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Nick Oliva - EzineArticles.com Expert Author  

Nick Oliva (O-lee-va’) has been a musician, composer, photographer, an audio engineer, an Entertainment Director and Technical Director for over twenty-five years and is a successful self-made money manager.

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  • Jock Stewart and the Missing Sea of Fire
    [Book-Reviews:Mysteries-Thrillers] Jock Stewart and The Missing Sea of Fire by Malcolm R. Campbell is a colorful rambling tale rooted in the old Bogart mystery movies or the Mickey Spillane pulp fiction of yesteryears but with more twists that a package of red licorice; with more curves than Lindsey Lohan; with characters as crusty as the pie at the Purple Platter Diner; the plot as thick as the meatloaf entrée they serve there as well. Jock is an old-school journalist whose destiny with danger is encompassed within the present dealing with realities of the digital age and the new blog bites of temptations that the public is now reduced to reading and the art of investigative journalism has taken a back seat - much like the one in an old 1953 Desoto he seduces the mayor's wife quite often in - to the end of newsprint and its importance in the informational superhighway of sod-busting sycophants.


  • 2009 A New Year - Make a Universal Resolution
    [Self-Improvement] We strive our whole lives to bring meaning to our consciousness, to feel as though we are here for a purpose; to have that meaningful relationship with ourselves, our beliefs in external entities of whatever one's vision of God is, and to counter the selfishness that is programmed as a survival mechanism that usually gets out of hand, in old accustomed, and therefore generally excused, behavior of tacit acceptance or outright deviousness of our human race causing the suffering and death of others. It is this "meaning" that eludes most both the stringent atheist and ...


  • Stayin' Alive at 55
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] This is dedicated to all of my nieces and nephews. The road is long and always leads to another one. It is a summary of self awareness through the stages of my life and wisdom and adversity being hand in hand.


  • The Ultimate Political Solution
    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion] Let me begin by saying that this will not go over well with most people but it's not like I'm going to stop writing this article. Be forewarned and leave the premises now if you don't want to get your blood pressure up. Canada and Mexico are governed by Socialism in principle and in fact.


  • The Las Vegas Folies Are Still Kickin'
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Performing-Arts] The Folies Bergère is the longest running production show in Las Vegas, nestled at the Tropicana Hotel/Casino for the last 50 years or so. That's not counting the original spectacle in Paris, France (that's the one with the real Eiffel Tower). The name was a French word "folies," derived from the Latin word for leaves (foliae), the idea being that it was an outdoor venue, combined with the name of one of the nearby streets, the Rue Trevise.


  • Why Didn't They Build it on the Sun?
    [News-and-Society:Energy] We now have an energy crisis beyond any proportion in our American history. It's really our fault. We sat on our collective asses and let our government allow the contributors to their campaigns make hundreds of billions of dollars while eliminating subsidies for alternative energy over a decade ago.


  • Slaves to the Free Market
    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion] I tend to bring modern perspectives into the past using historical actions that belie the human condition through the ages, as to show us as a species in a vacuum, without preconceived "normal" rituals of any particular age. It's my way of "seeing" if the same actions hold up with or without the sum total of knowledge that we've acquired up to this point-that I think rarely turns into wisdom. Yes, this is a long sentence to begin short blog.


  • (Our) Future of (Oil) Futures
    [Business:International-Business] Few people understand futures and options contracts on the open market, if one could call it that. Essentially, what we humans do is write on a piece of paper a price and a date for commodities such as oranges (Think Eddie Murphy in Trading Places), coffee, pork bellies, grain, and the most talked about today-oil. The futures pit used to be a place to hedge bets against a bad crop or to ensure future supplies at a pre-negotiated price.


  • The Future Use of Digitization - Part 1
    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion] The first thing one has to look at as to where we are now, is how we've arrived here. The frenzied pace of news, information, research, gaming, and other bytes funneling down the fibers are a culmination of technologies past, and those technologies were the result of human desire for expansion of our awareness, need for better survival and lifestyle upgrades as well as a longer life.


  • Jimmy Castor Live in Las Vegas
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Music] Jimmy Castor a legend from the sixties and seventies performed at a local club in Las Vegas for a packed house. He is the author of many songs and two million sellers, one for Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers as well as his own "Leroy, Your Mama's Callin' You."


