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What I saw last year at the Shareholders meeting.
"Was really "cool".
Is it on Dateline? If so it will be on at 7:00 in California.
Any one on the east coast seen the Dateline yet. Maybe you could tell us about "Step Into the Liquid."
iown.....Congraulations, couldn't happen to a more deserving couple.
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`Step into Liquid' Gains Momentum; Acclaimed Surf Movie Gears Up for August Release
SAN DIEGO, Jun 20, 2003 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- NV Entertainment, a wholly owned subsidiary of New Visual Corporation (OTCBB: NVEI) and Top Secret Productions, LLC announced today that the feature film, "Step Into Liquid" picked up its first festival award at The Maui Film Festival and continues to receive critical acclaim with the press.
Under a full moon in Wailea, more than 3,000 anxious festival attendees were treated to a rich cinematic experience unlike any other in the world. The audibly appreciative crowd shattered the former attendance record for the Maui Film Festival (2,200) and helped pin the Audience Award on surfing's newest self-portrait.
Still in the dawning stages of the film's US release, "Step Into Liquid" has begun to capture the imagination of consumers, the press, and media. The surf adventure film is now booked in more than 35 US cities and will be featured in NBC's DateLine on Sunday June 22nd as part of an extreme surfing story. For more information please visit: www.msnbc.com/news/dateline_front.asp.
"Step Into Liquid" also recently screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival in the 1200-seat open-air Ford Amphitheater, again to a sold-out crowd. The festival continues through Saturday, June 21, and caps off a series of promotional and festival screenings that have been held in advance of the film's
US theatrical debut on August 8th. For play dates and theater locations, please check the film's website at www.stepintoliquid.com.
About "Step Into Liquid"
By using up-to-the-minute technology, sharp editing and awards-caliber cinematography to present extraordinary subjects in mind-boggling locations, "Step Into Liquid" embraces and celebrates the global surfing culture while managing to also deliver moments of real intimacy. The film takes viewers from the truly terrifying monstrous waves of Oahu's North Shore to the Texas waters of the Gulf of Mexico (where waves are created by massive oil supertankers) to the shores of Ireland and Rapa Nui. Along the way, viewers discover unforgettable human stories, from a man who's surfed every single day for the last 27 years to a young, inspirational surfer just getting back in the water in
spite of a surfing accident that's left him paralyzed from the neck down. A true audience-pleaser, "Step Into Liquid" is at once profoundly moving and profoundly entertaining. For more information and release dates and venues: www.stepintoliquid.com, or www.artisanent.com.
About New Visual Corporation
New Visual Corporation is pioneering the development of a proprietary broadband transmission technology with the mission to utilize existing copper telecommunications infrastructure to deliver video, voice and data at unprecedented transfer rates. Through its NV Technology, Inc. subsidiary, New Visual is developing technology that will allow the bundling of voice, video and data over existing copper telephone wires, potentially eliminating the need for fiber optic cable to the home or office. For more information on the Company, please visit www.newvisual.com.
With the exception of historical information contained in this press release, this press release includes forward-looking statements made under the "Safe Harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, including but not limited to the following: product development difficulties; market demand and acceptance of products; the impact of changing economic conditions; business
conditions in the Internet and telecommunications industries; reliance on third parties, including potential suppliers, licensors, and licensees; the impact of competitors and their products; risks concerning future technology; and other
factors detailed in this press release and in the company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings.
SOURCE: New Visual Corporation
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I think this article might give an example why the company has been so quite about our technology. I think they are trying to avoid the company finding themseves in this situation.
http://msn.com.com/2100-1104_2-1017375.html?type=pt
SCO CEO: Why we're suing IBM
By David Becker
CNET News.com
June 16, 2003, 5:00 AM PT
URL: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-1017375.html
A few years ago, Caldera Systems was bobbing along as one of the last software companies to claim a piece of the Linux land rush, scoring a successful IPO that raised $70 million.
Since then, Linux companies have gone through several rounds of grueling consolidation, and Caldera--now known as the SCO Group--has sworn off Linux. What's more, the company now finds itself a pariah in the same open-source software community it helped elevate to prominence.
SCO's non grata status among corporations stems from a lawsuit the company filed against computing giant IBM earlier this year in which it claimed that major portions of the Linux software IBM distributes are based on Unix source code SCO controls.
The dispute has grown to rattle the growing movement to boost corporate use of Linux, embroil SCO in a spat with former business buddy Novell and possibly open a new front in Microsoft's war against Linux.
But Darl McBride, CEO of SCO Group, says he thinks there's still a lot of value in the open-source approach.
"The point about open source that I believe is really cool is this notion that you have thousands of eyes around the world looking at a similar problem, and obviously when you have more people focused on something, you can solve things better," he said. "To the extent you take that model and solve problems better and create ultimately a better computing environment that solves a lot of application problems and makes life better for everybody, that's the part of open source I believe is really cool.
