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'Black Business Works-Queens--Thank you!'

2010-06-10T06:17:00.000-04:00

'Black Business Works-Queens--Thank you!' This was a very powerful event that is still reaping benefits. I hope that you all make the next one.

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2010-04-09T12:28:00.003-04:00

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Meet the Authors @ Pinnacle

2010-04-08T22:06:00.001-04:00

Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 12:17 PM
Subject: Meet the Authors @ Pinnacle

Veola Carter
(864)306-4844

Dear Veola,

I have recently developed a new project: Pinnacle Educational Center.
Please review an attached pdf regarding Pinnacle that appeared in the Amity Observer.

Pinnacle is a sort of vertical integration of my current firm, BHA Education Consultants (www.bhaeducation.com) !

BHA Education is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pinnacle.

I would like to invite Black literary as well as visual artists to our space to promote their books/paintings etc. in our scheduled Inti-Events (Intimate Events) - small events with approximately 20-30 people. Do you know of any African-American authors who may be interested in promoting their literary works at our:

"Meet the Author @ Pinnacle Educational Center"

Also attached Pinnacle's list of services and an upcoming activity.

Best,

Dr. Lowe

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Dr. Paul Reginald Lowe
President and Founder
Pinnacle Educational Center, LLC
245 Amity Road, Suite 203
Woodbridge, CT 06525
(203) 387-1574
http://www.pinnacleeducationalcenter.com

'SimplyToEmpower- Today Is A Gift; GRATITUDE'

2010-04-07T16:02:00.001-04:00

'SimplyToEmpower- Today Is A Gift; GRATITUDE'

How often do we take life for granted? Well today let's recommit to the best life has to offer us. Check out some of the upcoming events SimplyToEmpower.com is helping with. Click the link above. Thanks

Teach and Grow Rich 2010 Kicks off Strong with Kathleen Gage

2010-01-23T21:26:00.000-05:00

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While often times people have the impress that wealth people don't share or give, this is one of the fallacies that was exposed in the first session of Teach and Grow Rich Featuring Kathleen Gage. She first started out by pointing out the massive show of giving wealthy and successful people demonstrated during the Haitian Relief show. She also linked it how having a sustainable online source help people to give more to various charities.

The topic for the evening was Building a Sustainable Income Online. Kathleen pointed out that the way to do this was by building massive recognition and credibility in one niche market.

The call lasted a little more than an half hour but Kathleen covered "how you can quickly and easily gain massive name recognition within a specific target market – recognition that equates to greater credibility and increased sales","how to continually (and easily) keep your name fresh in your prospect’s and customers’ mind", and "what works and what doesn’t when it comes to gaining visibility on the Internet to avoid costly mistakes".

It was great to hear how responsive the listeners were to her simple and powerful message. What really impressed me was when one of the guest who was blind brought out how sometimes it was difficult for blind people to click on links because the software the use is voice activated as opposed to mouse activated.

To learn more about Kathleen Gage and her Vip Program visit http://buckfiftymiracle.info/KGVIP.html

Protecting Your Assets from Scams 2010 Holds New Challenges

2010-01-16T21:54:00.000-05:00

Protecting your assets from scams has always been an issue. Criminals are working day and night to get your hard earned money. In Yahoo feed this we week they had an article about how people are robbing people at the gas pump without a gun.

The trick uses a device called a skimmer and a camera. “Skimming” means a criminal puts a device over the card reader to capture data from the magnetic strip on credit and debit cards. The Scammers now place cameras also near the keypad to record pin numbers.

Your Identity has never been as at much risk as it is now. This is why all though identity theft can't be completely prevent you can take action to prepare yourself. Also to minimize your risk it may be a good idea to use stored value prepaid card to limit your exposure to thieves. Some cards that I like are Account Now, Wired Plastic, and UltraVX.

Protect you assets by acting proactively find out more about Identity Theft Protection Services.

Kwanzaa Gift Ideas From African Holistic View

2009-12-22T06:27:00.000-05:00

I wanted to share with you some gift ideas for Kwanzaa 2009. I would love to get feed back from you what ideas you have:

Greetings Family,

A great gift idea would be to give something pertaining to holistic health & wellness. Do check out the African Holistic Health Wellness:
http://africanholistic.weebly.com/wellness-store.html

You can also treat someone your love to a Holistic Health Course or Membership in the form of a gift certification:
http://africanholistic.weebly.com/schedule-of-classes-2010--online-payments.html
http://africanholistic.weebly.com/join-the-chapter.html

Look forward to your patronage during this time of Kwanzaa and throughout the year 2010. Your support in 2009 has been greatly appreciated. Hope you see you all at our Chapter's Dinner Dance. There are still vending spots available. $20 for crafts $30 for vegan food vendors.
http://africanholistic.weebly.com/african-holistic-health-dinner-dance-2010. html.

Sista Shai (Shy-ee)
African Holistic Health Chapter of NY
347-427-8668 (o)
www.africanholistic.weebly.com

Make sure you get your membership with the Black Business Builders Club Today.

NBBTA - National Black Business Trade Association Launches it 2010 Membership Drive today

2009-11-17T07:21:00.000-05:00

November 17, 2009 Founder and CEO of the National Black Business Trade Association (NBBTA) Lee Green announced today the official start of the 2010 membership drive. National Black Business Trade Association (NBBTA) is a unique business network. Our membership includes experienced professionals and business owners interested in expanding their businesses. Our core philosophy is based on the importance of entrepreneurship, cooperative economics and recycling Black dollars.

NBBTA is a community of experienced business professionals. It is where:

1) professionals develop new leads to business,

2) members become part of a unique community of entrepreneurial professionals, and

3) members develop lasting relationships with other professionals in related fields.

» The Benefits of Membership:

* Great Resources. We give you access to cutting edge communications and networking tools. The opportunity to upgrade to a paid membership in the Black Business Builders Club to help increase your income and shorten your learning curve.

* Professional Networking. We help introduce you to professionals who are interested in developing referral sources. Our primary objective is to help you network with other professionals in your local community or around the world. We also help organize local networking events and meeting groups so that our members have a regular place to meet with their referral sources.

* Marketing Resources. We help connect you to marketing resources that can help you grow your business.

* Member Lead Exchange. Need a service? Use our lead exchange to post requests for service to other members of the NBBTA community. It’s our way of bringing our professionals together.

* Directory Listings. As a member of NBBTA you receive an online directory listing. Our directories are reviewed by consumers who are seeking professional services.

» About Our Members. We are looking for energetic members with experience and an interest in growing their business. Our members include: business owners, any professional that services a business, accountants, attorneys, financial planners, insurance agents, real estate professionals, executive consultants, and HR, marketing and sales professionals, contractors, architects, engineers, home based and home services professionals.

» Where Our Members Are Located. We have members in every major city in the United States.

» Good Relationships Produce Business. Our innovative community fosters the development of business relationships among professionals. Every new member that joins NBBTA adds value and opportunity.

To find out more information go the website http://buckfiftymiracle.info/nbbtafree.html and put Clarence Coggins as your referrer.

Are You over Looking a Viable Market?

2009-11-10T10:16:00.000-05:00

While many people are looking at the youth of the nation for sales, don't you miss out a market that has plenty of dollars to spend. That market is the Baby Boomer Market. They are more mature, less expenses and are ready to do business with you if you know how.

Here is an article that shows 5 Ways to Market to a More Mature Consumers. I hope you enjoy it.

Are you Giving Thieves The Keys To Your Car?

2009-11-02T06:35:00.000-05:00

I just received this email and I don't doubt it is truth. This is because when it comes to remote controlled devices there are only so many frequencies that they can use and their has to be some way for the system to receive the signal. So people be alert and stay aware:

There is nothing safe and secure anymore.....

How to Lock Your Car and Why

I locked my car. As I walked away I heard my car door unlock. I went back and locked my car again, three times. Each time, as soon as I
started to walk away, I would hear it unlock again!! Naturally alarmed, I looked around and there were two guys sitting in a car in the fire
lane next to the store. They were obviously watching me intently, and there was no doubt they were somehow involved in this very weird
situation. I quickly chucked the errand I was on, jumped in my car and sped away. I went straight to the police station, told them what had
happened, and found but I was part of a new, and very successful, scheme being used to gain entry into cars.

Two weeks later, my friend's son had a similar happening... While traveling, my friend's son stopped at a roadside rest to use the bathroom. When he came out to his car less than 4-5 minutes later, someone had gotten into his car and stolen his cell phone, laptop computer, GPS navigator, briefcase.....you name it. He called the police and since there were no signs of his car being broken into, the police told him he had been a victim of the latest robbery tactic -- there is a device that robbers are using now to clone your security code when you lock your doors on your car using your key-chain locking device..remotely. They sit a distance away and watch for their next victim.... They know you are going inside the store, restaurant, or bathroom and they now have a few minutes to steal and run. The police officer said to manually lock your car door-by hitting the lock
button inside the car -- that way if there is someone sitting in a
parking lot watching for their next victim, it will not be you.

When you hit the lock button on your car upon exiting, it does not send the security code, but if you walk away and use the door lock on
your key chain, it sends the code through the airwaves where it can be instantly stolen.

This is very real.

Be wisely aware of what you just read and please pass this note on. Look how many times we all lock our doors with our remote just to
be sure we remembered to lock them -- and bingo, someone has our code....and whatever was in our car.

Snopes Approved --.Please share with everyone you know!!

Let's Do It Again - BBBC Launches Second Ad Coop

2009-06-28T10:19:00.000-04:00

This time it is local. Less than one month after successfully debuting in
Black Enterprise Magazine, the members of the Black Business Builders
Club are working together to start local Black Business Awareness campaigns.
First stop - Jersey City, NJ

The Bergen Avenue Bus Lines is one of the Old Bus Lines in Jersey City NJ. It
goes from Bayonne to Journal Square. Daily people ride the bus to commute to
work, school, or just the pursuit of entertainment. With Black Community of
over 67 thousand Blacks according to the US Census Bureau 2000 data.

"Making the Black Business Builder Club and the Black Folks Guide a household
name within the Black Community is our goal for 2009 and 2010", stated Clarence
Coggins (aka Crown PRince of WeB 2.0), Project Coordinator.

This project is the genesis of other efforts in our communities which will be a
continuation of a long legacy of Blacks striving for Economic Empowerment and
Financial Freedom. The Black Business Builders Club is a membership organization
that teaches it members how to use the Internet to generate income from home.

The Black Folks Guide to Making Big Money on the Internet was written by Lee
Green, Chairman of the National Black Business Trade Association and Founder
of the Black Business Builders Club. It serves as an guide for members to get
the most out of the club and the internet.

The deadline for participation in the second coop is July 15, 2009. For More
information visit http://hudsonliberty.com/bbbcoop2 or call 973-943-4073

Peeved Peak Potential Bans CP From Future Events

2009-06-17T20:12:00.000-04:00

Well I guess the Millionaire Mind Intensive will be having one less participant. Clarence Coggins, the Crown Prince of Web 2.0, has been placed on the Persona Non Grata list. Why? Because of a Youtube Video Taken Posted over a year ago.

The Following is the correspondence between myself and Peak Potential. Up to the part where I call Harv a Jerk and let him know that he could stick it in his "Briefs".

Like they know nothing of freedom of speech up north in Canada. They think that just because they may have a little money they can just boss people around. Well they ran into a Bible Believing American this Time.

Like I really have much better things to do than go protest an event. More importantly, there are many more events and programs one can attend. I just don't like their attitude. It STINKS.

Clarence:

Please bear in mind we will be monitoring your YouTube postings and will take all appropriate action, in suitable forums and venues, relative to defamatory, inaccurate or disparaging material you post, in addition to the removal by YouTube of your “work.” Please be advised our event staff has been notified you will not be permitted entry to our event, and will have you removed by the venue or authorities, appropriate to the situation. Any filming of our event, staff or clientele is unauthorized by Peak Potentials and will also be dealt with.

If you have any questions regarding the foregoing, or our intent to carry through, please feel fee to contact me.

Harvey J. Sotolov

Manager, Legal Affairs

Peak Potentials Training, Inc.

(604) 983-3344 x1455

(604) 983-3326 fax

Harvey.Sotolov@peakpotentials.com

From: Jason Holmes
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 3:44 PM
To: clarence@hudsonliberty.com
Subject: RE: You Will Not Be Permitted To Attend MMI

Hello Clarence,

Thank you for your email.

You will find that you have never been charged $97 for the upcoming MMI in New J ersey 2009.

Regards,

Jason Holmes

Assistant Manager of Client Care

Peak Potentials Training

jason@peakpotentials.com

Toll Free: 1-888-868-8883

Fax: 604-983-3365

Home of the world famous Millionaire Mind Intensive seminar and #1 NY Times best selling book Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker

From: clarence@hudsonliberty.com [mailto:clarence@hudsonliberty.com]
Sent: Tuesday, J une 16, 2009 3:18 PM
To: J ason Holmes
Sub j ect: Re: You Will Not Be Permitted To Attend MMI

Okay J ason,

J ust make sure you refund my registration fee. Because if you had made this information available to me when it came to your attention I would not have made a registration. And expect me to make Youtube video about the prohibition of me attending the event.

Clarence Coggins
Crown PRince of WeB 2.0
973-943-4073

--- On Tue, 6/16/09, J ason Holmes < J ason.Holmes@PEAKPOTENTIALS.COM> wrote:

From: J ason Holmes < J ason.Holmes@PEAKPOTENTIALS.COM>
Sub j ect: You Will Not Be Permitted To Attend MMI
To: clarence@hudsonliberty.com
Date: Tuesday, J une 16, 2009, 2:57 PM

Dear Clarence,

You recently registered to attend the Millionaire Mind Intensive in Secaucus New J ersey .

We wish to inform you that you will not be permitted to attend this event or any other future Peak Potentials programs. This decision was based on your unauthorized posting of Millionaire Mind Intensive video on You Tube.

Should you have any questions about this decision please contact:

Harvey J . Sotolov

Peak Potentials Manager Legal Affairs
(604) 983-3344 x1455
(604) 983-3326 fax
Harvey.Sotolov@peakpotentials.com

Regards,

Jason Holmes

Assistant Manager of Client Care

Peak Potentials Training

jason@peakpotentials.com

Toll Free: 1-888-868-8883

Fax: 604-983-3365

Why Rich Blacks Won't Work Together

2009-05-04T13:19:00.001-04:00

Hello,

I just wanted to share this article written by David Farad with you. I found it quite illuminating. Let me know what you think.

Why Rich Black Folks Won't Work Together

I'm
sure you have heard it many times over and over. You would be intheir
same tax bracket if you had a dime for every time a Black personsaid
"why won't Oprah, Bill Cosby, Denzel, Bob Johnson, Jay-Z, or anyof the
other rich celebrities and athletes work together to build orbuy-out a
company which would in turn create opportunities for thecommon members
of the Black Community"?

It doesn't take a Harvard Grad to
figure out that if rich Black peoplepooled their resources, started or
bought-out existing profitablecompanies, and hired the Black talent
that is otherwise languishing incorporate America (or Gov't) making
lot's of money for non-Black ownedorganizations, then there would be a
profound change in ourcommunities. Especially since this would be the
model and example thatyoung Blacks see and they in turn will mimic and
repeat the cyclegeneration after generation. Common sense right? What
are they waitingfor? Why won't they meet, plan, and formulate
strategies to build,grow, support, and create Black Business since they
have all thatmoney?!

Well................here's the answer...............They
don'twork together and they aren't creating opportunities for the
commonmembers of the Black Community or future generations for the
samereason that ordinary common Black folks aren't working together
tobuild, grow, support, and create Black Business for themselves
andfuture generations which is:

1. FEAR - Fear of failure, Fear of Loss, Fear of what others might think if we embrace our Blackness. (The opposite of fear is FAITH)!
2. Mistrust - Lack of trust in working with other Black folks.
3. Complacency & Apathy - The "I got mine, get yours" mentality.

READ THAT AGAIN!

In
other words, we want them to unite, take the risks, do the work,
andmake sacrifices, but we won't do it! You see, if the common working
manand woman were to do what we are asking the rich Black folks to
do,then we wouldn't need them to do anything because our collective
wealthis far greater than the wealth of all the rich Black folks
combined. Soinstead of expecting or asking them to do it, we should do
it!

We should work together to build and support Black Business,
pool ourresources, recycle and re-circulate Black dollars, create
BlackOrganizations and Institutions and fund and support them. What are
wewaiting for? Future generations are counting on us. They will model
ourexamples but we must like Barak Obama said "be the change we have
beenwaiting for"! Then the future generations of rich Black folks will
doit automatically.

Well, many of us are not waiting! In fact,
there are numerous Blackorganizations that are doing this and more!
Organizations that areactually "taking action"and working
together to build and support Black Business and empowerourselves
economically by practicing Cooperative Economics. It's just amatter of
finding them, linking up and becoming a part of these typesof
organizations. One such organization is The Black Business Builders Club (BBBC) found at http://hudsonliberty.com/dumff/women.

The
BBBC is an exclusive club of black professionals who are
workingtogether to build and support Black Business,
recycle/re-circulateBlack dollars, and create opportunities, and earn
money from home. Thebusiness model of the BBBC allows us to link up
with like-minded,professional Black people from all over who desire to
work together toharness the wealth of our communities and "do" our part
in "doing" whatmany ask of only the rich.

So don't wait on the
rich! Join the BBBC today and work together withus and be a part of the
"movement" to earn, build, grow, support andcreate Black Businesses and
Organizations!

p.s. Our new Essence Group can be found at http://essenceonline.ning.com/group/blackbusinessbuilders

p.s.s. Look for the Black Business Builders Club in the June 2009 Edition of Black Enterprise Magazine!!

