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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Not that there was anything wrong with it. It’s just that Google’s READER displaced it.
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In a recent hospital visit, I only got stuck for two bucks for parking.
Arghh, taxes.
It’s a tax because it is an unavoidable fee imposed by an agent of the government!
;-)
Sigh!
OK, follow the logic.
The hospital is in bed with the federal, state, and local governments. Their finances are intimately involved with gooferment at all levels.
Unlike a private business, which only pays extortion money to the gooferment to be left alone.
The hospital is a quasi-government entity, sort of like an NGO.
They charge a parking fee.
The use the power of local gooferment to have no parking zones all around the hospital. With special (tax) stickers for local voters to exempt them. It forces you to park in their garage. Taking advantage of sick people.
So when an agency of the gooferment imposes an unavoidable fee …
… yes, it’s a TAX!
Think about it. Do you know any private business that charges you, or even your guests, to park? Think hotel? Thinks shopping mall?
Class dismissed!
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Today, I was using blogdesk. I composed a post and sent it to wordpress. BLOGDESK just sat there. I assume trying to connect. Breaking the cycle put the whole box into a stoppage. Reboot. A long cycle because it was applying maintenance. Argh! So, what was the failure? All I know is that BLOGDESK lost my post. Not that is was so valuable. More so that I forgot to save a draft before it published. It should do that. Everything appears to be working now?
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>What email do you use on LinkedIn?
>Posted by: “Ed Callahan”
>Wed Feb 14, 2007 7:19 am (PST)
>You can and should have as many emails in your profile as possible.
Understood. I have lots.
>then brokers communication with you via your primary email.
That’s part of the problem. People think of their employer’s email as “theirs”. It’s not.
>you should use an email you own as your primary email – I’m with you on that.
Glad we agree to agree agreeably. As opposed to agree to disagree either agreeably or disagreeably. (Whaaa, like the Aflac duck commercial!)
>I like the other suggestions you make, but in some sense they are moot.
Not so sure, that I agree with the LinkedIn design of primary email. If I was king, I’d insist that each LinkedIn-ite have TWO working emails. Primary and secondary. And, I’d double LinkedIn’s email load (notice how free I am with other people’s resources), so as to ensure it works. (It would ensure that you don’t miss messages.)
I have at least two correspondents who have lost their access to their primary email account AND forgotten their passwords. Interesting? (One bozo kept it on the computer she had to turn back in.) So she has no way of recovering her profile.
If I was the “King of LinkedIn” (hey that rhymes), I’d decree that LinkedIn would test for “life at the end of the wire”. Hasn’t happened to me on linkedin, but it has on my ezine, where are readers email goes bouncing due to death. Awkward, but one should know these things.
I wonder how many of LinkedIn’s millions are dead (user died), disabled (user’s email innoperative), lost (user not interacting), zombies (shells constructed by other), abandons (user walks away), or in one way or another “empty rotting shells” (are there other types of strawmen). Someone might crassly say that its to LinkedIn’s benefit to inflate the numbers with these empty rotting shells and they have no incentive to bulldoze inactivity.
So, imnsho, LinkedIn’s email architecture is flawed. And, it doesn’t have robust process and procedures to ensure “liveliness”.
Am I the only one who measures “days since last contact” in my network? The empty rotting shells play havoc with your score. (See like some players of the Linkedin “game”, score on how many scalps they collect, I’m much more sophisticated. I score by days since last significant contact. Pinging you with a plaxo or cardscan email address update doesn’t count. That’s a better “game”.)
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BBC NEWS | Health | Doctors ‘deny elderly treatments’
News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:18 AM EST
Read ArticleArticle Source: BBC News
health, money, health-care, libertarians, socialized-medicine
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Doctors deny older people treatments they would offer younger patients, according to a study.
In the “health care” debate, with the socialists in both major parties advocating mandatory insurance, “single payer”, and all sorts of gooferment involvement, we need to keep focusing on the “working laboratories” of results reported from Canada and England. Personally, I think we started down a dangerous path to socialism when “benefits”, medical insurance, and Medicare / Medicaid were introduced. Maybe I’ll blog about the details (http://www.reinkefaceslife.com), but when you remove the dynamic of the “individual paying for their own healthcare” then all sorts of bad “unintended consequences” sneak in. Here’s one of them socialized medicine kills old people. Not necessarily unproductive old people, not demented suffering old people, and not necessarily those at the end of their lives. If fact, the way I read the article, it’s all about hustling the old of life.
Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:25 AM EST
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England and Canada offer us a “laboratory” on socialized medicine. Not that I think the USA system is great. I’m just not sure that what the politicians propose is any better. In fact, if I know gooferment, it will make it worse. The “laboratories” are useful in the debate because we can see the impact of socialized medicine on people over there and extended it to what will happen here. Our politicians are no better than theirs. Our doctors are no less or no more than theirs. Socialized medicine sets up perverse incentives. And, we need to the “laboratory” lessons to heart. There’s a reason that Canadians come to the USA for MRIs. There’s a reason that elderly English dialysis patients migrate to other countries. There’s a reason why Californians are getting hips replaced in India. And, we have to hold our politicians accountable for those answers BEFORE we let them do anything.
