INSPIRATIONAL: Overcoming

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

http://99u.com/articles/7300/The-Stax-Records-Guide-To-Overcoming-Setbacks?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+The99Percent+%28The+99+Percent%29

The Stax Records Guide To Overcoming Setbacks

by John Caddell

In 1968, Al Bell, president of Stax Records, the pioneering R&B music label, learned that the expiration of his company’s distribution arrangement with larger Atlantic Records would deprive Stax ownership of its own back catalog of music – the songs and albums the label had released since its founding in 1959.

Since much of the worth of a record label came from its back catalog, Stax Records was, in effect, starting over as a business without the steady residuals a large catalog could provide. Confronted with this reality, Al Bell decided to create a brand-new catalog.

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Wow, how many people can “reboot” themselves?

Hard to imagine. But if you have no choice, then choices are easy?

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INSPIRATIONAL: TED talks!

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

http://www.georgeambler.com/10-great-ted-talks-for-leaders/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ThePracticeOfLeadership+%28Leading+in+Turbulent+Times%29

10 Great TED Talks for Leaders

February 11, 2013 by George Ambler Leave a Comment

TED is just about the best place to visit if you have a few minutes to kill. TED offers lectures by brilliant people doing amazing things in areas including technology, entertainment, design, business and science. Listed below are 10 great TED talks on leadership for leaders.

Fields Wicker-Miurin: Learning from leadership’s “missing manual”

Leadership doesn’t have a user’s manual, but Fields Wicker-Miurin says stories of remarkable, local leaders are the next best thing. At a TED salon in London, she shares three.

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TED TALKS are like a quick MBA!

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INSPIRATIONAL: Understanding one’s role

Sunday, October 28, 2012

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/123879.html

October 22, 2012

Reader Says We Don’t Do Enough

Posted by Karen De Coster on October 22, 2012 02:21 PM

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I received an email from an LRC reader today. This type of theme is not too common, but I occasionally get these letters. It reads as follows:

The Word of God teaches me it’s foolish and useless to tell a cold and hungry person to go forth, be filled and warm, unless I give them the necessary food and clothing. Same theory applies here.

Most LRC contributors do an outstanding job of relaying another in an endless series of stories about everyday Amerikans getting their butts kicked, but I never notice anyone on LRC actually doing anything at all to HELP these victims of abuse.

The burning question in MY mind is “why not?”

Here is my response to the reader:

You wrote:

“I never notice anyone on LRC actually doing anything at all to HELP these victims of abuse.”

Really? Do you follow us around all day, and watch what we do? Do you have special powers to do this? How do I get those powers?

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Argh!

I too have had a good life. For whatever reason, fortune, luck, good decisions / bad decisions — much of what I have I credit to my sainted wife who put up with my silliness.

This really annoys me.

I give away as much as I consume.’

If for no other reason than the theif who steals heaven with his last minute repentance. I rely on the workers int he vinyard who come in at 3PM, yet earn the full wage.

As I sit here, I have no idea what is in front of me, It’s more about allowing people to stand on my shoulders, as low as they are, to learn form what I have “learned”.

We all stand on the shoulders of those who have preceded us?

Wish it was more simple than that. Us old folks have the problem of lead, follow, or at least get out of the way. :-(

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INSPIRATIONAL: Cells can be reprogrammed

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

News Alert
from The Wall Street Journal

British researcher John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan have won this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology.

The prize committee at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute said the two researchers won the award for their discovery that mature, specialized cells can be reprogrammed to become immature cells capable of developing into all tissues of the body.

Their findings had revolutionized understanding of how cells and organisms develop, the Nobel committee said.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444897304578043961363646792.html?mod=djemalertNEWS

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There is SO much we DON’T know versus what we DO know!

It’s stunning!

This could be a break thru for sick people worldwide.

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INSPIRATIONAL: California Legalizes Self Driving Cars

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/09/26/1621200/california-legalizes-self-driving-cars

California Legalizes Self Driving Cars
Posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday September 26, @12:36PM
from the third-place-leaders-of-the-free-world dept.

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Hugh Pickens writes writes “The Seattle PI reports that California has become the third state to explicitly legalize driverless vehicles, setting the stage for computers to take the wheel along the state’s highways and roads … ‘Today we’re looking at science fiction becoming tomorrow’s reality,’ said Gov. Brown. ‘This self-driving car is another step forward in this long, march of California pioneering the future and leading not just the country, but the whole world.’ The law immediately allows for testing of the vehicles on public roadways, so long as properly licensed drivers are seated at the wheel and able to take over. It also lays out a roadmap for manufacturers to seek permits from the DMV to build and sell driverless cars to consumers. Bryant Walker Smith, a fellow at Stanford’s Center for Automotive Research points to a statistical basis for safety that the DMV might consider as it begins to develop standards: ‘Google’s cars would need to drive themselves (by themselves) more than 725,000 representative miles without incident for us to say with 99 percent confidence that they crash less frequently than conventional cars. If we look only at fatal crashes, this minimum skyrockets to 300 million miles. To my knowledge, Google has yet to reach these milestones.'”

