The auto-makers don’t wait for January 1st to release their newest and latest editions to their line of vehicles. You can actually buy a 2011 car or truck in the fall of 2010. I know that may sound strange, but its the way car-makers have did business for a long time. So if you’re looking for a brand new 2011 vehicle, you can begin to shop now and probably be able to buy it in the last few months of the 2010 year.

A good credit score does go a long way in determining how good of a car deal, you can secure for your self. One or two blemishes from the past could affect your chances of driving off the lot in a brand new automobile.

If you are ready to get the best possible deal on a brand new car, truck, or any other type of vehicle; here are some things you can do to save money. Make sure you have a good credit number for the financial guy at the car dealership. Save up as much money as possible for a down payment, because cash is always king when buying anything new or used. The last thing to remember, is that during the fall time of the year, these dealerships want to sell their remaining vehicles for that current year. So in about 3 or 4 more months, you can go shopping for a 2010 car and get a better deal on it then; than you could now. Be ready to put some cash down for a down payment and after they verify your good credit history, you will be the owner of a brand new vehicle for dirt cheap!

The newest NBA champions are the same as the last NBA team to be considered the latest of champions in the NBA. The National Basketball Association gave the top award to the L.A. Lakers team last year. They will have to do the same this year, because the Lakers are once again the top team in the NBA.

It was an exciting series with the Boston Celtics. The Celtics team of mostly thugs playing along side Ray Allen was not enough to beat the mighty Lakers. The series did go to a 7 game series and the Boston Celtics did lead for most of the game in the 7th matchup. However, a team that is full of street thugs like the Boston team has playing for them, they’re bound to get off-track. The only guy with any class on the Boston basketball team is Ray Allen. He would be wise to find another team next year, so he doesn’t have to play with those types of players on his team.

When you have the best player in the NBA and the World in Kobe Bryant, you just need a few solid pieces for a player like that to win it all for you. Last year after Kobe led his Lakers to the promise land, some analyst and fans still believed LeBron James was the best basketball player in the NBA. I wonder how many of these same people will now realize LeBron was never better than Kobe Bryant. I believe the Boston Celtics have 3 players better than LeBron James. It would appear Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, and Rajon Rondo all 3 out played LeBron James. People don’t realize how LeBron has the keys to a team and is able to put up nice stats due to that. The youngster in Oklahoma Kevin Durant is a much more attractive piece to an NBA team than King James is or will ever be. I will take the “Durantula”on my team any day over the ball-hog, show-off of a player LeBron James is. The Washington Wizards can have the free agent Lebron and John Wall the top player in the NBA draft and Kobe’s Lakers will still beat them. Kobe knows how to play team ball and this is what wins championships. Lebron knows how to dribble backwards in the half-court offense, so that all eyes can get focused on him, as he tries to run in for a lay-up or a pass to an open jumper. I honestly believe Mo Williams for the Cavs is a much more consistent player than James and he does have a much more consistent jumper.

Here is a picture of what real champions look like. This isn’t a picture from the 2010 Lakers team. It isn’t even a picture of the 2009 Championship Lakers team. This is actually a picture in Atlanta; which was taken by Jeff Lewis of the AP. You can’t tell any differences in the 2008 picture against the Atlanta Hawks as you could if you had a picture of the Lakers playing another NBA team in the 2010 season.

The Lakers have kept key guys around and they have did a lot more than just gel together as a team. These guys like playing with each other and they all know their roles. Everyone associated with the Lakers team (including Jack Nicholson) keeps Kobe Bryant on level ground. They don’t constantly brag about him or hype him up into something he’s not. This has led to a championship style of basketball being played in Los Angeles and has created the best basketball player the World has ever seen.

We all know MJ or Michael Jordan won 6 NBA titles; while playing for the Chicago Bulls in the 1990′s. The 2010 championship ring, that Kobe is now sporting aroun, is only his 5th NBA ring or title. Kobe doesn’t need a 6th championship to prove he is the greatest player ever to play the game. MJ had a very good player in Scottie Pippen playing with him in Chicago. Gasol or Odom doesn’t quite have the skills of Pippen. If you can remember the first year Michael Jordan retired, the very next season, Scottie Pippen was the best player in the League. Pippen was better than anyone and he proved what he could do without Michael Jordan by his side. This only goes to prove how much help Jordan did have in Chicago. Kobe has won NBA titles with Shaq and a variety of other players, where Shaquille O’Neal was not around. Many think Jordan could have won more championships without Pippen, but we don’t know that for sure. We do know Kobe can win without Shaq and he’s proven this multiple times now.

