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INSPIRATIONAL: What’s?
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INSPIRATIONAL: The mooculus — Massive Open Online Course
Friday, September 6, 2013Ohio State Introduces Massive Open Online Calculus
Posted by timothy on Friday August 30, 2013 @10:27PM
from the back-to-school-special dept.
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An anonymous reader writes
“Professors at the Ohio State University are embracing MOOCs, with a Massive Open Online Calculus Course — it is completely open source; everything is on github. There is are free videos, free online assessment system, and a free textbook!”
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https://mooculus.osu.edu/handouts
The mooculus textbook
Reading a math textbook is not quite the same as reading a novel—math is even more fun! To read mathematics, you need to bring a bit more than just the textbook to the table: you should also bring
a pen,
plenty of blank paper, and
courage to write everything down.
As you read mathematics, you must work along side of the text itself. You must write down each expression, sketch each graph, and think—always think!—about just what you are doing. You should work examples and fill in the details. Like all great things, this is no easy task.
You can begin reading now by downloading the textbook.
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Does this portend the death of the bloated College and University system?
One can certainly see where “Credit by Examination” with supplement or at least minimize “Yack in the Box” meme. Attendence is no longer the proxy for achievement.
“Yes, welcome to Injineering Skrule. We’ve examined your test results and here are the courses you need, examinations you must pass, and projects you must complete to get our diploma that will tell folks you know something.”
Wow. What a change. Paradigm shift. Meme change!
Argh!
Glad I’m old. With that new paradigm / meme, there’d be no time for drinking and girls.
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INSPIRATIONAL: five secrets to making a fool out of my self
Tuesday, August 27, 2013http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/08/5-secrets-to-public-speaking/
5 Secrets to Public Speaking
by Washingtons Blog – August 24th, 2013, 1:30am
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There are five secrets to giving a successful talk or presentation:
(1) Energy
(2) Harness your nerves
(3) Fake It ‘Till You Make It
(4) Future Pacing, and
(5) Preparation
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This comes along at a perfect time. I’m been asked to speak to a group of young adults.
I guess I have fooled the inviter into thinking I have some special insight, skill or whiz dumb to impart.
Hence I guess I’ll have to do #3 until I have some sort of Epiphany?
My mantra for this is: “Networking, Burn Rate, …. and what else”.
From the pov of a fat old white guy injineer.
Argh!
I can feel the “energy” flowing now.
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INSPIRATIONAL: Rurbanite?
Wednesday, August 14, 2013http://www.care2.com/greenliving/how-to-make-your-own-seed-bombs.html
How to Make Your Own Seed Bombs
Gardenista
August 10, 2013
10:00 am
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Guerrilla gardening may use the language of civilian warfare, but floral beauty is the uniting cause. Gardening without permission is another way of describing these activities: not strictly legal but filed away by the authorities under the category of “What’s not to like?” Alex Mitchell in her book The Rurbanite shows the editors of Gardenista how to make seed bombs, using guerrilla tactics to spread cheer.
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For some reason this appeals to the rebel in my soul.
Even if you never see the flowers, someone else will.
This is almost karmic. Or aka something I could see “Dharma” doing. (Obsure reference to Janna Elfman from “Dharma and Greg”! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118303/ @jennaelfman)
Maybe I’ll do this when I go to Alaska?
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INSPIRATIONAL: Don’t get old.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013http://www.care2.com/greenliving/10-steps-to-a-happier-life.html
10 Steps to a Happier Life
Jordyn Cormier
August 3, 2013
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Don’t get old. Getting old means abandoning your creative instincts. It means stressing more. It means being serious all the time. But, there are many ninety-year-olds with who certainly don’t act “old.” Being young and creative is a state of mind, regardless of age. And creativity is the fuel of happiness. So, go lie in the grass and pick out shapes in the clouds. Roll around if you want to. It is perfectly alright, regardless of what society has lead you to believe.
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We’re it just that easy.
Sorry, but when you become “tired” of the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, what is left?
