I went to relax at my favorite Starbucks which is located at the Old
Britnel Bookstore Store at Yonge and Bloor. One week earlier, they had a
camera crew present available to interview customers for a training
video, or so I was told. Then on a Tuesday afternoon, the VP of
Starbucks Canada was the subject of a TV type interviews staged at the
back of the store. There were four crew members present that day,
operating two DSLR cameras, including two LED lighting systems. Yes, it
is safe to say I enviously ogled and admired the equipment in their
small, humble set up. Behind the VP, the entire store was the
background. Looking at the scene unfold, I thought back to my days as a
permitee grip for IATSE 873, a local film union hall. For thirteen years
I eked out a living as a grip crew member. Such a position is highly
competitive. In that field, one will see father working with his sons,
mothers working with their daughters, all union members, of course.
Sometimes one of the daughters were pregnant, all the way they would
pride themselves on knowing their equipment and the duties that go with
it. "It is in the family," they would say. Only I was one of those
without family. Sadly, on October 2012, the VP of IASTE 873, Dan Ford,
terminated my employment with the union hall, ending my career as a
grip, citing too many complaints. Like I said, it is highly competitive
in that industry. Period. I have lots of memories though of that
thirteen year experience. Looking over the small shoot at Britnel Books,
I can recall many experiences. One such experience comes to mind. In
the last decade, I had a telephone call, the dispatch operator
instructed me to go to a production office at 7am. This was not out of
the ordinary at all. I made it to the production office at 645am. Being
fifteen minutes early to a shooting call was expected. The production
van picked up some waiting crew members and drove us out to Cambridge,
Ontario. When we arrived at the farm, I immediately reported to my
department head at the grip truck, did the usual dozen page manifesto of
paperwork. I then went to attend to my assigned duties. In time, the
boss made me aware that there was three units shooting on the farm and I
was to report to one of the units. So I strolled through the farmers'
field, making my way to the Second Unit shooting crew. I then reported
to my department head, explained the mix up, and then again went to
attend to my duties. Yes, it did not take long for me to again to get
noticed, and dispatched to Unit Three, where I again explained the mix
up. At this juncture, I entered the shooting location which was a farm
house. Between takes the British film director played a piano. As I
examined the location further, I came across actress Sharon Stone,
holding a baby boy. In person, her hair was grayish, but she was still a
beauty to behold. Since the location was remote, moving equipment
around on carts proved to be a challenge. At the end of the night, I was
at the grip truck. The man at the grip truck is always giving the
moniker The Truck Boss. Whenever someone calls on the walkie talkie Grip
Channel from set for a piece of equipment, the truck mate would find
the equipment, give it to a waiting crew member, who would sail it onto
set. At the end of the night, more equipment then usual was outside in
the coming rain, waiting to be stored on the Grip Truck. Since the farm
had endured three film units with different crews and equipment, our
Grip Truck was last to close down for the night. All the other crews had
closed down their vehicles and had gone home for the night. So it was
230am. The truck boss was at a low time in the day and in his life and
indulging in recreational drug use. Without warning, the other members
of the department arrived back; saw all the extra equipment outside and
the lack of space to put it away. When they met the truck boss, saw him
in his sad state of mind, they all exploded on the hapless man. "I would
expect this out of you!" one would rage.
"Look at you," another
would add, "You are stoned!" The men raged, cursed, and threatened to
expose the man in charge for his delinquency in his duties. It was at
this moment, the truck boss broke down, cried, and his weeping went
against the raging, red faced men. His weeping and their gnashing of
teeth only added to the woe at such an hour. I was always a lowly
permittee at IATSE 873, a non-member, never a member. I was stupefied
with such a spectacle of witnessing a scene of self-pity and the rage
that collided with it. It was humorous, yet sad, and oh the hour!
Suddenly, I noticed the production van, waiting for anyone going back to
Toronto. I looked at the raging men. "Am I call back?!" I begged. "No!"
they fired back in unison. With that in mind, I thanked them for having
me, which I always did, and I stumbled into the vehicle to be brought
back to Toronto. When I got home at an ungodly hour, I listened to the
voicemail, revealing a call steward requesting I return for a call back.
So at the appointed time, I returned to the production office, boarded
the production van to Cambridge, arrived at the location, reported to
the Department boss. I then joined my co-workers to attend to our
duties. Everyone had red eyes, but was ready for another day. The movie
director was back behind the piano on the farm. And Sharon Stone still
had it too! This whole way of life ended on October 2012 when Dan Ford,
VP at IATSE 873, terminated my employment and association with the film
union hall. The backstabbing, the office politics, and the nepotism, all
led to a long list of complaints. Yes, it is highly competitive in the
film industry. I survived it for thirteen years. Some can't endure a
fourteen hour day and they have a film degree too. If they asked me to
return, would I do it?! Absolutely! But they would never have me back.
