After a lengthy battle between anti-obesity advocates and major beverage distributors, an agreement has finally been reached. In a joint effort with the distributors and The William J. Clinton Foundation and the American Heart Association, the distributors have agreed to eliminate regular soda sales in our nations schools.

This agreement shall be implemented by the 2008-2009 school year. It calls for only water, juices, and milk to be sold in elementary and middle schools, and diet sodas, unsweetened teas, fitness water, sports drinks, flavored waters, and seltzers in high schools. This ban on regular sodas applies during the regular or extended school day, and includes during after school activities.

This agreement will effect an estimated 75 percent of our nations schools or 35 million students. Keep in mind that this ban on regular sodas accounts for about 45 percent of beverage sales in schools during the 2005 school year.

While this is certainly a step in the right direction for our public schools and our overweight children, I am still troubled by the fact that diet sodas are considered safe.

Consider this fact, the dangers of aspartame has been a well hidden secret since the 1980′s. You will not hear to much about aspartame poisoning because the diet industry is worth trillions of dollars.

People are starting to figure out for themselves that aspartame is at the root of their health problems. Here is just a short list of side effects associated with aspartame consumption, and may not be limited to these few.

*Fibromyalgia Syndrome/ and Symptoms of Fibromyalgia

*Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms

*Dizziness

*Headaches

*Menstrual Problems

*Weight control

Aspartame is the technical name for the brand names NutraSweet, Equal, and Spoonful. Aspartame accounts for over 75 percent of the adverse reactions to food additives reported to the FDA. Many of these reactions are very serious including seizures and death.

Diet sodas may be worse than regular sodas, although a lot of refined sugar in anyones diet is unhealthy, can quite easily be eliminated by limiting sugar laden beverages. The consumption of to many diet sodas can contribute to obesity, and are quite possibly addictive, despite what consumers have been led to believe.

There is a preventive self-education manual written by F. Batmanghelidj M.D.called “Your Body’s Many Cries For Water”. This short but extremely informative book should be required reading for all high school students, and once this knowledge enters your mind, makes you responsible for your own health.

This science based knowledge presented by Dr. Batmanghelidj is so simple to understand and gives you the power of knowledge to choose the no-brainer beverage that your body so desperately needs, and that beverage is WATER!

As parents, teachers, physicians, and health conscious individuals we surely owe our children this precious knowledge. A gift that can reap huge rewards of a healthier body, healthier minds, and attitudes.

We are surely living in changing and progressive times, and the one thing you can count on in the future, you will see more people changing their minds about our current health care industry and crisis. They can and are, questioning the safety of manufactured foods and beverages as we gradually become a nation of health conscious consumers that demand safer and healthier products.

Consumer demand is what drives any industry in any nation it’s the money trail that corporations pay attention to. What you buy and don’t buy is what determines what becomes available to you.

Send them a message loud and clear. As a nation we need to each become more involved individually with our own health, choose to become more informed and teach our children well.

The same effect could be used in making everyday chic fashion clothing for fashionistas that automatically changes color to fit different visual settings. Sandia National Laboratories researchers have demonstrated that, in theory, they could cause synthetic materials to change color just like certain fish species which blend with their environment by changing color.

The Basic Principle Underlying Nano Camouflage Clothing

The researchers have followed the mechanism that the fish use to change colors. The power source for the whole process depends upon the basic cellular fuel called ATP, which releases energy as it breaks down. Around 50% of the power is absorbed by the motor proteins, the tiny molecular motors that can move along surfaces. When fish change colors, motor proteins aggregate and disperse skin pigment crystals carried in their “tails” as they walk with their “feet” along the microtubule skeleton of the cell. They rearrange the color display through this.