No one next season better NOT even think about giving the best player award to LBJ. It should be clear to all now; that Kobe Bryant or “The Black Mamba” is clearly the League’s best player and he has been for the last 10 years. They are some really talented players in the NBA right now. You have to give props to Dwayne Wade in Miami, Kevin Durant in Oklahoma, Rajon Rondo in Boston, Dwight Howard in Orlando, and Mr. Bryant out in L.A.. The 2010 NBA Dream Team is:

Power Forward – Kevin Durant – OKC

Small Forward – Kobe Bryant – LAL

Center – Dwight Howard – ORL

Shooting Guard – Dwayne Wade – MIA

Point Guard – Rajon Rondo – BOS

The 2nd Team Runner Up for the 2010 NBA Dream Team:

Power Forward – Pau Gasol – LAL

Small Forward – Dirk Nowitzki – DAL

Center – Amare Stoudamire – PHX

Shooting Guard – LeBron James – CLE

Point Guard – Steve Nash – PHX

Those are the top 2 team combinations in the NBA in 2010. I do think Rondo has improved so much in the 2nd half of the NBA season, I would select him ahead of an older Steve Nash from Phoenix. PG Rondo did push the Lakers to a game 7; where Nash didn’t get his team that far. A lot of things will change next year and it will be a wild off-season in the NBA. The Lakers team could even change some with a few question marks for our 2010 champions. The League is going to see new coaches and a variety of NBA all stars switching teams and playing in different NBA cities. The NBA Draft is just around the corner and is scheduled in late June. A lot of free agents will start to find new NBA teams on July 1st and in the first week of July. Around July 10th, we should know how the bulk of the League is going to look for the 2010/2011 NBA season. Congratulations to the Lakers for winning back to back titles in the NBA and they’re the 2009/2010 NBA champions in the National Basketball Association.

One of the best American coins ever, would have to be the series of coins called the Gold Eagle Coins. This is one of my favorite coins. I have really took an interest in gold lately; with all of the gold prices soaring upward in the marketplaces. I would like to invest in more gold related products, in my financial portfolio. I think an investor can take advantage of the popular gold prices, if they would buy gold eagle coins as an investment. This would be one investment an investor or a coin collector could have that would have true value. Many of the stocks and bonds we own today, doesn’t consist of that “true value” like we would have with gold or silver coins.

I haven’t had a chance to check out the games online, that allow players to build up a character or join another online member in attempting to conquer a mission or just travel safely through a series of mazes. I know I have friends that love to play these types of games online and they absolutely love them. I think they have even become addicted to them, as much time and energy they spend on playing some of these games.

I know one of the more popular ones is the game called World of Warcraft. Have you ever heard of World of Warcraft or WoW? I think in some cases you don’t have to do all the work yourself and there are faster ways to complete and finish these types of games. Players that like to play games like this, could Buy WoW Accounts online and I think this gives you a boost in a game like World of Warcraft. Instead of beginning from the very start of the game, you could get another account or a character that is much more advanced and could help you to enjoy the game better, right from the start.

There is a huge demand for the action and adventure games online. Not to mention the various services that are around to offer assistance for these new and cool games of the future. The games of today have certainly changed from the days of playing Pac Man in the arcade for 25 cents a pop. I believe I would really like these new games online today, if I could ever find the time and extra money to dedicate to them. Especially those that allow friends to play online together or in a team, where they can help each other out in trying to win the game. A gaming service like Virtual Barrack is online to offer assistance to those gamers that have an interest in buying or selling their accounts. I guess some players choose to play these games and are willing to spend the money their self for the fun and enjoyment these modern online games offer. While others may use the games of today as a way to make or earn money online, by selling their accounts to a game or character they have gotten to an advance level. You can Sell Aion Accounts at Virtual Barrack or could take advantage of a variety of other services they offer.

