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6) Self-Actualization
6) Apple Macbook Pro with Retina Display The End Times are all the rage, ignoring the Mayan distraction, it’s still apocalypse now for many fundamentalists. A quick search of google reveals that “end times” has 2.6 billion results, compare this to a paltry 1.4 billion results for “God” himself and it’s clear that it’s a question on many minds. While the end of days can be debated until that very last day, what would it be like to know for certain that you’re living in the Book of Revelation? For Ephesus and Pergamon in Turkey, being part of Revelations isn’t up for debate, they are actually in the Book of Revelation. .
. If the end of days is more figurative than literal, merely representing the end of all that we accept as permanent, Ephesus today could be exactly what John the Baptist envisioned for the end of the world. Standing as one of the world’s great cities for 2500 years, today it lies in ruin. The collapse of such a city could have been nothing short of the end of the world for those that see the civilization they live in as timeless. Read the rest of… From Phillip Bailey, Political Editor, WFPL News:
I highly recommend mapping your organization or community genome. Understanding the basic genetic code or wiring of any organization is key to understanding what drives the behavior of both internal and external stakeholders. Intimate knowledge of the genome’s chromosomal makeup is a prerequisite for alignment and making meaningful progress. It explains why employees, customers, and collaborators are attracted to an organization or why they aren’t. Passion for an organization, community, or movement is coded at the genetic level. If you want to transform an organization or a system, forget process reengineering and think genetic reengineering. If you want to launch a movement make your genome transparent and accessible to anyone with a similar genetic make-up. I offer up the BIF genome as an example and with the hope you will improve it. The Business Innovation Factory (BIF) is catalyzing a movement to transform the next decade. This is no time to think small! Together with a growing community of passionate innovators we are re-imagining the future of education, health care, energy, and entrepreneurship. We have identified and mapped 11 chromosomes that comprise the genome of the BIF innovation community and transformation movement. Do they resonate with you? Do you share a similar genetic make-up? If yes, do we have a movement for you!
1) Off the whiteboard and into the real world. Experiment all the time. Work fast, make mistakes, push into territories of the unknown.Taking risks is an essential part of innovation. Exceed your own expectations. 2) Business model innovation is itself a creative act. Design better ways to create, deliver, and capture value. Tweaking won’t work. Transformation is about new business models and systems. 3) Stories can change the world. Storytelling is magic. Share compelling stories to create stronger emotional connections and purposeful networks. Read the rest of… I’m so pleased to report that legislation honoring Shemp Howard (née Samuel Horwitz), the most overlooked member of the comedy troupe, The Three Stooges, has now officially become a law in the great Commonwealth of Kentucky. Shemp has deserved this honor for decades, and I for one am thrilled to death that a proud Jewish exemplar is finally getting the recognition he so truly deserves. Mazel Tov, Shemp!!!
UPDATE 4:30 So it turns out that the legislation that has officially become law is not “Shemp” legislation, but “hemp” legislation. (Which is also pretty damn awesome. Read my piece upon the bill’s passage in the General Assembly.) But my apologies to the Howard family and the entire American Jewish community for my reading mistake. Here is the update on the hemp legislation from the Courier-Journal:
“Someone in Heaven this yesterday said, “Cut, print, that’s a wrap!”
And gave a thumbs up.
RIP Roger Ebert
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I never met Roger Ebert. But I felt like I knew him. How many critics can you say that about? Roger Ebert was the most human of critics in my lifetime. My first years as an avid fan of Siskel & Ebert, I favored the more academic and cerebral Siskel. But as I matured, I found myself leaning toward Roger Ebert. And the last two decades I looked to Roger Ebert if I ever wanted to understand the meaning of a film. Or decide if I should go to a film based on the quality of that film. Or, and this is most important, if I wanted to know what a film had to teach about life. I don’t think there will ever be a film critic who will teach us more about life through the medium of film. That is because there will never be another critic who loved film as much as Roger Ebert. And who loved life equally as much as the art he critiqued. Most critics love their art but too often hide behind it instead of embracing life. Roger Ebert was one critic who rose above his peers and helped to create an art form of covering an art form—and managed to marry a love of the art he covered with a gift for communicating the mechanics and mystery and magic of film. As one human to another. We lost a great friend today that most of us never met. The one who also happened to be our greatest film critic. Roger Ebert, is somewhere today, I suspect, critiquing the production choices of Heaven. The Politics of Sequestration
Around a month since the automatic budgetary cuts known as the “sequester” began taking effect, many are still waiting for the fall-out. When will the crushing blow we were warned about start to reveal itself? According to Stephanie Condon, it may not be for some time yet.[CBS]
Not all sectors of our society have been so fortunate as to avoid stinging rollbacks. One area particularly hurt by Washington gridlock, according to Howard Fineman, is front line medical research. In a piece for The Huffington Post, Fineman uses the successful mapping of the human genome as an example of investment in medical research which is still bearing economic fruit. One would be forgiven for wondering what medical breakthrough our current political gridlock is delaying. [HP] So far there have been precious few opportunities to apply human faces to the “sequester” fiasco, barring the President or Speaker Boehner’s. However as of April 1, the sequestration began to touch Medicare. Lack of funding is reportedly forcing some cancer clinics to make tough decisions regarding how many Medicare recipients they can continue to treat. [WP] This week President Obama announced that he would return 5% of his salary to the Treasury in solidarity with those who are being hurt by sequestration. This is the sort of political theater which would normally inspire a collective eye roll from the masses. Chris Cillizza questions, however, if this symbolic gesture could actually work. [WP]
Idea for a movie:
Over the ensuing months, he falls in love with his client and starts a relationship, even though doing so violates the ethics code. In the final scene, he has to choose between getting disbarred or his romantic relationship with his client. He chooses the latter, and they marry the following May; and the former attorney opens a florist shop to make enough money for his partner to go to law school and become a great divorce attorney. For heterosexual and gay couples. And there is a really cool high speed chase scene reminiscent of the movie Bullet. Except it involves a floral delivery. Just imagine this scene where everything hinges on a delivery. Of flowers. If not delivered timely, the entire arrangement (and it is a large one ) is free: Do you have Excess Fabric Gut? What about Bacon Neck? I was fitting a client recently for dress shirts and suits, and I noticed extra undershirt fabric around his middle that was interfering with the flattering fit of his clothing. Underwear lays the foundation for your appearance, so getting your undershirts right is key to a sharp, fitted look.
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Last night, the RP appeared on Current TV’s “The Young Turls” with Cenk Uygar to discuss his column from yesterday, “The Ashley Judd ‘Rape Comment’ That Just Won’t Go Away.” Enjoy the video: |
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