Sunday Newscape Magazine

I just returned from a four day intensive. This workshop, conducted deep in the rich wet woods of British Columbia was touted as life changing. The skeptic in me claimed citizenship to Missouri - "show me!" And I found that the most effective tool to meet that challenge was the mirror the program offered. I was shown in spades!

To most people the word “hustler” implies that a person is a con man, someone on the prowl looking to cheat some fool out of his money, a slick talking lowlife looking for an easy mark. In the higher levels of the business world, a “hustler” is a person who has talent, imagination and endless drive; someone who knows how to make things happen. In our every changing world, where more and more companies are finding legal ways to wiggle out of paying their pension obligations, if you want to avoid running out of money during your retirement years, the hustler in you has to wake up and get busy now.

Auschwitz, the Gulag Archipelago, the Killing Fields of Cambodia.  These are names that immediately evoke images of some of the most horrific acts of cruelty and inhumanity.

San Antonio, Texas - You never know when a particular song will become a hit says award-winning songwriter Mitch Stephen. “You know, you can spend years writing what you think of as good songs about serious relationships,” he said recently. “Then you write a funny song about a gringo and it takes off.”

San Diego, California - Electrical engineers from the University of California, San Diego invented radio frequency integrated circuits that could lead to significantly less expensive imaging systems for identifying concealed weapons, for helping helicopters to land during dust storms, and for high frequency data communications.