Warm Regards,

David Farad, Founder http://nubiansurfer.com?r=58147
Black Business Builder Member
http://hudsonliberty.com/blackfolks
david@nubiansurfer.com

WESLEY SNIPES TO INTRODUCE NEW SCI-FI FRANCHISE ZULU MECH

2009-04-24T11:06:00.001-04:00

WESLEY SNIPES TO INTRODUCE NEW SCI-FI FRANCHISE ZULU MECH 1 AT THE 2009 AFRICAN AMERICAN PAVILION AT BOOKEXPO AMERICA

Wesley Snipes Zulu Mech 1
New York, NY (BlackNews.com) - Zulu Mech 1, a breakthrough African sci-fi adventure series co-produced by Wesley Snipes, will be unveiled on May 30th at The African American Pavilion at BookExpo America. The press conference is scheduled for 12:00 noon in the African American Pavilion Meeting Room 1C01-1C02 at the Jacob Javit Convention Center, New York City.
An innovative combination of animation, music, movie techniques and fine art paintings called a "Cinema Graphic Novel," Zulu Mech 1 is an adventure designed to promote literacy, hope and world peace. Creators Mshindo I and Gregory Walker, aka "Brother G," the award winning author of the Shades Of Memnon historical adventure series, will be on hand to introduce their epic, as will Snipes, star of the Blade movie trilogy, who serves as Zulu Mech 1 co-producer and voice talent, also scheduled to appear is Jonathan Woods, animation director and music composer.
Then at 1:00 p.m., activities will shift to the African American Pavilion stage for a presentation entitled "African Legends Past And Future" that closes with a screening of the first Zulu Mech 1 adventure. Upcoming episodes will soon be available on Apple iTunes.
"I think Zulu Mech 1 is a grand adventure," said Snipes. "Everybody knows I love sci-fi, I am always looking for a hot new property and I think I found it! If the fans liked the stuff we did on the Blade series, they are gonna love this. Zulu Mech 1, as written by Brother G and illustrated by the amazing Mshindo brings a fresh, untapped perspective to scifi. I think the world will be pleased. Our hope=2 0is to develop ZM1 into one of the hottest franchises around."

BookExpo America, one of the largest book trade shows in the world provides independent African American book publishers, authors, self publishers, bookstore owners, librarians, distributors, literary agents, publicists, and African American imprints at major publishing houses with exposure to more that 80,000 bookbuyers and booksellers from across the world. With over 25,000 BEA attendees crossing up and down the African American Pavilion Aisles, there will be huge opportunities to learn, share, educate, buy, sell, and network and the pavilion provides our exhibitors the lowest discounted booth prices at the BEA.

FOR EXHIBITING AND MEDIA CONTACT:
TONY ROSE
PUBLISHER/CEO
AMBER COMMUNICATIONS GROUP, INC
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR-CO- FOUNDER, THE AFRICAN AMERICAN PAVILION AT BOOKEXPO AMERICA
WWW.AMBERBOOKS. COM
WWW.AFRICANAMERICAN PAVILION. COM
AMBERBK@AOL. COM
520-568-6692

FW: KWANZAA ALERT! Maulana Karenga, Creator, in Newark, Dec. 30th! Share!! - Inbox - Yahoo! Mail

2008-12-30T12:43:00.000-05:00

HABARI GANI, FAMILY!
~Great Kwanzaa Program
~Tuesday, December 30, 2008***
5:00 - 9:00 pm
George Washington Carver Elementary School
333 Clinton Place, off Lyons Avenue
Newark, NJ 07112
Sponsored by AFRICA-NEWARK, INTERNATIONAL, INC.and The City of Newark
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Featuring: Dr. Maulana Karenga, the Creator of Kwanzaa
Presentation: Kwanzaa and the Seven Principles"
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Special Guest Performance by:
The WALA DANCE TROUP, NANA ASAAMAN KWAO II and THE KENTE RIVER GROUP
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For information, contact the Offices of Councilman James973/733-6563
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FW: KWANZAA ALERT! Maulana Karenga, Creator, in Newark, Dec. 30th! Share!! - Inbox - Yahoo! Mail

Cold and Flu Symptoms - Alternatives to The Flu Shot

2008-11-12T07:42:00.000-05:00

As winter moves forward, people are starting to prepared for the cold and flu season. The biggest question is to take the Flu Vaccine or not. The Flu Shot (aka "the Jab") is coming into question by different sections of the community.

Before you start getting the symptoms of aches and pains,coughing, and fever, check out what Daniel Chapter One Health Watch has to say on the matter. They claim that vaccinations can lead to unwanted complication and even death. Below is an except of a video which they have produced to alert the public to dangers the Federal Drug Administration, Federal Trade Commission and big Pharmaceutical companies pose.

Find more videos like this on Black Business Space - Top Black Business Networking CommUNITY!

Visit Daniel Chapter OneDon't be caught unaware by the Cold and Flu symptoms.

Cash - A Problem of Profit and Lost Pt 1

2008-10-20T13:58:00.000-04:00

CASH.

A problem of profit and loss, worked by David Lockerby.
Part I.

"Gold may be dear bought."

A narrow street with dreadful "wynds" and "vennels" running back from it was the High street of Glasgow at the time my story opens. And yet, though dirty, noisy and overcrowded with sin and suffering, a flavor of old time royalty and romance lingered amid its vulgar surroundings; and midway of its squalid length a quaint brown frontage kept behind it noble halls of learning, and pleasant old courts full of the "air of still delightful studies."

From this building came out two young men in academic costume. One of them set his face dourly against the clammy fog and drizzling rain, breathing it boldly, as if it was the balmiest oxygen; the other, shuddering, drew his scarlet toga around him and said, mournfully, "Ech, Davie, the High street is an ill furlong on the de'il's road! I never tread it, but I think o' the weary, weary miles atween it and Eden."

"There is no road without its bad league, Willie, and the High street has its compensations; its prison for ill-doers, its learned college, and its holy High Kirk. I am one of St. Mungo's bairns, and I'm not above preaching for my saint."

"And St. Mungo will be proud of your birthday yet, Davie. With such a head and such a tongue, with knowledge behind, and wit to the fore, there is a broad road and an open door for David Lockerby. You may come even to be the Lord Rector o' Glasgow College yet."

"Wisdom is praised and starves; I am thinking it would set me better to be Lord Provost of Glasgow city."

"The man who buried his one talent did not go scatheless, Davie; and what now if he had had ten?"

"You are aye preaching, Willie, and whiles it is very untimeous. Are you going to Mary Moir's to-night?"

"Why should I? The only victory over love is through running away."

David looked sharply at his companion but as they were at the Trongate there was no time for further remark. Willie Caird turned eastward toward Glasgow Green, David hailed a passing omnibus and was soon set down before a handsome house on the Sauchiehall Road. He went in by the back door, winning from old Janet, in spite of herself, the grimmest shadow of a smile.

"Are my father and mother at home, Janet?"

"Deed are they, the mair by token that they hae been quarreling anent you till the peacefu' folks like mysel' could hae wished them mair sense, or further away."

"Why should they quarrel about me?"

"Why, indeed, since they'll no win past your ain makin' or marring? But the mistress is some kin to Zebedee's wife, I'm thinking, and she wad fain set you up in a pu'pit and gie you the keys o' St. Peter; while maister is for haeing you it a bank or twa in your pouch, and add Ellenmount to Lockerby, and—"

"And if I could, Janet?"

"Tut, tut, lad! If it werna for 'if' you might put auld Scotland in a bottle."

"But what was the upshot, Janet?"

"I canna tell. God alone understan's quarreling folk."

Then David went upstairs to his own room, and when he came down again his face was set as dourly against the coming interview as it had been against the mist and rain. The point at issue was quite familiar to him; his mother wished him to continue his studies and prepare for the ministry. In her opinion the greatest of all men were the servants of the King, and a part of the spiritual power and social influence which they enjoyed in St. Mungo's ancient city she earnestly coveted for her son. "Didn't the Bailies and the Lord Provost wait for them? And were not even the landed gentry and nobles obligated to walk behind a minister in his gown and bands?"

Old Andrew Lockerby thought the honor good enough, but money was better. All the twenty years that his wife had been dreaming of David ruling his flock from the very throne of a pulpit, Andrew had been dreaming of him becoming a great merchant or banker, and winning back the fair lands of Ellenmount, once the patrimonial estate of the house of Lockerby. During these twenty years both husband and wife had clung tenaciously to their several intentions.

Now David's teachers—without any knowledge of these diverse influences—had urged on him the duty of cultivating the unusual talents confided to him, and of consecrating them to some noble service of God and humanity. But David was ruled by many opposite feelings, and had with all his book-learning the very smallest intimate acquaintance with himself. He knew neither his strong points nor his weak ones, and had not even a suspicion of the mighty potency of that mysterious love for gold which really was the ruling passion in his breast.

The argument so long pending he knew was now to be finally settled, and he was by no means unprepared for the discussion. He came slowly down stairs, counting the points he wished to make on his fingers, and quite resolved neither to be coaxed nor bullied out of his own individual opinion. He was a handsome, stalwart fellow, as Scotchmen of two-and-twenty go, for it takes about thirty-five years to fill up and perfect the massive frames of "the men of old Gaul." About his thirty-fifth year David would doubtless be a man of noble presence; but even now there was a sense of youth and power about him that was very attractive, as with a grave smile he lifted a book, and comfortably disposed himself in an easy chair by the window. For David knew better than begin the conversation; any advantages the defendant might have he determined to retain.

After a few minutes' silence his father said, "What are you reading, Davie? It ought to be a guid book that puts guid company in the background."

David leisurely turned to the title page. "'Selections from the Latin Poets,' father."

"A fool is never a great fool until he kens Latin. Adam Smith or some book o' commercial economics wad set ye better, Davie."

"Adam Smith is good company for them that are going his way, father: but there is no way a man may take and not find the humanities good road-fellows."

"Dinna beat around the bush, guidman; tell Davie at once that you want him to go 'prentice to Mammon. He kens well enough whether he can serve him or no."

"I want Davie to go 'prentice to your ain brither, guid wife—it's nane o' my doing if you ca' your ain kin ill names—and, Davie, your uncle maks you a fair offer, an' you'll just be a born fool to refuse it."

"What is it, father?"

"Twa years you are to serve him for £200 a year; and at the end, if both are satisfied, he will gie you sich a share in the business as I can buy you—and, Davie, I'se no be scrimping for such an end. It's the auldest bank in Soho, an' there's nane atween you and the head o' it. Dinna fling awa' good fortune—dinna do it, Davie, my dear lad. I hae look it to you for twenty years to finish what I hae begun—for twenty years I hae been telling mysel' 'my Davie will win again the bonnie braes o' Ellenmount.'"

There were tears in old Andrew's eyes, and David's heart thrilled and warmed to the old man's words; in that one flash of sympathy they came nearer to each other than they had ever done before.

And then spoke his mother: "Davie, my son, you'll no listen to ony sich temptation. My brither is my brither, and there are few folk o' the Gordon line a'thegither wrang, but Alexander Gordon is a dour man, and I trow weel you'll serve hard for ony share in his money bags. You'll just gang your ways back to college and tak' up your Greek and Hebrew and serve in the Lord's temple instead of Alexander Gordon's Soho Bank; and, Davie, if you'll do right in this matter you'll win my blessing and every plack and bawbee o' my money." Then, seeing no change in David's face, she made her last, great concession—"And, Davie, you may marry Mary Moir, an' it please you, and I'll like the lassie as weel as may be."

"Your mither, like a' women, has sought you wi' a bribe in her hand, Davie. You ken whether she has bid your price or not. When you hae served your twa years I'se buy you a £20,000 share in the Gordon Bank, and a man wi' £20,000 can pick and choose the wife he likes best. But I'm aboon bribing you—a fair offer isna a bribe."

The concession as to Mary Moir was the one which Davie had resolved to make his turning point, and now both father and mother had virtually granted it. He had told himself that no lot in life would be worth having without Mary, and that with her any lot would be happy. Now that he had been left free in this matter he knew his own mind as little as ever.

"The first step binds to the next," he answered, thoughtfully. "Mary may have something to say. Night brings counsel. I will e'en think over things until the morn."

A little later he was talking both offers over with Mary Moir, and though it took four hours to discuss them they did not find the subject tedious. It was very late when he returned home, but he knew by the light in the house-place that Janet was waiting up for him. Coming out of the wet, dark night, it was pleasant to see the blazing ingle, the white-sanded floor, and the little round table holding some cold moor-cock and the pastry that he particularly liked.

"Love is but cauldrife cheer, my lad," said Janet, "an' the breast o' a bird an' a raspberry tartlet will be nane out o' the way." David was of the same opinion. He was very willing to enjoy Janet's good things and the pleasant light and warmth. Besides, Janet was his oldest confidant and friend—a friend that had never failed him in any of his boyish troubles or youthful scrapes.

It gave her pleasure enough for a while to watch him eat, but when he pushed aside the bird and stretched out his hand for the raspberry dainties, she said, "Now talk a bit, my lad. If others hae wared money on you, I hae wared love, an' I want to ken whether you are going to college, or whether you are going to Lunnon amang the proud, fause Englishers?"

"I am going to London, Janet."

"Whatna for?"

"I am not sure that I have any call to be a minister, Janet—it is a solemn charge."

"Then why not ask for a sure call? There is nae key to God's council chamber that I ken of."

"Mary wants me to go to London."

"Ech, sirs! Sets Deacon Moir's dochter to send a lad a wrang road. I wouldna hae thocht wi' her bringing up she could hae swithered for a moment—but it's the auld, auld story; where the deil canna go by himsel' he sends a woman. And David Lockerby will tyne his inheritance for a pair o' blue e'en and a handfu' o' gowden curls. Waly! waly! but the children o' Esau live for ever."

"Mary said,"—

"I dinna want to hear what Mary said. It would hae been nae loss if she'd ne'er spoken on the matter; but if you think makin' money, an' hoarding money is the measure o' your capacity you ken yousel', sir, dootless. Howsomever you'll go to your ain room now; I'm no going to keep my auld e'en waking just for a common business body."

Thus in spite of his father's support, David did not find his road to London as fair and straight as he could have wished. Janet was deeply offended at him, and she made him feel it in a score of little ways very annoying to a man fond of creature comforts and human sympathy. His mother went about the necessary preparations in a tearful mood that was a constant reproach, and his friend Willie did not scruple to tell him that "he was clean out o' the way o' duty."

"God has given you a measure o' St. Paul's power o' argument, Davie, and the verra tongue o' Apollos—weapons wherewith to reason against all unrighteousness and to win the souls o' men."

"Special pleading, Willie."

"Not at all. Every man's life bears its inscription if he will take the trouble to read it. There was James Grahame, born, as you may say, wi' a sword in his hand, and Bauldy Strang wi' a spade, and Andrew Semple took to the balances and the 'rithmetic as a duck takes to the water. Do you not mind the day you spoke anent the African missions to the young men in St. Andrews' Ha'? Your words flew like arrows—every ane o' them to its mark; and your heart burned and your e'en glowed, till we were a' on fire with you, and there wasna a lad there that wouldna hae followed you to the vera Equator. I wouldna dare to bury such a power for good, Davie, no, not though I buried it fathoms deep in gold."

From such interviews as these Davie went home very miserable. If it had not been for Mary Moir he would certainly have gone back to his old seat by Willie Caird in the Theological Hall. But Mary had such splendid dreams of their life in London, and she looked in her hope and beauty so bewitching, that he could not bear to hint a disappointment to her. Besides, he doubted whether she was really fit for a minister's wife, even if he should take up the cross laid down before him—and as for giving up Mary, he would not admit to himself that there could be a possible duty in such a contingency.

But that even his father had doubts and hesitations was proven to David by the contradictory nature of his advice and charges. Thus on the morning he left Glasgow, and as they were riding together to the Caledonian station, the old man said, "Your uncle has given you a seat in his bank, Davie, and you'll mak' room for yoursel' to lie down, I'se warrant. But you'll no forget that when a guid man thrives a' should thrive i' him; and giving for God's sake never lessens the purse."

"I am but one in a world full, father. I hope I shall never forget to give according to my prosperings."

"Tak the world as it is, my lad, and no' as it ought to be; and never forget that money is money's brither—an' you put two pennies in a purse they'll creep thegither.

"But then Davie, I am free to say gold won't buy everything, and though rich men hae long hands, they won't reach to heaven. So, though you'll tak guid care o' yoursel', you will also gie to God the things that are God's."

"I have been brought up in the fear of God and the love of mankind, father. It would be an ill thing for me to slink out of life and leave the world no better for my living."

"God bless you, lad; and the £20,000 will be to the fore when it is called for, and you shall make it £60,000, and I'll see again Ellenmount in the Lockerby's keeping. But you'll walk in the ways o' your fathers, and gie without grudging of your increase."

David nodded rather impatiently. He could hardly understand the struggle going on in his father's heart—the wish to say something that might quiet his own conscience, and yet not make David's unnecessarily tender. It is hard serving God and Mammon, and Andrew Lockerby was miserable and ashamed that morning in the service.

And yet he was not selfish in the matter—that much in his favor must be admitted. He would rather have had the fine, handsome lad he loved so dearly going in and out his own house. He could have taken great interest in all his further studies, and very great pride in seeing him a successful "placed minister;" but there are few Scotsmen in whom pride of lineage and the good of the family does not strike deeper than individual pleasure. Andrew really believed that David's first duty was to the house of Lockerby.