The wage price controls of WW2 started the current “benefits” fiasco. Business seeking to retain their good people, faced with a wage cap, came up with paid medical insurance as a way around the limitation. From whence, we got wage slaves who had to keep their job to keep their benefits. Having purchased medical insurance on my own as a consultant, it not cheap but not impossible. We need to take it out of the company’s benefit package and put it back in people’s hands. At the very least, if I buy medical insurance it should be tax deductible to me. We need to jigger the scales. Remove the business from the “benefits” business by removing the tax deductibility. Let people be in total control of their own money.
Where stuff gets tricky is when it ceases to be catastrophic insurance and a prepayment plan for routine stuff. I like to use the car metaphor to understand it. Car insurance is for accidents; not oil changes or fender benders. Why send money to a third party, with all the shipping and handling, to pay for routine or small stuff. What’s next insurance for gasoline consumption. No medical care is more like the car than anything else. Medical Savings Accounts with high deductible catastrophic coverage is the way to go. Change people’s economic behavior and you’ll solve the problem.
Medicare / Medicaid and all gooferment regulation of medicine must end. Period. It has totally screwed up the marketplace.
Argh!
(ain’t insomnia productive?)
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Posted by reinkefj
>From: A fellow alum
>Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 10:33 PM
>To: Reinke’s Jasper (mc68alum) Persona
>Subject: Re: [ManhattanCollegeAlumni] JASPER ACTIONABLE OBIT:
>I click onto these things hoping to read good news and 95% of the time they are generated because of someone’s demise.
Oh, I see, someone returning to their “eternal reward”, isn’t good news? That’s the trick question that I have no answer for.
I do these obit broadcasts with mixed emotions. On one hand, I think it’s joyful in the sense that some of these fellow, even as communicated in a brief obit, have made a unique substantive contribution. Even badly described, it fills me with awe at some of those accomplishments. I enjoy seeing how someone reports how they lived. On the other hand, I find it depressing for several reasons: (1) They’ve left without doing a brain drain. Maybe they had “the answer”. (2) For the most part they were “good people” and the world is a “poorer” place without them. (3) I wonder if we are replacing them with the same caliber of Jaspers, since they leave so big shoes to fill.
From time to time, I hear from our fellow alums, or one of the departed’s family members, with appreciation for getting the word “out” and I get some story or other that makes me feel that the few minutes I spend each morning has made a meaningful “contribution” to the common good. Sometimes, it means that old friends get to pay respects, close the loop on an old friendship, or just know that someone cared about the deceased.
I’ve drifted into this self-appointed “ghoulish” duty with mixed feelings. Because of my “technology”, I’m probably uniquely able to do it. I keep questioning if it’s a “good” or a “bad”, positive/negative, or just a rut.
For you, I’d give the advice that if the title says “obit”, it’s probably not be the good news that you’re looking for.
On the other hand, perhaps it might help you: (1) focus on the truly important; (2) put all “problems” in perspective (it does for me); and (3) inspire you to “sing your song”, write your “brain drain”, or just do something you’ve always wanted to do. As long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else.
So I ask you, should I continue? I struggle with that question regularly.
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It was a yucky day. Lot’s of people didn’t come in. Most just said “lousy weather”. Best excuse of the day was “My garage door was frozen shut”.
;-)
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How would you handle a conflict between a 20 year old client and a completely new client with significant potential, each needing their projects delivered at approximately the same time and each project requiring full-time attention?
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VW:
I think this is really easy.
By way of background, I was a one-man consulting firm twice for a total of seven years. Like the baker making bread, I was selling my time. When I “sold” my time, I was overjoyed. When I had time that went “unsold”, I would put it on the “day old bread shelf”. When it was that time, and I still hadn’t sold it, I unhappily “consumed” it myself. I would down the “most valuable use of my time list” (i.e., deliver value [earns money now], sell value [earns money in the future], develop my value proposition [make selling easier], see where there was future value [anticipate what will be valuable in the future], develop skills [get something to sell]).
You are presenting the opposite problem. An oversold condition. You’d really like to do both, but know you only have a limited number of loaves of bread … err … hours in the day. Like the airline who sells 110 tickets for 100 seats, you are going to have a lot of unhappy people. AND, you may damage your reputation.
Unfortunately, you have the “sultan’s bride” problem. On any individual offer you receive, you have to ask is this particular “maiden and dowry combination” the best I’m going to see. My “policy” was “bird in the hand is dinner, rent, and happiness”. I would accept the first firm offer that met my minimal acceptable conditions. If another came along, even if it was better, I was already “out of stock”. The only choice you have is to raise your rate. And, that’s fine tuning.