Since all of these modern games are new to me; which one would you suggest I start playing? Do you have one that you believe is better than all of the other modern online games that involve action, adventure, and some thinking and concentration to complete? I know the World of Warcraft is one of the most popular ones out there, by all of the advertisements I see on TV. I have also heard my friends talking about WoW, so I know its one of the better ones for players to play online. I will have to search for some more information on games like this and ask my friends which ones they like to play the best too.

One of the greatest and best inventions ever for an Online Marketer, is the creation of a rotator link. These are very handy to have around, if you have multiple websites to promote online. A rotator link combines several websites together, so one link will show a bunch of different websites. If you use traffic exchanges, you could add 1 rotator link on your account to promote several different websites you would like to draw more attention to. There are some traffic exchanges that will automatically create a free rotator link for you, once you begin to add your websites with them. Fastlane Traffic and Help Hits are two examples of a TE that will offer you a free rotator, after you have added your websites to their traffic exchange.  

Our Google Ranked Us surfing team has a team effort on one of the hottest matrix systems online today. I have taken each one of our referral links from the matrix program we belong to and have added it to my Fastlane Traffic rotator. Now each member on our team can show just 1 link and it will display all of our referral links randomly for the 4×1 Fortune program. This is a great way to earn easy money online and it only costs $11 to join. This is a one time payment and then you can begin showing your referral page and promoting this program. Or do like I have done and join Fastlane Traffic, so you can begin to create your own team of promoters online. This is a great and fun way to advertise online. It will keep everyone on the team interested, as each person will be promoting the same referral link. Here is an example of my Fastlane Traffic free rotator link: http://fastlanetraffic.com/rotate.php?id=7478 

You can click that link and see one of our member’s referral pages for the Fortune program. If you click it a 2nd time, you would more than likely see a new member’s referral page. The rotator links just show a variety of websites and it does it randomly, so there is no way to control how many times a certain page will be seen in each rotator link. For the most part, over a long period of time, they all get shown about the same amount.

Another example of how to use a rotator link for you’re own benefit, is to add all of your referral pages to the rotator link. If you join Help Hits, you can add up to 5 websites on your account as a free member. Once you have your websites added and verified, you can then show your Help Hits free rotator link, so it will show up to 5 different websites you have an interest of promoting online. Here is an example of my rotator link at Help Hits: http://www.helphits.com/rotator/62734

You can click my Help Hits link above and see one of the websites I promote online. If you clicked it a 2nd time, you would more than likely see a different website I was promoting online. On my Help Hits rotator link, I have 5 different websites I am promoting. So this makes it very easy for me to add it to a traffic exchange and can promote 5 different websites with only one link.

If you have more than 5 websites to promote, I suggest getting the Fastlane Traffic rotator link. You will have the ability to add more than just 5 websites there and will make it much easier on those people that have more than 5 websites to advertise on the Net. I like these two rotator links, because they’re both clean rotators. Some websites give you a rotator link, but it will come with banners or something that blocks a portion of your page. I prefer to have a rotator that will show 100% of the website I am promoting. The rotator links provided by Help Hits and Fastlane Traffic are both clean and others won’t even know you’re showing them a website via a rotator link. If you never tried to use a rotator before, you must give this a try. It’s an easy way to show multiple sites and it only takes one rotator link to achieve this easy and effective way to market online.

Go get your own rotator link and have some fun with it! It makes life on the Internet so much easier for all of us that like to promote and market various things online. I love joining new affiliate programs and seeing if I can get a referral for it. For those that like to promote more than one affiliate link, you will want to use a rotator, so you can give equal attention to your most rewarding and profitable online programs you belong to. Good luck and don’t forget to have fun!!!

Guest post written by Mailie Searce

One of my favorite things to watch on TV is cooking shows. But I’m a terrible cook. I burn muffins made from store mixes and my omelets always end up sticking to the pan.

So many nights when I come home from work I flip on the TV and watch cooks like Paula Deen and Rachel Ray cook these mouth-watering meals that make my already hungry stomach start to rumble

Sometimes I just end up browsing the Internet with my Clear TV Bundle for recipes for a little while and then fix a bowl of cereal and continue looking at more recipes. Maybe I’m lazy, or just know my own abilities.

