Next week is going to be a great show as well. Dean and I are going to be talking about gay and lesbian relationships. We have the owner of Fertility Counseling Services, Kim Bergman, joining us to discuss how her business makes parenting available to people who otherwise wouldn’t be able to have children.

We are looking for a gay male perspective to discuss what gay men are looking for in their relationships. The radio show is a live show, and the guest would need to be available around 7:15PM Pacific for a 10-15 minute interview. If you are interested, please fill out the form below and select Relationships from the Show drop down. Provide us with a quick bio about yourself.

If you have a business or a cause that is making a difference in the gay and lesbian community, please share about how your are involved. Our show is focused on people who are making a difference in the world and causing communities and opportunity around them.

If you are transgender, bi-sexual, or a swinger, we have another show the following week that we’d like to consider you for.

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Yet, there is one day that stands out above the rest of the days just for my mom. This is a day not marked by sales at Macy’s or discount coupons at 1800flowers.com. It doesn’t come with all the same fanfare as the big national Mother’s Day. This day sit right in the middle of September (the 12th to be exact). It’s my birthday, and the real star of MY birthday was my mom!

I can look forward to turning my proverbial calendar each year because it gives me an opportunity to look back on the last several decades with a humble perspective. My mom doesn’t have any massive labor stories. She didn’t sit in a hospital for 48 hours of contractions. She claims my birth was pretty easy, despite my enormous size (I have a big head). I’ll have to take her word for it because I don’t really remember back that far.

To me, the real Mother’s Day is my birthday. She carried me around for nine months, protecting me, eating right, and making sure I got the right medical treatment so that I didn’t pop out with fingers growing out the side of my head. Sure, she’s going to get the Mother’s Day treatment tomorrow, but that day in September will always be much more special in my mind.

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I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve had my fair share of rocky relationships. Starting with my first relationship, the one with my parents, I’ve had a litany of failed relationships to follow. I’ve also had some highly successful and healthy relationships. Amazingly enough, I’ve even turned some of my rocky relationships into healthy relationships. I’ve been asking myself what altered about me or the people around me to allow these relationships to change for the better. The discovery process has been enjoyable and continues this Sunday @ 6PM Pacific on the Jared and Dean Words Cause Radio Show.

Does a relationship with “the other woman” ever work?
What does a two time Iraqi vet look for in a relationship?
What can a married woman do to keep a relationship spicy after 17 years of marriage? What about the man?
How can a single man improve his chances of not finding the right women?

These are just some of the questions Dean and I will be addressing with our guests on this Sunday’s show. We also have a very special guest on this Sunday who has taken some of the frustrations of the single life and dating scene and turned them into a very Big Idea. You don’t want to miss our interview with this amazing entrepreneur!

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There are numerous SPAM blocking solutions out there. Businesses with considerable access and use of their own email server are likely best served by a Barracuda SPAM Firewall. I have this at my office, and it does a great job integrating with our email solution and reducing the quantity of SPAM emails everyone receives each day.

But for most people, we have personal email systems that are provided as a service such as Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, amongst scores of others. All of these systems have SPAM control systems in place, but they still don’t block all of the SPAM. For instance, I have an account at Yahoo, yet I receive regular emails from a company called Fanbox.

Some how, Fanbox is able to continue to deliver emails into my Inbox despite the considerable amount of obvious SPAM that they send me every day. Since March 27, 2008, I have received 15 emails from “members” of Fanbox who have “asked me questions” or “wanted to be my fan”. Some days, such as March 30 and April 1, Fanbox must have been feeling pretty lucky! They sent me two SPAMs on each of these two days.

I’ve posted several articles about Fanbox SPAM, and based upon the sheer volume of traffic going to these articles, I’m not the only one with SPAM concerns about Fanbox. So, what is the best way to block SPAM from companies like Fanbox? After all, they are sending SPAM but still ending up in my Yahoo inbox.

The best SPAM blocker for your personal email account is really good email protection practices. Something that is great about all the email service providers is that you get these email accounts for free. Use this to your advantage. For example, my Yahoo account is used for most of my public usage. If leave a comment on a blog: Yahoo account. If I register for a website somewhere: Yahoo account. If I fill out a form at an event I go to: Yahoo account. If a friend of mine wants to email me: Yahoo account.

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How are they captive? Most of the customers are likely Chevron gas card holders and a substantial portion of those card holders buying gasoline from University Chevron are University of California Santa Barbara students whose parents pay the bill.

