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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VETERANS: Vet disability letters
Friday, December 23, 2016SHOCK REPORT — Veterans Receive Letters From VA Prohibiting Ownership or Purchase of Firearms
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, February 22, 2013, 6:11 AM
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Or, if they are not on disability, is this a de facto admission that they are disabled?
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RANT: Why Are Jurors Drafted?
Friday, December 23, 2016
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HARDWARE: Drone on drone action
Friday, December 23, 2016
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As I awake from a rare restful slumber,
Friday, December 23, 2016Dying red leaves resplendent in the brightest morning shine I see.
It’s the fall. Dying time. For all old leaves.
No rage just sad awareness that the cold winter and death for all that’s old is just a breath away.
Not sad. Just a fact. Make way for the new, the young, the untired.
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Obama’s Midnight Regulation Express
Friday, December 23, 2016http://www.wsj.com/articles/obamas-midnight-regulation-express-1482451192
BHO is really “some piece of work”. And that’s being polite!
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Berlin Truck Attack Suspect Killed in Shootout
Friday, December 23, 2016Too bad. It would have been good to find out why? Now we’ll never know.
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LESSONS LEARNED: Sending stuff by priority mail
Friday, December 23, 2016- Since at crunch times, like Christmas, the mailers “disappear” no matter how hard the Postal Workers try to keep them stocked. So keep a few of those mailers in your car for when they are needed.
- You can use the PO kiosk with a credit card. Sometimes these are available when the windows are closed.
- After seeing some PO disasters, I have been putting my contents inside a zip lock bag with the addressing information where I hope it’s supposed to wind up.
- The PO uses automatic scanning the zip code. If you are going to put phone numbers in the address, which I’ve been told is a good idea, then you need to put it under the name, but before the address.
For example:
John Q. Public
(212) 555-1212
123 Anystreet Place
Anywhere XX 01010-1234 - When you get the receipt, confirm the tracking number asap. Then, alert the recipient with the link. Ask for them to confirm they received it. But you’ll still have to check. (I had to tell one person to look outside their front door!)
- Check the “to” and “from”. (I’ve more that once reversed that. DUH!) Might also help to verify the addresses, I’ve sent stuff to the old address by accident and by my own stupidity.
- It’s also useful to print the from/to info then put it on the Priority Address label covering it with clear tape. Then all you have to do is put the self-adhesive Priority Address label on the envelope or box. Works nicely.
Feel free to add your own observations.
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Aleppo Evacuation Nears End, Say Red Cross, State TV
Thursday, December 22, 2016http://www.wsj.com/articles/aleppo-evacuation-nears-end-red-cross-says-1482402010
Not a minute too soon. Dona Nobis Pacem
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AT&T’s DirecTV Now Gets Off to a Bumpy Start
Thursday, December 22, 2016
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Daniel Henninger: Michelle’s Trump Despair
Thursday, December 22, 2016http://www.wsj.com/articles/michelles-trump-despair-1482363263
They say that being elected President ages. Let’s hope that DJT keeps his word. I’m hoping for the best.
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VETERANS: Why can’t a vet start his own waiting list site?
Thursday, December 22, 2016http://www.mygovcost.org/2016/12/15/the-vas-secret-hospital-rankings/
The VA’s Secret Hospital Rankings
Thursday December 15th, 2016 • Posted by Craig Eyermann at 7:28am PST
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The most disturbing part of the story, however, was a revelation about the VA hospitals most closely associated with its secret waitlist scandal. (Bear in mind that veterans seeking medical treatment at those facilities were placed on secret lists that hid how long they were waiting to receive treatment, while VA administrators and supervisors used the VA’s official waiting lists to claim bonuses for meeting the VA’s goals for providing speedy service.)
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After more than two years of President Obama’s feckless and ineffective management of the veterans health care rationing scandal and his failure to see through needed reforms, the VA is in desperate need of real reform and a management turnaround, starting with major changes in the VA’s leadership throughout its bureaucracy.
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It would seem easy for a vet to start a blog and their comrades can report their actual waiting times?
That would create a counter weight to falsified stats!
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The Best New Ways to Scan Your Old Photos
Wednesday, December 21, 2016http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-best-new-ways-to-scan-your-old-photos-1482256768
I think I’d like to something. The app seems like a good choice.
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ISP: Leave Yahoo email ASAP
Wednesday, December 21, 2016http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/leave-yahoo-quit-move-gmail/
It’s Time to Leave Yahoo: How to Quit and Move to Gmail Right Now
Ben Stegner December 20, 2016
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For the second time in recent months, Yahoo has been hit with a security breach. This time, Yahoo announced that hackers stole details from a billion accounts in August 2013.
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I’m not a fan of giving control of your email to anyone even GMAIL.
That being said you should leave Yahoo. It’s going the way of Blackberry.
May I suggest that you have your own domain? The common wisdom, or is that common whizdumb, is to own your own name as a domain name. I own “reinke.cc”. (I like saying “sea sea me at reinke.cc”! me@reinke.cc will actually work!) It gives one quite a bit of control. And, it’s very cheap.
I know three solutions at 15$/year using wordpressdotcom with gmail, 25$/year email only with 1and1, and 60$/year for domain+email+webspace also at 1and1. My point is not that you should use 1and1. http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=9113251 I could care less which one you use.
It’s that getting on to your own domain with email is cheap and easy. And, it’s not hotmail, yahoo, or gmail. It IS your own “personal brand”.
I use my own domain to receive mail and GMAIL to “handle it”.
Works very nicely.
YMMV. FWIW.
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RANT: Time for individual responsibility
Tuesday, December 20, 2016https://gearjunkie.com/rescue-fine-steamboat-springs-backcountry-skiers
December 19, 2016, 12:50 pm By: Adam Ruggiero
Rescue Fine: Steamboat Springs Warns Backcountry Skiers
New signs around the Steamboat Ski Area warn adventurous skiers of newly-implemented rescue fine.
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Ski patrol is putting up the signs, proclaiming the $500-per-person rescue fine, on out-of-bounds access gates at edges of the Steamboat Springs, Colo., ski area. The resort’s new trail maps also carry the warning.
The purpose is to deter inexperienced skiers from getting in over their heads (sometimes literally). It is also a response to an uptick in trespassers not heeding the current boundary signs.
According to a report in Steamboat Today, ski patrol director John Kohnke estimates 500 people a day slip through the access gates. This is up from about 20 when he began 40 years ago.
Neither Routt County Search and Rescue, which sometimes aids in ski area rescues, nor the Forest Service objected to the fines.
Rescue Fines In Steamboat Springs
By Colorado state law, Search and Rescue cannot charge for operations because it may deter skiers from calling for help when they need it. However, this fine appears to be directed specifically at skiers who leave through the resort gates.
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Sorry, but if you have to have the “Search and Rescue” to haul your sorry butt out, then you should pay for it.
At the very least, they could sell “insurance”. Buy it and need us, OK. Don’t and you do, you pay.
If you spread the cost across lots of skiers, it’s probably reasonable.
No one has a “right” to be rescued.
Wonder how many of these were “repeats” or “obvious beyond their skills”.
Argh!
Time for individual responsibility.
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Five Ways to Restore the Separation of Powers
Tuesday, December 20, 2016http://www.wsj.com/articles/five-ways-to-restore-the-separation-of-powers-1482192048
Seem like some good steps.
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I Used to Be So Cool. What Happened?
Monday, December 19, 2016http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-end-of-cool-1480302480
Laff. I dread the day I get “old”
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