But last Friday night I thought I’d test my capabilities and decided to tackle a chicken pot pie recipe. The recipe seemed simple enough and I had the ingredients, which I had bought on a grocery store trip that I was feeling pretty ambitious.

It called for cooked chicken. But I forgot to defrost the chicken and ended up having to cook it in a pan for so long and still managed to burn it! Oh well, I just cut off the burnt parts and prepared the recipe the rest of the way as directed. I somehow managed to pull off the rest of the recipe and ended up with an edible, half-decent chicken pot pie! Maybe I’ll start cooking more often. Just maybe.

The latest news coming out of Afghanistan lately, starts to paint a better picture why so much fighting has took place over the years in this very poor part of the Middle East. Why was the Soviets trying to occupy the lands in Afghanistan during the 1980′s? Why is the United States currently fighting a war inside the borders of Afghanistan? Why did the Taliban take over the central government and tried to run the country on their own? A lot of questions that didn’t make a lot of sense and we were only left trying to guess why each party had a vested interest in the Afghan soil.

It seemed pretty obvious the Soviet Union wanted a bigger territory and more of a land mass in Europe, so they were trying to take control of the country 30 years ago. After the 2001 bombings from the Middle East Terrorists that caused 4 hi-jacked planes to crash in the World Trade Center Towers, the Pentagon, and in a Pennsylvania field; it was obvious why America went in and invaded the country of Afghanistan. Finally you have the Taliban, who came in after the Soviets left and before America sent troops in, and they had took over and was basically running the country of Afghanistan. All of these parties seeking control of an area in the Middle East that doesn’t seem like a place anyone would want to own. Perhaps the only people who truly love Afghanistan are the people who live there, work there, and have gotten use to life in such a baron and harsh country.

Now a few secrets are starting to emerge and the earliest records we have right now, are the geological surveys and estimates the Soviet Union was doing in Afghanistan. They had been mapping and keeping a collection of data that pertained to all of the untapped resources that were in Afghanistan in the early 80′s. China also has a part of this and they already won a bid earlier on a copper mine in one of the areas of China. An official working for the Afghan Government was bribed $30,000,000 dollars from the people’s Republic of China for some other areas in Afghanistan that appear to be rich in natural minerals and resources. China is a country that faces a huge shortage of natural resources for all the people they currently have inside their borders. Chinese Officials are doing all they can to secure areas outside of the borders of China for these valuable resources.

The latest news is coming from the Pentagon and a few of their employees teamed up with a few geologists to conduct a series of tests in Afghanistan for some of these valuable and precious resources. These tests began in 2007 or at least that is the public information that is being released right now. How many other geological tests and surveys the U.S. may have did or conducted before the year of 2007 is not clear or is information no one in the Pentagon, White House, or on Capitol Hill is acknowledging at this time.

Did the Soviet Union seek an ownership in Afghanistan, because of all the rich resources this land is now known to have? Has the United States written their own script to have soldiers and geologists currently in Afghanistan? I think a lot of people will be wondering how early the USA suspecting there was a vast amount of natural resources in the Afghan country. While China has been the only country not to send in troops to this area of the Middle East, they seem to have a strong interest in the vast amount of resources this land might posses in the Middle East.

Large amounts of copper and lithium are expecting to be under the soil and deposited in this poor land from what most consider a 3rd world nation. There may also be a few gold veins running through the country of Afghanistan; which mining companies from all over the world will have an interest in. The Pentagon is assisting the Afghan Government in helping them to create a bidding system for their precious and natural resources. The wealth contained under the dirt could be huge for one of the poorest nations in the region. This could help Afghanistan tremendously in the future and help this country to get back on its feet, as they try to push the Taliban further away and hopefully out of their country for good. There is already a growing concern that the Taliban will put up a tougher front with the latest news about these valuable resources. The only other value in this country is the farm lands that produce and sell opium plants; which most are illegally growing or trafficking to other countries around the world.

