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  The Consumers are winning the war of extinction that they started with a massive surprise attack on the colonial planets. There are no known survivors from these attacks and no surrender is tried anymore; for anyone attempting to surrender is consumed after the surrender is completed. All attempts to contact the Consumers to open negotiations have received no response or the negotiators are not seen or heard from again. Never in the memory of the people’s race have they not been able to find a peaceful resolution to the conflicts thrust upon them, but never has an enemy flatly refused to communicate. The ship’s crew adjusts the ships defensive screens to start collecting the leftover dust and debris from when the local solar system formed. Ultimately, the ship appears to be a twelve hundred foot long asteroid that is seven hundred feet in diameter. When the process of camouflaging the ship is complete, it is moved to the inner side of an asteroid belt and “hidden”. 

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 The ship’s captain, observing what are now normal caution and procedures since the start of the war, orders the ship to be camouflaged as an asteroid and moved closer to the solar system for a much more detailed passive analysis of the system. The war is last known to have been going badly, very badly, as unit after unit was defeated in detail. The ship must not be risked in any fashion, for it is quite possibly the last bastion of the race. Only the Ship’s captain and the Coordinator of Sciences have the knowledge that the crew was handpicked for their genetic make up instead of any other reason. Nor does the crew know that in the medical section of the ship there is a complete obstetrics and reproductive unit that will help the crew colonize a new planet. This is the race’s last forlorn hope that it will continue in some fashion. The captain and the Coordinator of Sciences have quietly met and both have sworn to take any action that they deem necessary to protect the race’s future.

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  A small scout/survey class ship transitions from F space to relativistic space in a brief flash of visible energies. The ship begins a series of course changes to offset it’s self from its original course and point of entry. The ship comes to a full stop and the in system drive is turned off. The bridge officers begin to ask their subordinates for initial reports on the local solar system’s technological level. The initial reports all show no signs of technological “noise” or developments. These reports bring a lessening of the initial tension on the bridge. The ship’s commander orders the engineering section to begin making initial preparations to camouflage the ship. This is ultimately a futile activity because the inhabitants of the solar system are not observing the skies for alien presences and have not yet developed any technologies beyond thrusting spears made of barely sharpened saplings. They have only recently formed the concept of “God(s)” and would have believed it an omen of the god’s displeasure had it been noticed. 

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SHIT

  Did you know that the cussword shit actually started out as an acronym?

 According to my nearly exhaustive research, (the hardest part of which was getting my tongue thoroughly in my cheek), it stands for (drum roll): Ship High In Transit. The earliest heard use of this acronym is believed to date back to the early days of the British Admiralty. Some scholars mistakenly give the French credit for this acronym. Other scholars contend that the Dutch are the originators of the acronym. They site the fact that currently lost records indicate that Christopher Columbus WAS NOT the first person to discover “The New World” and thus history is full of SHIT.  

  Did you know that it actually started as a term from the early days of shipping and sailing?

  Further nearly exhaustive research indicates that many early sailing ships were mysteriously lost at sea, with all hands missing. The mysterious disappearances continued until one lucky crew with a nearly destroyed ship made it into port. An investigation by the British Admiralty determined that the ship had been carrying a full load of manure to use as fertilizer and developed a minor leak shortly after leaving port. The leak soaked a part of the load and began creating Methane Gas in the hold. The ships captain, unaware of the build up of methane gas went below with a lantern to assess the size of the leak and detonated the gas pocket. The First Mate immediately took charge of the ship and managed to reach a British Port for repairs.

  The British Admiralty, also plagued by unexplained disappearances of ships, immediately issued an order that all manure being shipped by ship must be carried at or above the water line. In the early days of sailing water frequently invaded the lower levels of ships and accumulated in the “scuppers”. Though it took several years to prove that Shipping High In Transit was the answer, eventually all boxes or containers of manure being shipped by sea were labeled with the acronym SHIT.   

