In September, the U.S. Treasury Department announced that the national debt had passed $10 trillion. Now some experts believe that federal tax hikes are inevitable.

“The only way to pay down a hungry deficit is with tax dollars,” says James Burns, author of the new book The 3 Secret Pillars of Wealth: How to Crack Your Wealth Code Using the Tools of the Self-made Billionaires. “Which means we could have an entire marginal tax rate shift upwards—no matter who takes office.”

Burns says that taxpayers can help offset any increased tax burden by taking advantage of investment vehicles that allow for tax-deferred growth, such as savings-grade life insurance and Roth retirement plans in the form of either IRAs or solo 401(k) Roths.

According to Burns, investors should “opt for Roth IRAs that tax their contributions upfront, so that any taxes they pay will be on the smaller contributions put into the account rather than the larger amounts they withdraw during retirement.”

IRAs and other investment vehicles are discussed in The 3 Secret Pillars of Wealth as part of Burns’ plan for investors to take advantage of any tax breaks the government does give. His advice includes:

¤ Find investment tools that offer tax-deferred growth through retirement
¤ Consult a financial advisor before believing advertised growth rates
¤ Find a financial advisor who specializes in investment-grade life insurance if that’s what you plan on investing in
¤ Learn how to calculate tax savings as part of your profits when budgeting
¤ Avoid get-rich-quick plans that promise tax-free growth

“Even if the government is forced to raise taxes in order to pay down some of the national debt, there are enough opportunities out there to at least offset some of that burden,” says Burns.

An attorney and a former member of the United States Marine Corps Force Recon, James Burns has two degrees in law and one in taxation and international tax. He has over seventeen years of combined financial, real estate and legal experience.

For more information, contact the author directly at Jambur64@cox.net.

White Diamond Press and author James Burns chose Arbor Books, Inc. (www.ArborBooks.com) to design and promote The 3 Secret Pillars of Wealth: How to Crack Your Wealth Code Using the Tools of the Self-made Billionaires. Arbor Books is an internationally renowned, full-service book design, ghostwriting and marketing firm.

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CEO of I Am Modern Magazine, world’s first and only social media based publication, has been recognized as the 2008 Entrepreneur of the Year by the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce in Northern Virginia. I Am Modern Magazine was double finalist in both Entrepreneur of the Year and Product of the Year categories.

I Am Modern Magazine is based on the social media model and completely driven by user-generated content, which is hyper local and relevant to women in Northern Virginia. Hulya Aksu, the brain child, publisher and CEO of I Am Modern Magazine, wanted to provide a connecting point for upscale mothers that make up a large portion of the single-most influential buying target for advertisers. “We connect moms in print, online and in person, that’s how we live our lives in the 21st century” said Hulya Aksu. “We are very happy that our revolutionary approach to marry social media with a print magazine has been recognized by the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce.” Noting that the magazine has been operational for only a year Aksu added “To be selected as the Entrepreneur of the Year, out of 40,000 businesses, is a great honor and proves the power of social media as well as our unique approach to combining human relationships and digital communications.” Hulya Aksu is often described by industry insiders as a“360 degree entrepreneur”, someone who understands the entire media business: the advertising, technological and social media aspects of the business as well as the creative end.

About Modern Mom Media Corporation
I Am Modern Magazine for Moms is an upscale lifestyle magazine that brings a revolutionary breakthrough to print and internet publication featuring 100% reader generated local content with a quality national look and feel. I Am Modern Magazine for Moms, a quarterly publication, is strategically aligned with local mothers who are the most valuable market for both local and national vendors. The web site,www.iammodern.com provides a social media portal for local mothers in Northern VA and Metro D.C. I Am Modern Magazine for Moms is the world’s first and only reader generated magazine that connects moms in print, online and in person with their unique social club. I Am Modern Magazine was a double Finalist at Small Business Award for Best Entrepreneur and Product of the Year in Loudoun County, Virginia They took top honor as Best Entrepreneur.

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I Am Modern Magazine, in partnership with the Medical Spa at Nova held its’ first annual Holiday Shopping Event on November 9th, 2008 at the Hyatt Regency in the Reston Town Center to help raise money for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Over 30 retailers including The Dandelion Patch, Posh Couture, Candy Beads Jewelry, PR at Partners and 800 attendees participated in the charitable Mom’s Night Off shopping event.

