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2007

December Secrets to Earning Capital

November Financial 101: Financial Literacy & Constant Wealth 2

October Financial 101: Financial Literacy & Constant Wealth 1

September Ten Idiotic Idioms

August Twenty-Five Idiotic Idioms

July Techno-Farm

June StarDumb 3: Fear of Stardom

May StarDumb 2: Motivational Stoppage

April StarDumb 1: Your Psychological Link to Hollywood

March The Four Fundamental Features of Bona Fide Friends

February Blood Brothers

January The Truth about Anatomy: Emotional Chemicals

2006

December Neurological "Bad Habits"

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Secrets to Earning Capital

John Kuczmarski

December 2007

Logical and Necessary Assumptions

Investors are not stupid. If you treat them as idiots, they'll see right through that and won't sell. Treat them like very intelligent people.
Pitch everything -- a screenplay or a business proposal -- with the intention to learn first and sell second. Your going in there to test the quality of your product and your selling strategy. If you get criticzed, never ague, use that to learn, absorb it, and ask questions. If you sell it, you've just merely learned that you are a good salesman. It's always a learning process first and a selling maneuver second.
Competition: Everyone has competition. Everyone is competing for something. A homeless person competing for cans or a Fortune 500 CEO competing for stock market shares -- everyone has competition. Ruminate on that.

Reading and Earning from the Market

The best food or the best product isn't always the biggest earner. Examples are Rolls Royce and Apple that are the superlative product, but don't sell nearly as well as inferior products, Toyota or Microsoft. Therefore, being the best isn't being the best seller. The market is quantitative. People don't want "what is the best quality product", they want "what will sell the best".

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Financial 101

Financial Literacy and Constant Wealth: Part 2

John Kuczmarski

November 2007

Due Dilligence

This is the daily practice of working to increase your Financial IQ on a regular basis.

Wise Aphorisms

If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
Your profession is differnet from you business.
JTK: Considering the join-stock company and Francis Drake, America is a British investment -- UK's asset!

Accounting Terminology

Income statement (aka profit-loss statement) -- measures income and expenses.
Balance sheet -- assets against liabilities.
Social Security Tax -- Major income drain, an expense
Mortgage -- Major income drain, an expense

Financial Flow Chart of Rich, Middle-Class, and Poor

Poor Person -- Income-Expenses
Middle-Class Person -- Income-Expenses-Liabilities-Expenses (for Liabilities)
Rich Person -- Income-Expenses-Assets-Income (Cycle grows and perpetuates)
Rich people fight to not pay taxes, the convince influential people to lower taxes.
Poor and Middle-class do no such thing.
The rich and poor battle has been going on since the dawn of time. The French revolution -- Jacobins, Girondins, National Assembly, bourgeoise, State Etat -- sparked the french revolution.

Money excentuates the cash flow pattern already in it's head. If your pattern is to spend money, you'll spend it all in a windfall. Stocks are a GREAT asset.

A corporation is merely a legal document that creates a legal body without a soul. It is NOT a big building with the logo on it.

Where I've Been the Past Six Years

I've been the have-not, pissed at the haves (my father) for not sharing. I've been a slave to money, fearfully writing and working 930,000 words for fear of not having money and being ignorant.

Where does your money go?

To your boss, Uncle Sam, and the banker. You work for a business owner. The government takes taxes. You pay mortgage and loan interest rates to the banker.

Defining Wealth

Ability to move forward without needing wages, so that your assets cover your expenses!

if (assets>=expenses)

alert("You're rich and wealthy!");

alert("Increase expenses by increasing asset earnings first");

alert("You don't have to work unless you want to!");

else

alert("You are NOT rich nor wealthy! You must work to live. Increase your assets so they are >= expenses!");

Wealth is NOT a lot of money. The Buckminster Fuller Definition of Wealth is, simply, having an asset-based income that is greater than or equally to your expenses. In other words, you live off your assets and can cover all your expenses without working one second! That is wealth.

Examples of Millionaire Wealthy People

Ray Crock (from fMcDonald's is a real-estate not a hamburger business. The profession of McDonald's is to sell burgers; the Mcdonalds business is to buy real-estate. McDonalds owns some of the best, most high-traffic intersections in the world.

Financial Factoids

Your car drops 25% in value the moment you die it off the lot (Proof: Car is a liability).

Your house sucks up mortgage in the expense column (Proof: House is a libaility).

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Financial 101

Financial Literacy and Constant Wealth: Part 1

John Kuczmarski

October 2007

Four Components to Financial IQ

Accounting -- Financial literacy, lots of money, left-brain (details), read and understand financial statements
Investing -- money-making-money; right brain -- creative strategies and formulas
Understanding markets -- supply and demand; emotion-driven markets (tickle-me Elmo); logic behind and investment (does an investment make sense).
Law -- Knowledge of protection of corporations and tax loopholes makes the different between walking and flying.

Introduction to Financial Literacy

Being rich does not eliminate the fear of not having money.

People who fall into the money trap work for money to avoid fear or to gain desire. This cycle perpetuates with the ephemeral joy of money and then greed. They are highly-paid slaves because they are trapped by money. Most people spend their lives chasing paychecks, raises, and the "carrot perpetually dangling out of reach" in front of them. Money runs people's lives. Money is very powerful stuff.

Great civilizations have collapsed when the gap between the haves and the have-nots grows too great. In an educated society with a well-run government, prices should go down!

