Oops! 101-year-old woman isn't actually Facebook's oldest user

Courtesy of Lee Stern

102-year-old Lee Stern is one of Facebook's oldest users.

By Rosa Golijan

It's understandable that Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg thought that 101-year-old Florence Detlor is the social network's oldest registered user. After all, Lee Stern, another Facebook user, had mistakenly set her date of birth to that of her late brother, Aug. 18, 1913.

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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg posted a photo of Florence Detlor's visit to Facebook's headquarters on Monday. At that time it was suggested that Detlor is the social network's oldest user.

In reality, Stern was born on?Aug. 24, 1910 ??making her 102 years old.

After TODAY.com posted about?Detlor's visit to Facebook's headquarter's in Menlo Park, Calif., Stern's grandson?Mike Latour wrote in to point out that there must be some sort of mistake. "My grandmother, also a Facebook user, is 102," his initial email explained. He provided TODAY.com with a copy of Stern's passport to confirm her date of birth. She additionally accepted a reporter's friend request so that her past Facebook activity could be verified. (She appears to have been using the social network for at least three years.)

Since Facebook's own Sandberg had labeled Detlor as the "oldest registered Facebook user" in a post on Monday, it was fair to assume that the folks at the social network were certain about this detail. But when we notified Facebook about Stern's age, a spokesperson for the social network clarified, telling us that "Florence Detlor is one of the oldest users on Facebook." One of the oldest users.

(And again, the original birthdate on?Stern's Facebook account ? which has since been corrected ?showed her to be younger than her 102 years.)

Both Detlor and Stern use?Facebook to keep in touch with their friends and family. Detlor has made the switch to the dreaded Timeline while Stern is still sticking to the old profile design as long as possible. The 101-year-old seems to be more prone to posting updates of her own while her slightly older counterpart appears to favor commenting on photos posted by dear ones.

When asked how she feels about being the very oldest Facebook user ??assuming that no one else is quietly hiding his or her age ??Stern laughs.

"Well, I wish I was the youngest," she says.

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Concurring Opinions ? Amazing New Corporate Law & Econ Book

posted by Lawrence Cunningham

If you are interested in corporate law, especially economic analysis of it, you?likely will enjoy an impressive new book collecting original pieces by 30 prominent corporate law scholars. Edited by Claire Hill and Brett McDonnell of the University of Minnesota, the book canvases every important topic in corporate law.

After an overview that traces the history of the economic analysis of corporate law, the book addresses corporate constituencies, governance, gatekeepers, government?oversight and a few other hot topics not classified.

Within constituencies, topics consider the directors? role, the roles of other corporate actors, including shareholders, creditors, employees, and other stakeholders along with broader notions of the public interest.?

Internal governance looks at fiduciary duties, shareholder litigation, outside directors, shareholder activism and executive compensation.??

Gatekeeper pieces address lawyers and auditors, as well as rating agencies,? research analysts, D&O insurers and investment banks.

Jurisdiction looks at both domestic federalism as well as comparative perspective.

Unclassified topics address self-dealing, behavioral economics, and market efficiency.

The scholars are?the following professors:

Ahdieh,???Atanasov, Bainbridge, Black, Blair, Bodie,? Ciccotello,? Clarke, Cunningham, Darbellay, Davidoff, Fairfax,? Ferri, Fisch,? Frankel,?Gilson, Griffith,?Hill,?Kraakman, Langevoort,?Lee, McDonnell, Painter,?Partnoy, Smith,? Thomas,? Thompson, Walker, and Whitehead.??

The table of contents to this impressive volume follows. Get it while it?s hot!!

PART I: CORPORATE CONSTITUENCIES

2. Director Primacy

Stephen M. Bainbridge

3. Corporate Law and the Team Production Problem

Margaret M. Blair

4. The Role of Shareholders in the Modern American Corporation

D. Gordon Smith

5. Creditors and Debt Governance

Charles K. Whitehead

6. Employees and the Boundaries of the Corporation

Matthew T. Bodie

7. The Role of the Public Interest in Corporate Law

Ian B. Lee

PART II: INSIDER GOVERNANCE

8. Fiduciary Duties: The Emerging Jurisprudence

Claire A. Hill and Brett H. McDonnell

9. Empirical Studies of Representative Litigation

Randall S. Thomas and Robert B. Thompson

10. The Elusive Quest for Director Independence

Lisa M. Fairfax

11. ?Low-Cost? Shareholder Activism: A Review of the Evidence

Fabrizio Ferri

12. Takeover Theory and the Law and Economics Movement

Steven M. Davidoff

13. The Law and Economics of Executive Compensation: Theory and Evidence

David I. Walker

PART III: GATEKEEPERS

14. Transaction Cost Engineers, Loophole Engineers or Gatekeepers: The Role of Business Lawyers After the Financial Meltdown

