Glow in the dark paint works by absorbing light and then releasing it, creating the glow in the dark effect while other types use self-emitting light technology. This type of paint can be used on many surfaces to make them glow when the lights are turned off. You are sure to get this kind of paint in party supply stores. Its used for illuminating surfaces for parties, hobby stores, or in any department store in your area. You are sure to get them from online as well as offline stores. Glow in the dark paint has sufficiently found use in model rockets. These rockets are painted with this paint in order to launch them at night and find them. Parents can create glow in the Dark Stars in children rooms to create the impressions of galaxies. They could also be used on Silhouette Walls, RC Airplanes, Vehicle Painting, t-shirts, fishing lures, police flashlight, glow cars, candles and dot rooms among many other uses. These paints come in different compositions though the most common are zinc-sulfide based phosphorescent pigments in an acrylic medium, alkaline rare earth metal silicate in an aluminate oxide europium dope and Strontium powders among other formulations. The different combination allow for different color combination ranging from green to red to blue and yellow green. The water based version of these paints also produce an odor similar to a typical paint though they are non-toxic, odorless and also safe. The Solvent Based mediums can produce harmful fumes and are not safe for children rooms. During preparation the paint mix process is done such that the crystals are evenly dispersed within a clear and thick paint medium. These ensures the highest available glow times and clarity.
This week we are going to address an email that was sent to The G Manifesto:
“I wanted to let you know that I love the G Manifesto and all your advice. I dont mean to disrespect you but it seems like all your advice is for people that have a lot of money. I want to get girls and be a G. I am young (19) and want to be like you so if you if you could tell me how to make some cash that would help. Thanks. John. ”
Alright John. First of all, you can never be me. Second, Stay in School, study hard, take a corporate job, marry an ex-sorority girl that can’t cook and move to the suburbs. Do you really want the life of The G? Do you really want sleeping with beautiful women to seem mundane because it happens so frequent like flight mileage? (Actually, sleeping with beautiful women never gets mundane) But, do you really want to dodge bullets, deal with hit squads, experience betrayal, have friends sellout, avoid snitches, Cops, date models, Exotic Dancers, high-society blue blood girls, have mad cash flow, travel to beautiful locales, get treated like a king in nightclubs, Sushi Chefs giving you the best cuts of Toro, and have a wardrobe and gun collection that’s equivalent to most “successful” peoples net worth? Maybe you do. Either way I am not going to give you any advice, but I will tell a little story of what I did when I was younger and you can take from it what you will. Fair Enough?
When you are a typical 19 years old guy you don’t have many options for work or girls. No one is really going to hire you for 150k a year to come to the office every day. And no self respecting girl over 22 years old is going to date you. You need CASH or you are basically fu**ed. Here is what I did:
When I was young I got a Valet job at one of the hottest nightclubs in Hollywood. You know, Celebs, Actors, Actresses, Fly Girls, Playboys, Working class stiffs who wanted to be a part of it all etc. A perfect spot for a young up and coming Prototype G. So pay attention John, here is your Blue Print for Money Making:
Take over the Valet Stand
This very important. There will usually be some sort of hierarchy established already at most Valet Stands. You stage a Takeover like Jay-Z (just make sure you don’t get Ethered). You need to get rid of the top guy by any means necessary. Get the top guy fired if you need to. This is what I did: My Running Partner at time and I were hired the same day. I then proceded to tell the top guy who we will call “Shane” that we were taking over. Shane then told me to “f*** off”. So I dropped punches on him from all angles on him like Chuck “The Iceman” Lidell and finished him with my Signature, Six Punch Combo (Jab, Jab, Straight Right, Left hook to the body, Left hook to the head, Right hook to the head…gets them every time). In his defense, he was from somewhere like Irvine, California and I am from, well, The Streets so it wasn’t like we were in the same “weight class”. Plus, I think he was a Mormon or something (no offense to Mormons, but when was the last time you saw a Mormon on HBO PPV holding a belt above his head?). Now that we took over, my Running Partner and I were in charge of all the scheduling and we gave ourselves all the best shifts so we could Cake UP. Give the other guys the Sunday brunch shift where the walk with $45. Keep the Wed, Thur, Fri, Sat nights for you are your crew where you can split with 3 bills each.
Establish an Inner Circle
You need to create an Inner Circle of Valet guys who count, control and distribute the money. This way, you don’t have to split the cash evenly between all the workers. Lets say for instance there are 5 guys working on the night and $800 in tips to split up. Say three of you are in the “Inner Circle” and two are not. Give $200 in tips to each Inner Circle member and $100 to each guy outside the circle. Just that easy, you are making twice as much money as the next guy!
