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Well said Greg!

2011-01-13T19:57:00.000-08:00

Chairman Bernanke and Sheila Bair are talking about the cycle of banks and lending and balance sheets and hiring and how lending is contingent on small business balance sheets. Banks don’t want to lead for fear the business will not be there tomorrow. Small businesses cannot grow because they don’t have the cash to invest in their business. Hence nothing is being done. Growth is not happening. Commericial real estate is depressed. Look at your local strip mall for the clues.

It is my thought that the focus should now be squarely on the larger corporations who have had access to capital markets, whose balance sheets are flush with cash, who have done the employee cutting which has had a trickle down effect on main street. It is time for them, to start to take some of the cash and hire again.

Employees are cheap(er). Efficiency earning growth to higher stock prices are over. Earnings will not come from the expense side but from the revenue side. Growth has to come from growth in the economy, not cost cutting.

Jobs stimulate spending. Spending stimulates more spending. Look to create jobs. Creating jobs will ease the burden on over-worked employees and start the trickle up that ends on main street. Then the small businesses can start to find stimulus from the banks again.

Stop the freebies from the government. Stop the “save everything/everyone mentality” that was required back then in 2008-2010, but not needed now. Focus on solving the problems by using the cash on the balance sheets of those who have made it through - especially if those gains were from the government.

Jamie Diamond from JP Morgan/Chase was on CNBC yesterday talking about paying out a dividend with all the cash they have accumulated - once the bank stress test is done that is. Meredith Whitney, the ”Banking Analyst Guru”, suggested investing in banks overseas instead.

Great (sarcastic “great”). Take free money from the government, take guarantees on housing and loans, and take that free money and give it to the people who likely have jobs in the form of a stock dividend. Alternatively, if he were to do what Meredith Whitney suggests, he should use it to hire people outside the USA. What will that do in the US other than raise the stock price possibly and provide a small stimulus from those stockholders who may spend the dividend (the dividend is likely to reinvested in stock anyway)? If it is used to buy an overseas financial institution, that is even worse. Pay those workers with US free money. No wonder Meredith Whitney thinks municipalities will default on debt at an alarming rate. No jobs here, means no tax base, means no money to pay the bondholders.

Mr Diamond, do the right thing and take the cash you have been given for FREE in the USA, and look to hire someone in the USA instead who can somehow, someway grow your business. I know… what job is there?

Maybe there is that extra teller at your branches. Maybe it is opening all day Saturday (with new workers involved). Maybe it is increasing budgets instead of cutting budgets, and asking managers to put the extra money to work and while they are doing it, prove they used it to increase the bottom line of their department. Maybe it is a technology product. Maybe it is hiring the people to service the people who want a mortgage work-out so they can feel a little more better and stay in there house.

Will it maximize shareholder wealth? Who knows. If the economy grows and jobs are added, you can argue that burdens can be lifted, housing can be absorbed by new workers who save up and buy that house, and in the process the economy and the bank earnings rise in the process. Banks can start to make loans (like they are supposed to do) instead of buying US government bonds.

As long as the US focuses on saving the world, the opportunity of creating business and earnings will be lost. Small businesses need big business stimulus to get them out of the rut. IMHO.

Thank you Citigroup

2010-12-17T07:55:00.000-08:00

NEW YORK, Dec 17 (IFR) -

   Citigroup has closed the largest wind-energy project in the world, a US$1.4bn deal that uses clever structured finance technology to "strip" a guarantee provided by the US Department of Energy into component parts, allowing the bank to tailor the transaction to a variety of investor bases.
   The bank acted as joint lead bookrunner (lead-left and structurer) and joint lead arranger on the innovative, 22-year amortizing package, which financed the Shepherds Flat Wind project in Oregon, the world's largest wind farm. The transaction, which closed yesterday, is the first broadly distributed offering of its kind supported with a partial US Department of Energy loan guarantee.
   Citi was engaged to structure and execute the transaction in November 2009, and also acted as DOE lender-applicant for a US$1.3bn semi-guaranteed loan. The project, an 845-megawatt wind generation facility located in eastern Oregon, is sponsored by Caithness Energy, LLC and GE Energy Financial Services, and will feature 338 new high-efficiency GE 2.5-megawatt wind turbines. The wind farm is the first in North America to deploy these turbines, which have been used in Europe and Asia.