It's not in the family!
Paul Collins author of Mack Dunstan's Inferno/Mystery of Everyman's Way
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Friday, September 25, 2015
JP Pampena, A Father’s Day Wish
If there was ever an award given for the true meaning of courage I would
think the person who would win that award hands down would be a very
special man by the name of JP Pampena, a single parent who has been
completely blind since age 24. He is now 59 years of age, and has not
only had to deal with his own day to day challenges, but for the past 3
years he also helped care for his loving wife Paulette Pampena till the
day she died of liver cancer on Friday, July 11th 2014. Since her
passing, JP has dedicated his life to his severely disabled daughter
Nicole Pampena who is 20 years old and weighs 50 LBS, and if she could
stand on her own would be just less than 3 feet tall. She cannot walk,
talk or swallow. She is tube fed and requires 7/24 suctioning. She is
wheel chair bound and has full blown scoliosis of the back of 180
degrees. She has been hospitalized 157 times out of her 240 months of
life. Despite all her medical problems Nicole is one of the happiest
little girls you would ever want to meet.” I guess she takes after her
dad”, states Tony Roma a long time family friend. “JP is one of the most
amazing men I have ever known, considering all of his challenges”
states Gina Rosati also a friend of 40 years. JP makes everything look
so easy and tries to do his best at everything he does. He starts his
day with a 45 minute exercise workout before he sees his daughter off to
School. He then showers, gets dressed has breakfast and then gets ready
for his busy day. He faxes letters to politicians for more funding for
Nicole's nursing bills. He makes sure all the nursing care is in place
for the week. He also looks after setting up weekend respite
appointments for his daughter. He helps train new nurses who are added
to Nicole's healthcare team at home. He also arranges medical
appointments for Nicole. He tries to organize as many conference calls
as he possibly can with government heads, meets with his daughter's
teachers and her CCAC representatives to discuss new communication
devises for Nicole. “It is a busy household from the start of dawn till
dusk,” states Mr. Pampena. “I am always looking for volunteers to help
us. I need drivers to take Nicole to her appointments and to visit her
Mom. I always need people to help me with my lawn cutting, snow plow
removal and cleaning people.” In between all this, JP still finds time
to help the 3 nursing shifts look after his beautiful little girl
Nicole. He looks after maintaining Nicole's wheelchair van along with
all the upkeep of Nicole's special equipment she uses during the day. JP
also looks after maintaining all of his own household chores and
attempts to make his own meals. If that's not enough, he trys to make a
living doing some part time PR consulting work for a Toronto based
mobile hairstyling and aesthetic service called Stylist on Call Inc.
However with all this said and done, 70% of his time is spent writing to
Doctor Eric Hoskins, the new Minister of Health, asking him for more
funding for Nicole's nursing care at home. “The Ministry would rather I
institutionalize my daughter at a cost of over $37,000.00 per month to
the state rather than to help me keep her at home for $23,000.00 per
month,” said Mr. Pampena, “Unless the Minister of Health steps up to the
plate to help us I will get further and further into debt and risk
losing our home to the bank for the funds I have had to borrow to stay
afloat for past nursing bills to cover both my wife's and daughter's
healthcare needs”. If you’re touched by this story and would like to
help Mr. Pampena keep his daughter at home with him. You can choose to
help him by making a donation for his father's day fundraising drive by
googling Nicole Miracle Wish page and go to gofundme.com donation page.
Paul Collins author of Mack Dunstan's Inferno/Mystery of Everyman's Way
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Paul Collins author of Mack Dunstan's Inferno/Mystery of Everyman's Way
Buy Paul Collins books at http://www.amazon.com/Paul-Collins/e/B003LRE5F0/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1
See Paul Collins videos at
https://www.youtube.com/user/pollywolly77
Training Business Pros with Paul Tobey
“This is the one and only
full-fledged Digital Marketing & Sales Certification Training
program to be funded by the government,” exclaimed Paul Tobey with a
flashing smile as he introduced his company to students at their
headquarters, located at 25 Lesmill Road in North Toronto.
“The Canada Job Grant Program has over $1 Billon in Grant money to fund training programs like this one.” He then looked around with more smiles, as if he were planning to play more jazz tunes. “And that is why many of you are here now!” he added, spinning on his heels, to write notes with a marker on the flipchart behind him. As a matter of fact, at the end of the day, this flipchart paper would cover the room like wallpaper. He would make it a point that all of the attendees refresh themselves throughout the course of what they’d learned using the flipcharts as a reference point.
Paul Tobey was born on a farm in Owensound, Ontario. He is the son of a United Church Minister. His father not only owned a moving company to help raise a family but he also at one time dabbled in politics, running for local elections in the Joe Clarke Government in the late 1970’s. But that is all water under the bridge.
