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#1 Become the leadig wireless communications provider in the world

Teledesic was a great idea that involved launching a global satellite network that would provide wireless cable TV, high speed internet, education, cellular service, and government services to the world.

Unfortunately, it required so many satellites (288), when Bill Gates and the Saudi Princes wanted to do it, that it never went forward due to funding (2B+). Today, only 12 satellites are required and the satellite technology and global 2.4Ghz license to broadcast are for sale because the company that owns them is filing for bankruptcy. That means we could become the world's number one communication provider for only 15M...

Let's launch Teledesic2 and make Bill's dream a reality.

#2 Create a new type of bank

The first bank of it's kind with some pretty unique products that make it significantly more profitable to investors and more rewarding to customers. I can't go into all the details without a non-disclosure, but imagine the attention a bank would get if they offered 10% FDIC insured on checking accounts to all their customers and payments on houses were significantly less. It would cause a major shift n the market and people would have a safe place to put their retirement funds. This bank would also have the ability to leverage a lot more money than a tradional bank, and it's revenues are estimated to be greater than 52% of utilized funds. The minimum to open and operated for 3-5 years is 15M. With banks more funding is better, because it means more loans and more profit. Imagine a bank that held most of the nation's wealth and own most of the nation's real estate. Especially right now because it's cheap.

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As we age the DNA in our cells lose segments of adenine at the ends. This occurs because our cells are constantly dividing. Once the segments of adenine are all gone, the DNA in that cell starts to lose segments that are necessary for life, and the cell dies because it can no longer function properly. The solution is to get an enzyme called adenine ligase into the nucleus of the cell, so it can reattach the segements of adenine. Once the segments are reattached, your DNA is protected again, so it can continue to divide for many more years.
Another aspect of aging is that our cells have a maximum age. It's not that your cells would not function longer normally, it's that there is a sequence in our DNA that tells the cell to release harmful digestive chemicals that will disolve the cells in our body from the inside out. This date is said to be around 130 years of age. Right now we don't have a problem with it, but as people start to live longer, it would prevent people from living longer than about 130 years old. The way to overcome this problem is to replace the segment of DNA that causes the lysosomes to burst. Once we do that, there will no longer be a limit on how long we could live.
Hormone levels also play a key role in aging. As levels of HgH decrease, cells don't replace themselves as fast and aging occurs as the percentage of living cells in your organs and tissues decrease. HgH stands for human growth hormone and is controlled by sugar levels in the body. We all need a certain amount of blood sugar to remain active and happy, but when sugar levels spike, HgH stops being produced and an aging phase occurs. This means things like soda and anything with high sugar content will age you each time you drink or eat it. There is no doubt that our bodies need carbs to perform at a high level, so I suggest we alter the feedback loop of high blood sugar turning off HgH by making the receptors at the pituitary gland slightly less sensitive to increases in blood sugar with age. This is necessary because the pituitary gland produces less HgH over time, and it could be safely regulated by medicine. Doctors would just slightly increase the dosage to maintain healthy HgH levels in the body. The pituitary gland producing less HgH over time is also controlled by DNA, so a sequence could be replaced to keep HgH levels constant with age and not be effected by sugar levels.
Another key factor in aging are things that most people know about like clean air, healthy, non-contaminated food, preventing sickness and injury, regular exercise, avoiding sun exposure, staying away from dangerous chemicals and getting enough sleep. Ionizers are a great way to keep the air cleaner in your home. It would also be smart to have wood floors instead of carpet, making sure there is good ventilation in your house and prevent the dust in your matress and pillows from getting in your lungs at night with covers that don't allow dust to get through. Healthy food means have a balanced diet with lots of fresh food and avoid anything that doesn't exist in nature like saturated fat. It would also be smart to avoid foods that are high in acid and salt content, which can potentially damage cells.
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The USA Started Here
       Myth or Legend   by Edwin Woodland

Scrooby,a small and quite English village in  Nottinghamshire.
Who would have thought it was once a hot bed of revolt?"

I for one would, "Just for a second think your standing in the main street of  Scrooby,    The year is 1602.AD , its july and warm your in the local pub having a drink,  you hit a button on you time switch,    And again for a second time you go back in time some years,  To say a warm july in a year about 1160.AD.                                                                                                        
Your still sanding on the same spot ,you still have your drink,    but now you could well,have found your self in that very same
Scrooby, having a drink and a chat ,
To one Robin Hood or maybe some of is Anglo-Saxon woodsmen friends that lived in scrooby,

For yes you have it now!  Scrooby that small and quite English village is in Sherwood forest,So many of the separatists that went on the mayflower, where of the same English stock as Robin and is men,

It was Men from Scrooby initiated the emigration of the
'Pilgrim Fathers' to America in 1620 on board the Mayflower.
now I for one now fully understand how the ideas of Freedom and Liberty,came in to being,


As a man from sherwood, my self, it gives me a warm feeling as I wright this, i think the world need to know this,
Some one said who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it


As for the legend of robin hood
it seems to be be ture, But maybe there where many robin hoods in sherwood,in the past
For the Anglo-Saxons in that area of England ,Where often forced to become bands of outlaws. for there own freedom and liberty,
As the Normans took all , Even the right to hunt in the woods for food,.

