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Re: How to Keep Going When You Want To Give Up on Life

Reg_Crowder — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 04:46:33 -0000

Thank you for this. I am searching for a path to safety. I'm not there yet.

Re: Buying bikes in France - Freewheeling France

Reg_Crowder — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 07:39:40 -0000

Thank you for this information. This is very helpful.

Re: The Corporate Plan to Groom U.S. Kids for Servitude by Wiping Out Public Schools

Reg_Crowder — Sat, 14 Apr 2018 02:12:12 -0000

This is an excellent analysis. Right on target. The ruling elites are transforming the United States into a Third World country with a Third World economy. A similar process is underway in the United Kingdom.

Re: New Resources for the AH Community

Reg_Crowder — Sat, 17 Jun 2017 14:39:24 -0000

Sounds like a winner to me. By all means, please get the word out how to order this book. Having a selection of recipes already worked out sitting on the page ready to go could be a real time-saver. All the best! Oh, one more thing. I just signed up for the Facebook group. I'm awaiting approval. Cheers!

Re: adidas Releases First Mass-Produced Ocean Plastic Shoe

Reg_Crowder — Sat, 21 Jan 2017 09:52:08 -0000

I like it. I REALLY like it! Eric Liedtke is really onto something here.

Re: Why You Should Bootstrap Your Startup - David Ehrenberg | Insights | socalTECH.com

Reg_Crowder — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 04:47:34 -0000

Amen! I know this from my own direct experience: Once "outside" money in any form comes into your business, you will have very little time or opportunity to sit back and think about whether you should be doing things in a different way. No amount of time improving your product or service (or hybrid product-service) is wasted. Best wishes to everybody out there. -- REG CROWDER

Re: Finding kindred souls in the Wyoming backcountry

Reg_Crowder — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 06:50:57 -0000

A well-written article about a national treasure, Gerry Spence. I'm currently reading his most recent book, which I ordered from Amazon through a link on his website, hoping this gets him a commission or something. Except for a few rare exceptions, book authors are paid a lot less than most people would suspect. -- Reg Crowder -- http://www.RegCrowder.com

Re: Goldberg: Anti-Israel One-State Plan Gets Harvard Outlet

Reg_Crowder — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:16:16 -0000

So, let me get this straight. The mere act of publicly embracing the values of the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is, by definition, anti-Israel and anti-Semitic? I think not. We're all getting tired of these intellectually bankrupt attempts to silence honorable people who seek to defend human rights in Palestine.

Re: Best of the Blogs: Dude, Where's My Facebook IPO Filing? (Ashton's on Hold!)

Reg_Crowder — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:29:01 -0000

And if flying into London Heathrow is driving you slowly insane, you might take a peek at the Reg Crowder Unchained blog:

http://my.telegraph.co.uk/r...

Cheers!

REG CROWDER -- http://www.RegCrowder.com

Re: Time Management: 6 Ways to Improve Your Productivity

Reg_Crowder — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:01:09 -0000

This is good. I'm going to try to talk myself into trying some of these ideas. Thank You!
-- http://www.RegCrowder.com

Re: Newt Gingrich, Marianne and the Arms Dealer:
A Buried FBI Investigation

Reg_Crowder — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:20:35 -0000

This is an excellent piece of investigative journalism. It is well documented, clear and balanced. Well done!

-- REG CROWDER -- http://www.RegCrowder.com

Re: Why Your “Cold” Emails Aren’t Working

Reg_Crowder — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 05:07:39 -0000

This is good stuff. I don't "cold email" for a job because I'm a freelance financial writer and I'm not interested in a conventional paycheck. However, I do a ton of cold emailing for information. I pretty much follow your suggestions in getting information and interviews for my writing. And it always works. Yesterday afternoon I sent a brief request for some information to the "new media" representative of one of the big United Nations independent agencies. She didn't have the answers to my questions. But she gave a long list of OUTSTANDING links that I could use for find what I needed. And that was great. And then (remember this part) I sent her a warm, personal e-mail message thanking her for her help. (I REALLY DID APPRECIATE THE HELP. THIS WASN'T B.S.) -- Well done - Reg Crowder - http://www.RegCrowder.com

Re: Sen. Conrad's dog Dakota, a favorite of Capitol Hill, diagnosed with cancer

Reg_Crowder — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:03:37 -0000

If members of Congress were more like our beloved dogs and less like lawyers, America would be a better place. I hate the idea that that people would criticize this story. I hope Dakota can return to full health and return to giving the love that this world so dearly needs.

