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- 'Criminal' Treesitters Winning War of Nerves Against Weenie UCSC Administrators
Those that can, administer companies and businesses. Those that can't, adminsiter colleges and universities. - '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 Riviera Maya Caribbean Beach Camping Trip or Which Way is Bacalar?
All of the land from Cancun to Tulum is taken. Our favorite camping beach below Akumal is a paradise that is now being built converted into condos. - 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? - Begone Doom and Gloomers: Why You Should Stay on the Sunnyside of Life
It's not worth it being a doom and gloomer. Think of what it costs in lost wages. - Boycott Chinese and Buy Mexican
Better to buy from friends and neighbors than from those that poison us and even their own. - Breakthrough Employees or How Does Our Company Get To Where We Want To Go?
Breakthrough employees can take your company up to the next level. They are quirky and sometimes hard to please but if you can get them engaged and on your team watch out. - Business Development and the Measured Steps to Success
Successful companies go through the model, infrastructure, strategy and growth phases. Other companies don't. - Business Intelligence and Business Espionage or Why Don't We Just Call It Spying?
You can call it spying if it gives it intrigue and makes you feel better. But really it's just a matter finding out what you need to know. - Business Writing: What You Write is a Direct Reflection on You and Your Company
You are what you write. Why would you send or publish writing that is embarrassing? What image of your company does that project? - 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. - California Real Estate No Longer California Dreaming
But buyer beware said one realtor, the truth is both the banks and construction companies are sending in their own 'dummy bidders' to drive up the auction price. - Can Nations, States, Regions and Communities Develop Their Own Personality?
We are from whence we come. - Can the New Techies Manage and Maintain Their Vast, Extended Neural Networks?
Devices and gadgets have extended the brain's neural network to outside the cranium. What happens when these devices fail? - 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? - Changing Oil and Changing Times: The Independent Auto Repair Service Dilemma
The global problem is the auto repair and service market has been shrinking in the last ten or fifteen years. Technology has made cars much more reliable with fewer breakdowns, repairs and scheduled maintenances. - Civilized Visualization or Worrying About Worrying About Having the Big One
As if there isn't enough to worry about already... - 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. - Corporate Culture: A Tale of Two Contrasting Companies
Is culture it's own reward? In which we see two companies the same size in the same industry go down very different cultural paths. - 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 Complaints or It's Not Just the Whine and Please Anymore
May we have a little more whine with that cheese, ma'am? Why are the worst complainers all jerks? - Customer Loyalty or Where Did All the Customers Go?
Whatever happened to the concept of customer loyalty? - Did Obama's Arrogance Trump His Intelligence?
It's my friends in the South and Midwest that are crying "foul." These folks are white, Reagan Democrats or Arnold Republicans. They are centrist, patriotic and by many experts the so-called swing vote. - Do You Have the Right Compensation, Incentive and Bonus Plan or It's All About Me, Me, Me
Just like rats in a cage we humans scurry around for our rewards or reinforcement. Just make certain you are rewarding your rats with what drives your company. - 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. - Dumber by Design: We're Feeble-Minded, What's Your Excuse?