He had sacrificed a great deal toward this end all his own life, nor were his sacrifices complete with the resignation of his only child to the same purpose. To a man of more than sixty years of age it is a great trial to have an unusual and unhappy atmosphere in his home; and though Mrs. Lockerby was now tearful and patient under her disappointment, everyone knows that tears and patience may be a miserable kind of comfort. Then, though Janet had as yet preserved a dour and angry silence, he knew that sooner or later she would begin a guerilla warfare of sharp words, which he feared he would have mainly to bear, for Janet, though his housekeeper, was also "a far-awa cousin," had been forty years in his house, and was not accustomed to withhold her opinions on any subject.

Fortunately for Andrew Lockerby, Janet finally selected Mary Moir as the Eve specially to blame in this transgression. "A proud up-head lassie," she asserted, "that cam o' a family wha would sell their share o' the sunshine for pounds sterling!"

From such texts as this the two women in the Lockerby house preached little daily sermons to each other, until comfort grew out of the very stem of their sorrow, and they began to congratulate each other that "puir Davie was at ony rate outside the glamour o' Mary Moir's temptations."

"For she just bewitched the laddie," said Janet, angrily; and, doubtless, if the old laws regarding witches had been in Janet's administration it would have gone hardly with pretty Mary Moir.

Receipe For Genuis

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Let us start fair by frankly admitting that the genius, like the poet, is born and not made. If you wish to apply the recipe for producing him, it is unfortunately necessary to set out by selecting beforehand his grandfathers and grandmothers, to the third and fourth generation of those that precede him. Nevertheless, there is a recipe for the production of genius, and every actual concrete genius who ever yet adorned or disgraced this oblate spheroid of ours has been produced, I believe, in strict accordance with its unwritten rules and unknown regulations. In other words, geniuses don't crop up irregularly anywhere, 'quite promiscuous like'; they have their fixed laws and their adequate causes: they are the result and effect of certain fairly demonstrable concatenations of circumstance: they are, in short, a natural product, not a lusus naturæ. You get them only under sundry relatively definite and settled conditions; and though it isn't (unfortunately) quite true that the conditions will always infallibly bring forth the genius, it is quite true that the genius can never be brought forth at all without the conditions. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? No more can you get a poet from a family of stockbrokers who have intermarried with the daughters of an eminent alderman, or make a philosopher out of a country grocer's eldest son whose amiable mother had no soul above the half-pounds of tea and sugar.

In the first place, by way of clearing the decks for action, I am going to start even by getting rid once for all (so far as we are here concerned) of that famous but misleading old distinction between genius and talent. It is really a distinction without a difference. I suppose there is probably no subject under heaven on which so much high-flown stuff and nonsense has been talked and written as upon this well-known and much-debated hair-splitting discrimination. It is just like that other great distinction between fancy and imagination, about which poets and essayists discoursed so fluently at the beginning of the present century, until at last one fine day the world at large woke up suddenly to the unpleasant consciousness that it had been wasting its time over a non-existent difference, and that fancy and imagination were after all absolutely identical. Now, I won't dogmatically assert that talent and genius are exactly one and the same thing; but I do assert that genius is simply talent raised to a slightly higher power; it differs from it not in kind but merely in degree: it is talent at its best. There is no drawing a hard-and-fast line of demarcation between the two. You might just as well try to classify all mankind into tall men and short men, and then endeavour to prove that a real distinction existed in nature between your two artificial classes. As a matter of fact, men differ in height and in ability by infinitesimal gradations: some men are very short, others rather short, others medium-sized, others tall, and yet others again of portentous stature like Mr. Chang and Jacob Omnium. So, too, some men are idiots, some are next door to a fool, some are stupid, some are worthy people, some are intelligent, some are clever, and some geniuses. But genius is only the culminating point of ordinary cleverness, and if you were to try and draw up a list of all the real geniuses in the last hundred years, no two people could ever be found to agree among themselves as to which should be included and which excluded from the artificial catalogue. I have heard Kingsley and Charles Lamb described as geniuses, and I have heard them both absolutely denied every sort of literary merit. Carlyle thought Darwin a poor creature, and Comte regarded Hegel himself as an empty windbag.

The fact is, most of the grandiose talk about the vast gulf which separates genius from mere talent has been published and set abroad by those fortunate persons who fell, or fancied themselves to fall, under the former highly satisfactory and agreeable category. Genius, in short, real or self-suspected, has always been at great pains to glorify itself at the expense of poor, common-place, inferior talent. There is a certain type of great man in particular which is never tired of dilating upon the noble supremacy of its own greatness over the spurious imitation. It offers incense obliquely to itself in offering it generically to the class genius. It brings ghee to its own image. There are great men, for example, such as Lord Lytton, Disraeli, Victor Hugo, the Lion Comique, and Mr. Oscar Wilde, who pose perpetually as great men; they cry aloud to the poor silly public so far beneath them, 'I am a genius! Admire me! Worship me!' Against this Byronic self-elevation on an aërial pedestal, high above the heads of the blind and battling multitude, we poor common mortals, who are not unfortunately geniuses, are surely entitled to enter occasionally our humble protest. Our contention is that the genius only differs from the man of ability as the man of ability differs from the intelligent man, and the intelligent man from the worthy person of sound common sense. The sliding scale of brains has infinite gradations; and the gradations merge insensibly into one another. There is no gulf, no gap, no sudden jump of nature; here as elsewhere, throughout the whole range of her manifold productions, our common mother saltum non facit.

The question before the house, then, narrows itself down finally to this; what are the conditions under which exceptional ability or high talent is likely to arise?

Now, I suppose everybody is ready to admit that two complete born fools are not at all likely to become the proud father and happy mother of a Shakespeare or a Newton. I suppose everybody will unhesitatingly allow that a great mathematician could hardly by any conceivable chance arise among the South African Bushmen, who cannot understand the arduous arithmetical proposition that two and two make four. No amount of education or careful training, I take it, would suffice to elevate the most profoundly artistic among the Veddahs of Ceylon, who cannot even comprehend an English drawing of a dog or horse, into a respectable president of the Royal Academy. It is equally unlikely (as it seems to me) that a Mendelssohn or a Beethoven could be raised in the bosom of a family all of whose members on either side were incapable (like a distinguished modern English poet) of discriminating any one note in an octave from any other. Such leaps as these would be little short of pure miracles. They would be equivalent to the sudden creation, without antecedent cause, of a whole vast system of nerves and nerve-centres in the prodigious brain of some infant phenomenon.

On the other hand, much of the commonplace, shallow fashionable talk about hereditary genius—I don't mean, of course, the talk of our Darwins and Galtons, but the cheap drawing-room philosophy of easy sciolists who can't understand them—is itself fully as absurd in its own way as the idea that something can come out of nothing. For it is no explanation of the existence of genius to say that it is hereditary. You only put the difficulty one place back. Granting that young Alastor Jones is a budding poet because his father, Percy Bysshe Jones, was a poet before him, why, pray, was Jones the elder a poet at all, to start with? This kind of explanation, in fact, explains nothing; it begins by positing the existence of one original genius, absolutely unaccounted for, and then proceeds blandly to point out that the other geniuses derive their characteristics from him, by virtue of descent, just as all the sons of a peer are born honourables. The elephant supports the earth, and the tortoise supports the elephant, but who, pray, supports the tortoise? If the first chicken came out of an egg, what was the origin of the hen that laid it?

Besides, the allegation as it stands is not even a true one. Genius, as we actually know it, is by no means hereditary. The great man is not necessarily the son of a great man or the father of a great man: often enough, he stands quite isolated, a solitary golden link in a chain of baser metal on either side of him. Mr. John Shakespeare woolstapler, of Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, was no doubt an eminently respectable person in his own trade, and he had sufficient intelligence to be mayor of his native town once upon a time: but, so far as is known, none of his literary remains are at all equal to Macbeth or Othello. Parson Newton, of the Parish of Woolsthorpe, in Lincolnshire, may have preached a great many very excellent and convincing discourses, but there is no evidence of any sort that he ever attempted to write the Principia. Per contra the Miss Miltons, good young ladies that they were (though of conflicting memory), do not appear to have differed conspicuously in ability from the other Priscillas and Patiences and Mercies amongst whom their lot was cast; while the Marlboroughs and the Wellingtons do not seem to bud out spontaneously into great commanders in the second generation. True, there are numerous cases such as that of the Herschels, father and son, or the two Scaligers, or the Caracci, or the Pitts, or the Scipios, and a dozen more, where the genius, once developed, has persisted for two or three, or even four lives: but these instances really cast no light at all upon our central problem, which is just this—How does the genius come in the first place to be developed at all from parents in whom individually no particular genius is ultimately to be seen?

Suppose we take, to start with, a race of hunting savages in the earliest, lowest, and most undifferentiated stage, we shall get really next to no personal peculiarities or idiosyncrasies of any sort amongst them. Every one of them will be a good hunter, a good fisherman, a good scalper and a good manufacturer of bows and arrows. Division of labour, and the other troublesome technicalities of our modern political economy, are as unknown among such folk as the modern nuisance of dressing for dinner. Each man performs all the functions of a citizen on his own account, because there is nobody else to perform them for him—the medium of exchange known as hard cash has not, so far as he is concerned, yet been invented; and he performs them well, such as they are, because he inherits from all his ancestors aptitudes of brain and muscle in these directions, owing to the simple fact that those among his collateral predecessors who didn't know how to snare a bird, or were hopelessly stupid in the art of chipping flint arrowheads, died out of starvation, leaving no representatives. The beneficent institution of the poor law does not exist among savages, in order to enable the helpless and incompetent to bring up families in their own image. There, survival of the fittest still works out its own ultimately benevolent and useful end in its own directly cruel and relentless way, cutting off ruthlessly the stupid or the weak, and allowing only the strong and the cunning to become the parents of future generations.

Hence every young savage, being descended on both sides from ancestors who in their own way perfectly fulfilled the ideal of complete savagery—were good hunters, good fishers, good fighters, good craftsmen of bow or boomerang—inherits from these his successful predecessors all those qualities of eye and hand and brain and nervous system which go to make up the abstractly Admirable Crichton of a savage. The qualities in question are ensured in him by two separate means. In the first place, survival of the fittest takes care that he and all his ancestors shall have duly possessed them to some extent to start with; in the second place, constant practice from boyhood upward increases and develops the original faculty. Thus savages, as a rule, display absolutely astonishing ability and cleverness in the few lines which they have made their own. Their cunning in hunting, their patience in fishing, their skill in trapping, their infinite dodges for deceiving and cajoling the animals or enemies that they need to outwit, have moved the wonder and admiration of innumerable travellers. The savage, in fact, is not stupid: in his own way his cleverness is extraordinary. But the way is a very narrow and restricted one, and all savages of the same race walk in it exactly alike. Cunning they have, skill they have, instinct they have, to a most marvellous degree; but of spontaneity, originality, initiative, variability, not a single spark. Know one savage of a tribe and you know them all. Their cleverness is not the cleverness of the individual man: it is the inherited and garnered intelligence or instinct of the entire race.

How, then, do originality, diversity, individuality, genius, begin to come in? In this way, as it seems to me, looking at the matter both à priori and by the light of actual experience.

Suppose a country inhabited in its interior by a savage race of hunters and fighters, and on its seaboard by an equally savage race of pirates and fishermen, like the Dyaks of Borneo. Each of these races, if left to itself, will develop in time its own peculiar and special type of savage cleverness. Each (in the scientific slang of the day) will adapt itself to its particular environment. The people of the interior will acquire and inherit a wonderful facility in spearing monkeys and knocking down parrots; while the people of the sea-coast will become skilful managers of canoes upon the water, and merciless plunderers of one another's villages, after the universal fashion of all pirates. These original differences of position and function will necessarily entail a thousand minor differences of intelligence and skill in a thousand different ways. For example, the sea-coast people, having of pure need to make themselves canoes and paddles, will probably learn to decorate their handicraft with ornamental patterns; and the æsthetic taste thus aroused will, no doubt, finally lead them to adorn the façades of their wooden huts with the grinning skulls of slaughtered enemies, prettily disposed at measured distances. A thoughtless world may laugh, indeed, at these naïve expressions of the nascent artistic and decorative faculties in the savage breast, but the æsthetic philosopher knows how to appreciate them at their true worth, and to see in them the earliest ingenuous precursors of our own Salisbury, Lichfield, and Westminster.

Now, so long as these two imaginary races of ours continue to remain distinct and separate, it is not likely that idiosyncrasies or varieties to any great extent will arise among them. But, as soon as you permit intermarriage to take place, the inherited and developed qualities of the one race will be liable to crop up in the next generation, diversely intermixed in every variety of degree with the inherited and developed qualities of the other. The children may take after either parent in any combination of qualities whatsoever. You have admitted an apparently capricious element of individuality: a power on the part of the half-breeds of differing from one another to an extent quite impossible in the two original homogeneous societies. In one word, you have made possible the future existence of diversity in character.

If, now, we turn from these perfectly simple savage communities to our own very complex and heterogeneous world, what do we find? An endless variety of soldiers, sailors, tinkers, tailors, butchers, bakers, candlestick makers, and jolly undertakers, most of whom fall into a certain rough number of classes, each with its own developed and inherited traits and peculiarities. Our world is made up, like the world of ancient Egypt and of modern India, of an immense variety of separate castes—not, indeed, rigidly demarcated and strictly limited as in those extremely hierarchical societies, but still very fairly hereditary in character, and given on the average to a tolerably close system of intermarriage within the caste.

For example, there is the agricultural labourer caste—the Hodge Chawbacon of urban humour, who in his military avatar also reappears as Tommy Atkins, a little transfigured, but at bottom identical—the alternative aspect of a single undivided central reality. Hodge for the most part lives and dies in his ancestral village: marries Mary, the daughter of Hodge Secundus of that parish, and begets assorted Hodges and Marys in vast quantities, all of the same pattern, to replenish the earth in the next generation. There you have a very well-marked hereditary caste, little given to intermixture with others, and from whose members, however recruited by fresh blood, the object of our quest, the Divine Genius, is very unlikely to find his point of origin. Then there is the town artisan caste, sprung originally, indeed, from the ranks of the Hodges, but naturally selected out of its most active, enterprising, and intelligent individuals, and often of many generations standing in various forms of handicraft. This is a far higher and more promising type of humanity, from the judicious intermixture of whose best elements we are apt to get our Stephensons, our Arkwrights, our Telfords, and our Edisons. In a rank of life just above the last, we find the fixed and immobile farmer caste, which only rarely blossoms out, under favourable circumstances on both sides, into a stray Cobbett or an almost miraculous miller Constable. The shopkeepers are a tribe of more varied interests and more diversified lives. An immense variety of brain elements are called into play by their diverse functions in diverse lines; and when we take them in conjunction with the upper mercantile grades, which are chiefly composed of their ablest and most successful members, we get considerable chances of those happy blendings of individual excellences in their casual marriages which go to make up talent, and, in their final outcome, genius. Last of all, in the professional and upper classes there is a freedom and play of faculty everywhere going on, which in the chances of intermarriage between lawyer-folk and doctor-folk, scientific people and artistic people, county families and bishops or law lords, and so forth ad infinitum, offers by far the best opportunities of any for the occasional development of that rare product of the highest humanity, the genuine genius.

But in every case it is, I believe, essentially intermixture of variously acquired hereditary characteristics that makes the best and truest geniuses. Left to itself, each separate line of caste ancestry would tend to produce a certain fixed Chinese or Japanese perfection of handicraft in a certain definite, restricted direction, but not probably anything worth calling real genius. For example, a family of artists, starting with some sort of manual dexterity in imitating natural forms and colours with paint and pencil, and strictly intermarrying always with other families possessing exactly the same inherited endowments, would probably go on getting more and more woodenly accurate in its drawing; more and more conventionally correct in its grouping; more and more technically perfect in its perspective and light-and-shade, and so forth, by pure dint of accumulated hereditary experience from generation to generation. It would pass from the Egyptian to the Chinese style of art by slow degrees and with infinite gradations. But suppose, instead of thus rigorously confining itself to its own caste, this family of handicraft artists were to intermarry freely with poetical, or seafaring, or candlestick-making stocks. What would be the consequence? Why, such an infiltration of other hereditary characteristics, otherwise acquired, as might make the young painters of future generations more wide minded, more diversified, more individualistic, more vivid and lifelike. Some divine spark of poetical imagination, some tenderness of sentiment, some play of fancy, unknown perhaps, to the hard, dry, matter-of-fact limners of the ancestral school, might thus be introduced into the original line of hereditary artists. In this way one can easily see how even intermarriage with non-artistic stocks might improve the breed of a family of painters. For while each caste, left to itself, is liable to harden down into a mere technical excellence after its own kind, a wooden facility for drawing faces, or casting up columns of figures, or hacking down enemies, or building steam-engines, a healthy cross with other castes is liable to bring in all kinds of new and valuable qualities, each of which, though acquired perhaps in a totally, different line of life, is apt to bear a new application in the new complex whereof it now forms a part.

In our very varied modern societies, every man and every woman, in the upper and middle ranks of life at least, has an individuality and an idiosyncrasy so compounded of endless varying stocks and races. Here is one whose father was an Irishman and his mother a Scotchwoman; here is another whose paternal line were country parsons, while his maternal ancestors were city merchants or distinguished soldiers. Take almost anybody's 'sixteen quarters'—his great-great grandfathers and great-great grandmothers, of whom he has sixteen all told—and what do you often find? A peer, a cobbler, a barrister, a common sailor, a Welsh doctor, a Dutch merchant, a Huguenot pastor, a cornet of horse, an Irish heiress, a farmer's daughter, a housemaid, an actress, a Devonshire beauty, a rich young lady of sugar-broking extraction, a Lady Carolina, a London lodging-house keeper. This is not by any means an exaggerated case; it would be easy, indeed, from one's own knowledge of family histories to supply a great many real examples far more startling than this partially imaginary one. With such a variety of racial and professional antecedents behind us, what infinite possibilities are opened before us of children with ability, folly, stupidity, genius?