According to the DOE, the project will produce enough renewable energy to power more than 200,000 average California households and avoid over 1 million tons of carbon dioxide, and will directly and indirectly create hundreds of jobs for the local economy.

An 80% guarantee from the DOE's loan-guarantee program ultimately allowed the project to access a wider pool of capital; for example, some investors said this was their first project-level investment in wind energy.

At the outset, however, the 80% guaranteed structure presented Citigroup with a quandary. While a deep pool of buyside demand existed to buy government risk, and a separate pool existed to buy pure project-finance risk, there was not a significant investor base for transactions that are only partially guaranteed by a US agency. "Eighty-percent guaranteed paper is neither fish nor fowl," said Nasser Malik, a managing director at Citigroup. "It's a square peg in a round hole. Lenders and investors are not accustomed to buying or seeing it.

"So we recommended that the DOE permit a process whereby we 'strip' the guarantee into component parts through intermediary grantor trusts, using securitization technology. This way we were able to create true pieces of homogeneous risk (government risk and pure project risk), size demand more appropriately, and reduce extension risk for the client."

In order to optimize the cost of funds for the large capital raise, Citi suggested accessing multiple markets including the bank market, private placement bond market, and ABCP conduits.

But Citi had to employ some nifty structuring in order to appropriately tailor the offering to each of these specific markets.

First, the transaction was split into fixed- and floating-rate pieces, mainly to minimize negative carry (when cost of financing is greater than income generated) over the course of the two-year construction period. Then each of those pieces was further split into two: 80% of the fixed-rate piece would benefit from a 100% government guarantee, while 20% would be completely unguaranteed, and the floating-rate piece would be divided, 80/20, in the exact same way.

So a US$675m, 14-year, fully amortizing floating-rate tranche of "bank debt" was stripped as follows: 80% (or US$540m) of grantor-trust certificates benefitted fully from the DOE guarantee, while 20% (or US$135m) of pure project trust certificates were completely unguaranteed.

The floaters were placed in this way: 60% of the US$540m guaranteed portion was structured for and placed into Citi's own Govco ABCP conduit, while the remaining 40% was purchased by the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, one of the joint arrangers on the deal. The US$135m unguaranteed floater was syndicated to the project finance bank market.

Separately, the US$525m of fixed-rate, 17.9-year average-life bonds were divided in a similar way: 80% (or US$420m) had a full government guarantee and was sold as a so-called "delayed draw" into the US private placement market, while 20% (or US$105m) of unguaranteed notes were sold into the project-finance market.

"In a project, you draw down funds over a span of time," said Stuart Murray, a Citi banker overseeing the trade. "So you don't need all the cash up front. Sponsors get the benefit of the 'delay draw' afforded by the private placement market, which is more economical than having the funds sitting in escrow."

Twenty-five percent of the fixed-rate, private placement portion was immediately funded when the transaction closed last Thursday; 50% more of the fixed-rate piece will fund in three weeks. The remaining 25% will fund in early May 2011.

"By our estimate, the DOE guarantee reduced the credit spread on the transaction by almost 200bp," Malik said. "This is the real value to the sponsors."

Additionally, US$231m in letters of credit were issued, a portion of which is 80% guaranteed by the DOE. The LOC were syndicated to the project finance bank market.

Besides Citi, the other joint arrangers on the deal were Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, RBS, and West LB.

The fixed-rate, private placement portion, rated 'BBB-' by Fitch, priced with a 4.97% blended coupon and a 166bp spread, and was 2.5x oversubscribed.

Citi underwrote almost 50% of the floating-rate facilities and LOC. Bank-market syndication was approximately 2x oversubscribed, resulting in clean, unguaranteed project exposure to Citi of approximately US$8m.