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Intellectual property
"I think this business of not having intellectual-property protection or in fact even having a system set up to be able to police intellectual-property violations coming into Linux, that's the part that's really going to the jury right now. I believe that we've got to get that part resolved...so the baby doesn't get thrown out with the bathwater."
McBride spoke with CNET News.com about the origins of the IBM dispute, the side effects and what comes next.
Q: How did the Linux action originate? How and when did you come to realize there was this problem?
A: It really goes back to last fall. I joined the company last summer, and we spent a quarter or two looking at this Unix operating system asset we have.
SCO ends up owning the intellectual-property rights to the Unix operating system, which is a pretty substantial asset to be holding. So we started looking closely at where Unix was relative to Linux. Linux was starting to take off, and we did have some concerns.
We saw some initial problems last fall, and we tried to address those with vendors in the December time frame. We didn't really get a lot of traction with just having friendly discussions. So we came out in the first part of this year and basically said, 'We are going to enforce our intellectual-property rights.' And even though we weren't directly going after IBM at that point, they had a violent reaction to (that).
So at that point in time, we tried to work through the issues with IBM. We came to an impasse, and that's what led to our filing our lawsuit against IBM on March 7. Concurrent with filing our lawsuit against IBM, we put them on notice that we were going to be revoking our AIX (IBM's Unix distribution) license. Under the contract, we have to give them 100 days notice. That notice was due on Friday, June 13, and if we hadn't had the issues resolved then, we would revoke their AIX license.
We're talking about line-by-line code copying. That includes not just the function but the exact, word-for-word lines of code.
During the period of time we were focused on the IBM issues, it came to our attention that we had our code, our Unix System 5 code, showing up directly inside of Linux. So that, in turn, led us to send out letters to 1,500 of the largest companies around the world, to let them know we had these substantial intellectual-property violations and to notify them that we had these problems. We didn't think that necessarily they were the ones that generated the problems, but they had been passed a hot potato they were holding.
Was it a matter of someone at SCO just working with Linux source code and saying, 'Hey, that looks familiar?'
When we filed against IBM, they were supposed to respond in 30 days, and they filed an extension for another 60 days. So we had about 60 days where we were waiting for IBM to respond. So we turned a group of programmers loose--we had three teams from different disciplines busting down the code base, the different code bases of System 5, AIX and Linux. And it was in that process of going through the deep dive of what exactly is in all of these code bases that we came up with these more substantial problems.
Why was IBM the initial focus?
When we first started talking about how we were trying to protect our intellectual-property assets around Unix...IBM basically became very upset we were going to go down the path of even talking about intellectual-property rights in relation to Linux. And they basically threatened that if we didn't pull back from our statements that we were going down that path, they would quit doing business with us at all.
To me, it was a strange posture to be taking for a company that collects a billion and a half dollars a year on their own intellectual-property portfolio. And so that caused us to go digging on what was behind the initial set of problems we found...And as we dug deeper, we found that we did have significant violations going on with respect to their version of Unix they had licensed from us.
At one of their conventions this year, an IBM executive stood in front of an audience and said that IBM was going to destroy the value of Unix and move it all over to Linux. They were going to take the know-how, the people, the methods they developed over the years around AIX--which is our licensed version of Unix--and they were going to transport all that in a wholesale fashion over to Linux. Those statements alone caused us alarm. When we dug deeper, we found they, in fact, had been doing that and they were going to do more.
What would IBM need to have done to keep this from going to court?
We were certainly willing to try to work through issues...I think there's a lot of ways you can resolve things short of full-out litigation. Licensing programs come to mind; different marketplace partnerships come to mind. There are a number of things we could have done together.
How blatant was the code-lifting you discovered?
When we take a top-tier view of the amount of code showing up inside of Linux today that is either directly related to our Unix System 5 that we directly own or is related to one of our flavors of Unix that we have derivative works rights over--we don't necessarily own those flavors, but we have control rights over how that information gets disseminated--the amount is substantial. We're not talking about just lines of code; we're talking about entire programs. We're talking about hundred of thousands of lines of code.
Where people get a little confused is when they think of SCO Unix as just the Unix that runs the cash register at McDonalds. We think of this as a tree. We have the tree trunk, with Unix System 5 running right down the middle of the trunk. That is our core ownership position on Unix.
Off the tree trunk, you have a number of branches, and these are the various flavors of Unix. HP-UX, IBM's AIX, Sun Solaris, Fujitsu, NEC--there are a number of flavors out there. SCO has a couple of flavors, too, called OpenServer and UnixWare. But don't confuse the branches with the trunk. The System 5 source code, that is really the area that gives us incredible rights, because it includes the control rights on the derivative works that branch off from that trunk.
Some open-source defenders have said that there's only one way you can write certain functions, so some part of the Unix and Linux code are bound to look the same. Do the similarities go beyond that?
We're talking about line-by-line code copying. That includes not just the function but the exact, word-for-word lines of code. And the developer comments are exactly, 100 percent the same. The developer comments really get to the DNA of the code. It's one thing to have something look the same, but when the developer comments are exactly the same, that tells you everything you need to know that this is in fact lifted, that it has been copied and pasted from Unix into Linux.