Learn Cars and who tips well
If you see a 60 year old cat roll up in a Sick Vintage GTO, let him know you will take care of him and give him a spot upfront. He might flip you a fifty. A 22 year old girl in a two door stick shift metallic purple Toyota Tercel is going to kick you a buck…. . at best. Be wary of famous people. I parked that Robin Leach’s (that jackass from “Lifestyles of The Rich and Famous” of all things) and he gave me $2! I wanted to grab the Louisville Slugger we kept at the Valet stand and destroy his ride, but my Running Partner stopped me. Who knows about how these young Hollywood actors tip today? My guess is they are cheap f***s. But then again, these days, it’s more likely that Ashton Kootchar chump would park my car than me parking his. (By the way, what is up with “young Hollywood” these days? What a collection of Fools. Every time I am partying in LA I can’t help but think how paper thin these guys are. I mean, come on, ripped jeans, dog tags, trucker hats, t-shirts ALWAYS with some gay design or writing on it, rings and bracelets? Weak. Not like I really care or give it much thought, but when someone finally wants to make a movie of my life, not one of these guys could play me on the big screen. Where are the DeNiro’s, Pacino’s, and Steven Bauer’s these days?)
Pretend like the Valet is full
This is a great hustle. Especially if you see some cat roll up fronting in a BMW with his girl. Tell him the lot is full but maybe you could make an exception if he takes care of you. He won’t want to seem like he is the cheap jerk like he really is in front of his chick. Good for a 20 plus every time. Make sure you exchange phone numbers with his girl when he is not looking. Just like that just ask to get “knocked”.
Borrow the Fly Rides
One of the guys I worked with always took the NSX’s, Ferraris, and Porches for rides around town after the people entered the club. I personally liked the vintage Muscle Cars, Cadillacs and occasionally the Lincoln’s with Suicide Doors (and I don’t mean Suits VS SuicideGirls either). I would cruise the cars to say hello to girls I was trying to swoop on so they could see me in different fly rides all the time. This doesn’t really help you make Scratch, but it does help you Pick up Girls.
Crash Cars
We used to crash and dent cars all the time. When you return them to the people leaving the club, just make sure the person drives off the lot. Once they drive off the property you are no longer liable. Know where the to pull the car up that is not well lit so the person can’t see the scratch all the way down his Lamborghini Countach. You don’t want to pay for all the damage you caused out of your own pocket, trust me.
The Skim
Every Valet lot has some system with tickets or what ever to track how many cars are parked every night. This is to determine how much money goes to the Club or the Valet Company. What ever the system is find a way to make it seem like you are parking less cars. Re-use tickets, make phony tickets, etc. You are the one doing all the work and you should make the Lionshare. Skim.
Swipe Pocket Change
Every car you park has at least a dollar in change in the ashtray. No one is going to miss it. Lets say you park 180 cars during a six hour shift, make sure you take a dollar in change out of every car. Who cares if the change is jingling in your pocket all night as you run around parking cars, you just increased your hourly pay rate by $30 an hour!
Swipe Drugs
If you are working at the right Nightclub/ Restaurant, plenty of Cars will have drugs in them. If a Mortgage Broker Type Guy pulls up in a Jaguar (actually, make that a two door weak BMW), “decent” girl in tow and they both have white rings around there nostrils, you better inspect the ride. When you park the ride, rifle thru the glove compartment, under the seat, and the center console. You will score. And it’s not like the guy is going to start yelling “Who took my Coke?!!!” when he realizes it’s gone. But know where the limits are. For instance, if an Asian Guy in a SharkSkin Issey Miyake Suit that looks like Brandon Lee, koi fish tattoos creeping up his neck, rolls up strapped in some Crazy Japanese Sports car with a super hot Asian Girl, “Blak Drgn” on his license plate, and you search his ride and find 20 kilos of heroin, you might not want to take them. Its up to you.
Deal Drugs
You have a perfect built in, ready made, supreme clientele (and I don’t mean that dope Ghostface album either). Other Valets, Club cocktail Waitresses, bartenders, Chefs, sous chefs, promoter guys, and bouncers all want drugs. Plus, a lot of the drugs you are getting are free. If you are working at the right spot, you should get solicited about 30 times a night for drugs by customers. I swooped some well known Actors girlfriends in those days because I was flipping, and the Actor guy thanked me for hooking them up after our transaction! Make sure you have it all; grass, beans, beeks, etc. . Start bankrolling other Valets. Who cares if you get fired? It is just a Valet job! Just make sure you save a little for a good Criminal Defense Attorney. (I am not certain, but I think the government doesn’t agree with some of this stuff…check your local laws). Who would have thought you could make $124,800 a year parking cars?! Tax free. Not bad for a 19 year old.