The new resources like gold, lithium, and copper could be the answer to all of the Afghan citizen’s prayers, if these minerals are harvested and mined properly, so the country can benefit from it. You probably have a battery in your remote control or a cell phone or laptop computer battery that has lithium in it right now. This mineral alone could be huge for all the companies around the world that look to other nations for their supplies of lithium, to keep up with the growing demand of lithium batteries. This will be one story from Afghanistan that won’t be going away anytime soon and the interesting part now will be which countries get access to these areas that are loaded with an abundance of natural resources.

There are a lot of places we can began at to start saving money. There are a lot of obvious things we buy each week, that we know we could eliminate, so we could save more money. One of the most effective ways to start a savings plan, is to reduce the money you’re paying out each month on bills. The electrical bills and your water bill is two bills you get every month; which you could have an influence on. If you do not change your current patterns or lifestyle choices, you aren’t going to see any differences. You must sacrifice some, so you can save a few dollars this way.

Most of us are paying for auto, home, and life insurance. You may have other things that are insured too and you have a monthly, quarterly, or yearly insurance premium to pay. There is some money we can save here too. You may not be able to cancel your insurance plans, but you can look to reduce your coverage in certain areas or search for cheap insurance alternatives online to help you save some money. Insurance is one of those things we have to buy or will need one day, so you don’t want to cut back too much here. I’m sure if you sit down and look an each insurance plan you currently have, there is one or two of your existing plans, where you can save a little extra money.

Reducing the amount of money we pay out to bill collectors each month, is the best way to start a savings plan. After you come up with a few ways on how to save money on the bills, you can then focus on the luxuries you buy each month and see where your money can be saved here. Most of us have a few bad habits or like to eat out in restaurants, where we can easily save some extra money. We aren’t likely to stick with our new savings plan, if we cut out too many of our daily and weekly luxuries. This is why I think it’s best to start with your bills and the variety of insurance plans you have first, so the savings is coming from multiple areas and not just from the luxury purchases. Just remember the longer you can make your sacrifices now, the more money you will have in your savings plan tomorrow!

One of the things a home owner can do this summer to touch-up the outside of the home; is to add one of these beautiful yard arbors. It would be perfect for a home that has a walk-way leading to the front yard or the driveway. It really isn’t too hard to install one of these arbors to your home’s front lawn and you can probably do it by yourself. This is just one of the simple ways a person could really improve the appearance of their home and not putting much effort into it.

An arbor can serve many different purposes. A nice vinyl arbor could be put up to simply give the home a better look for the neighbors and visitors to see. One of the wooden arbors could match up better to a home that was made out of wood or had a wooden fence outside. Have you been searching for an arbor this summer? Do you prefer an arbor that is made out of wood, vinyl, or some other material? Do you have any advice for someone who might be buying an arbor for the first time and is struggling between a wood arbor and a vinyl arbor?

Some of you out there may enjoy spending a lot of time in the yard. Perhaps you already have a nice vegetable garden or flower garden that is now in full bloom. For those folks with a green thumb and like to spend time in the garden, there are a variety of garden arbors you can buy too. I haven’t had the time to plant anything this year, but I do hope the prices will go down soon, as the planting season grows longer. If I can find a good deal on the vegetable plants and seeds, I may just get into the gardening mood later.

Those plants and flowers that grow on the fast-growing vines, would be perfect to plant next to a arbor for the garden. It wouldn’t take them long to run up the posts and sides of the arbor as they grew. For the vines that grow really fast, they could fill the archway up this year, if you had them planted by a garden or yard arbor. You just let them grow wild on the outside and only trim the vines that poke their way in the middle of the arbor. It doesn’t take much effort at all, for these types of flowers and vines to totally hide the arbors. I probably won’t have enough time this summer to get my garden arbor looking the way I would like it to be. I could get everything in place this summer, so I would be ahead of the game next spring, if I do decide to add an arbor to my garden or yard this year.

The USA Men’s team got their first taste of World Cup action in South Africa on Saturday. Their first opponent in their debut game in 2010 was against the guys from across the pond in England. It would be the British players who got out to a quick start; while they scored the first goal of the game. Things stayed like that for a long time, until England’s goalie misplayed a kick by one of the American soccer players. It wasn’t kicked that hard and the goalie for England had great position to stop the scoring attempt by the Americans. It’s a blunder you don’t often see in World Cup soccer and especially in a match that has a historical rivalry involved. While England’s goalie did get both hands on the ball, he somehow lost it and there was still enough momentum left in the kick for the ball to trickle into the net and roll all the way to the back. This was turn out to be a very big goal in the game, because it tied the score at 1 goal a piece. No other players for either side would manage to get another one in the net and the game ended in a 1 to 1 tie between the USA and England.