Richard W. Painter

15. Credit Rating Agencies and Regulatory Reform

Aline Darbellay and Frank Partnoy

16. The Influence of Law and Economics on Law and Accounting: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

Lawrence A. Cunningham

17. The Role and Regulation of the Research Analyst

Jill E. Fisch

18. D&O Insurance and the Ability of Shareholder Litigation to Deter

Sean J. Griffith

19. The Influence of Investment Banks on Corporate Governance

Tamar Frankel

PART IV: JURISDICTION

20. Varieties of Corporate Law-Making: Competition, Preemption, and Federalism

Robert B. Ahdieh

21. The Past and Future of Comparative Corporate Governance

Donald C. Clarke

PART V: NEW THEORY

22. Self-Dealing by Corporate Insiders: Legal Constraints and Loopholes

Vladimir Atanasov, Bernard Black and Conrad S. Ciccotello

23. Behavioral Approaches to Corporate Law

Donald C. Langevoort

24. Market Efficiency After the Fall: Where Do We Stand Following the Financial Crisis?

Ronald J. Gilson and Reinier Kraakman

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Alexis Antiques Wedgwood Blog: CHARLES DARWIN, A ...

My dear friend Lord Anthony Pulford of Glencoe is a Wedgwood collector and a lover of history.? One of his favorite activities is exploring historic connections regarding all things Wedgwood.? If you have read my posts, you have seen some of his other interesting contributions to this blog.? Many of us Wedgwoodians have been interested in the Wedgwood/Darwin family story over the years, and certainly since the Darwin birthday a couple of years ago.? Sir Anthony has come up with another very interesting tale involving Charles Darwin, another geologist and Ben Nevis, the famous spot in northern Scotland near which Sir Anthony lives.? We don't often see such direct comments TO Mr. Darwin in opposition to his views, but I think you will enjoy this one.? Thank you once again Tony for contributing information of interest to our readers. "The community garden on the grounds of the Kilmallie Hall at Corpach near Fort William [the town nearest to Sir Anthony] contains a stone circle made up of rocks from all over Scotland.? The circle was "opened" by Mr David Sedgwick, a surgeon at the Belford Hospital in Fort William and is dedicated to the memory of Mr Sedgwick's ancestor the Rev. Adam Sedgwick.

??? It is Adam Sedgwick who is the link to Charles Darwin.? Born in 1785, the son of a Dent, Yorkshire, vicar, he was educated at Sedburgh School and Trinity College Cambridge, eventually becoming Woodwardian Professor of Geology in 1818, a position he held until his death in 1873.

?? A leading geologist of his day, one of his geology students was a young Charles Darwin who, in 1831, accompanied him on a trip into Wales.? They corresponded while Darwin was on the Beagle Expedition and afterwards.? Sedgwick never accepted the case for evolution made in Darwin's book On the Origin of the Species in 1859.? After reading the book he wrote to Darwin saying;

? 'If I did not think you a good tempered & truth loving man I should not tell you that.... I have read your book with more pain than pleasure.? Parts of it I admire greatly;? parts I laughed at until my sides were almost sore; other parts I read with absolute sorrow; because I think them utterly false & grievously mischievous - You have deserted - after a start in that tram-road of all solid physical truth - the true method of induction - & started up a machinery as wild, I think, as Bishop Wilkins' locomotive that was to sail with us to the Moon'.? Despite this difference of opinion, the two remained friends until Sedgwick's death.

?? The Sedgwick Museum in Cambridge, opened in 1903, contains a number of Darwin artifacts including rocks collected on the Beagle voyage as well as notebooks, scientific instruments and his pistol."?

Source: http://aawedgwoodblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/charles-darwin-wedgwood-family-member.html

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Ohio hospital shooting: Mercy killing or murder?

CLEVELAND (AP) ? John Wise watched a tear roll down his wife's face as he stood alongside her bed in the intensive care unit. She'd been unable to speak after suffering a stroke and seemed to be blinking to acknowledge him, Wise confided to a friend who had driven him to the hospital.