What prompted the 1,500 letters? Couldn't you have found a more informal way to tell these companies what was going on?
Those letters had to do with the fact we had just uncovered these issues, and with the legal requirements...we felt we had to go out and let the world know we had come across these problems.
We can sit there and talk to IBM all day long, but if in fact users are running systems that have basically pirated software inside of there, or stolen software inside of their systems, they have liability. We're not saying that they created that liability; we think there are a number of parties along the way that generated that. But we feel like we have an absolute requirement to let them know what was going on as we went down this path.
A lot of people think the net effect of those letters has been to intimidate businesses out of doing anything with Linux. Do you think that's true?
We think that Linux has been able to become enterprise-class in the last couple of years in large part because of the amount of vendor contributions that have gone into Linux. If you look at a pre-2000 version of Linux, when it was the 2.2 kernel, you've got the ability to connect two-way and four-way systems together, which was kind of interesting, but not enterprise-class. Over the last couple of years, you've seen support for high-end symmetrical multiprocessing, you see the ability to take a string of 32 or 64 Intel boxes, string them together and create supercomputer computational ability.
And if you look at the amount of vendor code that's gone into Linux since 2001, its significant...So Linux is growing up in the enterprise in large part by virtue of these code violations we see from vendor code being contributed into Linux. If Linux is going to become enterprise class, we also need to ensure it has IP integrity. We need to ensure our code is not the basis upon which it's getting its strength.
If a CIO asked you today what they should do about a Linux installation, what would you tell them?
We've asked them to do a couple of things. First of all, get a legal opinion letter. We got our legal opinion, and we know where they came down. We suspended our shipments of Linux until all these issues get resolved.
Starting in the next couple of days, we're going to be showing people what we have going on. Partly what we're asking them to do is put themselves in our shoes and understand what's going on here. As we get into July, we expect to have a public statement about how we hope to have things move forward.
Are we trying to shut Linux down? No, that is not our attempt. Are we trying to make sure our intellectual-property rights are protected along the way? Absolutely.
Are we trying to shut Linux down? No, that is not our attempt.
There's a widespread perception SCO is doing this to make a quick buck because your core business hasn't panned out. What's your response?
We are taking these actions to protect our property. It's a little bit as if you have a jewelry store and you have some very valuable diamonds in it, and one day you wake up and realize people are walking into your store and taking the diamonds and not paying on the way out. Now we are stepping up and saying, "Hold on, you've got to go through this cash register first."
I understand why people don't like it, because they've been used to taking things out for free. But it doesn't fundamentally change our rights, and fundamentally it doesn't change the responsibility we have to our shareholders to be protecting our rights.
Was Novell's involvement a surprise? What do you think prompted that?
What we've found here over the last couple of days is that Novell and IBM have been working together on some things relating to this case. So our suspicion is that some kind of deal they have going on with IBM is what motivated it.
Were we surprised? Yes. It's like you're sitting there fighting a battle; you have this David-and-Goliath battle going on. And then from the side, you get hit by this other force, this other army's attacking you. At first, you're surprised by it. But then you realize there appears to be some linkage to the Goliath, so then I guess it's not so surprising.
Even though we didn't have any copyright claims in our case with IBM, this shot came in. We stopped our battle with IBM for basically four days; we stamped out the Novell attack and put that one behind us. Now we're back on what our original focus was, which is resolving the issues we have with IBM.
So the whole thing with Novell was about unclear contract language?
The final problem is that Novell didn't dig to the bottom of their file drawer and find the second amendment to the contract. Once we exerted our second amendment rights, if you will, Novell basically took their ball and went home.
SCO realized there were problems with the contract language earlier. Wouldn't it have been useful to have those issues worked out before you went down this road with IBM?
To the extent we were filing copyright claims against IBM, sure, it would have been useful. In fact, we had some discussions with Novell as early as last year around cleaning up the language that related to the copyrights. They chose not to clarify them.
And when we filed against IBM, we chose to not even talk about copyrights. That's why it's interesting the copyright thing showed up...It was strange behavior for somebody we've had a partnership with for a long time and for a company I used to work at for eight years of my life.
How did Microsoft's agreement to pay you for Unix rights happen?
In the Microsoft case, they saw an opportunity. We originally approached them and said we're on a new licensing path; we have this intellectual property that we've started approaching vendors about. IBM is one we approached; Microsoft was another. We had about four big vendors in the last quarter that we talked with. With two of them, we signed deals. The other we're still talking with, and IBM we reached an impasse.
As far as what Microsoft gets out of the deal, they get the source code rights in order to be better able to integrate their services for Unix products, which gives them a much stronger, tighter integration between Unix and windows.
The perception is that Microsoft basically wants to use this as a weapon in its battle against Linux. What's your response?
The Linux community loves to jump on that bandwagon. There's no truth to it. We did a straight-up licensing deal around the intellectual property we had as well as the source code to allow them to tie in their Unix-related products. The world seems to be divided into two camps--those that respect intellectual property and those that don't. Those that do, to the extent they're associated with SCO, anybody who steps forward and does something with us in a positive way seems to get attacked these days.
