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May 23 Everlasting Life is Here Now  The largest single barrier to human development is the physical lifespan. What you accomplish in life is lost when you die. In order for your life's work to continue, several factors have to be put in place. The biggest factor is your personal drive to accomplish your goals. Only you can perpetuate them, but you are limited by physical degeneration and ultimate death.
Typically, career productivity spans about thirty years before most of what you accomplish is simply lost should you fail to record your advancements. Even if you do find a way to preserve your discoveries, the skills you gain in your life, the vision, the drive to achieve, and more importantly, your personality, are gone after you die.
Now, there is real hope. Recent scientific discoveries have found a way to completely eliminate death.
Yes! Completely stop the dying process.
How can this be possible, you may ask?
The answer has been there all along in the DNA. DNA is our program of life. Soon, it will be possible to simply reprogram the human body to regenerate the cells, instead of falling apart after so many years and die. The results: indefinite life.
Why is this process being kept quiet? There are several scientific and social barriers keeping immortality under wraps.
Professionally, doctors and scientists are quite aware of the possibilities of immortality, but they are under the scrutiny of the scientific community to maintain thier reputation as a professional and not make rash, untested claims. The science of reprogramming the human body is still being tested. Anything that changes humanity is still controversial both scientifically and morally.
One of the biggest challenges to immortality is the church, or religion. What would happen to religion if the basic tenets of religion: faith, heaven, life after death, or God, if death becomes less prominent? That's another story for another time.
Of course, people will still die, just not as quickly. Lifespans would go into the hundreds of years, maybe the thousands. Old age would be a thing of past, since the cells would constantly regenerate, speculatively keeping your age somewhere in your twenties, as far as appearance is concerned.
Productively, humans would be able to continue developing skills for thousands of years. Human development would progress geometrically by building on each other's skills throughout a span of many hundreds or even thousands of years, instead of just thirty, as it is now.
Imagine if Dr. Albert Einstein was still coming up with theories for space and time, or if Thomas Edison was still making his wonderful inventions, or if Steven Hawking could collaborate with Einstein. Don't you think humanity would already be exploring the universe in innumerous ways, from worm holes to quantum drives, to whatever? No doubt, other intelligent beings of the universe would be common contacts for trade and exchanges of information on health, science, engineering, and social development.
In summary, scientific advancement is held back by individual lifespan. This lifespan is about to be increased by hundreds of years, thus boosting humanity into super advancement. Two hundred years of deathless development would equal two thousand years of the present system.
June 09 Ted Marries Ying YingEveryone knew it would happen sometime, and it finally has happened. Ted and Ying Ying were married yesterday in Plano, Texas, a suburb of Dallas.
Of course, it was all filmed on a TV camera, but will probably not be seen on Sound Of Country any time soon.
It was a small ceremony, since all their friends are in Shanghai. The big parties will have to wait until they are both in China once again. February 17 What Makes A Good Writer?The question of what makes a good writer springs up in my mind from time to time like a quest for a secret formula. At least, finding that secret was foremost on my mind many years ago when I decided to stick my pen forward and offer my own ideas in the written format instead of the spoken one as I had more conveniently been accustomed in the broadcasting world.
I decided to start my writing career with a boost from a writing course online with a group of like-minded beginning writers on www.writersvillage.com. The secret formula should be there, I thought. All I have to do is find it, learn it, and put it to use. It’s as simple as that.
The course was great. Like a Marine drill instructor, the teacher had us pour over written material and write a homework lesson every day. Everyone was required to read every other student’s work online and give a detailed review as it related to the assignment at hand. It was very time consuming but worth it. All the while I was intent on finding the secret formula.
After three or four weeks of this, I became impatient. I wanted to know the formula.
I finally decided to email one of the students in the group who was already a published author on several counts: a book, many magazine articles, and website stuff. Maybe he could slip the secret to me and I would know. What he said astounded me.
“You’re already a good writer, Ted. I thought you realized that.”
“What do you mean?” I asked, frantically. I thought the formula had somehow eluded me and I would never know for sure. Maybe he was keeping it a secret.
“You’re the best writer in the group. Why aren’t you already publishing material?” he asked.
I told him I didn’t know the real secret.
He laughed.
“You already have it, my friend. Don’t you see? There is no secret. The secret is just writing. No one can tell you you’re wrong. It’s a matter of style, art, and good linguistics. That’s it. Go for it.”