Lessons to be Learned for People who want to Valet their cars:
1. Never Valet your car
2. If you Really have to Valet your car, Never leave anything in it of value i. e. Guns, CASH, Drugs, uncut Emeralds, etc…
3. Always check your car before pulling away. (Unless you stole the car in the first place, which is the only circumstance that I will Valet)
4. Never Valet your car….
Keep in mind, there are a hundreds of us just like me, who cuss like me, dress sharp like me, walk, talk, act like me, might be the next best thing, but not quite me. The Rest is Up to You………………
Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA The Yeti
AKA Snow Man
The BluePrint for Money Making
http://www. thegmanifesto. com
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‘World’s best economist speaks’ by Wendell W. Solomons Tuesday, January 15, 2003 - Every seat in the auditorium had been taken. Chairs were being placed in the aisles. The Governor of the Central Bank reached the podium . . . He announced that he was introducing “probably the best economist in the world”. This person, Jeffrey Sachs, was well built but not tall. You saw in his appearance a disarming, well-meaning face with chestnut hair brushed on forehead. I was to discover that his friendliness comes not just from outward physical composure. His talk brought out a resilient, flexible quality reminiscent of the “Great Communicator”, President Ronald Reagan. Jeffrey Sachs is a similar conceptualist. He competently mixes and matches ideas swiftly. This skill combines with an inner enthusiasm to provide an audience with impressions of balance, good humour and the confidence of friendly intentions. He could swing aside IMF policy that today falls under the heading “the Washington Consensus”. He did not spout privatisation mania. Though his audience consisted of Central Bank staff, he did not summon up themes classical for Monetarist economists such as money supply and circulation. In fact the only salute provided by Sachs as strategy commander for IMF and World Bank drill sergeants and infantrymen was the title of his address: “Economic reforms in Emerging Countries”. In his presentation Sachs was all for focus by a nation. Monetarist economists have been raw novices to the everyday concerns of business; here at last had popped up something that men of business know - focus. Though Sachs had clearly done his background study of Sri Lanka, to his audience he humorously described himself as an expert of eight hours in the island. (a) He suggested that the country look at port development in the manner of Singapore because important East-West sea-lanes run nearby. (b) He suggested making more use of Sri Lanka’s optic fibre Internet gateway for IT development and software programming. (c) He gallantly mentioned tourism “in your beautiful country” (in “must do” fashion, de rigeur). My chancing to be a long-term protagonist of Sachs’ (visible at www. geocities. com/worldcityessays/) at question time I might have had multiple questions to put. Urbane and polite However, Sri Lanka is urbane and polite to visitors. What I expressed was this. “I must congratulate the speaker on his choice of ‘focus’. This is a historic address for Sri Lanka. In a larger venue Abraham Lincoln and Henry Carey chose a focus on communications systems too during the development of the United States. For them it was railways development’. “We don’t however, go into this open eyed today’. “Former World Bank Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz said that the reformers in Russia ‘did not know the foundations of a market economy’, Dr. Sachs was the main architect (he was USAid-despatched reformer in 1993 to the huge, now destabilised country). “World Bank Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz had pointed to the economic advance of China, which had not asked Dr. Sachs for advice’. “The old policy being played on one side of the tennis court was debt inducement. Dr. Sachs is now playing on the other side and there he is correctly telling us to focus”. In response Sachs said that Stiglitz was a fellow teacher . . . and that China has chosen to go in for globalisation. Here was Sachs’ remarkable familiarity with amalgamating two or more concepts and sailing on. His remark is one that disarms flat-worlders - those who attempt to stop globalisation. Governor of the Central Bank Dr. A. S. Jayewardena had pegged us down, as he said, to “three-sentence questions”. So no further window was available for me to say to Sachs that I was no believer in a model of globalisation in which a match-stick sized nation was set to play against financier George Soros’ “Quantum Fund” in finance capital’s game field. I belong to those who believe in an inevitable, future, fair globalisation, familiar to every spectator of a balanced sports event, not the rigged competition for the carpet-bagger. This belief of mine was further sustained by Sachs himself in answer to a question from the audience as to whether total ‘foreign currency liberalisation’ should not be applied for development. Pro-liberalisation Though admitting that he was pro-liberalisation, Sachs advised that the liberalisation of large capital flows might not be an essential component in the case of a concrete country. Therefore you gather that Sachs supports game rules to safeguard a small nation from foreign speculators unexpectedly withdrawing funds in the manner heavily ostracised by Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamed (during the Asian currency meltdown, the economies of India and Sri Lanka were spared because of their traditional regulation of speculative large capital inflows and outflows. ) In reply to a question from Dr. Tissa Vitharane, for many years the head of Sri