  • Cheap Thrills in Las Vegas
    [Travel-and-Leisure:Budget-Travel] Many people decry the lack of inexpensive alternatives to the current costs of enjoying oneself in the "new" Las Vegas. Vegas used to be a town of cheap rooms, inexpensive food, and free entertainment. But all that's been changing since the sixties when they figured out they could take the talent in the lounges, build a closed-in theater, put the acts in there and start charging admission.


  • The Song Remains The Same - The Music of Led Zeppelin With a 50 Piece Orchestra
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Music] Yes you did read correctly, it does say orchestra in the title. Rock and roll merges with classical music as conductor/arranger Brent Havens presents The Music of Led Zeppelin, a program he scored that extends the listening experience of Led Zeppelin's timeless tunes. Now you would ask as I did, how can they maintain the power of such a super screaming rock and roll mega-band, riff for riff, while blending in new musical colors with 50, count em', 50 orchestral instruments?


  • Why, Where, Who, and When's
    [News-and-Society:Religion] Any way of life that involves spiritual thinking or should I say metaphysical thought can be termed some sort of a religion if there is a Deity or Deities that are venerated or worshiped. The root of the word "religion" can be found as the Latin word religare (re: back, and ligare: to bind), so that one is tied to or bound to that ritual that makes up that school of thought. The word relic comes from a similar root as well as it means "from the past.


  • Arthur C Clarke Leaves Us at 90
    [Arts-and-Entertainment] A farewell and homage to Arthur C. Clarke, writer and visionary who influenced many great people such as Carl Sagan, Gene Roddenbury, and others. I was all of 16, popcorn in hand, watching the most peculiar film...


  • The Boz is Still Boss - "Hope You Never End This Song"
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Music] I was lucky enough to procure a ticket for the second night of a performance by Boz Scaggs at the Las Vegas Hilton Theater, a longtime veteran of the musical world whose whose music, although very popular, is difficult to define. The closest definition to Mr. Scaggs unique voice is silky, smooth, utterly romantic.


  • Time Has Come Today - I've Been Obama-Delicized
    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion] After decisively winning the Wisconsin primary, the Democratic candidate Barrack Obama seems to be heading for an inevitable full-steam-ahead showdown with John McCain in the fall. After hearing his speech Tuesday night, I wondered how did this Senator from Illinois get so far, so fast and how is he able to capture the heart and soul of this younger generation?


  • Layla, You Still Got Me On My Knees, Pattie Boyd
    [Book-Reviews:Music] I received as a Christmas gift a personalized autographed copy of "Wonderful Today." This is a very good marketing device for a premium price, but worth it for those who value the author's dedication in their own handwriting. Beatle George Harrison wrote "Something" for her and it remains one of the most covered Beatles songs ever.


  • Blows Against the Empire
    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion] While we sit in a rising pool of dangerous unknowns, wondering if we are coming to recession, are in recession, or going into a calamity of perfect storm proportions yet unknown, we still debate what got us here in the first place. Globalization is blamed for much of our ills and indeed the loss of jobs and industry has brought us to the last stage of an economic empire-that of a service industry.


  • Will Smith, Words, Wanton Skewing, and Warning for the New Year
    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion] Are the gifts at Christmas the best we can offer to show that we care about each other? If we do not heed the warnings of those who allow what seems harmless to become harmful then we become the evil within us and are no better.


  • The Ghost of Christmas Past
    [Home-and-Family:Holidays] I stood at the window the snow crunching at my feet and looked in to see the people eating, talking, and making merry. It was a cold night and I was alone. A Christmas story with a lesson to be learned.


  • Christmas And The Origin Of Santa Claus
    [Home-and-Family:Holidays] Have you always wondered how Christmas and Santa Claus or St. Nick ever came to be linked within the same holiday? Here's a short story on the subject.


  • Keep the Faith, Pass the Love, It's About Christmas Time
    [Home-and-Family:Holidays] A look at the crazy Christmas Holidays and the meaning of what it is that we do blindly. Here we are again in the throes of the holiday season which is to GNP as milk is to butter, and weapons are to plowshares, as Bonnie is to Clyde, and so on and so forth.


