A 24-hour, Global, New Year's Eve Celebration

Using the Global Time Quadrants

noreply@blogger.com (Small Business School) — Sun, 4 Apr 2010 18:49:00 -0700

There are only six quadrant time zone groups to know.

Group 1: Time Zones 1, 7, 13, and 19
Group 2: Time Zones 2, 8, 14, and 20
Group 3: Time Zones 3, 9, 15, and 21
Group 4: Time Zones 4, 10, 16, and 22
Group 5: Time Zones 5, 11, 17, and 23
Group 6: Time Zones 6, 12, 18, and 24

We all watch the clock. 6 AM, 12 noon, 6 PM and Midnight are four major time personalities. We plan out waking and sleeping and our eating around them.

Global Time Quadrants expand our sense of place. We begin to learn and quickly know what time it is in those other three quadrants within our group. As you become comfortable with your own quadrant -- you really think about the other three quadrants at some time during the day and you quickly know the time in each -- then and only then is it time to pick up another quadrant.

You will be learning how to calculate and know the time anywhere on earth. You'll actually begin visualizing the entire globe. You'll increasingly be intuitive about knowing the time in every country of the world. Now, you can readily call yourself a person of the world.

The Art of the Impossible

noreply@blogger.com (Small Business School) — Mon, 9 Nov 2009 07:03:00 -0800

Can we create a 24-hour party every December 31st?
Can we celebrate the New Year by time zone (TZ),
from the International Date Line (TZ #1) to TZ #24?

Today, with all our technology, it is entirely possible. Along the way, as the world turns, we can all visit every country of the world within 24 hours!

Why not? Every country. By time zone. Within the first time zone we'll go north to south, then in the next, from south to north.
We can actually do it. There are only 195 countries. In 24 hours there are 1440 minutes so each country can be be given at least five minutes. Regions of a country uniquely within a time zone could also be given that time as well.
We can be "live" and on line. We could be collaborating about the meaning and value of life as everything from professional broadcast cameras to web cams open up. We can have some fun. Meet the people who make the best food in a region. The best drinks! And, we can visit the best places to celebrate the New Year. One of the goals for this blog is to have this celebration fully active by 2011. By that time we can have many prizes from the travel professionals from every country around the world. People can go from the virtual world to the really real world.

Such an event could become one of the largest collaboration events in history.
Help. Prepare. Participate. Host. Partner.
Get your 24-hour orientation.

What would happen if millions of people around the world celebrated New Year's Eve together?
What if the party lasted at least 24 hours -- possibly 26 hours to open-and-wrap up the event? What if we celebrated the best within each country?
What if every country, and every time zone had their own host to take us on a tour, a virtual event of the best of their country and then we all voted to determine the best within that time zone?

Let's visit the best restaurants in each country and get their best traditional New Year's recipe for their country. By the end of the celebration we each could have 218 new recipes (195 plus nine more regions in Russia, two more in Australia, two more in China, one more in India, one more in Mongolia, four more in Canada and the USA, and two more in Brazil).

Let's go to the favorite hot spot and learn the mix for their traditional New Year's drink.
Then, let's go where the big action is -- to the country's favorite place to celebrate New Year's Eve.
Maybe we'll open it up so the head of state can bring greetings on behalf of the country (or region). We can begin to get to know everyone, country-by-country in every time zone.
Each country's host would be in charge of their few minutes. Live cameras everywhere could open it up to real time views and spontaneity.

We could start and end in Kiribati, a country of islands on the International Date Line, Time Zone #1. Some of their islands are also in Time Zone #23 and Time Zone #24. All are spread out from the equator. Now, there are many people in high places in Kiribati already on board for this celebration to begin.

In each time zone in the final minutes before their midnight, we can zoom into the country with the most people on line at that time. We could all quickly mix up their country's favorite New Year's drink, and then together bless their country and their people. Perhaps we can all listen as their National Anthem plays as the clock strikes midnight -- then all move into Time Zone #2.

In the 5th Time Zone we'll be visiting all the usual places like Singapore, Hong Kong, Jarkata, and Beijing, but we'll also be going to Bandar Seri Begawan, the Buryat Republic (Russia), Kuala Lumpur, and so many others.

In the 10th Time Zone we'll drop in on Moscow, visit Tehran, Baghdad, and more right down to Antananarivo in Madagascar.

By the 14th and 15th time zones we get to relax a little. We will have gone from the most populated time zone on earth, the 5th, to the least populated which include Greenland, the Azores, and Cape Verde.

Yet it picks up quickly in the 16th in Halifax (Nova Scotia), Hamilton (Bermuda), and Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires.

Who will be standing in the 18th hour as we finally reach New York City?

Who will be standing as we enter the 20th hour in Denver and Calgary? ...as we visit the city of Angels in California and Vancouver on 21st hour? A lot of people will have fallen asleep, but new people will have joined us along the way.

It is a 24-hour party that will be at least 25 hours long, maybe even 26, before we all begin our recovery programs (sleep). We will have visited every country on earth. We'll have heard at least 24 National Anthems. We will have lifted the glass and said, "Cheers" to the best of the past and our hopes for the future at least 24 times.

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Do you know your four Global Time Quadrants? (GTQ)

Be the first in your family to know. Learn yours now. __________________________________________________

Be part of the event. Click on Follow (at the very top, within the blue bar, on the right side of the page). Comment and sign in today.

Let us all be meeting some of the nicest people on earth as we break every record in history about people meeting people and celebrating the best within each country.

So, that begs the question, "Who are we? Who has initiated this concept for an annual event? And, why?" The quick and easy answer is that eventually such a celebration could continue as a daily global television show where the best station in each country produces a three-to-seven minute video clip about their best businesses. More...