According to the American Cancer Society, about 1.3 million women will be diagnosed with breast cancer annually, worldwide about 465,000 women will die from the disease. Research money is needed to help beat this deadly and insidious disease. “In an economic downturn everyone suffers, everyone feels the pinch including the charities” says Hulya Aksu, founder of I Am Modern Magazine.

“By holding these social functions, where the retailers can gain access to moms and moms can get out and socialize, we are making raising money for a charity a win-win for everyone involved.”

The first 650 attendees received a Swag Bag worth over $250. Every guest also received the following:

o 2 ModernTinis (Pomegranate Martinis)
o Delicious Appetizers
o Dessert Bar
o Spectacular Shopping from the Best Vendors of Northern Virginia
o Massages
o Manicures
o Hairstyling
o Spa Treatments
o Pedicures
o Sample Chocolates
o oh… so much more…

About Modern Mom Media Corporation
I Am Modern Magazine for Moms is an upscale lifestyle magazine that brings a revolutionary breakthrough to print and internet publication featuring 100% reader generated local content with a quality national look and feel. I Am Modern Magazine for Moms, a quarterly publication, is strategically aligned with local mothers who are the most valuable market for both local and national vendors. The web site,www.iammodern.com provides a social media portal for local mothers in Northern VA and Metro D.C. I Am Modern Magazine for Moms is the world’s only reader generated magazine that connects moms in print, online and in person with their unique social club. I Am Modern Magazine has been named double Finalist at Small Business Award for Best Entrepreneur and Product of the Year in Loudoun County, Virginia.

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We have lots of surprises awaiting you in the Holiday Issue of A Distinctive Style Magazine. Fran Drescher educates us, Ed Begley Jr enlightens us, Antwone Fisher inspires us and we remember Paul Newman. We have numerous interviews with talented artists from around the world, eco tips for the holidays as well as audio and video files for your Holiday enjoyment!

Enjoy the advantages of Reading Green while shrinking your carbon footprint. Each page of the magazine evolves into a rich digital adventure with audio & video. You’ll see vibrant colors that jump off the page with breathtaking art from around the world. A variety of eco merchandise, living green tips, recycled products, inspiring interviews, unbelievable photography, award-winning graphic design, topnotch journalism with bi–monthly feature columns of the highest quality. We’re doing our part to save the planet, one tree at a time. MakeA Distinctive Style Magazine be your “Green Read” Choice!

Our Special Holiday Issue, showcases artist Joseph Gatto who at the age of 73 is still taking risks, combining ancient antiquities with modern metals to give us unique treasures that will be the topic of conversation at any Holiday party. Be inspired to turn everyday items into works of art by award winning Australian Environmental Artist, John Dahlsen.

Once again, when you visit www.adistinctivestyle.com you’re in for a visual and interactive adventure in this highly anticipated Special Holiday Issue! Find out about the latest Green “Must-Haves,” plus everything you need to fill your recycled holiday stockings with.

For additional information on, advertising, affiliate programs or for a media kit please visit: info@adistinctivestyle.com.

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Tantra for Erotic Empowerment (Llewellyn Worldwide, ISBN: 073871197) by Mark A. Michaels and Patricia Johnson has been named a National Best Books 2008 Award Winner in the Health: Sexuality category, and is an award-winning finalist in the Religion: Eastern Religions category. Last year Michaels and Johnson won the same honors for their first book, The Essence of Tantric Sexuality.

Tantra for Erotic Empowerment guides readers to sexual self-empowerment. Michaels and Johnson, who developed this book based on nine years of experience as Tantra teachers, share experiential methods for gaining self-knowledge and a comprehensive understanding of one’s own sexuality. In Tantra for Erotic Empowerment Michaels and Johnson take their readers on a Tantric journey of sexual self-discovery and show them how to experience pleasure with consciousness and intention and thereby enrich all aspects of their lives.

Featuring selections from Tantric literature for reflection, meditations, exercises, and practical techniques for exploring sexuality, plus a foreword from award-winning author, columnist, editor, and film director Tristan Taormino, Tantra for Erotic Empowerment is a practical handbook for anyone interested in exploring his or her own sexuality and having a more fulfilling life.