So it is no coincidence that many of these ideas of Freedom and Liberty,  That first took root here in England and can be traced directly back to those  Anglo-Saxons whos (descendants)Centuries later with dauntless spirit and sense of adventure ,Saled on the mayflower the 'Pilgrim Fathers'.

Years later there offspring went on to start the usa,
Sherwood forest back then, was a part of nottinghamshire and South yourshire

Thank you for reading
Edwin Woodland
Nottinghamshire
England
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The oldest tree in Sherwood

A BRIEF HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM
SAXON NOTTINGHAM
Nottingham began in the 6th century as a small Saxon settlement called Snotta inga ham. The Saxon word ham meant village. The word inga meant 'belonging to' and Snotta was a man. So it was the village owned by Snotta. It was inevitable that sooner of later Nottingham would grow into a town as it is the first point where the Trent can be forded but the river is also navigable this far inlandIn the late 9th century the Danes conquered North East and Eastern England. They turned Nottingham into a fortified settlement or burgh. Nottingham had a ditch around it and an earth rampart with a wooden palisade on top.In 920 the English king recaptured






Nottingham and he built a bridge across the Trent. By the 10th century Nottingham was a busy little town though with a population of only several hundred. The Western limit of the Nottingham stood roughly where Bridlesmith Gate is today. From the 10th century Nottingham had a mintIn 1067 William the Conqueror built a wooden castle to guard Nottingham. (It was rebuilt in stone in the 12th century). Nottingham grew rapidly after the Norman Conquest. A new area was created between the old town and the castle. It was called the French borough because most of those who lived there were Norman French. The old town was called the English borough. The two areas had separate administrations until about 1300. The ditch and rampart around Nottingham were extended to surround the new area. Later, in the late 13th and early 14th centuries, they were replaced by stone walls Nottingham may have had a population of around 1,500 at the time of the Norman Conquest.
By the 14th century it may have grown to 3,000.


By the standards of the time Nottingham was a fair sized town. However it was not large or important nationally In 1155 the king gave Nottingham a charter. In the Middle Ages a charter was a document granting the townspeople certain rights. Nottingham gained its first mayor in 1284. The town gained its first sheriff in 1449 In the Middle Ages Nottingham had a weekly market. It also had an annual fair. From 1284 it had two. In those days a fair was like a market but was it was held only once a year for a period of a few days. Buyers and sellers would come from all over Nottinghamshire and YorkshireThe story of Robin Hood is so well known that it scarcely needs to be reviewed, but don't worry, I'll do it anyway. The "facts ", at least one romantic version of them, are these. In the time of Richard the Lionheart a minor saxon noble of Nottinghamshire, one Robin of Loxley, was outlawed for poaching deer. Now at that time the deer in a a royal forest belonged to the king, and killing one of the king's deer was therefore treason, and punishable by death



Robin took to the greenwood of Sherwood Forest, making a living by stealing from rich norman travellers and distributing the loot among the poor saxons of the area. In the process he gained a band of followers and a spouse, Maid Marian. Despite the best efforts of the evil Norman Sherrif of Nottingham he avoided capture until the return of King Richard from the Crusades brought about a full pardon and the restoration of Robin's lands other versions he dies at the hands of a kinswoman, the abbess of Kirklees Priory. That, in a very small nutshell, is the legend, but is there truth behind itWell,yes possibly.



Someone, or maybe several someones, named Robin Hood existed at different times. Court records of the York Assizes refer to a "Robert Hod", who was a fugitive in 1226. In the following year the assizes referred to the same man as "Robinhud". By 1300 at least 8 people were called Robinhood, and at least 5 of those were fugitives from the law. In 1266 the Sherrif of Nottingham, William de Grey, was in active conflict with bands of saxon outlaws in Sherwood Forest. It seems most likely that a number of different outlaws built upon the reputation of a fugitive in the forest, and over time, the legend grewOne thing to note about the early legends is that Robin Hood was not an aristocrat but just saxon, as he was later portrayed, but a simple saxon yeoman driven to a life of crime by the harsh rule of the law of the rich normans. As such, it is easy to see how his story soon became a favourite folk tale among the poor saxon englishThere is, in the grounds of Kirklees Priory, a old grave stone, marking the final resting place of one "Robard Hude". Proof that part of the tale may be true? It would be nice to think so. being a saxon english man my selfThe story of Robin Hood is so well known that it scarcely needs to be reviewed, but don't worry, I'll do it anyway. The "facts "

