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'Don't Tread on Me' Snake Motto is Foundation for the Modern Free and Inquiring Mind The U.S. at one point was so poor and desperate it's generals told the population to make whatever flag they felt was appropriate. The most widespread was the rattlesnake and the "Don't Tread on Me" flag. 'Maya Personality Honesty Tests': One Alternative to Traditional Recruiting? Honesty is always a tough test. Here are a couple of simple ideas from my Maya friends that might make it a little easier. 'The Dating Manual for Old Marrieds' is a Cognitive Behavioral Engineering Helpdesk Old married couples are now going out on dates in order to put some excitement back in their marriage. Just how this is role played seems to be key to a successful cogntitive behavioral outcome. 2008 Election Proving Once Again the USA is the Greatest Nation in the Entire Universe Once again we prove our advanced democratic system is aces and helps us keep our status as the best nation in the Universe. A Simple Matter of Trust or a Maya's Perception of Honesty The Maya believe that little tests can provide great insight into one's character. Here we use the Maya test on a Maya... A World War I Soldier's Photo Album: Gas, Guts and Eternal Glory? World War I was the last war fought in the trenches. It was also the war of poison gas and inthinkable carnage shown in Grandpa's soldier's photo album. What did we learn? Amoebic Dysentery: Nature's Foolproof Crash Diet Plan for the New Emaciated Look We go to such crazy extremes to lose a little weight, why not try dysentery, a tried and true method? Are Your Employees Good Enough to Beat Your Competition? Are your people good enough? How do you know? What do you do once you know? Why should you care? Boycott Chinese and Buy Mexican Better to buy from friends and neighbors than from those that poison us and even their own. Business Development and the Measured Steps to Success Successful companies go through the model, infrastructure, strategy and growth phases. Other companies don't. California Lovers or 'We Just Don't Want to Get Close if There is Any Way to Avoid It!' The New Love means not having comittment and not having responsiblity. It also means not having much love. Can Nations, States, Regions and Communities Develop Their Own Personality? We are from whence we come. Caribbean Ecocide or Where Did the Cancun and Playa Del Carmen Beaches Go? Cancun is Las Vegas South. Playa del Carmen is like Myrtle Beach. Que pasa? Closing of Historic Skyview Flea Market and Drive-In a Big Loss for Santa Cruz, California The price of progress is sometimes the destruction of a community. Everything has its price. Cold Calling: Not Just for Fools, Crazies and Door to Door Salesmen Anymore Cold calling is everyone's bane. But it needn't be. Getting out does wonders for the mind and body and sometimes even the pocketbook... Continuous Recruitment or Why You Should Always Be Accepting Applications Continuous recruitment is a valuable recruiting tool that improves overall recruiting results. Always accepting applications is a good first step. Culture Shock: From Third World to First World in One Long Day Part of the fun of travel is getting culture shock. If you don't let it get to your head, it can be fun. Of course it depends on where you go. Customer and Client Rapport: Why Should They Care About You? Customers drive all the action. If your business can develop a relationship it can develop customer loyalty. Customer Loyalty or Where Did All the Customers Go? Whatever happened to the concept of customer loyalty? Does Your Search Engine Footprint 'Look' OK but 'Feel' Weak and Anemic? By leaving a shallow search engine footprint, weak commercial websites allow the junk of cyberspace to hitch an unwelcome ride. Go Ahead, I Dare Ya! Google My Name! When I was a kid we used to dare, double dare and then double dog dare. Nobody googled. How a 'Look and Feel' Redesign Can Upgrade Your Stale Corporate Image Does your marketing collateral project your desired 'look and feel' It should because with online clicking you and your online competitors are put side by side. What you project, shows. How Jacinto Ek Moo Developed His Work Ethic We are what we experience and what we mostly experience is work. Here Sr. Moo describes how he developed his work ethic. How Loneliness, Faulty Logic and Convenience Destroyed Three Super Brains Even the smartest among us can veer off path and end up going down a path of utter stupidity. How to Cook Maya Tepeizcuinte (Paca Jungle Rat) This is a true account of my Maya neighbor 'Jungle Man' catching a 25 pound tepeizcuinte (tepe), preparing and cooking it. How to Get Free Food