About the Authors

Mark A. Michaels and Patricia Johnson are available for interviews in print, on radio, TV or online. They have been featured in Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Jewel, Jane, Latina, The Village Voice, SexHerald.com and Dr. Judy Kuriansky’s The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Tantric Sex. They are also the authors of The Essence of Tantric Sexuality, which won the USA Book News Best Books 2007 Award for Health: Sexuality. They teach workshops in the U.S. and abroad and were keynote speakers at the London Festival of Tantra in September 2008. Michaels also holds a law degree, and his translation of Goldoni’s “The Mistress of the Inn”, was produced by The Roundabout Theatre Company; Johnson, a professional operatic soprano, has performed throughout the United States and internationally.

About The National Best Books Awards
USA Book News Magazine is the premiere online magazine and review website providing coverage for books from mainstream and independent publishers to the world online community. USABN Monthly is the monthly electronic magazine e-mailed free to a large cross-section of the book buying public. USA Book News holds THE NATIONAL BEST BOOKS AWARDS (BBA) annually. Winners and finalists for 2008 have just been announced in over 140 categories covering print, audio books and courses, e-books and interactive CD-ROMs. Awards were presented for titles published in 2008 and late 2007.

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TodoCast, the affordable portable live event video streaming system will be airing an unusual excavation in hopes of closing the cold case file on the December 14, 1968 murder of 16 year-old Roger Dale Madison. The dig, located near a section of the 23 Freeway at the Tierra Rejada overpass near Simi Valley, is a culmination of years of tireless detective work by the Los Angeles Police Department and the cooperation of many other law enforcement agencies. With the culprit already tried, convicted and deceased, the primary objective of the project is the recovery of the remains of one of California’s most allegedly prolific serial killers, nearly 40 years after the victim’s death.

TodoCast was contacted by the LAPD to provide live streaming video services coverage with their cutting edge, lightweight, mobile, satellite web-casting system. The uninterrupted broadcast will be provided free to the public via the web link http://www.TodoCast.tv/LAPDtv.

With the hope that this special event coverage will attract viewers who may be able to help solve other cases, such as homicides and missing children, TodoCast will be streaming live video of the archeological dig as it happens.

“We are honored to assist the Los Angeles Police Department with this case by providing high profile live video casting solutions, which will hopefully lead to additional clues and leads towards solving other missing children cases,” said Bryan Hill, TodoCast President. “The fact that our technology can be put to use for such an important cause is very rewarding.”

The TodoCast system delivers new, mobile technology designed for today’s need for immediate live news coverage with near broadcast quality video using a lightweight dish assembly that can be mounted on almost any vehicle. This format is the perfect answer for news organizations who want to reach the rapidly growing group of consumers who are choosing to receive their video supported news from online sources rather than traditional broadcast stations or networks. With the ability to stream video via satellite within five minutes from pushing a single button, the TodoCast system can provide breaking news from virtually anywhere at a fraction of the cost of using traditional expensive satellite uplink trucks.

About TodoCast
TodoCast is a complete turnkey solution for live video streaming over satellite, packaged into a user friendly and revenue generating system for professional videographers, event producers and organizations that deliver breaking news via the web. The TodoCast Content Distribution Network is also vertically integrated to provide TodoCast partners a pay-per-view and advertising engine that enables the them to promote and stream live events while generating revenue through paid viewers or advertising revenue. To learn more about TodoCast, visit http://www.TodoCast.tv

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As serial entrepreneur, strategist, and columnist Sramana Mitra details in her columns today (Amazon: Will It Kindle Vertical Integration, her paidContent article, and in her Forbes column My Adventure With Amazon which is a follow-up to her previous piece How Amazon Could Change Publishing), her maiden voyage in book publishing begins as an experiment. By using Amazon’s BookSurge, her royalty rate is nearly three times the normal 10-15% that authors make in traditional publishing arrangements and Mitra is only completely funding her own publicist. In addition to revealing an interesting twist in the evolution of Amazon and vertical integration, with long term consequences for the publishing industry, this experiment also produces ENTREPRENEUR JOURNEYS, Volume One($16.95 paperback available fromwww.amazon.com ). In this engaging book Sramana Mitra offers the rare seat at the table with some of today’s most successful entrepreneurs providing an intimate look at how to build a thriving business.