I was so shocked, that I actually got out of my car and asked a few customers why they are paying $0.53 more per gallon at University Chevron than at the stations just down the street. One customer told me, “I use the Chevron card and its close to school.” Another told me that she doesn’t pay attention. Her parents pay the bill. I can only think of a very few reasons someone would be willing to pay such a premium for gas that is the same as the one down the street.

I imagine people also buy gas from Chevron because of their rebate cards. Don’t count on those rebate cards to off set the higher prices. Chevron and other gas companies play tricks with “rebates cards.” Claiming up to 6%, but most of these programs ratchet down to 1 or 2% after 30 to 90 days. The idea of the rebate makes people feel they are getting a deal, but in reality, they are buying gas a much higher price that average (even with the rebate).

Sure, businesses should be able to charge whatever prices they see fit and let the market drive competition, but University Chevron in little Goleta California is ripping its customers off and they should not get away with it. Do we need any more upword pressure on gas prices? Let University Chevron know how you feel! Here is the contact information for the station:

• University Chevron
• 6895 Hollister AveGoleta, CA
• 93117
• (805) 968-2811

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~DK

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I had the chance to catch up with Marianne and expand on the interview we had on the radio show:

Jared: We talked about it on the show, but you quit your day job of 16 years. That’s crazy, but you clearly had good reasons, right?
Marianne: There were 3 reasons that inspired me to quit my job. The first being the lack of inspiration after 16 years working the same environment. It wasn’t the colleagues or work atmosphere but I knew I had to make a change.

I believe the way you experience your job has an effect on your health. So I started to feel more tired, couldn’t concentrate, sleep longer, started to arrive late, lost my keys to my bike, missed the bus as if I needed to receive a message. I believe it was my own soul telling me “Marianne you had a great time but you finished the book at this office, let’s start a new chapter in your life”.

The second reason that inspired me was that a few years before this moment I took the courage to tell my manager I wasn’t happy anymore and he said “What do you like to do?” I said education. And he allowed me to start up my own department! So I realized by expressing what you want you can get what you want and that I could create something out of nothing! So why not do it again and start my own company.

The third reason was that I became a certified communication skills coach and trainer while I was working and that opened up a new world. Before I didn’t know what to do but now I did. I found my passion.

J: Why did you start Soul at Work instead of finding another job?
M: I wanted to discover all the other talents I had in store and manifest my own ideas. Create something myself. I noticed that I overcame many obstacles: I moved from a typical shy girl next door to a public speaker and if I can do that I can do more, so I was curious to find out.

J: What does the Soul stand for in your company?
M: Inspiration: find inspiration at work or let your passion become your work. It’s also a double meaning: let your soul be at work and life takes care of itself.

J: I love it! Being Dutch, why do you focus on international audiences?
M: I wrote in English when I was 12 with a pen-pal in India. I read the National Geographic and Time Magazine of my dad and my jobs were always in international environments so it was a logical step. The other reason was to differentiate with Dutch coaches and to aim at a global audience at the same time.

J: Pen-pals in India! You just have to love how small our world is. Tell me what you envision for future work styles?
M: More people don’t find what they want in corporate jobs anymore. One of the main reason is they lost the human touch. It’s all about ROI and bottom lines instead of the people who do the work. I envision more people will turn their passion into a job or have multiple jobs. (I also do PR part-time for an association and I write columns). These single or small organisations will then start communities of their own in order to co-create a new society and life.

The empowerment of the people has begun, a bottom up approach instead top down. We need to be inspired and use our work to see the greatness of our being!

J: I’ve always been a fan of the bottom up approach. I spent the majority of my life on the bottom. Scratch that. Underneath the bottom. Let’s get back to the spirituality side of things. What can one do so practice spirituality in the workplace?
M: Stay connected: focus on your heart, your fellow colleagues and your own being.
Be aware of your own living body, breath and talents. To me to be spiritual is to express my full being with all the talents I have.

J: Women becoming more powerful in the workforce. Why?
M: They moved from copying the ‘male approach’ at work to standing firm expressing their femininity to balance both energies. Women will move from independence to interdependence and are therefore the examples of co-creation in the workplace. Women will bring back the feeling and attention to our humanity in the world. No against the males but with them as we need both sides!

J: One last thing. Give us some tips on quiting the day job and starting to live the life of our dreams.
M: Focus on what you love or what you want to make better. Research your joy, passion. If you don’t know your passion: what touches you, frustrates you, do you talk about, notice all the time? Ask your friends, family, they might see it too what makes you tick.