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I’d buy one of those if they are available for sale here!

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INSPIRATIONAL: Today’s a sad day for me … “… Whatever that plan be, know that I will be with you to my last breath.”

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Blood Drive
Sunday July 1st, 2012
In Memory of Evlynn Marie Mahoney Reinke
(July 1, 1947 – February 26, 2011)
Bloodmobile in the Parking Lot
St. Cecilia Roman Catholic Church
10 Kingston Lane
Monmouth Junction NJ 08852

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“Don’t waste your time looking back on what you’ve lost. Move on, for life is not meant to be travelled backwards.”
– Unknown

Still easier said than done.

I’m having a “virtual party” today.

Hopefully some of the “kids” I sent invites to will join me in thinking about her today.

Forty years of joy.

One day at a time to the finish line.

“My love, were it in my power, I would sadly grant thee this boon. But, we have to continue to follow His Plan for us. Let’s go forth and speak no more of this. Who ever is last will be last. It will be His choice; not ours. We’re but humble custodians of His temple on earth. It’s not our place to trump His plan. Whatever that plan be, know that I will be with you to my last breath.” — character “John” in CHURCH 10●19●62 Volume 2 Page 399

Still as true now as when I wrote it.

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INSPIRATIONAL: Folk wisdom

Thursday, June 21, 2012
Use it
Wear it out
Make it do
Do without

— Francois Family wisdom 
© John D. Francois 1973-2012 All Rights Reserved 
(Used with the permission of the copyright owner)
 
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INSPIRATIONAL: Robin Roberts of TV’s “Good Morning America” battling blood disorder

Friday, June 15, 2012

Date: Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:05 PM
Subject: Reuter site – Robin Roberts of TV’s “Good Morning America” battling blood disorder

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSBRE85A0Z520120611

Robin Roberts of TV’s “Good Morning America” battling blood disorder
Mon, Jun 11 15:41 PM EDT

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Robin Roberts, an anchor on ABC’s “Good Morning America” program who beat breast cancer five years ago, said on Monday she has myelodysplastic syndrome, a blood disorder triggered by her cancer treatment.

Roberts, 51, who expects to undergo a bone marrow transplant this fall with her sister as a donor, learned of the diagnosis on the same day that GMA beat NBC’s “Today” show in viewer ratings for the first time in 16 years, she said in a statement on the network’s website.

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MDS is what killed Frau Reinke. Technically kidney failure. 

It appears that Ms. Roberts is eligible for a bone marrow transplant. Our Girl wasn’t.

I’m adding Ms. Roberts to my prayer list and hope she survives.

She seems like a nice lady. No one should have that happen to them.

Any way, I thought I’d pass this along for your consideration. 

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INSPIRATIONAL: More advice to deaf ears?

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

>but Im trying to live life

“NO! … Try not! … Do or do not… there is no try.” (To do it justice, you must say the word try with all the revulsion and disgust you can put on it. Like you were talking about a rapist, a child murderer, or a politician!) — Yoda (Fictional character from George Lucas’s “Star Wars” movie)

One doesn’t “try to live life”. You’ll do that without “trying”. Unfortunately, it’ll just slip by if you don’t savor every moment. You waked up old and look back and say “Wow was I dumb!” LOL!!! The Buddhists have the concept of the “Three Joys of Suffering”. We cause our own unhappiness by not being in the moment.

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INSPIRATIONAL: Anyone remember the Sixth of June?

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

http://www.ddaymuseum.co.uk/d-day/d-day-and-the-battle-of-normandy-your-questions-answered

D-Day and the Battle of Normandy: Your Questions Answered

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How many Allied and German casualties were there on D-Day, and in the Battle of Normandy?

“Casualties” refers to all losses suffered by the armed forces: killed, wounded, missing in action (meaning that their bodies were not found) and prisoners of war. There is no “official” casualty figure for D-Day. Under the circumstances, accurate record keeping was very difficult. For example, some troops who were listed as missing may actually have landed in the wrong place, and have rejoined their parent unit only later.

In April and May 1944, the Allied air forces lost nearly 12,000 men and over 2,000 aircraft in operations which paved the way for D-Day.

The Allied casualties figures for D-Day have generally been estimated at 10,000, including 2500 dead. Broken down by nationality, the usual D-Day casualty figures are approximately 2700 British, 946 Canadians, and 6603 Americans. However recent painstaking research by the US National D-Day Memorial Foundation has achieved a more accurate – and much higher – figure for the Allied personnel who were killed on D-Day. They have recorded the names of individual Allied personnel killed on 6 June 1944 in Operation Overlord, and so far they have verified 2499 American D-Day fatalities and 1915 from the other Allied nations, a total of 4414 dead (much higher than the traditional figure of 2500 dead). Further research may mean that these numbers will increase slightly in future. The details of this research will in due course be available on the Foundation’s website at http://www.dday.org. This new research means that the casualty figures given for individual units in the next few paragraphs are no doubt inaccurate, and hopefully more accurate figures will one day be calculated.

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In my life, I’ve met few D-Day vets. When you could induce them to talk about it, the memories were vivid.

The Sixth of June, how many will remember it at all?

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