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January 2008 Year 5 Publication 1

“Jangoo was founded in 1999 as a concept by a youth, who 5 years later made his dream come true in wonderful America's opportunities: his own profiting business, which is convenient online shopping. Enjoy our wide yet easy selection of products from Asian Candies to Coins and online fun and entertainment. Jangoo has served customers around the country and now we hope to serve you. Jangoo: The vision beyond The Lemonade Stand come true.”

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Way to Travel, Part 1

Tony Bus: Will it survive?

First I saw a DC-NY bus on the freeway. That was Thanksgiving night. The bus was empty spare the driver and two passengers. The first thought in my mind was:

There are nice buses soon to be on the foreclosure block.

Then I saw them hanging around my local Metro Station, Foggy Bottom. Their buses were always near empty. I eventually got a flyer. This was a knock-off product of the reputable Eastern Travel. Apparently, the flyer was styled in the same format as Eastern as well.

I went on their website to check a schedule. Them having new buses, and the convenience of being so close to my home, I looked up a trip. Sold out, eh. How could that be? The buses always left Foggy Bottom near empty, and they left DC the same way. That must have been intentionally placed, in a bad place, because that was the trip I wanted.

Why Foggy Bottom, Why such a failure?

Tony must have headed straight for demographics. The target is the university students. But why GW? These students are among the richest, and show this off. Many would forsake this new, convenient bus for an Amtrak Acela or an airline or their nice car. But GW is a big school, and Tony should have been able to fill its buses if they had marketed correctly.

I plan to travel to New York on Tony, and find out about those apparently frequent stops. They are GW, Chinatown, Greenbelt (Actually leaving the parkway), Baltimore (Why don’t they have their own private coach yet to New York?), Penn Station, Under the Manhattan Bridge Terminal, and Manhattan Chinatown.

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“Sunday, August 12, 2007

Canada

What do you call a two-lane road with yield-turns? In Canada that is what is called a freeway. Apparently, Canada has not been using its tax money right. In a nation with a skyrocketed 18% overall tax rate nothing has been done. Everything is still overpriced…”

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Continued, from page 2,

I took the Tony bus to New York on Christmas Eve. Apparently, the 7:45 am trip was sold out. A sales gimmick at a bad time. So therefore I had to so inconveniently get up at 5:30am to make the 6:45am bus. I bought a one-way ticket, because I did not know how I would like the ride. I got on the bus with my duffel bag and saw overfilling bags of rubbish hanging on the seat handle.

Departing on time from Foggy Bottom I was one of five passengers. Arriving in the dark at Chinatown, twenty more passengers boarded the bus…over the period of 45 minutes. The connection van from Annandale arrived on time, but the sun came out and countless numbers of rush-hour buses passed us as the driver did whatever, waiting for passengers to come. So the bus eventually left, a whole 30 minutes late. Then about 20 minutes later, we stopped again, to pick up two passengers from a strip mall in Greenbelt. Minutes later we were going at highway speed again, only to stop about 20 minutes later at the Baltimore Travel Center, to pick up two more passengers. There were 7:30am buses that were pulling in. Yikes. Then there was rest stop that one should put in for passenger comfort, if running on time. So I met my mother at about 11am, about an hour later than I should have been. ‘What happened.”

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JangooMag

February 2008 Year 5 Publication 2

Ready for the leap day? Feb. 29 2008 is around the corner!

Blog takes a quantum leap!

Once the little outpost for the Jangoo website, Atticus Sawatzki’s blog has excelled in all areas.

March 1, 2007 was the first post. The NTFletch blog was the basis of my blog. I guess I just wanted to expand my little empire. That was the time that I was the Developmental and Financial manager of Tuck Shop (USA). I was looking into ways to penetrate to get to my people, so I made a website. I made a monthly paper (renamed JangooMag since moving away from TS.) This was the time where I was going to start STSN Video Broadcasts. (If there was one good thing in South Park that I used was the idea of CCTV Closed Circuit Television broadcasting.) It was a slow and bumpy start. April 15, a post reads “I did not abandon.” One, two weeks was normal to go for without a post, and quickly I flipped into September. I did not even blog on my birthday. (April 17) It was in November where the blog took the first jump. I tried to blog every few days. Monday January 7, 2008. That was the start of daily, true daily blogging. I think that is when I gained fame for being the Blogger from the link on my Facebook. In a few ways, another website sited my page, and on January 18, 2008, we had a little time in English class talking about my blog. That was as sweet as honey, I remember, and as I say, “I only aim to get more fame.” Jangoo’s plan includes starting to advertise products in mainstream media, on the street, and online by June 2008.

an early blog from 1995

credit: blog.lib.umn.edu/.../women_and_children.html

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Editor’s note: I know that Jmag did a story about Tony Bus last month, but our team thought that this, written by a guest journalist, was important to place here.

Struggle

Some time last month, the leading Chinese-language newspaper in the Washington, DC area reported, from the owner’s, and the East Asian-Americans’ view, reported of an unfortunate incident. It is translated roughly from the paper. Eastern Bus, which many and even JangooMag pronounce as the “best” bus company was the victim of something. State cops targeted the famously crowded 5 pm bus, and held it on the side of the road for an hour. What was the motive? Would the cops have picked on Greyhound in that way? It was senseless targeting that should be reprimanded.

Our Blog Selection: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 (IT)

This describes how we placed the first of 2008’s Jmag online.

As you may have seen, I beat Adobe! Personally, I do not see the point in Adobe at all. PDF's take such a long time to load! I think HTML (What I did with JMAG yesterday by posting it directly on the webpage) is the #1 way to go.
Earlier this evening, I was tooling around with something I saw in the Popular Science magazine. Free easy game builder from MIT. For reputation's sake I won't post the link until I actually get a game to work better than...the lame game. Of course, today was my first day with it. I'll try to get agile with the program.
BTW: I have worked with basic text programming before. I was able to produce a text-line game (Without graphics, just words) (Chose the red path or the green path). Cool in its own way.

www.atticussawatzki.blogspot.com

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West End

This neighborhood is just about close to everything. There is a Trader Joe’s centrally placed, a famous hospital (Think Reagan), a pool, lots of office space and a lot more. Many people inadvertently pass through this community as they walk from the Foggy Bottom Metro to Georgetown. (If there was a Metro main line stop in Georgetown, would it be much like Gallery Place/Chinatown?) In an interview with a real estate agent, who likes at the Tiverton (last rent-controlled apartment in the community), he had no hesitation about going on about the conveniences of being in the West End. (Preferred name over Foggy Bottom, connotation an undesirable place) Of course he did not.

On the matter of real estate, a 6 unit building of multimillion-dollar condos has been totally sold. However, this is a contrast to the rather decent prices around the Columbia, the major condo building with over 250 units.

What about the local hangout? It’s the West End Bistro, an extremely upscale bistro, which I guess many people in the neighborhood would not think of going into. With sadness, we write that there are 2 Starbucks along M street at 22^nd as well as 24^th. Going on, if West End were to be ripped off into the ocean, it could actually sustain itself. As we said above, there are just about every shop you will need, a decent hospital, and the library, as well as offices. Now back to where West End currently is, walk a few blocks east and you are in downtown. Ten blocks and you’re at the White House. Of Course, across the Rock Creek, is Georgetown. 15 minutes from the bridge ramp is Target.

West End’s public infrastructure is a constant real estate target, but they don’t

sell the library or police department. Local publications include The West End Current, of the Current papers, as well as JangooMag, which is published in the area

Continued from previous page, West End

Another word about the convenience: The area is served by four bus systems and the Foggy Bottom/GWU Metro stop on the blue and orange, and the future silver lines. Georgetown Metro Connection AKA the blue bus, MTA commuter service to LaPlata, MD (start point). The DC Circulator, K street line, makes the stop, and on Metrobus the 30-series, as well as 38B and rush hour D5 buses. Convenience at its best?

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Classifieds

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It’s just a start of this section.

For all matters related to the classifieds, please contact JangooMag.

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Our Picture: Some of our readers are eagerly awaiting summer camp. Quite a little time away, though, but camp is a whole bundle of fun. Here is a picture from Incarnation Camp in Connecticut.

credit: www.gocamps.com

Note: In our personal collection, we have a stunningly professional picture of the lake at dusk, as well as many others. When our press figures out how to properly upload pictures from an Adobe album into Word, we will post a picture or two.

Our recipe

A simple desert drink that doesn’t really cost that much to make

You Need: What to do:

1 cup brewed coffee, hot or cold 1. Mix everything but the whipped cream

1-2 tbsn chocolate syrup and garnishings

¼ cup milk or cream 2. Swirl whipped cream on top and

¼ tsp vanilla and/or other extracts garnish with mint, cinnamon stick, or

Sugar to please orange peel.

Dash cinnamon, nutmeg, white pepper 3. Serve and enjoy.

Whipped cream to swirl on top

Garnishing

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Jangoo Magazine, Atticus Sawatzki, editor and writer. Augustus Sawatzki, associate

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March 2008

What have you been doing for this early Lent? Page 3.

Jangoo’s new frontier- selling in the classified

This month, we have put merchandise for sale on Facebook, namely an SD 1 gigabyte memory card. While the item has not sold yet, a sign that the Facbook marketplace has not fully matured, our staff has come across things that we can use. Say for example the IPOD. There are a lot out there, and a large price range. We came across an IPOD, new, selling for $40. We put in an offer and are negotiating shipping. Our next frontier is the newspaper classifieds and Craigslist, which are more developed and run-about places. We will report later, but we still see hope in Facebook. For the time being, it’s the others who seem the best.

Our Coin Page

Silver Washington Quarter

If you have been reading Atticus Sawatzki’s Blog, you will have noted that A.S. found one of these in his change. Such occurrences are quite rare. The George Washington quarter has been around since 1932 as a tribute for the President’s 200^th birthday, replacing the Standing Liberty design. The design, front and back, had remained the same until 1999; when the Statehood Quarter program begun and will technically finish this year- in reality in 2009 after DC and the territories. The coin was made of the standard 90% silver content, as with the dime, half dollar, and dollar coins, up until 1964 ehen the alloy was switched to a cheaper mixture. A.S. first noticed the quarter by the slightly different typeset and then by weight.

Photo credits, left to right: www.foundinrolls.com, www.loti.com

Blog Selection of the month

This month we made a landmark 100 posts. Other than this, we have seen a Model UN Conference, been through the excitements of snow days, the bleakness of winter, and much more.

Thursday, February 14, 2008 Post 100 Day

Remember, this is a special day for the Atticus Sawatzki's blog production crew!
This is our 100th post. And by luck, 100th falls on a holiday called Valentines day. Unfortunately, I did not have religion class today, and therefore did not re-learn again who was St. Valentine. I was thinking of making the milestone on February, 29, but daily blogging pushed the date ahead. We will still celebrate our blog's first anniversary on March, 1, capping off our first 366 days. Next year I plan to post 365 posts. That's tentative, though.

As for my other life, I just came back from the Trajan party, a brief little Latin translation brouhaha. Before that, I was doing It's Academic. I thought it was 4:00 when the party started, but I guess they started a little before, and I didn't get the first few lines edited. Oh well. I actually did the work before the parties, and therefore did not crash because of missing a few lines of translation. Only one more thing; "Mom, I'm on the first shuttle (at 4:40pm) and it left on time for a change."