by Effectively Using the Halftime Exit Strategy By focusing on the silly needs of others we can often reap unexpected benefits. How to Keep Your Written Work from Being Copied and Plagiarized To keep from being copied, make your content complex, unpredictable, and use a convoluted train of thought. How to Prevent Minimal Employees from Destroying Your Business Minimal employees are one of the primary reasons businesses fail. Don't let minimal employees destroy your company. How to Turn a Third Party Informational Article into a Power Marketing Tool Third party marketing informational articles present your company in a positive light. This under utilized multi-use tool is equally powerful in both print and digital media. How to Use Your Company's Employee Manual as a Business Development Tool A good Employee Manual can be your company's Human Resources in a box. Use it to grow. How Your Collective Thinking is Destroying Your Mind, Career, Personal Life and Hippocampus Those that think like sheep become sheep. Howdy Doody and Charlie McCarthy: 20th Century Cultural Icons Many of us boomers remember Howdy Doody and Charlie McCarthy, puppets from our childhood. Yet even though they were just puppets, they created a culture that even after many years we can still identify with. I'd Rather Be an Ugly Mexican than an Unhappy, Stupid, Silly Argentinean Argentine reporter Jorge Lafauci was recorded during a TV show saying that Mexicans are the ugliest and the only pretty ones are on TV. Lafauci upholds a longstanding tradition of Argentines making silly, stupid statments. If We Can Think It, Do We Also Experience It? Are we what we experience? The answer is 'probably so'... Increase Your Productivity by Shutting Off Your Phone How can you produce if you are constantly interrupted? Infrastructure and Economic Development The relationship between infrastructure and economic development is not always obvious. This article examines the close relationship between the two and how infrastructure becomes the framework for economic development. Intelligent Design and Natural Intelligence Are Two Peas in the Same Old Pod If it can't be tested and exists only on faith it is not science. Why not say 'it's not science' and move on? Is Fast Growth Always Better than Slow Growth? Growth is what it's all about or is it? Is There Life After Work or Is Work the Most Interesting Thing in My Life? Do you live to work or work to live? A fragmented life is not only less productive but less meaningful and less fun. Is Total Abstinence a Sure Indicator that Somebody Fell Way Off the Addictions Cliff? Those in recovery constantly bore the world with their tales of woe and self effacement. Don't they have anything else to say? It's a Pig Thing: My Very Strange and Ongoing Relationship with Pigs A pig is a pig whether free range or otherwise. Bonding with a pig is like bonding with barbecue. John C. Fremont: U.S. Senator, Governor, Military Officer, Bandit, Prisoner and Traitor? John C. Fremont was many things including one of the founders of California. Latino Leaders and Congress Ashamed to Admit Laying of Big Immigration Egg By not having a system to give illegal immigrants work permits, we cause harm to ourselves and our neighbors. Latino leaders and Congress are letting everyone down. Latino Politicians, Intellectuals and Community Leaders Abandoning California Farmworker Children Latino politicos, intellectuals and community leaders sit idley while Spanish speaking immigrant and citizen children to grow up not speaking English. As a result these children drop out of school and cannot participate in the educational and ecomonomic opportunities California has to offer. And not realize their individual potential... Lessons in Life We Can Learn from Ugly Women with Big Tattoos It's true that beauty is in the eye of the beholder but sometimes deflecting focus away from ugliness actually makes one relatively prettier. Marilyn Monroe's Mysterious Moving Mole We can never get enough of movie actress Marilyn Monroe , or so it seems. Did you even know Marilyn had a famous mole? Moss Landing, California: From Toxic Fish to Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary As the fishing industry has committed suicide the California coastal town of Moss Landing has managed to convert from blue collar fish to white collar research. Rusty pickups have been replaced by Audis and Volvos. My Breast Sizes are Just Fine for Now, Thank You and Besides I'm a Man Marketers are pure scum. Here is an instance of snake oil sleazebags trying to capitalize on citizen's patriotism. My Other House is a Jungle Hut or Maya Palapa Basics 101 A man's house may be his castle but the smart jungle