It possesses very little in the way of natural resources.

It has repeatedly been struck by Hurricanes, and recently a devastating earthquake.

Reported deaths are over 200 thousand.

The government is poor and not much able or willing to provide leadership or services.

The overall total population is around 8 million.

Little more than half the population can read.

Estimates are that 70 to 80 percent of the population live in abject poverty.

About 3 and a half million are estimated to be available to work.

Creole is the primary spoken language.  French is also spoken.

It’s got two sea ports, Port-au-Prince, and Cape Haitian.

Reported airports number either a total of 14 or 13, and of those 3 are paved.

There are few roads.

Short term the nation is in need of food, clean water, tents, and other forms of shelter such as represented by either unmodified, or modified shipping containers.

The shipping container conversion industry is recommended for short term and long term attempts to shelter and house the people as the storm season that lasts from June to October approaches.

Long term the conversion of shipping containers into living spaces represents an export industry.

Road building also represents a source of income for the people taking into account educational levels, that are low.

Due to shared language, culture, and experiences, as well as similar needs to rebuild I am recommending Sister State alliances between the US State of Louisiana and Haiti.  I am suggesting that education be an emphasis.

The Haitians need to achieve higher levels of education desperately.

Some teachers from Louisiana need to be encouraged to teach in Haiti, and some students need to be educated in Louisiana, primarily to return and teach in Haiti.

My study indicates that unless the hobbling reality of educational deprivation experienced by the Haitian people is forcefully addressed, no amount of aid will offer much hope at all off really moving them up.

Of States, I feel strongly that Louisiana is better equipped to fill this role, than any other State for the reasons I have already listed.

The details of this, are to be worked out.

Something like that needs to happen as soon as possible if the concept of utilizing shipping container housing is to gain the needed traction as the situation in Haiti roils.

My webmaster assures me that the donation button on this site works.

I’ve put a good deal of time into work thinking and writing about ways to fix up Haiti, and would really like to succeed this time around.

UNTV failed.

I worked real hard on that too.

If I had some real money, this is what I’d do:  Buy a Home made from a Shipping Container, and pay to have it delivered to the President of Haiti.

Then I would work from there to buy the ones that are already there, and pay to move them first to the Food Distribution Centers.

Second I’d move them to the places where the Doctors and Medics are providing medical care.

Then I’d move some to make some schools out of.

Then I’d move them to the camps.

Then I’d move them to make communities.

I’d establish a Headquarters at the port of Port-au-Prince, and the other ports of Haiti.

I’d create Foundation Prep, and Transport, and Conversion crews and equip them and pay them to do the work.

I’d pay attorneys to create deeds and clear property documents.

I’d have to pay for Security Forces to protect the property.

From there then I would move towards creating industry appropriate to the people and the resources of Haiti.

Shipping Containers are strong, therapy and available.

Moving them is not as difficult as it might appear.

They will work as they are, here without modification as shelter when the storms come.

The industry of modifying them and making them into homes, is mature.

Nothing else is as strong, cheap, or available, or can be applied as quickly.

With the UN paying for a headquarters at the port of Port-au-Prince, to run a Foundation prep crew, a Transport Crew, and a Fixed Base Modification, and Mobile Modification Crew, a quick and strong shelter supply that will work better than anything else could be accomplished in Haiti.

I could elaborate, and explain many details of this, but this is simply a short short summation of why I am working to advance this utilization of shipping containers for the shelter needs in Haiti.

I’m going to try and remember all the jobs I ever had.

I knew a guy who said, "I don’t do resume`s, and I sort of  understood his attitude towards them.

One of the most disastrous jobs I ever took came about a result of my resume`.

That job was with Piedmont, and they had a problem with Transcendia.

– its a longer story, but I need to move on.

My first job, was as a newspaper delivery boy.  Started that when I was 11.

Painted a house.

Was a Boy Scout Camp Counselor, and was the Assistant Commissary Director.

Tried being a bag boy at a grocery store in Chicago for three weeks.

Worked at a Camera store selling cameras and making deliveries.

Eventually I graduated from High School and went to Canada and sold poems I’d written on the streets after moving into Rochdale College.

Was hired to be on Security there.  Nearly got thrown out a window due to conflicts over corruption.

Number came up high in the Lottery, so I could leave.

Went back home to NC, and worked sort of as a carpenter.

(Somewhere in there I worked as a hot tar flat top roofer.)

Moved with the girlfriend to Rochester New York.

Got a job at a stationary warehouse.  Then worked for the Humane Society.

Worked for a baby stroller making company driving a forklift.

Was a Pizza cook.

Was a reporter photographer and columnist for a newspaper.

Sold Cameras again.

Girl and I broke up, and I had a nervous breakdown.

Moved back to NC and worked construction again.

Had a job as a News Paper route Circulation Manager.

Got a job fueling airplanes at the airport.

Tried to start a photography business, and sold some photographs, but went bust.

Moved to Fort Lauderdale and managed fuelers at another FBO.

Got a semi job writing for a TV Show in Toronto.

Ended up back in Rochester New York, and did odd jobs of many sorts.