Take small steps e.g. start reading about your new job, own company or new position. Find education if needed, listen to role models not to dream-bashers. No need to jump into the deep end: work part-time and build a new work environment step by step.

Set goals and write the steps down. Talk to people if you get discouraged, they will cheer you on.

Her company, Soul at Work:
Through coaching, public speaking and e-learning, Soul at Work supports international audiences to create more quality of life. Soul at Work’s mission is to uplift communication worldwide by giving people the tools and confidence to build 21st century lifestyles. Finding inspiration through work and creating a job around your own inspiration are the keys to a fulfilling life.

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~DK

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Flex Your Power has lots of great tips on how to save energy, including upgrading your windows, appliances and installing insulation, but the number one tip is to upgrade your light bulbs to compact florescent bulbs (CFLs). They use over 50% less energy and last up to 10 times longer than traditional incandescent light bulbs. There is an obvious and immediate trade off; CFLs are quite a bit more expensive and the quality of the lighting has only recently come up to the level of the standard incandescent bulbs. On the surface, it seems that the trade off on energy savings and reduction of CO2 emissions is worth it. So, I made the jump…

I live in a new home that has an impressive collection of recessed lighting. In fact, my home has a total of 38 recessed lights throughout the house. On top of that, we have several lamps and outdoor lights as well. My house can eat up quite a bit of energy, especially if the house full of kids I have manage to forget to turn off their lights when they leave a room.

About a year ago, I made the switch to CFLs throughout the house. I spent the money to buy good ones and felt proud that I was doing my part to save the environment and to save a lot of money over the next couple years. I am not alone. According to MSNBC.com, in 2007, 9 million CFLs were purchased in California alone, reducing CO2 emissions in California by about 1.5 billion pounds. Sounds like a win/win. What is the problem?

Like everything else, there is a trade off and CFLs have a big one and surprisingly not a lot of people know about it. CFLs contain at least 5 milligrams of mercury powder in each bulb, enough to contaminate over 6,000 gallons of drinking water (according to MSNBC.com). Moreover, You cannot throw away spent CFLs in the trash. They are toxic waste that needs to be handled by a special facility, designed to deal with mercury. And guess what? Not all towns have an approved facility to handle CFLs.

Essentially, environmentalist bandwagon jumping has cause the potential for up to 54 billion gallons of water to be contaminated beyond save drinking levels just by the number of CFLs purchased in California in 2007 alone. Imagine the cumulative impact over many years, decades…

I also asked myself, what happens if I break one of these CFLs accidentally in my house.? After all, CFLs practically explode when they break, spewing mercury powder everywhere. According to the EPA, there is an 11 step process you should follow, including airing out the room, using gloves, double bagging (plastic bags I assume) and carefully using tape to pick up the remaining powder. Don’t use a vaccuum. That is a very bad idea, according to the EPA site.

Great! Now I have 38 points of hazardous waste in my home that I have no convienienct mode of which to dispose. What did I do?

Just like the plastic bags Jared mentioned on the Words Cause Radio Show on BlogTalkRadio and just like the Myth of the Electric Car, there are always tradeoffs with everything. There is no way not to have an impact on the environment, so we need to be much more thoughtful before we run to the store for the latest fix to our energy or climate change issues. There is no one silver bullet to solve all our problems. Maybe solar power is part of the equation. Then using harmless incandescent bulbs is not an issue for us and we can go back to not poisoning our water and our families to save energy.

A topic for another blog I suppose.

~DK

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Contrary to popular belief, Cinco de Mayo is not a celebration of Mexican independence. It is actual a celebration of the defeat of the French military during the Battle of Puebla in 1862. Bill can tip back a couple of cervezas and eat some Freedom Fries this afternoon and celebrate with his Mexican friends who dislike France as much as he does.

The world really isn’t as different as we sometimes think. Bill O’Reilly and Mexicans can find common ground!

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After listening to this part of the show again, it really got me thinking about the media. More importantly, it got me thinking about the type of conversation that the media is, and the type of conversations that I have with other people. I looked at some of the most popular televisions shows. They are mostly geared towards a 14 year-old conversation. Some of the most popular music on the marketing: same thing.

Then I started thinking about politics. The Democratic Party race is stuck in this conversation. Hillary is making the same arguments you’d expect to hear at a high school political debate. I remember those years. I remember those debates. I remember my attitude at the time. I remember the sense of ego and pride and fear of being wrong or publicly humiliated.