dweller always builds a hut. My Secret Life as a Junk Man or My New Cognitive Behavioral Materialism Therapy Wallow in your stuff to gradually wean yourself from it. After a while you won't want to go to the mall anymore. My Secret Life as a Sheep Farmer or Never Say Never Never, never say never... My Secret Life as an Art Dealer or the Origins of the Poor Getty's Museum of Fine Arts Good art does not have to be expensive. But it does require work... National Health Care Reform Will Determine the Next President of the United States Universal health care will be the swing vote in the upcoming Presidential election in November. New Hybrid Web Based Business Models are Scrapping Traditional Marketing Strategies New hybrid web based business models are results driven and are replacing the less profitable traditional business models. Offshore Outsourcing: If It Sounds Too Good to Be True, Try a Little Due Diligence Outsourcing can be cheap but value is often another matter. A good scam will take your money and be a 100% loss. Opposites Attract: Why Being Different Might Be the Path to Your True Love If opposites attract then why do the dating services look for similarities and not differences? Personal Balance and Superior Productivity Those that produce and create the most tend to have lives that are balanced and not too far out of 'whack'. By determining what your own personal balance is, you can improve your workplace productivity. Populist Deception Fooling Latin America's Poor and USA's Gullible 'Intellectuals' Latin America needs a solid left, not Populist windbags that promise the impossible. Populism has failed everywhere and there's no reason to expect any change. Real Life Adventure is Not Limited to Exotic Places Helen Keller said "Life is an adventure or it is nothing." Why would you settle for nothing? Say it Ain't So, Barry, but Deep Down We All Knew This Day Would Come... Our hero Barry Bonds has been indicted for perjury concerning his denial at having taken performance enhancing steroids. All his fans can hope for is a quick resolution and back to playing baseball. Sensory Reduction and the Quest for Human Potential Our poor heads are bombarded constantly with all sorts of outside stimuli. By cutting out this stimuli in a saltwater flotation tank some theorize we are returning to our natural caveman selves. Sometimes One Has To Stay Focused, Take a Deep Breath and Just Jump In... Nothing ventured,nothing gained or fear of failure? Streets and People Sense: What It Takes to Cross the Street and Get Along with Others Something as simple as crossing the street safely requires a vast array of neural processes. Sometimes we only realize that when we see those struggle that don't have that ability. The Business Analysis: Why Your Company's Future May Depend on It A good business analysis can give a company a competitive edge by creating a blueprint for improvements. The Business Meeting Revisited: Waste of Time or Key Strategic Tool? The oft maligned business meeting is often ignored as a stategic management tool. Those that can do meetings well gain a competive advantage over that can't. The Demos Year End 2008 Campaign Review: Obama Up, Clintons Tank, and John Out Aren't we Democrats such a class act? The Dynamics and Finer Points of Sleeping in a Yucatecan Hammock When on the Yucatan peninsula, try sleeping in a locally made hammock. The Exit Interview: Don't Let That Valuable Information Walk Out Your Door! Departing employees through an exit interview provide an excellent way to find out more about your company but it requires discipline and focus. This article discusses exit interview basics. The Five Million Dollar Day Life's changes shift our priorities. In this true account, a man gets a $5,000,000 paycheck on the same day he learns he has terminal cancer. The Greed Gene: How Excessive Greed Can Bleed Your Business and Ruin Your Life Buddhists believe greed is the primary obstacle to enlightenment. Greed can also be an obstacle to business success. The Interviewer's Perception or Who Gets Hired? If you give the interviewer a bad impression,you may as well get up and walk out of the interview. The Jaguar and Why He is the Keystone Cop of the Rainforest The jaguar is the top of the food chain but seldom attacks man. Could this wildest of beasts be smarter than we think? The Mission Statement Revisited or This Time It's All About Us There is no fool like the fool that has a goofy mission statement hanging on their wall. The Shifting Hayward Fault or Our Worst Natural Disaster Coming Real Soon! The Hayward Fault runs right under Silicon Valley and California's economic dynamo. Lack of planning and foresight could create the biggest economic