The Shepherds Flat wind project started construction this year and is expected to finish in mid-2012.

adam.tempkin@thomsonreuters.com

Thank You God

2010-10-09T09:57:00.001-07:00

A way out, at last, for Chile's 33 trapped miners

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Play VideoABC News – Drill Team Breaks Through to Trapped Miners

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AP – Relatives of trapped miners embrace at the San Jose Mine near Copiapo, Chile, Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. …

By MICHAEL WARREN, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 12 mins ago

SAN JOSE MINE, Chile – A drilling rig punched through to the underground purgatory where 33 miners have been trapped for 66 agonizing days under the Chilean desert, raising cheers, tears and hopes on Saturday.

Champagne sprayed and hard hats tumbled off heads as rescue workers pressed close to the drill, hugging each other and shouting for joy. Down in "Camp Hope," where the miners' relatives waited, people waved flags and cried as one man energetically rang a brass bell even before the siren sounded confirming the escape shaft had reached the miners.

The men are still several days away from efforts to bring them to the surface: the rescue team wants to eliminate even a remote chance of something going wrong on their way up, and plans to carefully inspect the shaft with a video camera before deciding whether to reinforce it.

"We feel an enormous happiness, now that i'm going to have my brother," said Darwin Contreras, whose brother Pedro, a 26-year-old heavy machine operator, is stuck down below. "When the siren rang out, it was overwhelming. Now we just have to wait for them to get out, just a little bit longer now."

The "Plan B" drill won a three-way race against two other drills to carve a hole wide enough for an escape capsule to pull the miners out one by one.

While "Plan A" and "Plan C" stalled after repeatedly veering off course, the "Plan B" drill reached the miners at a point 2,041 feet (622 meters) below the surface at 8:05 a.m., after 33 days of drilling.

Jeff Hart of Denver, Colorado, operated the drill, and said the entire rescue crew erupted with cheers when the T130 broke through.

"There is nothing more important than saving, possibly saving 33 lives. There's no more important job than that," Hart said. "We've done our part, now it's up to them to get the rest of the way out."

The milestone thrilled Chileans, who have come to see the rescue drama as a test of the nation's character and pride, and eased some anxiety among the miners' families.

But now comes a difficult judgment call: The rescue team must decide whether it's more risky to pull the miners through unreinforced rock, or to insert tons of heavy steel pipe into the curved shaft to protect the miners on their way up.

"This is an important achievement," Mining Minister Laurence Golborne said, "but we still haven't rescued anybody. This rescue won't be over until the last person below leaves this mine."

President Sebastian Pinera promised "to do everything humanly possible" to keep the miners safe, and as the drill was nearing the breakthrough, he said he had kept his promise.

Those in charge of the rescue say the decision on how to proceed next will be a purely technical one.

While engineers have said there is only a remote chance of something going wrong, everyone involved knows how terrible it would be — politically as well as for the families — if a miner gets stuck partway up for reasons that might have been avoided.

Steel pipe would prevent stones from falling and potentially jamming the capsule, but it wouldn't save a miner if the unstable mine suffers another major collapse, and might itself provoke a disastrous setback, Golbornesaid.

"You would have to put though a 600-meter hole a lot of pipes that weigh more than 150 tons," he warned. "And this structure can be set in a position that also could block the movement of the Phoenix (escape capsule). It's not an decision easy to make."

If Saturday's close video examination persuades engineers that the shaft is smooth, strong and uniform enough to let the capsule pass without significant obstacles, then rescuers plan to start pulling the men out one by one as early as Tuesday, in a made-for-TV spectacle that has captivated the world.

The miners will be initially examined at a field hospital where they can briefly reunited with up to three close relatives. Then, they'll be flown by helicopter in small groups to the regional hospital in Copiapo, where 33 fresh beds await and they will be observed for at least 48 hours. Only after their physical and mental health is thoroughly examined will they be allowed to go home.

"I'm very excited, very happy," said Guadalupe Alfaro, waving a flag outside her tent. Her son Carlos Bugueno, 26, is stuck down below. "I'm very excited, very content. I've wanted so long for this moment, I woke up to live this moment. My son will return soon."