The on/off switch

The scientists are also introducing on/off switch to control the motion of the motor proteins. The effect is controllable, and even reversible. “We essentially reengineered the protein structure to introduce a switch into the motor,” says the principal investigator George Bachand. “So we can now turn our nanofluidic devices on and off.” Previous efforts at regulating motor activity have used fuel intake as a control mechanism which operated on the principle- the less the fuel, the slower the process. However, the Nano-camo switch operates independently of fuel changes, resembling the improvement in early automobile technologies when a simple ignition switch took over for more complicated rheostats.

So, just wait and watch for the amazing chameleon-like camouflage ‘Nano-camo’ for fashionistas and environmentalists.

If you are considering starting a new business in the aircraft industry, then perhaps you might consider something simple that requires very little capital to get into. Washing aircraft can be a rewarding business and it’s a much higher end business than most types of cleaning service companies. The pay is pretty good too.

Of course, before you start you’ll have to determine your market mix. That is to say what types of customers you’ll have and which type of clients you are going to go after. Having been in the aircraft cleaning business for almost 3-decades, I thought I might help you out on this topic. So, one question you might ask, which is a common question for airplane cleaning companies would be;

“Are most of the Aircraft Customers corporate owners/operators or the owners of the single/multi-engine aircraft I see?”

This pretty much depends on the type of airport, for instance at a large International airport it might be airlines, government aircraft, and corporate, with only a few non-turbine singles. At small general aviation airports, the market mix will be more single and twin privately owned aircraft, some helicopters, flight schools, flying clubs, charter and just a few corporate jets. See that point?

In states like New Jersey for instance, there are many more jets the closer you get to NYC, those airports are packed with corporate. When we get into airport community developments, airparks, it’s mostly all single and twin engine puddle jumpers.

In Sun Shine States like California, Arizona and Florida there are an abundance of single engine private planes and although you cannot charge much to wash them, you can sure make a lot of money in volume. Perhaps these are things you might consider?

As the super powers of the future collide in political impasse leading to catastrophic wars, the US Military will need more than just bombs and missiles, stealth planes and a Navy which is more like a floating country than a bunch of ships. Nuclear bombs are problematic as they tend to mess things up for a while and they are not so environmentally friendly although temporarily quite effective.

Many would like to choose the nuclear option and be done with the war quickly and actually saving lives in the end, yet they also admit that humans where never made to glow in the dark, even if scientists are already creating pigs and splicing them with Jelly Fish genes to make them translucent green and glow in the dark.

Maybe we will have humans, which glow in the dark soon, who knows. Yet that certainly can be done without nuclear wars. So often when we discuss the fury of Mother Nature we hear talk of Mount St. Helens Volcano being the power of 30 Hiroshima Bombs or the Power of Hurricane Katrina being the same as 10 Atomic Bombs going off every hour for 5-days straight.

With that type of power wouldn’t it be great to incorporate a little helping hand from Mother Nature to serve our political will in case of an un-negotiable impasse? If some country will not give up its Nuclear Weapons Manufacturing and insists on threatening the World, why not cause an Earthquake and have the underground facility simply implode or collapse on its self?

The US Military needs an Earthquake Maker and a Typhoon Generator for its arsenals to protect the American People, our Allies and the future of Mankind. Think on this in 2006.

So, there I was at the stop light on a new carbon fiber ten-speed touring bike, no not touring, hell, I was just on my way to Starbucks with my notebook to do a little writing here. Anyway this very nice Mercedes looking car pulls up along side of me, I looked at it really close and then I realized that’s not a Mercedes, it’s a Hyundai – but the cars finish was every bit as nice, except for one thing.

On the fender closest to me, while waiting for the light to change in the bike lane, I noticed the paint coming off, wow, that’s weird, the clear coat on that car looks magnificent – then I looked at it closer, and I knew exactly what caused it. Long ago, I used to be in the auto-detailing business, and that my friends and loyal readers was caused by someone throwing an egg on it, but it wasn’t wiped off soon enough, maybe left on for a half a day or more.