Lanka’s Medical Research Institute, Sachs said he believed that both public and private sectors have a role to play in health services. Here again was an endnote to the strategy of Monetarists, who incite the husband to attack the wife so that in essence, all the houses in the land end up at the offices of international lenders. All in all, the lesson that a well-intentioned listener could draw from Sachs’ presentation was that it was a far cry from the Machiavellian and Hobbesian “War of Each against the Other”. In Sri Lanka that had contributed since 1977 to the domestic brawl for personal grabbing of company and public assets induced under the reform headings of “Open Economy” and “Privatisation. As a result, an observer once commented that Sri Lanka had become a country at war with itself. For the World Bank and IMF, Sri Lanka had served as a box of pellets that was shaken up to intensive heat by internal friction. Among results within the shaken box were: i. The incineration of team cohesiveness and the erosion of standards of service in the private sector (say, in contrast to the pre-1977 period) and; ii. By no dint of miracle, a civil war provoked by troublemakers in the multi-ethnic social environment. World supremacy As Wall Street financier George Soros noted in 1997, the social environment “is not threatened from the outside, from some totalitarian ideology seeking world supremacy. The threat comes from the inside, from local tyrants seeking to establish internal dominance through external conflicts”. In answer to a later question on bickering and politicisation in Sri Lanka, Jeffrey Sachs responded with the idea that one can’t afford to be “settling old scores”. Magnanimity! In that same spirit I made my way through aisle and the leaving audience to present him - with a copy of my small December book, which is anti-debt inducement and where I mention the devastation Sachs created in Russia. I mention focus for economic development in the book - as I have done for years. Sachs left with two gifts, one presented by the Central Bank Governor, the other presented by me. For his part, Sachs gave me his refined, simple Columbia University visiting card and a souvenir in the impressions I have set down of what for me seemed a historical encounter.
Do you have baggy, puffy eyes with dark circles under them? I’m going to give you 3 simple keys or ways to reduce or even get rid of those dark circles and puffy eyes. Consider these 3 step seriously. 1. How Much Sleep Are You Getting? Its very possible that lack of sleep is your biggest problem. That’s because most people today are so busy that they sacrifice the rest the body needs. Your age can also contribute to the problem and I’ll cover that in a minute. So if your eyes look like smudge pots with puffy bags, help is here. 2. Maybe You Don’t Drink Enough - WATER Baggy eyes often result from the build up of fluid under them. This excess bag of fluid can be reduced dramatically if you drink plenty of purified water every day. Make sure it is not just tap water because it often contains contaminants that will add to your problem. Tap water can have toxins that end up in your body sometimes as bags. Suggestion: Don’t drink just any water. It must be water that is filtered thus purified. I found an excellent source of water filters that are very affordable and dependable. Check out CleanWaterPure. com. They have a nice selection that will ensure your home has clean, pure water for drinking and cooking. 3. Use an Eye Gel That Works and is Safe The skin under the eye is very thin as compared to the face, so it needs special care. To increase the thickness of eye skin, it has been found that two things are important. 1. Peptides or protein fragments can promote the making of skin and fibers. 2. Antioxidants fight free radicals that cause damage to our body and of course the eye skin. The best type of antioxidants come from plants. Plant based antioxidants will help improve blood circulation and reduce those dark circles. Research studies show that the above combination of peptides and antioxidants can produce some amazing results. For example, 65% of the volunteers for the study had very noticeable lessening or reduction of those terrible baggy eyes. Not only that if you have puffy eyes and wrinkles listen to this: 62% showed the reducing of wrinkles and crow’s feet. And 60% of those in the research group had dark-smudges they were no where to be seen. I found that to be amazing. Here’s My Suggestion for You to Do If your health is good, you get a lot of sleep, avoid pollutants and drink plenty of clean water, you can get rid of puffy eyes and in less than two months. But take heed of this advice. AVOID Harmful Ingredients I say this in all seriousness, AVOID cosmetics and skin care products that have parabens, imitation preservatives, fragrances, mineral oil, any petroleum components, such as petrolatum, petroleum jelly and anything that will stretch your skin. One more time do this: Get to Bed and Go to Sleep regularly, 6-8 hours every night; Drink Clean Water every day 6-8 glasses, check out the website on this and please avoid the bad ingredients in skin care. If you use the eye gel I use you would be making a smart move. For more information on an eye gel that really works, please see my website. Thanks, Margaret Bell
Screaming Bee LLC announces the beta release of Creatures of Darkness. This add-on provides seven new sinister voices to MorphVOX voice-changing software. It will appeal to the Fantasy enthusiast, allowing online gamers to sound like evil creatures from the movies. At the same time, Screaming Bee is also sponsoring a Creatures of Darkness artwork contest where artists get a chance to win a free copy of MorphVOX.