It's not just Microsoft. We've had an industry analyst who has been attacked because they said, 'Hey, I've seen the code, and SCO's right.' We've had denial-of-service attacks on our Web site. We had a reporter who had their site hit by a denial-of-service attack because they wrote a positive story about us. Any time it seems we have somebody on our side of the table, somebody wants to start shooting at them.
Have you been surprised by the level of animosity this has generated?
I've been surprised by the level. I haven't been surprised that there has been animosity. As we started down this path, even IBM said, 'You can't go down this path of enforcing your rights, because the Linux community is going to have a field day with you guys.' The way they had described it to me is, 'You can't sue us because we don't do distributions. You can't sue developers for the Linux community, because these guys don't have a lot of money and they're going to hate you. Customers aren't going to want to see lawsuits.'
It wasn't a question of whether we had intellectual-property violations; it was 'What are you going to do about it?' My take on it is we have been wronged. We're stepping up and trying to get some justice in the situation. Is there heat coming at us? Absolutely. It's hot in the kitchen, but that's not a reason to not do what you feel is the right thing.
It's been suggested that if IBM wanted to settle this quickly, they could just buy you out. Is that a possibility?
We're not trying to sell the company; we're trying to enforce our rights. We believe that in the marketplace we operate in--just take our UnixWare operating system that competes straight up against Red Hat--if you look at the marketplace over the last two years, there've been 2 million servers shipped into the market. Our UnixWare price tag of $1,500 would have generated $3.5 billion in revenue for us.
The fact that Linux shows up in town and everybody gets excited about it because they get the same sort of value we had with UnixWare but they don't have to pay anything--I get why customers like that. It's the same reason everybody loved Napster--you get CDs for free.
But from our perspective, if you're going to show up and sell against us with a free operating system, then you better have your house in order with respect to these intellectual-property issues.
Let's fast-forward to a point where this is all settled and presumably you've won. What happens then? Do you send a bill to everyone running Linux?
In May, we sent out a notice letting people know there are problems. This month, to the extent people want to see this, we're showing people the problems.
There's a big concern that if you just drag this out in a typical litigation path, where it takes years and years to settle anything, and in the meantime you have all this uncertainty clouding over the market, it's not a positive. So we've been responding to things in a proactive way. We've been bringing out bits of our evidence...so people can get an understanding of the problems that exist.
As we get to the end of this month, as we get more user feedback...in the July time frame, we expect to come out and make some statements about how this whole situation can be resolved and how we can move forward. In terms of where we sit right now, we're not prepared to make any directional statements about how the licensing of this is going to fall out.
If you go back a few years, SCO was one of the main backers of Linux. How much of the reaction from the open-source community stems from that?
There's probably some merit to that. The reality is we were doing Linux. We kept these two businesses separated, and along the way, what you find is that the companies who are benefiting and profiting from Linux are not the distributors, which is the part of the chain we were involved in.
A lot of the distributors that did their big IPOs in the late 1999-to-2000 time frame, many of those have gone out of business or not done well. The business of distributing Linux for free is not doing well.
Which has been a real shocker...
Yeah, you sell something for free and you don't make any money--surprise, surprise. Even Red Hat, they had one little quarter where they got their head above water from a profitability standpoint, and then they're down again.
One of the things we feel very strongly about is that for this kind of model to go forward, the key players involved in the marketplace have to have an economic model that works for them
Meanwhile, the open-source community seems to feel SCO has betrayed them.
Clearly, there's an element of family feud involved. I believe, as the situation unfolds, people will see what we have. We've spent hundreds of millions of dollars on our Unix-related properties, and that's what's under attack right now, and that's what's showing up inside Linux. The more rational minds start to come to grips with what's really happening here, we believe that the community will come to be a little bit more reasonable in how they view us and how they deal with us.
To the extent this makes an IT guy think twice about deploying Linux, do you have any regrets about that, or do you think you're doing those people a favor?
I believe were doing them a huge favor. Think about an IT shop that's in the middle of putting in a system that runs an entire enterprise. You've got 5,800 stores, for example, and you're just getting ready to put it in, and you hear about this issue now, versus us deciding to wait and you hear about it six months or a year from now, in the middle of a trial or whatever.
Now, that company, instead of being on the front end of a rollout, is on the back end. That's when I'd really be ticked off. "You're telling me, SCO, that you found out about this last spring and you didn't say anything about it until now? Thanks a lot."
I believe in the short term, obviously the dust has definitely kicked up. But I believe from a user standpoint, I'd much rather know about these issues now than at some point in time down the road.
BullNBear52, Thank You for posting that link. I view this article as one of the most intelligent pieces written about the responsibility management has as to the investors and their success with the company.