The driver could have prevented this. Let me explain; you see, one of the more common practical jokes or mean-spirited things that humans like to do is to throw eggs on cars. Now they might think this is very funny, but the reality is that if you don’t get it off right away, then you are liable to have permanently damaged paint.

So, perhaps we should talk about how to take care of this dilemma if you come out and see your car has splattered eggs on it. The tips below will assist you in doing it right the first time, as there is a right way and a wrong way. If you don’t do it correctly you can damage the paint in the process.

First, you need to get some soapy water and a sponge in a bucket. It is imperative that you fully soak the area and the area below the egg splatter. Once it dries, and if it dries into the paint, it will eat it away in that area.

Next, you need to apply some pressure to the areas using your sponge, but not very much. What you are trying to do is get the bulk off and the egg shells without scratching or etching. As you go make sure you use lots of soap and let it flow all around the eggy substance.

If you have some areas, which have already dried, you need to be very careful not to try to scrape them off, as they may have bonded with the paint, and the paint will come off along with it. Do not go to a coin-op car wash and use high pressure on the area, or use a home pressure washer.

Next, rinse with a garden hose, but not a nozzle with pressure, and then dry it off, by dabbing a towel on the area, as you dry the remainder of the non-egged region.

You need use a cleaner wax to try to get the discoloration out, and you can try a little extra pressure as you go, never very much. You’ll find you can remove most of the stain, if not all, again depending on how long the egg has been there.

You are going to have to take this very seriously, if you see egg on your car, follow these steps right away, and do not drive your car as the engine may heat up some areas, cooking parts of the egg into the paint. If your car still has morning moisture on it, that’s good, just get it all off ASAP, do not hesitate, or wait. Please consider all this.

Sustainable Competitive Advantage or SCA.

When I first understood this concept, I was enamored by it. It seemed to possess a life of its own. Like all concepts promising long term salvation (like nirvana, re-birth & karma etc.) , SCA looked mesmerizing.

However the back end of such concepts is very difficult to execute. The Karma Theory believes in putting an honest effort without bothering about the end result. Easier said than done.

Building a sustainable competitive advantage also calls for a fair amount of sacrifice, focus and discipline. SMEs (Small & Medium Enterprises) need to sacrifice their unprofitable product lines , discipline their sales force to look at contribution, build focus around creating customer value. This will give them a hope to catapult them into big league and make them stay there.

Again , easier said than done.

An SME owner is an entrepreneur who has fought a bitter battle for survival and has lived to see another day. Often the habits learned to survive in grim and tough conditions are not the habits that are necessary to build a civilization.

The SME owner often procrastinates and finds it tough to make choices which will build a prosperous empire.

1. Can he close down a production unit which delivers very little contribution and fire all workers who have been with him through thick and thin ?
2. Can he say ‘No’ to customers, who are currently very costly to serve but at one time gave him his first initial orders ?
3. Can he dump the comfort and the security of being a ‘full service’ offering and instead focus on a limited product line?
4. Can he dump managers who were good in being jack of all trades (important attribute during start up) but are like fish out of water when given specialized roles?
5. Can he move to a completely different vertical, given his comfort level and domain knowledge in the existing verticals?

So differentiation looks great in theory. Very difficult to execute. For a business to differentiate and build a sustainable civilization the top three things that are necessary are:

1. Great understanding of customers, their current needs & evolving needs. Most business owners would secretly admit to not knowing this well.
2. Great understanding of their products/services and ability to continuously innovate and improve them. Most business owners are sitting on past laurels
3. Building an organization that is flexible and is aligned with changing business dynamics. Most organizations are rigid and have little/no strategy alignment.

Most business owners have a hunch that they are not good in executing any of the three imperatives. So although they keep chanting the mantras of ‘differentiation’, ‘discipline’, ‘focus’ etc., they do not have the determination to catch the bull by the horns.

They cannot hold a hand on their hearts and say that their business has been built to create sustainable value for their shareholders.In absence of any strong courage and conviction , they keep practicing and honing the habits that they learned while fighting a bitter battle for survival.