Infinite numbers of intermixtures everywhere exist in civilised societies. Most of them are passable; many of them are execrable; a few of them are admirable; and here and there, one of them consists of that happy blending of individual characteristics which we all immediately recognise as genius—at least after somebody else has told us so.

The ultimate recipe for genius, then, would appear to be somewhat after this fashion. Take a number of good, strong, powerful stocks, mentally or physically, endowed with something more than the average amount of energy and application. Let them be as varied as possible in characteristics; and, so far as convenient, try to include among them a considerable small-change of races, dispositions, professions, and temperaments. Mix, by marriage, to the proper consistency; educate the offspring, especially by circumstances and environment, as broadly, freely, and diversely as you can; let them all intermarry again with other similarly produced, but personally unlike, idiosyncrasies; and watch the result to find your genius in the fourth or fifth generation. If the experiment has been properly performed, and all the conditions have been decently favourable, you will get among the resultant five hundred persons a considerable sprinkling of average fools, a fair proportion of modest mediocrities, a small number of able people, and (in case you are exceptionally lucky and have shuffled your cards very carefully) perhaps among them all a single genius. But most probably the genius will have died young of scarlet fever, or missed fire through some tiny defect of internal brain structure. Nature herself is trying this experiment unaided every day all around us, and, though she makes a great many misses, occasionally she makes a stray hit and then we get a Shakespeare or a Grimaldi.

'But you haven't proved all this: you have only suggested it.' Does one prove a thesis of deep-reaching importance in a ten-page essay? And if one proved it in a big book, with classified examples and detailed genealogies of all the geniuses, would anybody on earth except Mr. Francis Galton ever take the trouble to read it?

The Anti-Spam Movement - Are You Asking For Something You Really Don't Want

2008-10-04T10:38:00.000-04:00

Have we gone to far with the "SPAM" concept? What are the adverse affects of the anti spam movement on internet newbies?

What will the effects be on network marketers efforts to use the internet to build there business?

Limits, More Limits, ACCESS DENIED!!!

What is happening is a slow strangulation of the internet as a free territory
to stake your claim and build your dream.

What is the holy grail of online business? Traffic. Tons of Traffic.
But if you have to pay for pay per click. If Google Browsers like
Chrome are limiting the returned websites, what are the chances of a
newbie who has a lot of desire but no knowledge or skill chance
of making it online?

People are touting "Build a relationship with people". If you don't
get to meet those people how can you build a relationship? Also
let's look at the corner store. I don't need to know who runs the
corner store to go in there and make a purchase.

I just need to know that they have what I want. The fundmental
flaw with the Relationship model is that it doesn't really work.
If building a relationship was key, you could have sold the product,
service, or opportunity to your friends and family because you
had a relationship with them.

People buy what they perceive they want. You walk into a store
to purchase something. Because of how the store is laid out,
or display advertisement you see something else that you fancy.

Your decision to purchase that doesn't come from "Do I like the store
owner? What type of relationship do we have?". No it doesn't.

It has caught your attention and you decided you wanted to give it
a try.

Well, this is all I have for now on the topic. Let me know what you think.

Lakesha Shontell Woods Comes to the Women Women and the Internet Show

2008-09-11T14:56:00.002-04:00

Our next Guest on Wonderful Women and the Internet is Lakesha Shontell Woods. Born May 6, the oldest of two children and raised in a small town in Hollywood, Florida called Carver Ranches. Lakesha was 10 years old when she started singing with an all girl gospel group called Cousin's Touch. Lakesha says, "We were just a group of cousin's who wanted to sing like our daddies The Woods aka The Hollywood Stars". Growing up in the church Lakesha and her cousins weren't allowed to pursue singing as an R&B group so they sung gospel as much as they could; in their church and at other church programs or in the choir. Lakesha wrote the groups first original song "Seek God". With musical talent running as deep as 3 generations back, Lakesha was eager to pursue singing but often imitated by the great voices (in her family) that came before her. Eventually, she challenged herself to face her calling. Lakesha left the corporate world to pursue her dreams of becoming a full time entertainer. To find out more tune into Wonderful Women and The Internet, Monday at 8 pm or call in (646)595-4215

Lakesha Woods | Singer/Songwriter | Actress/Creative Writer & The New Face of Ebonie Flare Cosmetics!

What's Cooking With Us! Let Me Share With You...

2008-08-17T20:54:00.000-04:00

Picture by Clarence Coggins All Rights Reserved 2008

I just wanted to share with you the wonderful diner my super made for me. She's a real dish. Doesn't it look delicious? It was. I won't be cruel and show you the empty plate. LOL!!!

No, besides showing that wonderful meal, I wanted to let you know about Guest for tomorrow's night show. Wonderful Women and Internet will have Regina McRae, the Author of TAKING THE CAKE: The Ultimate Wedding Cake Guide for the Ethnic Bride. If you are a bride looking to create a cake that reflects her culture or heritage, welcome to the world of Taking the Cake! Here you will learn invaluable tips on how to budget, choose your baker, your flavor, and your design. Although written with the ethnic bride in mind, chocked full of the recipes that helped make this author a success, it is also place for cake lovers in general.

Regina McRae is founder and owner of Grandma’s Secrets, New York City’s first dessert delivery company. She has been named New York Daily News Critics Choice, and honored as Editors Choice by New York Magazine 5 years running. She has been featured in the New York Post, New York Times, Time Out New York, Modern Baking, and Black Enterprise Magazine, as well as The Today Show, Good Day New York, New York 1 News, The Food Network, MTV, Moscow Culture TV, New Jersey Access TV, and Fox 5 News.

To hear the show with Regina McRae

Next Week we will have Paula Steele

8/26/08 Paula Steele

Black Business Builders Club

This Weeks Guest on The Lazzeo Live Show

2008-08-16T19:32:00.000-04:00

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This Week's guest I meet on YouTube. She is truly an outstanding example of a postive Black Role Model for women. She held no punches and gave it to me raw.

Make sure you become a member of the Black Business Builder and purchase some of her work while you are at it. She's in the Radio Guest Section.

Are You Going Places??? We Are!!! Join US

2008-08-14T22:05:00.000-04:00

I was on the light rail in Newark earlier today. I decided to take a picture to share with you more elements of my life. It was soo good the feeling of freedom that comes from earning money from your own enterprise.

I am so glad that we have the Black Business Builders Club where I'm building a residual income. But what's really awesome is I'm getting built in Paid Automatic Referrals. This means that everyone who pays me to be on my list, has to give me two paid referrals in order to be qualified for the instant pay, residual pay and automatic paid referrals. Cool or COOOL?

Life is good. I'm just happy to be part of such an awesome program. Join Us.

My first Wild Card Post.

2008-08-08T21:37:00.001-04:00

My first wild card post. Absolutely!!! Get yours now. Just one more step to computerless computing.

This Week's Lazzeo Live Guest - Manswell Peterson

2008-08-08T18:17:00.000-04:00

Join us Saturday August 9th at 6pm EST as we welcome Manswell Peterson to the Lazzeo Live My Perfect Network Answer Saturday Night Ed. He is the author of the book Am I a Priority in Your Life or an Option. He will sharing his insight, experience and wisdom.

Manswell Peterson Sr was born and raised in Albany , Georgia . After graduating from High School at _Monroe High School_ Manswell joined the United States Navy, where he served for _4 years. Manswell became a legal advocate assisting clients with social security benefits. Manswell also served his community as a police officer in his hometown of Albany . With a larger than life personality and sense of humor, Manswell made a dramatic career change and began writing stories about everyday people and situations. Recently, he has also written the best selling books, “One Last Cry".

Currently, he lives in Buford , Georgia and enjoys spending time with his son Manswell, Jr.

Always go after your dreams...no matter what anyone tells you!!

Manswell Peterson
The show can be reach by clicking here

Can You Share Information???

2008-07-23T08:43:00.000-04:00

Yes it's a simple as sharing information and recycling Black Dollars. Watch this Video by Member Hugh Gaddy and then join us.

Get started here

Animating My Adverstisement

2008-07-23T07:48:00.000-04:00

I recently began conducting experiments into using cartoons and animation. Some of my experiments have turn out pretty cool. Some are still half BAKED.

Here is the link to a film I just did. For some reason the embed code isn't working. Enjoy the film and leave your comments.

$20.00 Giftcards with Black Business Builder Membership

2008-07-15T08:49:00.000-04:00

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Look who's Coming on Tonight Show

2008-07-07T17:15:00.000-04:00

Althea Marscene, Model/Actress turned Ministry Maven joins us on Wonderful Women and The Internet Tonight at 8 PM EST.

Click here for the show

NYC Youth call for respect, equity and voice

2008-07-01T10:55:00.000-04:00

NYC YOUTH CALL FOR RESPECT, EQUITY AND VOICE IN THEIR EDUCATION
Youth researchers in the "Education is a Human Right" campaign produce report critical of current system under Mayoral control

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NEW YORK, New York-July 1, 2008— Lead by an impassioned charge; "The current New York City school system isn't working," a diverse group of current and former public high school students took to the streets (and computers) of this city with a common goal: to be instruments of change in the NYC public school system. Named the Youth Researchers for a New Educational System (YRNES) the group designed a participatory action research project that has resulted in a scathing, yet decidedly hopeful analysis of the public school system, published as "The YRNES Report."

The researchers, aged 17-21, conducted a city-wide survey of more than 500 youth, and their findings call attention to issues of mayoral control, school decision making and community participation, maldistributed resources and educational opportunities, and the need to recalibrate the purposes of schooling.

Unlike most education-reform white papers, The YRNES Report provides youth perspectives on the barriers to learning, including a compelling graphic "Problem Tree" that maps the everyday symptoms and structural roots of a flawed school system. Youth perspectives on racist school practices, closed access to needed opportunities, school crowding, testing, school safety, and humiliating conditions are presented.

The YRNES researchers found that youth of color, low-income youth, and youth from large and/or recently converted schools experience more inequities in school. Many youth reported that they do not get the resources they need to learn, and that they do not get the help they need to make their education work for them. Youth report that they feel that they need to compete for things in school to which they actually posses rights. Youth critique the current model of mayoral control, and argue for opportunities for meaningful participation in school decision-making.

The report features a clear portrayal of the research findings, with dynamic images and easy-to-read charts. The report will serve the work of youth and adult education activists, concerned citizens, school leaders and educators, and anyone working toward fairer and more meaningful schooling. The report concludes with a platform of recommendations for change.

The YRNES Project was completed in collaboration with the Collective of Researchers on Educational Disappointment and Desire (CREDD), Fordham University's National Center for Schools and Communities, and the Independent Commission on Public Education (iCOPE).

Organizations co-sponsoring the report include Advocates for Children, the Participatory Action Research Collective at the Graduate Center, CUNY and the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative.

To download a copy of the YRNES Report 2008 and the Problem Tree, go to the National Center for Schools and Communities at Fordham University www.NCSCatFordham. org

For more information about The YRNES Report, to schedule a press interview, to request a group presentation, or for more information on the "Education is a Human Right" Campaign, please contact the Independent Commission on Public Education (iCOPE):
www.icope.org
icopenyc.blogspot. com
(718) 499-3756
email: Ellen.Raider@ gmail.com

Looking at the Real in the Realization of Successful Relationships

2008-06-12T12:23:00.000-04:00

Featured Books

Countering The Crisis in Black Education

2008-06-11T19:11:00.000-04:00

Countering the Crisis In Black Education
More Than Talk is Needed!

Panelists
Historian Dr. Leonard Jeffries
Broadcasting Pioneer Bob Law
NYC Councilman Charles Barron
Psychiatrist James C. McIntosh, M.D.
Assembly Candidate Inez Barron

Moderator: Paul Washington

Topics To Be Covered
Countering School Bullying In The Public Schools
Developing Rites of Passage for Black Youth
Mandatory African American History
The State of CUNY for Black Students
Government Initiatives That Can Solve The Problem

Saturday June 14, 2008 at 6:00 PM
Bethesda Baptist Church
Jamaica Ave & 179th Street
Jamaica, NY

Travel Instructions: F Train to 179th and Hillside walk to Jamaica Ave
By Car: Take Grand Central to 188th Drive across to Jamaica Ave turn right on 179th

Admission is Free

But please bring your checkbook to support Next Assemblywoman at Large Inez Barron

For Further Information please call 718-322-8454

Our Hosts Make News!!

2008-06-04T15:51:00.000-04:00

Lorreen Sample, of the Sample and Shannon Show, got interviewed by JMos. Check it out....

Join where it all got started, make the $5.00 Decision.

The Model Scam.

2008-06-02T11:04:00.001-04:00

for more updates email me at radio@hudsonliberty.com

THE VICTORIA'S SECRET MODEL SCAM What Every Woman Should Know About It!

Please login to www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaoyxnPTm2k afterwards, and rate this video 5 STARS, if you think it can help someone (doing that allows youtube to keep it on).

INTRODUCTION

I am risking embarrassment by showing you the video I created above, but I don't want to just be a victim. I WANT TO FIGHT BACK and I want to show women, how you too can easily become a victim of scam. Please read this and pass this info onto WOMEN of ALL AGES that you know. It may not be Victoria's Secret, but it can be the same concept, but using different company names (or different age group or different body type, etc.) HERE'S HOW THIS SCAM WORKS! WARNING: Pay CLOSE Attention...this can SAVE A LIFE! This SCAM is DANGEROUS!

Read On...

PART 1 - The SEED: In January 2008, a handsome 32 year old Italian man who went by the name, Daniel Develinio, wrote to me on myspace at my page: www.myspace.com/beautyandpassion . His note was short and sweet. It just basically stated how he was a fashion photographer and he just wanted to compliment me on my pictures and let me know how "photogenic" he thought I was, and told me to keep up the good work. That was the end of his note. I went to his profile on myspace (which is no longer there), but at the time I saw a very handsome man, with 8 pictures of himself, the pictures were taken at different times because some had short hair and some had long hair, and all pictures of him were very clear. His page also had ethnic (cultural type) music on it, and a questionaire with answers about him. It also stated he was a fashion photographer and that he made between $150,000 - $200,000 a year. He had created his profile about 3 months before his first note to me. NOTICE: His page looked real and friendly.

I wrote him back and told him that I liked his pictures too and asked if they were of him or of someone that he had photographed. He wrote back and said they were of him and that he use to be a Calvin Klein model, but now he was a photographer which had always been his number 1 love.

We wrote to each other about 2 or 3 more times that day and that was it for 2 months. The last notes that day was just him basically again complimenting on my pictures and me thanking him and we spoke a little about California (which is where I'm from originally and where he supposedly lives now). He NEVER tried to "pick me up" which gave me the impression that he truly was only writing me to give me "props" on my pics. I told him that I didn't want to take up anymore of his time, therefore, I wouldn't be writing again. He wrote back one last time that day and said that I could write to him at any time. So we ended...for a while.

READ ON...

Part 2 - The SPROUT: In March I went through my myspace mail looking for a particular woman's profile, and I went all the way back to January, and that's when I found Daniel's messages. At that point I had already been thinking to myself that I would visit California in June. When I saw his profile, I remembered that he lived in California and that he was a photographer. I previously had professional pictures taken of me for the first time in September 2007 (which are some of the pictures that you see of me with full clothing on in the video above as well as the pictures he had complimented me on originally), I had also been thinking that would like to get more professional pictures taken. So I decided to write Daniel and ask if he would photograph me when I go to California. NOTICE: Daniel, had been a real gentlemen, very professional, charming and handsome, and he had laid the ground work for me to contact him again. This is a slick way to keep him from looking like a PREDATOR!

READ ON...

Part 3 - The TRAP: A Couple of days later Daniel wrote to me and stated that he would love to take pictures of me, but he couldn't because he was a Fashion Photographer for Victoria's Secret, and would go against his contract. However, he invited me to become a VS Mature Model because VS was opening up a new division of models for women 35 years and older, and that I would be perfect for it. WOW, what a compliment! I immediately wrote him back and told him that I was interested in the offer. He wrote me back, but each time he wrote back slowly, it would always take a couple of days. He began explaining why they were looking for models over 35 (bottom line was to increase their income by targeting older women with more money than younger women). He explained how the entire fashion industry was beginning this trend, as well as having plus size modeling divisions. HE GAVE ME FULL DETAILS in multiple emails, again...each time writing back every couple of days. He finally sent me an email with PAYRATES AND BENEFITS (which you can imagine were ALL AWESOME)! It also even included a 3 MONTH PAID TRAINING (even while we were training we were to make $8000 a month, free room and board, train in Hollywood, CA and KEEP EVERY SINGLE THING WE MODELED IN...this was just training...after training, the rates and benefits were even greater). He told me not to worry that I would get the job, but he was a part of the hiring process and that they had decided to hire from "real life" because agencies (which is what they usually use) did not have "mature and curvy models" to represent older women (height wasn't an issue). By this time...HE HAD ME! NOTICE: He kept me excited and increased my desire by not responding to me quickly...HE ALWAYS MADE ME WAIT 2 - 5 DAYS BEFORE RESPONDING TO ME. He would always apologize for not responding sooner but this was their busy season and they were busy travelling around the world doing photo shoots.

READ ON...