In what he calls his former life, Paul Tobey played the piano for 42 years, becoming an award winning jazz concert pianist. He toured 21 countries and created a body of work that included 7 albums. It was a fun life but it barely paid the bills.
Due to constant practice and discipline, this artist had the chutzpa to score an 8 record deal stateside with Arkadia Jazz, the largest independent record label in the USA. While he was generally successful at finding gigs, it was still an artist’s income. And when September 11th, 2001 happened, the jazz label located in close proximity to ground zero, would go silent. This already fragile jazz business suffered and Tobey’s career in jazz didn’t survive.
Without the label’s support, Tobey’s career also plunged. Consequently, Tobey lost his home and had to move back with his family, living in the spare room. Feeling defeated by the onset of this reality, Paul slipped into depression. However, “with every new challenge comes two solutions and 1 opportunity”. This industrious man then did something he never thought he would do, he went to self-help books to reset his brain and heart. It did not take long for Tobey explore the opportunities that evolved out of .com craze, and set his mind at redefining himself, mastering the blue ocean that was the internet.
Tobey went back to the drawing board. He learned everything he could about internet marketing and completed his Train the Trainer Certifications. He read books by Joe Vitale, originator of hypnotic copywriting and motivational books like John Assaraf’s “Having it All”.
Through the help of digital marketers in Australia and Texas, Paul experimented with online conversions. Through more trial and error, the jazz man then practiced the art of Search Engine Optimization, or SEO. In September 04, 05, and 06, he began by selling Christmas sheet-music, and his newfound SEO skills made him the number one web site on Google for keywords such as Christmas sheet music.
After several ventures of varying levels of success, he grasped the value of developing a list. He redefined his goal: rather than trying to sell someone right away, he made it his goal to attract a larger amount of leads and capture the customer data of everyone that went to his web site.
Paul built a site which promoted “Advanced Online Piano Lessons, coming soon!” He had people opt in to a list where they would receive a discount when the lessons were ready, in exchange recommendations for song selection they would like included in the downloadable jazz piano lessons.
Production took time. Paul had to hire a film crew to film the 10 piano lessons. He wasn’t satisfied with their editing, so he had to scrap what they did and try again. Then it took him six months to learn how to edit video and sync perfectly with audio. Finally, the courses were ready.
“I went to a Tony Robbins event, but before I left, I sent out an email to the list, thanking everyone for their patience. I cut prices and gave everyone a deal. I was on my way to the car…my phone buzzed. I pulled up at the red light, it buzzed again. 48 hours passed and my 30 thousand initial investment was returned. "
Fast forward, Paul became one of Canada’s leading digital marketers. With his wife he co-founded Training Business Pros which went on to train over 50 thousand businesses, with thousands becoming loyal tribe members.
The Tobey team grew quickly and they site this growth due to their #1 core inside advantage “we stay fresh, current and relevant”. The team is deeply committed to staying on top of what is new in the world of digital marketing. “We only train on what we can prove with metrics. If we only read about it or heard about it, we don’t train it. Only if we get real world results with the digital marketing strategy do we train it.”
He dropped a bomb at one point when he said, “SEO is dead, and User Experience Optimization is in!” To all of the trainees, this seemed to unlock a hidden growth opportunity. Training Business Pros prides itself on printing their manuals the day before, to ensure their students get the most up-to-date information.
In the Digital Marketing and Sales Certification program, be prepared to take notes, notes, and more notes! You also learn by doing. Bring your laptop and start implementing in the classroom.
Training Business Pros also differentiates itself by edu-taining. Their presentation style is the exact opposite of a university lecture. TBP will give you the energetic presentation from an award winning concerto jazz pianist, which produces an energetic response from its attendees.
Sessions are broken up with working exercises, and collaborative assignments where participants shuffle to different tables, and team up with other professionals where networking and new connections are encouraged.
"I work in the beauty industry,” says Dee Sarwan, during one moment at the seminar, “I am not a techie, but I need to keep up to date with my website. I shouldn't have to rely on someone else for this. All I need is a refresher course. So I don't have to pay someone to do my website."
Nick Longo, TBP’s Small Business Advisor said “We have two types of clients; business owners who take advantage of our 5-year tuition, and the employees who are sent on behalf of their company through the Canada Job Grant”. With professional enthusiasm, Tobey guides attendees through strategies on how to capture new leads, where to place conversion triggers on eye catching blogs, how to rank better using social media and PPC strategies. He also promotes Customer Lifecycle Marketing, how to use nurture campaigns, data-mining strategies and re-targeting campaigns.
At Training Business Pros, one will learn original content is important. Like the FBI in a flower van on the outside, Google watches reader reaction.
For example, a Blog Post needs to engage. Google can see the scroll rate, time on page, bounce rate, including grammar and spelling, placement of keywords in the title, description, inbound links, relevant images, social shares, captions, and author authority. Do the people who reach your site click it, read it, and engage with it? Do they believe it!?