"Our nervousness is gone now," said Juan Sanchez, whose son Jimmy is stuck in the mine. "Only now can we begin to smile."

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Associated Press writers Vivian Sequera at the mine and Eva Vergara in Copiapo, Chile, contributed to this story.

Awareness Number Four

2010-08-26T20:31:00.000-07:00

Awareness Number Four [Reasons Why Not To Mow The Yard]

By: Daniel Lee Edstrom

1. Mowing grass causes air-born toxic emissions. Anytime a plant is eaten or cut down, it goes into a self-preservation mode.

a. The damaged plant sends electrical impulses to it's root system telling it to produce a toxic enzyme for the purpose of warding off further destruction.

b. The damaged plant also sends a genesis signal to the roots that will cause the growth of the plant to switch into high gear. The plant then grows at an abnormal speed in a state of toxicity until it's threat of extinction is no longer. This promotes a local air atmosphere of toxicity that lingers in hopes of warding off further destruction from air-breathing creatures. Some of the side effects for humans may include; hay fever, labored breathing, coughing, sneezing, runny nose, acute asthma,and nausea.

2 .Mowing increases the pesky bug population.

a.The miraculous eco-system that you have just cut down, has driven away an arsenal of would-be predators of gnats, flies, and mosquitoes.The pesky bugs can now fly around with less fear of being consumed. They are also filled with the toxins from the air-born aftermath, thus, birds and other would-be flying predators will stay away from them until the conditions return to normal.

3. Labor and equipment cost.

a. First you have the initial cost of the lawnmower,

b. Second you have the perpetual cost of fuel and oil.

c. Third you have the cost of maintaining and fixing your lawnmower [unless you are one of those people who are fortunate enough to have a mechanic in the family, but even then, you must rely upon their charity every time you have a mechanical need.]

d. Fourth, your time is money if not for the fact that you could be spending more time on better endeavors that may be important to you.

4. Noise Pollution

a. For a considerable portion of your day, the lawn mower engine noise will strip the peace and solitude as well as drown out and drive away many beautiful song birds [that also eat pesky bugs I might add.] that were also once thriving around your yard space.

So why don't we save ourself a lot of time and money, sprinkle some wildflower seeds around and maybe cut just enough for a little winding walkway, and enjoy our yard's little eco-system?We will all breathe alot easier especially when we realize all the time, energy, and money that we are saving!

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God loves us all!

2010-08-23T08:45:00.001-07:00

Joy and fear: miners found alive stuck for months

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By MAURICIO CUEVAS, Associated Press Writer – 2 hrs 35 mins ago

COPIAPO, Chile – For 33 men found alive after 17 days trapped deep in a copper and gold mine, the toughest challenge now may be preserving their sanity during the months it may take to carve a tunnel big enough for them to get out.

For their families above ground on Monday, euphoria and and more anxiety meant for a sleepless night at the realization that the miners may be stuck until Christmas.

"We didn't sleep. We stayed up all night long hoping for more news. They said that new images would appear, so we were up hoping to see them," said one, Carolina Godoy.

Dawn broke behind a cold fog on the surface of the gold and copper mine in Chile's Atacama desert, where an intense rescue effort finally reached the miners on Sunday after weeks of missteps, new cave-ins and other false starts.

Now the plan is to carve a wider tunnel, just big enough for the men to be pulled out one by one. That equipment works much more slowly than the bore that drilled the 15-centimeter-wide shaft used to make first contact.

That narrower drill broke through 2,257 feet (688 meters) of solid rock to reach the emergency refuge where the miners have gathered. The trapped men quickly tied two notes to the end of a probe that rescuers pulled to the surface, announcing in big red letters: "All 33 of us are fine in the shelter."

"Today all of Chile is crying with excitement and joy," President Sebastian Pinera said at the mine.

And where many were beginning to give up hope, the scene above ground became a celebration Sunday night, with a barbecue for theminers' families, roving musicians, lit candles and Chilean flags making the barren landscape seem festive.

