Digital photography is taking the photography market by storm -- and with good reason! To be able to take pictures and view them in real time is a true technological wonder! Digital photography may just be one of the most convenient "photo organizing" tools available -- allowing you to immediately purge bad photos and keep only the highest quality photos.
But before you let yourself get swept away by the excitement; we want to give you a gentle nudge and encourage you to remember the old standby . . .printed photographs. Do you think we're being unrealistic . . . .acting purely from a state of unbridled nostalgia?
Ask yourself this...how many of those digital photos have you actually printed?
Are they sitting on your hard drive waiting until you "have time" to print them, "have time" to get them into albums?
When was the last time that you grabbed the family and cuddled around the computer together to view those precious images? (You must admit that nothing beats a traditional album for sitting down with your loved ones and reminiscing over those special memories.)
And what if your hard drive were to crash today? What would become of your family's most prized possessions? Would all be lost in just a matter of minutes?
Okay, so maybe you have taken the time to download them onto a CD. Well did you realize that if that CD gets scratched, you have lost the entire contents of the CD?
Furthermore, did you realize that writable CDs have a significantly shorter life span than you may have imagined, and that they can be susceptible to breaking down after just a few short years?
So what's the solution?
Well, we're certainly not recommending that you abandon the concept of digital photography. But we do recommend that you set realistic expectations for the technology, and perhaps shift your perception of the concept. Think of it as a means of taking photographs and processing film. It is a means to an end . . . it is not the end!
Take the time to actually print your favorite photographs so that you don't have to rely solely on technology to preserve your past!
Excerpted from "Save Your Photos and Your Sanity: How to Organize and Safeguard Your Entire Photograph Collection…in as little as 10 days, without losing your mind!"
Christine Sutton and her business partner, Tracey DuBois have helped countless people organize, protect, and enjoy their precious photographs. As authors of “Save Your Photos and Your Sanity” and producers of “Treasure Your Memories”, they take a unique and FUN approach to organizing photographs. They offer a FREE Photo Organizing Idea Kit at http://www.organizedphotos.com
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Frank Stronach, the Canadian auto-parts mogul and founder of Magna International Inc., has just the drink to pep up haggard employees in Auburn Hills. This is the mogul’s way of playing it cool with the rising heat in the battle to acquire the recuperating American division of DaimlerChrysler AG.
In 2006, the Canadian mogul, tagged as one of the hot bidders for the Chrysler Group, lent his name to Frank's Energy Drink which is a super-caffeinated beverage. The franksenergy.com website describes the energy drink as the one that “keeps you yodeling all night long.” The fruity, vitamin-laced energy drink is the invention of two young entrepreneurs from Stronach's native Austria. It is priced at about $1 a can in Canadian grocery chains and pizzerias. Is your auto company tired, listless and in need of "authentic Austrian energy?"
Frank’s is especially formulated to cater to the young males needs who can join an online contest for a night on the town in "Frank's Energy Limo" with the "Energy Girls" - a cheerful crew of leggy blondes with braided hair and obviously healthy physiques.
A smiling Stronach, who is heading Magna's effort to buy Chrysler from German automaker DaimlerChrysler AG, is featured on the Web site along with the official "Frank's" motto - "Fun. Fame. Fortune. And really comfortable lederhosen." According to the energy drink’s advertisement campaign, "Frank's Energy Drink Kicks Butt,” Gene Simmons of the rock band Kiss, is one of the passionate endorsers of the drink.
Providing Frank’s workers with energy drink is like delivering chilling breeze from the APC cold air intake. It is Stronach’s way of playing it cool. The heat is on in Auburn Hills and the automotive industry in general. And a breeze of refreshing air is necessary to soothe the plight. Earlier, the Bush Administration has named a new manufacturing czar. Analysts in the industry said that he is certainly not full of hot air.
After leaving the post open for over three months, the Commerce Department named retired Rear Adm. William "Woody" Sutton as the new assistant secretary for manufacturing and services. But the appointment is still to be confirmed by the Senate.
It can be recalled that Al Frink left as manufacturing czar in December, one month before the Democrats took power in Congress. Frink was the first to hold the post that President Bush created during the 2004 campaign. The said post is in response to the condemnation that too many American manufacturing jobs had radically perished. The said subject is not new to Sutton.