There was no end of information dispensed at this training. He also suggested business books for attendees to read. Robert Bloom’s Inside Advantage, Verne Harnish’s Scaling Up and of course his own “Brain Dead Offer #1”. Back to the flipchart, with a marker Tobey would scrawl critical business intelligence to help businesses own their digital marketing strategies.
Training Business Pros does not hold out. If you hope to learn you’re inside advantage and leverage this for your digital marketing strategies, this may be for you. And the government would pay up to 83.3% of this course! For more information, go to https://www.trainingbusinesspros.com/.
Paul Collins author of Mack Dunstan's Inferno/Mystery of Everyman's Way
Buy Paul Collins books at http://www.amazon.com/Paul-Collins/e/B003LRE5F0/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1
See Paul Collins videos at
https://www.youtube.com/user/pollywolly77
“The Canada Job Grant Program has over $1 Billon in Grant money to fund training programs like this one.” He then looked around with more smiles, as if he were planning to play more jazz tunes. “And that is why many of you are here now!” he added, spinning on his heels, to write notes with a marker on the flipchart behind him. As a matter of fact, at the end of the day, this flipchart paper would cover the room like wallpaper. He would make it a point that all of the attendees refresh themselves throughout the course of what they’d learned using the flipcharts as a reference point.
Paul Tobey was born on a farm in Owensound, Ontario. He is the son of a United Church Minister. His father not only owned a moving company to help raise a family but he also at one time dabbled in politics, running for local elections in the Joe Clarke Government in the late 1970’s. But that is all water under the bridge.
In what he calls his former life, Paul Tobey played the piano for 42 years, becoming an award winning jazz concert pianist. He toured 21 countries and created a body of work that included 7 albums. It was a fun life but it barely paid the bills.
Due to constant practice and discipline, this artist had the chutzpa to score an 8 record deal stateside with Arkadia Jazz, the largest independent record label in the USA. While he was generally successful at finding gigs, it was still an artist’s income. And when September 11th, 2001 happened, the jazz label located in close proximity to ground zero, would go silent. This already fragile jazz business suffered and Tobey’s career in jazz didn’t survive.
Without the label’s support, Tobey’s career also plunged. Consequently, Tobey lost his home and had to move back with his family, living in the spare room. Feeling defeated by the onset of this reality, Paul slipped into depression. However, “with every new challenge comes two solutions and 1 opportunity”. This industrious man then did something he never thought he would do, he went to self-help books to reset his brain and heart. It did not take long for Tobey explore the opportunities that evolved out of .com craze, and set his mind at redefining himself, mastering the blue ocean that was the internet.
Tobey went back to the drawing board. He learned everything he could about internet marketing and completed his Train the Trainer Certifications. He read books by Joe Vitale, originator of hypnotic copywriting and motivational books like John Assaraf’s “Having it All”.
Through the help of digital marketers in Australia and Texas, Paul experimented with online conversions. Through more trial and error, the jazz man then practiced the art of Search Engine Optimization, or SEO. In September 04, 05, and 06, he began by selling Christmas sheet-music, and his newfound SEO skills made him the number one web site on Google for keywords such as Christmas sheet music.
After several ventures of varying levels of success, he grasped the value of developing a list. He redefined his goal: rather than trying to sell someone right away, he made it his goal to attract a larger amount of leads and capture the customer data of everyone that went to his web site.
Paul built a site which promoted “Advanced Online Piano Lessons, coming soon!” He had people opt in to a list where they would receive a discount when the lessons were ready, in exchange recommendations for song selection they would like included in the downloadable jazz piano lessons.
Production took time. Paul had to hire a film crew to film the 10 piano lessons. He wasn’t satisfied with their editing, so he had to scrap what they did and try again. Then it took him six months to learn how to edit video and sync perfectly with audio. Finally, the courses were ready.
“I went to a Tony Robbins event, but before I left, I sent out an email to the list, thanking everyone for their patience. I cut prices and gave everyone a deal. I was on my way to the car…my phone buzzed. I pulled up at the red light, it buzzed again. 48 hours passed and my 30 thousand initial investment was returned. "
Fast forward, Paul became one of Canada’s leading digital marketers. With his wife he co-founded Training Business Pros which went on to train over 50 thousand businesses, with thousands becoming loyal tribe members.
The Tobey team grew quickly and they site this growth due to their #1 core inside advantage “we stay fresh, current and relevant”. The team is deeply committed to staying on top of what is new in the world of digital marketing. “We only train on what we can prove with metrics. If we only read about it or heard about it, we don’t train it. Only if we get real world results with the digital marketing strategy do we train it.”
He dropped a bomb at one point when he said, “SEO is dead, and User Experience Optimization is in!” To all of the trainees, this seemed to unlock a hidden growth opportunity. Training Business Pros prides itself on printing their manuals the day before, to ensure their students get the most up-to-date information.
