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About me - Michael Penner

I'm a 40 year old marketing and web design consultant living in Visalia, California. Writing has taught me just how wordy I am. My friends and family are surely blessed with a lower word count when I speak now that I have learned, through writing, how to be

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Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Drug addiction

Now you'll want, but you won't need.Now the fight begins.The dark inside wants to reclaim you.Now we'll see who wins.Draw a circle twice around you.Fight like hell to keep inside.Beautiful, blissful things surround you.Feelings for sale, for the ride.You must have been screaming inside.From darkness you climbed to the sun.We ... More..

Computers & Technology > Internet Tips The best providers for Internet phone calls

If you use the internet to have a voice conversation, that conversation can be nearly free. SKYPE, TeamSpeak, AOL Instant Messenger, and others have provided this capability for years. But these services require a bit more tech knowledge than most people possess, and you have to sit at your computer to use them. In addition, ... More..

Computers & Technology > Internet Trends Best streaming music websites

Since the 1990's the Internet has posed a serious threat to the music industry. Instead of embracing the technology, the industry has assumed an adversarial role that continues to this day. Three websites may change that. Magnatune.com, Lastfm.com, and Pandora.comare on the cutting edge of music licensing / downloading, while... More..

Health & Fitness > Prescription & Medication How to know when it might be time to change medications

Prescription medication is expensive. Getting to the doctor's office is disruptive if it has to happen in the middle of a working day. These two factors can make it tough to consider discontinuing medications so painstakingly obtained. But being married to a medication for better or worse is rarely a wise commitment. Antibiot... More..

Health & Fitness > Prescription & Medication Has the "War on drugs" gone too far by restricting drugs for chronic pain management?Smallicon

"The War on Drugs" is not a war, it is a loosely defined set of policies to restrict the flow of illegal drugs across American borders. At least, that's how it started out.The government has only two main functions; protect us from invasion, and protect me from you. Protecting me for me goes too far. The justification used to... More..

Business > Sales Tips for building your sales pipeline in today's economy
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Technology companies face a unique challenge. They are expected to produce something that makes something else better, or is in itself so totally new that the market place has never seen anything like it before. Take, for example, the market segment that uses source code analysis tools. These tools promise to improve coding p... More..

Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: A glimpse into the future

His name was Iman, but he did not know this. He had been alive in this particular body 35 years, 50 days, and 6 hours. He had no true knowledge of the passage of time, only that life seemed to have started this morning, when we awoke from a dreamless slumber six hours ago, at 6 a.m. Iman's chambers were small but he knew noth... More..

Society & Lifestyle > Mythology & Folklore Will 2012 be the end of the world or the awakening of humankind?

There are probably many reasons our popular media culture has started to hype the possibility of something earth shattering happening in 2012, but most of it is likely driven by the one truly omniscient thing in all our lives: money. Right now, in 2009 Hollywood is getting the festivities started big time with their upcoming ... More..

Business > Management Ethics Effects of poor management

To understand the effects of poor management from an ethical standpoint, we have to know its primary characteristics or qualities.1. Task delegation is not performed effectively.2. Expectations and goals are not clearly communicated.3. Management does not see as part of its purpose the responsibility of clearing obstacles for... More..

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