You eliminate fear of money not by earning money, not by bean-counting. Instead, you think with your mind, and don't think with your emotions, and to be financially literate. For a period of 6 years, which has now since ended, I thought thinking with my emotions would bring more freedom. Emotional thinking brings ephemeral, sensual glee and long-term, downward-spiraling struggle, fatigue, and depression.

Working without fear of not having money; without working for desire of money, you become the rare few liberated from the illusion of money.

Finding your profession. You find your profession buy selling what you love to buy. If you love computer gadgets, sell computer gadgets. If you love buying candy, sell candy.

I've done the book-reading; now I need to devote my life to financial-literacy. Don't ever devote your life to earning money. Devote your life to financial literacy.

Rule #1 Rich people acquire assets. Middle-class buy liabilities they think are assets. Poor people acquire liabilities. Assets earn money; liabilities drain money.

Rule #3 Mind your own business. People work their whole life for someone else. Build and keep your asset box stroing and "one-way" (money goes into assets, but doesn't come out). Build assets first, then purchase luxuries.

Rule #4 Corporations and taxes -- know their history. The Robin Hood ideal causes the poor and middle class problems. The middle-class pays for the poor. Taxes were originally created to "punish the rich" but it punished the poor and middle class. This then ballooned because the government needed more money.

Rule #5 The rich invent money.

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Ten Idiotic Idioms

John Kuczmarski

September, 2007

If their dresses fly up with a wind gust, woman aer going to do the 23 skiddoo, but men'll be sitting in the catbird seat.
While the very first devil's advocate refuted to-be saints. It's rare to pull the plug on sainthood unless they're slipping in by the skin of their teeth.
A leopard can't change his spots and you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but stop thinking about the pie in the sky, dreams can become reality.
We suspected he was a wolf in sheep's clothing, but when the conductor had a Van Gogh's ear for music, we knew the gimmick had run out of steam.
Remember: you are waht you eat and health isn't a three strikes you're out game; don't get up a blind alley, and cultivate health.
If you're seaward with no room to swing a cat, you might be a son of a gun!
When Samuel Mudd mended up Booth's like, his name quickly became mud till the cows came home.
The message of American Psycho ridiculed the whitebread bleakness of the 1980s yuppie, illustrating that the wild and wooly approach is always healthy, just as long as you keep you pedal to the metal and stay successful and honest.
I don't like secondary resources; if it's straight from the horse's mouth, there's no need to be a doubting thomas.
Have good posture. Keep your jaw level, but keep your chin up to stay chin up to stay cheerful, and if you want to observe in quiet, pipe down and pick your ears up, or just stay alert.

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Twenty-Five Idiotic Idioms

John Kuczmarski

August, 2007

You're excellent in doubling in brass because you frequently have grown accustomed to having too many irons in the fire.
If you're a backseat driver, face the music and stop demanding that you'll have his head on a platter, when you're squawking like a chicken with his head cut off!
The general rule of thumb is, if it's raining cats and dogs, you go up the apples and pears and you call it a night, or you go against the near-jerk reaction, go the whole nine yards, and run amock.
The "spare the rod, spoil the child" could make sense if you're raising Cain,but generally, growing up around too posh of an environment is deadly enough!
I'm a southpaw who's never on queer street because I only use money I've got; I'm punctual, so I don't have to worry about being saved by the bell, but have a high attitude and find humor in many situations, so am tongue in cheek a lot of the time with sacred cows or pop culture.
I never favor the flavor of sour grapes, just water to red wine through the grape vine.
Gossip, gap, chit-chat, prattle -- that's how rumors get started, where a cock and bull story becomes one's glory.
I'm not military so I don't shine my boots; I do rise and shine to varnish my suits.
Don't push the envelope with the nest egg; keep your savings intact.
Never raincheck putting your best foot forward, because you never known when you may need to call on wing and prayer; things can change in a new york minute.
Whether you're the new kid on the block or a community veteran, it's best to not push the envelope with one over the eight and play it safe by driving with a full deck.
I don't keep any aces up my sleeve, but I know when mum's the word and shut my trap.
If you're a loose cannon, everything or nothing is a level playing field, but don't ask me where to shoot hoops, am I my brother's keeper?
Most people would kick the bucket if there's no room swing a cat, and pass, saying "no dice", "too cramped", but I keep body and soul together wherever I am so I'm fine with a small abode.
I don't have a ball and chain, I like to wear my own pants, but I do want to have some apples of my eye, but you don't have to go back to square one genetics, I know about the birds and the bees.
I'm not a doubting Thomas so I know that if a seafarer says it's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey, I know there's a chill and the cannon bals go around going to stay stacked in the pyramid that much longer.
The good samaritan will give a starving man a baker's dozen even if he's not a baker.
We thought he was AWOL, but Kilroy was here, atleast we saw the graffiti tattoos on Charlie.
I'm always on the ball on the money so it's never "close but no cigar for me"; it's always crackerjack because I don't carry a chip on my shoulder and relinquish all my grudges.
I've wanted to flip the bird to my own flesh and blood at times, but now there's just clear blue water with us.
If you walk around in the buff, you'll get 86'd from most places that require shirt and shoes, but if you're jacked, you'll be in like Flynn.
You don't have to be a religious baptist or a historian of Herod to know that "I'll have his head on a platter" is an imminent threat, hand-writing on the wall for an act of vengeance.
Murphy's law is plausible, but not practical if you're a glass half-full guy.
You get mad as a hatter if you're mixing mercury nitrate to soften fur hats or you'll lose your rag if you've been top notch, keeping the axe to the grindstone and still don't get lobster dinners.
You paddle your own canoe, but bartenders will make sure that you mind your ps and qs, watch the pints and quarts so you don't go over the top, one over the eight.