Almost all of my dogs have been rescues and I have stood by them to the end. A tip: Vitamin B injections (your vet can give you a prescription for the right kind and show you how to administer them) can help an elderly dog make it through the challenges of stressful medical treatment, which might be necessary in this case.

Hang in there Dakota! I'm with you, buddy.

REG CROWDER

Re: Mean streak: Obama is not as nice as he looks | Examiner Editorial | Editorials | Washington Examiner

Reg_Crowder — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 05:50:43 -0000

On the whole, yes.

Re: Mean streak: Obama is not as nice as he looks | Examiner Editorial | Editorials | Washington Examiner

Reg_Crowder — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 12:35:50 -0000

Oh good grief. I don't want a game show host in the White House. I don't know or care if he's nice. Under his leadership the U.S. government will bring the American economy to its knees 15% to 20% more slowly than the Republicans would. In politics you pick from the choices that are REALLY there, or you don't matter. In the Florida Primary I voted for Barack Obama because I liked Hillary Clinton less. In the election I voted for Barack Obama because I liked John McCain less. (Remember when John McCain said he thought the economy was "just fine." He just couldn't remember how many houses he owned.)

All I ask is that Barack Obama refrain from starting a nuclear war to "get the economy going." I suspect all the Republican candidates past, present and future are prepared to touch off the thermonuclear extermination of life on earth to bring in $5,000 in campaign contributions and get a few corporate jobs for their unemployable children.

I don't think Obama is quite that bad.

Face it, Amerka is the world's biggest failed state. I can't say "richest" because it hasn't had any real money in the Treasury since Eisenhower moved out of the Oval Office.

I don't think Obama will incinerate the earth. This year, that's the best deal I can get.

In the land of the blind, the man with the one eye is king.

Re: FOXNews.com - Speeding freight train hits herd of elephants, killing 7 in dense forest in eastern India

Reg_Crowder — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 11:35:44 -0000

Regarding the tragic and unnecessary death of seven elephants crushed to death by a train in India:

I was deeply upset by this story. I am humbled by the courage, devotion and respect for life these elephants demonstrated by giving their lives for their young.

I was not aware of this problem before. But now I am.

Could we all join together and take action to help these elephants?

I am not a wildlife biologist. However, I have some thoughts. This tragedy took place in area that is well known as a corridor used by elephants. If 15 or 20 miles of this train's tracks through the most important and most used portion of the elephant corridor were to be elevated by a railway trestle or similar structure, most of the elephants could pass safely below it.

The World Bank offers grants for this kind of project under its Global Environmental Facility (GEF). I believe we should bring this idea to the attention of Robert Zoellick, president of The World Bank. This is how to share your thoughts with him:

Mr. Robert Zoellick
Office of the President
The World Bank
1818 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20433 USA
TEL: (202) 473-1000
FAX: (202) 477-6391

We can help these wonderful elephants! Let's do it. - Reg Crowder

Re: Seven elephants killed by speeding train in India

Reg_Crowder — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 06:48:42 -0000

I was deeply upset by this story. I am humbled by the courage, devotion and respect for life these elephants demonstrated by giving their lives for their young.

I was not aware of this problem before. But now I am.

Could we all join together and take action to help these elephants?

Mr. Robert Zoellick
Office of the President
The World Bank
1818 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20433 USA
TEL: (202) 473-1000
FAX: (202) 477-6391

We can help these wonderful elephants! Let's do it. - Reg Crowder

Re: How PR Can Help Some Startups: Perspective of one Industry Analyst

Reg_Crowder — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 04:22:55 -0000

The fact that you are talking, specifically about how to HELP START-UPs is a healthy sign.

