Segway Company Owner Drives Off Cliff to Death

Jimi Heselden, has died after driving an off-road version of the scooter off a cliff and into a river. He was found early on Sunday morning in the River Wharfe, UK having earlier been touring his estate on the Segway.

Heselden was 62 years old and a true geek at heart. He became a multi-millionaire from innovative & design.

Discovering Stock Trading

Man, am I learning a lot on new stuff. Today I met with a guy who as traded $100K to $3.2MM part time in 6 years. Pretty amazing and very basic. Value, Liquidity and price. I am ready to give it another try, my last great stock trading was buying GM when it was low….no way that company could go South. HA!

Baby Face

Don’t you ever get that sick feeling in the pit of your stomach every time you happen to lose your wallet or purse?

Never mind the cash. Your biggest concern is finding a way to recover your nowhere to be found credit cards, IDs, driver’s license, and family photos − most especially your precious family pictures!

There’s no need to fret or worry any longer. Now science has found a surefire way for you to increase your chances of recovering your lost wallet or purse − well, sort of…

A psychologist from the University of Hertfordshire in England did an experiment in 2009 by leaving a bunch of wallets on the streets of Edinburgh, Scotland. Each of the wallets contained one of four photographs: a happy family, a cute puppy, an elderly couple, and a smiling baby.

The psychologist wanted to find out which of the lost wallets would be returned. The results were surprising, to say the least. An overwhelming 88% of the wallets containing the picture of the smiling baby were returned, surpassing all the other photos by a wide margin!

He then came to the conclusion that the photo of a smiling baby most likely evoked a caring feeling in people. It’s an innate nurturing instinct that compels adults to protect vulnerable infants to safeguard and ensure the survival of future generations.

Other studies have supported this finding. In the same year this study was done, another researcher at the University of Muenster in Germany flashed pictures of newborns to a group of childless women while they underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Using a special image-editing software, the researcher manipulated the pictures so that some of the infant’s faces had higher “baby schema” values (such as large, round eyes; round, chubby face) while some of the pictures had lower values (smaller eyes; narrower face).

The findings were quite surprising even for the researcher. Results showed that the pictures with higher baby schema values initiated an increase an increase in the subject’s brain activity.

Charles Darwin, the father of genetics, originally pointed out that there is something about infants which prompts adults to respond to and care for them, in order to increase individual fitness such as reproductive success, via increased survivorship of one’s own offspring.

In a related development, Konrad Lorenz, a renowned Austrian zoologist who made groundbreaking research on animal behavior and later on shifted his focus on man and society, proposed that it is the specific structure of the infant face that serves to elicit these parental responses, but the biological basis for this phenomenon remains elusive.

It was researchers at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom who uncovered evidence in humans of a potential brain basis for the “innate releasing mechanisms” earlier described by Lorenz for affection and nurturing of young infants. This has potentially important clinical applications in relation to postnatal depression and could provide opportunities for early identification of families at risk.

Meantime, another researcher at the Leibnitz Institute for Neurobiology in Germany compared amygdala responses to infants and adults crying and he discovered something uncanny. There was a 900% increase in responses for a baby’s crying.

More research is being done to take things one step further. The results showed that, although a baby’s vocalizations increase amygdala activation, it is the sudden and unexpected changes in pitch in a baby’s crying that convey the most emotions among the research subjects.

So the next time you want your wallet or purse returned to you each time you lose it, it’ll help if you put a photo of a cute, cuddly, and smiling face of a baby on your wallet or purse.

Perry Belcher: Turning The Page

Dear Friends,

Today I decided to end my career as an internet marketing trainer. I have told so many of my students that when your 1% unhappy it’s time to get out. Now it’s time to follow my own advice.

Over the last 18 months or so I have had the privilege to meet and work with some of the coolest, kindest, most generous people I have ever known. I have truly enjoyed sharing my knowledge of internet marketing and social media marketing with each and every one of you.

So why would I quit? There are several reasons, but here are a few…

First, training and coaching, for me, is an all encompassing business. I took on every client’s challenges as my own and and my time with my family has been very limited since I began on this path. I look very forward to focusing on just being dad and a husband for a while.

