While I touched on unemployment duration at the end of my last blog, this is a very important subject and deserves a bit more elaboration. Quite simply being out of work for three or four weeks is a very different experience with very different economic implications than being out of work for six months to a year or more. The focus on the total number of unemployed obscures that reality. The thing that makes this recession so much different than the ones that have gone before it is how long people are staying out of work once they become unemployed. Yeah if you get laid off for a few weeks, it can be a pain in the butt, but essentially it is just an unplanned vacation. It does not really affect your long term financial solvency, nor do your job skills diminish significantly. After six months, regular state unemployment ...

ChartoftheDay.com had an update of their chart labeled “Depression-Era Bear Market Rallies (Dow 1929-1932)” which is interesting in many, many ways, starting with the fact that it only concerns one particular three-year span, which implies that thereafter there were no more bear market rallies of note, …which is pretty much right, as everything economic continued going into the toilet until finally being “saved” by the government’s massive deficit-spending to wage WWII, which we willingly backed as a vengeful patriotic duty, thanks to Hollywood movies heroically exposing all foreigners as treacherous, murderous backstabbers who speak English with foreign accents and who think we Americans are powerful, omnipotent gods, like Peter Lorre in the movie Casablanca fleeing from the police after emptying his pistol at them but missing every shot, shouting, “Rick! Rick! Save me Rick!”

Or like James Coburn playing the role of Z.O.W.I.E. agent Derek Flint, America’s top secret

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Mixed martial arts (MMA) is sport that most Americans are just learning about. The Fight Zone, Inc. (TFZI.PK) is taking the reins when it comes to getting the word out about the sport by aggressively managing, developing, and marketing events. MMA is a full contact sport that artfully blends skills from wrestling, boxing, and martial arts. MMA is quickly becoming the fastest growing sport in North America and has grabbed the attention of 18 to 34-year-old males, which is a key spending demographic group.

Interestingly, the ancient Greeks had a form of MMA in the early Olympic Games. Pankration, which means “all powers”, actually combined wrestling and boxing skills. Matches would traditionally last for hours and end when one of the participants was “tapped out” by either being pinned down or placed in a hold that could result in a significant injury, knock out,

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Lloyd Vickers, CEO and Chairman of The Fight Zone, has the company focused on developing and promoting Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) sports, as well as its athletes, on a global basis. The company’s services encompass discipline training, strength and conditioning training, management, marketing, merchandising and sponsorship programs.

MMA is a form of full contact, one-on-one combat that incorporates a wide range of fighting techniques, from traditional martial arts forms like Karate to more non-traditional hybrids like wrestling/kickboxing. The sudden and surprising popularity of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has pushed

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Live Current Media, Inc. (LIVC.OB) announced today that it has signed a letter of intent with Domain Strategies to develop www.Karate.com, a domain name owed by Live Current. Domain Strategies - a leading Internet development company - and Live Current will form a new company, Newco, to build, manage, and monetize Karate.com. The board of directors of Newco will have equal representation, but Domain Strategies will have primary operational responsibilities, including site design, employment and vendors, customer acquisition, and potential strategic partners. Live Current will contribute the domain name Karate.com to Newco and will receive a 50% interest in the new company, plus a distribution and liquidation preference of $500,000.

Domain Strategies is also investing $250,000 in cash to the venture, demonstrating its faith in the potential of the domain. Rob Monster, chairman of Domain Strategies, said, “Live Current has assembled an outstanding portfolio of development-worthy domains. We know from past

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The Fight Zone, Inc. (TFZI.PK) is focused on developing and promoting Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) sports, as well as its athletes, on a global basis. The company is strategically positioning itself in this industry as it is one of the fastest growing industries in the nation.

The Fight Zone is primarily committed to developing the highest level of fighters, while receiving 30% of their clients’ winnings and bonuses. The company’s services encompass discipline training, strength and conditioning training, management, marketing and sponsorship programs.

The company also plans to generate revenue by promoting the fights, advertising, endorsements, merchandising, gate attendance and media, while maximizing profits by operating efficiently. Although fight clubs come and go, The Fight Zone will be able to capitalize on these numerous opportunities by signing some of the biggest stars and cross-promoting fights with major MMA leagues.

The Fight Zone is led by CEO and Chairman Lloyd Vickers, who has more

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