Non-Jangoo web thing of the week

“And a psychology question: If you read the post labels, you may have been drawn to the Injury section. Nothing wrong. I understand what people want: Drama. Which brings up the point- what do you look for in the news? Integrity, or entertainment and mindless ballyhoo.
What we call the news- Tragedies, adventures, romances, dramas, and inspirational coaches. Visit www.jibjab.com”

Fast-Approaching Easter- with terms

The Atticus Sawatzki blog has been harping on this- Easter is coming on March 23, only a day after the earliest it can be. If you look at your calendar, Spy Wendesday falls inside winter, and Maundy Thursday is the first day of Spring. So therefore, Easter and associated breaks are coming soon. Very soon.

Classifieds- from partner publication- IN-Transit Shop

DC quarter subscription! While not technically a state quarter, the District fought for its hard-earned representation. The coin releases in 2009. $2. for 4 quarters, including shipping.

Iced tea kits- includes coasters, signs, recipes, tea and sugar. Just supply water, lemon, and cups. Makes 1 gallon, includes free shipping. $1.50

Jangoo is hiring contractors, dealers, and canvassers.

In an expansion plan, The Jangoo Corp. is encouraging people far and wide to inquire about easy franchising opportunities. “Jangoo looks for sociable, intelligent, business and amiable people to sell our brand name”, as comes from the Franchiser’s guide. You never knew you were so talented, but you are most likely able to make money on your schedule at your leisure with Jangoo. As reports, Contractors sell quality items to us at wholesale price, dealers receive products to sell on a pay-later basis, and canvassers spread the word about us, receiving a portion of new account money they bring in. The CEO reports: “It’s time to expand”, and the CFO who we must assume is in for the money, says, “It’s a great win for all.” Indeed, a low-risk expansion would raise current stock values to the delight of some top shareholders. Jangoo encourages those interested to email us, and to remind everyone that we want what you can do, and we aren’t in this hiring arena to reject people outright.” Also available is special skilled jobs such as computer programming and event planners and brand promoters, and the sky is no limit.

Jangoo introduces free shipping on most purchases of $10 and more:

Jangoo has reviewed shipping costs, and has found that most purchases over this amount had sufficient profit clearance to cover this new program. Also, the Jangoonow online catalog will also now feature subsidized shipping rates to entice more customers.

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JangooMag

April 2008 Year 5 Publication 4

In this issue: Great stuff! -

The VP’s Commute

The vice president’s extravagant commute has become a little insider’s joke (about being late because of a motorcade- and it’s a legitimate reason. Not only his daily commute, but all of his other travels, such as his frequent hospital and dinner trips, delay the city. This in turn, is basically “The whole world stops for him.” And he’s not very polite about it. He hides his Halliburton-greedy head in his luxury bulletproof limo with his paid entourage, unlike friendlier counterparts such as Ronald Reagan, who risked his life by stepping out of his vehicle to chat with the local cops, at the DC Hilton on Connecticut Avenue. So basically this corporate, criminal, self-centered figure gives no regard to the millionaires and even the congressmen who live in the city. That said, we thought it might be useful to rouse you about his travel route from the observatory to the White House, so if you are in need of money, you can throw an egg at his fuel-wasting travel habits, get hurt, and sue. (We think Metro would be happy to reroute a bus to accommodate his travel on the Massachusetts Avenue Line, N2, 4 and 6. Michael Bloomsburg, New York City’s mayor, travels on the subway with only a couple of guards, and Washington’s favorite mayor drives without security detail.

The Circulator, approaching age 3

Innocence

29 red buses started roaming Washington on three sleek lines beginning in the summer of 2005. Like the opening of Metrorail in 1976, the system surely wanted everyone to feel as if this would be a new chapter in Washington history. Really? Harkening back to March 27, 1976, Circulator offered free rides on its first day of service, which happened to be a Sunday. In those days, Circulator buses were rapid and held the schedule on its relatively short route from Georgetown to Union Station, via K street, with a trip between 21^st and 30^th streets, westbound, on a limited-access road. The buses were clean and fresh. Manufactured by the Belgian company Van Hool, this was the type of bus one could imagine seeing in Amsterdam, or California. After all, the model was the bus of the year in 2004. The 29 buses came from an original order by AC Transit of Oakland, California, just across the bridge from San Francisco, an equitable city to Washington. The buses had large window, again, clean and fresh, by which a tourist might be willing to press his or her face against the widow-pane to get a quick glimpse of the White House, crossing 16^th Street on the K street line.

Reality

By 2007, the Circulator had incorporated the Georgetown Metro Connection Route 1 (the Upper Georgetown- Foggy Bottom metro route) into the K Street line, thus ending plebian bus service to the K Street waterfront and leaving Foggy Bottom without all-day public city bus transportation. Unlike the former GMC route, the Circulators then followed the 30-series’ route to Whitehaven. This was then where the largest problems were spawned.

Lost

What ever happened to the original idea of the Circulator- limited-stop service to the Central Business district? Were did the concept of the elite bus separate from Metro go? If anything, we can tie the Circulator’s misfortunes to the takeover of the Loud Blue Bus’ route to it all. First, the buses are often caught in traffic in the one-lane portion of Wisconsin Avenue from M street to the Peabody library on R Street. Also critical is the fact that the Circulator is priced 35 cents lower than Metrobus, and those looking, or are in desperate need of saving some coins will ride the Circulator one stop, only to receive a transfer that is valued at the full fare of a Metrobus ride, to continue their trip on the 30-series. This is not paranoia; many people have witnessed this entrepreneurship of an annoying sort. It really does delay the bus, and something should be done about this disparity. Of course, it may be politically incorrect to address this problem, and P.C. always interferes with rational solutions. But the fare can’t go higher; one of the points was a low-cost ride. So therefore the best solution-for both this and the punctuality problems- would be- not letting the Circulator be an additional 30-series service.

Have we forgot?

And what about the 7/9^th street Circulator line? To us, this proves that dedicated bus and HOV lanes do work. In stark contrast to the K street line, the Circulator is most always running on time on the route between the Southwest Waterfront and the Giant past the DC Walter E. Washington Convention Center. (Oh yes. Is Giant really part of the CBID?) Otherwise, the buses are always nearly empty, as the 70 series as well as other bus routes use the corridor as well, not to mention close-knit Metro stations on the Green and Yellow lines. Question- is it worth running?

It should run here

The National Mall Circulator line is really what the Circulator was built for and meant to be. The wide panoramic windows allow for astounding, albeit very brief views of our Nation’s Capital’s monuments and memorials. The bus were some help in “filling the gaps left behind” in the DC transit network, as well as providing rapid convenience and comfort with good air conditioning against Washington’s hot summers. Of course, what about extending the line to Union Station east of the mall and to Dupont Circle via 23^rd street and Foggy Bottom Metro on the west side of the mall? There is hope for the Circulator, even in the midst of its current problems.

Our brief Blog selection

JangooMag

May 2008 Year 5 Publication 5

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This May

Postage stamps will rise mid-month. Anyway, when was the last time you sent something by snail mail? Jangoo does, and remember, you can still order Jangoomag through the mail.

State of Jangoo

This May will mark the 8th anniversary of our company. So now we will supply our yearly report. Our largest lendee is rapidly making payments, and our “from kids to kids” sales tactic is working very well. Since last May, monthly Blog readership has grown into the hundreds, and general interest and orders over our Internet Empire have risen. Stock value has finally surpassed $1, but this is not the end; there is a great summer coming up.

This Month’s Recipe

Soy Product Desert

I am enjoying one of these exotic treats as I type the recipe into the computer.

For four servings- You Need: 1 pound Silken Tofu

4 Pineapple Slices

2/3 cup Iced Water

6 tsp. Sugar

Cut the tofu into 1-inch cubes. Mix other ingredients. Serve Chilled!

Prep time- 5 minutes.

Haiku Today

Typing, typing done.

A short story was written

Now, time to submit.

The case against Caffeine

Many of our readers are coffee drinkers, but we will not stray from the facts in the interest of the profit.

Caffeine- it is drunken by 90% of Americans. Basically, our whole society is drinking this substance. Many adults drink it in their cup of morning coffee. Others drink it in sodas with caffeine, or even worse, energy drinks. The caffeine industry is a major part in the American Economy, from small businesses to the largest corporations that harvest money on people’s addictions.

In the past month, after being at the Papal mass, I was given a free-drink coupon for Starbuck’s coffee. Now I have done middle school finance before, and I know that there is a good business reason for it. Do they expect for everyone to cover the production costs of the coffee with purchase of a pastry? Of course not. The only reason for Starbucks to do this is to get you HOOKED. That is the reason for coupons in the first place-to make you want to buy their product, and keep on buying it. But this is very unethical. Starbucks wants you to have a chemical need for their coffee-an addiction. Now imagine if some tobacco company to hand out free packs of cigarettes to our children. No one would tolerate that, so why would we tolerate the caffeine industry to get their way with our bodies?

This Month’s Post

Dies Irae

Things went from terrible to the abyss of heck when I discovered last night that my Math notebook was missing, too. I suffered to get as much of the math done as possible for homework, but I nearly skipped dinner, after missing lunch.

But I can't stay miserable for over 24 hours.
8:55 am, books found being filing cabinet.

Mike Higgins was the real writer of the "3:20" song. Stephen only made it a tune for your daily activities, and the song became famous with him.

18 days until my first classmate is capable of receiving his Learner's Permit. (aka drive with your mother) That was because of a loophole in Virginia State Law that allows 15 1/2-year-olds get their driving permits- regardless of educational attainment. That's going to be a whole 11 months before me, because DC doesn't trust freshmen behind the wheel. Some people say that they know other freshmen that are legally permitted to drive. I don't know any other.

I Review

Books- if you still read

I tell you, this is not DC-centric! The Great Society Subway, Zachary M Scrag, preview on GoogleBooks. A good read about the federal government and the city mid-century.

Foods- if you are still alive

Kasugai Gummies- so juicy! Available through our online shop!

Drinks- for your desire

Coconut Drink- A sort of coconut milk, very good, from oriental markets. Best chilled; Ye Shu brand recommended, the Chinese State Banquet drink.

Products- ‘cuz dey kool

Vivitar Digital camera- time-tested by our staff. Works great!

View our Blog for breaking events that happened in April, such as the Papal Mass

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JangooMag

June 2008 Year 5 Publication 6

Jangoo’s New York City Division and its Legacy

Our last active board member is leaving New York in the middle of this month. Luckily, we still have multiple shareholders who will be, in their best interest, willing to spread the news of Jangoo’s Internet Empire. While this ends the legacy of the New York division, and consolidation into the Washington World Headquarters, by no means is the company weaker than the grand expansion three years ago into Austin, Texas; Seoul, South Korea; and Branford, CT.

Tuck Shop opened in the fall of that wonderful year; Jangoo assumed management for the next two years. However, even if we do not have the keys anymore to the shop, Jangoo still holds influence there.

Due to having a full-time Washington office, Tuck Shop was able to collaborate beyond city limits, and the Washington staff actually placed a phone order for the Tuck Shop.

Many great ideas came from New York, including Teleporter, and Jangoo TV. The New York division also provided timely reporting on city events, such as sports, and the train derailment last month.