If he was right, I wondered why certain editors in the publishing business simply ignored my writing. If I was as good as all that, why did publishers ignore me?
The answer came soon after going to China. I found in America, if you don’t have a journalism degree or an English degree from a reputable university, you lose. Your writing is junk in the mind of an editor from the minute he sees your lack of writing credentials.
In China, on the other hand, my writing found many outlets in magazines that needed material from good writers, regardless of degrees. My confidence soared.
Of course, I did, in fact, graduate from broadcasting school where I was taught to write proficient journalism for the spoken word, which is quite a bit different than the printed word. The distinction had always knocked me out of the contention of getting my works published. Also, as a graduate from the University of North Texas with a BBA in Marketing, my writing took on an advertising edge.
Now, I realize the real solution: It’s not a secret formula for writing, it’s writing something that’s needed and doing it with style and the required research for getting your facts straight. In other words, find the truth and say in an interesting way.
The reason most editors shy away from the non-journalism majors and the unknown authors is the fear of incorrect information through poor research. Libel suits in America are dime a dozen. No editor wants to be responsible for losing the magazine because of a multi-million dollar lawsuit, all because he chose an article from an unknown author.
So, what’s the secret of good writing? Just write. But, make sure you do the research, first. Then, get it in the face of a bunch of editors. Once you do, be prepared to be a writer with deadlines to meet. Uh-oh, but that’s another problem for another article. –T-
February 13 New Evidence of Aliens...For REAL!I just heard some exciting but disturbing news: An important government official who isn't supposed to be talking about it, says the earth has already been officially contacted by aliens from outer space on a negotiations basis.
Obviously, there are numerous questions. Why hasn't the government told us? What kind of negotiations? What happens next?
The jest of the news was the aliens don't want to make a big entrance and disturb our society, so they have contacted the leaders of most of the big countries, according to my very high-level source, which I haven't verified yet, by the way. He says there will be a meeting next month in India concerning this issue between all of the major powers. It may remain quiet for now.
This news is very exciting and I'm glad to hear it. I'll try to substantiate it in the next few days. Otherwise, for now, it's heresay, and the fact that I'm not a news agency precludes my obligation to veryify all of this before publishing. I think it's more important to get the information out there quickly, even if it causes a ruckus.
Stay tuned and I'll get to the real verifications this week. -T- January 16 UFOs Sighted Over TexasTexas has not particularly been famous for UFO sightings in the past, until now.
Late last week, almost the entire small city of Stephenville, Texas saw flying saucers flying low over the city. This is a fact. In fact, such a large number of people saw the flying objects, including policemen and even a few pilots, the sightings can't be denied by government officials, who always try to squelch the news.
Why would the officials do that? Obviously, the truth is being hidden, or else the government officias would be trying their best to either defend the country against invasion of the aliens or investigate scientifically. Neither seems to be happening.
My personal investigations have turned up the real answer to this situation. It's like this: years ago, about 25 years or so ago, this exact situation happened all over America, until finally, a newsman took pictures of one of the things and put it all over the news.
Guess what it was?
The pictures drew a confession from the US Air Force of a new super spy aircraft, now known as the Blackbird, or the
SR-71.
Let me tell you another story that'll bring all of these new sightings to a better focus.
About three years ago, I was following up on some sightings in China on the border of India. I was simply doing some online research of the area to see how many and how often the sightings were. Surprisingly, I found the same sightings around Utah and California over some remote mountain and desert areas. The descriptions were exactly the same. This was highly suspect to me. Why would the descriptions of the Chinese sightings be the same as the American sightings?
Then, I found the answer.
It seems the Chinese schools in the area of the sightings, on the Indian border, were talking about exeptionally intelligent school children at the elementary and junior high level in the schools there. It seems they were making up their own language, their math skills were phenomenal, and their intellects measured off the scale, they were so smart. How could this be?
As I found out, the parents of these children were the top scientists in China and India. Very suspicious. Why were they there, I wondered? After a bit more research, I found rumors of a secret Chinese research facility in those mountains at that exact location. Other countries have suspected secret research to be going on there for years.
I happened to remember several universities and companies in both countries have laid claim to new discoveries of magnetic flight in the recent months and then...nothing...no word of any huge discoveries. The answer was obvious: both China and America were experimenting on magnetic flight aircraft at the same time.
That would answer it.