The men already have been trapped underground longer than all but a few miners rescued in recent history. Last year, three miners survived 25 days trapped in a flooded mine in southern China, and two miners in northeastern China were rescued after 23 days in 1983. Few other rescues have taken more than two weeks.

Click image to see photos from the mine collapse

AP/Hector Retamal

The miners' survival after 17 days is very unusual, but since they've made it this far, they should emerge physically fine, said Davitt McAteer, who was assistant secretary for mine safety and health at the U.S. Labor Department under President Bill Clinton.

"The health risks in a copper and gold mine are pretty small if you have air, food and water," McAteer said.

Still, he said the stress of being trapped underground for a long period of time can be significant.

"There is a psychological pattern there that we've looked at," McAteer said. But "they've established communication with the guys; there are people who can talk them through that."

The hole already drilled will be used to send down small capsules containing food, water and oxygen if necessary, and sound and video equipment so the miners can better communicate with loved ones and rescuers. That two-way communication may be key to keeping them thinking positive.

A video camera lowered down the probe shaft Sunday showed some of the miners, stripped to the waist in the underground heat, waving happily. But they weren't able to establish audio contact, Pinera said.

"I saw eight or nine of them. They were waving their hands. They got close to the camera and we could see their eyes, their joy," the president said.

The miners seemed to be aware that their rescue may take a long time, according to one of them, Mario Gomez, perhaps the eldest of the trapped men at 63, who wrote a note to his wife.

"Even if we have to wait months to communicate. ... I want to tell everyone that I'm good and we'll surely come out OK," Gomez wrote, scrawling the words on a sheet of notebook paper the miners tied to the probe. "Patience and faith. God is great and the help of my God is going to make it possible to leave this mine alive."

Mine officials and relatives of the workers had hoped the men reached a shelter below where the tunnel collapsed Aug. 5 at the San Jose gold and copper mine about 530 miles (850 kilometers) north of the capital, Santiago. But they had said the shelter's emergency air and food supplies would last only 48 hours.

Gomez wrote that the miners used vehicles for light and a backhoe to dig a channel to retrieve underground water.

It was unclear whether their air supply was in danger of running out.

Rescuers had drilled repeatedly in an effort to reach the shelter, but failed seven times. They blamed the errors on the mining company's maps. According to Gomez's note, at least some of those earlier probes were close enough that the trapped miners heard them. The eighth attempt finally worked.

Gomez's note, which the president read aloud on live television, focused on expressions of faith and love for his family. But frustration also showed through in one line, where he declared that "this company has got to modernize."

Chile is the world's top copper producer and a leading gold producer, and has some of the world's most advanced mining operations. But both the company that owns the mine, San Esteban, and the National Mining and Geology Service have been criticized for allegedly failing to comply with regulations. In 2007, an explosion at the San Jose mine killed three workers.

Liliana Ramirez couldn't believe it when Chile's mining minister said her husband had sent a note to his "Dearest Lila."

"I know my husband is strong, and at 63, is the most experienced miner who could lead his co-workers," she said, but she vowed to keep him above ground once he's rescued.

Authorities and relatives of the miners hugged, climbed a nearby hill, planted 33 flags and sang Chile's national anthem after discovering the miners had survived.

Along the length of Chile, horns honked, flags waved and people watched the drama unfold live on television and computer screens. It was a rush of good news in a country still rebuilding from a magnitude-8.8 earthquake Feb. 27 and its resulting tsunami, which together killed at least 521 people and left 200,000 homeless.

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Associated Press writers Federico Quilodran in Santiago, Chile, Peter Orsi in Mexico City and Michael Warren in Buenos Aires contributed to this report.