Travel News

Q+A

A critical look: Is a new carrier a month a good thing

A disaster is lurking as private carriers are transporting passengers between Washington and Boston in hoards. Jangoo approximates that there are 40 non-greyhound/charter buses, making about 70 roundtrips per day, with a capacity of 7000 passenger trips per day. Latest to join is Megabus, which holds a monopoly in the Midwest on decent bus service.

Potential Mergers?

There are two categories; they are based on the fare system used.

Algorithm based- These companies have adjustable-rate ticket sales performed on the internet.

Megabus (They are using the Port Authority Terminal in New York!)

Boltbus

These two have a merger chance. Megabus somehow made money in England, and recently started service in the American Midwest.

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Fixed-Price. $20 one way, $35 roundtrip.

American-Style operation

Washington Deluxe

DC2NY

Vamoose (Don’t ride them!)

Eastern

Apex bus

New Century (2000), and Today’s Bus

It does not seem inevitable that some of these would merge, but you never know!

Don’t forget how good old Greyhound and Peter Pan takes some riders (not me!), and how Amtrak is capable of porting thousands of riders, daily.

And now, it’s finally time to tell you an itinerary of a trip to New York for cheap:

A Weekend New York for under $100, (including travel, and without sleeping on the subway)

There are a few steps to take: Number 1: Get on a “Chinatown” bus, or some variant of one. The aforementioned Megabus somehow has survived since 2003 with giving out lots of cheap tickets from $1.50 ($1 plus a 50 cent booking fee). But the plan still works if you do take a typical Chinatown bus. Let’s say, from Boston; $25 roundtrip. PS-if no one has told you yet- lots of tolls, and there is no easy formula for finding parking free: It’s risky as well…

Now, we’ll find you somewhere decent to stay, for under $60. For this, you must think out of the box; in this case, island. There are sure ways to find a hotel room at a discounted price with a coupon. Just dogpile “motel coupons” or something, and find a room in some place in Jersey City- somewhere convenient to the $1.50 PATH train, which will connect to midtown Manhattan. Of course, jumping the turnstile would save more money, but please, have some dignity.

Forget the Empire State Building, if you’re being orthodox on the $100 cap. That alone costs $40. If you want a cheap ride to the top of a skyscraper in New York, befriend an executive, or a manager, or average joe, who works on an upper floor- I have, and received a nice, private tour of the secretive Hearst Tower on eighth avenue, overlooking Central Park. Which brings up the point- no tourist buses for you- also $40. And take advantage of all the free stuff to do in New York. Try the aforementioned park, the colossal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, feel uppity by walking around Columbia University, or Fifth Avenue, have a free Chinese immersion program in Chinatown, take the Staten Island Ferry, and walk a few blocks to board the Staten Island railroad free, among other things. Chinatown (lots of Chinese food): Probably the best value for price and satisfaction, Harlem (lots of American Soul food), and Washington Heights (Lots of tacos and burritos) are places on the island where you can eat cheap, and stay within your budget parameters.

I suppose buying the $7 One-Day Metrocard for the subway would be a good recommendation, especially if you do want to eat somewhere other than Chinatown. I should also say that there are lots of other diversified, cheap food choices in the other boroughs (basically, parts of) the city, such as Jamaican in Queens and Brooklyn, and Italian in the Bronx near and on Arthur Avenue. Oh yes, the Coney Island beach is free as well! Just don’t blow your wallet at the arcade. Now I will admit, it doesn’t seem like you get much fun for a $100 getaway to New York, but I hope you get the idea: Watch the cash by skimping on a midtown hotel room, avoiding $40 tourist traps, skip on dining (Must you eat at the Russian Tea Room?), and leave the car somewhere else, because more likely than not, you’ll mistakenly park in an illegal spot, and virtually instantaneously get a big parking ticket for it.

I suppose I’ll put this one on my to-do list this summer: Write a detailed book about the subject!

Cheers for Steven Chen!

Our typical to-do list at HQ: Bringing the Jangoo message to the masses: free promotion through Facebook, Google, Blogspot, Digg, Ebay.

Between their other responsibilities, our staff had little time to develop Jangoo this month. However, we were capable of posting our first successful-loading videos onto YouTube. A great thing; with the power of keywords, our videos, in only a few days, promoted over 100 viewers, and the number keeps growing. Additionally, because of much extra staff time, we will legitimately be able to streamline our website, based on ntfletch’s network (ntfletch.googlepages.com), and resume productions of Jangoo News on video, which were much-beloved in a short season last year. Unfortunately, we will have to wait until June 18 to receive our video equipment back from a trip to Italy. Some good footage will come. Let me summarize: we will revamp Jangoo and bring the power it deserves, and is most remembered for!

Next Issue:

A full month’s worth of adventures on film! From Connecticut to Italy! Also: How goes the Jangoo videos?: A month after entering the world of Youtube.

Our Blog Selection: Expanded: Post 200, Again

A finish to a year at high school. In retrospect, it doesn't feel anything like the first day of Easter vacation, because it came so fast. Also, I think because we were eased into the break, not having a full, real day of school since last Thursday. So the last exam is done, but Sean still has my calculator-not his fault, though. Maybe I'll see him at some graduation event this weekend. I'm supposed to be receiving a job assignment by Tuesday, from the DC government. If it's good (i.e. I hardly do anything and get paid for sitting in their crib rather than mine), I'll take it. Otherwise, I might have better things to do. But I still have orchestra tomorrow. (Sigh) Life goes on, but there's always Monday. Anyway, I wish I already had my summer homework, so I could finish early, but I guess I have days to do nothing, yet I do not want to waste them. Little Brother will be at Camp Incarnation, CT for the next week, then in England; I'll be home without him, and therefore I have computer rights! Just as long as the internet doesn't fail like it did it this afternoon; it was a stressful event. Thank you, blog readers, for giving me so much to type about. "Au revoir, we'll see you again" (from Nixon, 1974, resignation speech)

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July 2008- Volume 5, Edition 7

In this issue:

4^th of July- page 1

Reviews (you can say that again!)-page 2

Fourth of July and the Jangoo Corporation

Our Fourth of July (4ofJ) rituals, and our first anniversary of the English Escapade.

One week ago, with no other staff available to help, I proceeded to purchase 5 12-packs of Pepsi-product soda. They sit in the storage room, waiting to be sold or returned:

The well-known parade in our headquarters area is the Palisades neighborhood parade, but our staff has outgrown it. I will reveal that the candy we collected in a big, brown sandwich bag was sold the next day, and the day after that, before boarding a plane to Edinburgh in England on July 6^th. With great scrutiny I handed out “free” candy, which I expected a “hefty tip” for, probably amounting $5.00 in profits that way. Aboard the late-departing Continental Airline flight, there was not much to sell.

On the return trip, an unexpected delay meant that we were unable to shop at the Duty-Free. It was unfortunate for me, but not a total tragedy, for I had bought over L$20 in British sweets for import to America.

Wrapped in a misplaced Continental blanket above the luggage bag with the broken wheel, I profited on gummies bought at the H-mart.

A sad and shocked group knew that we were the only hope. At a 300% profit margin, we sold our last Crunchie Bar.

American Airlines caused us much grief; late cabin-closing, pressure valve malfunction, and at JFK, another half hour spent repairng the jetway (if this airline was not getting government funding, they would have surely switched the gate number!) I should have missed my JetBlue connection, but thankfully, it was running two hours late.

And those Brittish pounds, over L$14 in all, and of all denominations (except the Scottish twopence, which I managed to squander at the Woolworth’s near Windsor Castle).

Our first second season episode of JangooVision!

New this time around is that we are using videoediting software, enhancing the viewing experience and clarity for our viewers. Thanks to Youtube, we are able to bring the whole world these videos! Sadly, we

From pg 1- season 2- Jangoo TV:

will have to wait on reporting on the episode as, at the time of publication, the video is in final editing.

Reviews, Reviews, Reviews.

Book Reviews

Would I have read these books if these were not assigned summer reading? Probably not.- a.s.

Cicero- The life and times of Rome’s greatest politician

Telltale British writing. A bit wordy, and the plot is sometimes hard to follow.

Cold War- This is American writing, and, as I expected, it’s easier to read than Cicero. So I ripped through 30 pages today, and I could do more. As an added bonus, I’m retaining this information.

Gus’ find

June 27, 2008-

“When the bus took the wide left turn, and when we were seated on the right side, we got a huge panorama of an M&M-styled ice cream vendor. But, unusually, everyone had one. At least a few on-board had nothing particular to do (including us), and were wondering, “what in the world.” We got the message that this was a free handout of M&M ice cream bars, coated red and blue, like an M&M. So we got off the bus. Our taster liked the bar. He ate it as we walked home, having already disposed of his transfer. My bar is still in the freezer.”

TV watch

Mayday

See the Aloha Airline flight 243, all passengers survived, one stewardess perished, with part of the cabin roof missing. I find that amazing. Look on Youtube- Crash scene investigation- not really afflilated with The CSI.

A coarse dining review

I received free coupons for Mc D’s Southern Style sandwiches- for breakfast, and lunch/dinner. Today, it was breakfast under the arches. To not cause trouble, I ordered a side of Hash Browns.

What did I ever expect. This Southern Style chicken Biscuit. Gus couldn’t get over the fact that they were serving chicken for breakfast. That was the most Mickey D I’ve eaten since I received a $50 Arch Card- nice gift, nonetheless. However, we never got around to use the lunch/dinner chicken sandwich coupon.

And a product review

Locomotion captivated our associate’s mind, and produced some sub-par blog entries. This Chris Sawyer game fosters your internal tycoon, as you build and manage a transit company- as well as maintaining your vehicles. Well, we won’t spoil all the secrets.

Questions Answered about almost anything:

Q: Have you noticed how, on the newest versions of Solitaire for Windows, the nice optical treat at the end (it portrays flying cards), it seems to run slower now.-r.s.

A: There are no stupid questions, goes the saying. Anyhow, this particular facet of Solitaire was programmed based on the CPU’s speed, not based on time-logic. So, as CPU processing speeds accelerated, the show sped up along with the times. For example, the Win95 edition runs the show at a moderate tempo; by Win98 the show was a speedster; programming was modified to slow the cards down in the latest versions of Windows (such as XP). However, I am not certain if the new edition corrects the mild glitch.

What happened to our format? Don’t worry, traditionalists. Augustus Sawatzki, the Design Editor, wants to test out different layout formats. Still, we could revert back soon. Send us your comments.

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August 2008 Year 5 Publication 8

Back to the original format!

Still going and growing strong!

Little Notes to the Story Below

This Facebook application, Texas Hold ‘Em Poker, gives you 500 points every day you sign in to the program- even if you don’t play a hand at all.

I was surprised when I made money on The Fantasy Stock Exchange (FSX). A total surprise; because, I was incapable of reaching my investments during the business day, (which I believe is an important thing to do to be successful with stocks; they do fluctuate wildly at night), but it turns out to be the interest. However, that seems to be the smart business option- I constantly ranked in the top 10% for the month and quarter, and far above the Russell 3000, which has been down, down, down. But the real surprise was the oil stocks crash- again, buying on the weekend (bad!)

The Big Story- I and the Summer of 2008

It was a warm day. I was in ankle-length khakis, the required dress, so it was a little uncomfortable. I just finished an exam, and grabbed a sandwich on the way out the door. A chap was dressed as if he just got off the ship at Ellis Island; a running gag that had gone on since the beginning of the week. He added a piece of clothing every day- from the twill hat, diamond-checkered vest, knee-length socks, and briefcase. Back to me.

