From yesterday's tech news....click on the link, above, for the full story.
Woman sues cellular provider for exposing affair
A woman is suing her cell provider for $600,000. The provider consolidated her bill with her husband's account without her consent. Her husband discovered that she was having an affair after reviewing her calls. Her marriage ended shortly thereafter. Your cell phone data reveals a lot about you.
I do understand privacy issues. However, if you read the detailed story, no remorse on the part of the woman filing suit.
The picture says it all...
For many years now, civility has been absent from our society and even in America's National Pastime. Pitchers pump their fists and yell out after striking out an opposing hitter. The hitters, in turn, stop and watch the ascent of their home runs into the stands. For years now, the hitter would charge the mound after being hit by a pitch. Yet, the baseball commissioners and their underlings do very little to address this classless behavior.
Baseball needs to take a page from its more violent counterpart sport of football. At the least the NFL has rules against and penalties for taunting.
By the way, Major League Baseball, think about the example you're setting for our youth.
Unapplied Knowledge
"Unapplied knowledge is no knowledge at all" -- Stephen R. Covey, author of "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Individuals" and "The 8th Habit".
Do you possess knowledge about some application, process, or situation and do not use it?
This mismatch between possessing knowledge and applying it to useful pursuits, is often seen as a waste. Knowledge and accomplishments - combined properly, results in great achievements , both for individuals and organizations. This imbalance can result in missed opportunities, vacuums and, in some cases, disaster.
Knowledge is similar to other things in our lives, if we don't use it we lose it. It seems we must strike a balance between the acquisition of knowledge and putting into action that which we have learned.
This is why Dr. Covey often exhorts those who attend his seminars and read his books to share the knowledge learned with someone within 24 hours and begin applying that knowledge immediately to our lives.
Do you possess knowledge about some application, process, or situation and do not use it?
This mismatch between possessing knowledge and applying it to useful pursuits, is often seen as a waste. Knowledge and accomplishments - combined properly, results in great achievements , both for individuals and organizations. This imbalance can result in missed opportunities, vacuums and, in some cases, disaster.
Knowledge is similar to other things in our lives, if we don't use it we lose it. It seems we must strike a balance between the acquisition of knowledge and putting into action that which we have learned.
This is why Dr. Covey often exhorts those who attend his seminars and read his books to share the knowledge learned with someone within 24 hours and begin applying that knowledge immediately to our lives.
"Write It When I'm Gone" (on President Ford)
He was often referred to as the "Accidental President". His ambition was to become Speaker of the House. He was thrust into the Presidency in some of the darkest political days in our country's history as no other US President had ever resigned from office.
This book offers a very insightful look into this very decent man who served as President and helped to heal this country from the scorn and aftermath of Watergate.
Like any human, he was flawed and had his blind spots. He was deeply upset with Ronald Reagan's lukewarm support of him against Jimmy Carter; saddened by his ignominous loss to Carter; and, slighted by his party's dismissal of him as a candidate in his hoped-for rematch against Carter.
Definitely recommend this book to anyone interested in Presidential history.
This book offers a very insightful look into this very decent man who served as President and helped to heal this country from the scorn and aftermath of Watergate.
Like any human, he was flawed and had his blind spots. He was deeply upset with Ronald Reagan's lukewarm support of him against Jimmy Carter; saddened by his ignominous loss to Carter; and, slighted by his party's dismissal of him as a candidate in his hoped-for rematch against Carter.
Definitely recommend this book to anyone interested in Presidential history.
With all due respect....
We often hear people insert these words at the beginning of a sentence, just before they are ready to deliver a zinger. It begs the question, is the speaker really acknowledging respect or are these words uttered to soften the blow or just perfunctory? My question is this: shouldn't the words that follow "with all due respect" be conveyed with respect, too?
I suspect that this phrase, like so many time-honored phrases, are merely window dressing and not delivered with sincerity.
I suspect that this phrase, like so many time-honored phrases, are merely window dressing and not delivered with sincerity.
"The better angels of our nature."
This is a curious phrase. I have heard it used only a few times over the years. Some say that it is a take on having an angel on one shoulder, and a devil on the other.
It was inserted into President Lincoln's 1st Inaugural address to replace "guardian angel" as Lincoln did not want to assert, at that point, that either side clearly in the right.
"We are not enemies, but friends," spoke President Lincoln. "We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
It was inserted into President Lincoln's 1st Inaugural address to replace "guardian angel" as Lincoln did not want to assert, at that point, that either side clearly in the right.
"We are not enemies, but friends," spoke President Lincoln. "We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
Economists, Meteorologists, and Stockbrokers
Dr. Milton Friedman, author of "Free to Choose" and a Nobel prize winning economist, on stated on "Meet the Press" that, like the weatherman, economists are not popular, often discounted, yet people still want to hear a forecast from them. Forecasts, on the weather or the economy, help to us either plan or brace ourselves.
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial meltdown, many were looking to the experts to sort out what happened but more importantly seeking insight as to what the future held. Fortunately, the US and World enconomies averted a depression-like collapse. Nevertheless, I find myself monitoring the financial news more closely now than in years past and listening to the experts in the field.
About a year ago in the gym, where many stockbrokers go to work out, I would listen to the locker room chatter as to their market prognostications. One such broker often said little but sat back and listenened. After everyone left, I decided to ask for his thoughts. Borrowing from Dr. Friedman, I prefaced my question with "like the weatherman, people dismiss stockbroker forecasts on the market but what do you think?" He laughed and shared that he predicted that an 11,000 Dow was possible in about a year. Just as he got ready to walk out, he turned and "tomorrow will be sunny with a 50% chance of rain".
He was right on both counts.
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial meltdown, many were looking to the experts to sort out what happened but more importantly seeking insight as to what the future held. Fortunately, the US and World enconomies averted a depression-like collapse. Nevertheless, I find myself monitoring the financial news more closely now than in years past and listening to the experts in the field.
About a year ago in the gym, where many stockbrokers go to work out, I would listen to the locker room chatter as to their market prognostications. One such broker often said little but sat back and listenened. After everyone left, I decided to ask for his thoughts. Borrowing from Dr. Friedman, I prefaced my question with "like the weatherman, people dismiss stockbroker forecasts on the market but what do you think?" He laughed and shared that he predicted that an 11,000 Dow was possible in about a year. Just as he got ready to walk out, he turned and "tomorrow will be sunny with a 50% chance of rain".
He was right on both counts.
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