I’m sure the American Coach Bob Bradley was not too happy on how the game ended, but has to feel lucky in the way his team came back to tie up the score in South Africa. Both teams had a lot of fans there and you could see more UK flags waving in the stands than the Stars and Stripes that some American fans were waving. It was a very competitive game and was played hard by both of the teams representing the United States of America and the United Kingdom from England. Both teams are in the same grouping in World Cup play. It would appear both teams will advance from their current group, as the top 2 teams get to move on in the World Cup tournament.

There was already a tremendous amount of people from all over the world watching this game between England and the U.S. today. If these two teams should play again, you can expect to see one of the most viewed World Cup matches ever. Since there will be a lot more focus in the later games and the closer each team gets to winning a World Cup title in South Africa.

It was a fun game to watch and the only disturbing thing in the soccer match in South Africa today, was the annoying sounds that come from the fans in the seats and attending the game. They have a long hose-like instrument they blow in and it makes a low pitch noise, much like a moose would make in the wild. This is going to be the sound track for all of the World Cup games in South Africa, so viewers watching from home better get use to it or turn down the volume on their TV sets. The World Cup schedule is going to get much tougher for all the teams, as they do draw closer to a World Cup final in South Africa. I’m sure a lot of people in America will be searching for the terms: when does the USA play again or what time is the USA World Cup game? A lot of online websites will be providing the World Cup schedules and keeping all the latest action and news from South Africa.

When is the last day of the World? According to the Mayan calendar, the end of time or our last day on Earth has an exact date in the future. It’s not one of those predictions that is hundreds or even thousands of years away. In fact, most of the people reading my blog now, will be here for the last day of the world, if the Mayan calendar turns out to be accurate.

December 21st – 2012

Our last day on Earth has been forecasted by the Mayans to be on December the 21st and in the year 2012. We are about 2 1/2 years away from this very popular date; that most people are aware of by now. One of the reasons why this date in the future is so well-known, is due to the new Hollywood movie; which has been out for a few months now. This new movie 2012 focuses on the Mayan Calendar and their prediction for the end of times to occur in December of that year.

I have not seen this new movie yet, but it is available online or on sale at the video and movie stores. I am curious to see how this movie plays out and which natural disaster it focuses on the most. Judging by the previews, it looks like they do a symphony of natural disasters, all occurring at the same time. There appears to be tidal waves, earthquakes, tornadoes, and hurricanes all happening in this film. I guess the creator of this new movie, didn’t want to point the finger at just one natural disaster and decided to cover them all.

We can look at history and see catastrophic events occurring all through out the history of the Earth. A modern day ice age, would cripple the world as we know it now or a giant meteor hitting the Earth. Perhaps it was an ice age or meteor that the Mayan culture figured on occurring in the year 2012. It is interesting to know, why this advance civilization did pin-point the year 2012 as their ancient forecast for doomsday. The Mayan people appeared to have great knowledge with numbers, astrology, and a very accurate calendar. It was their wisdom with the stars and math, that has led to so many people giving credit to their doomsday forecast on December 21, 2012. What did this advanced culture see and why didn’t they see their own fatal ending in history?

It is not known why the Mayan people ceased to exist and why they are not around today. The most creditable guess seems to lean toward a drought in their homeland; which is considered to be Central America today. They lived in a land where very few rivers and streams flowed. It was very important to the Mayan people, to receive lots of rain each year. If the rains didn’t come, it would cause a tremendous stress on their way of life and if the drought would have lasted long enough, this could have been the natural event that took out the Mayan civilization forever. The drought is just one of the many theories that try to explain why the Mayans didn’t survive.

Thanks to some very smart people, the Mayan calendar and some other precious artifacts have been found and preserved from the Mayan civilization. This is where we see their prediction for December 21, 2012 as the beginning of a new cycle. This is also the date for the Winter Solstice and its amazing these ancient people could have known this; with the limited technology that existed back then. For some unknown reason, the date of December 21 and in the year 2012 was very important to them. As this information got passed around, the majority of people see this date as a doomsday prediction.