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Techno-Farm

John Kuczmarski

July, 2007

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." -- H.P. Lovecraft
While I don't take the sombre and morose view of Lovecraft that madness or unilluminated retreat are the only possible results of macro-scale enlightenment, I do think it's plausible for such awakenings to catalyze a shift away from domesticity. Someday incredible "vistas of reality" will be opened through the piecing together of knowledge. That "assembly" will most likely occur away from civilization, on the techno-farm. And the means of that assembly will most certainly occur via the internet.

The internet has never had it's own playground. The Net's never been designated a place to play. Telephones had the analog wires, carrying long-distance information maxing out 64,000 bits per second. TV had coaxial cables for their broadcasts traveling at a much faster rate, but since the internet first opened up, it has never experienced a sectored off space of its own. Sure, T1, DSL,and even ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) carry up to double that of the maximum telephone data transfer rate, but carry the bulk of the highspeed "Net only" data transfers, but before those, the internet was forced to be somewhat of a scavenger, leeching banndwith off the telephone wire cables.

With the technology era well into full bloom, all types of "Net only" equipment and bandwith will be designated as the norm, simply because the Internet is television and telephone data transfer -- it's analog and digital in real-time. The future of Internet bandwith precludes the cannibalization of analog and digital data transfer. Sorry telephone-gabbers and TV couch-potatoes, the telecommunications world has solidified its brand new bag of tricks and the Information superhighway is the only thing that's flying.

But let's get specific and we're talking about proxy servers. A proxy server is just a middle man between a client web browser and a real server. All successful businesses have a receptionist, who is a proxy server for all her "clients" of the real world. There's no way Donald Trump directly takes all his calls from his clients or interested browsers; he has a "proxy server" receptionist filtering requests and improving performance of the server. Proxy servers can quickly load information. If you're talking about the Net, the proxy will load the page from its cache, instead instead of hauling it all the way from the real server. With AOL, MSN, and Yahoo all employ proxy servers, so that means they'll have their own interface, could load more quickly, (pulling them from a proxy instead of the real server), but will have many sites filtered. Connecting with a proxy server is very much different than surfing the raw net. I got out of AOL in 1998, so I've been surfing the raw net (like the most of us) for 9 years. To a young teen, the "raw net" is about as cool as it gets, but I've realized that proxies are great for structure, filtering unwanted material, and quickly caching sites. Now, it's best to use a proxy so that you get quality sites, not just junk that could be false or fake. Plus, with the enormous amount of info on the net, proxy servers help sort out the junk so you only get the juicy stuff you want. They're a great way to go if you've surfed the raw net enough and know what you want.

Plus, proxies can protect you against money sharks out to get your dough. But the international shark attack file (ISAF) estimates there are probably between "70-100" shark attacks worldwide, and only "5-15" deaths (1). Oh, you meant tycoon sharks, not aquatic sharks, Well in that cause, there's no such statistic, but it's good to be on alart to see who's doing what.

It's obvious the Internet and it's bag-o-tricks has been around for awhile...but what next? To discover that, we've got to check out where the Information Age originated from. Claude Shannon first developed the idea of binary (0s for "off", 1s for "on") information in the 1930s. The behemoth ENIAC (electronic numerical integrator and calculator) computer, develped at U Penn for military aiming, used this binary system wiht 17,000 huge clunky vacuum, weighing 30 tons, and consuming 150,000 watts of energy, the ENIAC was anything but a "hybrid" energy-conservative computer. Then ARPANET from the 1960s sno-balled into the Internet and that's the incredibly distilled evolution of the Net.

Maybe the future is back on the farms. We'ere moving toward the "technological farm" where familes and friends will operate like the farm units but on a globally interactive level. That's the newest technology; the historical revolution of the future will be sparked by the assembly of knowledge but will not result in a cataclysmic reversion back into a dark age or madness, but, rather, in an emergence from a dark age in which we currently reside, toward a nourishing and enlightening, profound reality.

1. www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/09/03/national/main309436.shtml.

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Fear of Stardumb

John Kuczmarski

June, 2007

Here's the Catch-22 if you think you're prestigious, or fast, or intelligent, most likely you'll short-circuit yourself with gloating arrogance. Pride and confidence is quick and effective; arrogance and boasting is slow and cumbersome. You want to feel your confidence, but then immediately let that go. You can't linger on your accomplishments. Relinquish all doubt and then kind of "tuck away" your confidence. The only thing your past accomplishments are good for, is providing the historical proof of what you did so you can do more. The most advanced relationsip you can have with your personal history is to not have a relationship with it; discard personal history. When you relinquish your personal history, Don Juan Matus writes:
"No explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with your acts. And above all no one pins you down with their thoughts. It is best to erase all personal history, because this makes us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people."
Afterall, you're celebrity now; you're "old personal history" was fantasy. In other words it was out-dated; discard the personal history.

Fear of stardumb occurs when you're at the depot. The train has arrived and all you have to do is get off. But you think to yourself. I did all this work. Went through all these insane obstacles, broke through so many psychological barriers to get right here. What if it wasn't worth it? What if all that wasn't leading up to a victory, but just more work? Then most people just stay in "work-mode" and never celebrate and own their prestige and success they've earned. This is the last transition because it is transitioning out of struggle. All your work up untill this point has been arduous, struggle, problematic. The future certainly will be challenging, but it will be perpetually fun and never crippling.

