erik Satie and
Alfred Jarry were all known absinthe drinkers.

Think of it as in a happy drink not for the drunks you see drunk in a bar
out in the woods! Please don't drink it leaving the bottle in the elevator at
work. That is a personal problem that needs to be fixed, fix it lover!

There is a reason why people drink it. Alcohol is a depressant but Absinthe is not.
There is a class to the drink more than rednecks drinking beer. "Beer is Beer!"
Like you might as well have a beer enema so you can be depressed faster!
No? Absinthe would do a redneck a lot of good!

A drink should be for the better not to get angry with!
In the east many drink Vietnamese coffee and some have Opium in it.
I had a friend teaching ESL English in South Korea, Pusan.
He told me about it. He didn't tell me if he had any but now I know!
So drugs or something relating is norm and the point is to have a happy drink!

To the bars / coffee shops in my town please look into Absinthe!
Or Vietnamese coffee... Opium?!?!?

~~~~~The Art Of Drinking Absinthe, The Liquor Of Aesthetes
There's something romantic about absinthe that naturally green liquor derived from
wormwood and herbs like anise or fennel. Vincent Van Gogh and Oscar Wilde
drank it. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Pablo Picasso filled the glasses of
cafe patrons with absinthe in their paintings. Absinthe was a drink of aesthetes.

Yet it was not art, but necessity that first helped popularize absinthe: It was included
in the rations of French soldiers who marched off to colonize Algeria in the 1840s.
As Betina Wittels and Robert Hermesch write in Absinthe: Sip of Seduction,
French army doctors issued absinthe to soldiers "for the prevention of fevers and
treatment of dysentery."

Soon, the soldiers were drinking the beverage for nonmedicinal purposes, too.
Wittels and Hermesch write that it became a fashionable beverage in Algerian cafes and
nightclubs, and when soldiers returned to France, they weren't ready to give the drink up.
At the time, the French wine industry was collapsing owing to a vine-killing aphid called
phylloxera that left wine in short supply. Absinthe was in the right place at the right time.
But rather than simply substituting one alcohol for another, the French developed a ritual
for drinking absinthe that gave rise to some of the greatest liquor paraphernalia known as
absinthiana around.

First, absinthe is mixed with cold water. Not only does this dilute a liquor that is often
bottled at about 70 percent ABV, it also produces a cloudy effect called le louche
(which can be roughly translated to "the clouding"). Le louche is a spectacle for the eyes,
as the absinthe transforms from a deep green to a milky, iridescent shade.
It is a bit of magic in a glass.This drip fountain, on display at the
Southern Food and Beverage Museum, is a replica of the one found at the
Old Absinthe House in New Orleans. Drip fountains were an economical way to
cool down water before adding it to absinthe, while also prolonging the spectacle
of le louche.

Courtesy of Southern Food and Beverage Museum Le louche is also an 
example of a scientifically interesting phenomenon known as the "ouzo effect." 
Basically, when the water hits the absinthe, it releases the essential oils from the alcohol 
into the water, creating a spontaneous emulsion. So the drink becomes cloudy, 
and the effect sticks around a surprisingly long time.

Cold water, it seems, was considered essential to palatability:
In Five O'Clock Absinthe, the late-19th century poet Raoul Ponchon wrote that,
if you have warm absinthe, boire du pissat d'âne ou du bouillon pointu which translates,
more or less, to "you might as well drink donkey's urine or 'enema broth' " instead.
So cold water it was. The absinthe is sweetened with a cube of sugar, placed on a
slotted spoon balanced on top of the glass. Water is dripped over the sugar,
so that it dissolves slowly into the refreshment below.

Why create a special spoon for this purpose? Forks could also work, but in the
1800s, sugar didn't come in cubes but in lumpy rocks, which would have been
difficult to balance on tines. So the French created special spoons that could cradle
the sugar while allowing the sweetened water to drip down into the glass.

