Life is all about change

You can change your tomorrow,
if you seek your dream today.

Let them say

Don't worry when people talk about you either good or bad, because they are promoting you.It is called marking or Advertisement "

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”

—Harriet Tubman (1820-1913); American escaped slave, abolitionist, humanitarian

“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -every day begin the task anew.”

have a beautiful weekend

"No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals."
Brian Tracy: Personal and business training author, speaker, and consultant

have a nice day

"You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction." Jim Rohn: Entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker

"You cannot change your destination overnight,
but you can change your direction overnight."
— Jim Rohn: Entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker

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“It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.”

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"Successful people are always looking for opportunities
to help others. Unsuccessful people are always askingk,
'What's in it for me?'"
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The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance
between your knees and the floor. The one who kneels to the Lord can
Stand up to anything

Quote of the day

“You'll discover that real love is millions of miles past falling in love with anyone or anything. When you make that one effort to feel compassion instead of blame or self-blame, the heart opens again and continues opening. ”

—Sara Paddison; author

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GET YOUR SAT SCORE NOW!!!

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Students registered for the SAT in March will have an option no other previous test-takers have had: they’ll get to send only their best scores to colleges next fall. Called Score Choice, the new reporting method doesn’t allow mixing and matching from test sittings, but students will be able to choose which sitting(s) they want college admissions officers to see.

The College Board’s rationale is that Score Choice will reduce test anxiety. Critics say it won’t really help students, because it will result in a new level of gamesmanship in a process already jammed with such tactics. They sound like the College Board itself, which reported in 2002 when it stopped offering Score Choice for its subject tests that “it encouraged ‘gamesmanship’ and appeared to favor wealthy students with access to guidance counselors who know how to maneuver the system.”

Score Choice could also significantly increase revenue for the College Board as is encourages students to take the test many times. But not every student can afford to do that. Score Choice will benefit the wealthier students who can plunk down $45. for each SAT registration. Ironically, this another reason the College Board gave in 2002. According to the New York Times, they went on the record then saying “ending Score Choice would be fairer to low-income and minority students, who did not have the resources to keep retaking the tests.”

Here’s another possibility: the SAT’s only rival, the ACT, has since its inception in 1958 allowed students to choose the scores they report. As the number of students taking the rival test increases, the College Board may have made the change to stay competitive.

Students who appreciate view Score Choice as an anxiety-reducer could be in for a surprise in the fall, though. A growing number of schools are rejecting the reporting method, requiring applicants to submit all of their scores. As of this writing, Stanford, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, USC and Pomona College won't accept Score Choice. Harvard and the University of Chicago will, and Yale and Princeton still haven't decided.

Oil industry tax obligation

Exxon Mobil posts a record $45.2 billion profit! Similarly, news organizations across the nation breathlessly report another record profit for big oil!

However, the usual shock and dismay that accompanies release of the "unconscionable profits" - the company often seems to be portrayed as "extorting" from hapless American consumers - was a little more subdued than previous years (when, for example, The New York Times was reporting how much profit Exxon was making "for every second of 2007").

This year, while the media could still gleefully report the "staggering profits," it was compelled to note that fourth-quarter results were down dramatically, that the industry is experiencing spending and job cuts, and that apparently "no one is completely insulated from the ongoing malaise," as The Associated Press noted.

In fact, no calls for a "windfall profits tax" have yet emanated from the Obama administration, although our new president often threatened such during his campaign.

Even Congresswoman Maxine Waters, D-Calif., has refrained from expressing her desire to nationalize the oil industry if the companies don't stop making so much money.

There is one aspect of this story, however, that Americans almost never hear, especially if they rely only on the "popular" media for their information. Exxon announced its fourth-quarter and 2008 financial results in a 14-page press release. In addition to the report of record profits for the past year, the press release also noted, in its income statement, that the company paid taxes on its income in 2008. In fact, unlike Tim Geithner, Tom Daschle and Nancy Killefer, Exxon reported and paid its full legal tax liability on time and without prodding from an IRS audit!

Had the AP or MSNBC or all the other crack news organizations attempted to report a complete story, they would have reported that, besides earning net income of $45.2 billion in 2008, the company paid $116.2 billion in total taxes!

In income and sales-based taxes alone, governments received more than $71 billion from Exxon last year! That sounds to me like "windfall tax receipts for governments," don't you think, Congresswoman Waters?

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Academy of Country Music

This year, the Academy of Country Music Awards won't just be about the gold. Or, as is its wont, the red, white and blue. This year, it's all about the Paisley.

Brad Paisley scored a leading six nominations for the ACM Awards this morning, including nods for Male Vocalist and Vocal Event of the Year, as well as one for the big enchilada, Entertainer of the Year.

Paisley shares his Vocal Event of the Year nod with fellow honky-tonk heavyweight Keith Urban for their duet, "Start a Band," but goes solo for his other nominations, including his impressive triple-play nods for Record, Song and Video of the Year for "Waitin' on a Woman."

Also making the cut is a vertiable Nashville who's-who (and in some cases a who's-that?), including Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood, Taylor Swift, Toby Keith, Sugarland, George Strait, Lady Antebellum, Rascal Flatts and one Julianne Hough.

Joining Paisley in the all-important Entertainer of the Year category is Chesney, the historically unstoppable winner, along with Strait, Underwood and Urban.

Former Trick Pony vocalist Heidi Newfield racked up five nods, Chesney earned four, while Underwood and Urban each scored three, with the American Idol alum also up for Top Female Vocalist and Video of the Year for "Just a Dream."

She vies against Swift, Newfield, Lee Ann Womack and Miranda Lambert for the former category.

As for Swift, she's up for two awards and competes against Underwood for both: In addition to her Top Female Vocalist nod, Swift rated a nod for Video of the Year for the pervasive "Love Story."

Meanwhile, Sugarland, which basked in Grammy glory over the weekend, scored just two nominations this time around, for Top Vocal Duo and Vocal Event of the Year, for their collaboration with Little Big Town and Jake Owen for "Life in a Northern Town."

Strait, one of the heaviest of country's hitters, rounded out the multiple nominees with four: Entertainer of the Year, Top Male Vocalist, Song of the Year for "I Saw God Today" and Video of the Year for "Troubadour."

Even Dancing With the Stars waffler Hough managed to score a nomination, for Top New Female Vocalist, which along with Top New Male Vocalist and Top New Vocal Duo or Group will be voted on this year by the public.

Finalists for Album of the Year will be announced next month.