The seven new voices in this add-on include: Lich Lord, Cave Troll, Golem, Goblin, Half-Orc, Wraith, and Shade. These voices were created using the latest voice technologies built into MorphVOX.
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About MorphVOX - a PC voice-changing tool that is specifically designed and developed for online games. It has a number of features that gamers find useful - such as push-to-talk functionality and audio alarms. Online gamers can now sound like the character they play, whether they choose to be an enormous troll or a tiny pixie. They can also broadcast any sound effect with a touch of a button. MorphVOX can be used with all online games and also works well with any chat program.
This week we are going to address an email that was sent to The G Manifesto:
“I wanted to let you know that I love the G Manifesto and all your advice. I dont mean to disrespect you but it seems like all your advice is for people that have a lot of money. I want to get girls and be a G. I am young (19) and want to be like you so if you if you could tell me how to make some cash that would help. Thanks. John. ”
Alright John. First of all, you can never be me. Second, Stay in School, study hard, take a corporate job, marry an ex-sorority girl that can’t cook and move to the suburbs. Do you really want the life of The G? Do you really want sleeping with beautiful women to seem mundane because it happens so frequent like flight mileage? (Actually, sleeping with beautiful women never gets mundane) But, do you really want to dodge bullets, deal with hit squads, experience betrayal, have friends sellout, avoid snitches, Cops, date models, Exotic Dancers, high-society blue blood girls, have mad cash flow, travel to beautiful locales, get treated like a king in nightclubs, Sushi Chefs giving you the best cuts of Toro, and have a wardrobe and gun collection that’s equivalent to most “successful” peoples net worth? Maybe you do. Either way I am not going to give you any advice, but I will tell a little story of what I did when I was younger and you can take from it what you will. Fair Enough?
When you are a typical 19 years old guy you don’t have many options for work or girls. No one is really going to hire you for 150k a year to come to the office every day. And no self respecting girl over 22 years old is going to date you. You need CASH or you are basically fu**ed. Here is what I did:
When I was young I got a Valet job at one of the hottest nightclubs in Hollywood. You know, Celebs, Actors, Actresses, Fly Girls, Playboys, Working class stiffs who wanted to be a part of it all etc. A perfect spot for a young up and coming Prototype G. So pay attention John, here is your Blue Print for Money Making:
Take over the Valet Stand
This very important. There will usually be some sort of hierarchy established already at most Valet Stands. You stage a Takeover like Jay-Z (just make sure you don’t get Ethered). You need to get rid of the top guy by any means necessary. Get the top guy fired if you need to. This is what I did: My Running Partner at time and I were hired the same day. I then proceded to tell the top guy who we will call “Shane” that we were taking over. Shane then told me to “f*** off”. So I dropped punches on him from all angles on him like Chuck “The Iceman” Lidell and finished him with my Signature, Six Punch Combo (Jab, Jab, Straight Right, Left hook to the body, Left hook to the head, Right hook to the head…gets them every time). In his defense, he was from somewhere like Irvine, California and I am from, well, The Streets so it wasn’t like we were in the same “weight class”. Plus, I think he was a Mormon or something (no offense to Mormons, but when was the last time you saw a Mormon on HBO PPV holding a belt above his head?). Now that we took over, my Running Partner and I were in charge of all the scheduling and we gave ourselves all the best shifts so we could Cake UP. Give the other guys the Sunday brunch shift where the walk with $45. Keep the Wed, Thur, Fri, Sat nights for you are your crew where you can split with 3 bills each.
Establish an Inner Circle
You need to create an Inner Circle of Valet guys who count, control and distribute the money. This way, you don’t have to split the cash evenly between all the workers. Lets say for instance there are 5 guys working on the night and $800 in tips to split up. Say three of you are in the “Inner Circle” and two are not. Give $200 in tips to each Inner Circle member and $100 to each guy outside the circle. Just that easy, you are making twice as much money as the next guy!
Learn Cars and who tips well
If you see a 60 year old cat roll up in a Sick Vintage GTO, let him know you will take care of him and give him a spot upfront. He might flip you a fifty. A 22 year old girl in a two door stick shift metallic purple Toyota Tercel is going to kick you a buck…. . at best. Be wary of famous people. I parked that Robin Leach’s (that jackass from “Lifestyles of The Rich and Famous” of all things) and he gave me $2! I wanted to grab the Louisville Slugger we kept at the Valet stand and destroy his ride, but my Running Partner stopped me. Who knows about how these young Hollywood actors tip today? My guess is they are cheap f***s. But then again, these days, it’s more likely that Ashton Kootchar chump would park my car than me parking his. (By the way, what is up with “young Hollywood” these days? What a collection of Fools. Every time I am partying in LA I can’t help but think how paper thin these guys are. I mean, come on, ripped jeans, dog tags, trucker hats, t-shirts ALWAYS with some gay design or writing on it, rings and bracelets? Weak. Not like I really care or give it much thought, but when someone finally wants to make a movie of my life, not one of these guys could play me on the big screen. Where are the DeNiro’s, Pacino’s, and Steven Bauer’s these days?)