I don’t think anyone really knows what will happen in 2012. The one thing that is for sure, the new 2012 movie is very popular and it strikes up a lot of conversations; whenever its name is mentioned. I really want to see the new movie 2012 and see how Hollywood interprets the new cycle on the Mayan calendar. We are seeing the news and media outlets covering a lot more natural disasters all over the world. Our intense weather patterns and the fears for global warming or climate change is now front story news for most Americans. If the world is going to end in 2012, I think most would agree, we are getting the warning signs now of something big on the horizon. Expect this date and the movie to get even more popular, as we continue the countdown toward December 21, 2012.

The Atlanta Hawks are well on their way to having another very disappointing season next year. They made a great move by releasing the former head coach Mike Woodson from the team earlier this off-season. Now was the time to find the perfect coach and I found them one. I have been searching for a new Hawks head coach for a couple of years now. I went through a long list of coaches, before I saw who the perfect coach would be for the Atlanta Hawks. My hard work and efforts located the best man for the job and that man was Maurice Cheeks; who is currently an assistant coach with the Oklahoma Thunder. Cheeks has coaching experience and he’s use to working with young teams and teams with a lot of athletic talent. For some reason, the Hawks general manager Rick Sund has no interest in finding the perfect coach. The Atlanta Hawks have only interviewed a handful of coaches and now sources are saying they’re ready to make a selection. If they have no desire to find the perfect coach for the basketball team in Atlanta; why should the fans turn out to see them play?

One of the Hawks owners is Michael Geron, who is the one conducting these coaching interviews. Some of the candidates are having to wait for Geron to return to the country, so they can get their interviews in. I find this to be a very troubling story, that the owner Michael Geron would be taking trips out of the country, while the Hawks need a new head coach and have the NBA draft fast approaching later this month. It’s news like this, that keeps the fans in Atlanta away from Philips Arena. If the owners of the Hawks want to go out and travel and make fast decisions on their next head coach; then why should the Hawks fans even buy tickets for the game?

I think the time has come to boycott the basketball team in Atlanta. The Hawks have no desire to win an NBA championship and are not doing things like a contender should be doing. They have spent very little time searching for a new head coach and no one on their list of candidates, appear to be an attractive hire at this point. Here are the names the Hawks are now considering for a new head coach:

*Larry Drew- Former assistant coach to Mike Woodson

*Mark Jackson- ESPN analyst and no coaching experience

*Dwayne Casey- Assistant coach of the Dallas Mavericks and is also a close friend of GM Rick Sund

*Avery Johnson- ESPN analyst and former Mavericks head coach

*Dean Demopolous – Assistant coach for the Portland Trail Blazers

That’s it!

In a league, where only about 30 guys can be a head coach for an NBA team, the Hawks Brass is only looking at 5 possible choices for their next head coach? They should have did a much more extensive search. This lack of desire to find a new head coach in Atlanta, will come back to bite them. The team’s youth and talent they have now, will just be wasting away, as a new head coach tries to find his niche in the NBA. The fans in Atlanta will be the ones paying the price. Not to mention the current players, who will not like the new situation that is coming to Atlanta. If the Hawks would have just took the time to see or interview with Maurice Cheeks, they would see his qualifications are much higher than the cast of clowns they have now. The circus is in full swing in the ATL and the Hawks are about to make a poor decision on their new head coach.

I have spent more than 2 years looking for a new coach in Atlanta. I found about 3 pretty good candidates, along with a 4th guy in Maurice Cheeks, who is the best man for the job. I wished the Hawks team would have just located one or two of my other 3 candidates for the new head coaching position. I have reviewed their 5 people they’re considering for the job in Atlanta and none of those 5 are even remotely close to the top 4 people I have in mind for the new coach of the Atlanta Hawks. This shows and proves the Hawks have no desire to find the best man for the job. This lazy attitude and lack of desire to find the best head coach possible, only carries down to the rest of the team. The Atlanta Hawks have no clue or concerns about an NBA title in the city of Atlanta. Michael Geron’s trip out of the country, during these critical off-season days, only goes to show why the Hawks won’t be winning an NBA championship anytime soon.