Part 4 - The KILL: At this point it was time for me to get my file created and my portfolio sent to Victoria's Secret Human Resources. He gave me the instructions on EXACTLY how my portfolio had to be. I had to have 35 Pictures (7 SET Categories and 5 Pictures in Each Category with At least 1 picture in each category taken from behind and looking over my shoulder. The categories and outfits were very detailed, including each picture had to be exactly Head to Toe. At this point I was feeling UNEASY and almost decided NOT to do it because I had never taken pictures in outfits that he described, such as "thongs", "see-thru nighties" and string bikinis, and more. HOWEVER, he also included business attire and casual attire as part of the portfolio...so this made me feel that they just want to see what types of outfits we look best in and that this is just a REQUIREMENT for ALL VS Models. I also thought that since I would be a part of the older group that once my group began to actually model that we would wear SEXY clothes and lingerie, but NOT quite as revealing as in the portfolio because at my age (42) we have a lot more body flaws than the models half our age! So I hired a photographer in my area to take the pics (which was expensive), and emailed them 1 by 1 to Daniel, along with my resume. By the way, throughout our communication he had stated over and over to make sure to have my CORRECT address and phone number on my resume. When I emailed him the resume he told me that he could not open up the resume attachment and to resend it in another format (THIS SHOWS HOW IMPORTANT THIS RESUME WAS TO HIM). NOTICE: How detailed he was about exactly how the pictures and resume should be. Look at how thorough he was, and covered all details. He sounds like a man that truly has a lot of knowledge about the fashion industry.

READ ON...

Part 5 - The CONCLUSION: He kept in touch with me on and off for 3 weeks after I sent him the portfolio and resume. I EVEN RECEIVE A VICTORIA'S SECRET MODEL NUMBER (from so-called HR). However, on May 1, he closed his myspace account and told me that he was going to do it, and to just email him on his regular email. He also told me that Judy from HR was going to be contacting me within a couple of days. Two weeks went by and I emailed HR and Daniel (HR was returned as undelievable mail but Daniel's went through). About a week later (the end of May) I emailed Daniel and told him I hadn't heard anything else (training was suppose to begin in May), Daniel's email was also returned to me as undeliverable mail. At that point I was devasted because I knew what had happened and I was afraid. I was afraid because Daniel had my HOME address and he stated so many times how it was important to have that on my resume and in my file. He never asked for my ss# (if he did, I would have thought that he wanted to steal my identity), so since he only wanted MY ADDRESS, I thought of something more devious...such as potential RAPE, ROBBERY OR EVEN MURDER...who knows?! However, HE DID WANT IT FOR A REASON. I was BLESSED that I was staying in a condo complex that I was actually about to move out of (and just moved out of 2 days ago), AND I was staying in a GATED AND GUARDED COMMNITY (guards were at the gate 24 hours a date, as well as cameras everywhere)...this made me not so much an easy target. HOWEVER, MOST PEOPLE DON'T HAVE A GUARD AT THEIR FRONT DOOR, WHICH MEANS THIS CAN PUT MANY WOMEN IN A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION!

I contacted Victoria's Secret customer service (didn't contact them in the beginning because all of the steps mentioned above, at that time, made me feel secure, plus I always thought customer service reps wouldn't in most cases know the new trends, developments and ideas that are happening in the company until they actually happen. Plus the customer service reps are for ordering they have nothing to do with the models and the victoria's secret website doesn't even talk about the VS models except for saying contact a modeling agency if interested in modeling...that's it (and in my mind Daniel had already explained to me thoroughly why they were hiring mature women from "real life" and not from agencies). However, there was no where else to turn and I contacted the customer service, and gave them brief info about my situation and to please forward my email to someone in management that would know about upcoming projects, trends, marketing etc. Less than 2 days later they wrote me back and said it was a scam and that they NEVER hire from "real life" only through specific agencies.

MY THOUGHTS: To be honest with you, I wouldn't have believed the email from customer service if I would have written to them earlier, before Daniel had closed all of his email accounts. Why? Because he was so intelligent, so charming, so down to earth, and he never chased after me. That all made me believe that this man is REAL! Even after all of this happened, it took me about another 2 days AFTER receiving the email from customer service (about 1 week ago), before I actually started believing them, and having this really sink in. I WAS IN DENIAL!

That is WHY I FEEL I NEED TO SHARE THIS WITH YOU! I understand how a woman who normally doesn't fall for things like this CAN ACTUALLY FALL FOR A SCAM LIKE THIS...it's because HE'S (or them) IS GOOD AT THIS! PLEASE SHARE THIS WITH OTHER WOMEN OF ALL AGES...because this is a NEWER SCAM and "Daniel" is still out there (even though HE MAY BE USING A DIFFERENT NAME AND/OR DIFFERENT PICS), that's why it's IMPORTANT THAT ALL WOMEN KNOW THIS STORY AND HOW HE OPERATES.

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Memorial Day Message - The Price of Freedom

2008-05-25T07:08:00.000-04:00

This is my first direct feed video on Viddler. It is great that the topic would be freedom. It represents change. While most people are used to hearing about Youtube there are many video carriers out there. I had mentioned a while back I was going to be releasing a report on some of the services I use.

"Would you believe I got side-tracked?" The would you believe is in italics because that was one of the favorite lines of Maxwell Smart Agent 86 of the original GET SMART TV show. But it's true. So many new things are emerging on the web. So much to explore and so much to develop.

But I made this video and I talked about Memorial Day. It is kind of a rethinking video. Coming from a revolutionary background, where my father served in the Merchant Marines because of the Segregation that took place at the time and also because he was a Marxist Leninist, my attitudes and opinion of the US military were not always favorable.

But as time has gone on and I've re-examined my core beliefs and values, I've come to appreciate the unique situation the Men and Women of the United States Armed Forces are in. I also think it is also because of the fact that there is no compulsion to serve that has allowed me to look at the matter more objectively.

I first looked at the military as the tool of the Right Wing, Fascist to subjugate, and suppress the rest of the rest of the world for their exploitation. I also looked as the role the National Guard played against the Rioters in Newark. Overall I lumped the Machine in with Ammo.

I now see that was a two simplistic and idealistic view. My current view is that when people answer the call to serve they have made a commitment. That they may be forced to do things they do not like or want to do, but Duty calls for it.

It is my view that even though I may not agree with all the policies of the United States it is only because of Providence, the US Military and the prudent use of them that we are able to enjoy the freedoms which we do.

It is easy to point the finger and call this one or that one bad or evil. It is a testament and tribute to those who have made the ultimate for us to not take the easy way out. That we take the time to get active and look for ways to increase those freedoms and improve the standard of the living.

I know there is a risk of taking a position. But, to not take a position and be willing to through it into the crucible of public scrutiny would be to spit in the face of those who died to make this country free. It is okay to disagree. It is okay to be different. It is even better to be willing to suffer correction in order to get better.

That was part of the spirit which this country was founded upon. The Founding Fathers didn't all agree, but they worked together to form a more perfect union. That is the moral of this blog. That is very important to recognize that we as Americans are at our best when we don't demonize each other. The results of that is schismatic.

This is what is the greatest challenge in America greater than race. It is how we as Americans can cure the bitterness we feel towards each other. How we can heal the riff that holding the country back from it true glory.

Let us use the Day of Memorial Day, to reflect that the Men and Women of our Armed Forces have died so that we can "make a more Perfect Union". Let us be grateful for their efforts and honor their memory with our action. God Bless America. God Bless the Citizens of the United States of America. God Bless those who died in the service of protection of the United States of America.

The Tubby Nerd and The Crown Prince of Web 2.0

2008-05-23T19:01:00.000-04:00

ED DALE - Co Founder of The Thirty Day Challenge

Clarence Coggins - Creator of 1 Minute 30 Day Success System

A Mac Manic, Guitar Playing, Aussie Fashionista, Ed Dale is teaching thousands of people who to earn an income from the internet. With the fourth season of the "Thirty Day Challenge" getting ready to launch June 1, 2008, Ed has added some new twist.

He's streaming now. Yes, reality internet has a new champion - Ed Dale and is trusty partner Dan Raine. Part of the reason I got the title of Crown Prince of Web 2.0 was because I interviewed people like Ed for my radio program the 1 Minute 30 Day Success System.

Here is that groundbreaking, exclusive interview.

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Black Business Value Tour Blitz

2008-05-20T13:55:00.000-04:00

First and Foremost I want to thank all of the growing readers. Please make sure you subscribe to this blog and pass it on to others. Also become a Black Business Builder

Announcing the BBS Value Tour 6 Day Promotional Blitz...

Posted by Jacqueline Taylor-Adams on May 19, 2008 at 9:31am

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LET'S DO THIS...AN ALL OUT BLITZ!

What position will you play?

The Black Business Space Value Tour is on a mission to build functional communities and we must let EVERYONE know. So, beginning Monday May 19, 2008 thru Saturday, May 23, 2008, the BBS Value Tour Run a 6 Day Intense Purpose-Driven Promotional Blitz.

What position will you play?
We're asking you as a member of BBS community to help manifest our collective power by
Mindset
>>>Throwing up a daily prayer for the success of the BBS Value Tour
>>>Taking 6 deep cleansing breaths when arising each morning this week:
close right nostril with thumb and take air in fully filling the lungs; release right nostril and close left nostril with fore finger exhaling air fully pushing the abdomen all the way in expelling all air (make sure you are sitting up with back straight)
>>>Drinking water

>>>Speaking Affirmation Aloud at least once a day:

"Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all." (Og Mandino)

Value: Community (Rightful Acknowledgment)

>>> Say hello to everyone you pass without expectation of return. This includes children of all ages

Doing at least one of these promotional activities once a day:

1. Invite friends to join you on BBSVT,

2. Repost our support blogs as a blog on your MySpace or any place you think is appropriate - http://www.blackbusinessspace.com/profiles/blog/show?id=820753%3ABl... or http://www.blackbusinessspace.com/profiles/blog/show?id=820753%3ABl...

3. Listen to the radio show; invite people and/or call in; post the code to the show on your website or profile page on another community

4. Become A Black Business Builder Become a member now"

Doing at least one of these interactive activities once a day - Visit BBSVT, www.bbsvaluetour.com, and

**Play a game or video

**Post music and/or video

**Post a blog and/or in the forums

**Visit a sponsor group and engage in one activity there

**Visit an artist group and leave comments

That's it! Simple daily actions for only 6 days, that will take no more than 30 min to an hour of your time.

Your actions will produce a positive outcome for you and the BBSVT commUNITY. There's Value in the Valley, on the Plains, and on the Hills. There's value in a relationship with you!

Peace, Luv, and Continual Thanks for your Support.

BBS Value Tour Organizing Team:

Lee Green, Jacqueline Taylor-Adams, Hussein Hill, Edwina Warder, Liana Arnwine, Rebekah Jenkins, Leutrell Osborne, Sr., Donna McKeithan, Eula Young, Sean Hall, Gary L. Jamerson, Lazone Grays, Kimi Rhochelle, James "Prez" Carter, ArLena Richardson, Robin Caldwell, William Clark

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The Principal Has final come to the 21th Century

2008-04-28T02:03:00.001-04:00

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The above link is one of Baruti kafele's videos. As most of you know I publish the emails he sends me from time to time. He sends me so many I don't have the time to post them all.

But he is a friend of mine, and he has an excellent feel for the pulse of our culture and society. So check out his video. Rate it. Leave a few comments there and let me know what you think about.

Peace out.

He's ON FIRE

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Zeitgeist - The Movie - Turn Your Brain ON

2008-04-22T15:43:00.001-04:00

Zeitgeist - The Movie

This is what Winkipedia and Hubpages, Newsvine and even Google are trying to aid. World Domination by Deception. Don't let them decide on your relevance. Don't let them dictate to you what is real, what is good, and what can save your freedom.

Wake up and Turn YOUR BRAIN ON!!!!

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Jim Rohn - How to have Your Best Year Ever (1 of 3)

2008-04-21T15:30:00.001-04:00

It's no kidding why there is such a huge gap between those who are succeeding and those who are gripping. Increase your value today join the Million Dollar Challenge

The Strangest Secret in the world - Earl Nightingale

2008-04-20T07:50:00.001-04:00

This is a great video that gives a solid definition of what success is. Having a common language is very important working with a successful community.

Yahoo! Mail - bluntworks@yahoo.com

2008-04-19T20:58:00.001-04:00

This post is sponsored by The Million Dollar Challenge
From the Email of "Principal" Baruti Kafele"I'm on FIRE!!!" http://www.principalkafele.com

Thank you for Sharing Emily
ANGELA DAVIS TO PRESENT EVENTS

ASSLAS SPRING 2008 SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE4/22 AND 4/23Educator, writer, and activist Angela Davis, a tenured professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of California Presidential Chair in African American and Feminist Studies, will serve as the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences spring 2008 Scholar in Residence on April 22 and 23.

Her visit begins on Tuesday, April 22, at 5 PM, with a screening of thedocumentary film The Farm: Angola (1998), which depicts day-to-day life inAngola Prison in Angola Louisiana. At 7 PM, she will deliver the keynoteaddress, "Identifying Racism in the Era of Neoliberalism," in which sheaddresses the persistent yet mutating dynamics of racism.On Wednesday, April 23, at 12:30 PM.

Davis will lead a round table discussion with New York-based artists Dread Scott, Hank Willis Thomas, Alain "KET" Mariduea and Amy Sananman about aesthetic practice, cultural politics, and social justice.

And because I'm an information professional, here are directions to the Brooklyn campus from Grand Central:Take the downtown 4 or 5 train to the Fulton Street station. Take theBrooklyn-bound A or C train to the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station. Cross platformand take the G train (front car) to the Clinton-Washington station. UseWashington Avenue exit. On Washington, walk one block north to DeKalbAvenue. Turn right onto DeKalb and proceed one block to Hall Street/SaintJames to the corner gate of the Pratt campus.

Cheers,

Emily Drabinski
Reference Librarian
Sarah Lawrence College
914.395.2225
edrabinski@slc.edu

Yahoo! Mail - bluntworks@yahoo.com

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1 Minute 30 Day Success System: Boost Up Visionary Economic Business Solutions

2008-04-19T20:34:00.001-04:00

1 Minute 30 Day Success System: Boost Up Visionary Economic Business Solutions

This is an update on a post that was done earlier check out the comment for the new information and do pass it on. BOOST is doing some exciting things.

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Stand Up! The New Politics of Racial

2008-04-15T22:27:00.000-04:00

Stand Up! The New Politics of Racial Uplift
A Public Philosophy Symposium

Temple University
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
9am to 5pm
Kiva Auditorium and Tuttleman Learning Center, Room 101

For information about participants, schedule, and work by participants and
material relevant to symposium themes, go to our website:
http://www.temple.edu/philosophy/standup/

Purpose of Symposium:
The Millions More Movement, Cosby's 'call-outs,' and other recent trends
renew an old approach to black political thought and practice. The racial uplift
tradition tries to improve the conditions of black life by insisting on moral
refinement and race-based organization. Uplift ideology and practice have a
long and storied past, but critics of the tradition worry over its limitations.
Some express concern that it is anti-democratic, intolerant, elitist, sexist,
and heterosexist. Others think it focuses too much on personal morality and
cultural pathology and not enough on social justice and political economy.

The participants in the 'Stand Up!' symposium will think through the risks
and rewards of this new racial uplift politics. This interdisciplinary exercise
in public philosophy will explore the implications of a social phenomenon with
broad ethical significance. The new politics of racial uplift emerges from a
widely shared conviction that something is deeply wrong in American society.
Our public philosophy conference will take this judgment seriously, and subject
this politics to searching and critical scrutiny.

Confirmed Participants:

• Angela D. Dillard, Afroamerican and African Studies and Residential College,
LSA, at the University of Michigan
• Kenyon Farrow, essayist, organizer, media and communications specialist, and
board co-chair for Queers for Economic Justice
• Kevin Gaines, Afroamerican and African Studies and History at the University
of Michigan
• Kathryn T. Gines, African American and Diaspora Studies and Philosophy at
Vanderbilt University
• Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Religion and African American Studies at Princeton
University and the Jamestown Project
• Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Women’s Research and Resource Center and the Women’s
Studies at Spelman College
• Joy James, Humanities and Political Science at Williams College and Senior
Research Fellow in the Center for African and African American Studies at the
University of Texas-Austin
• Adolph Reed, Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania
• Jared Sexton, African American Studies and Film & Media Studies at the
University of California, Irvine
• Aishah Shahidah Simmons, AfroLez® Productions and award-winning
African-American feminist lesbian documentary filmmaker, international lecturer, writer,
activist, and producer, writer, and director of the internationally acclaimed
documentary NO!
• Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr., Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard University
Law School and the Jamestown Project
• Paul C. Taylor, Philosophy at Temple University and the Jamestown Project

Sponsors:
Temple University Department of Philosophy, the Office of the Provost, the
College of Liberal Arts, the Center for Humanities at Temple, the Ira Lawrence
Family Fund, and the Jamestown Project

The symposium is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Tamara K. Nopper, assistant organizer, at

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s. e. anderson is author of "The Black Holocaust for Beginners"
Social Activism is not a hobby: it's a Lifestyle lasting a Lifetime
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Facebook - Owned Pro Slavery Sites

2008-04-15T14:53:00.001-04:00

I believe they didn't mean to be insensitive but I found it offensive. Let me know what you think. Leave a comment here or on http://twitter.com/clarencecoggins

Some our Members Have Some Great Talents

2008-04-13T10:22:00.000-04:00

Unlike myself Dena can hold a note or two. My attempts are below. The cool things about is that we both make money with this money maker You don't have to be a Rock STAR To earn like a ROCK STAR.