They remain the barbarians, who occasionally take great comfort in raiding/attacking civilizations, but will never be able to build one themselves.

Cruising the islands and resorts of the Caribbean Ocean has become one of the more popular vacation choices in recent years, particularly with the advent of the newer super cruise ships like the Oasis of the Seas and her sister ship the Allure of the Seas. These super cruisers have what their owners describe as seven distinct on board neighbourhoods. These include Spa and Fitness, Pool and Sports, Entertainment and Youth Zones. Each of these massive vessels has a maximum passenger occupancy of five thousand four hundred on decks that are sixteen storeys high. The passenger numbers are augmented by over two thousand crew members of every imaginable discipline to cater for the needs of the passengers. There are two thousand seven hundred State Rooms. They both have a cruising speed of twenty two knots. The Allure of the Seas is the longer of the two by a mere three feet, at one thousand one hundred and eighty seven feet. These vessels are a wonder to behold as they make their way towards their island destinations filled with expectant vacationers.

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Extended motorcycle warranties, also known as motorcycle service contracts, can save you money and ensure that your motorcycle is taken care of in the event of any problems. There are many different types of extended motorcycle warranties, as well as different places you can purchase them.

Often, you can purchase an extended motorcycle warranty from the dealership where you bought your motorcycle. However, if this is not an option, there are many other places where you can purchase these types of warranties, including brick and mortar companies and online.

When it comes to these types of warranties, you do not want to automatically go with the cheapest plan available. If you do, you could find yourself with a broken down car that you can’t get fixed under the warranty. It’s crucial to thoroughly research any extended motorcycle warranty that you are considering to make sure you understand exactly what is covered. It’s also a good idea to shop around — different companies offer different plans and rates.

Extended motorcycle warranties are not insurance plans, and should not be thought of as such. An extended motorcycle warranty extends the protection you receive with the initial warranty that comes with your motorcycle. The reason for an extended motorcycle warranty is simple — repairs can be quite costly, especially on new motorcycles. This type of warranty protects you in the event of mechanical problems with your car.

It’s prudent to purchase your extended warranty as soon as you can. The longer you wait to purchase one, the more you’ll end up paying. If you can, purchase the extended warranty at the same time as your motorcycle. If you wait too long, you’ll end up dealing with more expensive warranty providers and plans.

Make sure when purchasing an extended warranty that it covers your motorcycle in the events of both wear and tear and mechanical breakdown. It’s important to understand exactly what you will receive with your warranty before purchasing. There can be a lot of confusing fine print when it comes to these plans, so choose a provider that you feel comfortable with. A good warranty provider will make sure you’re aware of all the details of your plan, no matter how large or small.

When it comes to how much you’ll pay for an extended motorcycle warranty, it will depend not only on the plan you choose and the company that offers it, but the type of motorcycle you have. For example, the extended warranty on a motorcycle that is known for safety and reliability will be less than the warranty on a high-powered sports car.

There are not only warranty plans for brand new cars, but used ones as well. However, it’s likely that you’ll need to deal with a third party provider with a used car rather than the dealership where you purchased it.

Before purchasing any kind of motorcycle warranty, check with the Better Business Bureau to ensure that the company you’re dealing with has a satisfactory rating.

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With all due respect for Thomas A. Edison, Nikola Tesla was an equal, if not greater, American inventor. Edison is highly lauded. Tesla is nearly forgotten.

Broadly speaking, Edison could be described as an innovator. He improved on existing technology. He did not invent the incandescent light bulb, for example.

That was patented and demonstrated publicly by Joseph Swam of Britain in 1878 — a year before Edison. Later, Swam and Edison formed a brief partnership and Edison bought him out.

Tesla, a native of Serbia, also began as an innovator. He wanted to be an electrical engineer. At that time, “direct current” electricity was produced by chemical batteries charged by a steam-driven generator.