Until February, Frink was president of the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute, a trade group representing manufacturers of over 90 percent of North American-produced central air conditioning and commercial refrigeration equipment. Air conditioner manufacturers have experienced bumpy rides in the previous years, closing several major American factories and moving production abroad. Since 2000, America has lost about three million manufacturing jobs, and the state of Michigan has lost most amid a radical downsizing of the American auto industry.
An analyst stressed, “But we can hear Bush now: "You're doing a helluva job, Woody!" Did he make the wrong call?” He added, “Was GM's Paul Ballew, in his monthly conference call with analysts and reporters, trying to deflect attention from the automakers' down sales month or just striking a blow for marital bliss?”
In a phone interview with Ballew, he queried: "Do you have to get that, Rod?," referring to Lache, analyst at Wall Street. "No, I don't," Lache answered. "It's my wife." "Um, Rod, maybe you better take that," Ballew said. But Lache declined to take the advice.
The secret of China’s startling economic growth during the past decade is nowhere to be found in Confucius’ teachings. The Chinese economy has grown at a steady 8 percent per annum and 2006 promises to be no different. This is roughly three to four times the rate of a typical western advanced economy, even when the latter is working well. What is even more startling, manufacturing production in China has gone up 16 percent in the last six months alone! So the question of the year for us poor capitalistic trainees has got to be: how do they do it?
When confronted with this question, politicians here in North America on both sides of the border are typically of no help at all. The standard response muttered is that ‘China has a lot of catching up to do’. This, of course, is a non-answer. We all know that they are catching up or we wouldn't have asked the question in the first place. Besides, who is doing the 'catching up'? Is it the government? Or the entrepreneurs? Or the people? The most extreme responses I can remember have been rendered by two top politicians, one American and the other Canadian. When asked the question of China’s explosive rate of growth last July, Vice-president Dick Cheney said, well, absolutely nothing. Pure silence. I think in acoustics they refer to it as ‘white noise’. Which, by the way, should not come as a surprise to anyone since the Vice-president is an expert only in the field of Halliburton’s Economics, which these days seems to be expanding at pretty much the same rate of growth as China’s. On the opposite side of the spectrum, instead, lies the glorious response rendered by former Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin. Contrary to the American Vice-president, Mr. Martin embarked in a five-minute tirade on national television – which, however, was given in French, so that we common mortals kind of missed the gist of it all.
It seems to me that none of China’s entrepreneurs, people and much less their government are trying to 'catch-up'. None of them has any means of knowing on a daily, monthly or even annual basis whether they are 'catching up' or not. Economic development is not a race. Nevertheless, something is happening. There's some extra vitality in China, which we have either lost or never had. The real answer, of course, lies with the cause of all economic growth - demand. And in the case of China, it is specifically the quality of demand that counts. Consumers all over Asian countries are buying as many status goods as they can and as quickly as they can. Unlike consumers in western countries who have bought status goods as they appeared one by one over the course of the last 200 years from the onset of the Industrial Revolution, and incorporated them successively into their culture as ordinary possessions, Asia is seeing the whole catalogue of brand new status goods – from cars to electronics, from clothes to real estate developments - simultaneously. And China, the most populated of all Asian countries, is at the forefront of it all.
Of course, just like everything else, these expansion times of the Chinese economy are destined to come to an end. When Chinese consumers finally will manage to buy all the status goods of the West - as the Japanese have done - then they will be in the same predicament as Westerners are today in not knowing what else to spend their money on. Or else they won’t have the time or energy available for using any more goods because they will be so darned tired of traveling back and forth to work every day and, besides, TV will take care of whatever few hours they will have left for leisure.
As in all sustainable economies, the trick is to stimulate demand so as to stimulate production. Failing this, well, here we are then. That's the problem that politicians in Japan, Europe and America are facing right now.
Luigi Frascati
Luigi Frascati is a Real Estate Agent based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Economics and maintains a weblog entitled the Real Estate Chronicle at http://wwwrealestatechronicle.blogspot.com where you can find the full collection of his articles. Luigi is associated with the Sutton Group, the largest real estate organization in Canada, and is based with Sutton-Centre Realty in Burnaby, BC.
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