Drip fountains were created for two reasons. First, they allowed people to economically
cool the water used to dilute the strong liquor. A small amount of ice which was still an
expensive luxury in the mid-1800s could be used to chill a large quantity of water.
Second, the fountains allowed patrons to draw out the ritual of le louche.
Sure, you could simply pour the water in all at once and be done with it.
But where is the magic in that? No, drinking absinthe was meant to be an indulgence
for the senses no wonder artists flocked to the beverage. Absinthiana collector
Scott MacDonald, author of Absinthe Antiques, refers to the process as
"Western civilization's tea ceremony."

Lots of people were drinking absinthe in the latter half of the 19th century, but the way
they drank it and the utensils they used quickly became a marker of social class.
While cafes might carry slotted spoons with a simple design, some wealthy families
would order a full set of specially engraved spoons from the silversmith. Like most of us,
these wealthy absinthe drinkers weren't immune to trends: MacDonald says that in the
1880s, spoons made out of a new material called aluminum were actually more costly
than those made from pure silver.

The French brought their love of absinthe with them to New Orleans, which explains why
the city's Southern Food and Beverage Museum has a large exhibit devoted to the drink.
Museum President Liz Williams says that only the upper classes could afford a bottle of
absinthe on their own but that didn't make absinthe any less of the people's drink.
Instead of happy hour, the time between 5-7 every evening was known as
"the green hour" in France. People gathered in cafes, visiting and unwinding over glasses
of absinthe.

And MacDonald explains that despite absinthe's reputation as an artist's beverage,
it was the common person's beverage first. "Artists enjoyed it because it brought people
together," explains MacDonald. "They enjoyed the culture of it."

 
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Saturday, December 12, 2015

Cab Calloway Jive Talk

I bet you didn't know I speak Jive! Well I learned it in the 80's as many kids did
after seeing the "Jive Lady" in the movie Airplane. For the time it was the 1970's
type Jive but we learned it was from the 40's! But in the 80's it was funny as hell
talking Jive in school many Teachers didn't know what the hell we where saying,
like "I need be Mugglin" etc, etc...

Jive is funny being it has many meanings for each word. Like "Jelly roll" won't say it here!
And it is funny when you get it! As in saying "My lady, she's married, shes my mop!"
A "mop" is often a reference to another hepster's girlfriend. Like the mob boss's girlfriend.
Saying she is your mop is noting she is worth it, knowing you will in time be axed
and she will have to "mop" up the aftermath! Mob times!
Well there are many women out there that is worth it! You gotta roll the dice in love to get
anything of value! She's a "Barbecue" the girl friend, a beauty! That she is, smoking, humm!
Just saying she is a Barbecue and she's worth it!

Much of the words we all use today. They came from Jive and today I wish they would
bring it back to lighten up the kids in college. I remember Pig Latin in high school!

Now go learn some Jive because "I'm flat nose in the deep fry!"
http://www.artofmanliness.com/2008/09/25/are-you-hep-to-the-jive-the-cab-calloway-hepster-dictionary
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_jive_talk

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Friday, December 11, 2015

Oil Prices Too Low!

This is something of a flashback to the days of my dad when
he was a Petroleum engineer. The last time oil prices tanked in the 90's he
ended up getting laid off. It was that bad at the time everything hurt and a
engineer got axed! 

 Now? Oil is at $36 a barrel after I posted a comment on 12-10-15
http://walmartramen.blogspot.com/2015/12/half-of-oil-junk-bonds-could-default.html

Oil is too low it's effecting the stock market and overall the prices are too low.  
Something is going on! Anyway you see it this can't keep going on!
Oil prices going low effects the oil business right down to innovation,
like it has in the past!