You overcome fear of stardom by relinquishing your work, and most importantly your grievances. Many people fail to get through this petty final blockage because they feel emotionally shattered towards people that caused them problems in the past. This turns into resement and then the cycle, to a degree, starts over. You relinquish your gievance by believing that holding onto the grudges allows those that brought you down or tried to sink your ship to win. They also win if you throw fits and get pissed at all your work. The way you overcome fear of stardom is simply moving forward and enjoying and loving your life. That's ultimate victory. That's ceasing to be the victim; that's generating tremendous illuminating joy.

Now that joy is yours; you've got what people admire. Continue to experience your own happiness. But the most important lesson out of this whole thing is to have love and success in life. Love is passsion as success is to progress. If people just know your name, you're brilliant at establishing a facade, getting known creating an image. That external progress, image, success has nothing to do with the internal passion, identity, and love. It's PIS and PIL and you need them both to be successfully happy and fulfilled.

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Motivational Stoppage

John Kuczmarski

May 2007

When the train is on the tracks, ready to go, and you're inspired, holding no resentment but you, for some reason, arent' moving. You've got motivational stoppage. The cause of motivational stoppage is hazy, but the symptoms are clear; unwillingness, uncertainty, undirected, and stopped!

You overcome this blockage simply by doing something that physically energizes you. This psychological jolt transcribes into an emotional occurrence, and then sequences off into a mental encouragement that really gets you going. This "jolt" could be anything from exercising to reading a book to writing in a journal, whatever it is that works for you.

The hardest part is getting on the track, but you already did that by overcoming resentment and rancor. Doujble congratulations. Your only concern is what to do when events in your reality actually aim to make you feel successful.

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Resentment & Rancor

John Kuczmarski

April, 2007

Disclaimer: If you are not a celebrity, read on. This is for you. You're about to be educated in whatever it is that's preventing you from growing. If you are a celebrity, read on, as well. You might discover some insightful information for and/or regarding your fan group.

Acknowledgements: I am neither a megastar celeb nor a nameless unknown. But I am someone who has studied the relationship between the "rich and famous" and the "not so opulent, not so eminent" for a very long time.

Celebrities are a fascinating species. To some they are superficial, but,in actuality, they are incredibly real. They become famous because of their insightful, original energy.

There's a lot of loathing -- jealous, unrighteous indignation, to be exact -- towards the star studs in the limelight. Men and women who've achieved great fame through acting, finance, politics, philanthropy (whatever the social stratosphere), always carry the burden of destructive fans. Destructive fans sit back and watch. They dont' try. They dont' engage themselves. They build up anger and hatred for celebrities with all the clout or attention.

But you have that energy of fame, fortune, honesty, bravery, clarity -- whatever it is you seek -- already inside of you.

Three emotional blockages decelerating, discouraging, and disowning your dormant essence:

Resentment and Rancor
Motivational Stoppage
Fear of Stardom

We'll talk about motivational stoppage and fear of stardom later, but for now, let's focus on your first impediment to being well-known yourself.

Resentment, sometimes to the extreme of rancor, prevents you from rising above the status quo and surfing the insightful energy.

Take Ms. Hilton's cell phone which was hacked to make public, information -- pictures and contacts -- originally designated as private. If your goal was to make her less famous, your agenda is counter-productive. Exposing more of her expands her cultural prominence! That fame wasn't her choice; like Prince Charles, it was something she inherited, and the obligation in which it entails, she has handled with poise and grace. Her's one few know. Did you know Tom Cruise wanted to be a priest? Yep, instead of going ecclesiastical, he devoted 10 years of his life to film at age 18, which spawned off his enormous acting career. The commitment to his acting career opened up a preaching to a much wider audience with a similar awe of spiritual sincerity.

Jack Nicholson's family duped him into thinking his mother was his sister and his grandparents were is immediate parents! Talk about a tough reality check for a 12-year old. The point is that these celebrities, wether born into the limelight or working up from rock bottom, are so well-known because of their clear, electric energy to overcome, not wallow, and to believe.

So abandon your resentment for these people and recognize how incredibly challenging and inspiring it is to be a celebrity. These people are role models who cultivate incredibly insightful frequencies of energy. It's easy to be the status quo; it's daunting to be unique. They are who they are because of the lucid living, their engaged personality, their commitment to empowerment and most importantly, their ability to not be discouraged when you, the status quo, tells them they can't, they won't, or there's no way, they're not good enough. They face the adversity of that all-too-frequent ridicule, prove you wrong, and then instead of gloating, they simply glide by and experience the illuminating energy of being a celebrity, but with activity and dynamism.

Many people say celebrities are cookie cutters, but that logic is flipped, warped, and wrong! How could carbon-copies be treated with reverence and regard? Celebrities are the real thing. Cookie cutters are the status quo, the norm, the ladies and gents who say "I can't" every other brainwave. Celebrities have gone through the trouble of training their brain for success.

The celebrities are there to pull you forward, not ridicule your anonymity. Move beyond your resentment by releasing the source of your rancor. You're pissed because you witness people achieving great hieghts of sucess of which you've only dreamed. But change your relationship with the success of the Rolling Stones, or Paris Hilton, Lance Armstrong, or Donald Trump. When most people see enormous success in others, their mental wiring malfunctions and triggers a response of jealousy. Stop that circuitry. You can do it. Instead of being subdued by a twang of resentment, feel a shock of encouragement. Understand that they did it, so I can do it even better!