I also remember the simpleness and naivety of my thinking. At the age of 14, I would have thought that a gas tax holiday was a great idea. After years of economics courses and one professor who helped me understand that most economic theory is garbage, I can’t help but laugh at the gas tax holiday.

Yet, this is the conversation that is taking place. I sometimes find myself in that 14 year-old boy conversation of malicious gossip and egoism. Realizing that I certainly contribute to the over all conversation, I can’t help but ask myself what I can do to change that conversation. I keep coming back to the same answer: Keep doing the Jared and Dean Words Cause Radio Show!

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A couple sitting next to my girlfriend and I ordered a salad (hardly ate any of it), half an ostrich (hardly ate any of it), and then ordered cheesecake to go! This goes beyond having eyes bigger than one’s stomach. This is just completely wasteful. This ranks up there with the environmentalists that are causing our greatest environmental problems we face today.

There is a lesson for all of us here. We don’t need to order up more than what we need. If you don’t need the bags at the grocery store, don’t take the bags. If you don’t need the food at the restaurant, don’t order the food. Let someone else order the big meal who is actually going to eat it.

In the end, this wasteful behavior leads to higher prices for everyone. Smart consumption equals lower prices. Take that to the bank instead of a bogus socialist gas tax holiday.

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But five years after President George W. Bush declared Mission Accomplished, we are still there, killing and dying. There seems no end in site–and everyone knows this.  G.W. Bush should be tried as a criminal and publicly accountable for his acts.  This war was an utter botch of international policy and a complete lapse in judgement. I face more severe consequences getting in a bar fight than our president has for killing and wounding hundreds of thousands of people.

I read an article this morning about the Miracle Marine, Sgt. Merlin German who had his entire body severely burned and his face utterly disfigured. It broke my heart. There are countless others like Sgt. German who are dead or permanently damaged and I blame George W. Bush 100%. He is the most unpatriotic fascist bastard I can imagine (other than his cronies).  People, we can no longer accept this.  

Our solders deserve our respect and caution in the use of their services.    We need to get them out of Iraq and demand Bush face the court for his utterly arrogant irresponsibility with the lives of our most valuable asset: the people of the United States and specifically, our troops.  

Rest in peace Sgt. Merlin–we will remember you.

~DK 

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This Saturday, we’ll be talking live about Environmentalists and the problems they cause. Yes, that’s right! Environmentalists have actually created some of the biggest environmental problems we face today. By not jumping on the latest band wagon in the eco-world, you can actually educate yourself and learn how you really can have a positive impact on the environment. Don’t believe the latest eco-hype! Tune in this Saturday or download the show straight to your iPod. Dean and I don’t agree on every environmental issue, so you don’t want to miss this exciting show!

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Dr. Wright is also the Producer of the Power of Mentorship Movie starring Bob Proctor (The Secret), Marie Diamond and Dr. Di Martini. This movie outlines the steps to success that each person must take to realize his/her own dreams.

Dr. Wright is the Co- Author of the book: The Power of Mentorship for the Woman Entrepreneur. This book shares real strategies for women entrepreneurs today.

She will be giving us a sneak peek into her new book: www.thewrightpassion.com.

Catch the LIVE interview this Saturday @ 10AM

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Shawne Duperon has been in the television business for nearly 20 years. She has taught thousands of people how to get free TV publicity and how to powerfully network. She’s worked at ABC, NBC and has traveled the globe for the likes of “World Business Review” with Alexander Haig and The Science Museum of London.

Shawne has interviewed hundreds of celebrities including General Colin Powell, Morgan Freeman, Bill Cosby, Yo Yo Ma and Gloria Steinham. You’ve even heard her as the voice in radio commercials for OnStar.

Shawne’s currently a PhD candidate, creating cutting-edge research on the relationship between mass media and gossip. Media, she says, is the ultimate network. Knowing how to create and navigate strong media relationships is the secret to unlimited marketing power.

Catch the show LIVE @ 10AM Pacific.

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Trolleys are zero-emissions vehicles. Of course, zero-emission vehicles are somewhat of a misnomer. The energy required to power electric vehicles comes from somewhere . Most electricity that is generated today comes from sources that generate some sort of pollution that is harmful to breathe and/or contributes to global warming.