~~~~~Dow falls 310 points as oil plunges below $36 a barrel
Stocks plunged Friday. The Dow fell 310 points, a nearly 2% decline.
It finished the week 3% lower. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq have now
dropped more than 3% this month.

The continued collapse in oil prices was clearly putting investors in a foul mood.
Crude fell 3.5% to a new seven-year low and dipped below $36.

Investors wouldn't touch big energy stocks with a 39-and-a-half foot pole.
Chevron (CVX) fell 3%. Natural gas companies Chesapeake (CHK) and
Southwestern Energy (SWN) plunged 9% and 14%.

Weaker-than-expected retail sales for November didn't help ether.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/11/investing/stocks-oil-santa-claus-rally/index.htm
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Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Middle Class not Dominant

This is something that is showing more in what I see in small towns the bottom
of the bottom getting desperate. Crime from the poor is jumping more than ever.
In my town the slums are really getting bad. The poor side of town 61% of the
town has always been like Detroit but it really is getting like it, for real!

This is a red flag I am holding up here!

The poor is going MadMax! And the middle Class is getting pulled down with them.
It's a big divide going from poor to the 001% from that I do see the MadMax life
popping up from the divide! More noted by the high up Walmart.
And to note, why I do what I do for the workers! http://walmart1percent.org

Give it's also stupid Republicans with their businesses make jobs thinking.
Like you can have a business with no one walking in the store to buy stuff to
give the store owners money so they can pay their workers.
The pay is too low to consume anything! As like me, being me I plan to
unplug my refrigerator being there is really nothing in there anyway.
It helps to offset a bit for using the heater in the winter.
I'm ok with that, it's changing times!

And that is why crime also goes up to get money to live or to go to
jail where you get food and heat in the winter vs how they are living.
Basic Sociology!

~~~~~The middle class no longer dominates in the U.S.
Middle class Americans now comprise less than half, or 49.9%, of the nation's
population, down from 61% in 1971, according to a new Pew Research Center
report. For Pew, middle class Americans live in households earning between
two-thirds to two times the nation's median income. In 2014, that ranged from
$41,900 to $125,600 for a three-person household.

For decades, the middle class had been the core of the country.
A healthy middle class kept America strong, experts and politicians said.

But more recently, these residents have struggled under stagnating wages and
soaring costs. Presidential candidates on both sides of the political aisle are
campaigning on ways to bolster the nation's middle class and increase opportunities
to climb the economic ladder.

The steady decline of the middle class is yet another sign of economic polarization,
said Rakesh Kochhar, associate director of research at Pew. Not only are more
Americans shifting into the upper and lower classes, but they are moving into the
higher range of the upper class and the lower range of the lower class.
This is yet another sign of growing income inequality, he said.

"There are fewer opportunities that place people in the middle of the income distribution,"
Kochhar said. One silver lining, however, is that more people are moving up the
ladder than down. The ranks of the upper class are growing faster,
according to Pew's research.

Senior citizens were most likely to have shifted into the upper class since 1971.
The share of Americans age 65 and over in the upper bracket increased nearly 27%
over that time. Married couples with no children and black Americans also saw larger gains.

Those most likely to fall into the lower class were those with only a high school degree
and high school dropouts, as well as unmarried men.

Here's another sign of how growing income inequality is squeezing the middle class.
Since 1970, upper class households saw their median income soar 47% to $174,600 in
2014. Meanwhile, the middle class only got a 34% boost to $73,400. Still, they have been
more prosperous than the lower-income Americans, who only received a 28% bump
to $24,074.

Some research shows that increased income inequality and a hollowing out of a nation's
middle class stunts economic growth, Kochhar said.

Looking at it another way, the upper class now controls 49% of the nation's aggregate
income, up from 29% in 1970.

The middle class used to earn the largest slice of the nation's income. It held 62% in 1970,
but that share has since fallen to 43%.

The lower class, meanwhile, holds 9% of the country's income, just under the 10% it
earned in 1970.

The rich are not only trumping the middle class in terms of income. They've also seen their
wealth soar over the past 40 years.

The median net worth of upper class families doubled between 1983 and 2013, up
to $650,100. But the wealth of the middle class has increased a near negligible 2%
over that time to $98,100. At least they fared better than lower-income Americans,
who saw their wealth drop 18% to $9,500.

For its wealth calculations, Pew used data from the Federal Reserve Bank's Survey of
Consumer Finances, which defines net worth as all of a family's assets minus all their debts.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/09/news/economy/middle-class/index.html

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Saturday, December 5, 2015

Falling in love is like falling down a flight of stairs

It's noted you love who you love in life regardless. You spend time with her, talk,
she sees trust in you to the point she loosens up and talks sort of letting it out.
Knowing you are good for her and is good for you in that!
You miss her when she is gone! Mostly missing being bulldozed by her alpha and
knowing she chose you to bulldoze. Knowing the value of that!
Knowing later you should of kissed her then!

Lovers, love! If it effects you making you fall down then it is love.

Then she goes and you see what you are missing when she is gone.
You know the value and know she's worth it!
In that you can't hide your feelings for her, I know whats in me!
You are in love and will still be in love with her, something like that does not go away!

This story is about falling in love. It's called falling because you don't expect it,
it kind of hurts to fall down a flight of stairs! I still feel it.... It's still there.... Still hurts!
All you can say is please take responsibility for that and take me in, take me home,
like do something! I am responsible in knowing I was supportive toward her and
good for her, I gave her a light. And I noticed I need her also!

I know I'm deeply bonded, missing her like a lost kitten!
Waiting for that call!


“Girls like her, my grandfather once warned me, girls like her turn into women with eyes
like bullet holes and mouths made of knives. They are always restless.
They are always hungry. They are bad news. They will drink you down like a shot of
whisky. Falling in love with them is like falling down a flight of stairs.
What no one told me, with all those warnings, is that even after you’ve fallen,
even after you know how painful it is, you’d still get in line to do it again.”
Holly Black quote
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/531882-girls-like-her-my-grandfather-once-warned-me-girls-like

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Friday, December 4, 2015

Wal-Mart worker fired after 18 years

If you work at Walmart and you have any trouble / issues not being resolved
please contact the NLRB and let them know what is going on at the Walmart
you work at. Walmart is too damn big to play games at work.
As a worker you need to take care of yourself they won't take care of you!

If your hours are being cut please contact the NLRB in DC, not
the one in your state! Because of how big Walmart is!
And let them know whats going on!
Walmart makes too much money to cut your hours. Please stand up for yourself!
These are times where you need no cuts!
https://www.nlrb.gov  Phone 1-866-667-NLRB

Any issues in my area contact me. E-Mail is listed on my profile here!
https://www.blogger.com/profile/00196802151725092225
http://walmartramen.blogspot.com/2015/08/walmart-cutting-hours-to-save-money-and.html