In the Digital Marketing and Sales Certification program, be prepared to take notes, notes, and more notes! You also learn by doing. Bring your laptop and start implementing in the classroom.
Training Business Pros also differentiates itself by edu-taining. Their presentation style is the exact opposite of a university lecture. TBP will give you the energetic presentation from an award winning concerto jazz pianist, which produces an energetic response from its attendees.
Sessions are broken up with working exercises, and collaborative assignments where participants shuffle to different tables, and team up with other professionals where networking and new connections are encouraged.
"I work in the beauty industry,” says Dee Sarwan, during one moment at the seminar, “I am not a techie, but I need to keep up to date with my website. I shouldn't have to rely on someone else for this. All I need is a refresher course. So I don't have to pay someone to do my website."
Nick Longo, TBP’s Small Business Advisor said “We have two types of clients; business owners who take advantage of our 5-year tuition, and the employees who are sent on behalf of their company through the Canada Job Grant”. With professional enthusiasm, Tobey guides attendees through strategies on how to capture new leads, where to place conversion triggers on eye catching blogs, how to rank better using social media and PPC strategies. He also promotes Customer Lifecycle Marketing, how to use nurture campaigns, data-mining strategies and re-targeting campaigns.
At Training Business Pros, one will learn original content is important. Like the FBI in a flower van on the outside, Google watches reader reaction.
For example, a Blog Post needs to engage. Google can see the scroll rate, time on page, bounce rate, including grammar and spelling, placement of keywords in the title, description, inbound links, relevant images, social shares, captions, and author authority. Do the people who reach your site click it, read it, and engage with it? Do they believe it!?
There was no end of information dispensed at this training. He also suggested business books for attendees to read. Robert Bloom’s Inside Advantage, Verne Harnish’s Scaling Up and of course his own “Brain Dead Offer #1”. Back to the flipchart, with a marker Tobey would scrawl critical business intelligence to help businesses own their digital marketing strategies.
Training Business Pros does not hold out. If you hope to learn you’re inside advantage and leverage this for your digital marketing strategies, this may be for you. And the government would pay up to 83.3% of this course! For more information, go to https://www.trainingbusinesspros.com/.
Paul Collins author of Mack Dunstan's Inferno/Mystery of Everyman's Way
Buy Paul Collins books at http://www.amazon.com/Paul-Collins/e/B003LRE5F0/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1
See Paul Collins videos at
https://www.youtube.com/user/pollywolly77
Real Estate Speculators Should Go to Jail For Housing Bubble PSA
There is more land in Canada than anywhere in the world. More water, more oil and gas, including natural resources. Yet, when the average American comes to Toronto they have to pay 7 dollars for a beer?! What happened?!
In the 1970's, land was cheap. One could buy a home in Toronto for $25,000 or a mansion for $50,000. When Prime Minister Trudeau got into power he opened the doors allowing all kinds of immigrants into Canada. This is not a bad thing. Immigration increases diversity and makes the joint less boring. Certain members of this ethnic group, not mentioning any names, gravitated to certain areas. When they came, they saw cheap land and they bought it, selling it back to members in their homeland for a bigger value. In the 1980's such a move exploded the value of homes in Canada.
At present, in Toronto everywhere you go in the city, you will find a construction site, building a condo. If you drive into the city on the expressway, you will notice a wall of condos going up. It is that obvious. It is not just one, or two, going up, it is more than the entire amount of condos in the state of New York. They are expected to remain empty and house no one. One ponders the fact government officials are getting rich off of this arrangement. They must have nice offshore accounts for this one. If you travel by transit, there is a construction crane at every stop.
Canada's population is 35 million, strongly concentrated in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, and Vancouver. We do not have a land shortage. Everything is too spread out for that. The condos that are going up are investment property. The Canada mortgage and housing corporation (CMHC) was created as a guide book for the real estate market. In reality, it represents the real estate investors, not renters, homeowner, or potential first time home buyers. The federal government is gutting it, no longer protecting real estate investors. Foreign investors should expect a good shock with popping sound in their investments in Canada.
You want more proof? It is no longer a shock to see those in their 20's, 30's, or even 40's, living with their aged parents in Canada. Don't believe that one. Visualize this. Cash strapped university graduates with MBA's team up with other university graduates from school. They borrow money, buy investment property in the suburbs, and turn the home into a grow-op, all to pay down the mortgage. They repeat the process. Maybe someone finds out, but no one cares. It is all too common. If the police do not find them then the fire department will. If first time home buyers are not involved in such a scam, Canadian Real Estate agents are. Take a look here.
Everyone knows someone, looking at the classified section, looking to buy a cheap home stateside. Forget the media business prognosticators, or business advisers in the financial services industry. They are paid well to keep everyone calm. "Now is the time to invest," they will tell you if you call your broker up. All lies, but someone has to be paid to do that. If you missed the message, press the replay button.