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If you are reading this booklet, it means that you bought it, are considering buying it, or perhaps someone else bought it for you. It proves that this idea or any idea has a market. You are holding the proof in your hands. I have written it and put it up for sale and I thank you for buying it. I believe that you can do it also, but that is unimportant. WHAT IS IMPORTANT is that YOU believe that you can do it. It only requires that you have the vision and stamina to TAKE ACTION on your idea or dream. Normally it is relatively easy to follow your dream, but that depends how committed to chasing your dream. Are you a dreamer or a dream chaser? Do you BELIEVE that you can overcome most or all of the obstacles that will get in the way of ACHIEVING YOUR DREAM? For those obstacles you can’t get over on your own, can you find someone to help you over it? So you have your dream, what is stopping you from chasing it? Do you need some help with finding a topic to write about? What do you love to do in life? What is your favorite recreational activity? What do you do at work? What do you think of and about your co-workers? What is humorous to you? Do you see an opportunity that no one else can see? Do you know how to balance financial records? All of these are possible subjects to write about, but the list is limited only by your IMAGINATION.

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A book is ten percent imagination and ninety percent perspiration. Of course if you have a computer with a good                                                                            word processing program that changes to ten percent

Imagination, sixty percent perspiration and thirty percent watching the computer correct your spelling mistakes. Imagination is useful in more than just book writing. It is very useful in every day life also. Your imagination is just like a knife sharpener; the more you use it the sharper your knife is. YOU HAVE AN IMAGINATION, USE IT. Use it fore more than just writing; use it in all aspects of your life. With your imagination sharpened you will see opportunities that most other people miss.

  Once you have used your imagination to perceive something no one else has or created something new or a new way of using something someone else has created, you can then imagine your plan to take advantage of what you have dreamed up. You might imagine your plan in reverse order to make it easier to achieve your planned goal. This is the concept of what I am saying: 1. Think about what it is you really want to do and write it down, that is your final objective. 2. Think about where you are now. 3. Think about the obstacle that is closest to your final objective that is keeping you from reaching your final objective and formulate a plan to overcome it. 4. Think about what is the

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second closest obstacle to your objective that is keeping you from achieving your objective and devise a plan to overcome that obstacle. 5. Keep repeating this process until you reach where you are now. Each time you practice this process it becomes easier to use.

  Your imagination allows you to be different and quite possibly wealthier than the rest of the thundering herd. Though I have never met any of the following famous people, they obviously have or had at least some imagination. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ely Whitney, Samuel Colt, Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King, Sun Tzu, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet.

  While huge dreams for your book can and do provide great profit, they normally require great amounts of physical and mental labor, not to mention great amounts of capital. The capital I am talking about is the capital of publishing contacts or money to pay for publishing if you do not have a publisher that is currently willing to publish your work.

  If you do not have that type of capital, you can always do like I am doing and start small by imagining IDEA SEEDS to plant in your idea woods. Over a relatively short time you will probably discover that you have an IDEA FOREST. You can harvest the more mature of those Ideas,

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sale. The finished product (your book) can be self published at various places and in variable forms at a local printing company or a nationally recognized brand such as Kinko’s or Staples just to name a couple.

  A few of the markets available might be or are: College Book stores, consignment stores, local grocery stores, local book stores, your own web site store, eBay, Amazon.com, or Kindle to name just a few. Use your imagination to find or create the market you want or need to use.                                       

  I feel that it is time to change gears and start using the education gear. While education is too large to adequately discuss, in this short a book, I am going to give you my fact deprived OPINION. If you are going to become a writer you need at least a high school education to write and maintain a reasonable amount of credibility. Of course if all you have is a high school education (like me) the result is probably going to be a poor product like this. A college or technical school education with a Major in the English or whichever other language is your favorite language to write in is VITAL.

  In general, though, I believe that the education system as it exists in this country is geared entirely towards training all persons to be the best possible EMPLOYEE. I am not trying to insult anyone who is happy as an employee or just

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wants to be left alone as employee. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING AN EMPLOYEE. Employees are vital to any company. My belief is that if more people were properly educated in basic financial education, there would be many more small businesses and higher employment. I believe this to be true because people in general would be aware of how to handle their personal finances and could run a business because they would know how to plan for and handle the financial part of the business. They would also tend to have the disposable income to finance the start up process of their business. Instead the current “education system” does very little or nothing to encourage the entrepreneur or small business owner in the earliest, most easily trained stages. The American education system is a double edged sword. On the one edge, it DOES teach the basic skills to gain knowledge. The other side of the sword is that it only teaches skills that will be valuable to you as an employee.