New Zealand Retail Sales for June 2010

2010-08-12T19:02:00.000-07:00

[22:55 NZ ECON: Retail Trade Surprises Sharply To Upside In June, Q2] SYDNEY, Aug 13 (IFR) - Retail trade in New Zealand has been barely rising for months, and markets and IFR and looked for more of the same in June, but instead growth soared over both the month and the quarter. Overall retail trade leaped 0.9% in June, the strongest rise since last August, against market expectations of a 0.4% rise. Ex-car sales bounced a hefty 1.5%, their best result since last May and also more than double the 0.6% expectation. Helped by this bounce in June, retail trade volume rose 1.3% over the June, handily beating expectations of a second straight quarterly gain of just 0.2%. With nominal retail trade rising a mere 0.5%, the rise in volumes reflects heavy discounting by retailers, suggesting that underlying demand remains relatively weak. While IFR had been thinking that weak retail data combined with the greater uncertainty in major economies would argue against another rate hike in September, the relatively hawkish central bank is likely to take this as a sign that domestic conditions are improving and make the market expectation for another 25bp more likely. Further details and table on . George.Worthington@thomsonreuters.com

Australia Trade Balance Goods

2010-08-03T20:21:00.000-07:00

Aussie Trade Balance and Q2 House Prices

Written August 3, 2010 at 9:45 PM EST by Alex Chernomordin

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A much better than expected Trade Balance out of Australia for the second straight month has moved the AUD/USD pair off session lows and revitalized the bid on risk after another round of poor readings out of the US earlier. The House Price Index also improved on the quarter.

Trade Balance - Survey:1800M Actual:3539M Prior:1645M
House Prices (QoQ) - Survey:2.0% Actual:3.1% Prior:4.8%
House Prices (YoY) - Survey:17.2% Actual:18.4% Prior:20.0%

On the 5-min AUD chart today we see the pair found support at the 61.8% from the move in the NY morning but has only found its way back to levels from earlier in the Asian morning.

This is how you heal a country...well said Georgios .

2010-06-11T12:09:00.000-07:00

VIENNA (MNI) - Greece's fiscal consolidation program is on track and will remain so, Greek Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou said Friday in a draft for a speech to be held at the IIF spring membership meeting.

"We have taken difficult decisions, tough but necessary decisions," the Prime Minister said. "And we are now witnessing the first signs that we are turning the corner."

Papandreou noted that in the first five months of the year, the Greek deficit was down 40% compared to the same period last year. "So we are well within the targets we have set - and this even before many of the new measures we have taken have locked in," he pointed out.

"We are on target, and expect to remain so," he underlined.

The Greek reform program can start the growth cycle again on a more sustainable basis, the Prime Minister asserted. "Greece has tremendous growth potential waiting to be realized," he said.

Theories about default, haircuts and exit from the Eurozone show a remarkable lack of historical perspective and understanding of the basic rules of European economics and politics, Papandreou argued.

Persistent rumours about returning to the drachma in Greece or being expelled from the European Union are "nonsense," he stressed.

Papandreou welcomed this week's final agreement on the technical details for the EU stabilisation fund for the euro and called for the mechanism to be permanent.

"We should now work for a permanent stabilisation fund, a new European Monetary Fund financed by contributions of Eurozone members proportionate to the size of their wealth," he said.

--Vienna desk: +49-177-724-77-39; email: twidder@marketnews.com

Project in the works "The Fireside Talks" co-creators; Aaron Warren & Daniel Lee Edstrom

2009-12-16T15:31:00.000-08:00

Something wonderful is on the way!

Magical chain reaction

2009-12-14T18:32:00.000-08:00

Mystery Couple Starts "Magical" Chain Reaction
For five hours, strangers bought each other meals at a Philly diner
By DANIELLE JOHNSON
Updated 12:50 PM EST, Mon, Dec 14, 2009

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It played like a scene from a holiday movie -- a mystery couple, who didn’t leave their names or numbers, walked into a restaurant, finished their meal and then set-off a chain reaction of generosity that lasted for hours.

That’s just what employees at the Aramingo Diner in Port Richmond said a man and a woman did during their breakfast shift last Saturday morning.

“It was magical. I had tears in my eyes because it never happened before. I’ve been here for 10 years and I’ve never seen anything like that,” said Lynn Willard, a waitress.