I’ve often thought that since you can’t go back, you must go forward. But then I think of the guy lost in the forest wandering in circles, defeating the best efforts of the rescue party by not letting himself be found.
Strange world we live in.
But I did like the author’s advice about “Have a beer”.
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INSPIRATIONAL: Shower Hooks?
Saturday, July 27, 2013I take my inspiration from funny places.
This morning when I took my daily shower, I noticed that the the shower curtain was fraying at the bottom.
Badly.
Too badly to ignore.
(Our Girl loved the shower curtain. And, was looking for the identical replacement. Don’t know what it was but I hated to change it.)
So a while ago I bought a frivolous one to replace it, when I bought one for the new condo. For some reason, I only bought one set of hooks.
Later my excuse for not replacing “her” curtain was didn’t have hooks.
So then today, I said “hey, time to replace before you trip on it.” (TBBT: The lack of adhesive ducks with umbrellas!)
So I counted the hooks on the old one and the holes on the new one.
Equal.
Who decided how many hooks go on a shower curtain?
So no excuse, I replaced it.
Yeah for me.
Small steps slowly taken?
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INSPIRATIONAL: Schools kill creativity
Saturday, June 29, 2013http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we’re educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.
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I always criticize Gooferment Skrules because they are immoral, ineffective, and inefficient.
Here’s someone saying that what “school” deliver is not right for the future of humanity.
Can “We, The People” change?
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INSPIRATIONAL: Dr. Terry Wahls advocates for Paleo diet
Thursday, June 27, 2013Minding Your Mitochondria: Dr. Terry Wahls at TEDxIowaCity
TEDxTalks
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Astonishing results by a medical doctor in her own care.
Call it confirmation bias for me as it “confirms” an opinion I have that I have lost weight on Paleo. And could stand to lose even more if a I was a better eater.
I have basically given up pizza. Now if I could just give up beer.
For the most part, I’m down to one or two cups of coffee per day. I never drink soda any more. And, I take a lot of vitamins.
We’ll see if it makes a difference.
Next big hurdle is beer. Gotta give that up; substitute some red wine instead.
Argh!
Any way. Watch this TED talk and tell me I’m missing something?
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INSPIRATIONAL: Views — memes and paradigms
Saturday, June 22, 2013“The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”
– Muhammad Ali
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When I think of myself thirty years ago, my views today are different — some the same; some vastly different.
I’ve always been pro-life, but that has matured to be an anti-death penalty anti-war pro-choice pro-lifer. (The Gooferment has made this a polarizing issue. While I believe we have to preserve and value life, but not by force. It has to be done by moral persuasion. Winning the hearts and minds of our fellow humans. Certainly not by diktats and guns.)
I was pro-government; now I’m some sort of a little L libertarian that hates Gooferment!
Those are the two big memes that have morphed.
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INSPIRATIONAL: What’s anthropogeny?
Monday, June 17, 2013A Fascinating New Theory About the Human Mind, Evolution and Mortality
Why have other species failed to evolve human-like intelligence? The answer may lie in our conception of mortality.
June 7, 2013
From the book DENIAL: Self-Deception, False Beliefs, and the Origins of the Human Mind by Ajit Varki and Danny Brower. Copyright © 2013 by Ajit Varki. Reprinted by permission of Twelve/Hachette Book Group, New York, NY. All rights reserved.
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Who are we? How did we get here? Why are we the way we are? And where are we going?
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anthropogeny (this classic but long-unused term encompasses the scientific pursuit of human origins and evolution).
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However, the late Danny Brower, a geneticist from the University of Arizona, suggested to me that the real question is why they should have emerged in only one species, despite millions of years of opportunity. Here, I attempt to communicate Brower’s concept.
He explained that with full self-awareness and inter-subjectivity would also come awareness of death and mortality. Thus, far from being useful, the resulting overwhelming fear would be a dead-end evolutionary barrier, curbing activities and cognitive functions necessary for survival and reproductive fitness.
Brower suggested that, although many species manifest features of self-awareness (including orangutans, chimpanzees, orcas, dolphins, elephants and perhaps magpies), the transition to a fully human-like phenotype was blocked for tens of millions of years of mammalian (and perhaps avian) evolution.