Developers finance political campaigns. The media only reflect the opinions that come from real estate agents and the companies that they work for. They all say the real estate market is hot in Canada, not in a bubble which it has been since the 1980's. If you did not get the memo, the real estate market in Canada is over inflated. I, like many others who live here, fully expect to see a Japanization of the Canadian housing market. What is that? Japanization was a real estate crash that happened in the 90's in Japan, which led to home values in Japan to return to 1983 price levels. Ouch! The rich in Canada need to learn such a lesson. They have no sense of social responsibility, only greed, arrogance, and stupidity. They are not even the right caliber of individual to exercise such power that would decide the fate of nations, let alone the lives of their own citizens. They just look at the balance book. If it is not in their backyard, why should they care? That is their mentality, period.
No politician would discuss such an issue in the media. The developers would not allow it. Real Estate agents all want their commission checks. Everyone should be paid. Political campaigns should be financed. Real Estate investors from foreign countries should not have to learn a hard lesson in investing in Canada. Such an experience would cause those with money overseas to lose their shirts, causing massive unemployment and social unrest. Maybe people with money need to learn such a lesson. If you read this far, find and sign a nondisclosure agreement, send it to someone, and believe that corporate media machine about the hot housing market in Canada. One wonders why I wrote and produced an Anti CMHC PSA to promote my books on my You Tube Channel at
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Sex Ed Should Change to Thought Management
Some
people can’t manage their thoughts, their thoughts manage them, leading
to more alcoholics, drug addicts, depression, obesity, anorexia, child
molesters, some diseases, and gays. In order to complete this picture,
we must see the commonality in all people.
Can we correct these behaviors? If not, nature does have variety. The only way to work with it is to look to the past. Look all the way to Ancient Greece and Rome, where Aristotle and Plato wrote about it. Remember the Roman Bacchii cults? In 323 the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity, made it the official religion and banned any other experimental life style.
The Bacchii cults are no different from today’s rave culture. When Hermann Hesse wrote in his time, he wrote against Hitler and the Nazis.
Surprisingly, when the 1960’s arrived, the young people rediscovered his books and applied his philosophy against American Imperialism, leading to the successes in the Civil Rights movement and the woman’s right to vote. In that era, they had noble ideals and it had positive results, yet today’s activists have lost their ideals and direction. Activist in the past had goals, ideals and this led to progress.
Today’s activists are not happy with this reality; they have to create a new reality. This comes in the forms of labels. For example, the terms ‘homophobic’, ‘sexist’, and ‘racist’ were created because someone used their mind. Unfortunately, those who use such terms do not use their minds but label. They label everything, backing it up with raw emotion, causing endless arguments which lead to censorship, much like the dogma from organized religion that was so prevalent in the past, stifling reason and fair debate.
Just look in government, politicians reflect public opinions, and when they get to a position of power, they do the opposite, which has led to the decline of liberalism in Canada and in Europe and the rise of Conservatism, which is against the very ideals they mimicked from higher education. Thus, the only way to give liberalism a fighting chance is to eradicate politically correct studies in school. In exchange, Sex Ed in the school system should be changed to Thought Management and pattern such a course on Hermann Hesse’s book, The Glass Bead Game.
Such a course would begin with a five to ten minute meditation and teach youngsters the power of positive affirmations and creative visualizations. For example, ‘I am the Master of my own fate.’ Or how about ‘I am the Captain of my own soul!’ To combat depression—‘Concentrate on sadness and you will be sad.’ ‘I manage my own thoughts, my thoughts don’t manage me.’ Such affirmations should be created, studied, memorized.
Thought Management should be taught and the curriculum decided by proven Indigo Adults. Why? If a regular teacher taught Thought Management, it would end up much like political correctness, which has created a generation of narrow minded ideologues, proving human intuition goes further than the study of psychology. If this generation is unconventional and experimental, let’s help them to expand their minds, be centered, and enlightened. This generation is transformative and should not be labelled. If some of them are still set in their own ways, nature does have variety.
Thought Management is the Sex Ed of the 21st century!
Paul Collins author of Mack Dunstan's Inferno/Mystery of Everyman's Way
Can we correct these behaviors? If not, nature does have variety. The only way to work with it is to look to the past. Look all the way to Ancient Greece and Rome, where Aristotle and Plato wrote about it. Remember the Roman Bacchii cults? In 323 the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity, made it the official religion and banned any other experimental life style.
The Bacchii cults are no different from today’s rave culture. When Hermann Hesse wrote in his time, he wrote against Hitler and the Nazis.
Surprisingly, when the 1960’s arrived, the young people rediscovered his books and applied his philosophy against American Imperialism, leading to the successes in the Civil Rights movement and the woman’s right to vote. In that era, they had noble ideals and it had positive results, yet today’s activists have lost their ideals and direction. Activist in the past had goals, ideals and this led to progress.