Wrote brochures, did some copywriting either freelance, or for an ad and marketing company.

Finally took a job with another FBO and was the Night Manager, before going to work for Piedmont.

Sold a Short Story to Gannet.

After I was fired by Piedmont, I drove a cab for about a year.

Then I did lightshows for a nightclub till I got beaten up within an inch of my life while on the job.

Moved to Manhattan and got a job running a Lighting and Grip Truck for Independent films TV and what not.

Did an off Broadway acting job, as the lead.

Did a Voice over for a national commercial.

Business failed due to a producers lockout.

Went freelance, in Rochester New York, and worked on some commercials there.

Moved to Fort Lauderdale again.  Worked as an aircraft mechanic, sort of, and aircraft mechanic helper.

Moved back to NC, and worked on some films and commercials in Wilmington.  Joined the union.  Shot a TV Pilot.

Wrote some articles for a magazine.

Ended up back in Greensboro and worked some films, and some commercials, but mostly worked as a stagehand.

Wrote, and or finished some books that haven’t sold.

Got a scholarship due to some poetry I’d written to Farr Associates Executive Leadership Workshop.

They said I was maybe a genus, and suited for either janitor or CEO.

Painted houses for 6 months and took a job with a construction crew in Chapel Hill, NC.

Did that for about 10 years while continuing to write.

Tried to get the UN to do better with TV.  That failed.

Was up for an appointment to the Airport Authority as I tried to save and make more all round useful to everybody the Local Community Airport.

Got pretty crushed on that one too.

Got fired.

Haven’t had a job in a year now.

Trying my hand at think tank work.

I’m a big supporter of Shipping Container Housing for Haiti.

That reminds me of a job I had scrapping a ship, and directing a Holiday Lighting rig over a bank.  Got up to 193 dollars an hour on that one.

Best pay per hour was as an actor though.

You can make a lot of money if you are willing to make a fool of yourself.

Establish a headquarters at the seaport with a radio link to the airport.

Inventory tools and materials.

Standardize Shipping Container Conversions for Housing.

Create Foundation Prep Crews.

Transport crews.

Modification crews that are both based at the port, therapy and mobile.

This is especially true of paper money.

Ben Franklin made money making money.

So I might try that.

Then I’d found an Insurance Company.

So I guess I’d take some money and literally make money with it.

This may be out of order.

There is the private money and the public money.

Any private money I might have, would be best spent on getting my teeth fixed.

Thank God my wife wrote a bad check so I got some penicillin, as otherwise the infection in a cracked tooth would have gotten out of hand, and I’d have died.

For Transcendian goals I’d get some offices at airports, at least, and get a staff that answered the phones in support of the Transcendian citizens with passports, who might get in trouble.

I’d hire a bunch of attorneys too.

Everytime I turn around these days I need an attorney.

Seems like everybody hates attorneys till they need one.

Lets see, what else?

Hire a staff, check.

Rent lease or buy some offices, check.

Make an Insurance company, check.

Buy or Lease an airport, check.

Is an army, a staff?  Yeah, Transcendia needs one.

Oh but I really want to buy or lease an airport.

A Port City lives forever.

I myself do not have a credit or bank card anymore.

Anyway, hope someone will put up a dollar or two.

The webmaster says the donate button works.

I’d sort of like to make a trip to Washington DC actually.

I’d actually like to work on this problem in Haiti.

Transcendia is poor, Haiti is poor, we’ve got a lot in common.

Hey at least they get donations!

On CR4 there is a good bit I wrote on the Shipping Container Housing for Haiti think tank thread.  The post number there is 424, or 414.

That particular letter to Ms. Cheryl Sarcy, is one of the best letters I’ve written in awhile.  Ms. Sarcy is the VP Secretary of the Red Cross Haiti Disaster Group.

You know you don’t get to write your life.

I know I was highly influenced by my father and have often thought that the experience of combat sort of made making plans seem a waste of time.

Sometimes I think the whole of life is just weird, and drifting is better than all this focus and attempts at willful direction.

I simply drifted to thinking a lot about how to use shipping containers in Haiti.

It’s called on me to remember or use about everything I know.

Wrote for TV, Wrote for Newpapers, Made Photographs, Made Movies and TV shows, Acted, even did Stand-up.  I spent years on the airport fueling and moving planes around, and got to fly.

Did some detective work.

Scrapped a ship and got to run a little crane.

Years of renovation work.

Studied and studied history and politics due to this thing Transcendia.

The Flag has taken a life of its own.

Anyway, time is passing, storms will come.

I’m no more ready than anyone else, and less so than many.

Nobody needed my hero Grant when things were going well either.

Overall this would appear to have been a pretty bad week for civilization, since according to reports I’ve read, you can’t put a book in your lap and read on an airplane, or go to the bathroom anymore.

Make the website better, generic and more interactive.

Hire some attorneys.

Sue some "border" thieves.

Get an office on the nearest international airport to support the passport.

Sell more hats and flags.

Sell some good energy producing do it your self systems.

Create an Insurance Company that provides the economic underpinning of the economy so labor achieves equity with capital.

Get my tooth fixed.