Well, it was about 11am, and the train station was about 7 blocks away- it was midday, so the connecting bus to the station was not likely to come any time soon. I was walking alone; I had taken longer than most on this exam, making sure that every answer was the best I could do. I took the perceived safer route (no gang parks), the one that paralleled the bus route the entire way to the station. I caught the bus a few blocks down. Even though it was 11am, the train was relatively crowded for the time of day. It sped me home, making its usual rocking. When I got home, with a backpack much lighter than usual, I sprawled onto the beanie coach and thought about how this was a fresh summer ready for me to make it what I wanted it to be. And I also thought about the History exam. I counted 23 D’s on the multiple choice section of 50. I was told (by two people, who I supposed had not talked to each other yet) said that there were 27 D’s. I wondered, and this would pester me for the next two weeks.

For the first two weeks, I had not much to do. Little Brother’s digital camera was in Italy; I did put webcam videos online- silent, and with a low frame-per-second rate. The homework came in the mail, and I hastily bought the books on Amazon, and they came 4 days later. I delved right into Cicero- a harder read than most books, but it sounded much like what could be read on Wikipedia. I would have read it fast, but there was the possibility of a quiz on it, back in school in September. Long time, yeah. I finished it in the week Little Brother got back.

I then went into The Cold War: A New History. An easier read, took my time to read thoroughly during work breaks and travel. That took me about 1, 2, or 3 weeks. And then UNO. Day in and Day out at work, 4^th of July was early in the summer. I and the other Jangoo staff have already made two JangooVision episodes, (one of which has been posted), and continued the Blog, also trying to streamline our website. And now, at the end of July, I type, with 3 weeks to go, it’s the end of summer. Was it a waste? Jangoowise, not much happened, except for lots of future planning, thinking about our transit division, and then, about our core online shop, how we would make it nice- basically, to sell anything able to be sold properly over the internet. With this year, funds came in, so we can do online advertising, and print advertising as well. It’s good for us, and I think that this fall is good for Jangoo.

Product Review

UNO- the addictive game-

While our crew found that playing UNO the official way is not too thrilling- only playing matching colors and/or numbers, playing the common variety of using consecutives as well sped the game up. This way, we were able to have ½ hour tournaments with 8 people, eliminating the last to be UNO-out, until there was one player left. Don’t forget to call UNO when you have one card left, or you draw 2.

Did you know?

Exxon, the big oil company, made $11.7 billion in profits last quarter, or $1500/sec

Our Blog Selection

The Penultimate Day

Until holiday to Canada, that is. Tomorrow might be my last day of work with the Edusmart cronies, but it's sometimes been enjoyable. Very enjoyable, considering that today, we built and launched 'model rockets'. I call them 'little missiles', considering that we blasted them in the little green space next to the church. The launch was spectacular- there was even a rocket that went into flames- apparently, those rocket engineers mistakenly used toilet paper as flame-resistant wadding. Our team's 2 rockets went pretty well. The fat, prefab one launched far into space, and only recovering the engine section after walking all the way around the block. The little one, which we did up as our CPTG rocket, was less sucessful, on account of the amount of nauseous rubber cement that we used, but was fully recovered. Awesome!

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September 2008 Year 5 Publication 9

In this Issue:

Viewer Comments and Emails

Coin of the Month

Little Snippets

Blog Selection

It’s the 7^th month- according to the Ancient Roman Calendar

It’s Still 3 months until the Holiday Season (Christmas)

Viewer Comments- It’s About Time

Since we have been posting videos, as well as our monthly publication, onto the internet, with comments enabled and email address revealed, we got some fan and foe mail.

(email)- Promoting the waste of the environment and natural resources- what a disgrace! It’s people like you that support big oil and george bush

Think again- I’m pretty sure you don’t make an effort to get on a ‘hound or something every time you take an intercity trip. Think about this- driving your hybrid SUV is less efficient than flying- and even when you put two more passengers in the hybrid, flying in that plane saves more fuel.

Now let’s bring out the numbers: A Boeing 747 gets about ¼ of a mile per gallon, just four times more of a ground army tank. Putting this into perspective, this aircraft could be carrying 300 or more passengers- that’s the equivalent of 450 passenger miles per gallon. Now try to fit 100 people in your Prius. And let me tell you- planes do always almost get that full- there is an average of 80% seat occupancy on most routes.

(posted) It’s great seeing you!

Thanks for the nice comment

Coin of the Month

The last time we did one was waaaay back…long before the summer ever started. So let’s get on to our next coin, the Mercury Dime.

How rare is it to find one? Last time we found one in change: Spring 2006, Central Park, NYC. It was lying there under a thick layer of dust. Last reported reader finding: Spring 2008, West Coast, USA.

To clarify any misconception, neither the poisonous element Mercury, neither the mythological god Mercury is involved. The proper term for the coin is Winged Liberty. But isn’t Mercury a nicer name? These coins started mintage in 1917, replacing the generic Barber design (used universally on dimes thru half dollars), and continued through 1945, when they were replaced by the current Roosevelt design in 1946, after his untimely passing in April, 1945. Its rareness is attributed to it having a 90% silver content- silver is valuable! At a coin shop, or over the Internet, an example would cost $1. for the bare minimum, and just a dollar more would buy significant details. $10. buys an shining new example. I say- this is a great value, and it won’t last long.

Little Things in Brief

Why won’t I buy more fsx stocks?

Until the other news magistrates publish happy news (which they rarely do), it’s probably a good thing not to buy stocks et al. en masse.

On online poker- Atticus is at 62K, and now a shark

Will we start using AP’s services?

AP, the Associated Press, provides low-cost material for newsprinters to fill their editions- like soy filler. We don’t expect to use it any time soon.

This Month’s Blog Selection

An Inspirational Story

Texas Hold 'Em let me down today- but I knew the creator's algorithm. Since alll you readers read and always bear with me, I'll break it to you- stick with the game, and you'll get a good hand- eventually-but remember to fold regularly. The chances of getting a high hand is much greater in online poker, when green cash isn't involved. The creators want to keep you interested in their game, you see. This evening, some chap pocketed 75 of my chips, in two occasions, due to my misjudgment of who had a higher hand. One pair, bad call. Three-of-a-kind + high card should have done it- but, two pair! So after losing 120 chips, and not succeeding for over 10 hands straight, Pacific Avenue style, I almost quit. But no- just
one more, and I got this bonanza- except I didn't have enough chips to maximize the opportunity- A straight or a Flush- remember, Texas Hold 'Em, it happens. And I took a rebound.
\\There's always tomorrow\\ J

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October 2008 Year 5 Publication 10

The President’s house- in dollars and cents

Thought the White House was priceless? DC collects property tax on the White House like any other. ‘Assessed value’ is $995 million. Quite a few people can afford that. Of course, there is always the matter of national pride involved with such a purchase.

October Holidays include

Columbus Day- he sailed the ocean blue in 1492- but, he wasn’t the first

Halloween- if you are in for the quantity, here’s some good advice: Look for nice neighborhoods that have houses in close proximity. Two things may happen if you go late a) they run out of candy. B) they have too much candy, and they have to dump it all on you. Again, being a little late could help, because, they know that you, not being 4 years old (because you’re reading this mag), expects more.

Don’t Copy that Floppy

I devoted a whole blog post to this public service announcements about the frail software industry of 1992. I said, Don’t copy my Bloggy for the same reason. The Blog really doesn’t have any sponsor other than the Jangoonow, so don’t copy our bloggy, because we’re well underway in writing our first full-sized Blog Book- 2007/2008! I can’t believe I’ve already written a full-length book! Projected price- $9.95. Of course, it will be available on the jangoonow shop site soon for pre-ordering. Remember, all the blog material you can’t get online. You’ll get to see drafts, etc, and controversial stuff that would have gotten me hypothetically fired from my job.

My hypotetical Youtube spoof:

Don’t copy

Don’t copy my bloggy

You know when you copy a bloggy

You put someone out in the street

It’s illegal too

Don’t copy that Bloggy

Who knows why you’d wanna copy a bloggy

anyway

People work hard to write, and when

Copy that bloggy you money away

From the Blogger

Don’t copy that bloggy

Support Democracy in action

So don’t copy and put that blogger

Out of business even though it may be tempting

Or we’ll be slaves to the commie

You can quote you can laugh

But don’t copy that bloggy.

If you do you can be a commie slave.

Dang, san, I had to use hip-hop and franklins to reach you guys.

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Northern Express- the future of air travel

And, as always, we won’t charge you for a drink, or even a checked bag!

Coming to an airport near you!

Celebrating the Aerion SBJ- Supersonic Business Jet. Coming in 2014.

This supersonic jet would allow Northern Express to resume supersonic passenger air service on cross-country and international routes- 25 years after cessation of Concorde service in 2003. Cut travel time into a third of commercial- one-stop flights from NewYork-TEB/ Washington Dulles to Bombay and Dubai, as well as South Africa, and from San Francisco to Japan, and Non-stop flights to Western Europe and Brazil.

Final Thoughts…

Clip art- You’ve seen it posted everywhere. What do I think? It’s easy to use a little creativity! Whether you use Kids Pix, Paint by Windows (this is the one we use), or whatever, make the impression a little less generic- or sometimes, corny.

JangooMag is a publication of the Jangoo Corporation. Current share price (as of Oct. 1 ) is approx. $.75 per share, traded through the OTC method by DCX, uninc. Past performance does not guarantee results, however, it is a good indicator.

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November 2008 Year 5 Publication 11

Say Uncle- it’s a pilot bully term

Isn’t it nice that we have somebody sitting here to answer petty, and not-so-petty questions? Uncle is the term that you use when you want somebody to stop. It’s a safeword- that means it’s used when you mean something- like breaking character or to actually stop. Yes, the word ‘stop’ isn’t good enough sometimes. Thrill pilots find this term useful when someone wants to stop loop-dee-loops in the air.

Three Episodes and still 100% integrity

It has been three episodes on Youtube of this video news channel, and our integrity is not compromised! Every time there is an arrest, it actually happened! I have reasons to doubt the integrity: See this- only 400 murders happened in the Washington Area. However, it seems that there’s always at least three new murders a day to report on- without passing onto nearby, crime-ridden Baltimore! But every time you see a drug offense, an arrest, or a petty larceny, IT Happened! Jangoovision. It’s beyond television

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Northern Express Special

Dulles-Urumqi Express

Dulles is, of course, is the major international airline center on the East Coast, and the core hub of Northern Express’ national and international flights. Because the cost of operating one international flight can easily exceed $100,000, due to the high cost of fuel, airlines have been unable to initiate “long, thin routes”, which serve smaller destinations from a long distance. This is Urumqi, a city of 1 million in Western China, on the border of Kazakstan. Some of our constituency wishes to see such an airline to such an exotic culture, where East Asian and Arabic meet. This would be the hallmark of one of these long, thin routes- this would be just about half the way around the world.

There are many places to create new, long thin routes, and this would be one of the later projects- think Hawaii. There are no direct flights from the East Coast to that resort-state. Or there is Kaoshing, Taiwan’s other major city, after Taipei. We like to call it the DC of Taiwan- four hours, by road, from the nexus of trade (regard New York City).

So when the execs have well-travelled juniors with them, that is when it will happen. Fletcher brothers, we’ll give you slash-priced tickets to go see those uyghur girls! Currently, the only international flights are to Kazakstan (BORAT’s tramping grounds), and Afghanistan. So it will be a great day when we get this airroute instated.

