My friends will launch a new magazine this month called DJ 100 Girls. It of course features the 100 top girl DJs in Japan where the youth have gone DJ crazy in great clubs that seem to never close.

Avril Lavigne will have a private party at my friend’s club while she is here for her Japan Tour and great women DJs will control the mood.

If you are a fan of Icons this magazine will be full of them so I am passing on the link for you.

A second magazine will be launched in the fall called…no kidding, “100 Divas!” Yamashita san is the promoter and I am sure the launch party will have around 2000 guests.

Here is the link…please check it out.
http://www.dj100girls.com/aboutdj100girls/

Remember the adage, “Location, location, location?” Starbucks forgot this gem. Starbucks was so determined to meet its growth promises to Wall Street that it relaxed its standards for selecting new store locations.

In some cases, brokers say, Starbucks misjudged the risks of putting stores close to each other, leading to the decline in same-store sales that the company started reporting for the first time in its history this year.

It also overextended itself in certain regions, like in the South and in Southern California, which are among the hardest hit by the housing crisis, and whose older demographics and hot weather are not generally conducive to creating long lines of customers eager to pay $4 for foam-top lattes.

“The economy exposed all the flaws in their thinking,” said one commercial real estate broker, who, like some others interviewed for this article, did not want to be named in order to preserve his relationship with the company.

That “flaws” and “Starbucks” are even in the same sentence when it comes to commercial real estate is a reversal for the company. For much of the last 15 years, Starbucks commercial real estate executives were known for their rigor in selecting locations.

In evaluating locations, Starbucks looked past commonly used community demographic information to analyze nitty-gritty specifics, like the education level in various neighborhoods. It also studied traffic flow on both sides of each street, to make sure drivers could make an easy right turn for their java fix on their way to the office.

“Starbucks rewrote the book on expansion and how to grow multiple store units, really in the world,” said Craig Sweitzer, founder of Urban Works Real Estate in Portland, Ore., who has worked with Starbucks for 18 years. “No one had ever done that before, and now everyone copies them.”

Not so fast all you “copy cats”

Extra point…now that Starbucks has raised the bar for what is accepted as a good cup of Joe everyone can attack the seattle boys! I would like to thank “wheretonext2 for this telling icon!

http://www.xanga.com/Wheretonext_quotes

We will invite Leonardo to speak at the Global Summit for Ecology. He has recently produced a short film called, “The 11th Hour.” One of our clients has offered to distribute the film throughout Japan in November.

I like Weezer…hmmm perhaps I am too old to like Weezer?

This was too long to put in a Pulse but what the heck I will put it in my blog. George Carlin was a very funny man and I will miss his take on things..my brother in law Larry sent me this bit…please pass it on. His suggestions for a better life are worth remembering….

Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we’re kids? If you’re less than 10 years old, you’re so excited about aging that you think in fractions.

‘How old are you?’ ‘I’m four and a half!’ You’re never thirty-six and a half. You’re four and a half, going on five! That’s the key

You get into your teens, now they can’t hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead.

‘How old are you?’ ‘I’m gonna be 16!’ You could be 13, but hey, you’re gonna be 16! And then the greatest day of your life . . You become 21. Even the words sound like a ceremony . YOU BECOME 21. YESSSS!!!

But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk! He TURNED; we had to throw him out. There’s no fun now, you’re Just a sour-dumpling. What’s wrong? What’s changed?

You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you’re PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it’s all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50 and your dreams are gone.

But wait!!! You MAKE it to 60. You didn’t think you would!

So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and MAKE it to 60.

You’ve built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it’s a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday!

You get into your 80′s and every day is a complete cycle; you HIT lunch; you TURN 4:30 ; you REACH bedtime. And it doesn’t end there. Into the 90s, you start going backwards; ‘I Was JUST 92.’

Then a strange thing happens. If you make it over 100, you become a little kid again. ‘I’m 100 and a half!’
May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!

HOW TO STAY YOUNG
1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay ‘them.’

2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.

3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. ‘An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.’ And the devil’s name is Alzheimer’s.

4. Enjoy the simple things.

5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.

7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it’s family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.

8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

9. Don’t take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.

10.Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,but by the moments that take our breath away.

And if you don’t send this to at least 8 people – who cares? But do share this with someone. We all need to live life to its fullest each day!!

There were of course many effects in the Brosnan James Bond TVC for Visa but much of it was just real driving! Here is just a sample.

This article was written by Joel Postman…I think it is a great one to pass on to the fellow Xanga bloggers

Fake celebrity bloggers and Twitterers. They’re the cubic zirconiums of social media. They aren’t real, but in some ways, they shine brighter than the genuine object, and they can’t help but catch our eye.

The craze started in the blogosphere. Last year’s most talked about CEO blog wasn’t written by a CEO at all. The Fake Steve Jobs blog, which turned out to have been written by Forbes reporter Dan Lyons, was the subject of constant buzz, not only as people speculated as to who was actually writing it, with some suspecting ironically that it might have been written by Jobs himself, but also as we got to read a pretty good interpretation of what Jobs might have said, were he not such a secretive CEO.

I was asked by the Christian Science Monitor why I thought fake CEO blogs were so popular, and I felt it was because “parody is a good way to touch a figure that doesn’t want (to) – or can’t take the time to – be bothered with honest and direct communication.”

The fake celebrity craze has made its way to Twitter. There are lots of celebrities on Twitter, more of them bogus than authentic. Whenever a celebrity turns up on Twitter, there’s all kinds of excitement as the news spreads through the network, and then, more often than not, there’s the second round of news in which the fraud is uncovered.

In February, author Seth Godin disappointed thousands when he revealed that not only was the Seth Godin on Twitter bogus, but the real Seth Godin did not have time to be on Twitter.

But there are real Twitter celebrities. If you’d like, treat the following list as a quiz, and visit the Twitter profile for each person to see if you can figure out which ones are real, and which are the creations of fans. (I will post the real answers in a week.)

Henry Rollins
MC Hammer
Richard Dawkins
Stephen Colbert or Stephen Colbert or Stephen Colbert
Chuck Norris
David Letterman
Bill Gates
Borat
William Shatner
Snoop Dogg
50 Cent