INTERESTING: Kudos to RU; Princeton embarassment

Thursday, November 20, 2008

http://scarletknights.com/basketball-women/news/release.asp?prID=7137

No. 3/2 Rutgers Trounces Princeton, 83-35
Posted on 11/18/2008 10:13:32 PM

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PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Three players scored in double figures as No. 3/2 Rutgers cruised to an 83-35 win over intra-state rival Princeton on Tuesday evening at the Louis Brown Athletic Center.

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The game was unremarkable. RU overmatched Princeton.

But that was not what I found interesting.

It was the National Anthem.

RU lined up properly and respectfully. The Princeton team was disrespectfully apparently ignorant of the proper protocol.

Interesting to see the government minions have been doing their brainwashing job in RU’s case and not in Pton’s case. Because the gooferment is heavily involved in what they call “education”, I call them “minions”.

Just interesting, disrespect of the anthem is a strange and interesting phenom?

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INTERESTING: Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009

Thursday, September 25, 2008

http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/category/y-2009/

“Project censored is one of the organizations that we should listen to, to be assured that our newspapers and our broadcast outlets are practicing thorough and ethical journalism.”

— Walter Cronkite

[JR: I especially think in today’s media culture, where everyone has an agenda, we have to be careful about being manipulated!]

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INTERESTING: Diana Rigg: 70?

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Diana Rigg: her story

Dame Diana Rigg may be 70 this month but she still drives a Mercedes sports car, smokes 20 a day and swears by a bottle of Merlot before bedtime. The spirit of Emma Peel lives on, finds Nigel Farndale. Portrait by James Deavin

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/07/06/sv_dianarigg.xml

[JR: Ouch. 70! ]

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INTERESTING: Success through failures

Monday, July 7, 2008

http://hellomynameisscott.blogspot.com/2008/07/figure-out-why-and-where-others-failed.html

Figure out why (and where) others failed
Monday, July 07, 2008 – posted by hellomynameisscott at 9:21 AM

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Here are some questions you can ask:

1. What was the biggest mistake you made in your first year of business?
2. What are the three biggest mistakes made by people in your industry?
3. What is the stupidest possible thing I could be doing right now?
4. If you had to do it all over again, what would you do differently?
5. What’s on your list of “Things I’ll Never Do Again”?
6. What things do you wish you started doing earlier?
7. Complete the following sentence: “I would have been a lot more successful had I never…”

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1. What was the biggest mistake you made in your first year of business?

Not realizing that the gravy train would end when a key guarantor of the whole effort would get a divorce in the third year. The effort limped along after that as he was distracted. The workers, like me, needed him to schmooze the big wigs and get us in the door. It was lucrative and I should have billed more when the ‘billing fairy’ was sprinkling money on any contract you proposed.

2. What are the three biggest mistakes made by people in your industry?

* Fail to invest in themselves. (One thing I have done right is 1% in tech toys and 1% in education.)

* Fail to realize their ‘real’ job is to find their next one.

* Fail to have a formal networking program (ala Lucht’s description) running at ALL times.

3. What is the stupidest possible thing I could be doing right now?

Being complacent about the probability I’ll be laid off by EOY!

4. If you had to do it all over again, what would you do differently?

I would go to Law School with my AT&T Study group that I did my MBA with! That was a BIG mistake.

5. What’s on your list of “Things I’ll Never Do Again”?

Never trust anything not in writing. Never doubt your gut feelings. Never chase money. Never make investment decision based on taxes as the top criteria. Never make big mistakes; just lots of small ones!

6. What things do you wish you started doing earlier?

Saving for retirement. Or started at all? Followed the Sony Bloch’s ‘Buy 12 houses as a retirement plan’. Ran track in college. Played poker. Wrote my books.

7. Complete the following sentence: “I would have been a lot more successful had I never…”

Lost my information security focus when I branched into Enterprise Architecture.

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INTERESTING: the benefits of failure

Saturday, June 7, 2008

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91232541

The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination
by J.K. Rowling

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Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility; or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own graduation. The commencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mary Warnock. Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I can’t remember a single word she said. This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.

You see? If all you remember in years to come is the ‘gay wizard’ joke, I’ve still come out ahead of Baroness Mary Warnock. Achievable goals: the first step towards personal improvement.

Actually, I have wracked my mind and heart for what I ought to say to you today. I have asked myself what I wish I had known at my own graduation, and what important lessons I have learned in the 21 years that has expired between that day and this.

I have come up with two answers. On this wonderful day when we are gathered together to celebrate your academic success, I have decided to talk to you about the benefits of failure. And as you stand on the threshold of what is sometimes called ‘real life’, I want to extol the crucial importance of imagination.

