Coca Cola Signs contract

Drink Up America
Water discovered on Mars sends the advertising Industry off to sale the banner ad space in space.
First they controlled the American Soft Drink Industry, then they controlled the Global Soft Drink Industry and now Coca Cola is going intergalactic.

Major contract rumored to be signed
Coca Cola signs contract with NASA to be the first intergalactic advertiser and to spread their brand to the farthest reaches. Space travel is going to be a big thing say observers closest to this rumour, this is the first, and this is the biggest thing for the galaxy ever.

Coca cola no comment
The only thing the company was rumoured to say is quote “Its The Real Thing”.

NASA no comment but?
It is one possibility, and the thought comes to mind say sources after all the planet is coke red.

Do you work in Sales? Should you be worried?

We have a service and retail concern to share
Short term yes there is nothing that can be done, but in the larger picture you will come out better in three areas then you have it today. This is of course if you follow our advise that is really more of common sense then anything else approach.

We only write positive stories
This is true and near the end of todays Logic Talk we have a no fail formula that will help you and us all to be a better person.

Lets look into the current scenario
In some recent reports provided by the apparel industry (to mention only one to start with) for Orange County, California we are seeing no added employment for the manufacturers (or importers) of fashion retail that we are not here to name. This is the first time of annual no added employment for this region of the country and we are seeing in consumer electronics (nationwide) from the largest player reporting a -7% or greater percent of reduced sales for the first time in years.

Consumers in America and perhaps shortly the world are not consuming
If the demand for consumer goods is, and it clearly is, in a reduction of spending just to be spending, and viewing the facts that we as a country are more of a value added service nation and less, and less of a manufacturer nation which is also true, then what we are going to share with you today clearly shows a worrying future for this, the mass consumer nation on the planet.

Some reduced areas in sales
Look car sales will more then likely see there lowest production in 15 years shortly and this includes imports, people are not eating and drinking out as much as reported to us from all over California anyways. People are wearing their older clothes longer for example. This list as well can go on and on, but we are not here to report what we all know or certainly should be very aware of. The house you still own is not worth as much today as even one year ago.

We all know the country is going through a tough time
In part this is why we are not going to get into those numbers and names of the retail businesses that are all clearly effected by the down turn in our economy.

America and the world had a great 12 to 15 year ride
Look at us we all owned a better car a bigger house, and the kids they received any and everything they could have ever wanted from 600.00 cell phones, 800.00 game councils, and 400.00 blue jeans. We all traveled the world just to travel the world and high end wine and watches went off the shelves with a waiting list to get an 18000.00 watch being up to 5 years.

We all felt rich but were we really?
This is where the whole problem begins but it is each and everyone of ours own responsibility to handle our finances and there was not during these 12 to 15 years nor is there now a thing some thought was FREE money.

What did Logic not do
Here Logic is going to try to explain from and outside point of view since during these alleged economic growth times that have now passed Logic did not buy a single thing. No cars bought since 1997, no jewelery since 1996, no property, houses, building or anything bought during this 12 to 15 year time frame either.

Not taking chances
This might not have been the best thing to do either, I mean we spent money on company investment went out with friends from time to time but did not even do the vacation thing to make our stand really clear. there were clearly opportunities to make great sums of money and grow our personal net worth but we did not do this so did we make a mistake of being to cautious? Perhaps time will tell and Logic will be right here to boast or cry when the time tells lets us know.

Doing nothing is not always smart
So you might say good for Logic not true, just during these easy credit and very easy profit times something was not feeling right. We are a company who actually had to stay focused during the easy money get rich quick times that have now passed by.

Can you and us wait it out?
We really want to show a sign and avenue of what a service or retail sales person can do to survive this down turn that might last well past the predicted economic bottom coming in 2010 to 2012.
This is assuming that the economy hits the bottom over these 24 months between 2010 and 2012. If we find the economic boom in 2010 great then we should see changes in our own little worlds by 2012 more then likely in auto sales. If this downturn takes us all into 2012 then we will see these similar economic recover signals on the street in 2014.
None of this matter to most of us however it is not within our control, nor is the current continued down turn in the banking industry, auto sales, stock market growth, retail sales, service company growth.
So together we can see that we will all need two to six years of staying power to ride out this down time, and truthfully most of us cannot make it from one week to the next without that pay check. This means we are living check to check and no where in the world is this more apparent then when we look into the savings rate the lowest bank savings rate in world history.

Why Americans might start saving and not spending
If we are correct and we think we might be, because people bought the life style without the reward, meaning they had the feeling of being rich with all of those easy to acquire possessions when they were actually going in the whole accommodating their lifestyles as their credit limits touched the top, and there refinancing began to reverse.
This ultimately lead to the failure of their life style a life style that was not real. It was not real because the money was not earned money, it was borrowed or windfall money and there is a big difference between real and windfall money.
There is also a big difference between cashing out and paper worth.
If this high fling lifestyle did not really make the people feel better or impress anyone, but themselves we mean after all if you pulled or walked up or down a street during the day people were just driving to be driving, all driving the same leased high end car that actually in many cases if you would have bought the car instead of the extended lifestyle image lease the car in many cases costs more then they were making. There is and there was nothing special about owning a high profile and high cost car because everybody that wanted one had one. This is far different then good economies of the past, the credit this time made it to easy for all of us.