You don't like people who hold resentment. We like people who hold joy. Celebrities are magnetic because of the joy they hold and energetically share in their life.

If you can cultivate clear, electric energy, not wallow, and perpetually believe more often than not, mathematically, you've just experienced your most auspicious windfall. Contemplate this. If you believe, overcome, and inspire yourself and others more than 50% of the time (the other fifty you're not doing those good things), you'll inevitably be moving forward. Those advancements create motivational momentum, which brings us to the second blockage, Motivational Stoppage. But given that you've developed a way to have a greater than average amount of electric energy, capacity to overcome, and belief, you've dissolved your first barrier. Congrulations and Godspeed.

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The Four Fundamental Features of Bonafide Friends

John Kuczmarski

March, 2007

Join you in dialogue without asking for permission. In regards to conversation, friends mutually chime in and don't squabble with petty protocols. Friends connect and feel the conversation and the exchange is more important than the conversational framework.
Don't alow you to sink and wallow in unproductive habits, but, instead challenge you to accelerate in life.
Take turns cycling to be the center of attention. You have the flow and speak and then they take over and thenn you flip. Friends do that constantly via an upward effectively strengthening growth process.
Authentic friends never operate under if and only if fair-weather conditions. Authentic friends don't collapse, bail, denigrate, and hit the eject button when you experience a crisis, some turbulence, or temporarily operate from a place of distraught and depletion. When you're at rock bottom, genuine friends provide nurturing and lucid support, clear the air, and give space; when you're a rainmaker, true friends celebrate, fiesta-style.

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Blood Brothers

John Kuczmarski

February, 2007

The human body holds about 4-6 liters of blood! We've got to keep our body healthy!

Blood is composed of 55% liquid plasma and 45% cells. The plasma component contains hormones, salts, protiens, nutrients, gases, and wastes, while the cellular part of the blood contains three types of cells:

erythrocytes (RBCs)
leukocytes (white blood cells)
platelets.

#/ cubic mm	Three Types of Blood Cells
5,000,000/mm3	Erythrocytes - Erythrocytes are found in bone marrow. One cubic mm of blood contains 5 million red blood cells that each contain 250,000,000 hemoglobin, which can each carry 4 02 molecules, so one cubic mm of blood can, through the erythrocytes, hold (5 million x 250 million x 4) 5 quadrillion (5 12 Zeros, 5,000,000,000,000) oxygen molecules! Erythrocytes circulate in the blood for 120 days (4 months) before they are phagocytized by special cells in the spleen and liver. Therefore, you get "fresh" erythrocytes about 3 times a year.
7,000/mm3	Leukocytes -- Leukocytes, or white blood cells, are found in the stem cell marrow of long bones (femur, humerus, etc.). There are about 7,000 leukocytes/cubic mm of blood, but they are bigger than erythrocytes, so that makes up for there much smaller quantity. There are three different types of leukocytes: Granular leukocytes -- inflammation, allergies, pus Lymphocytes -- produced in tonsils, spleen, appendix, thymus, bone marrow, and lymph nodes. B & T lymphocytes are integral to the immune response. Monocytes -- huge cells that phagocytize foreign matter that later mature into macrophages
350,000/mm3	Platelets -- Platelet cells are teh last type of cells in the liquid plasma of blood. They are the middle quantity (with Leukocytes as teh least copious and erythrocytes as the most copious) with 250,000-500,000 platelets/cubic mm. They are small, 2-3 um, and lack a nucleus.

Quantity of Cells -- There are about 14 times as much erythrocytes as platelets, and about 714 times as many leukocytes as platelets.

Erythrocytes = 14 x platelets = 714 x leukocytes.

We should aim to keep that high quantity of blood healthy by eating great nutrition, exercising, and being mindful of all the cellular brothers constantly flowing through our body.

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The Truth about Anatomy

John Kuczmarski

January, 2007

When we fall in love. We really are falling in love with the chemical hormones that frequently fire when our mind signals our glands that we have fallen in love.

Look at the anatomy of the eye. Our eyes are the most advanced visual input systems. We interpret and perceive with that wizardry technology. The actual eyeball directionally swivels with 6 muscles holding the eyball in place. There are three layers to the eyeball's "skin" : sclera (white of the eye), choroid (supplies blood), retina (picks up and reverses the light images). The cornea bends or focuses the light before it travels through the pupil window whose chamber is controlled by the iris, when the lens (after the pupil opening), whose shape is controlled by cilliary muscles focuses the image on the retina. The two photoreceptors, rods (for low-intensity illumination and light vision) and cones (high-intensity light and color) have different piugments that absorb different wavelenghts. Basically, if walking at night, you'll need a "flashlight rod" and during the day there are cones of light. The two extremes of the retina -- the fovea (copious densely packed colorful cones for high acuity vision) and the blind spot (no photoreceptors because of the optic nerve in that area). (15 key words).

Look at the anataomy of the ear. Composed of three main sections, our ears are the most advanced auditory input systems. The outer ear is composed of the pinna and auditory canal. The middle ear is the tympanic membrane and 3 ossicles (malleus, incus, and stapes). The inner ear is composed of the cochlea and semicircular canals. Endolymph is what rolls around in the semicircular canals and sends sensory input.

Our gustatory senses are extremely advanced, as well. There are about 40 epithelial cells with microvilli that send receptor cells to the brain responding to salty, sweet, sour, or bitter tastes. Usually, most people are accustomed to one or two of those flavors.

