Stroll into Powell Gardens

Just southeast of Kansas City, Missouri is a very well kept secret, Powell Gardens, a 915 acre garden. It boasts of four different gardens, a chapel and and event rental spaces.

• The Fountain Garden surrounds a fountain water feature where children can play. Flowers in colorful kaleidoscope abound. Many are indigenous to the area. Many are blooms you see in floral arrangement catalogs like 1800flowers.
  
• Then there is the Byron Schutz Nature Trail, a 3.25 acre walking path amidst trees, prairie grasses and different species of plants around the world able to withstand midwest weather. Birds and butterflies accompany you on the trail.
  
• The Kauffman Legacy Garden is a two acre garden in the middle of Kansas City built in memory of Muriel and Ewing Kauffman, beloved Kansas City philantropists. It is tended by staff from Powell Gardens. There is a meandering brick path, pavillions to relax and rest and water accents.
  
• The Heartland Harvest Garden is a feast for the casual and the serious vegetable gardener at heart.
  
• There is a gift shop and a store where you can buy plantings, books, and even Mothers day flowers.
  
• All throughout the gardens are pavilions and resource centers where visitors can rest and watch or just enjoy the watching outdoors.
  

Powell Gardens is named after George E. Powell, Sr, who bought the farm in 1948. It has successfully transformed from a dairy farm to the magnificent garden it is today. Renovated in 1988, Powell Gardens is popular setting for weddings, birthdays and family events. You may want to have your Mothers day celebration in the gardens. A visit to Powell Gardens is a treat to the senses of all things beautiful.

Powell Gardens
1609 N.W. U.S. Highway 50
Kingsville, MO 64061
Telephone: 816-697-2600
Fax: 816-697-2619

Mohammed Babangida Blogs on Jazz

As if he dose not have enough to do with his busy schedule as oil and gas consultant, businessman and polo player, Nigerian mogul, Mohammed Babangida, also blogs on jazz music.  

In his blog, Mohammed Babangida traces the roots of jazz to its African origin and follows its progression to modern jazz.  He is especially partial to blues music which evolved as an expression of the early African American condition in the south.  He is a fan of Charlie Mingus and Louis Armstrong.

As the world gets smaller and smaller, the blend of African and American music is finding its way into contemporary music.  Paul Simon's Graceland album released in 1986 was inspired by the mbaqanga sounds of the South African group, Boyoyo Boys. Paul Simon used various African jazz musicians in his album.  African jazz musicians are becoming more influential in contemporary American jazz.  By lending his stature to his blogs, Mohammed Babangida is certainly contributing to the evolution of a genre of African American jazz truly derived from both continents.

The son of former Nigerian President Ibrahim Babangida, Mohammed Babangida was educated in Europe and Harvard Business School specializing in the oil and gas industry.  He is also an accomplished polo player.  

Linus Gitahi: Biggest Booster for Kenyan Runners

There is no doubt that Linus Gitahi is the biggest admirer and booster of Kenyan runners.  He writes a blog to inform track and field fans and fans of Kenyan runners about these athletes. That is, when he is not busy with his duties as CEO of Nation Media Group, the largest media firm in Central and Eastern Africa. Now, about Kenyan runners.

Kenyan runners burst into the track and field world by winning Olympic medals in 1964 and they have led the pack since.  Some say it is the Kenyan diet, or maybe it is living in high altitude, or that given the distance between villages and lack of motorized transportation, Kenyans are naturally trained to be runners.  But many observers of Kenyan distance runners, Linus Gitahi included, opine that running is in the Kenyan's nature.  Kenyan journalist John H. Manner writes that Kenyans are born to run, having evolved in a Darwinian way to be the world's greatest runners. Linus Gitahi also writes about the Kalenjin runners.  The best Kenyan running athletes seem to come from one tribe, the Kalenjin tribe.  Berkley anthropologist Vincent Sarich writes that Kalenjin runners can outrun 90 percent of the human race and that the average Kalenjin woman, given similar training can outrun the world's average man any day.

Amazing, isn't it?

Survey Resource Center: A Way to Generate Sales

Sales generation often involves good old sweat and hard work.  It is important to find qualified buyers ready to buy your particular niche product.  Finding buyers for your product may involve cold calls to leads in the telephone book, putting an ad in your local newspaper and of course, asking your clients for referrals of friends and business acquaintances needing your product.  Don't forget networking with your local chamber of commerce.

The world wide web, of course, opens further opportunities.  Create a website or a blog for your product and actively promote it.  Be an advertiser and use affiliate marketing.  You can purchase pre-qualified leads from lead generating  companies such as Survey Resource Center   (SRC Leads.) And of course, nothing tops good customer service and selling a good product to keep satisfied  repeat customers.

Amos Tamam Brings Safety and Profits to Cab Drivers

Thanks to Amos Tamam, cab drivers in New York City and Philadelphia may be safer and more profitable. How did he do it? With intimate knowledge of the taxi industry and a dedication to improving the working conditions of taxi drivers.

Amos Tamam, an electrical engineer, has provided wireless credit card processing to taxi drivers. Taxi drivers, no longer needing to carry large sums of paper money, are less vulnerable to robbery. This, coupled with GPS technology, bring added safety to an industry that has lost many cab drivers. This is also a boon to cab riders who do not carry much cash. It is a win win situation for both driver and passenger.

Amos Tamam is the CEO of Verifone Transportation Systems, the company that brought this credit card technology into taxicabs. This is the culmination of thirty years of working in the taxicab industry bringing solutions to problems plaguing taxicab fleets. He worked in taxicab repairs and developed technologies to find better taxi meters and ways to improve fleet and fuel management. Aware of the occupational hazard of robbery and assault to cab drivers, Amos Tamam brought the vision of credit card in taxis into reality. Taxis can also have touch screen monitors to provide weather, local news and entertainment information. He hopes to bring this technology to taxicab fleets all over the country.