Willard and other waitresses told NBC Philadelphia that the couple started the chain reaction by paying double: for their own meal and for the tab of another table of diners at the restaurant. There's no evidence that one group of diners knew the others.

“I could not believe it … and it continued and continued, it was very nice,” said Willard. “They asked us not to say anything until they left, but we said ‘Merry Christmas, that person picked up your tab.’”

For the next five hours, dozens of patrons got into that same holiday spirit and paid the favor forward.

The diner’s manager said not one person was concerned about price of the check -- which averaged between $12-$30.

“It was a surprise to all of us, the girls were even taken aback,” said Linda. “Those who took the check also tipped the waitress. So nobody had to do anything other than pass it on and that’s what they did. They just passed it forward.”

It’s a true holiday story that proves how a small gesture of kindness can create some magic.

No One Says" Hello"

2009-09-10T17:08:00.000-07:00

No One Says "Hello"

Author: Daniel Edstrom

No One Says Hello by Daniel Lee Edstrom http://supremeintelligencesmedia.blogspot.com

Introduction to song lyrics;

The song that I have entitled "no one says hello", was written, recorded, and produced, on a Sunday afternoon. It is mostly about the ironic state of lack of communication in our technological world.

I feature myself on the 12 string guitar, bass guitar, orchestra strings, and vocals. I mixed it all down on a tascam portable studio, transferring the files to my computer, I put together a video using power editor from cyber link.

The video is unique in the sense that I used a Logitech WebCam during the very initial stages of the song when I was first inspired by a simple basic tune. At that point I didn't have one lyric in mind, however, I felt that the tune was catchy and was confident that the words would come along soon enough.

Sure enough the lyrics came along and were inspired from a missed phone call that my mother made to me. I recorded her voicemail message on the first channel in my studio and low and behold, everything seemed to fall into place for the completion of this song. I hope everyone enjoys it.

I am also offering my fans a unique oppurtunity to choose the option of having their name engraved on the cd or dvd face for a more personalized and valued keepsake effect.

[ Lyrics below]

Everyone has a cell phone technology world today

everyone has a cell phone but no one says hello

I saw a homeless man talking to the trees today

I wondered is this a sign a sign of things to come

When you can't seem to get through get through to anyone.

In a world of a trillion wires the irony's unspun, the irony's unspun

musical break [12 string guitar and orchestral strings]

Web cams and iPods in all our homes today

Musical downloads e-mails on the way

I wonder if the music the music that we need to hear

Is coming through the channels and coming through real clear

Are the movies that were watching inspiring us today

or is technology and cameras stealing our souls away, stealing ou souls away

Musical break [12 string guitar and orchestral strings]

repeat first

If everyone starts talking talking to the trees

Will the message that we need to hear be coming from the leaves, coming from the leaves

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Awareness # 3

2009-08-20T16:14:00.000-07:00

awareness number three

Author: Daniel Edstrom

Welcome friends and visitors to the ongoing saga of supreme intelligences media. We are going to write about what we believe to be, awareness number three.

For those of you who are familiar with the plant totem project, we had the healthiest tomato plants flourishing from one of the totems, and one day when I returned home from work, I noticed that some of the leaves were missing from the plants. I shrugged it off to the wind until the next day I noticed almost all of the leaves were gone! And to my surprise, upon closer viewing, there was a big, fat, bright, green worm munching away on one of the few leaves that were still standing.

As usual my ego took control and I swiftly brought that beautiful creature's life to an end. You killed my tomato plants and I killed you. I thought nothing more of it. A couple weeks went by and ironically, I still was able to harvest a relatively small crop of cherry tomatoes.

A Southern evening was coming down as I was relaxing on my front porch. An area in between my toes on my right foot, began to itch. As I looked at my foot from time to time, I noticed what seemed to be a red inflamed track heading haphazardly across my foot. After doing research and visiting my dermatologist, I learned that I had contracted a parasite that came from my brother's cats. It was called hook worm.