Direct current is affected by resistance in the wire conducting it. Within a mile or so, electricity is used up in the form of heat. At the University of Prague, Tesla was challenged to solve the distribution problem.

Tesla had a phenomenal memory. He memorized the complete works of Goethe and Voltaire. While strolling in a park, reciting poetry about the sun, Tesla suddenly perceived the direct-current solution.

An electric current that alternated from negative to positive could be sent in separate wires. At the receiving end, the two currents would be “induced” to flow to separate magnets — one stationary, the other rotating like the sun.

Tesla patented his idea. “Alternating current” and “induction motors” is the principal system we use today for our homes and factories.

Upon graduation in 1882, Tesla worked for the Continental Edison Company in Paris. He came to the United States a year later to work directly with Edison. Upon arrival he had four cents in his pocket and a sheaf of his poems.

Edison held several patents on direct current improvements, which he leased to General Electric. His installation of a complete direct- current lighting systems at lower New York City was widely hailed.

Inevitably the two men quarreled over the merits of their two systems. Tesla quit, opened his own laboratory and became a naturalized citizen in 1891. He sold his alternating current patents to George Westinghouse. A battle of titans ensued.

Edison tried to convince the public that the low-voltage Edison-General Electric system could be handled with complete safety, while the Tesla-Westinghouse high-voltage system was dangerous.

Someone in the Edison camp toured state fairs mildly shocking stray cats and dogs with direct current – then killing them with alternating current. The pitch was that the Tesla/Westinghouse high-voltage alternating current was fatal if touched accidentally.

First Human Electrocution

During this public relations war, the state of New York bungled several gruesome hangings. Condemned prisoners sometimes were slowly strangled or decapitated.

A Dr. Brown, dentist and spokesman for the Medico-Legal Society of New York, searched for a “more humane and scientific way” of applying capital punishment.

He convinced state authorities that alternating-current electricity was the quickest and surest.

The warden of the Albany Penitentiary asked Westinghouse to install an AC generator with which to execute an axe murder named William Kemmler.

Both Westinghouse and Tesla were strenuously opposed to capital punishment and refused.

Through subterfuge, someone – Historian Theo Benson says it was Edison – obtained a Tesla generator for the world’s first human execution by electricity.

The voltage was too low. Kemmler was literally cooked after repeated jolts of current. The disgusted Westinghouse later said, “They’d have done better with an axe.”

For years thereafter, people killed accidentally by electrical mishaps were said to have been “Westinghoused.”

Tesla System Wins

Westinghouse and Tesla forged ahead of General Electric and Edison by winning a contract to illuminate the 1893 Chicago Exposition with 200,000 light bulbs. It was a sensation.

Three years later they installed the first hydroelectric alternating – current system at Niagara Falls for the city of Buffalo. Edison and General Electric thereafter manufactured light bulbs and other appliances compatible with alternating current.

With royalties pouring in, Tesla could concentrate on the nature of electricity and its potential.

His approach of exploring the nature of energy was science – as contrasted to inventing things for specific purposes. During the next few years, he filed 830 patents.

Tesla’s watershed invention was a particular coil of wire that ushered in hundreds of uses we take for granted today. They were however, too futuristic for the time.

He achieved illumination with “filamentless” bulbs filled with various gases. Today we recognize these as fluorescent lights and neon advertising letters.

He experimented with “shadowgraphs” of human bones through clothing years before Roentgen published his work.

His “Tesla coil” created high-voltage “energy waves” by which he projected radio signals to “telautomaton” model ships. They maneuvered in response to levers on a control box.

Tesla said he could replace the lever box with a telephone to transmit voices, music – and, ultimately, images. No commercial backer was interested because there were no instruments to receive ethereal waves.

This was two years before Marconi succeeded in broadcasting a single telegraph click. After a legal suit, Tesla’s primacy was upheld.