at least one romantic version of them, are these. In the time of Richard the Lionheart a minor saxon noble of Nottinghamshire, one Robin of Loxley, was outlawed for poaching deer. Now at that time the deer in a a royal forest belonged to the king, and killing one of the king's deer was therefore treason, and punishable by death So Robin took to the greenwood of Sherwood Forest, making a living by stealing from rich norman travellers and distributing the loot among the poor saxons. the area. In the process he gained a band of followers and a spouse, Maid Marian. Despite the best efforts of the evil Norman Sherrif of Nottingham he avoided capture until the return of King Richard from the Crusades brought about a full pardon and the restoration of Robin's landsIn other versions he dies at the hands of a kinswoman, the abbess of Kirklees Priory. That, in


a very small nutshell, is the legend, but is there truth behind it?Well,yes possibly. Someone, or maybe several someones, named Robin Hood existed at different times. Court records of the York Assizes refer to a "Robert Hod", who was a fugitive in 1226. In the following year the assizes referred to the same man as "Robinhud". By 1300 at least 8 people were called Robin hood, and at least 5 of those were fugitives from the law. In 1266 the Sherrif of Nottingham, William de Grey, was in active conflict with bands of saxon outlaws in Sherwood Forest. It seems most likely that a number of different outlaws built upon the reputation of a fugitive in the forest, and over time, the legend grew One thing to note about the early legends is that Robin Hood was not an aristocrat


but A just saxon, as he was later portrayed, but a simple saxon yeoman driven to a life of crime by the harsh rule of the law of the rich normans. As such, it is easy to see how his story soon became a favourite folk tale among the poor saxon englishThere is, in the grounds of Kirklees Priory, a old grave stone, marking the final resting place of one "Robard Hude". Proof that part of the tale may be true? It would be nice to think so. being a saxon english man my self

About 40 years ago now, the world used to hear a lot from a futurologist called Herman Kahn. Of ample girth and unquenchable volubility, Herman Kahn, who died in 1983, was always making confident pronouncements about what would happen in the future.
So and so, he would say, would happen 10, 20, 25 years years from now. It wouldn't happen tomorrow, so that you could check up on it straightaway, but it would happen 10, 20, 25 years from now.

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Some of us realised that he had invented a new unit of time, and we gave it a name. In tribute to Fermi, who could measure electrons, we called his new unit of time the Hermie. The merit of the Hermie, as a unit of measurement, was that, while being vague, it sounded impressive.
The prediction itself might or might not have been right. Herman Kahn predicted that within one Hermie everyone in the West would fly his own helicopter and have access to free-fall sex. That didn't happen within one Hermie, but it still might happen in the next Hermie.
All we can be sure of is that Herman Kahn's language exemplified an impressive way of talking about the future, a way of sounding impressive that sounded less impressive only when you realised that sounding impressive was its main motive. Big things would happen. It was big talk. And it paid the penalty of all big talk. As you got used to it, you got tired of it.
Language of alarm
Over the last 10 years we have heard a lot about how civilisation would be in trouble if it didn't soon do something drastic about global warming. But this impressive message tended to sound less impressive as time went on. It wasn't just that the globe uncooperatively declined to get warmer during the last 10 years.

Herman Kahn was always predicting the distant future

It was that the language of alarm wore out its welcome as it became ever more assertive about what had not yet happened.
The brief, unarguably still hot period, when the world had somehow refused to grow any hotter was soon explained, although it seemed strange that it had not been predicted.
The world, when it resumed warming again would heat up by so many degrees, or so many more degrees than that, and within 10, 20, 25 years - within a single Hermie - there would be the corpses of fried polar bears floating past your penthouse window.
According to the media, scientists were agreed, the science was settled, science said, that all this would happen. The media promoted this settled science, and the politicians went along with the media. The whole deal had the UN seal of approval.

A bunch of e-mails got hacked, or perhaps leaked. Some of the phrases that supposedly reveal skulduggery reveal a lot less when you put them in the context of what, we are told, was only locker-room enthusiasm

The coming catastrophe that had to be averted wasn't exactly like knowing when the asteroid would arrive so you could send Bruce Willis, but unless we did something, irreversible damage, if not certain doom, was only a Hermie or two away.
Today, after recent events at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, that supposedly settled science is still the story, but the story is in question. Suddenly there are voices to pronounce that the reputation of science will lie in ruins for the next 50 years.
For two Hermies at least, nobody will trust a single thing that a scientist says. Well, even to a non-scientist like myself, that last prediction sounds suspiciously like the others.
Layman's reading
My own view is that true science, the spirit of critical inquiry that unites all scientists, or is supposed to, is reasserting itself after being out-shouted by at least half a Hermie of uninterrupted public relations. But I hasten to admit that my view is not only not the view of a scientist, it is the view of somebody who can still remember the first day he was exposed to calculus and froze as if in a new Ice Age.
As I said in one of these columns earlier in the season - In praise of scepticism - before the events at the Climate Research Unit, my only position on the matter of man-made global warming was that from my own layman's background reading I thought the reported scientific unanimity that global warming is man-made, and likely to be catastrophic, was always a more active area of scientific debate than you would have guessed from the way the media told the story.
Just saying that much was enough to get me condemned by one of the broadsheet environmentalist gurus. He said I was an old man resistant to the facts because I didn't care what happened to the world after I was gone.