The air cannon is as bad as the water canon

I have been alerted to a photograph of a boy manipulating his skin with a leafblower. This is the pneumatic version of the deadly water cannon. Because of its bad image, and silent, deadly effects, police don’t use it anymore. You see, unlike a deep cut, you don’t know if you have internal injuries. So don’t shoot yourself with an air cannon. And thank Gxd it was not a vacuum cleaner!

What railbanking is

The railroad is not just the thin piece of land the tracks are on; most of the time, the railroad right-of-way, or the land the railroad is on, goes on for at least twenty feet on each side. When a railroad is and turned into a posh rail-trail for cyclists and joggers, the rails are removed and sold for scrap, and the path is paved where the track was. Railbanking is a good thing; instead of returning the land to all the property-owners along the line, it is easier to convert the right-of-way back to rail use. Even if the right-of-way is not legally railbanked, it is also as effective if the county buys the land at markdown price- if there is no railtrail there yet, the less community outcry there would be if it were converted back to rail use.

Now, railroads are great- for aesthetic reasons, and for economical reasons as well- moving large or bulky items, such as coal, or moving those cargo containers from boats from China to the east coast- and passenger rail.

Our company plans to use these valuable strips of real estate, which, by government order, are to be sold very cheap, to build a rail network- like the ones that existed back before the age of freeways. While many of these right-of-ways contain bike trails, there is often ample space to install a track- without interrupting the trail. If not- that’s part of community effort. It’s not good publicity if we take away from the community. Just because trains have existed for a long, long time, it really doesn’t mean that they are obsolete.

And we are halfway there- we can build from Washington, DC to Pittsburgh, and Ohio, just for starters, by connecting abandoned right-of-ways without additional land!

Coin Topics

1955-Double D Wheat Cent

Consider the mule coin. An exotic thing it is, half a quarter, and half a Sacewegea golden dollar coin. This is a numismatic freak, just like the 1955 Double-Die cent. This cent was made notorious by the movie UHF. These two thousand mistruck coins were released into circulation- a thing that would not have normally occurred, but because there was a hurricane down south. Hurricanes have this tendency to pick up coins. That’s how it rains money.

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December 2008 Year 5 Publication 12

Past, 5 years, and 10 in the future

January 21, 2013. This is our planned date for initiation of our transit empire. Assuming that the current president-elect is reelected, DC will be a big destination for those who missed out on the first time. Even if not so, inaugurations are big events, and all rides are needed. We wish to emulate the success of some Chinatown bus companies. We have already been successful with LeechLines slide cart. Rides cost 10 cents, and lasted about 30 seconds, from 7G to the Spa to the Club to 7F. Later, we had practice on canoes, paddleboats, and rowboats, ferrying paying customers from the waterfront beach and canal to the various points along the ¼ mile lake. The boats carried shoppers to the PI mall on an island 1/8 of a mile from the Waterfront, an easy access point to such attractions as the hotel (dorm hall), sports court and dining hall. Of course, the shuttle fare was validated with a $1 purchase at the temporarily developed islands of PI and Viet Nam, a name assigned to the southern island after the war there to describe its formerly dismal appearance. So we are confident that it will work!

Why don’t we start right off with our jet aircraft company? It’s about the credit. By running this van line ASAP, we can grow a company that will complement Northern Express’ aircraft.

But, we still expect to get our airline up and running by the year 2020!

It’s December

Last year, I was trying to start some sort of monthly publication up again, as I had done for TuckShop. Having the liberty of computer use by not being restricted at boarding school, I started the typed version, easy to publish online, easy to reproduce and email. I got subscribers for this free magazine, supported by a little advertising. Lat year, I was also briskly selling sweets at humane prices, raking a profit. My blog was first getting attention from the English teacher.

A year later, the rules have changed so that it bans the contraband from being sold. Anyway, the schedule has been reworked so I don’t have time to do business- c’est la vie- except for chasing down people who won’t pay me my quarters back. So now I vow not to give bona-fide interest-free loans except to a few of my most trustworthy inner circle of friends. But the blog and JangooMag have been coming out to be a success. Later, perhaps over Christmas break, I’ll look into Google Docs for properly hosting this publication. If you checked the link from our neat Home Page (jangoonow.googlepages.com), you’ll see a little disorganization. But, writing gets better every month with more supporters. Seeing the success of a full year’s cycle of publication, it’s about time to create a separate computer folder just for JangooMag!

Way of the future: QR CODE

We only just heard about this technology in the past few weeks, even though it is widespread in Japan.

(qrcode.kaywa.com)

This is in quick reference code. In this system, devices with visual input (especially cell phones) with the proper software can decode this code, and send you to the appropriate website. This code sends you to our blog.

YouTube down

Just at the beginning of this month, I received a message from a trusted IT guy that warned of the Youtube virus. This was not any virus that Norton could delete: this virus is said to have the capability of erasing your hard drive- a lethal disease, so to speak, of the computer. In order to protect our precious data on our computers, we had to wait for this virus to pass over and be deleted by Youtube. The problem was that the virus was embedded throughout the website, in some of the videos a scary message would pop up, and pressing the wrong keys or buttons, or sometimes automatically, would destroy the computer. Actns/Swif.T was its name- like any virus, human or electronic, it still exists, but it has been cleaned up. So that’s why the third episode of JangooVision has not come out yet, even though it is finished. Of course, for the future, we can start looking at other video hosting sites…

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Microloans are a great way to go. By taking collateral that is valuable, we can insure a great rate of pay-off. Even without the collateral, it is possible to coerce payment by sharing the names of bad lendees to other lenders. For this, it is possible to collect interest. While I have not loaned more than $5. (as a microbusiness loan making duct tape wallets), brother has reported loans of $50- that’s some credit for a fledgling business to give! The interest occurred was $2, for a four-day loan period.

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January 2009 Year 6 Publication 1

The Big Event on Jan. 20

“Please walk if you can. We can only handle a little over 1 million passengers.”

Is that really the limit?

To calculate the capacity of the DC Metro:

In July, an average of 800,000 passengers rode the system on the weekdays. Most of these trips happened during the six rush hours. Now with rush hour capacity the whole day, by my calculations, the system should be able to handle at least 2 million riders. Oh yes, and take the city bus, says the system manager. With my monthly farecard, I plan to help set the record 1 million riders.

All roads lead to Washington

There are still plenty of $15 seats from New York to Washington the day prior to Inauguration Day (gotobus.com), including the coveted red-eye trips which cut the need for an expen$ive hotel room.

Plane Economics

Your rich uncle gives you an old DC-9 aircraft. You don’t want to sell it for scrap, so what do you do?

-Somehow, cargo airliners love old aircraft (cargo doesn’t complain about riding in old aircraft)

-People who buy charter flights don’t tend to notice how much they pay to fuel the old planes

-Sometimes people re-engine old planes: there are 50 year-old passenger DC-3 aircraft flying around, lots of WWII planes

-Seasonal!

-Discount airline! Flying to obscure airports an hour or more from town, once a day

-Midrange! Balance the economics between frequent take-offs and long-range fuel-wasting

-Sell it to Northwestern airlines, they would happily take your early-model 737

Who else but Northwestern?

Suck up the last remains of Christmas

Whilst the news was making such a big deal about price slashing, the discounts were sort of disappointing get the picture?! By 6am Christmas morning, Christmas shopping is over. Give it up. 50% off, at least, not 40% on select merchandise. Now, at least, seasonal products are 75% off. That’s why I love Walgreen’s so much. They cut great deals. (See the next story).

And on the less complaining side:

-Dancing Christmas Tree Video (search ipolomac43 in Youtube; also accessible via the blog) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzuC3E5teTY&feature=channel_page

The Statehood quarter

1999- 2008: a ten-year series. From Kindergarten until 10^th Grade, from Delaware to Hawaii, that I just started seeing around, the series is now complete. But wait, on behalf of Representative Rep. Norton from DC, the territories now are going to have their quarters this new year. So 2010 will be an interesting year for the quarter dollar. Now in celebration of Lincoln’s 200^th birthday, the one-cent penny will be changing. And as a matter of fact, there are rumors about the dime changing for 2011. But don’t hold me on that.

Blog Post- Walgreen cuts great deals

It totally sounds reminiscent of the classic blog post of the $500 in coins going to the bank, in my younger and more vulnerable years, but I had to relive the past. So when Walgreen's came out with the awesome offer of 10 cents per print, digital or old-timer film. Well, since it got so expen$ive in recent times ($6.95 and such), a lot of rolls of film, dating back as much as 5 or 6 years, got stacked up on the shelf. Eventually, we would get them printed. Now the chance had come. At 10 am, we sent over 13 rolls of film. With one hour processing at the rate opf $2.40 a roll, this job was done quickly, and with excellent prints, considering the age of the film, we sent another 20...this afternoon, another 11. In all, 44 rolls, adding up to the grand sum of $105.60. Blue folders filling two large bags...It'll take a long time to admire those last generation of film prints. That's just the price of procrastination in photography.

Sealand Matters, I

It is the most famous micronation. Declared independence, suffered an attack by the Germans, and most recently, a major fire. But is this a drain of cash by a crazy millionaire? No; there is a GDP of 600,000. Most of the money came from the gift shop, available online at www.sealandgov.com. But there was more money to be made through the “data haven”, where things like online gambling are web-sponsored. (Somehow, this is not allowed in America). But on top of that, there is the tourist industry. While there are many little micronations, this is the one everyone knows about, and wants to visit. Great opportunity which we will take advantage of.

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February 2009 Year 6 Publication 2

I am the weatherman

I have come to trust my own weather predictions over those of the weatherman. While there was no forecast for snow, one could obviously see that there was a pretty good chance that a big mass of snow encompassing all points west would move east. It worked! The snow came in, albeit 5 hours late, at 3am, however, the biased school cancel-maker was worried about making the President scorn DC school cancellations even more, and did not even consider a delay. That’s right, put the children in harm’s way (a nearby county did not call off school for two days in late January- guess what- 8 schoolbus incidents).

Inauguration

It was surely cold enough for snow at the big inauguration event. As a note, the big Springstein concert on Sunday drew a larger crowd than MLK’s speech. Of course, the NPS did not give official figures, as they do not do them anymore. So what time did you have to leave to get a good, unreserved spot? The first section was closed off at 6:30 am, 31/2 hours before the main event even started. But after the reshow of the concert on Sunday, the political celebrities were starting to show up. Big boos for Cheney. “Open the gate” was heard as the seeming injustice was seen as the forward section had plenty of space to spare. So Obama and Biden showed up minutes prior to the big moment. Biden was sworn in at 11:58; Obama at 12:02 in the frigid cold. A flup by the justice, but soon there was the big speech, a culmination of many hours and days of convering and campaigning. How was the Poet Laureate? Hey-many people were already gone.

Minutes of starting an airline

The FAA seems not to want to keep outside-of-Washington airlines out of the dark. The application to start an airline is quite straightforward. Prove qualifying safety standards and financial fitness (how did Skybus pass this tests?!) and expertise (some airline manager having a midlife crisis). The FAA will then babystep you through the first few years. Our tips- snatch a laid-off airline pilot and use him/her for qualifying experience. Cost = $75,000 per year. Just send in seven copies of the application to the FAA’s DC headquarters, or talk to your local representative (for us, that would be the Wright building in DC). Thank Ford for deregulation!