In his view, the only way these properties could become positively selected was if they emerged simultaneously with neural mechanisms for denying mortality. Although aspects such as denial of death and awareness of mortality have been discussed as contributing to human culture and behaviour, to my knowledge Brower’s concept of a long-standing evolutionary barrier had not previously been entertained. Brower’s contrarian view could help modify and reinvigorate ongoing debates about the origins of human uniqueness and inter-subjectivity. It could also steer discussions of other uniquely human “universals,” such as the ability to hold false beliefs, existential angst, theories of after-life, religiosity, severity of grieving, importance of death rituals, risk-taking behaviour, panic attacks, suicide and martyrdom.
If this logic is correct, many warm-blooded species may have previously achieved complete self-awareness and inter-subjectivity, but then failed to survive because of the extremely negative immediate consequences. Perhaps we should be looking for the mechanisms (or loss of mechanisms) that allow us to delude ourselves and others about reality, even while realizing that both we and others are capable of such delusions and false beliefs.
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I found this strangely empathetic.
If one is “smart”, one makes a will. My older family members strongly held the false belief that if you made your will, you’d soon die. When my youngest aunt died unexpectedly without a will, they saw first hand how expensive that was. Since, for some reason, I was immune to that meme, I had made a will when I got married. And, had updated it several times without dying. I was able to get them in and get it done. Luckily, no prematures passings resulted.
My wife knew about the bad side of diabetes from her brother growing up, When she was diagnosed, we knew and discussed her life expectancy. She lived life to the fullest. She had 20 more years than the “witch doctors” predicted for her. While we “knew” the facts, her passing was a real punch in my gut. One that I don’t think I’ll ever get over. Funny one discussion I remember, I said: “It’ll be easier on me, if I go first”. Her response: “Don’t do that. Think how hard it would be for me.” Of course, I agreed. Like we had any control over what or what would not happen. Other than those few “planning” conversations, we dealt with it by ignoring it for the most part. She was MUCH better at doing that than I was. But she insisted.
This article really hit home.
Maybe we as a species advanced because of a quite remarkable ability to invoke a “selective blindspot”?
I’m going to read this book. Maybe I’ll get some more insight into my problems.
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INSPIRATIONAL: To thine own self be true
Monday, June 10, 2013“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle
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But, BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), you can NOT know yourself.
At different points in time, you are a different person.
At different levels (i.e, id, ego and superego), you are a different person.
And, depending upon how you define yourself visa vi dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom), you are different person.
So, with all deference to Señor Aristotle, and he must have been a high IQ guy, “knowing yourself” is unknowable.
imho!
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INSPIRATIONAL: Yes, I’m here
Saturday, June 1, 2013“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” – Douglas Adams
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Sad to say, did I ever anticipate to be where I am today?
Never in a grazillion years.
Am I sad? Yes!
Am I sad about the choices I’ve made?
That strikes me of Shoulda, coulda, and woulda! thinking.
Argh!
Life is not a VCR. Neither is it a deterministic world.
If you presented with a choice of X and Y, then until you get to the Final Judgment will you know that if you had chosen the alternative that you’d have stopped off the curb and gotten hit with a mack truck.
Thankfully, as boy I read the “Lensmen” series, … by Edward Elmer “Doc” Smith …, that postulated a Universe that was deterministic. (The Arisians could foresee the alternatives of the future and how things worked out.) The lesson was that humans weren’t Arisians and we had to guess!
I took that to heart with my meme “less than a year, might be a mistake; more tun a year is a lesson!”
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Since each intention was a decision, I’ve ended exactly where I planned to be.
Once happy; now sad. Running out the clock!
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INSPIRATIONAL: Practical Compassion
Thursday, May 16, 2013http://zenhabits.net/compassion/?utm_source=feedly
A Guide to Practical Compassion
By Leo Babauta
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The Practical Steps
So compiling all of the above into some practical steps, here’s how to do compassion:
Be aware of your own suffering. Be willing to face, and accept, the suffering you do on a daily basis. This includes stress, doubt, fear, anger, frustration, disappointment. Watch it happen, and be OK with the sensation. Don’t run from it.