I really like the following:
The long downturn marked a coming of age for many tech companies. It forced many CEOs to take stock of themselves and make fundamental changes. Cable-TV pioneer Edward S. "Ted" Rogers, CEO of Rogers Communications (RG ) Inc. in Toronto, No. 20, had always followed the mantra of growth at all costs. But in 2001 his board demanded a change: better return on fixed assets. "I'm an entrepreneur. We tend to be all over the map," says Rogers. "In the past two years I've tried to improve my skills as a manager. And I have learned the key word is 'focus."'
What he focused on was improving his existing businesses -- cable, mobile phone, and media. In the past, like other cable companies, Rogers Communications would invest in expensive network upgrades long before consumer demand materialized. Now it does things incrementally but moves quickly when it detects demand. That strategy shift allowed it to reduce capital expenditures by 22% last quarter.
We all should do whatever we can to help make the world better for the future generations.
And Happy Fathers Day to all you Fathers.
However. the main cost was clintons' attorney buddies gift of the case, what do you think it cost us, a bundle.
What do you think it cost us while Clinton chased Bill Gates instead of osma bin Laden? Why do you think tech stocks took the dive in 2000-2001.
Who posted the long list of cities the movie would be booked for showings in the next six months?
I'm in, with your conditions, and you manage it.
Do you believe the 177,000 shares trade today are from the current investors or new investors?
Austin, Whatever.........Greater minds than mine, have been unable to succeed with answers to your questions. The link I gave you had the low of .33...not .22.
I thought perhaps that would clear up your confusion. If my information was wrong, I'm Sorry......... As a friend of mine has stated many times to me. "All Good Deeds are subject to Punishment."
Austin I believe you are checking in the wrong places for information, try this.
http://moneycentral.msn.com/scripts/webquote.dll?ipage=qd&Symbol=US:NVEI
Also when you post something like the .22 as your header it makes people think negative and it is not valid information.
Try freerealtime.com, you will need to sign in. I can't the link below to work, but you can just type it in your browser. You will need to do it during the day, tho'. I have never been able to get it the next day. I checked yesterday and the 100,000 share was a buy.
http://quotes.freerealtime.com/rt/frt/M?SA=quotes/Time%26Sales&IM=quotes&symbol=NVEI&typ....
iOwne great information, Thank You. That is the best Bank Robbery I have ever heard about. And we have to accept it.
In California they have a petition to recall the election of Gray Davis, I wonder is that would work for the Clintons.
Why can't we get some of this?
Live Tech Help Net Speed Test All Downloads
Music Boards and Chat Need Memory?
Games Price Drops Find a Date
Hardware
U.S. funds risky tech schemes
By Paul Festa
CNET News.com
May 16, 2003, 9:58 AM PT
Bucking a venture capital market unusually averse to risk and practically allergic to high tech, the U.S. government last week announced grants to companies working on "high-risk, high-payoff" technologies.
The grants by the Advanced Technology Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, itself a part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, covered technologies devoted to stroke therapy robotics and reengineering E. coli metabolism. But several grants benefited companies specifically working on computer and computer network projects. These include:
• Agility Communications, a Santa Barbara, Calif.-based maker of optical network components, which won a grant of $2 million from NIST toward its $3 million, three-year project to create a chip that would integrate an optical amplifier, a high-speed optical modulator and a widely tunable laser.
"The availability of widely tunable lasers, capable of tuning wavelengths on many tens of data channels, will reduce equipment and operating costs and thereby enhance deployment of cost-effective fiber-optic systems," wrote NIST in announcing the grant. "Current networks use fixed-wavelength lasers...Overall, the new technology should strengthen U.S. telecommunications and optical networking industries and their competitiveness in the worldwide opto-electronics market."
• Mobile Systems Verification, a Chicago company working on automated testing tools for wireless applications, won a $2 million grant to fund nearly its entire two-year project to create an Advanced Mobile Application Testing Environment (AMATE), designed to make wireless communications more reliable and effective by simulating users of wireless devices by the millions.
"Without ATP funding, the project could not proceed because it involves too much risk for private investors and will require more resources than the small company can provide on its own," NIST wrote. "AMATE could lead to more reliable mobile applications, may reduce wireless application errors by as much as 50 percent, and could increase productivity associated with mobile application development."
• RAPT Industries, a start-up based in Livermore, Calif., took in $2 million toward a $3.5 million project designed to advance its work on a process for etching and polishing optical and semiconductor materials faster than currently available technologies.
• Valaran, a Princeton, N.J., provider of business process and network integration software, won a $2 million grant to speed its work on software that will help mobile communications flow on networks with "low or unpredictable bandwidth" using Jini Network Technology. That technology, developed by Sun Microsystems for use in consumer electronics, finds itself increasingly used for connecting diverse and complex business applications.
As NIST said in announcing the Mobile Systems Verification grant, the awards come at a period of increasingly stringent parsimony on the part of private investors. A joint report by Ernst & Young and VentureOne, released in late April, showed that investments in high-tech ventures declined through the first quarter of the year--though the report found some gains in information services and semiconductors.
Words to live By.
Get Out of Your Own Way
Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it:
Your words, your dreams, and your thoughts have power to create conditions in your life.