It’s true: deregulation of flights in the EU!

What this means is the possibility of widespread discount flights to Europe by younger airlines. We are not quite sure if starting straight off into international is a good idea, but that is what Virgin did. We would do it if we could get planes quick.

Francis LeRoy Henning

A notorious counterfeiter of coins in the mid-20^th century. Back then, it made sense to counterfeit nickels, but why not benjamins? Anyhow, he ended up dumping a whole lot of these real-looking coins into Jersey rivers and lakes. Of the over 200,000 who met their fate there, only 14,000 have been recovered. So I hypothesis that getting these coins out is just about impossible (at least for the Schuylkill River) with just a metal detector, but the Titanic was found. Yes, it’s possible.

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March 2009 Year 6 Publication 3

While August is supposedly a dead month- a lot of little papers stop publishing. But this month, it was hard to find stuff very pertinent, but surely I did.

Global Warming?

I usually try to make it to all the protests ‘downtown’- that is, the mall, but I didn’t go to this one- it was a weekday thing. This Climate Change protest was in the greatest irony- it took place in the snow. While there are certain presuppositions that global warning is happening- heck the last time we missed a week of school was in 2003, and last year- that was a no-snow. So now it’s called Climate Change. Likewise I believe the protest to be small, nothing like the Immigration protests or the neo-anti war events that were just recreations of the ‘60’s and ‘70’s. Lest, Little Brother’s school in Pennsylvania sent a delegation to the event. He didn’t go.

Skyscraper City

Washington, DC. No building can be taller than the Washington Monument. That’s what everyone wished- a grand 555 feet. In reality, it’s the height of the Capitol dome. Yet, at 283 feet, it’s still not the current law- the current, 1910 law calls for buildings to be no taller than twenty feet more than the width of the largest adjacent street. Tallest building = 180 feet.

But just across the river, in Arlington, there are plenty of 300’ tall buildings. The only reason they aren’t taller is that- the airport’s 3 miles away, and therefore there’s the height limit. In nearby Montgomery County, there are a selection of 200’ buildings, but nothing particularly special.

The DC proper politicians are, however, concerned that they are losing out. There are propositions to allow taller buildings outside the L’enfant city lines. Nothing has come to fruition yet. But let’s just say that a typical capital city has a selection of the tallest buildings in that country.

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Ebay

For a lot of categories, this online bidding site is falling out of favor to Amazon and others. I mean, it was a lot cooler a few years ago. But, since Little Brother has been around, he created an account with his Direct Payment card from summer work playing UNO (check my blog atticussawatzki.blogspot.com, July 2008). So, I think it was Monday, that he started doing bidding. I haven’t found that button, but the website gave a list of free shipping items. That was one of the major complaints- the 99 cent item had $6 shipping. The first few auctions, he just couldn’t win. He bid too early, corrected too late. But by the end of the first night, he learned. Bid with 1 minute to make sure it goes through the system correctly (are you even logged in?). Then, increase your minimum a nickel over one more bid: 50 cent increments? Current bid 1.50. Bid 2.05. The other bidder usually doesn’t suspect.

And this one: Don’t expect to win (at least for coins) by bidding the minimum early- 10 cents for a real $10 gold coin worth $500? Not a chance. Just be wary of the replicas!

Have I been burned for my dollar? No: By making sure the seller is reputable, and has a Paypal account that’s up to snuff, and by paying with Paypal instead of sending cash or check.

Surprisingly to me, the coins started coming in on Thursday. Amazing. Well, it’s always nice to get packages in the mail.

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April 2009 Year 6 Publication 4

Deadbeats

I hit upon this thing called a deadbeat lendee. The thing about these irresponsible people is that they tend to miss days, and come late. The real issue is, that we do not issue enough loans for enough interest to cover these darn deadbeats like Mac Hayes. So the company loses money, and with less money to spread around, has cut off other ‘subprime’ borrowers, and forced us to retreat to the dominions of responsible borrowers who run to pay you back. There is the thing about friendships. Of course, this was part of a business deal. If I did not give him this loan, our business ties would be cut. What blackmail.

Eventually, he made an alternative payment agreement- a nice ballpoint pen worth close to the value of the loan. However, We’re still chasing other lendees.

I suppose I’ll have to really cut back the number of “friendly”, interest free loans, to keep my head above water.

Little Brother’s Laptop

Somehow, it went off one Thursday. Then, for the next few days, he climbed aboard mine. That was quite an adventure. So what really happened was that I lost all hope of posting more edited videos on YouTube. Well, the thing was fixed by his IT department, and fortunately, “Patriotic Songs”, his latest composition, was not erased.

Skybus was a twit

 

Skybus offered 10 seats for 10 dollars each on every flight, and the other seats went for about 50% of legacy. As they said, “Only birds fly cheaper”. Somehow, this did not doom RyanAir of Europe, but it was too twitty for operations in America. First off, you had to pay $10 to check a bag, $2 for a drink, and other little nickel-and diming fees. At that time, it was revolutionary. It was that people didn’t take too kindly to it. Then, they flew out of obscure airports. Imagine going into a dark alley on the other side of town to get on a bus somewhere. This is the airline equivalent.

But people took this relatively well. The real problem was that Skybus failed by its pricing scheme. Skybus planes were just as crowded, even more so, as the other airlines, but a loss is a loss. Skybus’ planes, like everyone else’s, got ½ a mile to the gallon. Then add the cost of leasing the plane, landing fees, that insurance, lots of maintenance, among a lot of other things and people and airline execs. When jet fuel was at $3/gallon in the day (now it’s around $1.50), a 500-mile flight from Columbus to New Castle (outside Philadelphia) would have been $1500 in fuel. Considering that the average ticket price was $45, with the plane fully booked, fat chance to make any good profit.

So being rational like Southwest works best.

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Coins on Ebay, Part 2

They all came in all within good time. I’m pretty impressed. I consider myself lucky to wean myself off the addictive thrill of bidding that chipped away at my bank account each time I won. So maybe I’ll pick it up again over the summer? I’ll consider it!

DC Tourists

An inevitable thing with cherry blossoms is the tourists. So far, they have been well-tempered, and have only irritated me several times with their standing on the left side of the escalator. While the sidewalks are definitely more crowded, outside of Georgetown, they don’t make me want to cry from claustrophobia. Of course, there’s a lot more to come in June, especially.

How to drop an egg

Could it be a great success? A great commercial success? Somehow, there are, out of 40 vessels, at least a few that survive the 20-meter fall from a clocktower. I find that pretty amazing, considering that eggs are so easy to crush. But we received few tips other than that found by the process of evolution. Over the past 23 years, the vessels have grown towards a cone shape, and the fittest have cute little springs. Not so hard you say? Consider doing this solely with index cards and tape on the outside of the vessel.

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May 2009 Year 6 Publication 5

State of Jangoo

Entering Year 9 (2000- the future)

If there is one sign of hope for the US economy, it is a lower default rate on our loans. Deadbeats in past months have constricted our spending fund, thereby reducing our profit capabilities. However, since Easter, things have gone remarkably better. Customers have increased spending on our products, and have an amicable relationship to Easter candies. Creamy, rich chocolates make the grade. An attraction to our supplies in our friendly loan policy, where purchasers, who often bring their wallets certain days of the week, is that they can have credit. Interest-free loans are also arraigned in a way that obliges the lendee to make a purchase from us. Loans with interest have made an increased haste to repay loans within one week: sometimes, we do collect interest. This was able to be done by finally creating a do-not-lend-to list, and ‘getting serious’ about contract agreements. A lendee who was responsible for 50% of Jangoo debt has paid back. With confidence we head to years of success. We also plan to add a section online of selections available next day for pickup. This has become an impressive source of income in the past year. Big bulk bags of candy also has come up to the market, and sells better than the perennial hotcake, with a fine margin. This margin explains our backing out of the whole bar market. For us, our wholesale price is 50 cents a bar. By our profit standards, we would like to see the bar be sold for $1. The profit is what keeps our investors happy- merchandise does get damage in transit, and some things don’t sell well. We like to be on a float. But market research says customers can get their fix at less than that. While we have sat out for a while, we might as well, with our cash, try a soft reopening to the candy bar business. 75 cents a bar has been around past its prime (in 2007?). Seeing that we have that rep and the profit, we feel great things ahead in foodstuff retail and beyond.

Jangoo: 205 orders strong

20 cent coin

There is the investor, then there is the investor. We straddle both lines. What we mean is that our collection is strategic- what is being under priced- and is pretty decent? So this coin was made for circulation for only two years. I would compare this to our $2 bill- although it’s having a resurgence in popularity as the 50 cent coin falls from grace- that’s a different story. So it looked very much like a quarter at the time, or a half dollar or dime as well, a Seated Liberty on the obverse and a wreath with USA (spelled out) and denomination in pretty small letters beneath the wreath. Not many left in the world- only 1.5 million or so were made, and many of them were melted and such. We have wanted one for a while, but only now did we give the green light to buy one. Collect change in a jar until June, get some windfall money from family But I was surprised to find one in G4- Well-worn condition online, and at a good price. I lost the Ebay bid by a small amount. But the seller was pretty sketchy about shipping and offered no insurance. Next time, I won it, and at $65 with insurance, I was happy. I think we lucked on this one. Expect to pay $80 or more for a specimen- inevitably, an 1875 S from San Francisco. What a coin.

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Putting it out there

JangooMag’s circulation is distributed to subscribers from Facebook, email requests, online viewing, and direct forwarding to interested parties. However, we have not yet started printing for the general public. Honest to man, our company’s commercial enterprises are not yet set up for the largest potential of success from the buying public. However, we will be able to address this situation by mid-June as we set up merchant accounts with third-party sites such as Ebay, Amazon, and surely, a few smaller companies as well. Another key factor is getting our account and payment situation into a less time-extensive process by using Paypal or a related product to not only accept payments from Jangoo Accounts, which require sending in money or coming in person, but also from debit and credit cards. And as we sometimes say and do, clean up the catalog site to products which will be available for shipping on a more ready basis.

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June 2009 Year 6 Publication 6

Wheeling and Dealing for the Summer

Shaved Ice USA

36 cans, 15 water bottles

A whole lot of rain

It’s six blocks from our supplier to our offices. So, instead of taking an automobile, we used human energy to get those beverages home. Instead of last year’s Shaved Ice soda buying trip, where I lugged 60 cans of soda in 5 boxes 4 blocks, I brought trusty Jangoo Delivery Vehicle 3, a scooter, along. It sped me to the supplier, but then it started to rain. I got inside, got and bought the 36 cans of soda in 3 boxes, and threw on a 15-pack of bottled water. The load was a bit heavy, but it was balanced across the scooter for 3 blocks, then it got harder as the rain wore down the Sprite box. While the receipt came in fine condition, the Sprite box was a little tattered on arrival. However, we didn’t have any compromises on the product. Nevertheless, an adventure with a scooter and heavy item, on occasion, is welcome (re: $500 in coins to the bank). At the time of this publication, it has been raining in Washington, and thus we have not yet started to sell sodas and shaved ice, as we know that hot and humid days are the best for selling “nice cold treats for a hot summer’s day”. And that’s our business, Shaved Ice USA.