Basic education (K-12) teaches advancing levels of basic employee skills and the advanced education system only provides more advanced “employee only” skills.

  Education can be formal, such as a technical school, college or other educational programs; some ran by your employer. Someone has to pay for this type of education.

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Education can be self directed by reading and studying on your own and has the advantage of letting you concentrate on what you need to find out at that time. This education can be much less expensive because it is entirely possible to visit your local public library and borrow them for FREE. They will likely have many other resources available that are available only at the local level. Another very low cost measure for finding the books you want to study is to buy them at yard sales, consignment stores, and Good Will or Salvation Army stores. I am going to make another suggestion that I feel is very important. You need to read several books by several different authors about financial matters. Personally, two of my favorite financial Authors are Robert Kiyosaki and Robert G. Allen. The more you are exposed to the thoughts of financially successful people, the more opportunities you will recognize when you see them. The more exposed you are, the more likely you are to conduct your personal life and personal business in a financially sound manner. Financial education is like the imagination, the more it is exercised the stronger it will get. A strong financial sense is probably second in importance only to your imagination and both in combination are nearly absolutely invaluable. Now go and get your exercise.

  It is time to change mental gears yet again and discuss marketing. Marketing is about much more than just selling a product or products. Selling is just a small part of

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marketing and a strong education in marketing is definitively invaluable. Marketing is much more about the strategies and specialized concepts of selling than about the selling of individual items themselves. An education in will teach you how to think about who your market actually is and even more importantly, what it is that they want to buy. It does however have a direct impact on how and where you sell your book.

  I hope that this book has inspired you to try to do what it is that I have done here and that you are able to do it more expansively and better than I have done here. I hope that this book has caused you many feelings since you first received it. Most of all, I hope that you have thoroughly

enjoyed this book.                                                                                                        

Entrepreneurship is a challenging field of endeavor, but is probably the best game in town. In a lot of ways, it requires a gambler to even attempt it. You may amass a fortune or fortunes and you may just as easily lose it. This all part of the game and what makes it so fascinating. Unless you are going to work for someone else, YOU are an entrepreneur. Enjoy and good luck.

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LET’S GO BLOGGING FOR DOLLARS

  Are you blogging yet? If not, why not? Did you know that a blog can earn you money; frequently a substantial amount of money? Did you know that it can frequently be done for free or at worst, at low cost?
Blogging is easy. If you can type an email, you can blog. It is that simple to blog. When I typed the words “free blog sites” in Google’s search box and pressed search it came up with About 303,000,000 results (0.32 seconds). Now, probably not all of those listings are actually blog sites, but I feel sure that you can come up with a website that will allow you to make a free blog or blogs. When I typed the words “cheap blog sites” in Google’s search box and pressed search it came up with About 37,000,000 results (0.30 seconds). A very quick perusal of the first ten response showed that only about half of the responses were for blogging websites and the rest only had the words cheap, blog or site in them somewhere. None the less, this proves that it is easy to find a free or cheap place to post your blog.
I personally have at least six blogs on the Google blog site at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/, (http://internetmillionairesclub.blogspot.com/, http://pcgamerstreasurebox.blogspot.com/, http://theimaginationboxhome.blogspot.com/, http://youmightbehappierif.blogspot.com/, http://chrissfreewebpromotions.blogspot.com/, http://chrisbelievesthat.blogspot.com/ )and one on http://wordpress.com/, titled http://youmightbeintroubleif.wordpress.com/. So, this only proves that you can have more than one blog working for you. If you check them out, you will see that each is simple and simplistic. If I can do a blog, the rest of you smart people out there should have no problems at all starting and running a blog. I personally recommend Google’s http://googleblog.blogspot.com/. I can set up an account for a blog there for free in about four minutes and be posting information on it in about ten minutes. I have heard this blog site referred to as the “blogger’s Kindergarten”. It does have a lot of online information, a blog and other helpful hints to make it even easier for beginners (like me). It has something else that is potentially very valuable to you; Google ads and Amazon Associates. If you don’t already know about monetizing your blog, I will tell you that this is a good thing that I will explain a little further along. Another nice feature that it has is a way to schedule posts for future publishing in your blog. Simply look at the bottom of the box where you compose your post for post options (it is right above the publish button) and click on it. It will bring up a listing of options pertaining to that post. At the right side of the list is a bubble marked “scheduled at” that you click on to schedule the date and time to post it, then click the publish button and you have scheduled the post. The word press blog site is essentially the same, but the blogs do have more “bells and whistles” for you to play with. I am equally happy with that site.