As one entrepreneur speaks with another, readers gain access to case studies—conversations really—exploring the alleys of entrepreneurship in a way that only an experienced strategist like Mitra can probe and extract. Her synthesis of key learnings and incisive analysis add great depth to her discussions with:

A renowned strategist in her own right, Mitra is a true Silicon Valley insider—an entrepreneur who has founded three companies, a strategy consultant who has worked with some 75 companies, a columnist for Forbes and author of the widely syndicated business blog Sramana Mitra on Strategy (www.sramanamitra.com).

ENTREPRENEUR JOURNEYS is accessible through its story-telling narrative, and at the same time academic in its depth of insight. This is a book that is sure to please anyone interested in building a new business, but is essential reading for every technology entrepreneur.

“In entrepreneurship, I believe, lie solutions to many of the problems facing our modern world,” explains Sramana Mitra. “ENTREPRENEUR JOURNEYS is my attempt to capture that tribal knowledge accumulated in the private lives of great entrepreneurs and institutionalize it, so entrepreneurs all over the world can vicariously experience those conversations, those dinners, lunches, coffees, which I have been fortunate to have access to, and through which I built myself up.”

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Solinger Communications, LLC, (www.timsolinger.com) has launched a new service, PR To Go, to provide press release writing, distribution and monitoring services.

Through PR To Go, customers can have press releases written and distributed to media outlets that include newspapers, business and trade publications, professional journals, consumer magazines, TV and radio stations, major search engines, and Internet news and social media sites.

In addition, they can elect to choose monitoring services to evaluate and track their press release activity in the media.

According to Tim Solinger, owner of Solinger Communications, PR To Go offers small businesses, start-ups, non-profits and other organizations a convenient, efficient, on-demand press release resource.

“PR To Go is ideal for organizations that lack the budget for a comprehensive publicity campaign but that are interested in submitting individual news items to be developed into press releases and then distributed to both online and offline media outlets,” Solinger said. He added that PR To Goservices are available on an affordable, flat-fee basis.

Solinger said another strength of PR To Go is that it combines personalized service in client communications and media relations with efficient online distribution to help clients receive improved consideration for their press releases.

For more information, go to www.timsolinger.com and click on “Services” or call (715) 344-3277.

About Solinger Communications
Solinger Communications (www.timsolinger.com) is a Stevens Point-based branding, marketing and publicity firm that creates high-impact communications for achieving greater visibility and sales growth. Owned and operated by Tim Solinger, SC works with business-to-business and business-to-consumer clients that include high-tech companies, manufacturers and professional services firms. 

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Tyrone Short announces publication of Is The Pope Kidding Me? A Breakdown of Catholic Apologetics in conjunction with Lulu (www.lulu.com), the world’s fastest-growing provider of print-on-demand books.

We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

But yet the Pope endorses the belief that we are not Christians. Is he kidding me?

Tyrone Short designed Is The Pope Kidding Me? A Breakdown of Catholic Apologeticsto breakdown some of the false teachings of the Catholic Church taught by Catholic Apologetic groups such as Catholic Answers.

Is The Pope Kidding Me? The book is available for purchase at lulu.com/PrinceTrog.

About the Author
Tyrone Short serves the body of Christ as Prince Trog, Colorado’s One and Only Christian Reggae Rapper. He can be reached at the following:

E-mail: ChristianSilver@aol.com
Phone: 303-378-1346
Web-site: http://www.PrinceTrog.org

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Using a digital camcorder for professional production work is becoming more and more common these days. The search to make digital video look like film has been ongoing for many years.

In so many cases, even with high-end camcorders like the Panasonic HVX or the Canon XLH1 that boast the ability of 24 frames per second, there is still something missing from the picture.

Pay attention the next time you go see a movie and you will notice how the camera focuses on a subject. Usually, the subject is in perfect focus while the rest of the scene is out of focus. This is how the director gets us to watch a specific part of the film. This is called a shallow Depth of Field.

The RNG35 allows you to get this effect with a basic digital camcorder whether it’s an expensive High Definition camcorder or a lower end regular digital camcorder.

Look at some of your footage taken with a digital camcorder and you will notice how flat and in focus everything in the shot is. The RNG35 solves the most common problem that we face in wanting to make our digital footage look like film.

The RNG35 is a vibrating (oscillating) adapter that runs of a small 2 x AA battery power module. The basic set up comes with everything you need to get going if you have a camcorder with a front thread size of 72mm (minus the SLR lens that you have to provide). If your camcorder has a different thread size, no porblem, we also sell common step up rings.