Let's see here, a parasite almost destroyed my tomato plants, and a parasite created havoc to my foot. Could this be a link to the supreme intelligence? Relax, breathe in deep, and meditate. A parasite is a living creature that depends on another living creature for its survival. My tomato plants were yielding its leaves ever so willingly to the worm. Supreme intelligence has set forth harmonious relationships between parasites and hosts. But what happens when the parasite threatens the survival of the host or in smaller scale, merely aggravates the host? In my particular case, I was severely aggravated and therefore motivated to take the steps of annihilation necessary to procure a rather untimely death to another intelligent species.

A rather large parasitical spectrum is now being unfolded in front of me. From the infinite microscopic direction, to the what is larger than me universe. And then we think about the earth. Is the earth a living organism? Yes it is. Are human beings parasites to the earth? Yes we are. Is it possible that the earth is starting to recognize what affects human beings are having upon it?

Awareness number three. It is in our best interest that we take the steps necessary, now, to prevent the earth from dying. It is also paramount to ease mother Earth's aggravation with human beings before it is too late for us. Awareness number three is about timing, it's about now.

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Plant Totems: Design Update

2009-07-25T14:12:00.000-07:00

Plant Totems: Design Update

"The Joy Of Being"

2009-06-08T15:40:00.001-07:00

"THE JOY OF BEING"....[AT ONE TIME A #1 SPOT ON GOOGLE SEARCH!], IS A FRESH NEW APPROACH ON HOW THIS POEM, BY PATTY EDSTROM, IS BEING PRESENTED THROUGH A VIDEO FORMAT WITH AN ORIGINAL 12- STRING GUITAR COMPOSITION ENTITLED "THE REPOSESSION" WHICH IS PERFORMED BY HER SON, DANIEL EDSTROM. THIS UNIQUE, DIGITAL, COLOR VIDEO, WILL DISPLAY HER LITERARY WORK WITH A SPECIAL, ANIMATED TEXT THAT IS BACKED WITH A HIGH QUALITY, DIGITALLY MIXED MASTER FILE[WINDOWS MEDIA AUDIO/VIDEO FILE @ 7.81 MB] FROM THE STATE OF THE ART STUDIO AT SUPREME INTELLIGENCES MEDIA.

We are now creating new sound effects!

2009-05-24T16:27:00.000-07:00

Guess what I did on memorial Day weekend? Collected some sound effects of course! I coudn't take it any longer, the mocking bird in my tree so I strapped a microphone to my telescopic fishing pole and recorded that happy bird. I also got a recording of a harley davidson as it went by. Check them out on production trax, look for Spirit Crier..Next time I shall try for the redheaded wood pecker!

WE HAVE ADDED A NEW DJ/KARAOKE SERVICE!

2008-09-29T15:05:00.000-07:00

S.I.Media has teamed up with Fancy Nancy Productions to bring you the best in karaoke and disc jockey services! Spruce up a wedding, birthday party, or any type of social gathering that you want people to remember with our new, state of the art text that is backed with a customizable imagery slideshow.

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Root beginnings of the "Awareness and Alignment Theory".

2008-09-23T20:27:00.000-07:00

Welcome back to Supreme Intelligences Media and the birth of the new-founded "Awareness and Alignment Theory". The theory is based on the belief that if we allow ourselves to become aware of supreme intelligences,nature's design,God,Being,etc.Then align our physical world to follow it's lead,that we will achieve the joy of life that was originally intended. Visit the plant totem project.

S.I.Media has also began promoting artwork and music that has been inspired from the AA Theory! Apply the A.A.Theory and send your original works to us for a promotional consideration!

2008-06-08T19:58:00.000-07:00

Supreme Intelligences Media came into existence not too long after reading Eckhart Tolle's "A New Earth".I have always been aware of my spiritual world but never have I consciously tried to align the two worlds together;http://supremeintelligences.blogspot.com/.Supreme Intelligences Media, [S.I.Media for short], is a media form identity evolved from it's essence and it's mission is to produce art from artists that will transcend the viewer,listener,or reader, into a new world of conscious spirituality.