Lifeguards USA

$9.65 an hour. Now take the number and copy it twice. Move the decimal point to the left on both, and take the second copy and cut that in half. Now take these two modified copies and subtract the sum from the grand original. 8.20/hr, or 15% off the top, is what one should expect after the government takes a cut. Not shabby at all, pretty decent. But these hours aren’t validated until the buck stops in the account. And by the way, we have a second guard in training. L.G.U.S.A. arranges training, hiring, rent-a- guard service (pending insurance approval) and income management for associated persons. Maybe two guards are enough for this division this summer. Coincidentally, these two are the brass of the division, but someone’s going to control the money.

Georgetown Book Company

As the first part of the Jangoo Expansion project, we kept our promise to ourselves and our investors and friends that we would increase our online presence. While our Jangoonow online order site is not yet expanded to meet high demand, Amazon was seen to be able to hold a high capacity of our products, and to clear our textbooks and excess children’s books, giving us a decent sum of Internet money. (It’s still one more week until Amazon releases our money into our bank account). Surprisingly, some of our perceived low value books (eg old kid’s books) had quite a high resale value. However, time will only tell if people will pay that price. I got some encouraging news, of a co-worker (as Lifeguard) that she has run out of books to sell. Not bad; I think we hit gold on this idea. A link will be added, if possible, from our main Jangoonow page to our Amazon-based bookstore. Of course one is always welcome to visit our brick-and-mortar store in, or nearly in, venerable Georgetown.

JangooMag at a newsbox near you?

Yes, yes, we have great ideas for (promote the high-capacity Amazon division, and potential future online bidding division). We would also like some steady ad revenue to cover (again, we thank those who have bought ads with small bills/ large coins so far) increased printing costs. But when the Lifeguard (USA) money comes in, we can easily cover the difference.

The Half Dollar Experiment

In the past month, we have procured rolls of halves to give as change to our customers, loyal or fair-weather. There was a mixed reaction to this: Some customers asked us for two quarters, some kept it with a happy sign of surprise on their face, and some asked for more merchandise. The latter two were the argument for giving the halves. However, we have to serve the “lowest denominator” by not making the half dollar a standard issue, because of the people who get a teensy bit annoyed. Verdict: For us, if you can’t use it on Metrorail, don’t try to give it. However, I think that these coins are cool, and we will make them available for change on request, along with the $2 bill. (The $1 coin is already standard issue by us, by the aforementioned Metrorail rule).

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July 2009 Year 6 Publication 7

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!

Future mass-interest publications

Revival of the West End Guide. Augustus liked the glossy paper, I, however dissent, as I believe its cost to be the 12-pager’s doom. However, there are lots of local journalism students that would be happy to work tirelessly into the night for little… And I commiserate the demise of paid circulation, but since giving the papers away free is the way of the future, I came to a compromise to leave honor boxes for the trustworthy. Put a coin in the alms box and take a paper. You’re only stealing from a heartfelt, manipulator corporation.

(Mid Atlantic) I Loathe USA Today. There is no reason why it should be the only ‘national paper’. Start in one area, then expand to another and another, until we’re at a newsbox near you. The original name, River Times, is a bit too casual. Again, the good stock of journalism students can be beneficial…for our own self-promotion.

JangooMag is an interesting combination of corporate and personal interest news. Sounds like a far-reaching newsletter? We will see about that. But what has impressed me

The Underground News-Radical views that would make a conformist sick. Gruesome and politically insightful cartoons. Luckily I don’t know much about them, and I am happy to announce that if I got Jangoo into the business…

There really isn’t any news over the summer, is there?

Jangoo the Jumbo Empire

Epic Fail: Whittled Down Lemonade Stand Does Not Succeed.

I got back from lifeguarding duty, put ice and cans of soda in a small cooler (I couldn’t find the big one), and took some more outside. As an aside, I brought along the comic L’Hippo, or The really fat hippo, on his Nigerian money laundering adventure that took him across the Atlantic and 150 miles inland. I had to get used to just looking friendly to curious onlookers. The see-though lie: What time you leaving? I’ll be back by then. No way. So when I got L’Hippo back to Provencial France, I ditched ship.

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TVB (The Virus Board) 2003- SARS and the SARS bus.
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All about trains

Great Society Subway- Zachary M Schrag

There is hardly such a book that captures my interest as this one does. Two years ago, we got to choose 3 books from our favorites to become part of the library collection- and justify our choices. So, a book that dives into the politics of Washington in the 1960’s as it attempts to make the world a better place. What was so crucial here was that the future was not seen in a new mess of freeways, but as a subway, none of which had been started in the past 40 years. Perhaps the most ambitious post-war project, Metro sought to change the way we lived our lives.

So I finally bought a copy for myself after finding it out of stock at the library. Engaging and not wordy.

I dare you to ride in the front car of a vintage Metro train. A recent incident occurred in Terra Cotta as a full-speed train collided into a parked train ahead. The magnitude of momentum was such that the first car of the approaching train ran up on top of the back car of the stopped one, and crushed to 1/3 of its original size. There were 9 reported fatalities, some serious injuries, and well over 60 significant bumps and bruises that merited medical attention. However, it’s much safer than driving! 10 out of 1 million people die each day alone while driving. And this was a once-a-decade event. So no matter how much the news blows this up, remember that Rail is the choice of safe people. Now there is the other Terra Cotta train wreck in late 1906- an impatient driver of a powerful fright locomotive rams and destroys a slow-moving interurban local train. A severely injured man limped 1.25 miles to summon help by telephone. So a while later, three doctors from the town of Brookland arrive. Now why a well person didn’t aid is an interesting question.

Ran out of unlimited travel.

My days of unlimited travel with a $26 farecard have come to an end for two months. I enjoyed using it to get around, boundlessly- actually, I was bounded from crossing the river or making inroads to Montgomery County. While it sometimes penalized me heavily, such as when I mistakenly used it to board in Rockville, and it charged rush hour fare to exit, it paid for itself in a little over a week. This month was the first June I had the Smart Student pass, on account of a daily commute to work. In years past, I got bus tokens and discount farecards with the June punch. But alas, they don’t give transfers anymore. So now I’m traveling on Metro a bit less, but just wait until September.

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August 2009 Year 6 Publication 8

What has become of flying? Coming next month in a Northern Express Special

August News

Barney Bush, former First Dog; Bo Obama, First Dog show different personalities from each other

Congressman flies commercial; gets smeared for sucking up to constituents

Everyone’s on vacation- including many buggy-eyed media interns

A good percentage of Americans believe that “The Onion” preaches the truth on current affairs

African Blue Basil growing well in garden plot

Space elevator not yet built: China looks to moon launch

Mars Candy company giving out lots of free chocolate on Friday Mornings

Locomotion still an obsessive game after 14 months

Americans not getting enough sleep

ADC prints mistake in map book: industry pros call this standard practice

A mistake was recently found on the 1994 edition of the Washington DC and Vicinity map. 18^th street is shown as discontinuous as it crosses Florida avenue in the Adams Morgan neighborhood. The road, in fact is continuous, however most in neighborhood do not notice: ride busses and bikes

Maryland refuses to acknowledge ICC construction

As construction ravishes 57 houses and a trolley museum in Mont. Co, the mapmakers in Annapolis turn blind eye to $2bil boondoggle. “You can see the dirt strip from the top of the statehouse!” exclaims a local taxpayer. During the upgrade of Ocean Gateway, construction, in fact, was acknowledged on the state map. As the basket-bringer for the state and the nation, many politicians find it politically harmful to say a kind word to Washingtonians, because they’re ‘different’ from the rest of the world.

Tourists flock to East Coast cities, enjoy leisurely selves and block escalators and doorways

Greyhound bus terminals: Absolute lack of reading material

No in-flight magazines, no handouts, no schedules, no frequent flier rewards programs, no credit card offers or luggage tags. One rouge Western Union wire order found on floor with CD and seven pennies

Foggy Bottom Association www.savefoggybottom.org

“The neighbors who brought you Trader Joes”

No free lunch: No free internet services

In most places, lunch is not free. In most places also, a one-sided economy is a bad idea. Wall Street Financial District on money games, Detroit on American Cars and Appalachia on Coal. So then, why should e-services be free? Remember, the prototypical American view of the future is big companies controlling you. So let’s bring the future faster. Advertising can’t sustain everything the web has to offer.

Lots of School Supplies

The end of doom and gloom seems close at hand. So maybe for this reason companies are less likely to give free (1 cent, 2, 5 cent) handouts to lure customers into their stores, and me to ferret products for a discount Jangoo price. However, we have gotten our fair share of “priced to sell” products, including mechanical pencils, pens, loose leaf paper, and pencils. Expect to see these in our sales(persons)’ bags next month. And if you ever start a business, be careful giving away gimmes- it costs more than a penny to make 100 sheets of paper.

World of the future

From official observations, the world has fallen behind in providing for the future. Sure, there are talking machines, handheld computing devices, and flying drones, but there sure is a lack of practical flying cars, jet packs, imbedded microchips, household robots, extra-orbital trash disposal, everyday wear spacesuits, super-bodies, and atonal alien future music. It also seems unlikely that these things will come in the next 12 years. Or 14 or 17. But won’t the future be cool? Hey now, life must have been pretty boring without the awesome capabilities of the internet (most people access the Jangoo inter-webworld through the internet!) Wasn’t that like 10 years ago? No, more like 13 now.

How to run a daily paper

A. Start small or large, it’s your choice: Tryon Daily Bulletin or USA Today

B. Get lots of advertising, you’ll likely need it

C. Write glitzy headlines and stories

D. Have a co-worker so you split the work (and someone to blame for controversies regarding the political cartoon)

E. Count and cut costs without looking stingy (think typical magazine these days)

F. Get a website; you’ll be global!

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JangooMag

September 2009 Year 6 Publication 9

Pokemon may have been a bad investment that we avoided

“Unlike most hobbies, coin and stamp collecting provides a return on your investment”, explains a coin dealer. The physical remnants of a craze may end up, a relic of the past, or worse, a heap of junk. Ten years ago it was the hottest thing to have a grand collection of Pokemon cards. Catch them all. They came in these little packs, like $4.95 a pack or something, and you could get these big binders or your cards. I (or parental figures, as I did not have access to purse-strings) kept me out of the fad. But maybe $20 worth of cards could have gotten me somewhere on the social ladder? I mean, everyone played that game. I have, and never had, a clue on how that game works. But, of course, as we start having ‘90’s nostalgia, we could see a renaissance.

For comparison, the unbearably cute, intelligent, unbearable Furby retailed for $35 around the same time.

NX Special

The XB-70 Valkyrie: A futuristic design from the 1960’s.

For most airlines, their main cost is labor. Yes, the legacy carriers and their unionized contract obligations that insure pilots and maintenance crews a hefty six-fig salary and the flight attendants close behind. Some, especially the newer airlines, labor costs aren’t as much of a pest as is fuel costs. I mean, fixing your cracking 737 fleet with silly putty doesn’t take a brain surgeon. But again, fuel is key. As a start=up, we don’t plan to build our own aircraft, or drill our own fuel. But we’d like to get to that stage. Let’s talk about aircraft design. It would be much better to have something aerodynamic, like a paper airplane, instead of a pencil with a ruler across the middle, from a fuel-usage point of view. Or a better example: Thermos mug with a keyboard. This brings us to the delta-winged aircraft. The Concorde has them. But man, the thing is expensive to fly on account of the inefficient engines, and the general rule that governs aircraft at supersonic speeds. Or the latest things in PopSci, the integrated delta-winged craft: the cockpit and cabin is integrated into the triangular projectile of a wing. Now that’s efficient.