What you speak about, you can bring about. If you keep saying you can't stand your job, you might lose your job.
If you keep saying you can't stand your body, your body can become sick.
If you keep saying you can't stand your car, your car could be stolen or just stop operating.
If you keep saying you're always broke, guess what? You'll always be broke.
If you keep saying you can't trust a man or trust a woman, you will always find someone in your life to hurt and betray you.
If you keep saying you can't find a job, you will remain unemployed.
If you keep saying you can't find someone to love you or believe in you, your very thoughts will attract more experiences to confirm your beliefs.
Turn your thoughts and conversations around to be more positive and power packed with faith, hope, love and action.
Don't be afraid to believe that you can have what you want and deserve.
Watch your "thoughts," they become words.
Watch your "words," they become actions.
Watch your "actions," they become habits.
Watch your "habits," they become character.
Watch your "character," for it becomes your "Destiny."
GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY!
~ Author Unknown ~
WOMEN WHO READ...
A couple goes on vacation to a fishing resort in northern Minnesota. The husband likes to fish at the crack of dawn. The wife likes to read.
One morning the husband returns after several hours of fishing and decides to take a nap. Although not familiar with the lake, the wife decides to take the boat out. She motors out a short distance, anchors, and continues to read her book.
Along comes a game warden in his boat. He pulls up alongside the woman and says, "Good morning Ma'am. What are you doing?"
"Reading a book," she replies, (thinking "isn't that obvious?")
"You're in a restricted fishing area," he informs her.
"I'm sorry officer, but I'm not fishing, I'm reading."
"Yes, but you have all the equipment. I'll have to take you in and write you up."
"If you do that, I'll have to charge you with sexual assault," says the woman.
"But I haven't even touched you," says the game warden.
"That's true, but you have all the equipment."
MORAL:
Never argue with a woman who reads. It's likely she can also think.
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McCloud, is it your fault that the next five post have been deleted........shame on you. lol Now we have nothing to read.
Thanks Trex, for the reports on the movie.
Subject: The French
An American is having breakfast one morning (coffee, croissants, bread, butter and jam) when a Frenchman, chewing gum, sits down next to him. The American ignores the Frenchman who, nevertheless, starts a conversation.
Frenchman: "You American folk eat the whole bread??"
American (in a bad mood): "Of course."
Frenchman: (after blowing a huge bubble) "We don't. In France, we only eat what's inside. The crusts we collect in a container, recycle it, transform them into croissants and sell them to the states."
The Frenchman has a smirk on his face. The American listens in silence.
The Frenchman persists: "Do you eat jelly with the bread??"
American: "Of Course."
Frenchman: (cracking his gum between his teeth and chuckling). "We don't. In France we eat fresh fruit for breakfast, then we put all the peels, seeds, and leftovers in containers, recycle them, transform them into jam and sell the jam to the states."
The American then asks: "Do you have sex in France?"
Frenchman: "Why of course we do", he says with a big smirk.
American: "And what do you do with the condoms once you've used them?"
Frenchman: "We throw them away, of course."
American: "We don't. In America, we put them in a container, recycle them, melt them down into chewing gum and sell them to France
Just a thought, about Corine. You Guys automatically start with under garments, you know a large robe would be the same as a pair of panties for $1.00......she played you guys like a fiddle.......lol
Greg.......That's about all you need............lol
Iown, I think you are right on with your information. Thanks for sharing.
Amazing.......
Notice the 2002 date on that, so it is a little behind times. However, it is what we have been hearing from management for about four years and that is the reason we are all still here, we want to see what happens at the end of this movie.
Dilt1, I find this part very interesting....
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Greg, You have no idea what companies try to do to the elderly, and especially a elderly woman.
A rather odd thing happened the other day, most of the gas stations here are run my middle easterners, and every time I come in contact with one. They refuse to respond to my questions or my problem.
Last week I stop to get gas and my car requires 92%, I failed to verify the station had 92% before I put my money in the ATM. I started looking for the 92%, and a very nice black man said, "I don't believe they carry 92%." and I said, but I have already paid for it." I then went inside to tell the man (a man from the middle east) and he was refusing to give me back my money. Unbeknown to me the nice man who was talking to me was standing behind me, and came to my rescue, and told the man the same thing I had just told him and said I think you should give this lady her money. He did without saying another word to me. I thanked both men and the middle east man never responded. The other gentleman said "My pleasure."
When I got home I was watching a special on Tony Guen, and then realized who the nice man was. He deserves every award he receives. Now I really admire him.
I started this post for another reason, i wanted to respond to your post.
Here it is. Another great man.
"It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere
above all earthly kings. ... Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things, which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the
worst, and to provide for it. Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves. ...Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
-- Patrick Henry
(1736-1799) US Founding Father
Source: "The War Inevitable" speech to the Virginia Convention,
March 23,
Excel, I have a SSBcitibank card and I got a letter yesterday that they were bumping my interest rate up because I have not used my card. I responded to close the account, I have no intentions of paying for the sins of management.
Can I come over here and join you guys. Should I call my broker right now?