Look at the details of endocrine glands. In your body, you have 9 distinct glands and 14 total glands, including 1 quadrant of the parathyroid (4), 2 paired glands of testes (2) and adrenal glands (2) and six singular glands. The location of your glands are 6 distinct (9 total) glands above the sternum's inferior tip, and of these upper 9 glands there are three glands above the jaw (pituitary, hypothalamus, and pineal gland) which are all unwed, singular glands. From the jaw to the inferior sternum tip are 3 glands, one of them, the parathyroid on the neck is a tetrad, making 6 total glands, including the thyroid and thymus glands. From the inferior tip of sternum to hip, there are 2 unique glands , but the adrenal glands are a pair, so with the pancreas gland, there are 3 total. Finally, in the inferior-most extremity (hips and below) exists a single pair of glands, the testes (2).

Endocrine glands (as opposed to exocrine glands that secrete substances directly through ducts) secrete hormones directly into the bloodstream. The Anterior Pituitary Gland synthesizes direct (directly targets glands) hormones and tropic hormones (that stimulate endocrine glands which release more hormones). Direct hormones of the anterior pituitary gland are growth hormone (GH) that promotes muscle and bone growth and, in females, prolactin (for milk secretion) and oxytocin (from the posterior pituitary) increases muscular contractions. Four tropic hormones are adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH). that stimulates the adrenal cortex to secrete glucocortoids. Thyroid-stimulating hormone causes the thyroid to absorb iodine. The third part ant. pituitary tropic hormone is luteinizing hormone (LH) that stimulates the testes to release testosterone. LH is regulated by gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH). The fourth tropic hormone is FSH -- follicle-stimulating hormone that stimulates sperm production. In the posterior pituitary gland hormones (oxytocin and anti-diuretic hormone (ADH) are manufactured in the hypothalamus and then simply released from the posterior pituitary gland. One of hte undisscussed areas is the intermediary pituitary gland that produces melanocyte-stimulating hormone, MSH, which controls skin pigment. In a sense, misinterpretation of the MSH caused apartheid and slavery, possibly, but we know race doesn't exist, now, so there's no segregation!

Much of the hypothalamus involves stimulating the pituitary gland. Gonadotropin releasing releases FSH and LH from the pituitary gland. There is a direct portal vein between the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland.

Anterior Pituitary Intermediary Pituitary Posterior Pituitary (manufactured in Hypothalamus)

Tropic FSH
LH

AcTH

TSH
GnRH

Direct Prolactin
GH
Melanocyte-stimulating hormone ADH (Vasopresin)
Oxytocin

The thyroid hormone gland secretes the two thyroid hormones (thyroxine and triiodothyroid) that nnnnnnnnincreases cellular respiration and the synthesis of proteins and fatty acids. Also, calcitonin, an inhibitory hormone that lowers Ca 2+ levels , is secreted from bone marrow. Calcitonin is regulated by Ca 2+ levels.

The parathyroid gland releases PTH, parathyroid hormone, which increases Ca 2+ levels in the bloodstream in bone production from marrow and to decrease kidney reabsorption of Ca 2+.

The adrenal cortex secretes 4 natural steroids -- yes, these are real, natural, strong steroids made naturally in the bodies endocrine system --called corticosteroids, which are all derived from cholesterol called,

glucocortoids (that INCREASE glucose with gluconogenesis, DECREASE protein synthesis and DECREASE inflammatory response).
mineralocortoids, primarily aldosterone (INCREASE K+ and Na+ reabsorption, INCREASES H20 reabsorption, which INCREASES blood volume and pressure)
renin is an enzyme produced in the kidney that triggers angiogenesis, used to regulate blood volume, causing it to DECREASE.
androgen is produced in moles, in teh testes but also in women. Too muich of it results in facial hair. Bearded women have adrenal galnds that overproduce androgen.

The adrenal medulla basically triggers the flight/fight response by releasing epinephrine (adrenaline) and norepinephrine. The adrenal medulla is the bulk command center for your sympathetic nervous system.

Operating as a dual-mechanism, the pancreas is an exocrine gland (secreting amylase, lipase, and trypsin into the duodenum for digestion) and an endocrine organ releasing three hormones into the blood stream through the islets of Langerhans:

Glucagon (from Alpha cells) INCREASE glucose by INCREASE protein synthesis, glycogen to glucose, and glucogenesis
Insulin (from Beta cells) DECREASE glucose by reuptake in the muscles
Somatosin (Delta cells) DECREASE glucagon and insulin -- the regulatory hormone of glucose-regulating hormones.

Stepping back from all this, it makes sense that diabetes is easy to get! We have 4 direct and 4 tropic hormones that INCREASE glucose and only one 1 hormone, insulin, that decreases bloodstream glucose levels! Diabetes is hyperglycemia, too MUCH glucose in bloodstream. Hypoglocemia is too LITTLE glucose in the bloodstream.

Testes secrete the androgens (like testosterone).

Ovaries combined with pituitary glands and hypothalamus, release hormones from puberty to menopause in women, which is known as the menstrual cycle:

Follicular Phase -- eggs grow from LH and FSH
Ovicular Phase -- an ovum busrsts, estrogen
Luteal Phase -- prepared for implantation of embryo; progesterone inhibtis GnRH, which DECREASES LH and FSH, so no more follicles to get the ovum.
Menstruation -- unfertilized ovum atrophies, which DECREASES progesterone and estrogen, when progesterone and estrogen levels DECREASE GnRH is not inhibited so the LH and FSH from the ant. pituitary go to down, starting the cylce anew.
Two offshoots are pregnanacy, whre the ovum is fertilized, and menopause, the end of the menstural cyle around 45-55.