Ease your own suffering. Learn the cause of your suffering. The cause is the ideal you’re holding onto in your mind — how other people should act, how your life should be, how you should be better, how things will turn out, how people will think of you, etc. Let go of this ideal, and you’ll suffer less.
See the suffering of others. Pay attention to the other people in your life, strangers you pass. Notice the signs of their pain, empathize with this pain, understand them because you’ve experienced it too.
Reach out to them, and connect. Ease your own suffering (that comes from seeing their suffering) by reaching out and making a connection. Smile, be open to who they are, let go of your expectations of that person, and just connect.
Share your suffering, and your method. Share ways that you’ve suffered that the other person might relate to, and this in itself will be helpful, because then you share suffering. Then share how you solved it, and that method can then be useful to the other person, if they decide to try it (it’s their choice). Don’t be preachy, just share what worked.
Learn from the methods of others. Just as you share with others your method of easing your suffering, there’s much to be learned from others. If others have solved a problem that’s causing you some suffering, learn how they did it. By sharing with and learning from each other, we can all get better at our methods of compassion.
This is a simple method that I share with you, but it works wonderfully for me. I hope it helps.
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This is a great boon. And, I’m going to try this advice.
Reminds me of an article over on the Lord Acton site about “Effective Charity”.
Have to find that again!
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INSPIRATIONAL: Doctor Joyce Brother, an inspiring woman
Monday, May 13, 2013http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/13/joyce-brothers-dead/2156805/
RIP, an inspiring lady.
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INSPIRATIONAL: Race, an obsolete paradigm and an erroneous meme?
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A Co-worker sent this to me.
My thoughts went like this:
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Would you consider that “race”, whatever that is, is an obsolete paradigm and an erroneous meme?
Changing paradigms is easy; memes are painful.
What did MLK say? “Content of their character” …
and Gandhi “be the change you want to see in the world” …
and the old Catholic hymn “let their be peace on earth and let it begin with me”.
Sigh, I’m just a fat old white guy injineer …
and I “Dona Nobis Pacem”.
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INSPIRATIONAL: 10 home-schooled siblings to college by the age of 12
Thursday, May 2, 2013‘We’re just average folks’: The family sending all ten of their home-schooled children to college by the age of 12
Mona Lisa and Kip Harding from Montgomery, Alabama, home-school all ten of their kids – six of whom started college by the age of 12
The remaining four children are ten and under and also aim to go to college early
By MARGOT PEPPERS
PUBLISHED: 13:50 EST, 19 April 2013 | UPDATED: 13:50 EST, 19 April 2013
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A mother who home-schools her ten children in Montgomery, Alabama, has opened up about how six of them began their college degrees by the age of 12.
Those of the Harding siblings who have already graduated from college have gone on to become a doctor, an architect, a spacecraft designer and a master’s student. Another two – 12 and 14-years-old – are still finishing up their degrees.
But despite the Hardings’ incredible achievements at such young ages, their parents – Mona Lisa and Kip – insist they are a family of ‘average folks’ who simply find and cultivate their children’s passions early on.
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Anyone want to compare the results from Gooferment Skrules?
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INSPIRATIONAL: Send girls to do “men’s work”!
Monday, April 15, 2013Don’t underestimate what adrenaline can allow you to do. :-) I’m filing this one under “Women Lifting Cars Off Babies”. Two girls maybe 120# each lift a 3k# tractor or a about 12.5 times their body weight a few inches. I don’t know why they bothered to get the neighbor’s tractor, they should have just finished the job!
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INSPIRATIONAL: Online education
Sunday, March 10, 2013Has anyone looked at ITUNES lately?
It seems that ANYTHING that you would like to learn is there!!!
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INSPIRATIONAL: Overcoming
Wednesday, March 6, 2013The 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, 201310 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, 2012http://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, 2012News 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, 2012http://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, 2012Blood 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, 2012Use 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, 2012Date: 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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