I have encountered a fairly spectacular range of interpretations among PRs as to just they are supposed to do. Personally, I think that everything a PR does for a company should clearly further the objectives of the company. If PRs could focus on that concept -- and many do -- it would benefit both them and their clients.

IN THE COMMENTS ABOVE, "Gregorylent" said that if you're into manipulation you suck but if you're into service you add something. Well said. I think this is getting down to the essence of it all.

Yes, PR does need to promote itself to the outside world. But is also fairly important for the industry to focus on serving the needs of its clients. By that I mean, helping the company achieve its own objectives.

REG CROWDER
Freelance Financial and Investment Writer
London, England and Brittany, France
http://www.journalistdirect...

Re: Print Week: Bridgestone reveals e-paper innovations

Reg_Crowder — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:08:12 -0000

I agree. What they are doing with this stuff in Japan seems to make a whole lot of sense.

I'm pretty sure it isn't e-paper but I am seeing an APPLICATION along these lines in a few shopping center parking lots in western France (Brittany).

They are not terribly big billboards. They depend upon the vibrance of the color and the light emitting qualities of whatever is generating the image for their appeal. And the appeal is genuine. The images are a lot more compelling than conventional billboards that depend upon reflected light from sunlight or artificial illumination.

I'm sorry I can't tell WHAT is generating the images. They're a bit too high for me to analyze the image and I always forget to bring my 1200 mm telephoto lens to the supermarket when I go shopping for dog food. (It looks a bit like a shoulder-launched rocket and I really don't want to get that Gendarmes THAT excited.)

It might be a very big LCD screen or maybe some flexible (and huge) film-type transparency being moved by motors in front of a light source.

I watched the construction activity leading up to the installation of several of these things at Carrefour in Guingamp. The underground cable conduits connecting the billboards to whatever they are connected to are MUCH BIGGER than would be required for either a conventional billboard or a huge video screen. Possibly this indicates an intention to upgrade the technology in the future.

But I gotta tell 'ya, the application works. These things look good.

REG CROWDER
Freelance Financial and Investment Writer
London, England and Brittany, France
http://www.journalistdirect...
http://knol.google.com/k/re...

Re: Cuil might just be cool enough to become the Google-killer in search

Reg_Crowder — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:58:30 -0000

Hey, Cuil is interesting. I'm happy to see some fresh blood in this game.

What happens next? Dunno. Too early to tell. Like they say, "The opera ain't over 'til the fat lady sings." I don't know what Google looked like the first day it popped up on the web. I'll bet it wasn't as good as it is now.

These things take time.

By the way, Cuil is NOT a Google killer. Google didn't kill Yahoo. (Yahoo didn't die.) Google didn't kill AltaVista. (AltaVista didn't die.) Google didn't kill Lycos. (Lycos didn't die.) And so on.

Technology companies kill themselves, from within. I don't know how or why it happens. But that is how it goes. So far, this year, Google doesn't seem to be in the mood to destroy itself. It is doing a pretty good job of doing a lot of useful things.

REG CROWDER
International Investing
http://knol.google.com/k/re...
http://www.journalistdirect...
http://www.RegCrowder.com

Re: Something I don't understand about The Long Tail

Reg_Crowder — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:01:22 -0000

I think "long tail" is a useful concept. (Although in a few seconds I will call it a theory.)

Based upon Return on Invested Capital (ROI) over five years, producing a hit CD might be more profitable than producing a CD on Jamaican polka music. But it might not.
There are lot of singers who had hit records and/or CDs once who today try to scrape a living out of starring in the lowest priced lounges of second-string casinos in Reno, Nevada. That kind of thing happens to music producers as well, although that may have more to do with the price of nose candy than tail shapes and numbers.

