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May 4, 2005 -- Want to start a new business Want to make a speech involving brand new ideas on politics, government, the economy, and the future Want to impress your friends with startling new ideas about sports or the arts Read on!

Anyone seeking new ideas in every realm of activity politics, government, industry, the professions, sports, the arts, and starting new businesses will find enough of them to satisfy any need in a new book, "F! D! F! (Fire! Dammit! Fire!) A Feast of New Ideas," by Lou Guzzo.

Read Lou's chapter on how to end world terrorism through creation of a World Council of Religions. Another chapter provides a brilliant idea on how to put a permanent end to the wars in the Middle East. And still another offers an idea on how to save live theater in America.

Ever hear of "preventive journalism" Lou spells out this most interesting concept in a free society. Another chapter deals with applying high-tech principles to serving and saving democracy in the communities of America and elsewhere. Lou's "Twin Homes" idea answers the questions of those who would like to live part of the time in the north and part in the south or even in East-West regions!

Other new-idea chapters deal with how to clean up professional sports, how to achieve the real dream of a "Green America," how high-tech can be utilized to protect our borders and keep out illegal immigrants, and how the communities of the future will evolve and involve every citizen in decision-making. And there are many, many more similar ideas that beckon future development.

Finally, Lou offers a bright chapter on a large number of new-business ideas that should capture the fancy of every person looking for a new career. The book even includes a chapter on "Crazy Inventions." The ideas are ingenious and unending.

Lou, called a true Renaissance Man by associates, has truly lived and worked in virtually every field of endeavor. That's why the ideas he offers in "F! D! F!" should be intriguing to everyone. He has been a crime-busting managing editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer; the music, drama, films, and arts critic of the Seattle Times; a college professor of journalism; an authority on environmental issues; a onetime reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer; the leader of his own dance band; a violinist and pianist, a composer and arranger, and the author of more than 26 books. Oh, yes; he's a sports nut, too - a golfer and a onetime baseball and football player in the Cleveland sandlots. If all that doesn't make him a Renaissance man, then nobody else deserves the title.

In addition, Lou served three years in the federal government, two of them as a communications consultant to the old U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and one as a public-affairs director in the State Department's Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. A native of Cleveland and a graduate of Western Reserve University (now called Case University), Lou moved to Seattle after four-and-a-half years of service with the Army in the Second World War.

As an editor, columnist, and newsman, Lou won many prizes for a daily column in Washington State and three other prizes for his investigative work as a television and radio commentator. He also managed Dr. Dixy Lee Ray's successful campaign for Governor of Washington State and served as her chief policy adviser for four years in Olympia.

Despite all that, Lou says that his proudest accomplishment by far is to be the husband of the best wife in the world, Madeleine, and the father of four of "the finest children in the world," Judy, Richard, and the twins, Lynne and Diane. He acknowledges that they have been the principal motivation for whatever he has done in his life and for whatever honors have come his way.

"F! F! D! F! (Fire! Dammit! Fire!) A Feast of New Ideas,"
by Lou Guzzo

208 pages
8.5 x 5.5 paperback
retail price $15.95
ISBN 1-932672-93-1

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4450 191st Place S.E.
Issaquah, WA 98027

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