We are living longer and things cost more then ever each year
Although these great times feed the human ego it got us all absolutely nowhere in our life’s. It was a short term feel good about one self time that ending and like any indulging the hang over effects can last longer then the indulging time.
This might cause us all to change the way we look at our spending and cause us to begin securing our futures like building towards a better retirement nest egg, and quality of life. After all we are now all living longer then ever and this is expected to continue because of our health and quality of life.

When the American and Global economy was enjoying life
Back in 2006 and really early 2007 the world was running along on more borrowed money then anyone could have imagined and then the wheel began to slow. This wheel is the global economy that spins really slow. Something that happens today will not show up for two to four years down the road being the worst in the economy is yet to be seen for this healthy downturn.

This is going to be a tough time for the bottom of the working person food chain, those in service or retail jobs
Hey the world needs all kinds of people doing all kinds of things, so this is in no way a dig at your current jobs or your personal dignity. Logic more then anyone knows this growing up as a restroom cleaner for a manufacturing company and the through those ranks to the highest positions available in that operation. Truthfully we are just very happy if you are working. working is a great opportunity to contribute and to learn what being a team member working with co-workers and sharing your thoughts and ideas in the work place. It is great to be productive.

Why be concerned about service and retail employees?
It is really clear in our research a kind of economist at heart, that Americans might see a massive return to saving more and spending less and news like this is the worst news the largest retailer in the world would ever want to hear.
These retailers only survive and prosper if we buy more then we need, and if we begin to buy only what we need instead, like it used to be for Americans, then they the retailers will begin a spiral downward effect. Quarter after quarter year after year until they are acquired or file for bankruptcy.

How to protect your income and future
This history lesson took a while to lead up to, but hey our friends this is going to be the worst economic downturn most of us have ever seen. It took us 12 to 15 years of great easy times to get here and like any spinning wheel economy, and this being the biggest wheel ever seen by most of us the time to recovery will be a long period ahead of us all.
If we are correct and we think we are if retail and service is your job, and you have no other skills today you can begin to change your life for the better.
1 A better self worth with true skill sets.
2 Make better money and save some.
3 A bigger contributor to the world.

Learn a TRADE
We are not talking about going on the Internet and building a blog, forum, web site, photo share or a social network site.

We are talking about taking a class and getting certified in say being a welder, being a nurse, being a teacher, being a pilot, or being the best at what ever you wanted in your head maybe as a child you had a dream to be a fire fighter.
Most important gaining skills like in and area of building things products or infrastructure.

Stop Dreaming and Become
We all have dreams. These dreams will only become a reality with devotion, passion, and hard work. There is no doubt that there are far to many people in sells today. Real Estate and autos are learning this lesson better then anyone else currently.

You can do this, we have done and do it, and your personal worth is going to give to you the confidence and a feeling in your life like you have never felt before. We guarantee it.

See other economic thoughts by Logic
Economic survival

Donate your time and who cares?

We always want to write positive news
However this is not a good story about donating your time.
It starts generally because the person that the organization wants has a skill. It might be that the person has accounting skills, it might be fund raising skills, or in our case computer skills.

Donating your time is thankless
When a person donates their time it is not supposed to be about the “Look at me, am I great or what”.
This information is what happened to us in Palm Springs, California and the surrounding area after being involved with a lot of non-profits and organizations. Some are business organizations, some are animal organizations, and others are disabled persons organizations. Trust Logic and Catnip on this one, the list of these that we have volunteer our skills to is a larger then life list.

Lack of caring by the boards
We have been so involved that today though a few of these organizations are involved with us still we do not offer and will generally just not reply or hangup sighting the past as a great lesson on dealing with ultra ego power trips. We want to call these MEGA-EGOS.

We are not mad. We are amazed.
Before Logic writes further we did not wake up this morning and go after charities and those other Malisha groups but rather to cast a word or two of caution into the air for others that want to be helpful. Like anything in life do your homework. Most of what we found we will write here today and then we can forward this to anyone that comes along in the future asking for our help in the area of computer programming skills.

We have truly met them all, from the ultra power trip of our very own former Chief of Police to even more self serving people with gigantic titles and no skills to get anything done, other then to bark orders and even do this wrong. This Palm Springs Valley has more charities per capital then any-other city in the United States. Some 900 plus and plus because new groups come online each day.

Animals Gone Wild
Here is a story about how we keep adding more and more useless groups each day.
Lets say you have a board of directors and there is a volunteer that does not end up getting along with some other board member. This board member goes out and starts their own organization essentially doing the exact same thing diluting the available to the area resources. They all have and share a common thought that they can do all things better then the other board members. They further more like with the police chief forgot what we were to be all about in the case of the Palm Springs Animal Shelter it is all about the animals and providing them a great home. Not one time though god knows Logic brought it up in meetings? Are we here to help the animals or what? What is this organization all about? A true loss of focus was clearly what Logic saw there and with many other groups as well to be fair about this whole desert charities stuff.