Secondly, while there are a great many people who have shown me a great deal of love, there are a few that have shown a heavy dose of hate and anger, partially because of my past. This group has unfortunately been much more vocal and harsh.

While I can take reasonable criticism, today I have concerns for my safety and the safety of family.

Third, I remembered that it’s much more fun and profitable to be a marketer than it is to teach internet marketing…a truth that someone had to hit me over the head to help me remember.

So, that being said I need to make a clean break….

I have asked that all my internet marketing training products be removed from the market.

I am in the process of removing all internet marketing related materials form my blogs.

Over the next bit of time I will be reverting my social media connections back to close personal friends.

I will have canceled all future internet marketing and social media speaking opportunities and will not accept new ones.

In short, I am taking my life back to private.

My current clients will be supported by Ryan Deiss’ company, Infomastery, but I will be creating no new internet marketing trainings and I have canceled all future speaking engagements regarding internet marketing.

For any current customers and clients who are still owed coaching/consulting from me, I will still be hanging around for as long as it takes to make sure that you are taken care of. In other words, while my public persona will more or less vanish, I’ll still be helping you privately and WILL NOT violate prior agreements. (NOTE: This includes “Social Media Money System” customers who are owed coaching calls with me.)

If you have any questions or concerns about any of this, please contact customer support at: support@drivingtraffic.com

…or by phone at: 512-600-4363

I appreciate your care and understanding and I wish each and every one of you great success in your future endeavors.

Sincerely,
Perry Belcher

Reverend Ike Dead at 74

If you never got a chance to hear this powerful speaker here he is LIVE! at Madison Square Garden.

Reverend Ike, formally the Right Reverend Dr. Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II (June 1, 1935, Ridgeland, South Carolina – July 28, 2009, Los Angeles, California[1]), Th.B., D.Sc.L., Ph.D., founder and pastor of the Christ United Church, was an American minister and electronic evangelist based in New York City. He was most famous for his slogan “You can’t lose with the stuff I use!”[2] Reverend Ike was of African American and Indonesian descent.

He began his career as a teenage preacher and became assistant pastor at Bible Way Church in Ridgeland, South Carolina. After serving a stint in the Air Force as a Chaplain Service Specialist (a non-commissioned officer assigned to assist chaplains), he founded, successively, the United Church of Jesus Christ for All People in South Carolina, the United Christian Evangelistic Association in Boston, Massachusetts (which is still his main corporate entity), and the Christ Community United Church in New York City.

Reverend Ike’s ministry reached its peak in the mid 1970s, when his weekly radio sermons were carried by hundreds of stations across the United States. He was still active as of 2007, with a presence on the Internet and a syndicated television program.

He fully restored and owned the Christ United Church “Palace Cathedral” in Manhattan’s Washington Heights section, formerly the Loews 175th Street movie theatre (one of the grandest and most extravagant of the “Wonder Theaters” movie palaces of the 1920s; restoration included the seven-story high, twin chamber Robert Morton organ). The “Miracle Star of Faith,” visible from the George Washington Bridge, now tops the cupola of the building. He was also the “chancellor” of the United Church Schools, which include the Science of Living Institute and Seminary (which awarded him the D.Sc.L.: Doctor of the Science of Living); the Business of Living Institute (home of Thinkonomics); and other educational projects. He also offered a large number of books, audio and video tapes and a magazine to followers.

The Reverend Mrs. Eula M. Dent Eikerenkoetter (“Rev. Mrs. Ike”), B.A., M.A., D.Sc.L., his wife, served as Senior Co-Pastor, and his son, The Right Reverend Xavier Frederick Eikerenkoetter (“Rev. Ike’s Son”), B.A., M.Sc.L, D.Sc.L., was his “Bishop Coadjutor.”

Reverend Ike had his own personal style of “preaching prosperity” and it is purported that he influenced a succeeding generation of “prosperity teachers” such as E. Bernard Jordan and Neale Donald Walsch.

Ike also made a guest appearance on Hank Williams, Jr.’s late 1986 single “Mind Your Own Business”, which was a Number One country hit.[3]

Reverend Ike died on July 28, 2009 of a stroke. He was 74.

*From Wikipedia.com

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