Of course, this isn’t to say that we should stop rolling the trolley buses down the streets in major cities around the globe. In fact, San Fransisco is a nearly perfect implementation of zero-emissions mass transit. Its massive fleet of 344 Trolleys is almost entirely powered by the Hetch Hetchy Water & Power Project. Still these are trolleys and thankfully, they won’t be going away anytime soon.

So, who killed the electric bus? The similarities to the 1907 electric bus scam in London and the recent scam taking place by Zap Corporation is a bit eerie for my tastes. It is an indication of the naivety of environmentally conscience people who keep getting taken for a ride (in what seems like a “zero-emissions vehicle”). This same naivety is what leads scores of people to go purchase “Who Killed the Electric Car?” on DVD (which is primarily made from crude oil based substances). Just perform an illegal download of the video over the Internet. That is better for the environment.

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Today, I read that two major OEMs have decided to continue to offer Windows XP beyond Microsoft’s deadline for Redmond’s OS boneyard trip. According to Ars Technica, both Dell and Lenovo will continue to offer Windows XP to thier customers, because of consumer demand to do so. 

I am continually baffled at the level of success Microsoft is able to achieve and replicate over time.  You would think that after nearly 13 years of building Windows operating systems, they would understand how to do it right, the botch it up version after version.  Remember Windows 98?  How about Windows ME?  SQL 7 and Project 95? Still, people buy their products and reward Microsoft for uncreative, shotty work at a premium price. 

Whats worse is that Dell and Lenovo hardware emulates the lack of attention to detail and design of the operating systems that run them. Still, we buy them–and do so in large numbers. 

I refuse. I will not spend my money on subpar, intensionally flawed products.  We have choices out there. Try a Mac or an HP running Linux; whatever it takes to stop this craziness. Its not an MS/Dell only computing world.  If you speak with your dollars, the market will respond. 

DK

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Prior to this land segregation, the South African government had already prohibited mixed color marriage and even mixed color adultery. It was fine for a white person to cheat on his/her spouse with another white person, but not with a black person. A national racial registry was even put in place where everyone would have to register if they were white or not-white. The South African government even setup a convenient Race Classification Board to make the final call on who was not white.

Separation of living areas wasn’t where apartheid stopped. The years following the Group Areas Act included removing the right to vote for non-whites, displacement programs, a narrowed definition of “permanent residence” for non-whites. “Pass Laws”, requiring non-whites to have a “pass” on them at all times. Prohibition of non-white labor strikes. The most damming was the removal of South African citizenship in 1970.

To be sure, the apartheid government feigned compassion with the Bantu Investment Corporation Act (1959), which provided for business building blocks for non-white areas. They even provided non-whites with the opportunity to self-govern themselves with the Bantu Self-Government Act (1959) and the Urban Bantu Councils Act (1961).

Perhaps the most interesting of all the acts was the Terrorism Act of 1967. Indefinite detention of anyone suspected to being involved with terrorism sounds awfully familiar, but I just can’t seem to put my finger on where I might have read about that before. Of course, our USA Patriot Act only applies this indefinite detention to aliens (not the green kind). Of course, the South African government one-uped us. At least they made the non-whites “aliens” before they enacted their version of the Patriot Act.

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W and his administration are a far cry from traditional Republican values. A few major notables are the liberal spending of Federal money, a lack of presidential vetoes, and the fact that he was the governor of Texas. Historically, Texas is NOT a Republican state. Only recently have the governors of Texas been Republican, which is more likely to indicate that what we are calling Republicans these days are actually Democrats rather than saying that the fourth largest states in the union has suddenly shifted to Republican.

Things get particularly interesting when we compare Texas to California. Most pundits on television and radio today refer to California as a Democrat state. The history of California politics is highly Republican. Have we so quickly forgotten Pete Wilson? Ronald Reagan? Earl Warren? Don’t want to leave Richard Nixon out of the mix either.

Now, I guarantee you that someone is going to read the part about the lack of vetoes and talk about how W has started vetoing bills since both houses of Congress have become Democrat. One need only look at the 91st to 93rd Congresses when Nixon was President and vetoed 43 bills. Then look at Ford. And Reagan. Perhaps you can argue that our Federal government is passing better bills and improving communication. I’ll keep pointing to the 3,635,352,280,196.38 reasons that Bush is not a Republican.

The George W. Bush team has pulled as fast one on America and the Republican party. He’s not a Republican and he’s not quite a Democrat either (although, he’s much closer to a Democrat than a Republican). For anyone who voted for Ralph Nadar in 2000, you got your third party candidate in George W. Bush.

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