Anyway, the plane was an expensive, Mach 3 behemoth of a concept replacement for the B-52, but, things didn’t work out. Only two were made, and one was, sadly, lost in a crash. The other was retired in 1970, and now lives in a museum. At that time, Boeing and the Concorde team as well as the Soviets and the TU-144 were well into their commercial SST projects. Boeing ditched the project; the Concorde flew for about 25 years until 2003, the soviet plane for about 2 years.

Aerion has put on the table a proposal to make supersonic business jets for interested buyers. Priced at a ‘reasonable’ $65 million, with the price similarity to and engine match from the 727 trijet, and seats up to 12, this may be a good fit for us…

(http://xb70.interceptor.com/)

Mosquitoes

August 31. The weather got cool, and, by Labor Day Weekend (Sept 5-7), there were no mopre mosquitos in the garage where I keep my mike. Those annoying things, putting their probiscus under your skin, sucking your blood and pumping in venom, leaving a big, impressable lump that may get infected. So which would you rather have? A bitter cold winter or a bug-laden, sweltering summer? I can always put on layers in the winter. I apologize if I gave TMI on this little story.

The Panther: We fought about it, we won it. The power of local journalism.

Bush Era Computer

As the grand schemes of the King George of Texas come to an end, our six year old computer is taking a secondary role to a new laptop. WHo is this laptop? A brand new HP G60-445DX Notebook PC that has all the functions of the antiquated desktop. Setting the laptop up was a cinch; just a few queries, load the costly Microsoft software, and get cruising on the internet, watching a movie, and going through the whole range of functions to see if you like it. Of yet, I have not yet set up any auxiliary equipment, so I must reduce my risk of serious injury by going to www.hp.com/ergo. Yes, carpal tunnel. But there was just this new smell to the computer as I pulled it out of the box and clicked in the battery. The protective plastic over the smooth black top is still there. Why did we need this new computer? Little Brother took his fancy smancy laptop to Penna., and the 10 minute boot-up rate and increasing booting and program fail rates. Yes, a persistent problem that kept me from finishing the JangooMag until mid-month. But at least part of the magazine was typed on new equipment- try to smell that new smell through the paper or your computer screen, wherever you are reading the JMAG. It was June 2004 when we got that Gateway: It was top of the line, new, but rejected by a wasteful business and it was put back in the box and therefore bought at a discount price. It became obsolete as we started using those USB slots, the SD card drive, and all the other plug-ins. But, it’s still mostly good, and will probably be around for a while, though to a lesser degree. Allegory to Bush?

Jangoo Revenue Up; JMAG Readership Up as Well

Give it to them and they’ll read it- if it doesn’t bore them or lie to them or slander them

Keep it interesting, honest (push that to the edge on occasion), insightful and incentive-ful means it’ll spend more time on the wall than some of the other papers:

Length of time before going to trashcan or recycling bin (print editions), DC area

Express 2 hours

Examiner 3 hours

Current/Gazette 5 days

Panther 12 days

JangooMag- determining info, we know it’s long, though.

Share report: We have found a good niche market by listening to others on what products they really wanted. A boon- one product is now available at a lower price to us. Some of the savings will be kept by us, the rest by the consumer. Up .24 over month= $1.28/share

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JangooMag

October 2009 Year 6 Publication 10

We offered a refund

How much are our ‘clients’ worth? Most of them are worth a whole bunch. A key situation occurred when a pack of sour skittles apparently took in water sometime in its life. We gave the customer a full and unconditional refund, and we got a full refund from our supplier as well. Win-win-win.

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A Pile of Profits

I fall for exotic forms of change, such as the two dollar note, the one dollar coin, and the fifty cent piece. I went to the bank one day and asked for two-dollar notes. Then I thought, “What was I doing getting these flammable pieces of currency? “ I put some in my wallet and some in the coin and currency collection. The next time I went to a bank, I asked for some halves; heavy and durable. Coincidently, these were bought with the profits made from various exchanges, and thus, has followed as a newly founded tradition.

A Pile of Shaky Debt

Amidst our piles of profit, our lendee rolls grow daily. This should be no concern though, our reserves are quite deep.

Deadbeat Roster

Per contract of certain loans, confidentiality is broken after a certain amount of time. While borrower’s loan performance data is occasionally exchanged with other lenders to provide you with better terms, names are only publicly announced after a set period

One deadbeat, period has not ended as of Oct 5.

Catch me if you can? Kid drives subway train in New York, Russian Kid flies plane

Somehow, it happens in New York City that a train fanatic infiltrates the MTA and joyrides a subway train- yes, really. No, not like run it at full speed, but act as the motorman (or these days, ladies as well) on a revenue run, that is, when it’s in service. It’s surely a crime, but in New York it’s taken quite lightly: only a few years in prison at most. Consider that someone could decide to press kidnapping charges for each and every customer on the train. That’s hundreds, thousands of years in prison for a full load. Luckily, no one’s been injured by one of these ‘nuts’. It takes a lot to pass as a train operator: the uniform is just the start. Then the knowledge of terminology, knowing all the controls, communication with the conductor in the 6^th car (I mean, you should know who you’re running the train with), and keeping the legitimate operator bamboozled about why his or her train left without them. The kid was only caught after speeding and the subsequent word with the supervisor. He got off scot free with probation time.

Then there is the story of the ex-Soviet airline pilot who let his kids play with the controls of a moving loaded aircraft. The 12-year old girl twisted the steering column while the autopilot was on, thus, just plain fun. But the 15-year old boy held the column for too long, and none of the 7 people in the cockpit notices the flashing light. The plane pulled a high-g curve, and the boy was prompted by the rightful co-pilot, unable to reach the controls, on recovering the plane. A partial recovery was made, but the plane did not clear the mountain. Sad indeed, moral, never play with toys bigger than you know how to use.

These incidents are both from 1994, the same year as the FedEx plot. Cited: ACI (Mayday), Subwayland

DJZ in the DMV

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Business news

Who writes this news and who made lots of money in the markets? Bloomberg, Dogbert

Lowering bond ratings= slander?

Yes, that’s what some downgraded companies are claiming. Other than emotional distress on the part of executives, these companies may have to pay higher interest rates for loans, because, they are riskier than before.

Ritz puts crackers in 8 little packs instead of 4 bigger stacks, cuts cracker count.

Totally forget about recommended portion sizes. Encourage the consumer to eat a whole stack of the loveable, buttery crackers. It costs marginally more to make the smaller packages of eight, but it’s totally worth it in reducing number of crackers and increasing consumption. Don’t forget to tout the benefits though: Fresh Stacks. As if the crackers ever tended to go bad in the first place.

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Augustus Sawatzki, Design Manager

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JangooMag

November 2009 Year 6 Publication 11

In a soon-to-come issue: Nuclear all the way

I had to originate this little article for English class. It was only supposed to be one page double-spaced, but I flowed on with passion about the innumerable benefits of nuclear energy.

Things you don’t see anymore

Cafeterias open to the public

They used to be all over the place! I remember back in the 90’s there was this cafeteria named Sardy’s. It was infused with religious memorabilia, but, “I liked that place”, as Guth recalls. I’m pretty sure this is bad for PR, but, a lot of our experience with cafeterias comes from institutions like government buildings.

Payphones

The famed phone booth has disappeared from Arlington, VA, population ¼ million. Along with it goes the seemingly unsanitary payphones. They were used widely until outmoded by cellphones in the middle of this decade. Many payphones no longer work, and you can feel sorry for those that are now in a, well, very sorry state of existence.

Automats

Put a quarter in the slot and take some fresh food from the little cubbyhole. Horn and Hardart was the epitome of the movement, a chain that operated many automats in the 20^th century. The highly efficient and ‘futuristic’ automat, along with the cafeteria faded in the second half of the century with the coming of fast food. The last H+H closed in 1991; that left New York City without an automat until 2006, when Bamn! opened in “The Village”. The cheapest items is now $1.25.

S+H Greenstamps

They still exist, but only in the virtual world. Ubiquitous from the 1930’s through the ‘70’s, collecting lots of these would win you, say, a toaster. Just like the US Treasury accepting old currency, you can still mail your physical stamps from yesteryear to exchange them for the online points.

The better dollar meal

Boston Market was offering a $1 special on the regular meal- regular price $5.79- I would only buy family meals, though, on account of that price. Virginia tax added 9 cents. The promotion runs until Nov. 1. The sides had to be cornbread and mashed potatoes. You did get to choose dark or white meat. I suppose it was more economical to make astronomical proportions of mashed potatoes that increase each side by a little. I didn’t feel too bad for Boston Market until a large group of what looked like office workers came in with printed coupons.

KFC offered a free piece of grilled chicken on Monday- even though there was a KFC a block from where I was that day, it didn’t feel safe.

Barnes & Noble gave a free hot chocolate and cookie to coupon holders –regular price- $2.95 for the cocoa and $1.95 for the small sugar cookie- overpriced to the nth degree!

In the past we’ve collected 1 cent office products, a free drink from marvelous market, and a Southern Style biscuit from Mickey D’s (that was totally not worth the trip).

Ben & Jerry’s started the free giveaway fad a long time ago… wondered how they ever made enough money throughout the year to cover costs.

Klein +1 in the morning

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What I wasted time doing that I wanted to turn to productivity

It’s been over 20 years since the New York City Subway has been expanded (save for the new South Ferry Station), so it must be quite a stir for the millions of web denizens in that city about the new subway construction. That is, if they don’t feel that the money should be going to congestion pricing and social programs. There is the extended 7 line west on 42^nd street to the big convention center (you didn’t know such a thing existed!?) and down to Chelsea Piers. This is still a long way off, since 3-term Mayor Bloomberg didn’t get his new West Side Football Stadium. Then there is the second avenue subway. Much like the most recent constitutional amendment (1992) regarding congressional pay, this line is 80 years in the waiting. The first section will be opened from 59^th street to about 86^th street. Then, the line will be extended up to about 125^th, and then down to the Financial District. What will serve this? The Q train extended from 57^th st/7thAv/Midtown. Will it run express? No, unlike older lines, there will only be two tracks to save money. We get this substitute compared to the 6-tracked 1929 plan and then the 4-tracked 1970’s plan. Like many things in New York these days, this, of course, won’t be done for a while. Compare this to the original subway construction: City Hall to Harlem with four tracks in four years (1900-1904). Or the 31-month Empire State Building compared to the five-year Hearst Tower.

Brooklyn: Where the wild things come from

Jay Street Connecting Railroad- There are some places in New York that gleam of industrial-ocity. Places such as Greenpoint, where a fire drew attention to the warehouse left behind in the 1920’s: Bundles of oily rope and sweaters, just as it was in 1927, I remember. The streets are dusty with no definite end, and there is this tangle of infrastructure that bamboozles the mind: In gentrifying DUMBO, there are trolley tracks. But there is something unusual: They lead into buildings and cross whimsically and even run on the sidewalk. This is the Jay Street Connecting Railroad, a trolley system that brought cargo from the port to factories, and from factories to the port. It was the first to use diesel trains as well. This strange arrangement ran from 1918 until 1958, which seems remarkable due to its oddity.

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