The following video is why I make my money in other ways.

My Father's Father - Trinidad Roots

2008-04-12T15:58:00.000-04:00

Here is more information about my Father's Side of the family courtesy of the Ellis Island Foundation Inc. Support our community

Clarence Coggins

Lillian Coggins

It looks like my grandfather came over a year earlier than my grandmother. I never got to meet either of them. But I saw pictures of them. My Grandmother was a school teacher. My Grandfather was a Independent Window Washer.

As you can see from the records they came from Trindad. What I found interesting was how the Ethnicity was listed: just British African for my Grandmother and British W. I., Af. Bl. For my Grandfather. I guess part of the reason may have been do to my Grandmother's heavy Indian (of the India variety) features.

Sixth State Appolgizes For Slavery

2008-03-28T22:51:00.000-04:00

I just got this email from my friend Baruti
support our efforts Get A Gold Membership in Buck Fifty Miracle.Info

FYI - A sixth state - Florida - apologizes for slavery in America.

"Principal" Baruti Kafele
"I'm on FIRE!!!"

Baruti's Site

Florida Legislature Apologizes for State’s History of Slavery

By DAMIEN CAVE and CHRISTINE JORDAN SEXTON
Published: March 27, 2008
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida Legislature formally apologized Wednesday for the state’s “shameful” history of slavery, joining five other states that have expressed public regret for what Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate, recently called America’s “original sin.”

The two-page resolution passed overwhelmingly in the Senate and then the House, bringing at least one lawmaker to tears. Gov. Charlie Crist, a Republican, called it a “significant step” toward reconciliation.

“All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing,” Mr. Crist said in an interview, quoting the philosopher Edmund Burke. “I think we are reminded of that today because it takes courage to do the right thing, and it’s not always easy.”

Several black lawmakers, especially Senator Anthony C. Hill Sr., Democrat of Jacksonville, have been pushing for a public apology since last year. What eventually passed on Wednesday resembled statements issued by North Carolina, Alabama, Virginia, Maryland and New Jersey, the last state to apologize for slavery with a resolution in January.

The Florida resolution expressed “profound regret” for the state’s role “in sanctioning and perpetuating involuntary servitude upon generations of African slaves.” It did not use the word apology, but Mr. Hill said the statement’s intent was clear.

“At the end of the day we said three words: ‘I am sorry,’ ” he said. “I think now we can begin the healing process of reconciliation.”

Florida’s history with slavery is unusual. Its roots stretch back to the settlement of St. Augustine in 1565, and slaves here took part in a wide array of industries, including cattle ranching in central Florida and sugar cane harvests in Tampa.

“From 1845 to 1860, it was one of the fastest-growing slave states in the union,” said Larry E. Rivers, author of “Slavery in Florida” and president of Fort Valley State University in Georgia. “When things were slowing down in Virginia and still going in South Carolina and North Carolina, slavery in Florida was growing in leaps and bounds.”

The state’s first slave laws were enacted by the Territorial Legislative Council in 1822. Mirroring the laws of other Southern states, they included such punishments as nailing slaves’ ears to posts if they were caught stealing.

Some of this history was recounted before the Legislature, and was included in the resolution. It was enough to draw clear sobs from Senator Arthenia L. Joyner, Democrat of Tampa.

The governor said such emotions were understandable.

“I don’t think you could listen to some of the punishments that were meted out in the past before Florida became more enlightened without being moved by it,” Mr. Crist said.

Florida has made other efforts to address the consequences of institutional racism; in 1994, the state allocated $2.1 million to surviving victims of the Rosewood massacre, the 1923 attack on a black town in North Florida.

And on Wednesday, Mr. Crist said he was open to evaluating whether broader reparations for slavery would be worth pursuing. He warned, however, that this was not the year, given Florida’s looming $3 billion budget deficit.

Some black leaders said they hoped that the addition of another state’s resolution would lead Congress to offer an apology of its own — if only to document regrets expressed in speeches by President Bush and President Bill Clinton.

At the very least, they said, Florida’s statement is likely to continue the country’s amplified conversation about race, inspired in part by Mr. Obama’s candidacy.

“It’s a good time for the whole nation to address race in a different way,” said Carol M. Swain, a professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University who supports a national apology for slavery. “We do need to have the conversation. And it’s a much broader conversation than Barack Obama was able to introduce in his speech.”

Damien Cave reported from Miami, and Christine Jordan Sexton from Tallahassee.

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From My Friend The Principal - Joseph Walker Memorial Fund

2008-03-23T21:33:00.001-04:00

When I got this email I had to chuckle at first. Baruti is far from the type of person to not self-promote. Here is the contents:

Good afternoon,

As all of you know, I try to shy away from self-promotion, but in this case, the cause is most significant.

Following is a brief overview from the organizer of the event and founder of the Joseph Walker Memorial Fund – Mr. Todd Walker

Message from Todd Walker

The Joseph Walker Memorial Fund was created after my father’s death in January 2000. “The Fund” has sponsored camperships for students as well as scholarships for elementary students, and high school graduating seniors.

Our first annual banquet was held in March 2007. We are planning another banquet on March 29, 2008 at The Essex House, 525 Northfield Avenue, West Orange from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. The guest speaker will be Baruti Kafele, an educational and motivational speaker. Mr. Kafele has written several books geared towards educating African American Children and Teachers.

You may purchase a ticket from Todd Walker (908)-938-0320 or Bernice Walker (973)-676-6257. The cost is $ 55.00 per person. You may show your support by purchasing an ad / booster that will appear in our souvenir banquet booklet.

KAFELE
"I'm on FIRE!!!"

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2008-03-16T13:03:00.000-04:00

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2008-03-14T07:43:00.001-04:00

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African American History Found Not Worthy

2008-03-13T16:46:00.000-04:00

In a way it is the fault of the limited mind proponents that started the study of African American history with just Jamestown. But it is more a validation that society at large does not value the experiences and contribution the Black Americans have made to world history.

Charles Drew, Mathew Henderson, Prince Hall, Oprah Winfrey, Tiger Woods, Bill Cosby are not worth study and not to be held with the same regard as the Latin Americans or Asian History. The reality of the situation is that African American history is a result of the omission of African Americans in American History.

I thank God for my parents who educated me to my culture so that I wasn't dependent on any college system to validate my importance. It is truly unfortunate that the Black Students today are so duped on multiculturalism to the exclusion of their own contributions.

For Immediate Release February 26, 2008

AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY NO LONGER RECOGNIZED AS “LEGITIMATE” by the STATE of NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY COLLEGES

In a startling move, the Community College Academic Officer’s Association (CCAOA) of New Jersey excluded African American History from the New Jersey Community College General Education curriculum. The murder of African American History within the academic curriculum directly contradicts the State’s recent apology for slavery. The Association’s reasoning that African American history is about a “subset” of people creates even more dissonance with the supposed apology.

African American history was the only history excluded. The Association accepted Latin American History, Asian Civilization, American History, World Civilization and Survey of African History with the explanation that these courses are more “global” in nature. The use of the term “subset” to describe African Americans is reminiscent of the historical 3/5 of a person designation for southern slaves.

The restructure comes as an outgrowth of the new Lampett transfer legislation. The Lampett Legislation will require all four year colleges to accept all of the General Education courses a student completes when they graduate from a two New Jersey Community College with an Associates degree. The omission of African American History from the General Education category reduces the likelihood that students will be exposed to this important part of American history. Importantly, this categorization invalidates the important history and critical contribution of 14% of the population of New Jersey that is African American and the overall move towards a global economy.

The CCAOA also removed all African American and Women's literature courses from the General Education curriculum. This move to eliminate these courses is very far reaching. It affects all community colleges and their students through out the entire State of New Jersey. Ironically, the State passed the Amistad Legislation in 2002 which mandates the incorporation African American history into the teaching of American history in all primary and secondary schools through out the state.

The Newark Branch of the NAACP, New Black Panther Party – Newark Chapter, the African Commission of the City of Newark, and the Coalition of Concerned Educators of New Jersey (CCENJ) are diametrically opposed to this action. Educators are in the process of appealing this inexplicably narrow minded decision. For more information contact murderofafricanamericanhistory@gmail.com

Thank You Sister Aishah Muhammad and Minister Louis Farrahkan

2008-03-08T21:32:00.000-05:00

I want to thank everyone who attended and sent representatives to honor the coming home of Evelyn Esther Carter, (July 6, 1921 - March 2, 2008). Especially Sis. Aishah Muhammad, who brought well wishes for the family from the Nation of Islam and the Minister Louis Farrahkan; Christian Love Ministries; Cotton Funeral Home Newark; and all those who attended early this day.

Sister Aishah read the following poem which was written by my cousin Guy Eric Carter:

Her face is the face you've come to know as well as you know your own.
Her voice is the voice you long to hear when you're sad or just alone.
Her hands are the hands that reach out first to comfort, help, or guide.
Her heart is the heart that understands who you really are inside.
Her care is the care you count on and need more than any other.
Her Name is the word that means love to the world.
And that wonderful name is MOTHER.
I'm thankful for the things you are and for things you've done
to make my world a better place, my life a happier one...
And I hope you understand how proud I'll always be
to have a special MOTHER, who means so much to me.

Copyright 2008, Guy Eric Carter

My Auntie Ev when to and graduate from Dickerson High School In Jersey City, New Jersey. Known to everyone as Evelyn (except for me) or "Eve", she was a the kind of person who loved people especially her family. We had great times at Christmas, New Years and Thanksgiving.

I remember I would constantly eat the fruit cake that she had brought for my father because we bore the same name. I can remember my father going over to watch wrestling. She loved Tiger Woods.

During one of the many political campaigns she worked on with my father she fell in love with doing Crypto-quotes in Star-Ledger. She also had other puzzles she loved to do.

I remember when she was living in Jersey City on Myrtle Avenue and the dog Duke. I remember when I was a child and I used to love the personal gifts that my Uncle Frank Coggins and Aunt Nancy would make.

She also loved game shows and soap opera's. Shopping and going to Atlantic City was also something she loved to do.

She was employed by the RCA Corporation and later, First Fidelity Bank, now known as Wachovia Bank, from where she retired.

Evelyn was survived by her loving son, Guy Eric Carter, a daughter in law, Sherry Carter Weaver, two granddaughters Bree and Arielle Carter and a host of nieces, nephews, others relatives and many friends.

I'll talk more about the services and everything over the course of the next few days.

About That Coalition - Online Business Alliance/1 Up Cash System

2008-03-08T06:57:00.000-05:00

There is so much that is occurring world wide we at Hudson Liberty are changing our focus to making more people aware of what is going on and how they can help.
Support our efforts by participating in one or both of our business models. Online Business Alliance and 1 Up Cash System"

Murder rates are up. Shootings are out of control and blood is in the streets. But now, a group of Philadelphia civic leaders plan to do something about it. At an

Anti-Violence Summit held yesterday at the Church of the Advocate in North Philadelphia, 53 people and organizations pledged support for the campaign in writing. The document states that the signers agree to support "all reasonable efforts to promote the healing of our communities. I/we also agree to set aside any past, present or future disagreements that may interfere with, or in any way inhibit our ability to work harmoniously to achieve our common goal of healing our respective communities.” The meeting, organized by the Philadelphia Black Public Issues Forum and moderated by activist Gary Adams, brought together an array of different voices at the renowned church at 18 th and Diamond streets. "We need to take control of our own lives and our own communities," lawyer and activist John Churchville told the audience, receiving appreciative applause. "Each of us has a piece of the solution…” Wesley Wilson-Bey (Men United Against Violence) said. “Strength in combating violence comes in numbers. No one organization is going to win this war. It's like cancer. We've got to come together. We really do."

Excerpted from an article by Regina Medina, Writer for the Philadelphia Daily News July 17, 2006

Greetings,

On July 16th 2006, a diverse group of activists and organizations met and signed pledges to work together to solve problems in our communities that affect us all. If you were unable to attend, it is not too late to become a part of this historic coalition.

Included in this package is the Pledge of Commitment. Have an authorized representative of your group or organization complete this form to become part of The Coalition and to be placed on the Weekly Digest mailing list which alerts members to events and projects which affect our communities. Membership is also available through our Google Group “The Coalition” http://groups.google.com/group/coalition-the, which has many valuable resources for community based organizations.

The uniqueness of an association such as The Coalition is it gives a more powerful voice and community resources to the smallest neighborhood groups, while allowing the larger groups to become more effective and maintain their identity and individualism.

Our initial offensive reached out to many families and parenting groups and was very successful. Quoting Dr. Churchville, founder of Philadelphia Black Public Issues Forum…

“If you or I had the answer, there would be no problem… but each of us has a piece, and together we have the answer.”

Doing what most have considered impossible, we have put aside our differences to become a single unit of unique endeavors.

Who we are

The Coalition is a collective of organizations and persons who have already demonstrated their individual commitment to finding and implementing solutions to the ills that plague our communities.

Sincere Philadelphia-area activists joined to form The Coalition. Our members are focused on one specific goal: Improving the quality of life for our families. Although we may have different methods of reaching our goal, we will work collectively to achieve success.

The Coalition operates on the idea that there are already organizations in place to address most, if not all of the problems particular to our communities, and that through networking, we can channel these forces in an intelligent and focused assault. We realize that in order to heal the Nation, we must begin with the family nucleus. We have recruited, and are continuing to solicit organizations that target family health.

The tendency to depend on outside forces and political 'misleadership' has been a major source of inertia and apathy among our peoples. Politicians with personal, financial and celebrity agendas feed off the carrion, which is the devastation of our neighborhoods.
The only way to defeat this physical and psychological blighting is to heal the families that make up our neighborhoods. Only then will we be able to effect change through legislation and self-policing of our communities.

We have begun at the level of the immediate concern, our young people, Frederick Douglas once said:

"It is easier to build children than it is to repair men."

We must offer alternatives and set examples as to how to conduct ourselves with honor and respect. We extend to you the opportunity to support and be supported by organizations of similar ilk.

Join The Coalition!

Mission Statement

Our mission is to network and channel individual and organization expertise, skills, abilities and resources into a collective and cooperative force; thereby maximizing our effectiveness to improve the quality of life for our families.

What We Have Done

The Coalition launched the first of a series of Young People’s Anti-Violence Summits to elicit the opinions and involvement of the youth most affected by the horrid conditions extant today. On August 16, 2006, The Coalition held our first Young People's Anti-Violence Summit The summit was for youth from junior high school age through the early twenties. The summit afforded the young people freedom of expression, and a forum to discuss amongst themselves the issues and concerns that shape their current world. As adult activists and concerned community organizations, we provided a safe, welcoming, and open environment where our young people spoke with, heard and listened to themselves without the lectures occasional discouraging words they have come to expect from their elders. The summit convened at the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania.

Our second Young People's Anti-Violence Summit was held at Club 923 on Watts Street in North Philadelphia. The Coalition again convened another Young People’s Anti-Violence Summit gathering to get our young people actively involved in the shaping of solutions to their immediate concerns. The popular youth television program Urban Expressions was present, and became involved by taping and broadcasting our first televised interview.

The next Young People’s Anti-Violence Summit was hosted by Teens-In-Charge on April 21, 2007 at the High School Of The Future.

On January 21, 2007, Physicians for Social Responsibility and The Coalition presented a "Bullying Management Workshop" for schools and organizations. The workshop featured Mr. Kenneth Houston, conflict resolution expert, who presented dispute-resolution workshops that were designed to teach preventative methods that can be utilized by individuals and organizational staff.

The Coalition has launched A HAND UP! An internet group that facilitates the transfer and sharing of resources between groups that have surplus or no longer needed resources with those who have an immediate need of those resources. (http://groups.google.com/group/a-hand-up)

The Coalition continues to meet with many leaders of faith based organizations in the Philadelphia area to convene our first ‘Interdenominational World Faith-based Summit’ to bring to bear our religious community's strength on the problem of community decline.

Other upcoming events will deal with effective leadership, conflict resolution; parenting and a unique summit featuring many of the area’s faith-based organizations who seek to dissolve denominational boundaries and focus some of the most powerful forces in our communities on these problems. You may attend any of our events to participate, learn more and/or have your group, your place of worship or your organization become part of The Coalition.

For more information: 215.387.2734

Email: the.pa.coalition@gmail.com

and join our Google group: http://groups.google.com/group/coalition-the
The Coalition

(A Partial Listing of Committed Organizations)

*
* Adolescent Intervention Network
* Black Political Study for Social Change
* Black Women’s Defense League
* Boycott and Protest, Inc.
* Buffalo Soldiers Seeds of Progress
* Civil Alert World
* Club 923
* Concerned Men of Courage and Commitment
* Cross and Crescent-Shepherds in the Street
* Digital Divide Community Network
* DMB Communications-Phila.
* Ex-Offenders for Community Improvement
* Fatherhood Institute
* Fathers' and Children's Equality
* For My Daughter
* Germantown Clergy Initiative
* Gypsy Lane Technologies
* House of Umoja
* Institute For Africana Studies
* International Words of Women
* Jubilee School
* Kingsessing Recreation Center advisory Council
* Liberation Fellowship Church of Jesus, Inc.
* Liberation Fellowship Community Development Corporation
* Logan News Group
* Men United Against Violence
* Million Mom March
* Moor’s Order of the Round Table
* Moorish Unification Council of the World
* National Union of American Families
* Neighborhood Bike Works, Inc.
* Nine-0-Six Multimedia
* Nu Juice Foundation
* Open Arms Against Abuse Services
* People Achieving Positive Attitudes, Inc.
* Peace Not Guns
* Philadelphia Black Public Issues Forum
* Physicians for Social Responsibility
* Quiet Rage
* R.F.S., Inc.
* Raising Awareness Immediately
* Resources for Children’s Health
* Richard Wright Centennial
* Sankofa Association of Roxborough
* Sankofa Empowerment
* S.E.E.D. Concepts
* Southwest Action Coalition
* Stop the Madness/Stop the Violence
* Teens In Charge
* The Cecil B. Moore Community Foundation
* The Churchville Triad Group, L.L.C.
* The Fr. Paul M. Washington Community Committee
* Untamed Philly
* Urban Entrepreneurs
* Urban Expressions
* Village of Arts and Humanities
* We Care Productions
* Yamagochi Academies
*

THE COALITION PLEDGE OF COMMITMENT

For the purpose of retrieving the lost, retaining the endangered, and preserving our future, I, __________________

___________(print name), representing ______________________________________ (organization/city/state),

do hereby pledge my/our commitment, and with authority granted me by _____________ ____________(Authorized individual/committee), of _____________________________(organization listed above), herein pledge my/our support

of all reasonable efforts to promote the healing of our communities.