Is there a limit as to just how far one can dumb down? - Eulogy for Elma or All That Matters is What We Do Between Birth and Death
Elma's life proved that all that matters is what we do between life and death. - Free Tibet by Boycotting Chinese Goods, Olympic Advertisers and the Olympics
Go ahead, it won't hurt. Just remember that in China not only would you not be allowed to read this article but it would be banned on the search engines as well. Or rather it would be banned to the extent the search engines could filter it out. The government would also ban you from forwarding it. - 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 a Promotional Interview Can Benefit Your Business and Career
A skilled interviewer can work keywords and phrases into the interview text. When the interview is published and distributed, these keyword and phrases will be picked up by the search engines and help you with your marketing search term domination campaigns. - How Data Mining and Internal Marketing Can Boost Your Sales
Getting good data on your better prospects allows you to market directly to them. What else do you want? - How Internal Corruption Prevents the Economic Development of Indigenous Peoples
So in the end it is largely an indigenous thing; a version of the theme "we have met the enemy and they are us". - 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 Local Search Technology is Changing Our Sense of Community
In the past we chose our friends and business dealings with those we physically knew. Today, with local search technology, we can choose our friends and business dealings with anyone connected to cyberspace. - 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 Obama's Weak Campaign Organization Has Made It a Race
The campaign's inner circle was reduced to a handful of people. From this group comes all the campaign's command and control and just as importantly, minimal dissent. - How Smart Companies are Opening New Multi-Channel Markets
The initial beneficiaries of this new technology are those companies using local search; geocentric local search technology has now made it much easier to market across a region instead of just a locale. - 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 Leverage Your 'Touch Points' When Building Web-Based Marketing Strategies
Matching your web content to your sales touch points can give a boost to your total sales effort. - 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 My Personal Assets are Worth Less, Am I Worthless Too?
The biggest problem with defining oneself by one's possessions is unfortunately one's possessions. This follows directly behind the old proverb 'be careful what you wish for because you just might get it.' And later wish you hadn't. - 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 Traditional Politics Dead?
The poor vote one way and the rich another. Those neither rich nor poor get caught square in the middle or "middle class" as it is often called. The Twilight Zone might be a more appropriate name. - Is Your Local Chamber of Commerce Obsolete?
The simple fact is that the local C of Cs are delivering less and less value to their members. Unless they are able to redefine their mission and find ways to bring greater value, they will simply go the obsolete route of newspaper advertising. - Is Your Own Personal "Comfort Zone" Holding You Back?
Is the concept of "resting on our laurels" simply another way of saying the comfort zone has been reached and "that's all folks?" - 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. - Lessons in Life, Love and Culture from Popeye, Brutus, Olive Oyl and Wimpy
Wimpy's famous line "I'll gladly repay you Tuesday" was clearly a ruse and not ever to be trusted. Simply put, Wimpy had a burger addiction. - 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? - Marketing and Sales: An Evolutionary Process
Marketing and sales is based on people and people change constantly. What's not to like about that? - Measure Your Search Marketing Efforts with a Weekly Googleprint
The basics don't change very much and they are most important; change your homepage with fresh, original content daily, focus on keywords and keyword strings and publish, link and backlink as much as possible. Avoid scams and spam. - 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. - New York Times Fooled by Mexican Populist Demagogue
Maybe it would be helpful and a good idea for the New York Times to take a real look at Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and not just report what they would like to believe. - 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. - Photography as Therapy or One Good Image is Worth a Thousand Bad Novels
Does shooting lots of pictures change our perception of the world? Probably so. - 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. - Product and Service Diversification Can Help Your Profits Grow
There are successful companies that "neither make nor do" but focus on diversifying into new markets and actually creating new markets. - Reactive vs. Strategic or Who Really Cares if Your Company is a Dinosaur?
Your company's stategy makes you stand out from your competitors. If you don't have a strategy your results will always be less. - 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. - Should Your Company Go Paperless?
Even if your company cannot go paperless there is a strong likelihood that a good percentage of your company's paperwork could be reduced. It's cheaper, more efficient, greener and in many instances more secure. Most importantly customers love it. - Sometimes One Has To Stay Focused, Take a Deep Breath and Just Jump In...
Nothing ventured,nothing gained or fear of failure? - Spontaneous Idea Generation is the Key to Creativity and Innovation
If these four conditions do not exist then the likelihood of creativity is diminished. Having all four conditions met unfortunately does not insure creativity. Too bad. - 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. - Technical Troubleshooting at ATT Yahoo for Fun, Profit and Sheer Adventure
What saved me were the string of polite, knowledgeable employees that despite the absurdity of the systems they were working under, were able to work around that and get my problem solved.
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