Pretend like the Valet is full
This is a great hustle. Especially if you see some cat roll up fronting in a BMW with his girl. Tell him the lot is full but maybe you could make an exception if he takes care of you. He won’t want to seem like he is the cheap jerk like he really is in front of his chick. Good for a 20 plus every time. Make sure you exchange phone numbers with his girl when he is not looking. Just like that just ask to get “knocked”.
Borrow the Fly Rides
One of the guys I worked with always took the NSX’s, Ferraris, and Porches for rides around town after the people entered the club. I personally liked the vintage Muscle Cars, Cadillacs and occasionally the Lincoln’s with Suicide Doors (and I don’t mean Suits VS SuicideGirls either). I would cruise the cars to say hello to girls I was trying to swoop on so they could see me in different fly rides all the time. This doesn’t really help you make Scratch, but it does help you Pick up Girls.
Crash Cars
We used to crash and dent cars all the time. When you return them to the people leaving the club, just make sure the person drives off the lot. Once they drive off the property you are no longer liable. Know where the to pull the car up that is not well lit so the person can’t see the scratch all the way down his Lamborghini Countach. You don’t want to pay for all the damage you caused out of your own pocket, trust me.
The Skim
Every Valet lot has some system with tickets or what ever to track how many cars are parked every night. This is to determine how much money goes to the Club or the Valet Company. What ever the system is find a way to make it seem like you are parking less cars. Re-use tickets, make phony tickets, etc. You are the one doing all the work and you should make the Lionshare. Skim.
Swipe Pocket Change
Every car you park has at least a dollar in change in the ashtray. No one is going to miss it. Lets say you park 180 cars during a six hour shift, make sure you take a dollar in change out of every car. Who cares if the change is jingling in your pocket all night as you run around parking cars, you just increased your hourly pay rate by $30 an hour!
Swipe Drugs
If you are working at the right Nightclub/ Restaurant, plenty of Cars will have drugs in them. If a Mortgage Broker Type Guy pulls up in a Jaguar (actually, make that a two door weak BMW), “decent” girl in tow and they both have white rings around there nostrils, you better inspect the ride. When you park the ride, rifle thru the glove compartment, under the seat, and the center console. You will score. And it’s not like the guy is going to start yelling “Who took my Coke?!!!” when he realizes it’s gone. But know where the limits are. For instance, if an Asian Guy in a SharkSkin Issey Miyake Suit that looks like Brandon Lee, koi fish tattoos creeping up his neck, rolls up strapped in some Crazy Japanese Sports car with a super hot Asian Girl, “Blak Drgn” on his license plate, and you search his ride and find 20 kilos of heroin, you might not want to take them. Its up to you.
Deal Drugs
You have a perfect built in, ready made, supreme clientele (and I don’t mean that dope Ghostface album either). Other Valets, Club cocktail Waitresses, bartenders, Chefs, sous chefs, promoter guys, and bouncers all want drugs. Plus, a lot of the drugs you are getting are free. If you are working at the right spot, you should get solicited about 30 times a night for drugs by customers. I swooped some well known Actors girlfriends in those days because I was flipping, and the Actor guy thanked me for hooking them up after our transaction! Make sure you have it all; grass, beans, beeks, etc. . Start bankrolling other Valets. Who cares if you get fired? It is just a Valet job! Just make sure you save a little for a good Criminal Defense Attorney. (I am not certain, but I think the government doesn’t agree with some of this stuff…check your local laws). Who would have thought you could make $124,800 a year parking cars?! Tax free. Not bad for a 19 year old.
Lessons to be Learned for People who want to Valet their cars:
1. Never Valet your car
2. If you Really have to Valet your car, Never leave anything in it of value i. e. Guns, CASH, Drugs, uncut Emeralds, etc…
3. Always check your car before pulling away. (Unless you stole the car in the first place, which is the only circumstance that I will Valet)
4. Never Valet your car….
Keep in mind, there are a hundreds of us just like me, who cuss like me, dress sharp like me, walk, talk, act like me, might be the next best thing, but not quite me. The Rest is Up to You………………
Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA The Yeti
AKA Snow Man
The BluePrint for Money Making
http://www. thegmanifesto. com
As we age, the skin around the eyes may become drier and more vulnerable to damage. One visible sign that is most dreaded by most women are dark circles that appear.
There are many causes for those dark circles. Age and lack of sleep are just two. Other factors are heredity, medication, poor eating habits, and bone structure.
