"Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee"

Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Guide to Life
by Michael Macrone

"When you give someone a book, you don't give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possibility of a whole new life."

Christopher Morley
1890-1957, Novelist, Journalist and Poet

Scooby Doo was hot when I was growing up, guess what he's still a very HOT DOG! Ronda found this on eBay:

I’ve been looking on ebay for Scooby doo items for Hannah’s birthday. She wants a Scooby party. There are over 5000 items new & old. The old 70’s stuff going higher.

"We lift ourselves by our thought. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere."

Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, Author and Founder of Success Magazi

Financial Times reports today: China is now the biggest merchandise trader in Asia and the third largest in the world for both exports and imports, making it a key driver of world trade growth. Its insatiable appetite for fuel and other raw materials was one reason why high oil prices failed to depress the global economy last year, Mr Finger noted.

"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements."

Napoleon Hill
1883-1970, Author of Think and Grow Rich

"Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone."

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Philosopher and Author

We had a very bad day in the poultry business at our house yesterday. Ronda bought Hannah some baby chicks for Easter. After they started getting a little older we moved them to a big planter box in the back yard. At night we turn on a light, cover with a plastic sheet for protection. Well yesterday morning we forgot to take the plastic off. At 3pm Ronda calls and says can you go check the chickens. I thought: they are probably all dead. Well all but one. And ironically the one out of 17 that survived, his name: Sunny!
So goes the Chicken business.

Scientists Create Remote-Controlled Flies

Yale University researchers say their study that used lasers to create remote-controlled fruit flies could lead to a better understanding of overeating and violence in humans.

Using the lasers to stimulate specific brain cells, researchers say they were able to make the flies jump, walk, flap their wings and fly.

Even headless flies took flight when researchers stimulated the correct neurons, according to the study, published in the April 7 issue of the journal Cell.

Scientists say the study could ultimately help identify the cells associated with psychiatric disorders, overeating and aggressiveness.

Biologists have long known that an electrical stimulus can trigger muscle response, but this approach used focused beams of light to stimulate neurons that would have been impossible to study using electrodes.

Gero Miesenbock, associate professor of cell biology at Yale, said if the process could be duplicated on mice, researchers might be able to better understand the cellular activity that leads to certain behavior.


"Ultimately, that could be important to understanding human psychiatric disorders," Miesenbock said. "That's really futuristic stuff."

I visited with a guy who works for one of the largest check printing operations in the country yesterday. They predict starting in 2010 a 10% errosion in Paper Checks. After that it will accelerate. I would say its going to be faster than than that. But guess who's fighting efforts to move to electronic debit cards? Banks, yes Banks make mucho mula from people who write NSF Checks. FREE checking says the billboard? A completely digital debit system would not allow anyone to take a NSF Check thus cutting mega bucks from banks who enjoy big profits.
Just think: a persons pain, not having money is another persons profit, getting to charge you for it!

"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."

John Calvin Coolidge
1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA

I'm setting in my backyard with my Wi-Fi connected to the Internet. Where will we be in 10yrs? I leave in 2 weeks for China. My 3rd trip to China---a lot is changing, more products are coming from China and more to come. If you haven't noticed all the container rail cars.
If you haven't read the book: They made America. I highly reccomend it.l Very good book.

Monday's are never normal, I come to work and a skunk is at the back of our warehouse--I have a shotgun in the back of my truck but thought---Skunk pieces all over is not a good idea--well a guy pulled up with a 22cal and he baged a skunk early this morning: Now you guessed, the whole place has a skunk smell. I'm sure we are voilating some environmental law! Back to Monday!

"Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil...With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good."

Moshe ben Maimon (Maimonides)
1135-1204, Philosopher