The RNG35 is professionally made with a nice sleek design and it is milled from solid aluminum so it is very lightweight and durable.

The RNG35 is the best 35mm adapter you can get for your money on the market in the professional adapter arena.

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The Journey is a historical fiction novel that decribes a way of life for settlers that few of us can gather in. A historical fiction novel by Frances Bennett and Bookstand Publishing.

Frances Bennett never dreamed that the articles she began writing for a Union Parish, Louisiana paper in 2004 would lead the way to a book publisher. For the weekly article, she searched her memory and wrote of nostalgic things such as school days in the 40’s, and how things were done when two grades occupied the same room in the little sawmill town of Urbana, Arkansas. But Bennett soon realized that her memories wouldn’t sustain the column for long, so she began a serialized story from her mother’s bible records and things her maternal grandmother told as they sat in front of a crackling fire on cold winter nights. As a nine year old, Bennett tucked it away in her heart and relived it all before she fell asleep.

The continued story was an instant success, and through questions to Bennett and her editor as to whether she was writing a book, the seed was planted. From this came, The Journey.

The story begins in 1899 when newly weds, Lona and Charlie Stegall, along with two of Charlie’s brothers, leave North Carolina on a wagon train headed for Union County, Arkansas, where another brother has settled. They cross rivers and bury the dead to finally arrive at their destination. Frighteningly beautiful descriptions of happenings fill the pages of The Journey during Lona and Charlie’s lifetime on a homestead that was carved from a wilderness.

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Computers can “think”, play chess and solve problems but can they feel, create art or write a book? Can they imagine?

A captivating new book, called “Artificial Imagination” purportedly narrated by an AI computer program, mixes technology and art together into a fascinating combination of humor, technology and philosophy.

The book follows one high-tech immigrant’s journey through the United States – as he graduates from the University of California, Davis and then wanders through Silicon Valley/San Francisco, Seattle, Nashville and finally back to Southern California in his quest to find his dream job; and a place which he could call his home.

“Technology is all brain, no heart, all cold logic, and no warm soul – or is it?” said Will Curl, Ph.D., Lecturer in English at University of Wisconsin, Fox Valley who authored the foreword for the book. “This gem of a book reminds us that technology could not exist were it not for boundless creativity, and it does this in such a way as to also remind us that without that very same creativity, there would be no art, no poetry.”

The story is written with a very entertaining tone and is infused with splashes of humor, wit and the immigrant experience.

“Identifying what is real and what is an illusion is complicated“ said Sonia Talreja, the Publisher and Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Center of Artificial Imagination, Inc. “The author make us think about such questions in our minds. In the process, he also presents us with captivating details of the lives of an immigrant family adapting to local customs and people in various parts of the US.”

The book includes professional photographs of locations across the United States including San Diego, San Francisco and the University of California, Davis campus in California; Seattle and Bellevue in Washington and Nashville and Brentwood in Tennessee.

Many of these photographs were taken by Colin Zheng, a graduate student studying the fascinating area of computational photography at University of Washington in Seattle.

“Imagine waking up in the morning and wondering whether you were in New Delhi or New York, San Francisco or Seattle?” said Lyndi Reiber, a Graphic Designer and a member of San Diego Mensa. “The author is able to use humor and philosophy to bring out the confusion caused by having to constantly move and adapt to new places”.

“This book is really good, I could certainly relate to what the author goes through in his story” said another Hi-Tech immigrant, Neerav Berry, co-founder and COO of Cellmania, a company based in Silicon Valley, California.

An excerpt:

“The video, true to its name, depicts Faith Hill, who lives in my neighborhood and is younger by less than a year to me, in tears.

It has been known since ancient times that sight of a damsel in distress, a woman in tears incites strong feelings of chivalry among men of ages between 10 and 60. The male brain is somewhat weird in that regard. Show us images of handsome, masculine men in tears and we will turn our faces away in disgust! Show us a helpless woman in tears; we will try our best to help her. “

This book can be purchased at Amazon.com.

For interviews with the author, or for wholesale orders, please contact Center of Artificial Imagination, Inc. at info@artificial-imagination.com or by phone at 858 731 6225.

For more information about the book, the author or other fascinating aspects of Artificial Imagination please visit the website for Center of Artificial Imagination, Inc. at www.Artificial-Imagination.com.

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