Today’s activists are not happy with this reality; they have to create a new reality. This comes in the forms of labels. For example, the terms ‘homophobic’, ‘sexist’, and ‘racist’ were created because someone used their mind. Unfortunately, those who use such terms do not use their minds but label. They label everything, backing it up with raw emotion, causing endless arguments which lead to censorship, much like the dogma from organized religion that was so prevalent in the past, stifling reason and fair debate.
Just look in government, politicians reflect public opinions, and when they get to a position of power, they do the opposite, which has led to the decline of liberalism in Canada and in Europe and the rise of Conservatism, which is against the very ideals they mimicked from higher education. Thus, the only way to give liberalism a fighting chance is to eradicate politically correct studies in school. In exchange, Sex Ed in the school system should be changed to Thought Management and pattern such a course on Hermann Hesse’s book, The Glass Bead Game.
Such a course would begin with a five to ten minute meditation and teach youngsters the power of positive affirmations and creative visualizations. For example, ‘I am the Master of my own fate.’ Or how about ‘I am the Captain of my own soul!’ To combat depression—‘Concentrate on sadness and you will be sad.’ ‘I manage my own thoughts, my thoughts don’t manage me.’ Such affirmations should be created, studied, memorized.
Thought Management should be taught and the curriculum decided by proven Indigo Adults. Why? If a regular teacher taught Thought Management, it would end up much like political correctness, which has created a generation of narrow minded ideologues, proving human intuition goes further than the study of psychology. If this generation is unconventional and experimental, let’s help them to expand their minds, be centered, and enlightened. This generation is transformative and should not be labelled. If some of them are still set in their own ways, nature does have variety.
Thought Management is the Sex Ed of the 21st century!
Paul Collins author of Mack Dunstan's Inferno/Mystery of Everyman's Way
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Why Book Stores are Closing
One weekend in Toronto, three book stores closed down. By happenstance, I had visited two of them.Then
another book store was said to be closing, and this store had a cafe in
it and I had only begun to frequent it too. As always, I would enter
the establishment, see the usual books on display. These books were all
hard cover editions and aimed at the female book buyer market. The last
time I checked, I understand I am not a woman. At least I know that for
sure.
Any hoot, I went to a small book store and scanned the
shelves. For five dollars, I found a Sinclair Lewis biography. Yes, it
was used, not new. I bought it, read it, and it was a joy, a wealth of
information. It was not aimed at the female book buyer market either.
The last book I bought off the shelf of a monster book chain, it was ‘Cockroach’ by Rawi Hage
. Another joy to read!
The
entire monster book chains are aimed at what the US talk show circuit
features. Lets face it. Realism is dead in American literature. Book publishers
will tell any established author, or aspiring writer, that fiction does
not sell; nonfiction does. Did you read that right? According to the
publishing world fiction does not sell, non-fiction sells.
Already
today’s Hemingways will starve because of such a widely accepted
notion. “Where are the living Mozarts?” cried Greg Henry Water in one of
his monthly newsletters. Big Publishing Houses, like the music
industry, all say originality will not sell. They want hittability ,
marketability, and another word that would sell, sell, and sell! The big
book chains are all on a short leash to the US talk show circuit. Such a
medium aims at stupid people,not book buyers at all. That is why such
books in today’s bookstores are unreadable.
The entire monster book chains are aimed at what the US talk show circuit features.
The
Internet, however, aims at everyone, anyone, and the sky is the limit
too. If only the Monster Book Chains would realize such a notion, and
this would help to save jobs lost to all the book store closings, both
big and small alike. I don’t care what anyone says; there is money out
there. If there is something someone wants, or needs, people would line
up around the block to buy it. I perused these stores set to close, and
they all had a healthy collection of Danielle Steel and other romance
novelists, as well.
For your information, romance novels
are not realism. They are candy coated, and such authors that write
them have the fortunes to prove it. By the way, does anyone know why
Danielle Steel’s son killed himself? Danielle Steel fills the
bookshelves with lust and intellectual pornography. That’s the real
reason. That being said; realism is dead in publishing and in Hollywood,
which is now rumored to have child sex rings to prove it.
By the way, did you know William Dean Howells was the most famous author in the world before his death in 1920? Never heard of him. I found out by reading Sinclair Lewis, an American Life by Mark Schorer , a book I found in a small, but successful book chain.
Saturday, August 11, 2012
How Charlton Heston's Inferno Became Mack Dunstan's Inferno
THE PITCH FOR CHARLTON HESTON'S INFERNO
Dear Mr. Fraser Heston,
I have written a manuscript about your late father called Charlton Heston’s Inferno, the New Devine Comedy. It is about Charlton Heston’s death, how he descends into hell, where he meets victims of his pro-gun policy. This work is very much a parity of Dante Alighieri’s The Devine Comedy. iUniverse.com has expressed interest in publishing this work. Pete Angleton, who works in the Content Evaluation department at iUniverse, wishes me to contact the Charlton Heston estate, and he needs to receive written permission to publish a book involving Charlton. This written permission can be in the form of an email as long as their contact information is given. I am told if I do not receive permission, they will be unable to publish the manuscript.