The Navy was mildly interested in a tiny submarine without a crew that could be controlled by Tesla’s waves. However, the admirals did not foresee the smart bombs and torpedoes of today.

The ‘high-power oscillator” – that Tesla invented to control ships at sea — is the power supply for our television cathode-ray picture tube.
Man-made Lightning

The U.S. War Department in 1893 asked Tesla to expand his wireless communications systems. The request came at an awkward time. Tesla’s patents expired. His New York laboratory and papers had burned.

The manager of the Colorado Springs municipal lighting system offered Tesla free electricity for his project. He moved to Colorado Springs and built an experimental radio station 10 miles out of town.

He determined that the Earth is a huge magnet with energy flowing between positive and negative poles. Also, he computed the frequency necessary to project an electrical spurt completely through the planet and recapture the spurt when it bounced back.

It was his intent – by a huge Tesla coil — to add additional spurts to successive bounces. When a massive voltage had been built up, he would release it from a tall antenna to zoom around the world.

When all was ready, Tesla, wearing shoes with two-inch-thick rubber soles for insulation, threw the switch for one second “to see what it would do.” The plateau was carpeted momentarily with blue St Elmo Fire — but no explosion.

Tesla threw the switch again and stepped outside to measure the expected lightning bolt. Amidst deafening thunder, a bolt leaped from the antenna and lengthened as earth charges accumulated.

Folks in town were alarmed. Sparks crackled from fire hydrants. People in leather shoes, or barefoot, skipped from heat.

At 130 feet, the bolt collapsed. All was silent.

Tesla ran to the phone and called the Colorado Springs municipal electric plant. “You have ruined my experiment?”

“To Hell with you,” was the reply. “You have burned out our generators.” They sent him a bill for damages and electricity. .

Nevertheless, Tesla had learned a great deal about earth resonance and aerial propagation of radio waves. He became obsessed with the possibility of capturing earth energy and broadcasting it free to the whole world.
Search For Free Energy

Tesla returned to New York City to build a radio transmitter capable of reaching Europe. He obtained backing from J.P. Morgan, a prominent financier of promising projects.

A huge Tesla coil and 85-foot broadcasting tower was built at Wardenclyffe on Long Island. It soon became apparent to Morgan that Tesla was more interested in broadcasting free energy than commercial radio programs.

Morgan wanted to know, “Where will you put the meter?” He refused to advance any more money. Work stopped. The huge transmitting tower fell into disrepair and was finally demolished as a hazard.

The laboratory and land was acquired by the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in payment for a $20,000 room bill.

In the ensuing years Tesla experimented with a “particle beam accelerator” that could destroy invading airplanes. The newspapers dubbed it a “death ray.” Today we call it microwaves for kitchen ovens.

He invented a small “energy turbine” consisting of closely-spaced disks on an axle that spins on any gas or liquid containing energy – gasoline, hydrogen, propane, or methane – without burning the fuel.

Unfortunately the disks warp or melt from the molecular action of energy atoms. Energy and pollution problems would be solved if we could invent a suitable disk material.

Tesla postulated that sunlight could be converted directly into electricity (solar panels), energy could be extracted from atoms (bombs), hundreds of messages could be transmitted simultaneously over one circuit (fiber glass cable), drone planes could be powered by electricity (NASA has one powered by solar cells circling indefinitely at a high altitude).

During the First World War he proposed bouncing radio waves off enemy airplanes to learn of their approach. The War Department ignored his proposal. It wasn’t until World War II that RADAR was introduced.

He detected radio waves from outer space and thought they might be signals from aliens. We now know that radio waves from space are static left over from creation of the universe.

Talk of free energy, death rays, and space aliens led people to consider him a “mad scientist.”

Tesla died in 1943, still a bachelor –and almost penniless — in a cheap hotel. Gone and forgotten.

Or, maybe not. On the day of his death, government agents went to his hotel room and confiscated his papers. They are classified “Top Secret.”