An issue couched in dramatic terms...

As I bounced my grand-daughter on my knee, rather hoping that in the course of the next Hermie she would not be obliged to star in a remake of Waterworld as the sea rose 30 feet above her house, I bit back a rude word.
But the guru still had a point when he said my scepticism about the settled science was a wilful defiance of established fact. Unfortunately the fact had been established largely by the media, who had been telling only one story. If you said the story might have two sides, that sounded like scepticism.
People in my position had to get used to being called sceptics, as if scepticism were a bad thing. We even had to get used to being called denialists, although clearly it was an unscrupulous word.
We were also called, are still called, flat-earthers by people like Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband, but that kind of abuse is comparatively easy to take, because everybody knows that neither man would be capable of proving mathematically that the earth is not a cube.
Mainstream media
So what happened at the Climate Research Unit? Well, basically nothing new. A bunch of e-mails got hacked, or perhaps leaked. Some of the phrases that supposedly reveal skulduggery reveal a lot less when you put them in the context of what, we are told, was only locker-room enthusiasm.
In the correspondence columns of the scientific websites - where the level of discussion has consistently been miles above anything the mainstream media has provided for the last decade - there are already wise voices to warn that the sceptics should not make the same mistake as the believers by treating any slip they can find in the arguments of their opponents as evidence of the biggest fraud since Bernie Madoff made off with the money.
That would be Hermie talk, and self-defeating, because the more absolutist man-made global warming case has always looked sufficiently vulnerable just by the way it has been reluctant to listen to opposing voices no matter how well qualified.

... and also deeply political for many

There has never been any point, and there is no point now, in calling the warmists a bunch of devious conspirators against the truth. All you ever had to do was notice how their more strident representatives didn't want to hear any other opinions, even when the opinions came from within their own ranks.
Far from there having been unanimity among scientists on the subject of catastrophic man-made global warming, there has scarcely been unanimity among climate scientists. It only takes one dissenting voice to punch a hole in the idea of unanimity, if that voice has a chance of being right.
There was a time when almost every scientist except Einstein thought that Newton had buttoned up the subject of celestial mechanics. And this time, on the subject of global warming, there was always, right from the beginning, a number of climate scientists who didn't endorse the alarmist picture.
You could say that the number was small, and a few of them were vengeful because they had been sidelined for not being sufficiently doom-laden in their claims. But a few of them were older men who just wouldn't go along with the prevailing emphasis.
Orthodox view
One of these few was Prof Lindzen of MIT. I never could convince myself that the professor of meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology knew less about the earth's climate than I did, so I started to watch him. Hopeless on the media, Prof Lindzen is the sort of pundit with a four figure IQ who can somehow never figure out that you are supposed to talk into the microphone.
His fellow anti-alarmist Prof Fred Singer not only formed a thought too slowly for radio, he was too slow for smoke signals. But gradually, as I watched the side roads, it seemed to me that these few dissenting scientists with zero PR skills increased in number.
The number of scientists who endorsed the orthodox view increased also, but the number of those who didn't went up instead of down. I couldn't do the calculus, but I could count heads.

Many scientists say the case for man-made climate change is irrefutable

There were scores of eminent scientists who signed the 2007 open letter to the secretary general of the UN, and then later on there were hundreds quoted in the US senate minority reports.
It could be said that few of them had expertise in climate science, but that argument looked less decisive when you considered that climate science itself was exactly what they were bringing into question.
So science was not speaking with one voice on the matter. It only seemed to be, because the media, on the whole, was giving no other story. Then this Climate Research Unit thing happened, and it was the end of the monologue. The dialogue has begun again.
The scientists are arguing on the matter, which is the proper thing for science to do, because in science the science is never settled. Some say that the argument about how all this happened will go on for another two Hermies at least.
We can hear, from deep underground, the contented purr of Herman Kahn. It's all turning out exactly as he predicted.

They where so fast thinking about the money side of it all, the fact, the world as hardly got warmer at all over the last 100 years is by the way..     Good God they plan  to tax us for the air we breath,                           ,An average adult breathes out  about 0.5 L of air per breath air contains ~ 0.03 % of CO2

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