I/we also agree to set aside any past, present or future disagreements that may interfere with, or in any way inhibit our

ability to work harmoniously to achieve our common goal of healing our respective communities.

I/we further pledge to, where possible, assist in all reasonable efforts, irrespective of origin, designed to contribute to the healthy restoration of our families, communities and Nation.

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African American History NOT WORTHY OF STUDY

2008-03-07T06:32:00.000-05:00

More and more I'm finding the emails I receive are worth are passing on. CREEPING ELIMINATION OF BLACK VALUE IS WHAT WE HAVE HERE!!! It is great that the Black Business Space is attracting more and more people. However we have much more to do because those who don't have our best interest are ever busy.

Please Do Two Things If You Haven't Become a Black Business Builder Do So Immediately and pass this message on.

An Update from: Fayemi Shakur

Peace Family,

I forwarded your press release to contacts at the Star Ledger and other local and national media. Then I forwarded it to the organizations referenced in the press release and their overseers - the New Jersey Community College Academic Officers Association (NJCCAOA) and The NJ Council of Community Colleges. The Council seemed surprised that this information was public knowledge and was genuinely shook. ;) The Director of Communications, Jacob Farbman, contacted me as requested in an email I sent to him.

He said "these courses have not and will not be removed". He learned there was a "preliminary discussion" during a New Jersey Community College Academic Officers Association subcommittee meeting about removing these courses from the general curriculum. I told him I was shocked to hear that this would even be up for discussion at all. He quickly agreed and asked what his organization should do to address the concerns being raised. I suggested issuing a press statement from his office about the matter to get it cleared up. He wanted to know if the press had been contacted. I said they most likely had.

Who knows how far this foolishness could have really gone. It isn't going anywhere now thanks to the development and curriculation of this press release. (although I did have to edit it a little. can't send langugae like the murder of our history out if we want it be received by folks outside our community).

If we don't respect our history, well, no one else will and too often we let things go.

I definitely agree we have to teach our own, open our own schools and we shouldn't expect that traditional schools will teach RIGHT history. BUT, for some, these institutions are the only place where some in our community will ever study Black history at length. It was both my college professors AND community professors who provided knowledge about my history. Once I got a taste, I sought out the rest on my own. Access to African-American history is important.

THANKS Y'ALL for keeping us informed. What happens next is always up to us.

Bless,
fayemi

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Subject: Re: FW: AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY NO LONGER RECOGNIZED AS "LEGITIMATE"by NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY COLLEGES
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 02:59:39 -0800 (PST)

they did it because we let them. just like we have been trained to do. they will continue until we

break the chains of psychological enslavement

Baruti Kafele wrote:

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"Principal" Baruti Kafele
"I'm on FIRE!!!"

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Subject: AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY NO LONGER RECOGNIZED AS "LEGITIMATE"by NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY COLLEGES

For Immediate Release February 26, 2008

AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY NO LONGER RECOGNIZED AS "LEGITIMATE" by the STATE of NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY COLLEGES

In a startling move, the Community College Academic Officer's Association (CCAOA) of New Jersey excluded African American History from the New Jersey Community College General Education curriculum. The murder of African American History within the academic curriculum directly contradicts the State's recent apology for slavery. The Association's reasoning that African American history is about a "subset" of people creates even more dissonance with the supposed apology.

African American history was the only history excluded. The Association accepted Latin American History, Asian Civilization, American History, World Civilization and Survey of African History with the explanation that these courses are more "global" in nature. The use of the term "subset" to describe African Americans is reminiscent of the historical 3/5 of a person designation for southern slaves.

The restructure comes as an outgrowth of the new Lippett transfer legislation. The Lippet Legislation will require all four year colleges to accept all of the General Education courses a student completes when they graduate from a two New Jersey Community College with an Associates degree. The omission of African American History from the General Education category reduces the likelihood that students will be exposed to this important part of American history. Importantly, this categorization invalidates the important history and critical contribution of 14% of the population of New Jersey that is African American and the overall move towards a global economy.

The CCAOA also removed all African American and Women's literature courses from the General Education curriculum. This move to eliminate these courses is very far reaching. It affects all community colleges and their students through out the entire State of New Jersey. Ironically, the State passed the Amistad Legislation in 2002 which mandates the incorporation African American history into the teaching of American history in all primary and secondary schools through out the state.

The Newark Branch of the NAACP, New Black Panther Party √ Newark Chapter, the African Commission of the City of Newark, and the Coalition of Concerned Educators of New Jersey (CCENJ) are diametrically opposed to this action. Educators are in the process of appealing this inexplicably narrow minded decision. For more information contact murderofafricanamericanhistory@gmail.com.

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:30 PM, patrice davis wrote:

Thank you for your interest. Here are the emails and addresses:

Dr. Susan Smith
Gloucester County College
1400 Tanyard Road
Sewell, NJ 08080
ssmith@gccnj.edu

Dr. Abegail Douglas-Johnson
Hudson County Community College
70 Sip Ave
Jersey City, NJ 07036
ajohnson@hcc.edu

Dr. Judith Redwine
Mercer Community College
West Winsor Campus
1200 Old Trenton Road
West Winsor, NJ 08550
redwinej@mccc.edu

Dr. Arthur Wexler
Atlantic Community College
Wexler@atlantic.edu
609-343-4989

Dr. Gary Porter
Bergen Community College
400 Paramus Road
Paramus, NJ 07652
gporter@bergen.edu
201-447-7190

Nancy Kegelman
Brookdale Community College
765 Newman Springs Road
Lincroft, NJ 07738-1543
nkegelman@brookdalecc.edu

Dr. Kathleen Carter
Burlington Community College
601 Pemberton-Brown Mills Road
Pemberton, NJ 0868
kcarter@bcc.edu
Dr. Margaret Hamilton
Camden Community College
PO Box 200
College Drive
Blackwood, NJ 08012
mhamilton@camdencc.edu

Dr. Dominic Latorraca
College of Morris
214 Center Grove Road
Randolph, NJ 07869
dlatorraca@ccm.edu

Dr. Thomas Isekenegbe
Cumberland County College
PO Box 1500
College Drive
Vineland, NJ 08362
tisekenegbe@cc.nj.edu

Auntie Eve Return Home Tonight

2008-03-02T23:26:00.000-05:00

Evelyn Carter born Evelyn Coggins, return home to the lord tonight. I had discussed plans to go see her in the hospital today with my mother, but the didn't materialize. Fortunately, my mother did get to see her one last time today.

I got the call a few minutes ago from my Cousin Guy. He had called me yesterday to let me know that his mother was had been transferred to East Orange General Hospital. I had done a three way with him to let him give my mother the information also.

It was an odd day. I had been receiving various calls today about the radio shows. I also was battling a cold. Taking lots of vitamin Cs and getting rest to combat it effects.

Just before I was on my way going a fellowship meeting I received a phone call for help. I did my best to do what I could with my limited power and turned rest to the infinite power of God.

I'm still not fully registering the passing of my Auntie Eve. I'll be putting down more on her life over the next few days as things progress. I will end on this note with her passing one generation of Coggins' have finally return home. Now she is with her brothers Carl, Clarence, Frank, and her sisters Margie and Sylvia.

God bless you Auntie Eve. Our prayers are with you cousin Guy.

Gospel Day

2008-03-02T11:09:00.001-05:00

I just received this in the email and I thought I'd share it with those who are reading this blog:

Calling all Choirs/Soloists. Anyone interested in participating in the 14th Annual Gospel Day Celebration to be held on June 22, 2008 from 2:00 - 7:30 PM in Arlington Park, Jersey City, please submit an un-returnable CD/Tape/DVD/VHS to Eunice Rivers @ 201-344-1658. CALL NOW SPACE IS LIMITED.
Vendors are also needed for this Event.

Eunice was a recent guest on the Lazzeo Live Radio Show Saturday Night Edition. Let others know. There are some other events which will be coming also.

One of my friends from Snapvine is hosting a domestic violence awareness conference check out her blog and let me know what you think. And make sure you subscribe here to keep up with the latest developments.

Background of My Father

2008-02-25T16:29:00.000-05:00

"Clarence Coggins, New Jersey state coordinator of the Jackson campaign, said his organization did not emphasize voter registration. "That wasn't the focus," he said. "The focus was to win with what you had."

Perhaps Coggins was understating the voter-registration effort. Many of his county coordinators reported large numbers of new registrants, an indication, they said, of newly born political awareness among minority voters.

Across New Jersey, according to the secretary of state's office, about 3.7 million residents will be eligible to vote tomorrow - up about 150,000, or 4 percent, from the 3,550,000 registered before the last presidential primary in 1980." This was a quote from Andrew Maykuth Online The Philadelphia Inquirer June 4, 1984

I was entering my biography on Wikipedia and I got speedily deleted. LOL. Sometimes people on the internet really kill me with some of their positions. Well right now I have a resentment and being the type of guy that I am. I'm not going to rest until I have a website which has a higher user count and rating that Wiki. But in the meanwhile, I'd thought I'd share a little more about my family background.

High Lights in the Life of An Active Clarence Coggins

1942 to 1946	Active member of National Maritime Union while serving in the United states Merchant Marine, while serving as a Fireman, torpedoed three (3) times.
1947	Defied "I-Am-The-Law" former Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City in conducting a demonstration in Journal Square protesting Compulsory Universal Peace-time military training.
1948	Supported the first Black candidate for Congress in the Eleventh (11th) Congressional District, Dr. Ulysses S. Campbell, who ran on a Progressive Party Ticket, in 1948
1949	Organized the founding chapter of the Hudson County New Jersey Negro Labor Council, in Jersey City which was a fore-runner of the National Negro Labor Council established in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1951.
1952 to 1953	Campaigned vigorously in support of the Faulkner Act's Charter Change Movement in the City of Newark.

Why Pimp is not Cute

2008-02-22T12:01:00.000-05:00

I got this video link from The Thoughts of Black Men Group. It illustrates why black history is more than just an African American occurrence. It illustrates why we have
to look at our past to fully understand the ramifications of our actions.

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This was from last year.
But on the lighter side and the solution side. Here is the video I did on 1 Upcashsystem. A component of how I believe we can improve our economic conditions without selling our Mothers, sisters and daughters.

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Lest We Forget Why I Voted!!

2008-02-21T21:13:00.001-05:00

click on image to enlarge to read.

All I can say is wow! Young People get a clue! (wenches, Huh!) Scary!

Never forget the price paid for where you stand today.
This was once our resume' (image above)...

None of us has had to experience the pain of separation or live with the disgrace and humiliation that comes with not being free. When you cast your vote for who will run our country, never forget your history and keep this bill of sale in mind. When we allow ourselves to forget our not so distant past, then we are destined to repeat these actions in our future. Stand for those who came before us and those who could not stand up for themselves. VOTE!

I encourage you to share this with everyone you know.

Boost Up Visionary Economic Business Solutions

2008-02-21T21:03:00.000-05:00

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Here is more information Baruti Forward To me.

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Friday, February 29: New Jersey Future's Redevelopment Forum 2008 that will be held on Friday, February 29 at the Hyatt in New Brunswick . Featured lunch speakers are Jonathan F.P. Rose, founder of Jonathan Rose Companies (keynote), as well as Commissioners Joseph V. Doria, Jr. and Lisa P. Jackson, NJ Departments of Community Affairs and of Environmental Protection, respectively. Twenty-two (22) workshops are scheduled covering four tracks of instruction and planners are advised that the Forum has been approved for Certification Maintenance credits (CM). For more information or to register, please click here .

Saturday, March 1: Part 1 of 3 BOOST's FREE TO THE PUBLIC (donations accepted) Winter 2008 Documentary Viewing and Discussion series features Trenton's premiere forum moderator, Professor Alvyn Haywood, at 12 noon on Saturday, March 1 at Classics Used and Rare Books, located at 117 South Warren Street in downtown Trenton (NJ) with Introducing Abraham: The Secret Behind the Secret, part 1 of 3. Also To join as an early-bird for participation in GSS-SET, feel free to www.gss-set.blogspot.com

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Saturday, May 17: Professor Alvyn Haywood continues his signature documentary screenings and community discussions with Brother Minister - the Assassination of Malcolm X at Classics Used and Rare Books on Saturday, May 17 from 12 noon until 2pm. free admission, donations accepted.

The 1965 murder of militant Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X remains a vivid, controversial incident, sparking a decade of federal court cases. Jack Baxter's riveting documentary Brother Minister re-examines the case, offering new information on the links between Malcolm X's death and investigation and such figures as Louis Farrakhan and J. Edgar Hoover. Includes an exclusive interview with Malcolm X's secretary, James 67X.

Saturday, June 7: On Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 12 noon, Professor Alvyn Haywood will facilitate a screening and community discussion for Sundance TV Channel's, Big Idea for a Small Planet, the Build Episode at Classics Used and Rare Books located at 117 South Warren Street in downtown Trenton.

In this episode, a visionary architect works with clients to build their first "green" home; a designer demonstrates his real-life tree house made of growing tree trunks; and environmentally conscious ideas are introduced to low-income neighborhoods.

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Struggle and Rebellion.

2008-02-19T06:52:00.000-05:00

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Free Your African Mind NYC Lectures

2008-02-18T08:56:00.000-05:00

Free Your African Mind!

Africans Going Home Forward to Our Universe!

I got this schedule from one of the emails Baruti Kafele, The Principal, send me. I just wanted to share it with my subscribers.

Mar. 1, 2008 African Cosmology of the Bantu and Kongo People!
Elder Brother Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau
African community educator and author
Mar. 15, 2008 Understanding the Pyramid Texts and the Shabaka Stone As it Relates
to Our Cosmic Universe Brother Kaba Hiawatha Kamene
(Bro. Booker T. Coleman)
African community educator
Mar. 29, 2008 Liberating the African Race Using Melanin and Health Healing Practices!
Sister Ann Brown
African community educator, anatomist, cellular biologist
Apr. 12, 2008 A Race Woman: Amy Ashwood Garvey; Pan-Africanist and feminist
Brother Tony Martin
African community educator
Apr. 26, 2008 The essence and the evolution of The Maati Code from enlightenment
to Consciousness and Beyond! (part II)
Brother Hunter Adams III
African community researcher
May 10, 2008 From Black Consciousness to African Consciousness
Africans Going Home! Brother James Turner
African community educator
May 24, 2008 Ancient Dogon Cosmology and its message for the Coming Ages!
Brother Charles Finch
African community educator and author
June 7, 2008 Standing on the shoulders of Our Ancestors Leaping Forward!
Brother Kenneth Nunn
African law educator
All lectures at Prince Hall Masonic Temple. Prince Hall Masonic Temple: 454 W. 155th St., NYC
There will be a discussion period at the end of each lecture. Donation: $5 Time: 3pm 7pm
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Are You A Goddess???

2008-02-14T13:29:00.000-05:00

Are you a Goddess??? I was looking for more material to offer people on how to write an ebook and I stumbled across this video. My first Christian instinct was to recoil at the title. But I did see the merits of some of the concepts discussed.

Among the women who I had been dealing with their had been a very serious disconnect with each other. Many women in my community have a hostile attitudes towards other women. The concept of women coming together to accomplish great things is not uncommon.

Putting theology aside, it is important to recognize the true gift that God gave the world when he created women. It is especially on this Valentine Day we celebrate the essence of womanhood which transcends the physical.

Let me know what you think send you emails to 1min@hudsonliberty.com and put Goddess in the subject.

HAPPY VALENTINE DAY!!! Join our community which is empowering women world wide Buck Fifty Miracle

Wealth from The Internet

2008-02-14T07:59:00.000-05:00

That is the big question lot's of people want answered How to get Wealth from the Internet? It takes commitment, dedication and learning. It takes taking action.

Many people come to the Internet with the idea of achieving overnight wealth. It can happen, but which night that is generally came after many nights of not seeing that wealth.

Creating financial wealth from the internet is something that comes from a process. And all processes take place over a period of time. It took me time to go through what I had to go through in order for me to see that want I had created in with the 1 Minute 30 Day Success works not only for me but for countless others. For those of you who read my blog here is your complimentary copy of the 1 Minute 30 Day Success System Outline send and email to 1min@hudsonliberty.com. One of the first principles of wealth that I hope to share with you is to start reselling it at the full $24.95 and keeping all the revenue. You are doing the labor why not reap the Full Fruits of that Labor?

First day of Black History Month

2008-02-01T19:53:00.000-05:00

It is amazing how different Black History Month feels on in 2008 and how it did in 1988. It's hard to imagine that with every breath I take and every decision I make, I create Black History. The question is did I do GOOD?