It looks like this company is really taking off.
Thank You Trex, nice pictures.
In San Diego, they had several shows on surfing on TV, and they also showed Endless SummerI.
I didn't get to see all of them but I know Endless SummerI was on more than one channel.
Greg, that is very refreshing. We will overcome the Left. They started this war and if they would just read the Bible they would know we will win.
GrooveMaster, great post........ and a perfect alias for you.
GROOVE: a situation suited to one's abilities or interests.
Master: to gain a thorough understanding of:
I am not taking anything away from my admiration of our troops in harms way with this post.
However, we have hero's in other walks of life who show their greatness. The writer of this article is as much of a hero as the subject of the article. I know a little bit about Bill Walton and have always admired Michael Jordon for the person he is, not the game he plays.
I was on a plane about six years ago and sat next to the high school coach of Bill Waltons sons. [They could not stand up in the plane.] The coach said the entire Walton family were very humble people and good Christians. I also have a very good friend who's son played high school basketball with Bill Walton. I think this article shows Bill Walton's soul as he writes about Michael Jordan.
Tuesday, April 15
Many reasons to be thankful for Michael
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By Bill Walton
Special to ESPN.com
Thank you, Michael Jordan.
Thank you for your industriousness. Your hard work and careful planning provided so many worthwhile results, so much so that a vanquished opponent even retired your number.
Thank you for your friendship. Your relationships with both teammate and foe always seemed to come from mutual esteem, respect and devotion. It was never taken for granted and was the result of your tremendous effort and humility. Thanks for not being an arrogant bully. Thank you for never acting as if you were bigger than the game, even though you were big.
Even at 40, Michael Jordan left everything he had on the court.
Thank you for your loyalty, Michael -- to yourself and all those depending on you. You never compromised your self-respect.
Thank you for your cooperation in all aspects of your incredibly demanding life. You listened when you wanted to be heard. You were always interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way. Thank you for giving us what we wanted, not what you wanted us to have.
Thank you for not retreating to your mansion on the hill.
Thank you for being concerned with the here and now and not your legacy.
Thank you for your enthusiasm. Your enjoyment of all that you do is such an inspiration to all whom you touch. Your fun became ours.
Thank you for your ambition for all the noble goals. We wanted you to be all things to all of us, but you kept it all in proper balance and perspective.
Thank you for realizing that when even one fan bought a ticket to see you play that you had the responsibility to perform at your greatest level possible.
Thank you for believing that the regular season matters.
Thank you for so many game-winners at the buzzer.
Thank you for winning the scoring title in the same year you won Defensive Player of the Year.
Thank you for your self-control. You played with discipline, always keeping your emotions under control. You regularly exhibited good judgment and common sense.
Thank you for your alertness. You never stopped observing and were always open-minded. Your eagerness to learn and improve set the standard to which we all aspire.
Thank you for your initiative. Thanks for your ability to make decisions and to be true to your convictions. We appreciate you not being afraid of failure and your willingness to learn from it.
Thanks for your commitment to education and mental training while so many thought it was purely about the physical.
Thank you for showing us that there is more to life than material accumulation and physical gratification.
Thank you for answering the media's questions when things did not go your way.
Thanks for not blaming the messenger when others said things about you that you might not like or agree with.
It was easy to admire Michael Jordan's desire to succeed.
Thank you for your intensity and focus. We admire your dedication to achieve unrealistic goals, combined with your resistance to temptations. We will never forget your determination and persistence.
Thank you for your sincerity that has allowed each of us to remain your friend over the long haul.
Thank you for your adaptability to the changing times.
Thank you for your unparalleled level of fitness. Thank you for your moderation and dissipation. Thank you for giving us your best, even when you were sick, broken and hurt.
Thank you for your flawless skill level. Thanks for your knowledge and ability to quickly and properly execute the fundamentals of life. Thanks for always being prepared and for your attention to every little detail.
Thank you for continuing to point out that players make plays. Plays don't make players.
Thank you for your complete and selfless commitment to the team and its spirit. Thank you for your genuine consideration of others. Thank you for your eagerness to sacrifice your personal interests and glory for the welfare of the team.
Thank you for showing us how to derive joy from the successes of your teammates.
Thank you for your honesty, in thought and action.
Thank you for your resourcefulness in exercising proper judgment.
Thank you for always showing class and dignity in the face of extreme sorrow, sadness, hardship and the rare defeat.
Thank you for the poise you showed by just being yourself. Thank you for being at ease in any situation and for never fighting yourself.
Thank you for dressing with great style and playing with even greater style.
Thank you for your confidence and for having respect without fear. Thanks for always being prepared and for keeping all things in proper perspective.
Thank you for your reliability which has led to our undying respect.
Thank you from SportsCenter.
Thank you for not succumbing to the hype and self-promotion of today's world.
Thank you for never forgetting the legions of young fans and holding basketball camps during the offseason in Chicago and California.
Thank you for keeping your ego under control.
Thank you for your determined efforts and fighting spirit.
Thank you for not accepting mediocrity in your teammates.