I knew both countries have been trying to find ways to eliminate rocket engine dependency for space travel. Magnetic flight also means a quiet stealth aircraft that generates no heat. The perfect weapon. Some of the other benefits are obvious: Leaving the atmosphere would be no problem and traveling faster than mach 2 or mach 3 would be easy. In fact, there are almost no limitations to magnetically powered aircraft except for the humans inside, assuming there are humans inside.
Back to the sightings. Guess what, people? It's time the governments all over the world come out and acknowledge these new advanced aircraft. Otherwise, we'd all better be trying to find out what alien species is monitoring us. I think it's more logical, given the reaction of the American government, and maybe the Chinese and Indian governments, the former will most likely happen.
I'm quite sure the government actually is enjoying the fact that everyone thinks the aircraft are from outer space. It takes all the pressure off of them having to explain what they're up to. Well, not for long, guys. We caught you.
It's not that we don't honor national security and all that, but come on, guys. Just have the decency to tell us if we need to worry about vandalism from out of this world.
Someone in some very important positions must be concerned! I mean, if this was really an invasion from some other world, don't you think the president or at least CNN or Fox would be all over this? I know the military would be. Missiles would be flying all over the place by now, otherwise.
January 09 Music Group Promotion Is The KeyRiver County has a dream of being the top country music group in China.
"Rock The Country," is the logo on the T-Shirts from the group that calls themselves River County after the area of America in Indiana where they live. And that's just what they intend to do in China during the five days of January 11--15.
"How do we get there?" Jon Presley, their manager asked about getting the band into China. It didn't take long. After finding out about a 'beat the bands' contest on TV around Guangzhou and contacting First Sound Media's Ying Ying (Cathy Chen) and Ted in the states, the ball started rolling.
Soon, the group had all the equipment they needed for five concerts, plus Cathy's film crew to produce a major cool music video for television back in the states and in China when they return.
Sponsored by Miller Lite, the beer company, River County becomes one of the first American music bands to make the jump to performing this many concerts in China without a pile of bullshit to wade through in license agreements and political walls.
"This is a major breakthrough for all American bands in the future," says Ted Bailey, the First Sound representative in the states. "Usually, this sort of thing is unprofitable and too bureaucratic to attempt, but River County fell into a niche in the system that worked for them and First Sound Media Productions."
"This is going to lead to more and more music groups coming over in the next few months. The barriers are now broken," says Ted, "also, the channels of distribution we have established for 2008 CD sales are extremely innovative in the industry. No one has actually been able to sell legal IP in China profitably until now. We crashing the business mold of the past and steaming full speed ahead."
With this news, many record labels and promoters for very famous artists are looking at China and First Sound Media for scheduling tours this next year, according to Ted.
Meanwhile, Jon and guys from River County are tuning up their instruments and getting prepared for the biggest week of their lives. They'll be playing the week of January 11th through the 15th with fan autograph signing sessions and radio show appearances all over the area.
"It's going to be grueling schedule, but the life of a rock star, right?" Ted Bailey said with a big smile of success and sticking the telephone back up to his ear for more calls to music groups all around America.
"With their sound, they'll probably take the prize, but even if they don't, the China trip breaks ground for all the rest of the American groups in the future. There's something to be said for that."
Stay tuned to www.countrychina.com for the entire story in Chinese and the videos from Ying Ying the famous DJ of the radio Sound Of Country, still being played all over the south of China where 'River' is kickin' butt.
Click www.rivercountymusic.com
January 02 A Happy New Year Symbol in Space of FreedomAt midnight I went outside.
The weather was perfect and the sky was clear. The planet Mars was the brightest dot in the entire dome of darkness.
As the "red planet" shone directly overhead, I couldn't help think how appropriate the symbol of Mars is at this significant point in human history.
First, as a carrot to attract the expanding population here on this planet to a new world in the future. Second, as the people of ancient times revered Mars as a god of war, times have not changed for the better as fierce combat promises to rage across the Earth for the coming year in ever greater intensity.
Personally, I view these two points, not with trepidation, but with a renewed spirit of anticipation of greater things to come. Though, there are those who would proclaim doom upon mankind as war is a sport among civilizations, disease eliminates humans in droves, crime is rampant, politics diminishes personal freedoms, technology promises destruction, and pollution is killing us daily. Through it all, I believe with all my heart that humanity will ultimately survive, be it only a few, and will someday, whether out of necessity or curiousity, will stand on this new world of Mars and gaze, straight overhead at this once blue ball of Earth and proclaim, "I am finally free!"