A Police Chief without a clue
Hell we even have our own Friends of the Palm Springs Animal Shelter that had a leader now running for State of California Assembly candidate, Gary Jeandron this a man, most we the people would say were happy he left the Police Department (retired thank you) as he truly was not a good leader in the PSASFriends.com animal project for which Logic used to sit on the board of and watch politics work harder with this man to accomplish nothing. It is truly sad that these are what people want working for them in our government, but this is what voting is for right. There was rarely a meeting without some level of arguments within this little group.

Looks can be misleading
He appears to be on the surface a good man, however get close and get spit out like a cannon ball then you will know Gary Jeandron like we do.
Please feel free to visit his personal web site and see all that this man has accomplished? It is amazing Gary Jeandron State Assembly
However enough about meaningless local politics or those that wish they could be in them, personally we do not loose any sleep over this matter, that this alleged leader used us for this and one other project and then spit us out like “Who Cares”.

We are sorry Gary Jeandron
You know we have to share that we are not mad with Gary. This whole event took place more then a year ago.
Not mad one single bit.
We used Gary (he used us) as that relationship was our saddest example of what happened to us in charity/nonprofit work in Palm Springs.
We understand how these people get to a point of dealing with others in their carriers and can be burned out. We know we fell this way sometimes ourselves. We also want you to know that Logic and Catnip are not perfect at all.
We just, like with our local web site about weather, live cams, and informative information just wanted to contribute to and be a part of the little city of Palm Springs that we are so happy to be living in. See the Palm Springs Weather here Palm Springs Weather with no advertising for tourism and annual operating budget of about 70.000.00 dollars because Palm Springs is a tourism city.

We built PsView.com to also fit in and the web site now service millions of unique visitors per year and not to be self serving but this has made Logic and Catnip a lot of friends locally as well as around the world. It even has and annual PsViewer’s Unite Party Event held right here in Palm Springs, California.

One charity out of all is great
Logic does not sit on the board of Desert Paws and we are sure there are other great charities and nonprofits in the Coachella Valley, but we do love Desert Paws and Logic and Catnip while not much, donate money to them when we have it and these two that run the organization are true leaders and great with volunteers and have been great with us for over 7 year.
It is Desert Paws a part Barry Manilow project Lori and Peter they are absolutely great to have as friends and as the founders of Desert Paws. See their wonderful organization here Palm Springs Animals and we truly believe that other Coachella Valley non-profits should take lessons from these two wonderful people. Lori and Peter are what giving and what Palm Springs is all about.

What happens when people get tired
You can read how Logic and Catnip feel about being treated so badly, then back a year ago not now these very people (some of them anyways) talked about how bad we did.
What does this cause?
It means like in our case, and the case of so many others that have come before Logic and Catnip and will come after Logic and Catnip. It is that you loose the good volunteers and they are not willing to help others when they need the help. Hey even our own Palm Springs Economic Development Corporation could care less about our web site efforts, however we did not sit on their board mainly because the non-profit group accomplishes nothing as well.

Is giving to be treated bad a local thing?
It might just be a Palm Springs thing. Perhaps it is that Logic, Catnip, and the Viper Logic team do not come across as good enough people or we are mean in some way.

Closing the door on this subject
This is how you are left feeling when you reach out when asked to help these groups only to have them hinder your local efforts to do business, and stay in good graces with your fellow neighbors. For us we do most of our business from outside of the Coachela Valley and this has little to no effect on ouir business and we are thankful to be here in Palm Springs.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Great news during a tough times
With a year we will elect a new president and with a current American economic down turn we were watching television last night normally never a watcher of 60 Minutes but usually check to see what they have to offer. Last night was a true home run.

HHMI
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute founded in 1953 by Logic’s personal hero of all time I truly idolize this great man, a great inventor, a great leader, a great visionary and my only regret was not meeting this man prior to his death in 1976.

WHo is the Howard Hughes Medical Institute?
The campus setting located in Chevy Chase, MD. is where this institution operates and it operates under and 11 billion dollar foundation started by Howard Hughes. This is the second largest endowment on the planet outside of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

What does the Institute do?
I believe they have 400 to 700 million dollars a year that they spend with over 100 scientists called investigators and they select a subject of health like solving diabetes or cancer and they work on it until there is a cure. They are as well involved in stem cell research. Stem cell research was declined by the United States Government and there for you cannot get a grant for it.
The HHM Institute allows through their private funding the fastest and most accurate research and advancements in medicine.

Learn more about HHMI
If you are interested in understanding what the Institute does and how it works please visit their web site it is a comprehensive understanding of all they do. We at Viper Logic thank the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for all they are empowered to accomplish thanks to Howard Hughes tax shelter and visionary abilities.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Thank you Howard Robard Hughes.