In order to prevent aging, applying a high quality eye gel or cream should be part of your necessary daily routine. There are more than 150 different products on the market to help improve dark circles under the eyes. To find out which works best, would be an expensive ordeal.
It makes sense to use products that contain collagen and elastin. The reason is that these ingredients are what keep our skin youthful and are needed for healthy skin. As we age, we produce less collagen and elastin.
Stay away from products that contain the word “salicylate” in any form. These are a group of anti-inflammatory ingredients that may cause allergies and other side effects. Many skin care products, even the high end expensive ones, contain salicylates.
It’s important not to overuse the cream or gel you purchase. Some people think if a small amount helps, if I use it all day and apply it several times, it will be even better. Most products come with instructions. Follow them instead of more is better.
The area around the eyes is very sensitive. Make sure you do not pull or are too rough while applying any product to the area.
The eye gels or creams will help prevent damage and early aging. In the meantime, a pure loose mineral concealer or foundation is great for hiding dark circles. Loose minerals are actually good for the skin.
Some loose minerals contain bismuth oxychloride which may clog pores and cause allergies and redness. Use loose minerals free of this ingredient.
If you are used to a liquid or stick concealer and foundation, you may be hesitant in trying loose minerals. With a little practice, you can learn to use the loose powder form and once you do, you may, never go back to the liquid or stick form. Many find the loose minerals feel lighter and look more natural.
Make sure you use a moisturizer before applying the loose mineral makeup. As with the eye cream or gel, with loose minerals, less is better than more. Applying it lightly will cover dark circles and look natural.
‘World’s best economist speaks’ by Wendell W. Solomons Tuesday, January 15, 2003 - Every seat in the auditorium had been taken. Chairs were being placed in the aisles. The Governor of the Central Bank reached the podium . . . He announced that he was introducing “probably the best economist in the world”. This person, Jeffrey Sachs, was well built but not tall. You saw in his appearance a disarming, well-meaning face with chestnut hair brushed on forehead. I was to discover that his friendliness comes not just from outward physical composure. His talk brought out a resilient, flexible quality reminiscent of the “Great Communicator”, President Ronald Reagan. Jeffrey Sachs is a similar conceptualist. He competently mixes and matches ideas swiftly. This skill combines with an inner enthusiasm to provide an audience with impressions of balance, good humour and the confidence of friendly intentions. He could swing aside IMF policy that today falls under the heading “the Washington Consensus”. He did not spout privatisation mania. Though his audience consisted of Central Bank staff, he did not summon up themes classical for Monetarist economists such as money supply and circulation. In fact the only salute provided by Sachs as strategy commander for IMF and World Bank drill sergeants and infantrymen was the title of his address: “Economic reforms in Emerging Countries”. In his presentation Sachs was all for focus by a nation. Monetarist economists have been raw novices to the everyday concerns of business; here at last had popped up something that men of business know - focus. Though Sachs had clearly done his background study of Sri Lanka, to his audience he humorously described himself as an expert of eight hours in the island. (a) He suggested that the country look at port development in the manner of Singapore because important East-West sea-lanes run nearby. (b) He suggested making more use of Sri Lanka’s optic fibre Internet gateway for IT development and software programming. (c) He gallantly mentioned tourism “in your beautiful country” (in “must do” fashion, de rigeur). My chancing to be a long-term protagonist of Sachs’ (visible at www. geocities. com/worldcityessays/) at question time I might have had multiple questions to put. Urbane and polite However, Sri Lanka is urbane and polite to visitors. What I expressed was this. “I must congratulate the speaker on his choice of ‘focus’. This is a historic address for Sri Lanka. In a larger venue Abraham Lincoln and Henry Carey chose a focus on communications systems too during the development of the United States. For them it was railways development’. “We don’t however, go into this open eyed today’. “Former World Bank Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz said that the reformers in Russia ‘did not know the foundations of a market economy’, Dr. Sachs was the main architect (he was USAid-despatched reformer in 1993 to the huge, now destabilised country). “World Bank Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz had pointed to the economic advance of China, which had not asked Dr. Sachs for advice’. “The old policy being played on one side of the tennis court was debt inducement. Dr. Sachs is now playing on the other side and there he is correctly telling us to focus”. In response Sachs said that Stiglitz was a fellow teacher . . . and that China has chosen to go in for globalisation. Here was Sachs’ remarkable familiarity with amalgamating two or more concepts and sailing on. His remark is one that disarms flat-worlders - those who attempt to stop globalisation. Governor of the Central Bank Dr. A. S. Jayewardena had pegged us down, as he said, to “three-sentence questions”. So no further window was available for me to say to Sachs that I was no believer in a model of globalisation in which a match-stick sized nation was set to play against financier George Soros’ “Quantum Fund” in finance capital’s game field. I belong to those who believe in an inevitable, future, fair globalisation, familiar to every spectator of a balanced sports event, not the rigged competition for the carpet-bagger. This belief of mine was further sustained by Sachs himself in answer to a question from the audience as to whether total ‘foreign currency liberalisation’ should not be applied for development. Pro-liberalisation Though admitting that he was pro-liberalisation, Sachs advised that the liberalisation of large capital flows might not be an essential component in the case of a concrete country. Therefore you gather that Sachs supports game rules to safeguard a small nation from foreign speculators unexpectedly withdrawing funds in the manner heavily ostracised by Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamed (during the Asian currency meltdown, the economies of India and Sri Lanka were spared because of their traditional regulation of speculative large capital inflows and outflows. ) In reply to a question from Dr. Tissa Vitharane, for many years the head of Sri Lanka’s Medical Research Institute, Sachs said he believed that both public and private sectors have a role to play in health services. Here again was an endnote to the strategy of Monetarists, who incite the husband to attack the wife so that in essence, all the houses in the land end up at the offices of international lenders. All in all, the lesson that a well-intentioned listener could draw from Sachs’ presentation was that it was a far cry from the Machiavellian and Hobbesian “War of Each against the Other”. In Sri Lanka that had contributed since 1977 to the domestic brawl for personal grabbing of company and public assets induced under the reform headings of “Open Economy” and “Privatisation. As a result, an observer once commented that Sri Lanka had become a country at war with itself. For the World Bank and IMF, Sri Lanka had served as a box of pellets that was shaken up to intensive heat by internal friction. Among results within the shaken box were: i. The incineration of team cohesiveness and the erosion of standards of service in the private sector (say, in contrast to the pre-1977 period) and; ii. By no dint of miracle, a civil war provoked by troublemakers in the multi-ethnic social environment. World supremacy As Wall Street financier George Soros noted in 1997, the social environment “is not threatened from the outside, from some totalitarian ideology seeking world supremacy. The threat comes from the inside, from local tyrants seeking to establish internal dominance through external conflicts”. In answer to a later question on bickering and politicisation in Sri Lanka, Jeffrey Sachs responded with the idea that one can’t afford to be “settling old scores”. Magnanimity! In that same spirit I made my way through aisle and the leaving audience to present him - with a copy of my small December book, which is anti-debt inducement and where I mention the devastation Sachs created in Russia. I mention focus for economic development in the book - as I have done for years. Sachs left with two gifts, one presented by the Central Bank Governor, the other presented by me. For his part, Sachs gave me his refined, simple Columbia University visiting card and a souvenir in the impressions I have set down of what for me seemed a historical encounter.
Getting Rid Of Dark Spots on Your SkinPeople want smooth, clear and even complexion. Naturally, nobody wants their skin to be synonymous to a Dalmatian…unless they are trying to set a trend on that, to which I very much doubt if it would work.
The sad truth is, even with regular cleansing, some people still develop dark spots, also called hyper- pigmentation by dermatologists. It is characterized by pockets of discolored skin that remain even after pimples or skin bumps have disappeared. Hyper-pigmentation can be caused by many factors that can be external or internal. Among internal factors, we have certain illness such as Edison’s disease and some hepatic problems. If someone is taking too much iron, for instance, it can cause darker areas on the skin. Hormonal changes during pregnancy or menopause also have a role to play. The deficit of certain vitamins and minerals such as calcium and vitamins A, E and B also can cause hyper-pigmentation.
The common culprit is the increase in melanin that occurs after skin is inflamed or irritated, or too much exposure to the sun. People with darker skin tones such as South Asians and Latinos are more likely to face this kind of problem.
While persistent dark spots can be remedied at home, health experts advise people to FIRST check with a dermatologist to make sure that the spot is harmless and can be left alone in place. After that, there are simple ways to effectively eliminate dark spots in your skin. For some, simply applying creams and sun block might work. For others, they might require skin peelings. No matter what, it is best to consult with your dermatologists.
Here are simple tips on how to get rid of those persistent dark spots.
Use sunscreen daily with SPF 15 or higher. It is always wise to block the sun that darkens our skin. This will also minimize our risk of acquiring skin cancers. Do not pick your pimples or zits since it will result to scarring. Pick up a product that contains mild hydroquinone since it is the main ingredient in most skin bleaches. If you cannot tolerate hydroquinone, try skin brighteners. Hydroquinone is usually used with glycolic acid and tretinoin. Always remember that skin bleaching is not instant. It may take you three months to a year to fade the darkened skin depending on the type of your skin tone. Moreover, try not to abuse skin. If you have persistent skin problems like acne that leave scars, treat them immediately and stop the cycle.
Remember, prevention is always better than cure.