~~~~~Wal-Mart worker fired after 18 years for turning in $350 cash found in 
Niskayuna store parking lot too slowly
Michael Walsh of Schenectady, a Wal-Mart maintenance worker for 18 years,
was fired on Nov. 6, a few days after he turned in $350 in cash he found in the
parking lot of the Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market.

He was called into a manager's office, interrogated and terminated for
"gross misconduct."His offense? He waited about 30 minutes before he
turned in the money.

"The only thing I did wrong was hesitate," Walsh said, who is 45.
"I didn't steal anything. They didn't give me any warning. They just fired me."

The firing happened on the same day that Thomas Smith, 52, of Albany, an
East Greenbush Wal-Mart employee, was fired for redeeming $2 worth of cans
and bottles left behind in a shopping cart.

Worker rights advocates are organizing a Wal-Mart boycott through Jan. 1 and
additional East Greenbush store demonstrations in response to Smith's
controversial termination.

In the Niskayuna incident, a manager at the store, located on State Street in
Mansion Square, said Tuesday she could not discuss Walsh's firing. A
Wal-Mart spokesman, Aaron Mullins, said he had no comment.

Walsh said he found a $5 bill in the parking lot and immediately went inside and
turned it over to a manager. When he went back outside his job involved picking
up garbage and collecting stray shopping carts he found a small stack of bills,
$20s and $10s, in the parking lot. It was not in an envelope and bore no identification.

He completed his task and when he got a moment, he counted the cash: $350.
He stuffed it in his pants pocket. He went back inside the store, which is adjacent
to a Berkshire Bank branch, and was about to turn in the bundle when he heard
a commotion.

"A woman was yelling at a manager, freaking out that she lost her money and
I got nervous," said Walsh, who speaks haltingly and has anxiety issues.
"I kind of froze and didn't want any trouble."

Walsh returned to his job, which included cleaning the bathrooms,
and he gave a manager the $350 in cash about 30 minutes after he found it.
The manager took the money and Walsh heard nothing more.

Two days later, a manager showed him a surveillance tape that was time-stamped
and confirmed that roughly 30 minutes elapsed from the time a camera captured
Walsh's discovery of the cash and when he turned it in.

"They didn't let me explain and said they knew what happened.
They told me how it happened in a way they wanted it to go," Walsh said.
He was told to sign a statement, but was not given a copy. He was told to turn in his
badge and his employee 10 percent discount card.
He was fired for "gross misconduct."

Walsh, who has a general equivalency diploma from Mont Pleasant High School in
Schenectady, worked at the Glenville Wal-Mart for 10 years and other Wal-Mart stores
in the area before being shifted to the Niskayuna store. It's one-quarter the size of a
standard Wal-Mart Supercenter and includes a grocery, pharmacy, deli and bakery.

"I enjoyed my job, I was a good employee and always got to work on time," he said.
"I got treated like a common criminal."

In all his years as a Wal-Mart worker, including computer-based training,
Walsh said he never received a handbook of employee rules or company policy about
items found in the parking lot.

Walsh got a raise in September to $14.35 an hour, near a $15 cap for a maintenance
worker. He was a full-time employee who worked 40 hours per week.

The timing of his firing also upset Walsh because he lost out on his 20 percent employee
holiday discount and fell short of a coveted 10 percent lifetime discount card for
20-year employees.