disaster in U.S. history. The Two Marble Stress Reduction Therapy Plan or 'What Me Worry'? Chinese worry balls work but neuroscientists don't know why. Marbles are much more portable and have been shown to be just as effective. There is no Security with Shaking Ground, Mad Shoplifters and Thieving Families We can never totally isolate ourselves from evil,risk, threat and bad things in general. Rather than worry about it we should get out and about and enjoy life and not be obsessed with creating a no risk environment. Besides, there is no such animal. Three Good and True Rat Stories We can never have too many good rat stories. By nature, rats elicit a human response that is both unpredictable and at times entertaining. Two Deaths on the Same Afternoon Death waits for no one. Here we see contrasted the life and death of two very different people. Two Little Kittens and the Big, Bad Rat: Nature's Universal Lessons Further Revealed We can always learn from nature, especially the most basic lessons which we tend to forget. U.S. Congressman Tom Tancredo Proves Smoking Dope and Politics Bad Mix If a U.S. Congressman can actually state that all of Mexico is a drug cartel, then why shouldn't I be able to return the favor by making up stories about him doing drugs? UCSC Treesitting Protesters Barking Up Some Really, Really Big Redwood Trees If your son or daughter were protesting 150 up on redwood tree limb should you demand they transfer to Texas A&M? Welcome to California National Park! When California runs out of water, we can make it into one heck of a national park. Don't forget to bring your water bottles... What do You, Me and Mr. Paul K. Miller have in Common? What will become of all your personal pictures and papers when you die? Will your family do like most and divide up what they want and Goodwill the rest? When in Doubt, Side with Skill Nothing can replace skill when it comes to workplace productivity. The care and feeding of skilled employees can give your company a huge competitive advantage. When Should You Not Rehire A Skilled Employee? Rehiring a skilled employee can be a nightmare if you do not carefully consider all the benefits and problems. This article covers some of the do's and don'ts of rehiring skilled employees. When Those We Trust Disappoint Us Usually trust is a two way street, but not always. Sometimes folks get so caught up in their own problems and greed that they behave badly. What should you do? Where is that Mycroft Holmes When We Really Need Him? Even Sherlock Holmes needed a good hint every now and then, right? Why Bodacious, Internally Generated Self Promotion Beats Boring, Checklist Marketing Checklist marketing is ineffective, so just who are you kidding when you fool yourself? Why Google and Yahoo Foot Prints are Eliminating Everything but Your Business Card What would happen if you threw out all your sales and marketing materials except for your business card? The answer might be worthy of some consideration. Why Mavericks Surfer Darryl 'Flea' Virostko is the World's Best Athlete Darryl 'Flea' Virostko surfs the Mavericks and the biggest waves in the world. Why Nellie Ball and the Warriors are the NBA's Finest Nellie got it going last season and the march continues. Can he go all the way? Why Non-Dairy Creamer is the Greatest Marketing Coup of All Time Non-dairy creamer proves that humans can fake themselves out with just about anything. Why Radio, TV, Newspaper and Other Traditional Advertising is so Very Yesterday The Return on Investment (ROI) for tradtional media marketing is going down. It is imperative that ownership and management take back control of their marketing initiatives. Why the SF Forty Niners Miss Eddie Debartolo's Freewheelin' and Dealin' For some of us, football is religion. When our team flops, we cry. But when our team is mismanaged, we take it personally. Why Those Don Quixote Start-Ups are Great for Your Career, Creativity and Sanity There is no better hands on business school than a start up. And for thrills they can't be beat. Why not do yourself a favor and try one? Workplace Humor or When Was the Last Time You Had Fun at Work? Humor is life; humor is fun. Why shouldn't your company be alive and funny? Yes Virginia, There is an Allegorical, Metaphorical, and Culturally Neutered Santa Claus Santa has adapted well to the 21st Century. Those that don't believe he exists don't even wish he did. How sad. Yes, But Am I Happy? Since we spend the best years of our lives working, shouldn't we do what we want to do? Yes, Virginia, the World is Full of Jerks... Jerks are everywhere and a diverse bunch at that. Why are jerks so irritating?	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