Videos September 15, 2016

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Quotes September 15, 2016

“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness, is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.”
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.”
Bo Bennett

“It’s better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right.”
Unknown

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C.S. Lewis

If we could surrender to Earth’s intelligence, we would rise up rooted, like trees.
Rainer Maria Rilke

“Persevering does not mean being rigid and fixed, but flowing like water, willing to meet the conditions at hand yet never giving up…
Tracy Cochran

Humility in response to an experience of failure, then, is at its core a form of therapy, the beginning of a healing process.
Costica Bradatan

The ability to learn is older — as it is also more widespread — than is the ability to teach.
Margaret Mead,
cultural anthropologist

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, ‘Make me feel important.’ Never forget this message when working with people.
Mary Kay Ash,
entrepreneur

Images Small Animal Parents September 15, 2016

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907 Updates September 14, 2016

Yes, several people volunteered to help clean up this “hazmat” spill. Great comments!
Chris Klint: Semi overturns, dumps beer along Glenn Highway in Mat-Su

 

What do you think?  Is he being upfront to avoid any possibilities of conflict of interest, hypocrisy or WTF is he thinking
Devin Kelly:  Compromise reached over Anchorage assemblyman’s participation in marijuana votes
The Anchorage Assembly voted Tuesday night that Assembly member Patrick Flynn can participate in most types of votes on licenses for pot businesses — but not commercial grow operations, since he himself is an investor in one.

 

Want to buy a bridge? Any information on folks who have bought historic bridges and actually used them as a bridge?
Laurel Andrews:  The state of Alaska will pay you $30K to move and maintain this historic bridge
“I just really don’t understand how they would do it. It’s somebody else’s headache,” he said.
So has Williams heard of anyone interested?
“Not a one,” he said.

 

Does anyone have information if banishment does deter the criminal or just moves the crime to another place?
Lisa Demer: Alaska village banishes 6 over drug and alcohol suspicions

Great resource as it shows who has been banished.
Lac du Flambeau Tribal Banishments

 

 

FYI September 14, 2016

Damned if you do, damned without your pension if you don’t?

West Virginia cop fired for not killing a man with an unloaded gun
By Radley Balko
Even the rare cop who gets fired often gets to keep his pension. Mader won’t be getting one.

Paul Watson: Ship found in Arctic 168 years after doomed Northwest Passage attempt

 

William Turton: You Can Now Buy a Weaponized USB Stick For $55

USB Kill 2.0 Demonstration Video

 

Harry McCracken YouTube Is Building Community—And It’s Not Just About Video

 

Ainsley O’Connell: How Google Is Schooling Apple And Microsoft In The Battle For America’s Classrooms

Quotes September 14, 2016

God did not intend for a husband to mistreat his wife or for him to be lord and master over her. When that happens, the husband is killing the marriage as surely as if he shot the wife between the eyes with his deer-huntin’ rifle,” the preacher said.
The Lullaby Sky
Carolyn Brown

“Sh@@. Sorry. Didn’t mean to go off on a mangent.”
“Mangent?”
“When you don’t shut up about the guy in your life.”
Strung Up: A Blacktop Cowboys Novella
Lorelei James

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” William Arthur Ward

In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Warren Buffett,
investor

“If you feel like you don’t fit in in this world, it is because you are here to help create a new one.”
Jocelyn Daher

The truth can only be recalled, never invented.
Marilyn Monroe,
entertainer

Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence — only in constant improvement and constant change.
Tom Peters,
writer and management consultant

“Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.”
Michel de Montaigne, “Upon Some Verses of Virgil,” The Essays of Montaigne

“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”
Samuel Johnson, Selected Writings

“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
Guillaume Appollinaire

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
Sam Walton,
entrepreneur

You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.
Eckart Tolle

Music September 14, 2016

Shorpy September 14, 2016

February 1923. "Miss Jacqueline Mansfield." Currently engaged to one Mr. Smith Corona. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative.

February 1923. “Miss Jacqueline Mansfield.” Currently engaged to one Mr. Smith Corona. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative.

 

Washington, D.C., 1924. "The latest in electric baseball scoreboards. George Coleman, inventor, is shown with the mechanism of the new scoreboard." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. A backstage view of Washington, D.C., inventor George Coleman's "Lifelike Baseball Scoreboard" (seen earlier here and here), which was set up in movie theaters to "broadcast" the home team's away games. "It contains 19,000 feet of wire and has 400 stereopticon slides with an electric light bulb for each slide. Five men are required to operate the great board, including the telegraph operator who receives play-by-play from the field."

Washington, D.C., 1924. “The latest in electric baseball scoreboards. George Coleman, inventor, is shown with the mechanism of the new scoreboard.” Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative.
A backstage view of Washington, D.C., inventor George Coleman’s “Lifelike Baseball Scoreboard” (seen earlier here and here), which was set up in movie theaters to “broadcast” the home team’s away games. “It contains 19,000 feet of wire and has 400 stereopticon slides with an electric light bulb for each slide. Five men are required to operate the great board, including the telegraph operator who receives play-by-play from the field.”

Images September 14, 2016

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grandma

curiousgeorge

 

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bossyleadership

 

cookiedog

 

irrelephant

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