"I was really looking forward to that lifetime discount card in two more years.
They took that from me," Walsh said.

Without a paycheck, he is struggling to pay his $680 monthly rent and car payment.
His wife is on disability for anxiety and depression.

"I got scared and didn't go about returning the money in the right way," he said.
"I told them I was sorry. I thought they would have given me a warning or suspended me.
Instead, they just fired me."

He has applied for maintenance jobs at Target, Lowe's, BJ's, ShopRite and Ellis Hospital.
Meanwhile, Smith was hired by a local property maintenance company at $12 an hour,
$3 more than his Wal-Mart wage.
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Boycott-begun-against-Wal-Mart-in-support-of-6667590.php

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Walmart Cutting hours to save money and takes losses to make sales

Walmart is cutting workers hours at some Walmarts.
"Walmart says the cutbacks are only at a small fraction of its stores and are 
unrelated to the higher labor costs."

But yet the cutbacks being "a small fraction of it's stores" you need to note 
Walmart will take losses to make a sale! Many small businesses can't do what 
Walmart does so they go away. Thus the issue with Sprawl http://sprawl-busters.com
If Walmart takes a hit with the prices being over all, would be a massive amount vs 
wages cuts, and noted why small stores could not keep up being the lack of ability match 
Walmarts cuts in prices. Why is Walmart not taking a hit with wages being a 
small fraction? More workers working is more to the Revenue Per Employee value.
That is $220,737 per employee revenue by the way!
http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/wmt
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/revenueperemployee.asp

Keep in mind Walmart is pushing the $500 billion sales.
$485.65B Sales/Revenue and $120.57B Gross Income.
and note it's going up, up, up! 

Saving money on the labor cost is not an issue with the sales growth year after year.
The stock market takes hits from time to time and still grows! Walmart is not a bubble!
$485 billion sales $120 billion gross is not a bubble! There is no need for a drop of hours!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_market_bubble

If your hours are being cut please contact the NLRB in DC, not
the one in your state! Because of how big Walmart is!
And let them know whats going on and what I said up there.
Walmart makes too much money to cut your hours. Please stand up for yourself!
These are times where you need no cuts!
https://www.nlrb.gov  Phone 1-866-667-NLRB

Workers information is at:
http://www.dol.gov
https://www.osha.gov

And many others at: ( ( ( ( WORKER RIGHTS, WORK RELATED ) ) ) )
http://dugbuglinks.homestead.com/files/WEBLINKS.html 