Monetizing your blog is as simple or as easy as you want it to be. It gives you the potential to earn substantial amounts of money over time. Unless you have information that is in high demand, it may take from several weeks or months to a year or more to really start making money. It will probably require patience and persistence to become ultimately successful, but you only need to believe and work to make it happen. One of the main keys to success is to consistently post information that is relevant to your blog on your blog. Some good news is that the postings do not have to be the length of “War and Peace”. They can actually be as short as one or two lines, as long as they are relevant to the blog. The search engines are always looking for new and relevant information to show up in your blog. The more consistently they see new and relevant information in your blog, the faster and more consistently your blog will rise in the search rankings of the internet. The higher your blog climbs in the search engine ranking the more hits or looks your blog will get, leading to more clicks on the ads on your blog. This is a very nice stairway to climb. The more that people click on the ads on your blog, the more likely that some will buy, making it more likely that you will get revenue from the advertisers because they are getting sales. Some advertisers will pay you for both clicks and sales which is an even better proposition.
The first and easiest method of monetizing your blog is from Google.com in the form of Ad Sense advertisements. This is especially easy if your blog is on the Google.com website because they ask you if you want to display the ads on your blog. Your default answer should be “yes”. Google will place the ads in the area or areas on your blog that you designate and will not damage the appearance or integrity of your blog. The ads are tailored to fit the content of your blog. For example if your blog is about cars, the ads will typically have some connection with cars or automotive products. If your blog is on another website it is easy to get a link or the html code to add ad sense to that blog site. For full details and to sign up (for free the last I knew) go to: https://www.google.com/adsense.
Not all blog sites will allow Google ad sense; they may have their own brand of ad sense style ads and not want competition. I suggest that you read and understand their rules for monetizing your blog before you post a blog on any site. If you can’t run Google ads on that website you can basically do one of two things; you can run their monetization program or you can transfer your blog to Google’s blogspot.com site. More information on how to do this can probably be had at www.blogspot.com/ or www.blogger.com/. Google also has an affiliate program link to amazon.com on their blog site that will help you monetize your blog. There are many affiliate marketing programs on the web to help you monetize your blog. A search of the web for affiliate programs on your favorite search engine should provide you with hundreds or thousands of affiliate programs. And the last option that I am going to mention in this post is writing and selling your own information products from your blog. The most common method is to simply write a short guide to help someone improve their life in some way and deliver it digitally after receiving payment for it. I am going to suggest that you keep it short (between about five and twenty five pages when printed out). This is probably one of the fastest growing fields on the internet.
In closing, you should strive to make your blog fun, informative and profitable. But most importantly it should be about something you know, understand at least a little bit about and enjoy for yourself. That way people will see your knowledge and passion for the subject.


THIS INFORMATION IS NOT INTENDED TO BE PROFESSIONAL ADVICE OR COUNSEL; IT IS INTENDED TO BE MY PERSONAL OPINION. ANY INFORMATION GIVEN HERE SHOULD BE VERIFIED BY A PROFESSIONAL TRAINED AND CERTIFIED TO GIVE COMPETENT ADVICE ON THE INFORMATION IN QUESTION.