1. Take responsibility for everything in your life.
2. Set long term goals and criteria for success.
3. Prioritize a to do list with the long term goals in mind.
4. Seek solutions that are beneficial for all involved parties.
5. Listen to others in order to understand their motivation.
6. When working as a group assign tasks according to a the strengths a person has demonstrated in the past.
7. Take care of yourself first, both physically and emotionally.
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… … have a secret compartment for paperwork?
… … why don’t extended warantied send you a sticker to put on the box?
… … argh!
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The car wouldn’t start. Probably a battery. What a pig.
The TV started to act up. I blamed the cable. The cable guy just came and blamed the TV. Arghh! On hold with samsung now. Argh!
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http://lifesharers.blogspot.com/2007/02/
should-age-determine-who-gets-kidney.html
Friday, February 16, 2007
Should age determine who gets a kidney transplant?
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Should age determine who gets a kidney transplant? That’s the question asked by the Chicago Tribune in a story about the United Network for Organ Sharing’s proposed changes to the rules it uses to allocate kidneys recovered from deceased donors.
UNOS has proposed allocating kidneys in a way that would maximize the number of extra years lived by kidney transplant recipients.
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No, money should.
If money in our pocket is a proxy for how much we have served our fellow human beings, (and if it isn’t, what is?), then we should harnass the free market to “solve” the transplant issues.
We should have a free market in human organs.
Ghoulish! No more so than the current system that makes some winners and others losers. It makes for great TV when Mickey Mantle gets a liver in violations of the “rules”. In organs, currently, it truly is a zero sum game.
See I have a secret plan.
Let’s say that kidneys go for 100k$ per pop, how long until some bright young scientist invents the artificial kidney that sells for 50k$ but only costs 25k$ making them wealthy. I’d bet not long.
Get the gooferment out of the organ business and we will have a plethora of “solutions”.
Leave people alone to make their own judgments.
I don’t care if a poor man wants to sell a kidney so that he can send his kid to college. I don’t care if women sell their eggs, so childless women can have babies. I don’t care if rich old men can spend millions buying a new hunk of liver every couple of years to prolong their life.
I DO care that people die while waiting for a transplant while on a gooferment list.
Don’t you see that a free market always clears. Supply always matches demand at a clearing price. Demand always matches supply at a clearing price. If you see shortages, look for the gooferment’s hand in it. Only force can prevent a market from clearing. And, only the government gets away with using force.
Lest you say that the poor would be precluded. Let me ask you this. Do you put coins in those counter collectors for poor starving animals? When some child needs surgery for a birth defect, doesn’t the community figure out how to make it happen? Car washes, bake sales, raffle tickets all for worthy causes. I’ve seen the vets sell “poppies”, the KofC peddle tootsie rolls, and the Lions with little white canes. VFDs pass the boot on the road side.
Trust me. No one will get left behind. Unlike the current system, where the gooferment let’s people die on waiting lists, and stifle any innovation.
And, think about all those perfectly good organs that get buried or cremated every day. Beloved Uncle Joe’s dead. His organs could pay for the funeral. Or send his niece to beauty school. Or, his nephew to LV. I’m not being crass. But, if a family knew that poor sweet Uncle Joe’s liver would pay for Niece Jody’s beauty school tuition, then I bet old Uncle Joe would be sliced and diced quicker than … well you get the idea.
An organ market place would:
(1) save the lives of people dying on gooferment lists;
(2) spark innovation for cost-effective alternatives;
(3) generate grass roots support for charitable donations for the needy;
(4) unleash a wave of organ donations that would clear the marketplace of any shortages; and
(5) allow people to make decisions about their bodies without gooferment interference.
So what’s stopping it? The gooferment.
Upon discovering it this morning, I reverted to my old one. (I check it at least once a day. And, yes, I have an Outlook reminder to nag me about it.) I don’t like change. Change is not usually good. I know the Chinese proverb that “opportunity rides the dangerous winds of change”. But, I like my changes, like my challenges, to be small. Anyway, sorry if you couldn’t read the blog, that theme was for the younger eyes. Did anyone but the spammers notice? :-)
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http://www.legacy.com/Obituaries.asp?Page=ObitFinder
Every morning, the first thing I do is look for the obits of my fellow Manhattan College alumni. It’s not a morbid fascination, although when there is one it can be a great read about a great life, but an attempt to atone for all my past sins. It’s ghoulish work but someone has to do it.
If I DON’T find one, then I thank the Intelligent Designer for giving all these great people, and me, another day to complete their life’s work and go about mine.
Upon finding one, I determine if it’s timely (i.e., announces a future service), then I create an “Actionable Obit” message. That message pulls together all the details and sends it to my alumni yahoo group for them to act on should they choose.
If not timely, I cerate a plain old obit message to the College alumni society, key interested individuals, and my weekly ezine.
If the obit has an online “guest book”, then I put in a small message of consolation. (There is nothing as depressing as a Guest Book with no messages. I check back before it expires just to read the comments.I actually put it in my personal Outlook calendar so I don’t forget and miss it.)
Then, I go about my day’s work, motivated by the knowledge that I only have a limited time to get all the important stuff done. I guess on average it takes ten minutes. Call it “morning prayer” or “mourning prayer”.
Weird, maybe. Necessary, maybe. Valuable, maybe.
Lot of maybes in that value equation.
It’s sort of like blogging. Valuable, maybe?
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