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INTERESTING: Keep a one-sentence journal

Friday, June 6, 2008

http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/2008/06/your-happiness.html

YOUR Happiness Project: Keep a one-sentence journal.

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I’m working on my Happiness Project, and you should have one, too! Everyone’s project will look different, but it’s the rare person who can’t benefit. Join in — no need to catch up, just jump in right now. Each Friday’s post will help you think about your own happiness project.

Yesterday was the Little Girl’s last day in the “Purple Room,” which is what her nursery school calls the class for the school’s youngest children. She only went twice a week, for less than three hours, but the Purple Room was a very big part of her life.

There’s something so inexpressibly sweet about this age and this first experience of school. I’m having an emotion that I can only describe as preemptive nostalgia for this time. Her last morning there was yesterday, but already, I feel deeply sentimental about it.

The days are long, but the years are short.

For that reason, I’m so happy that I started keeping my one-sentence journal; otherwise I would worry that I wouldn’t remember any of the details about this time – the teeny tiny sinks, the coat hooks in the hallway marked with the children’s photos, the play kitchen and the board books.

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Interesting concept?

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INTERESTING: Memories of my youth and the years of the Japanese occupation

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

http://www.dutch-east-indies.com/story/index.htm

Memories of my youth and the years of the Japanese occupation
in the former Dutch East Indies during World War Two

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After a wonderful youth in the Dutch East Indies, today Indonesia, my family and I went through three and a half years Japanese occupation. I lost my father, I lost the country I loved, I lost everything, but I kept my memories.

My son advised me to start a website and write all those memories down. So here I am, 79 years old, sitting behind my computer, going back to the Dutch East Indies.

Elizabeth van Kampen

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Absolutely stunning. It could have all been lost to age, infirmity, or death.

Take a few hours and read this site.

Then, you’ll know why we need to live at peace.

Tragic! Yet, empowering.

Sigh, I’m humbled at what some people can make with their lemons.

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INTERESTING: The Last Doughboy

Monday, May 26, 2008

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/23/AR2008052302433.html

The Last Doughboy
World War I veteran Frank Buckles, 107, in March.
By George F. Will
Sunday, May 25, 2008; Page B07

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CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. — Numbers come precisely from the agile mind and nimble tongue of Frank Buckles, who seems bemused to say that 4,734,991 Americans served in the military during America’s involvement in the First World War and that 4,734,990 are gone. He is feeling fine, thank you for asking.

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Amazing at 107!

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INTERESTING:

Friday, March 21, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/movies/
21scofield.html?_r=1&ei=5088&en=271a7ed77a7e8020&
ex=1363838400&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&partner=rssny
t&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1206096749-NiX7FD1+OswuTXMjTST7wA

Paul Scofield, British Actor, Dies at 86
By BENEDICT NIGHTINGALE
Published: March 21, 2008

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Paul Scofield, the renowned British actor who created the indelible role of Sir Thomas More in Robert Bolt’s “Man for All Seasons” and then recreated it on film in 1966 with an Oscar-winning performance, died on Wednesday near his home in southern England. He was 86.

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But the role that brought Mr. Scofield international renown was that of Sir Thomas More in “A Man for All Seasons,” which opened in London in 1960. The mix of moral strength, intelligence, melancholy and wily grace he brought to Henry VIII’s principled but ultimately disgraced Lord Chancellor won him a Tony Award for his Broadway debut in the role in the 1961-62 season. That was followed by an Academy Award as best actor when Mr. Zinnemann directed him in the movie version of the play in 1966.

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I wish I could have seen him in the play. The movie was one of those events that changed me. I “knew” from many years of “Catholic School” about the story of Sir Thomas Moore. But, his portrayal in the movie made it “real”. The quiet valor of the hopeless struggle. It taught me that it really doesn’t matter if you win or lose. In the end, we are all dead. But it does matter how you play the game. How you acquit yourself. The panache used in daily life.

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INTERESTING: Last man standing

Monday, March 17, 2008

http://www.herald-mail.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=188712&format=html

March 16, 2008
Last man standing
By DAVE McMILLION

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CHARLES TOWN, W.VA. – He’s the last one in America who can tell stories about his experiences during World War I.

And he lives just outside of Charles Town.

Frank Woodruff Buckles became the last known surviving American veteran of the First World War this year, and his family is busy keeping track of his schedule as he grants interviews and makes appearances.

The 107-year-old veteran was honored 10 days ago during ceremonies in Washington, D.C. He visited with President Bush at the White House and a photographic portrait of Buckles was unveiled at the Pentagon.

 

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Wow. And, he was a POW. Stern stuff.

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