You may be curious about my background information. A few years ago, I was interviewed on at this link: http://writingfiction.
Dear Mr. Fraser Heston,
I have written a manuscript about your late father called Charlton Heston’s Inferno, the New Devine Comedy. It is about Charlton Heston’s death, how he descends into hell, where he meets victims of his pro-gun policy. This work is very much a parity of Dante Alighieri’s The Devine Comedy. iUniverse.com has expressed interest in publishing this work. Pete Angleton, who works in the Content Evaluation department at iUniverse, wishes me to contact the Charlton Heston estate, and he needs to receive written permission to publish a book involving Charlton. This written permission can be in the form of an email as long as their contact information is given. I am told if I do not receive permission, they will be unable to publish the manuscript.
You may be curious about my background information. A few years ago, I was interviewed on at this link: http://writingfiction.
I have received nine major reviews for my present book, Mystery of Everyman's Way, including a five star review from Midwest Book Review. Some reviews can be found here at http://www.amazon.com/Mystery-
I was previously a member of the Writers and Editors Network. Here is their review at this link: http://www.wenetwork.org/book-
Thanks
in advance for reading this far. If you have any questions regarding
the manuscript, or any of my books, please don't hesitate to have your
people contact me by phone, or email. Thanks again for being receptive to any of us scribblers with ideas.
Sincerely,
Paul Collins—King without an Empire and Mystery of Everyman’s Way
THEIR FIRST RESPONSE!
From: Jeff Briggs <jbriggs@jbriggslaw.com>
Date: Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:01 PM
Subject: Heston Estate request
To: collinsenterprises@gmail.com
THEIR SECOND RESPONSE!
Date: Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:01 PM
Subject: Heston Estate request
To: collinsenterprises@gmail.com
I am co-Trustee of the Heston Estate and your permission request has been forwarded to me for handling.
Thanks for your inquiry. Give me a few days to
review your materials and to discuss with those who have a say here, and
I will get back to you.
No need to send me any additional material.
Thanks again for the request.
Jeffrey C. Briggs, Esq.
Briggs Law
6464 Sunset Boulevard
Suite 715
Hollywood, CA 90028
(323) 908-7275 fax
"In Hollywood, For Hollywood" SM
Ask me about Hollywood 4WRD and
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From: Jeff Briggs <jbriggs@jbriggslaw.com>
Date: Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:01 PM
Subject: Heston Estate request
To: collinsenterprises@gmail.com
Date: Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:01 PM
Subject: Heston Estate request
To: collinsenterprises@gmail.com
I am co-Trustee of the Heston Estate and your permission request has been forwarded to me for handling.
Thanks for your inquiry. Give me a few days to
review your materials and to discuss with those who have a say here, and
I will get back to you.
No need to send me any additional material.
Thanks again for the request.
Jeffrey C. Briggs, Esq.
Briggs Law
6464 Sunset Boulevard
Suite 715
Hollywood, CA 90028
(323) 908-7275 fax
"In Hollywood, For Hollywood" SM
Ask me about Hollywood 4WRD and
Ending Homelessness in Hollywood
THEIR REJECTION EMAIL!
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Thank you for your inquiry.
We agree with your potential publisher that permission is required for
publication of your proposed work. After careful review of your proposed
work per the materials you submitted, we respectfully decline permission to
use Mr. Heston's name or likeness in connection with this proposed
publication.
Thank you again for contacting us.
Jeffrey C. Briggs, Esq.
Briggs Law
6464 Sunset Boulevard
Suite 715
Hollywood, CA 90028
jbriggs@jbriggslaw.com
www.jbriggslaw.com <http://www.jbriggslaw.com/>
(323) 461-5400
(323) 908-7275 fax
"In Hollywood, For Hollywood" SM
Ask me about Hollywood 4WRD and
Ending Homelessness in Hollywood
We agree with your potential publisher that permission is required for
publication of your proposed work. After careful review of your proposed
work per the materials you submitted, we respectfully decline permission to
use Mr. Heston's name or likeness in connection with this proposed
publication.
Thank you again for contacting us.
Jeffrey C. Briggs, Esq.
Briggs Law
6464 Sunset Boulevard
Suite 715
Hollywood, CA 90028
jbriggs@jbriggslaw.com
www.jbriggslaw.com <http://www.jbriggslaw.com/>
(323) 461-5400
(323) 908-7275 fax
"In Hollywood, For Hollywood" SM
Ask me about Hollywood 4WRD and
Ending Homelessness in Hollywood
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