http://www.wsj.com/articles/fast-food-chains-in-india-cultivate-untapped-workforce-women-1482674401
Now the USA is in trouble. If India “unlocks” all that human capital, then they will really be a fierce competitor in the global marketplace.
Fast-Food Chains in India Cultivate Untapped Workforce: Women
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INSPIRATIONAL: and let it begin …
Sunday, December 25, 20162016-Dec-24
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/12/no_author/let-peace-earth/
Let There Be Peace On Earth
December 24, 2015
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… and let it begin …
Dona Nobis Pacem
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INSPIRATIONAL: All the Body Parts You Can Donate
Saturday, December 24, 2016https://vitals.lifehacker.com/all-the-body-parts-you-can-donate-to-a-good-cause-1789732939
All the Body Parts You Can Donate to a Good Cause
Beth Skwarecki Tuesday 10:00am Filed to: BODY HACKS
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Bone Marrow
Who needs it? People with leukemias and lymphomas, bone marrow diseases, and immune system disorders like SCID may need a bone marrow transplant. They can’t just use any bone marrow, either: the donor’s tissue type has to match the recipient’s. Most patients who need a transplant can’t find a family member whose tissue type is a close enough match to allow them to donate. That’s why registries are so important—maybe you are someone’s match.
Who can donate? Guidelines for who can donate bone marrow are similar to those for donating blood. In addition, you have to be a good tissue match for the person who needs bone marrow. People are most likely to match with someone else from their racial or ethnic background, so registries especially need people whose heritage is African, Latino, Native American, Asian, or mixed race. Most doctors will request a donor who is under 45 years old, since younger people’s cells make for more successful transplants.
How to donate: Sign up for the National Marrow Donor Program. As part of the registration process, you will swab your cheek and send the swab for testing. This is how they know what tissue type you are. Once you are on the registry, there’s about a 1 in 500 chance that you will end up being somebody’s marrow donor.
There are two ways you might be asked to donate. The older method is a surgery where you get a giant needle in your hip. It’s great for medical TV, but not very common anymore. These days it’s more likely that you will get five daily injections of a medication called filgrastim that causes your bone marrow to release stem cells into your blood. When you donate, a machine will spend several hours filtering those cells out of your blood. In the meantime you can watch movies and chat with friends. If you’ve been put off of donating bone marrow because you were afraid it was a huge, painful needle, don’t be.
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What better way to celebrate the Christmas season?
Helping your fellow human being.
Will it hurt? Maybe. But imagine how it would be to be on the other side of it. Needing but not having a donor.
Wish I was under 45.
Maybe because Our Girl Frau Reinke passed away from an unknown blood disease makes this more impact with me.
p.s., I’m a platelet and organ donor. (Platelet donations is a two hour process where, I swear, they remove them from your butt via a handy vein. I know it comes from one’s butt because that’s the only part of me that hurts. And, no, I am NOT supine on my wallet, funny people!)
Give life.
Dona Nobis Pacem
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Your Children Already Know What They’re Getting for Christmas—Thanks, Internet
Saturday, December 24, 2016Funny! Amazon is Santa.
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PRODUCTIVITY: Doing the “Ben Franklin”!
Friday, December 23, 2016… look for “evidence”. Not “emotion”.
Everyone needs a “Devil’s Advocate”?
I have two hats. One says “mets” and the other “yankees”. The “yankees” (“my” team of millionaires playing for grazillionaire George) are the pro. The mets con.
Put on your yankee hat and make every possible argument in favor. Everyone.
Put on your mets hat and make every argument against. Even all the tears caused.
Then, do a Ben Franklin. That is stoke out equivalents. “Bathes regularly” balances “forgets wallet”. “kind to his mom” balances “my parents hate him”.
See what is left.
I’ll bet on the Mets in your specific case.
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An old old email to a youngfriend trying to pick a future mate.
I don’t know if she used my “methodology”, but she’s still single.
(ALL the young men are crazy not to “ring” her, imho.)
Laugh!
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PRODUCTIVITY: Overcoming constraints
Friday, December 23, 2016http://changethis.com/34.02.Romans
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What the Romans Didn’t Know: Overcoming Personal Constraints to Achieve Higher Performance and Fulfillment By Flip Flippen
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Do you really think Tiger Woods logs practice hours just to maintain what comes easiest to him? Flip Flippen argues that it’s your weaknesses hold you back from achieving your personal best. Here, he provides a method to identifying your weaknesses and eliminating them.
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PRODUCTIVITY: Email overload
Friday, December 23, 2016http://changethis.com/34.04.LowInfo
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The Low-Information Diet: How to Eliminate E-Mail Overload and Improve Productivity By Tim Ferriss
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It’s Monday morning and your To-Do list for the day is lengthy. You turn on your computer, log into your inbox, and…spend the next six hours starting, stopping and backtracking, your To-Do list untouched. Tim Ferriss offers immediate solutions to improve your productivity and quiet the constant information interference.
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RANT: Kvetch from long ago and far away
Friday, December 23, 2016Sorry to say, I haven’t written this. It was of interest to me at the disinterest in my power problems by employees of the various companies to who I turned to for help. (I was paying and not asking for charity.) Special excoriation for Dell, Sams Club, WalMark, OfficeDepot, Staples, the two 24 hour laptop repair firms in Vegas, and the pawn shop (it advertised computers, but had none). The only bright spot was Brookstones. Their EWR employee sold me something he thought would work (it didn’t) but correctly told me of their return policy. Their LAS employee accepted the return with no problem and showed me what I should have been sold. She made an interesting observation that the if the EWR site didn’t have the CORRECT one, he could have checked with the LAS site and they would have had it for me when I arrived. I intended to compliment them on that idea. The young women in Vegas is a gem. Sigh, now I have to try to make the midnight deadline for Jasper Jottings.
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I found this on my old phone. I don’t know when I wrote it, but I thought it was worth sharing.
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PRODUCTIVITY: People don’t read
Friday, December 23, 2016http://changethis.com/34.03.BooksFalling
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With Books Falling From the Sky: A Discourse on Literacy By Roxanne Coady
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49% percent of the adult population of the United States reads below a sixth-grade level and has difficulty navigating such common demands as reading job applications, ATM screens, and outpatient care instructions. In this evocative manifesto, Roxanne Coady, calls for change and suggests how you can improve the lives of others through promoting literacy in your community.
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PRODUCTIVITY: Just a little further
Friday, December 23, 2016http://changethis.com/34.01.TheDip
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Pushing Past the Dip: How to Become the Best in the World By Seth Godin
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The long, tough slog through mediocre-ville. To be the best, Seth Godin explains, you must concentrate your effort, push a little harder, commit a few more resources and leave mediocre to those willing to be average.
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