As those future pioneers and settlers of the new world and a new humanity gaze into the heavens at their past with open arms of joy for a future new year, I hope they will finally feel the power of the human spirit to conquer the universe and beyond that: themselves.
Happy New Year to all!
Check out the other blog on this and other stuff: http://360.yahoo.com/singleforce
-T- December 27 Stealing Cars Legally
December 17 Innovation In Broadcasting
December 05 New Business: RELAMARKETINGMy new business is now getting underway with only a couple of customers.
Relamarketing is a relationship marketing company with a twist: the ads can target more than just the product you are selling, it can target things like events and activities of groups of the tarket customers.
The website is www.Relamarketing.com. It's still under construction.
November 30 Do Your Own Thing, Baby! Do it!I woke up feeling fantastic today....something unusual for me, lately.
Wednesday, I took Ying Ying to Dallas to catch a plane back to Shanghai. Her father is in the hospital with cancer. Sucks! His prognosis is good, however.
The interviews I had lined up were disappointing...sucks!
The guys I just popped in to see, on the other hand, were cool....Harley Davidson in Austin...BMW.... But, let's get real for a minute (don't you just hate getting real?). Nobody wants to hire anyone anymore in the US, unless that person can make them a lot of money right away. Bottom line. They wind up treating you like shit in the interview...like a Mexican mohado (wetback, who just swam across the Rio Grande river into Texas), with nothing but a good couple of hands to work with and a willingness to bow down to these assholes.
There is an answer to all of this: Start your own thing. Don't I always say this? Of course I do! And, don't forget it!!!
Well, back to the feeling good stuff... I feel good this morning for couple of reasons: one, I'm free and single, so I don't have some girl griping at me all the time and telling me to do this or that....or to take responsibility...or to stop saying this...or 'why do you always'.....whatever. Another reason is, I slept well (that goes a long way by itself).
Basically, I woke up with a smile on my face. It means a lot!
I went in, made some coffee, noticed my brother is still in bed (he must be taking a well-deserved day off), and came in to sit at this old laptop to submit this relentless diatribe of profound wisdom. Aren't you glad?
Nevertheless I'm feeling great! Why?
Freedom, baby! Freedom!
The freedom from all the noise in the Chinese f****ing streets....the people on bicycles with their freakin' bullhorns....the busses, the subways.....the f***ing street guards....bosses....women with agendas.... Yeah...women with agendas!
The most important thing in life...bar none...is freedom to do and to say whatever your superior, superfluous, reduced-synaptic-firing, peanut-of-a-brain comes up with.
It feels good.
Same thing with these asshole dork-dongle, hiring-freak-ass managers who don't want to pay anything for your valuable, bust-ass, balls-to-the-wall, hard-earned education and experience. F**k them!
Here's Speed's T-Shirt saying of the day....DO YOUR OWN THING, BABY!
l love all you wonderful people who read this stuff! Ted
November 20 Things Start Coming Together...But, Where?Well, you never know unless you try.
Tomorrow is an interview with BMW....a dealer. We'll see what's going on there.
November 13 SurvivalTrying to survive is difficult, and I'm not sure why.
With all of the people out there, you would think it would be easy. I think the answer to old Maslow's Hierarchy is right before our very eyes, and we fail to recognize the best solution for ourselves many times.
Most of the time, the needs overshadow the wants and you do what you don't want to do. Sad, isn't it? November 06 Old ideas and new businesses....the Chinese in AmericaToday, in LA, I met a Chinese guy from Nanjing who has started a business, selling Closed-Circuit TVs, business phone systems, and alarm systems for houses. All of the these things are very old and mature in the market, and there is a lot of competition. He wanted a sales guy to go knock on doors. Haha....what orientation is that? Sales orientation. He is already getting orders from advertising, but he still insists on getting commissioned sales people. "CD, DVD, watch?"
Crazy.
My favorite motorcycle store is closed.
Gone.
Sad.
The California Speed Shop is now history . AHH, but now it may live on, because I want to use that name. It's the name I had for my company in Texas, believe it or not, and I think I'll name my corporation that now.
Somehow, maybe it's blessing in disquise that Will Tate shut the store down. It's legacy may once again speed toward the future generations of speed lovers everywhere. This time, under my leadership.
But, let's never forget one of the great motorcyclists, teachers, and store owners: Will Tate of The California Speedshop. His picture will hang on my wall and my website. A legend.
