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The Crazy Horse Monument Is A Home-Based / Family Business

Will — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:39:21 +0000

Yesterday, I visited the site of the Monument to Crazy Horse in South Dakota. This will be the world’s largest mountain carving.It’s located in the Black Hills, only a few miles from Mount Rushmore. If you’ve never seen it, you should go. Not because is dwarfs Mt Rushmore in size and scale, but because a FAMILY is running the show. They take NO governmental funding of any kind. They take no funding from the Indians. The public is funding this project. A family business has taken on the challenge of building this monument and they want you to help…NOT the government! In fact, They’ve turned down funding from Uncle Sam…twice!

It’s been over fifty years to get to where they are now, & it’ll be at least another fifty before they’re done, but from day one, the family (aka home) business has been in control. I’m going to write more about this on my own blog at www.willadamsonline.com when I come back from vacation. I’ll let all of you know when I do.

My initial thought is this. If a FAMILY can dedicate itself to the vision of one man, Korczak Ziółkowski, to create a monument to Crazy Horse and all Native American Indians, and keep the government out of it … God Bless ‘em! America needs more people who believe in Free Enterprise instead of a free lunch.

Writing Tonight From Deadwood, SD

Will

P.S. Speaking of free enterprise…

Very Cool Tools For Your Home Business

Will — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:18:59 +0000

There are some very cool tools that have been released recently which may help your business run a little smoother and save time for you too. Take a look at these to see if they’ll work for you.

This one is waaay cool. Saluto will find all the processes that slow your computer down when you boot up. It then lists them for you and allows you to pause or delay their startup. Saved me about thiry seconds or so of boot time:-)

How about a service that’ll call your phone to remind you to get up, go to meet Aunt Elanor, or anything else? Go to Wakerupper.com … love the name!

Here’s aa good way to send text messages to a group of people quickly and easily. It’s not free (there is a trial) but it sure beats doing it from most phones. Tatango.com

I told you about Dropbox and its 2GB of online storage in an earlier post. Humyo gives you 10GB for free. Don’t forget – if you don’t have three backups you don’t have any. 10GB is usually plenty as long as you don’t overload it with music and video.

This site is going to become huge as time goes on. It’s smart.fm. Need to brush up on your Spanish lingo? Don’t want to spend hundreds on Rosetta Stone Software? Their Spanish program is based on the Japanese 2000. The Japanese 2000 is a list of the 2000 most commonly used words in everyday Japanese. But the site will teach you other languages too. Some geography, some anatomy. Smart.fm uses the concept of the learning curve and has you go over things you’re learning before they hit the forgetting curve. A very cool site.

Livecage began three years ago as an idea to combine video hosting, conferencing, pay on demand streaming and a social network, in one. Livecage successfully combines all of those services in one convenient site. They empower users to upload their content with no size restrictions and maintain the integrity of our site by promising that Livecage accounts will always be free.

Livecage allows any member free video and audio streaming. Their free online video conferencing enables up to 10 users to communicate from all over the world and up to 5 users for audio conferencing. They encourage organizations to use Livecage’s live broadcasting to deliver company messages, conferences, school events, broadcasts, video blogs or podcasts. Anyone can become a Livecage community member for free by simply clicking on the Sign UP page and creating an account.

Try these sites out. You may fall in like with one or more of them

Own Two Valuable Pieces Of Web Real Estate…

Will — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:34:30 +0000

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Some of us have cleared those hurdles and achieved some level of success. Many more have ‘tried and died’. Sadly, those poor souls dragged themselves back to their j.o.b. thinking they’ve missed out on making their dreams come true.

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Word Crimes – Part Three

Will — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:46:48 +0000

Today, the hunger for scandal is fueled by the media and the masses who consume the inane babble that passes for news. To be fair, the news networks have a lot of time and space to fill up. And ratings count…a lot. The ‘man bites dog’ type of report always will get a lot of attention.

Our media loves “polarization”. Republicans versus Democrats. Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice. Young versus old. You get it. Tell a story that pits one side against another for the ratings and subsequent ad revenue. The positive accounts get one small shot in the ‘human interest’ section. They’re forgotten about as soon as next news cycle starts. Rarely will the media follow up on those stories.

Unlike simpler times, the media today instantly reaches millions of pairs of hungry eyes and ears around the globe. The word gets out really fast. Remember how the Iranian government tried to control the news about a recent election? The truth got out to the world 140 characters at a time via Twitter.

The media recites the same wicked narrative time and time again until the truth is blurred beyond recognition. Frequently, no fact checking is done. Lazily, the wire reports are regurgitated onto the evening news.

Here’s some truth for you. If you were to watch the news media constantly, you’d still only know a small, a really small,

fraction of what has happened in the world.

But the piranhas of sensationalism continue to seek out and smell the perfume of immorality from around the world. They’ll compile and report the sin, disgrace, and foolishness of anybody. They chew them up, spit them and throw them out defenseless for the world to see. Then, they leave and move on to the next juicy tidbit.

Facts don’t seem to count. The media’s perverted memories and fertile imaginations make the actual reality of the the world seem tame compared to their sleazy inventions.

It’s even getting tricky to give a donation to charity. When a rich man makes a donation, they’ll say: “He’s just doing that to get his name in the news in order to help his business.” If he tries to give anonymously, they say; “It’s just some millionaire whose smart enough to know that withholding his identity will make people even more curious. It’ll slip out later just who gave the donation.” If he chooses not to chip anything in to charity, they’ll say: “See, he’s stingy with his money, exactly like the rest of those fat-cats.”

You just can’t win here.

To the rumourmongers who circulate gossip and slander, virtue is always a mask and noble ideas are a pretense. Generosity is considered a bribe.

When you stand for virtue and noble ideas, you must expect to be a target for inevitable envious attacks by those with elastic principles. Those bad actors are often careful to take their time, establishing a trail of circumstances made to make you appear guilty.

Then they ambush you, backed up by contant lies of envy and malice that now ravage the reputation of their

target…you.

Haven’t you occasionally said, “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.” to confirm your own hasty judgements? Be very careful here. The fire might be the fire of malice, fueled by the gasoline of envy which winds up burning an innocent and superior man.

“The way of a superior man is three-fold. Virtuous, he is free from anxieties. Wise, he is free from perplexities. Bold, he is free from fear.” -Confucius, Chinese philosopher. 551 – 479 B.C.