The pineal gland (1 of the 3 endocrine glands in the brain) releases melatonin for sleep circadian rhythms. On the SEA semester I was on, the pineal gland was freaking out trying to adjust melatonin levels to being up at 3am hoisting sails. It is normally regulated by light and dark cycles of an environment. If you're always outside (near the sun and never using Edison's artifiical illumination -- light bulbs) you will most likely have perfectly healthy melatonin levels and, consequentially, healthy circadian rhythms.

There are three types of hormones: peptides, steroids, and amino acid hormones that bind to the extracellular or intracellular receptors of cells.

Peptides ADH, insulin -- manufactured in the Golgi and stored in vessivles

Steroids Glucocortoids, Testosterone, Estrogen -- Our body, a very powerful pharmacologist, does make these powerful steroids that are not stored, but simply secreted into the bloodstream.

Amino Acids Epinephrine, Norepinephrine -- stored in granules.

Hormones and Endocrone Glands Real-Life Scenario

When you exercise, your anterior pituitary gland releases adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), which releases glucocortoids from the adrenal cortex, and thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), which triggers the thyroid to release thyroid hormone that triggers metabolic activity. The hypothalamus, meanwhile, has manufactured vasopresin (ADH) that reabsorbs water, increasing blood volume and pressure, while the pancreas pumps out glucagon to stimulate glycogen to glucose, increasing glucose in the bloodstream. The adrenal medulla releases epinephrine and norepinephrine into the bloodstream increasing glucose and hr. Also, the parathyroid gland releases parathyroid hormone (PTH) to increase Ca2+ in the blood. So 7, of the 9 distinct glands, are used and atleast 8 potent hormones are released if you just go for a little jog!

Our hypothalamus operates as a facotory, assembling small-chain peptides into neural hormones that match our daily emotions. There are chemicals for sadness, fear, doubt, rage, lust, victimization, bewilderment. There are chemicals released from the pituitary gland, manufactured by the hypothalamus telling us to "party". There are chemicals for all emotions.

We adults frequently live from an emotional detached place or an excessively reactionary place because of glitches in our life along the way. In understanding the non-existance of these glitches, we learn that we can choose to feel the good emotions.

We have to interrupt our neural synaptic fixations that make us believe that we get nervous in certain situations or dubious after certain events. Those are just neural fixations. When we interrupt those patterns, we can choose with our brains to feel "drunk" or "high" or jubilant simply by choosing to feel inebriated with happiness or lucidly intoxicated by joy.

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Neurological "Bad Habits"

John Kuczmarski

December, 2006

Aging or depression is just a neurological "bad habit".

Aging is just fluctuations in our peptide proteins. Wrinkled skin is a loss of elasticity. Elastin is a protein. Our synovial fluid in our joints is a peptide; when it's depleted, we experience arthritis. Age is simple a change in our peptide production. When we debunk age or negative emotions as simply hormone chemicals and protein peptides, we can interrupt those debilitating neurological "bad habits".

We want to wear our systematic, heat-seeking helmets. We need fire the synaptic neurons that habituate our cells to feel love, exhilaration, and happiness.

Oure cells and our endocrine glands create the synaptic firings and chemical releases that produce something we collectively call "fear" or "doubt" or "anxiety" or "shame". If we constantly feel depressed or nervous our cells actually grow more neural receptor sites for the peptide hormones that generate the collective feeling of depression or nervousness, and when those cells undergo mitosis and divide into daughter cells, those new cells will be "born", if you will, with more receptor sites for those peptide hormones and less sites for minerals and vitamins. The changes for opening ourselves up to new, enriching, fun emotions exponentially disperse and create

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Ten Idiotic Idioms

If their dresses fly up with a wind gust, woman aer going to do the 23 skiddoo, but men'll be sitting in the catbird seat.

While the very first devil's advocate refuted to-be saints. It's rare to pull the plug on sainthood unless they're slipping in by the skin of their teeth.

A leopard can't change his spots and you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but stop thinking about the pie in the sky, dreams can become reality.

We suspected he was a wolf in sheep's clothing, but when the conductor had a Van Gogh's ear for music, we knew the gimmick had run out of steam.

Remember: you are waht you eat and health isn't a three strikes you're out game; don't get up a blind alley, and cultivate health.

If you're seaward with no room to swing a cat, you might be a son of a gun!

When Samuel Mudd mended up Booth's like, his name quickly became mud till the cows came home.

The message of American Psycho ridiculed the whitebread bleakness of the 1980s yuppie, illustrating that the wild and wooly approach is always healthy, just as long as you keep you pedal to the metal and stay successful and honest.

I don't like secondary resources; if it's straight from the horse's mouth, there's no need to be a doubting thomas.

Have good posture. Keep your jaw level, but keep your chin up to stay chin up to stay cheerful, and if you want to observe in quiet, pipe down and pick your ears up, or just stay alert.

Twenty-Five Idiotic Idioms

August, 2007

You're excellent in doubling in brass because you frequently have grown accustomed to having too many irons in the fire.

If you're a backseat driver, face the music and stop demanding that you'll have his head on a platter, when you're squawking like a chicken with his head cut off!