If I had a block of time sold and a better offer came along, I’d try to help find an alternative (… … and get a finder’s fee from both sides of the transaction) for the person. But, the first acceptance was binding. And, it was binding on both sides.
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From Tom’s Hardware Guide:
DOJ Report says FBI Loses Three Laptops a Month
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A Department of Justice audit has found that the Federal Bureau of Investigation loses approximately three laptops per month. The FBI loses the majority of the laptops, about 2.64 a month, through simple forgetfulness while 1 laptop a month is stolen.
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Your gooferment at work! Argh!
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The roads were icy this morning. We didn’t get the blizzard the weather people predicted. (Weathermen, economists, and politician are the only people who can be wrong and still get paid!) The crazy nuts of the road were zipping thru like it was a summer’s day. Several of them wound up in the ditch. One us tractor trailer got me to say a good irish word when he went three wide at (my guess) 75! Argh!
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Looks like I don’t have a working copy of Front Page installed anywhere?
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Moved YAG to “my” WSP. In doing that, my “pretty” site was reduced to content. Argh! I think that was Front page based. Argh!
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GOTOMYPC
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Get Secure Remote Access with GoToMyPC
GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your PC from any Web browser or wireless device in real time.
* Access files, programs, email, and network
* Increase your flexibility and productivity
* Work on your office PC from home
* Travel and use your PC remotely
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Well, it is handy. Not cheap. $180 per year. And it does apparently work flawlessly. My biggest problem is that WXP decides randomly that it doesn’t want to communicate with the outside world any more. Sometimes nothing but a reboot will make it start again. That’s not gotomypc’s fault. But, when I want it to do it’s magic and it don’t, guess who gets the blame. Not Microsoft for it’s hunk of junk. Will I lose this capability when I move my “shop” to Linux?
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http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/$1coin/
The Presidential $1 Coin Program
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The United States is honoring our Nation’s presidents by issuing $1 circulating coins featuring their images in the order that they served, beginning with Presidents Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Madison in 2007. The United States Mint will mint and issue four Presidential $1 Coins per year, and each will have a reverse design featuring a striking rendition of the Statue of Liberty. These coins will feature larger, more dramatic artwork, as well as edge-incused inscriptions of the year of minting or issuance, “E Pluribus Unum,” “In God We Trust” and the mint mark. Although the size, weight and metal composition of the new Presidential $1 Coin will be identical to that of the Sacagawea Golden Dollar, there are several unique features that make this coin distinctive.
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What a joke!
Their “gold” coins are a fraud.
Give us real ones.
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Posted by reinkefj
Outlook with Plaxo Update were “not responding”. I suspect that was the problem again.
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http://article.nationalreview.com/?
q=MmQ2MDY4ZmFjZDkwZTUyZTIy
NTAwMjIyY2Q5NWM5ZTM=
February 9, 2007 6:00 AM
When You Tax Profits, You Tax People
The economics behind Hillary Clinton’s anti-business Chavezian threat.
By Larry Kudlow
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Washington economist Kevin Hassett has shown that the U.S. workforce bears a full 70 percent of the cost of corporate taxes. So, if folks are indeed worried about wage inequality, they should be lobbying their congressional representatives to cut corporate taxes in order to increase worker wages.
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Only “real” people pay taxes.
Anyone, who knows anything about business, knows that they are just conduits of costs. If I make widgets that you buy, you can rest assure that, if I am in an ongoing business, every cost associated with that widget is built into the price you are paying. If there’s an income tax, sales tax, use tax, gas tax, or a tax specifically on widgets, it’s all added into the price.
That’s what makes determining the total tax load so difficult. My widget, Hershey’s candy bar, and Mom’s apple pie from Drake’s all have taxes built into the price. You buy a my widget for a buck. How much tax did you just pay? No one knows and the thieves in Washington, Trenton, and city hall like that just fine.
That’s why taxes like the gas taxes are so insidious. They’re build into every single thing you buy. You couldn’t break that out if you wanted to.
That’s why the cost of regulations are also insidious. They can’t be broken out either. If I can only assemble my widget in Borneo because of environmental regulations, it has to be shipped to you. Now, figure out the cost of that “regulatory” tax. Good luck!
Sigh.
Then don’t forget that there is an “inflation tax”. Regardless if you think inflation is 2% or 15%, or somewhere in between (as I peg it now at about 7% based on 200 basis points over the Certificate of Depreciation rate I can get), that to is an insidious silent tax. So how much of that is in your products that you buy?
No the dead old white guys were quite right in insisting that taxes be on imports only. It’s really easy to see that. Everything else gets buried.
And, it’s not like they do anything useful with the proceeds of their theft.
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Ferdinand John Reinke
http://www.linkedin.com/in/reinkefj
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Just wanted to make sure it was working for Thursday.
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It appears that Plaxo went awol. The first indication of trouble was when a editpro project wouldn’t open. From that point, every think went down hill from there. Reboot. And try again?
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