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Wednesday, December 2, 2015

The Grandma who went for a Walk, Appalachian Trail

It's good that women stand up and get out. It's a pursuit of happiness valued as such!
Find those things that make you happy and grab them by the horns!

~~~~~The Grandma who went for a Walk Alone through 14 States
At the age of 67, Emma Rowena Gatewood told her adult children she was going out 
for a walk. Little did they know that her “walk” would make her the first woman to hike 
the 2,168-mile Appalachian Trail from Mount Oglethorpe in Georgia to Mount Katahdin in 
Maine solo, and in one season. She was a farmer’s wife from Ohio, a mother to 11 children 
who gave her 24 grandchildren, and a survivor of domestic violence.

In 1950, Emma had read an article in the National Geographic about the famous trail, 
which she would later find out had greatly exaggerated the ease of the hike, giving her
the impression of leisurely walks and clean cabins at the end of each stretch. In 1955,
when she decided to embark on her little impromptu stroll, she wore Keds tennis
shoes and packed barely any hiking gear normally required except for a blanket,
raincoat and a plastic shower curtain. As people began spotting the 67 year-old
grandmother making her way alone through forests and wild lands on the longest
hiking-only trail in the world,local newspapers picked up on the story.
Nicknamed “Grandma Gatewood”, by the time she had reached Connecticut,
Sports Illustrated had done an article on her and she became a celebrity before the
hike was even over.

There’s a tradition along the Appalachian Trail for some hikers to receive “trail magic”,
assistance from strangers living along the route in the form of anonymous kind actions,
gifts, food or places to sleep. As Grandma Gatewood’s celebrity grew with every state
she conquered, more strangers encouraged her with “trail magic”.

This remarkable farmer’s wife from Ohio had always found solace in nature,
ever since her husband began physically beating her on a regular basis just a few
weeks into their marriage. On more than one occasion, he had nearly beaten her to death,
breaking her ribs and teeth, threatening to have her committed to an insane asylum if she
tried to leave him.

When she needed to escape their marital home, Emma often ran into the woods to
find peace. Eventually, she was able to get a divorce, but never re-married,
content in her solitude and confident she could take care of herself.

When she completed her 14-state two thousand-mile hike, Mrs. Gatewood was
invited on the Today Show to speak about her experience.
“For some fool reason, they always lead you right up over the biggest rock to
the top of the biggest mountain they can find”.

When asked for hiking tips, she said, “Make a rain cape, and an over the shoulder sling
bag, and buy a sturdy pair of Keds tennis shoes. Stop at local groceries and pick up
Vienna sausages… most everything else to eat you can find beside the trail”.

By the age of 75, she had hiked the Appalachian Trail three times, making her the
first person to do so. She also walked the 2,000 mile Oregon Trail from Missouri
to Oregon averaging 22 miles a day and traveled to every state in the country
during her lifetime.
http://www.messynessychic.com/2015/11/26/the-grandma-who-went-for-a-walk-alone-through-14-states

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandma_Gatewood
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RadioShack starting up WOMPA!

Believe it or not I always did my X-mas shopping at RadioShack back in the days.
In the 1990's I went to RadioShack to get some resistors switches etc to make a
speedometer bypass for my 1990 Nissan 240sx so I could bypass the speedometer
and make it run with the resistors making the cars ECU think it was only doing
100 MPH when it was really doing 156 MPH! Thanks RadioShack!
* It's normally speed governed at 116 MPH!

Anyway... RadioShack is coming back! They have hired Nick Cannon as
chief creative officer. This is good being the directed creativity he will bring!
"RadioShack said Cannon will also play a role in developing its educational and 
S.T.E.M. products. The line consists of items meant to foster learning in science, 
technology, engineering and math."
http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/02/news/companies/nick-cannon-radioshack-chief-creative-officer/index.html

*I would advise schools to jump in being a reasonable resource it will be!

~~~~~RadioShack starts “wild ‘n out,” hires actor/rapper Nick Cannon as CCO
If you've seen actor, rapper, America's Got Talent host, and TeenNick chairman
Nick Cannon in the news lately, you might have assumed it was due to his performance
in an upcoming Spike Lee joint about violence in Chicago's south side.
But on Wednesday, the entertainer had news from an entirely different dimension
when he announced that he had added another feather to his not-quite-Pharrell-sized hat:
chief creative officer at RadioShack.

Does this "hire" mean anything more than seeing Cannon's face on advertisements,
as has been the case with many other major tech company celebrity hires?
RadioShack certainly wants us to think so, as the company's announcement gave a vague
list of Cannon's CCO duties, the biggest of which appears to be the "development of
RadioShack-exclusive products." Cannon will also be tasked with in-store music curation,
event promotion, and helping the company "continue to grow" its educational and
STEM-specific initiatives. RadioShack didn't specify what existing educational initiatives
it is running, and its home page currently offers no official information about such initiatives.

 The announcement did recall a story from Cannon's youth, in which he broke a stereo that
he'd taken apart then went to a RadioShack in his home of San Diego to get help fixing it
where he eventually figured out how to assemble and modify his own sound systems.
(In other interviews, Cannon has boasted that as a kid, he'd figured out how to
connect telephones to turntables and "make hold music.")

 "RadioShack is a brand that matters," Cannon said in the announcement.
"As a kid, spending time in my neighborhood RadioShack was invaluable.
The maker mentality and educational approach taught me a lot and encouraged
me to explore my own creativity. In return I wanted to give back by fostering creative
pursuits in others, and helping kids move to the next level."

 However, while Cannon has launched tech ventures over the past few years, the results
have spoken less to RadioShack's maker mentality and more to its modern, suffering
incarnation, including budget-priced tablets sold on QVC and Beats-like headphones.
Cannon previously served as an "entertainment ambassador" for the annual
Consumer Electronics Show, apparently to promote a line of "Ncredible" tablets.
Those devices included a built-in multimedia sharing app designed to let aspiring 
entertainers pitch their acts directly to Cannon's production company.
(As of press time, the official Ncredible site's online store wouldn't load.)

Until today, the last major announcement about the state of RadioShack 
(after its filing for bankruptcy and delisting from the NYSE earlier this year, that is) 
came in July when the company was acquired by General Wireless for $26.2 million.
http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/12/radio-shack-starts-wild-n-out-hires-actorrapper-nick-cannon-as-cco
 
WOMPA!
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