It’s pretty bad for an NBA team, when an online blogger can find 4 guys more suited for the new position as head coach for the Atlanta Hawks. The Hawks have a very unique chemistry and need a unique formula for winning basketball games in the NBA. A new head coach or one with very little experience, is going to have to prove they belong in the league and can coach with the other head coaches in the NBA. All 5 guys on the Hawks current list, will only come here and run standard plays, for a team that can win with a unique style only. The next head coach for the Atlanta Hawks will only be coaching to prove he isn’t the worse in the league. The Hawks team and their fans deserve a coach that wants to come here and prove they’re the best and will do whatever it takes to win games in the NBA. Maurice Cheeks was the best man for the job and Michael Geron may need to leave the country again, to avoid the anger and frustrations he will be hearing from Hawks Nation!

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It’s time to vote on the mid-summer classic that Major League Baseball has each year during July. One of the choices on the ballot is a rookie from Atlanta and he really deserves to be an All Star in 2010. His name is Jason Heyward and he was leading the team in homers and runs batted in. The hot bat of Troy Glaus has pushed him ahead of Heyward slightly, but this kid continues to play all out on the diamond. Not only would Jason Heyward make a great outfielder for the National League, but he would be good in the home run derby too!

You can help get this kid in the All Star Game and in the Home Run Derby too. Just go to MLB.com and vote for your favorite American and National League All Stars. You will find Jason Heyward’s name under the outfielders for the National League. You can select up to 3 National League Outfielders and by putting a mark next to Heyward’s name, you can help get this very talented kid into the All Star Game. There is also a place where you can vote for the sluggers you would like to see in the Home Run Derby. They didn’t put Heyward’s name on the ballot for the Home Run Derby, but you can still write him in on the ballot. Please vote more than 1 time too! Voters can submit more than 1 ballot, so each vote you give for Jason Heyward in the All Star Game or in the Home Run Derby; will make him one step closer to appearing in both for the National League All Stars.

I know a lot of people in the country hasn’t had a chance to see the Say Hey Kid (Jason Heyward) play in a game yet. Especially the American League teams; where Heyward and the Braves haven’t played any American League teams yet. They will play against a few teams in the American League, before the All Star break gets here. For all of the American League fans that don’t have the Braves on their schedule this year; you might not get to see Jason Heyward play in his rookie season. You can watch him play in the All Star Game in July, if you will use one of your National League outfield votes for Jason Heyward from the Atlanta Braves.

I think Heyward would do well in the Home Run Derby too. I have been writing his name in for the Home Run Derby ballot you can find at MLB.com too. It really is a treat to watch this kid from Atlanta to play and it won’t be much longer, until everyone in professional baseball knows about the Say Hey Kid.

Where is a good place to go, if you wanted to try your hand at investing in gold for future profits? Through out the years, the prices of gold has always remained steady. Gold is one of the safest investments a person could choose today. When the economy is weak and all of the other stocks on Wall Street are struggling to keep their head above water; the gold sector just continues to thrive. It’s rare to see gold take a down-slide and the prices are up right now. Some experts believe the price for gold is going to keep going up. An ounce of gold is currently being sold for over $1,200. This price has more than doubled over the last few years. For those that bought gold in 2005 or earlier; are the ones that have benefited the most in the higher gold prices. Even if you just buy gold coins, you’re taking advantage of an historical investment.

It would probably be a safe guess to say gold is the most important commodity we have today. A lot of portfolio managers suggest to investors, for them to have at least 5 percent of their financial portfolios in gold. There is a good reason why gold appears in so many Hollywood movies. It’s one of the most famous metals in the world and everyone on Earth (just about) is somewhat familiar with gold.

One good investing idea all families should do; is for them to buy gold for their new born kids. If you can get your children investing in gold and show them how valuable this yellow metal is or can be. They will have the biggest chance of earning a significant amount of money one day. Gold is a long term investment. No one should be buying gold for the short term. The longer you can sit on your gold investments, the better your chances become for making a profit with gold. Go see what gold investing ideas you can come up with, so you can start taking advantage of this hot gold trend we’re seeing right now.