  • Rah, Rah, Rah - Rabid Fans, John Nash, and the Human Condition
    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion] The danger of rabid devotion in society at large, beginning with the seemingly innocuous sports fan. In my lifetime I have been an athlete, a spectator and immersed into the mass hysteria of supporting one team or another. I've watched over-ladened testosteroned bullies' frenzied frothing of violent outrage, should their team be threatened by a rival's presence within arms reach and that's just in the stands.


  • Is It HOW or WHERE Books Are Bought That Counts?
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Book-Marketing] I recently did a survey of authors as to "how" they go about buying the books that they like. I wanted to try and nail down the "kernel of knowledge" that motivates one to buy a particular book- be it by author, cover, blurbs, word of mouth, etc.


  • Hilly, Billy, Jack, and Jilly
    [News-and-Society:Politics] This article addresses the political spectrum as it is becoming close to hilarious as the reactions are nearing the support level of lunacy that passes as contemporary thought. Firstly, the current administration has already left it's legacy as memorable as the first Soviet space monkeys, Abrek and Bion and we've spent eight years looking for the orange extension cord that connects to Osama Bin Laden's dialysis machine while rebuilding a country that will want to destroy us in a few years for doing so.


  • What's in a Name? Where Do You Want to Retire?
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Humor] A good friend asked me an interesting question about where I would want to retire based on names...so I went on a binge and tore out some maps and then did some research and found all these actual places in the good old U.S. of A...these are all real names of towns in the United States and I'm sure there are great stories behind them. I hope you get a good laugh from them!


  • Opening a Restaurant - The Top Things To Think About Before Doing It
    [Business:Entrepreneurialism] The following is not intended to be legal advice to anyone and is intended only for allowing positive awareness regarding possible negative experiences. You're on your own from here!


  • Free O.J. In Las Vegas
    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion] Competing circuses have come and left in a town packed with three-ring stages. The Democratic Debates or "Why I Stopped Worrying and Began to Love the Obama," are now history, while across town Orenthal James Simpson, one of the most hated men in America in modern times (politics aside) went before a judge who determined that he will stand trial for whatever charge the prosecutor can dream up. It doesn't matter what the charge is, Simpson has been under a microscope for so long any violation, or what seems to be a violation will hold up in court.


  • Time For Oil To Go
    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion] It has been decried long before the first Earth Day in the seventies and over thirty years later, we still allow our politicians, oil conglomerates, and irrational perspectives to rule our absurd interconnected world.


  • More Musical Codes Found In Famous Artworks
    [Arts-and-Entertainment] After some research I found that this is not the only instance of finding musical codes in art. Here are some other instances not publicized but just as important.


  • The Cycle Never Ends
    [News-and-Society:Religion] An article that begins with Ann Coulter and shows how one-sided Christianity is and how the lack of acceptance of real history and intolerance plays into bloodshed throughout man's existence on this planet. As we all know by now, Ann Coulter was talking to Donny Deutsch on his show, when she said that Jews are lesser spiritual beings than Christians and that they need "perfecting".


  • Big Sur, Nepenthe and Other Things
    [Travel-and-Leisure] Big Sur. A place of great beauty and dramatic vistas. The sheer cliffs that drop a thousand feet or more to the violent sea that thrashes and pounds at the granite base below.


  • The Truth Behind Stem Cell Research - The Right To Recover
    [Book-Reviews:Biology] Yvonne Perry is a fellow writer and friend and after having read her book I am forwarding this information to all that I know in the hopes that they read and understand that we here in the United States are being misled as to what researchers want to use for stem cells that are not human embryos as has been misstated over and over by groups that do not want to educate themselves.


  • Mexicali Blues
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Humor] Having spent two weeks in Cabo San Lucas, Baja Mexico I have a much better view of what paradise is and what it is not. I have been going down there for the last 6 years, twice a year but never for more than 7 days.


  • Time Out
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Humor] A series of blogs regarding contemporary life, books, funny situations, and commentary on ironic and the silly things in life. I think to use the Irish word, "blarney," comes forth as an aid to shield us from the failures, regrets, and disappointments of those times.




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