Convenient Converting and I don't mean religion

Because I have lived with a television as part of my culture for my entire life, I can say with much bias that this insturment has the power to influence like no other in the history of man and womankind. Consider the millions that schedule activities around television programming or the billions spent on service and equipment in order to allow television on demand.
Our whole lives can be summed up by the programming we accept as illustration of reality. Television is so bold as to give us reality television (scripted, edited and completely out of context-of course). How could we possibly separate television from reality now?

Billions of dollars have been spent by our government to convert television analog to digital so that all red blooded American can have access to better pictures and more programming. Billions that should have gone to schools that need basic supplies let alone digital television. How does mankind justify ignorance. Root word: ignore. Ignorance is not stupidity. Ignorance is being able to know but choosing not to know. Choice can be summed up by the following illustration:

Check your local tv listing for programming that is not produced by network television or corporate America, corporate anyting. You may not be able to distinguish who is producing the programming but one can surely make the distinction between daytime and nighttime soap operas, mindless sitcoms and self-serving investigative reporting. Check out the science channel, the discovery channel or the local public school district broadcast. We have one and it is not bad.

Getting involved in solutions requires choice. Make the choice to be less ignorant, don't ignore what your environment, your body or your family for programming that will make you sicker, sorrier or sadder.

Make it a great day.
Artemis

Spring Break Blues

We spent the week in the Blue Ridge Mountains of the Carolinas. Breathtaking!
Grandfather Mountains deserves a mention or two. We spent a few days in Boone, Blowing Rock and the surrounding communitites and managed to run into the head of the local travel soccer club. And I thought we had issues! My hat's off to the leadership whose current project has them rounding up almost 2 millions dollars. Perhaps we have been setting our sights too low? Hmmm.

This club has managed to acquire the property to establish their very own home fields. Makes me wonder if we could do that in our area?? Alas, I suffer along with them and signed up on the silent auction for a week's stay at a local condo. Guess what happens next. You got it. I get to go back to the is beautiful area to use my silent auction winnings. Perhaps this summer I will attend the Apalachian Arts Festival in Boone held each year at the Appalachian State University.

Back to the vacation, and the mountains and traveling with three boys of various maturity.
Quite varied I might add. We survived our own company and enjoyed our stay a great deal.
Spending some time exploring the town and the beauty of the region was a great way to spend our break.

My blogging didn't go unnoticed. I spent some time figuring out the messages I want to promote and reading more of the book I purchased before I began this adventure. What will soon follow will be the compilation of weeks of study and research that only scratches the surface of the endeaver and the global impact it will have.

Whew, that was a mouthful should I ever need to utter it verbally. For now it resides on this clean white and very bright "page."

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The Chronicals

The regularity of my postings doesn't seem to match the eagerness with which I initially launched this campaign into the world of blogging. But don't let that be the only indication of my commitment to this project as I have been very busy researching in order to understand the real benefit of blogging and how to use it effectively to reach the audience.

You see, I have several projects that will soon be using blogs to broadcast and educate, all for very different purposes. One is a small town youth sports association, another a coaching system for soccer and a third a very successful custom trim and cabinet company that is ready to take over the world, one county at a time.

Understanding what works and doesn't work gives me the focus I need to approach these projects with the right ammunition.

Off to Ft. Lauderdale for compliance training in the world of financial services, yet another one of the skills I have acquired through training, education, testing, in the field and on the phone.

More to come on the trials and tribulations of starting a blog.

Regards,
Artemis