If I wanted to get into the Jamaican polka niche, I'd start out with a fairly inexpensive CD and experiment with cheap but effective marketing. I might try out a few different Jamaican polka titles, "Bob Marley's Wost Nightmare," "Roll Out the Ganja and We'll Have a Barrel of Fun," "Don't Shoot the Accordionist, He Has a Machete Under His Shirt," and so on.

If nothing took off, I'd drop the whole thing, taking a small loss. (Try that with Madonna some time. It doesn't work.)

If the Jamaican polka franchise "had legs," I'd roll out more CDs. Then a souvenir book. Then a boxed set of CDs with a few publicity photos included as a bonus. T-shirts, hoodie shirts and parkas. Coffee mugs. A Jamaican polka recipe book. A coffee table book on the history of Jamaican polka. A syndicated show on cable and satellite. A road show. You get the picture.

The spirit of your original post is quite on target. "Long tail" is not a Law of Economics. (They aren't all correct, either.) It is a theory. It helps us know WHERE TO LOOK for the facts (which may or may not be there). As for being "predictive," not a chance.

REG CROWDER
[Freelance Finance and Investment Writer]
[http://www.utalkmarketing.c...]
[http://www.journalistdirect...]

Re: Is the Daily Mirror worthless?

Reg_Crowder — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:07:11 -0000

An interesting look at the whole thing. I hate to gum up the works (okay, I lied -- I LOVE gumming up the works) but: There is the matter of the time value of money. The right to receive a pound sterling in 2013 is not worth as much as the right to received a pound sterling today. So, a comparison of real market value today with hypothetical market value doesn't tell us as much as it sounds.

The comparison with the British steel industry in the latter part of the 20th century is quite relevant, however. I think it is safe to say the steel industry was wrecked by senior management who acted solely in own personal interests, at the expense of the shareholders.

I think that is pretty much the story for many of the major media properties today (Conrad Black somehow comes to mind).

Let us recall that the destruction of the British steel industry didn't reduce the consumption of steel. Anybody who has to have steel, STILL HAS TO HAVE STEEL. They just go somewhere else to get it.

The same goes for media properties.

I don't know what, if anything, the management of Trinity Mirror is up to these days. But if they leave a vacuum in the print business, filling it will be a lot easter, cheaper and faster than building and modernizing steel mills.

Re: Banks Bet With Employee Insurance Premiums, Lose.

Reg_Crowder — Sun, 25 May 2008 06:11:01 -0000

I'M GOING TO BE LOOKING INTO BANK OWNED LIFE INSURANCE (BOLI) FOR A FEW DAYS. And then I'm going to publish what I come up with. If anybody here has some hard data on what's going on -- and what happens NEXT -- I'd love to hear about it. REG CROWDER http://www.RegCrowder.com E-mail: reg (dot) crowder (at) gmail (dot) com. (You guys know the drill...)

Re: Judge Orders Bush Administration to Decide Polar Bears' Status by May 15

Reg_Crowder — Sun, 04 May 2008 05:22:18 -0000

THANK GOD THERE ARE STILL A FEW JUDGES LEFT IN AMERICA WITH SOME RESPECT FOR THE LAW!

Law abiding judges are even more endangered in the United States than the polar bears. And when the Bush-Cheney crime syndicate finishes its "judicial cleansing" to root out the remnants of integrity still hanging on in the U.S. District Courts and Magistrates Courts (the appeals courts and the Supreme Court are beyond saving), that species is gone for ever.

Anyway, Congratulations Planet Earth! The good fight isn't over yet.

Go bears!

And many thanks to reporter NICK MATHIASON at The Observer, London, UK, for his excellent story explaining how this particular chess game is being played out. Once again, Nick, well done.

REG CROWDER
Freelance Business Journalist
London, UK & Brittany, France
http://www.RegCrowder.com
http://www.journalistdirect...

Re: Business doing its bit

Reg_Crowder — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:09:49 -0000

I have written an article that relates to the role of the rich OECD countries in Africa. It can be found at either of these links:
http://news.baou.com/main.p...
http://regcrowder.blogsourc...
Best wishes,
REG CROWDER
e-mail: reg.crowder@gmail.com

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