Prepare. Participate. Host. Partner

Prepare: Again, click on "Follow" (at the very top, within the blue bar, on the right side of the page). You'll receive updates as the plans for the event move forward. We'll be preparing and sharing resolutions. We'll be developing lists of restaurants and favorite places in each country and we'll be voting.
Participate: Get your geeks involved and become a producer of a little segment about your country and its greatness. Do it live! Send a note to Bruce
Host: There could be at least three hosting activities:

Host a party of friends... ten sounds like a good number. If you set up a web cam, you could be scheduled to be cut-in for this global broadcast. Let us know if you would like to be part of the event.
Host your country. You could be the producer of that 3-to-6 minute segment for your country or region. Email
Host a time zone. You could be the producer of the better part of an hour of the 24 hours. Email

Partner: There are many rolls for technology groups, travel professionals, and more. Make your suggestions to Bruce.

What color is sleep? A Rainbow of Fireworks.

noreply@blogger.com (Small Business School) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:09:00 -0700

This thought began with two simple questions:
1. Can we create a 24-hour party for December 31st?
2. Can we celebrate the New Year by time zone (TZ),
from the International Date Line (TZ #1) to TZ #24?

Today, with all our technology, it is entirely possible. Along the way, as the world turns, we can all visit every country of the world within 24 hours!

Why not? Every country. Every time zone. North to south, then in the next, south to north.
It can actually be done. There are only 195 countries. In 24 hours there are 1440 minutes so each country can be be given at least five minutes. Regions of a country uniquely within a time zone could also be given some time as well.
We can be "live" and on line. We can be collaborating about the meaning and value of life as everything from professional broadcast cameras to web cams open up. We can have some fun. Meet the people who make the best food in a region. The best drinks! And, we can visit the best places to celebrate the New Year. One of the goals for this blog is to have this celebration fully active by 2011. By that time we can have many prizes from the travel professionals from every country around the world. People can go from the virtual world to the really real world.

Such an event could become one of the largest collaboration events in history.
Help. Prepare. Participate. Host. Partner.

What would happen if millions of people around the world celebrated New Year's Eve together?
What if the party lasted at least 24 hours -- possibly 26 hours to open-and-wrap up the event? What if we celebrated the best within each country?
What if every country, and every time zone had their own host to take us on a tour, a virtual event of the best of their country and then we all voted to determine the best within that time zone?

Let's go to the favorite hot spot or bar and learn the mix for their traditional New Year's drink.
Then, let's go where the action is -- to each country's favorite place to celebrate New Year's Eve.
Let's open it up so the head of state can bring greetings on behalf of the country (or region). We can begin to get to know everyone, country-by-country in every time zone.
Each country's host would be in charge of their few minutes. Live cameras everywhere could open it up to real time views and spontaneity.

In each time zone in the final minutes before their midnight, we can zoom into the country with the most people on line at that time. We could all quickly mix up their country's favorite New Year's drink, and then together bless their country and their people. Perhaps we can all listen as their National Anthem plays as the clock strikes midnight, then we all move into Time Zone #2.

In the 5th Time Zone we'll be visiting all the usual places like Singapore, Hong Kong, Jarkata, and Beijing, but we'll also be going to Bandar Seri Begawan, the Buryat Republic (Russia), Kuala Lumpur, and so many others.

In the 10th Time Zone we'll drop in on Moscow, visit Tehran, Baghdad, and more right down to Antananarivo in Madagascar.

By the 14th and 15th time zones we get to relax a little. We will have gone from the most populated time zone earth, the 5th, to two of the least populated which include Greenland, the Azores, and a Cape Verde.

Yet it picks up quickly in the 16th in Halifax (Nova Scotia), Hamilton (Bermuda), and Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires.

Who will be standing in the 18th hour as we finally reach New York City?

Who will be standing as we enter the 20th hour in Denver and Calgary? ...as we visit the city of Angels in California and Vancouver on 21st hour? A lot of people will have fallen asleep, but new people will join us along the way.

It is a 24-hour party that will be at least 25 hours long, maybe even 26 hours before we all begin our recovery programs (sleep). We will have visited every country on earth. We'll have heard at least 24 National Anthems. We will have lifted the glass and said, "Cheers" to the best of the past and our hopes for the future at least 24 times.

Be part of the event. Click on Follow (at the very top, within the blue bar, on the right side of the page). Comment and sign in today.

Let us all be meeting some of the nicest people on earth as we break every record in history about people meeting people and celebrating the best within each country.

So, that begs the question, "Who are we? Who has initiated this concept for an annual event? And, why?" The quick and easy answer is that eventually such a celebration could continue as a daily global television show where the best station in each country produces a three-to-seven minute video clip about their best businesses. More...

The countdown continues...

Prepare. Participate. Host. Partner

Prepare: Again, click on "Follow" (at the very top, within the blue bar, on the right side of the page). You'll receive updates as the plans for the event move forward. We'll be preparing and sharing resolutions. We'll be developing lists of restaurants and favorite places in each country and we'll be voting.
Participate: Get your geeks involved and become a producer of a little segment about your country and its greatness. Do it live! Send a note to Bruce
Host: There could be at least three hosting activities:

Host a party of friends... ten sounds like a good number. If you set up a web cam, you could be scheduled to be cut-in for this global broadcast. Let us know if you would like to be part of the event.
Host your country. You could be the producer of that 3-to-6 minute segment for your country or region. Email
Host a time zone. You could be the producer of the better part of an hour of the 24 hours. Email

Partner: There are many rolls for technology groups, travel professionals, and more. Make your suggestions to Bruce.