November 05 Evaluating Businesses in AmericaTwo businesses seem to be the most appealing to me in America: the services contractor and the car/motorcycle dealership. I'm exploring them both. Of the two, the car dealership has become more difficult to obtain, because the state of Texas has split the licenses into different categories, each of them costing $500 dollars, so a motorcycle dealership license costs $500, the same as the car dealership license, making it a solid $1,000 for both.
I'll be talking to a guy in the building business this week in Austin, Texas. The car dealership I already know a great deal about. It's all a matter of money and negotiating deals now.
November 01 New opportunitiesLast night a guy in China called and wants me to rep his products in America, along with Ying Ying for the Chinese. A consideration, since he's paying up front for some services.
Next, another guy wants to partner with me on website marketing. He's already a webmaster. We're searching for sites to buy that are already popular. It's always better to buy a company that's making it fairly well rather than bust your butt trying to get a new one going, that is, if it's cheap enough.
That's the news!
Sadly, I'm on a plane in 23 more hours to spend the next 12 hours in the air. Next stop: Los Angeles, where I pick up a rental car, which I rented for only $80 for 3 days. Then, on to the hotel next to Disneyland, which happens to be cheap! You never know!
I'm ging to talk to a video game retail store owner, a woman believe it or not, to talk about me being the manager of that store and maybe opening up others for her. Then, to talk to a Chinese guy about the satellite TV dish installations business.
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October 26 THE BIZ BLOGBeginning today, this blog will be focused on the building of my new business in America.
Every few days, I'll outline in brief what I do and how I do it. It'll no doubt be full of trials and tribulations in the process of throwing together an empire. Yes, I'm prepared.
Here are some of the businesses I'm planning to open.
Watch, and laugh as I hit walls and crash many times. Finally the Freedom to TalkFinally, as I approach the end of my stay in China, I'm going to say what I really feel. Whoah....you thought I was already too brash!
Next Friday is my last day in this godforsaken world. For me, it's about 5 years too late. I lost a lot of money being here. Any advantages? hmmmm.....a few. Mostly in broadcasting.
Ying Ying and I had "money" talks, as I call them, yesterday, and as always, I am totally focused on making money. Money is power....period. As she was talking to CCTV and SMG about Sound Of Country, this fact has never been more evident. The Chinese way of doing business is "screw everyone in any way we can". It doesn't seem to matter about future business relationships. The Chinese attitude persistently, the whole time I have been here, in every case, has been the same: "cheat, cheat, and cheat again, until we have completely screwed the customer over in as many ways as we can". The bottom line is, if you have the power of size and money, you win the game. Honesty is a virtue unknown to the Chinese business person. I will try not to do business with the Chinese in the future. And, I will influence others to do the same.
Where can America do business? South America and Latin America. They are the next China, anyway. Even China recognizes this and is trying to find ways to control them.
October 21 "The TEACH"I'll start calling myself "The Teach". This actually came from a movie by the same name, but for now, I think I'll adopt it for myself as a funny nickname for all of my former college students.
On with the normal blog....
Let's talk about the trip back to the states.
It will be a business venture and, of course, my normal dangerous adventures outside of the business world that I'll be talking about on this blog in the future, and you can all follow along to laugh, cry, and participate. I expect you all to participate by reading and commenting. Okay?
I'm in the planning stages now, and if you want to follow along with what I do, stay tuned to this website and blog. I will also do some things on the MySpace website, which may be blocked in China, and also the Yahoo! 360 site, called Singleforce.
Here's a list of some of the goals.
1. Set up a company for marketing other company's products.
2. Develop an automotive company in California, including cars and motorcycles.
3. Take advantage of the real estate decline in the US and start buying land and buildings for commercial use.
4. Finish another book by June of 2008 for publication in China and the US.
In order to accomplish any goal, as I have tought you, you must put the plan into action. To watch how I do this, watch the website daily.
I expect every one of my students to give me his/her comment. I can use your inputs and maybe you can learn how to be successful at the same time. Even if I fail at some of these, success can follow.
So, stay tuned and throw in your comments for good luck. Don't be shy and don't be afraid to be negative.
The TEACH. October 15 Goodbye Shanghai...Hello Los AngelesGoodbye Shanghai...hello Los Angeles!
I am finally going back to America for the last time. No more traveling around the world for a long time. No more China!
American food, Texas Food, and Mexican food...Texas Bar-B-Q, Mexican fajitas and Dos Equis beer, and Corona, of course.
Harley Davidson motocycles!! Wow!!!
And....finally, putting a racing team together and racing in the Baja 1000. |
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