The general rule of thumb is, if it's raining cats and dogs, you go up the apples and pears and you call it a night, or you go against the near-jerk reaction, go the whole nine yards, and run amock.

The "spare the rod, spoil the child" could make sense if you're raising Cain,but generally, growing up around too posh of an environment is deadly enough!

I'm a southpaw who's never on queer street because I only use money I've got; I'm punctual, so I don't have to worry about being saved by the bell, but have a high attitude and find humor in many situations, so am tongue in cheek a lot of the time with sacred cows or pop culture.

I never favor the flavor of sour grapes, just water to red wine through the grape vine.

Gossip, gap, chit-chat, prattle -- that's how rumors get started, where a cock and bull story becomes one's glory.

I'm not military so I don't shine my boots; I do rise and shine to varnish my suits.

Don't push the envelope with the nest egg; keep your savings intact.

Never raincheck putting your best foot forward, because you never known when you may need to call on wing and prayer; things can change in a new york minute.

Whether you're the new kid on the block or a community veteran, it's best to not push the envelope with one over the eight and play it safe by driving with a full deck.

I don't keep any aces up my sleeve, but I know when mum's the word and shut my trap.

If you're a loose cannon, everything or nothing is a level playing field, but don't ask me where to shoot hoops, am I my brother's keeper?

Most people would kick the bucket if there's no room swing a cat, and pass, saying "no dice", "too cramped", but I keep body and soul together wherever I am so I'm fine with a small abode.

I don't have a ball and chain, I like to wear my own pants, but I do want to have some apples of my eye, but you don't have to go back to square one genetics, I know about the birds and the bees.

I'm not a doubting Thomas so I know that if a seafarer says it's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey, I know there's a chill and the cannon bals go around going to stay stacked in the pyramid that much longer.

The good samaritan will give a starving man a baker's dozen even if he's not a baker.

We thought he was AWOL, but Kilroy was here, atleast we saw the graffiti tattoos on Charlie.

I'm always on the ball on the money so it's never "close but no cigar for me"; it's always crackerjack because I don't carry a chip on my shoulder and relinquish all my grudges.

I've wanted to flip the bird to my own flesh and blood at times, but now there's just clear blue water with us.

If you walk around in the buff, you'll get 86'd from most places that require shirt and shoes, but if you're jacked, you'll be in like Flynn.

You don't have to be a religious baptist or a historian of Herod to know that "I'll have his head on a platter" is an imminent threat, hand-writing on the wall for an act of vengeance.

Murphy's law is plausible, but not practical if you're a glass half-full guy.

You get mad as a hatter if you're mixing mercury nitrate to soften fur hats or you'll lose your rag if you've been top notch, keeping the axe to the grindstone and still don't get lobster dinners.

You paddle your own canoe, but bartenders will make sure that you mind your ps and qs, watch the pints and quarts so you don't go over the top, one over the eight.

Techno-Farm

July, 2007

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Fear of Stardumb

June, 2007

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Motivational Stoppage

May 2007

When the train is on the tracks, ready to go, and you're inspired, holding no resentment but you, for some reason, arent' moving. You've got motivational stoppage. The cause of motivational stoppage is hazy, but the symptoms are clear; unwillingness, uncertainty, undirected, and stopped!

The hardest part is getting on the track, but you already did that by overcoming resentment and rancor. Doujble congratulations. Your only concern is what to do when events in your reality actually aim to make you feel successful.

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Resentment & Rancor

John Kuczmarski

April, 2007

Disclaimer: If you are not a celebrity, read on. This is for you. You're about to be educated in whatever it is that's preventing you from growing. If you are a celebrity, read on, as well. You might discover some insightful information for and/or regarding your fan group.

Acknowledgements: I am neither a megastar celeb nor a nameless unknown. But I am someone who has studied the relationship between the "rich and famous" and the "not so opulent, not so eminent" for a very long time.

Celebrities are a fascinating species. To some they are superficial, but,in actuality, they are incredibly real. They become famous because of their insightful, original energy.

But you have that energy of fame, fortune, honesty, bravery, clarity -- whatever it is you seek -- already inside of you.

Three emotional blockages decelerating, discouraging, and disowning your dormant essence:

Resentment and Rancor

Motivational Stoppage

Fear of Stardom

We'll talk about motivational stoppage and fear of stardom later, but for now, let's focus on your first impediment to being well-known yourself.

Resentment, sometimes to the extreme of rancor, prevents you from rising above the status quo and surfing the insightful energy.

You don't like people who hold resentment. We like people who hold joy. Celebrities are magnetic because of the joy they hold and energetically share in their life.

The Four Fundamental Features of Bonafide Friends

March, 2007

Join you in dialogue without asking for permission. In regards to conversation, friends mutually chime in and don't squabble with petty protocols. Friends connect and feel the conversation and the exchange is more important than the conversational framework.

Don't alow you to sink and wallow in unproductive habits, but, instead challenge you to accelerate in life.

Take turns cycling to be the center of attention. You have the flow and speak and then they take over and thenn you flip. Friends do that constantly via an upward effectively strengthening growth process.

Blood Brothers

John Kuczmarski

Copyright © 2007

February, 2007

The human body holds about 4-6 liters of blood! We've got to keep our body healthy!

Blood is composed of 55% liquid plasma and 45% cells. The plasma component contains hormones, salts, protiens, nutrients, gases, and wastes, while the cellular part of the blood contains three types of cells:

erythrocytes (RBCs)

leukocytes (white blood cells)