Thank you for setting such high standards that became the means of comparisons in the public consciousness. "He or she is the Michael Jordan of ..."
Thank you for your competitive greatness and for always being at your best when your best was needed. Thanks for showing us how to live for, and enjoy, the most difficult of challenges.
The NBA will say goodbye to Michael Jordan the player.
Thank you for bringing out the best in your competition.
Thank you for revolutionizing the advertising world in corporate boardrooms, not just for the benefit of NBA players but for athletes in all sports.
Thanks for giving every NBA player the greatest standard of living they could ever imagine or hope to have, to say nothing of future generations.
Thank you for helping to transform the NBA from a successful American sport to a global phenomenon that transcends all races, genders and endless other boundaries.
Thank you for all the new arenas after filling the old ones to the rafters.
Thanks for bringing a championship image to the city of Chicago.
Thank you for your integrity and your purity of intention. Thanks for not telling us how great you are and for not reading stories in the press about your charitable contributions and good deeds -- even though those were numerous.
Thank you for tirelessly working on your game during the summer -- every year.
Thank you for coming to practice.
Thank you for always showing us that you cared and for making us do the same.
Thank you for the emotions -- the laughter, the tears, the pride, the joy, the hope, the optimism, the happiness.
Thank you for your leadership.
Thank you for obliging as many of the endless waves of autograph requests that you possibly could in a short 24-hour period.
Thank you for standing up for truth and justice.
Thank you for your sense of responsibility and accountability.
Thank you for not taking the game for granted even after all the championships and individual honors.
Thank you for your faith -- which led to ours.
Thank you for your patience.
And, finally Michael, thank you for your longevity. We all wanted more but you gave us all that you had.
The rest is now up to us.
Bill Walton, who is a regular contributor to ESPN.com, is an NBA analyst and shares his thoughts on "NBA Shootaround" at 7:30 p.m. every Friday for ESPN.
http://espn.go.com/nba/columns/walton_bill/1538959.html
That's what I would call a very creative young man......LOL
Thank you Mr. Ed for posting this article.
I think Bush knew this, or suspected this. This is amazing, If you are not a God fearing person, you better start praying about what is about to happen next.
I am so thankful that Bush won elected. We would be doomed by now had Gore got the election.
We are sure discovering who are friends and enemies.
Here is a way for us to support our troops. I got his email from a friend, and I think it is a good ideal, and just want to pass it on to others.
To: Undisclosed Recipients
Subject: Wear Something Red
Subject: Wear RED
I wish I could take credit for this idea, but it's not mine. I plan to do this EVERY Friday until all our troops return home.
It has come to my attention that quite a few Americans support our troops, but as usual, we are the silent majority. We are not 'organized' to really reflect who we are, nor our opinions. I would like to start a grass roots movement using the membership of the Special Operations Association and the Special Forces Association to recognize Americans who support our troops.My idea is not to stand on street corners once or twice, not to carry stupid signs in a rally, not to carry our flag in parades (although I would be proud to carry the flag anytime). It's much simpler than that. We need to inform the local VFW's and American Legion, our local press, local TV,
and even continue carrying the message up to the national levels as we start to get this going. My idea of showing our solidarity and support for our troops is that starting Friday and continuing on each and every Friday, that we and every red blooded American who supports our young men and women,
WEAR SOMETHING RED.
Word of mouth, press, TV, let's see if we can make the United States, on any given Friday, a sea of red much like a home football game at the University of Nebraska. If everyone of our memberships share this with other acquaintances, fellow workers, drinking buddies, country club friends, fellow church members, I guarantee you that it will not be long before the USA will be covered in RED - much to the disdain of the un-American
ralliers. Lets get the word out and lead by example; wear RED on Fridays. Thanks for your time and consideration of my proposal. When I intend to send this out to everyone on my e-mail list; hopefully, you will, too.
I bet Ole' Bill Clinton was Shocked & Awed at this.
Bill Clinton Booed at Willie Nelson Concert
Friday, April 11, 2003
NEW YORK — Former President Bill Clinton was booed Wednesday night when he took the stage at the Beacon Theater at the start of a Willie Nelson concert.
"The place went wild when [Clinton] was announced," said our spy. "There was loud booing and yelling."
Clinton "seemed angered" and made a comment about "angry Republicans," which stirred the crowd on more.
"There was so much anti-Clinton booing and yelling that when Willie came back out, he asked if everyone was all right ... the concert was taped for a Memorial Day showing on the USA network, but even with serious editing, it will be hard to use the Clinton part at all."
A Clinton aide acknowledged some booing, but added: "There was so much applauding that he had to quiet them down so he could introduce Willie. [Clinton] was not upset at all. They gave him quite a rousing ovation and he was mobbed by all the talent. He had just flown in from Mexico and went straight to the event."
Musicians Lyle Lovett, Sheryl Crow, John Mellencamp, Kris Kristofferson, Kenny Chesney, Elvis Costello and Norah Jones were also there to wish Nelson a happy 70th birthday.
God is sooooo Good.