How do you feel about that? And I ask people on non-African American descent to put in comments of how they are continuing the legacy of their ancestry.

Dr. Dr. It's Zhana - Here's Chicken Soup

2008-01-30T18:35:00.000-05:00

It was a full day that started off with prayer. I did the Lazzeo Live Show with Dr. Christian. I had to go to take care of two computer repair clients.

Both jobs took longer than I anticipated, I wound up catch a taxi to make sure I go home in time for The Interview With Zhana about her book Black Success Stories
.

It was well worth the $10 bucks. We had a live call-in from Hawaii. The caller asked some really good questions like Did the black in Britian feel any attachment/identification with African Americans? And if Black's in American had a distorted perspective because of their position in being in America.

Recently I have been having more contact with Hawaiians. A major proponent of EFT had called me one day. Which was way cool because she found my name while she was doing a search on Willie Jolley Needless to say, "Color Me IMPRESSED" LOLOLOL.

To Come up right after one of the nations TOP MOTIVATIONAL speakers is "Beyond AWESOME". I know I'm using a lot of caps but big deal. I'm happy like that. And it's okay to celebrate success. That was one of the things Zhana and I was talking about. It is also to recognize the success we already are.

It was really really good to make the English connection. It's the door way to the Land of Ghandi. Who was Dr. King's leading role models.

Well after I finished with Zhana, I decided to do a little reading. So I continued reading from Chicken Soup

Watch The Dancer In All Of Us by Judi Sheppard Missett

Training Continues....

2008-01-29T11:04:00.001-05:00

Okay, Maybe it's only me and Vic. But when I was 17 I knew everything. Yes there was nothing I didn't know about. It didn't matter what the subject was. It didn't matter whether I was there or not.

As I've grown. I learned 6 years ago, when the World Trade Center(The Massive Explosion that Changed My World) went down I didn't know it all. It was one of the first time when I realized I didn't have the answers. Still to this day I don't know who was ultimately responsible for that horrendous event.

I also learned that I didn't have to smoke. I had just stopped smoking cigarettes a few days prior.(How to Quit Smoking) When the smoked cleared, in spite of the fear, in spite of the anxiety, in spite of the elation (two black sisters, Venus and Serena The Sista Sisters of Tenniswhere competing for the NY Open which was amazing) I didn't need to smoke a cigarette.

The point is was that it took a massive explosion to make a dent in my closed mind. And that dent was critical for me to change a life headed for failure to one en route to success. It is important for me to realize that the world is constantly changing and that I need to constantly increase my knowledge. This one of the things that I liked about the Online Business Alliance. I gave me an opportunity to join a community that could help guide me through all the material out there on the internet and save myself massive time and money.

My Family History

2008-01-23T14:39:00.000-05:00

That's my momma. Not the television program. My real mother. Her name is Agatha Coggins. She is a Director in PrePaid Legal. Because I've been doing a lot of training for people via my television shows I have been listening to a lot of the Top Sales Reps of the Prepaid Legal Organization It got me to thinking about my family tree.

The following is the History of Her Side of the Family: Minnie Matthew Reefe:

Approximately two hundred years ago, two brothers bought slaves in the State of Virginia. The brothers, Richard (Robert) Huff and Dick Huff, of Oglethorpe County (Goose Pond District), did not believe in slavery. They purchase "the help" to work the plantation. In exchange for working, "the help" acquired land, a portion of the croups raised, and even learned to read and write: None of the Huff Family was ever slaved [ps. this must mean after they were purchased by the Huff Brothers and set free], and the family owned the largest portion of Goose Pond District.

One brother, Richard Huff, bought Kitty Huff who became the housekeeper. She bore six children by the names of Lumpin, Wooden, Sire, Jim, William and Enus. Upon Richard Huff's death, Kitty inherited eight hundred acres of land which she split with her children.

The other brother, Dick Huff, bought a set of sisters by the names: Margaret, Julia and Nina Huff. Nina never marred or had children. Julia become Julia Huff Hubbard, and she had two sons, Frank and Henry Hubbard. The last sister, Margaret, married kitty's son, William Huff. They raised eight children, namely: Robert, Mandy, Julia, Minnie, Ford, Dease, William and Jim.

Robert was the oldest sibling born March 15, 1859. He joined Rocky Branch Baptist Church at an early age. He acted as a deacon until his death on December 13, 1952. Robert was father to Robert, Jr., Murden, Louise, Bessie, Claude, and Willie B. Bradford (stepson). Of these children only Bessie (usually know as Aunt Clay) is still alive. Because of here, and the blessing of her memory, we, the Huff Family have a history. Help fund the expansion of this history project by joining here.

More of the tree to come.

WVSR 1360. 1 AM 1 UP Cash Is For You

2008-01-22T12:18:00.000-05:00

Making Money Making Connections. The two go hand in hand. In the world, wealth is dependent on how well you get you message to the Masses. I had the pleasure of speaking with Van Stone.

I met Van through the Thoughts of Black Men Group. An online community I've been involved with for the last 2 years. I'll be blogging about them later. We'll the point is we had a chance to see each other's TECH and it was AWESOME.

My friend Louie Jones made a Youtube video on Networking and that is exactly what happened. Please support Louie and our Community by Making A $5.00 decision Right here

It was a meeting of two brothers dedicated to progress. Dedicated to helping others. Dedicated to debunking the myths about BLACKNESS. If you're looking to help empower yourself financially Join The 1 Up Cash Flow

Preeminence of Relationship

2008-01-21T18:35:00.000-05:00

Women!!! How important to humanity. Women!!! The carriers of the fertilized seeds. Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary Ph.D has written a wonderful report on the effects of not dealing with issue of race has had on the American Society. The book is Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome is awesome.

One of the points that struck me and continues to ring true is the following: "My audience tells me blacks are impacted economically through discriminatory hiring practices. Having little or no access to capital, blacks are seen as lacking business acumen. They are impacted by limited access to health care. They are impacted by over-representation in the criminal justice system and under-representation in the university system. They are impacted by redlining and other discriminatory practices barring them from finding housing in the areas of their choice. The list goes on." pg 22-23.

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It is funny, (I'm being sarcastic)when law makers in NJ would make statements like "I never owned in slaves". As if just because their lack of participation served as absolution of the crime. It's not just about Slavery. It's about the systematic oppression that is still taking place today.

One of the things which I found so hopeful in Obama was that a generation which didn't directly experience the trials of Dr. King and Malcolm X is coming of age. It is important that we point out the shortcomings of the preceding generation so that the assets can be built upon.

Dr. Martin Luther Kings legacy is a living one that is fanned with every non-black vote that Barak Obama gets. I look at my own experience streaming on the Internet and the hateful comments I get. But, I'm glad I focus on those who look beyond race, creed and economic background. I'm glad the Internet does offer Net-neutrality. I'm encouraged to be a leader a community that is spanning the global welcoming all who choose to make a brighter future for themselves. And I issue you an invitation to join us

Cast Down Your BUCKET

2008-01-19T19:08:00.000-05:00

Booker T Washington 1856-1915. Born a slave, he rose to National and International Renown. Booker T was the first teacher and principal of the Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, a school for African-Americans where he championed vocational training as a means for black self-reliance.

"A ship lost at sea for many days suddenly sighted a friendly vessel. From the mast of the unfortunate vessel was seen a signal, "Water, water; we die of thirst!" The answer from the friendly vessel at once came back, "Cast down your bucket where you are." A second time the signal, "Water, water; send us water!" ran up from the distressed vessel, and was answered, "Cast down your bucket where you are." And a third and fourth signal for water was answered, "Cast down your bucket where you are." The captain of the distressed vessel, at last heeding the injunction, cast down his bucket, and it came up full of fresh, sparkling water from the mouth of the Amazon River." I learn about this quote when I was in college. It is amazing how it is still as powerful to day as it was then. This quote is from the 1895 Address To Altanta Exposition. It was titled "A Better Approach To Healthy Race Relations" To read the full text it is available here.

With Black History Month right on our heels, it is important to count the blessing that this new year has brought. Financial I urge everyone to Cast Down Your Bucket by Joining Our Community. Contrary to what many political pundits may say about the Democratic Primary OBAMA has already WON. America has also WON.

America has won because racial attitudes are changing. I worked as a volunteer with the Obama campaign and it is mostly staffed by white people. I was on the train one day ago. I was on my way to a clients house to complete the job I was doing on their computer.

I was feeling a little tired and started snoozing. When I woke up I saw this Middle Aged White Man Looking at me smiling. I looked at his lapel and there was an Obama Button. He said, "Let's Cross our Fingers and Pray". He then handed me an Obama Button and exited the train.

Now why did he single me out? I was wearing my Obama hat. Obama is more than just a black candidate. But in some ways he's like Booker T in that is the first Black that many White Americans Respect enough to even consider to be a spokesperson for the country.

Dr. King birthday will be celebrated in two days. While I still get the racist "N**G*R" comments online, I am more hopeful for our country and the world than I have been in a long time. I realize today that we still have a great deal of healing to be done. I also realize that many of us have to let go and get out the way.

I guess it's knowledge of the Black Man's Experiences in recent history that drives me so hard to pursue financial freedom.

Mike Achieved #2 Google Ranking in Less Than 7 hours

2008-01-17T20:26:00.000-05:00

This was incredible. I could hardly believe it myself. I knew our community was awesome but this was ridculous.

Mike went out. Without a website and using a long, ugly affiliate url, he managed to get the number 2 ranking on the keywords Face Yoga. Now the term may seem odd to many, but face yoga was a recent topic on Oprah Winfrey. And we all know about the Oprah Effect. Whatever she talks about people want to know more about.

This was really great because I recently to the next step in the 1 Minute 30 Day Success System and moved into a bigger vehicle in our community. I talk more about in the following video. But if you can't wait for updates you can join here

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2008-01-10T01:05:00.001-05:00

It's is Here

2008-01-08T23:59:00.000-05:00

After much development the release date of the hit audio program 1 Minute 30 Day Success will be released January 21, 2008. Following in the footsteps of Napoleon Hill and Dale Carnegie, Clarence Coggins has gone a pursuit of excellence is now ready to share his findings in a concise, easy to use program. It doesn't matter what you skill level this is for you.

The audio program was slated to be priced at $2,000.00 but is has been deeply discounted for those who take action immediately. Call 973-943-4073. Skype me Clarence.Coggins1

Streaking via Streaming on the Internet

2008-01-08T13:59:00.000-05:00

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Streaming Video and Audio the next step in internet communications. Blogtv and Ustream are making a mark that will cause a massive shift in wealth on the Internet. Information, entertainment, education, commerce and communication are about to go into hyper drive.

To find out more call me at 973-943-4073 or skype me at clarence.coggins1 or visit 1 Minute 30 Day Success

It's Live

2007-12-31T21:10:00.000-05:00

Streaming Video/Audio bring the web experience to new levels. If you could do a live show what would you do it on? Would it be fiction or non-fiction, comedy or drama? Let me know.

Managing Large Groups On BlackPlanet.com

2007-12-31T12:40:00.000-05:00

I started out on BlackPlanet.com in 1999. I had learned about it in a Yahoo Chat room. It was absolutely amazing.

To see so many black people on the internet was mind boggling. It was at a time when I was homeless. I had heard about a search engine site call "Ask Jeeves".

At that time I was living in an abandoned funeral parlor on Clinton Avenue in Newark. It was just before the big blizzard that year. My only possessions at that time were a few pair of clothes, maybe two pairs of shoes, some drug paraphernalia and a radio. I also had a ton of fiction books to read.

I was messing around with some of the local hookers and when the blizzard hit I ran into one of them. I didn't have any money, but she had just left a guy in a motel room who was loaded. She told me that she was tired of him. Tired of the drugs he had for her and just wanted to be with someone else. That someone was me for the moment.

We went to the abandoned house she was frequenting and she got me high. I wanted to do the deed, but she just wasn't feeling it. So we talked. Then she said to me "You've got to get a better hustle."

Those words motivated me to want to write and publish another book. Before I had became homeless, I had self-published. The book hadn't done that well, but I sold a few copies. I attribute the lack of sales do to lack of marketing effort. The books that did sell came from News Releases.

So how does a homeless man write a book? I started with a spiral notepad and I started a story called Escapades at the Honeymooners which was based on my using days. At that time I didn't think that I had a problem. I was always looking at the stopping, never looking at the using. As you can see from the title, I wanted to utilized the popularity of the Jackie Gleason Show. Shadows of great things to come.

Still being homeless I didn't have a computer with word processing abilities. I went to the local library and they had internet access. And what I did a search for free internet email services. If I could use a word processor I figured I would email myself the chapter.

TO BE CONTINUED......

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Making Time Out For Your Friends

2007-12-31T07:34:00.000-05:00

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One thing about being on the internet as a full time marketer I get to meet a lot of people. Some people are just user names, other people have become part of my life.

The internet is a fun and wonderful place where we can express ourselves and creative talents like no other media. An important part of enjoying the internet is not taking it too seriously.

Don't bet the house mortgage on a business opportunity if you don't know a thing about the internet. People may say it is easy. They may tell you that you don't have to anything but fork over the cash and you will get rich. Don't believe the hype.

The following is a quote from Stop Being A Victim by Dave Gray
"If you were a crook and all you cared about was getting lots of people to send you money, how would you go about it?

Would you tell people that they need to work hard? Probably not. After all, most people are pretty busy and they may be working hard already.

No, you'd probably tell people that it's easy to make money on the Internet... in fact it's so easy that they can make money while they're sleeping!

You'd tell them they don't need to do anything... they don't need to know anything... all they need to do is to send you some money and they'll get rich!

You'd tell them that you're an expert at making money on the Internet... or in stocks... or in real estate... or in exchanging foreign currencies (FOREX)... or in exchanging digital currencies over the Internet... or whatever you think people will believe... and that you can make a lot more money (and you're willing to share it with them) if they'll send you some money!

That's exactly what you'd do if you were an Internet crook!"

Awareness is the key. Not everyone on the internet has your best interest at heart. We have use judgment when dealing with people.

Let's briefly look at another aspect is online romance:

Lot's of crooks are playing with people emotions saying that they are seeking "TRUE LOVE". It's a con people. They want to get into your bank accounts.

I had one person approach me the other day. I replied in my chat "Do you have $5,000?". I then said, "Send the money via Western Union". To which they replied I was a scammer. LOL

No I wasn't the scam artist. I saw through where that person was going. Trying to get to my banking information.

It's cool to meet people on the Internet. I've met many people both on and off-line. You just need to be careful. Let other people know when you are going me new people. While we all wish we lived in a Perfect World, some people are sicker than others.

Well I'd love to hear what you have to say on the matter. The book Stop Being A Victim is featured in our book club on Rotatrix Friends

Devils In Our Midst

2007-12-25T21:01:00.000-05:00

With the New Stadium in Newark, NJ, excitement and interest in the NJ Devils is growing. With that in mind My Perfect Network Answer wants to know who do you think is the Best NJ Devil of All Time.

* Viacheslav Fetisov D, 1989-95
* Doug Gilmour LW, 1996-98
* Lanny McDonald, RW, 1979-81 (Colorado Rockies)
* Peter Stastny, C, 1990-93
* Scott Stevens, D, 1991-2004

are all members of the Hall of Fame? But who is really the best? Join our group NJ Devils Fans and let us know. Also how is your Fantasy Hockey Team doing this season? Share your tips and tricks for that winning combination.

What's a sport's group doing on a business themed Social Network Site? The answer should be obvious. Professional Sports has the best of the best in it rank. Forget about all the scandals, the drugs, and the misconduct by some members. It took a lot of hard work, effort and discipline to make it to the Minors.

Those are the qualities that are need to survive in business. A burning desire to win, reach the next level of development, and surpass past accomplishment are the exist in the winners of business.

It is a wonderful place to see how the ability to work with a team pays off. How even if one meets with defeat on the field, victory is still achieved by not quitting.

There are other benefits to sports. It provides a healthy diversion from business as usual. It also provides a reason to come together and bond. Bonding is a key point in social networking so My Perfect Network Answer address this. The Devils is the first fan group on the site, but the promotes expect that with other sports rivalry going on a NY Rangers groups won't be too far behind.

New Jersey Devils Fan on My Perfect Network Answer

How To Market Good Naked

2007-12-24T14:33:00.000-05:00

Did you know that four out of five American women today say they are dissatisfied with their bodies? http://hudsonliberty.com/1minute.html To help change their perception, Lifetime Television has crossed the Atlantic and brought Britain's hit reality series "How to Look Good Naked" to the States. Hosted by Carson Kressley ("Queer Eye for the Straight Guy"), the show teaches women of all shapes and sizes how to go from self-loathing to self-loving without resorting to interventions like extreme dieting or cosmetic surgery.

Just like the show talks about and teaches. Marketing on today's internet requires the same type of getting to the heart of the matter. Strip away all the flash and get down to who you are.

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Once that is done you can get to an effective my story. You can share your failures as well as your triumphs. Clarence Coggins is looking to bring real hard core marketing to the average person and small business on South Street. The reason why South Street is mentioned because everyone looks at Main Street. It's the merchants on the side streets that are in E.R. Condition.

Check out both programs. One on Looking Good Naked. The other on Marketing Good Naked

It's a SET-UP!!!

2007-10-26T10:01:00.000-04:00

Okay, Clarence here. This another step in the conquest of the cyber-marketing arena. Just 2 days away from being the second 30 day period, I'm making my initial sorties here on Bloggers. If you are just coming check out The Homebase , Our Advanced Communication Post and Our Barracks.