The couple had been married 45 years and Wise told his friend that they had agreed long ago they didn't want to live out their years bedridden and disabled.

So a week after Barbara Wise's stroke, investigators say, her husband fired a single round into her head. She died the next day, leading prosecutors to charge the 66-year-old man with aggravated murder Wednesday in what police suspect was a mercy killing.

The shooting leaves authorities in a dilemma some experts say will happen with greater frequency in coming years as the baby boom generation ages ? what is the appropriate punishment when a relative kills a loved one to end their suffering?

More often than not, a husband who kills an ailing wife never goes to trial and lands a plea deal with a sentence that carries no more than a few years in prison, research has shown. In some instances, there are no charges.

"It's a tragedy all around that the law really isn't designed to address," said Mike Benza, who teaches law at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

A New York man in March was sentenced to six months in jail after suffocating his 98-year-old disabled mother and slitting his own wrists. He told authorities he had just been told he had cancer and believed he was going to die soon, and feared no one would care for his mom. A Washington state man accused of shooting his terminally ill wife this year told investigators she had begged him to kill her; he is free on bail while prosecutors weigh charges.

Almost always, there are deeper issues involved with the accused, including depression, their own health problems and the stress of taking care of a dying spouse, said Donna Cohen, head of the Violence and Injury Prevention Program at the University of South Florida.

Seeing a dying or disabled spouse suffering can be enough to push someone over the edge, said Cohen, who is writing a book called "Caregivers Who Kill."

"Men will hit a wall when they can't do anything else," she said. "That's usually a trigger."

She worries this will happen more often with longer life expectancies and a continuing shortage of mental health services for older people.

In the early 2000s, testifying a Florida legislative committee, Cohen cited research showing that two in five homicide-suicides in the state involved people 55 and older. The number of cases grew among older people while staying the same with those under 55.

Police say Wise took a taxi from his home in Massillon, calmly walked into his 65-year-old wife's room on Aug. 4 at Akron General Medical Center without drawing any attention, and shot her.

Juries are often sympathetic to those who kill a spouse out of what is portrayed to be love and compassion, but the message that sends is unclear, said Wesley J. Smith, a California lawyer who wrote a 2006 book "Forced Exit: Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide and the New Duty to Die."

"Where's the stopping point?" he said. "There almost comes to become a cultural acceptance that certain people are better off dead than alive."

Those who kill a loved one to end the suffering are acting out of their interests, he said. "We're really putting Grandpa out of our misery," Smith said.

Wise's lawyer has said that he was a good man who was devoted to his wife.

"I am absolutely confident that everything that he's ever done for his wife has been done out of deep love, including the events that just recently transpired," said attorney Paul Adamson.

The former welder also suffered from nerve damage that made his hands and feet numb, survived bladder cancer and had diabetes, said Terry Henderson, a 30-year steel plant co-worker.

Those issues could help his case if it goes to trial. "The facts surrounding her death are sympathetic and may actually foster a plea before trial," said Jeff Laybourne, a prominent Akron defense attorney.

But just because his wife may have been suffering isn't a valid defense under the law, Laybourne said.

Other factors that could determine whether the case goes to trial include the timing of the shooting and that it happened in such a public place.

Henderson thinks Wise may have snapped under the weight of both of their health concerns. "He never dreamed, given his history of medical problems, that this would happen to her before he'd go," Henderson said.

That kind of situation can be deeply depressing for a person dependent on the care of a spouse who suddenly is disabled, said Dr. Peter DeGolia, a physician specializing in care for the aging at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland.

"If this man was dependent on his wife for care and basic well-being, and suddenly she's gone, he's going to feel very vulnerable, highly at risk," he said. "Older white males are the highest risk group for carrying out suicide plans."

It's a scenario that DeGolia said can be defused with help from social workers and hospice care for the dying.

"There are lots of options," he said, "aside from going and shooting them."

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Seewer reported from Toledo.

The latest installment in Aging America, the joint AP-APME project examining the aging of the baby boomers and its impact on society.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ohio-hospital-shooting-mercy-killing-murder-165505012.html

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Sleek Eva Fruit Hanger Is Pun in the Kitchen [Design]

If you're into putting your fresh, succulent fruit on display for all to see, there are a number of different fruit bowls and hangers out there to meet your exhibitionist needs. This particular piece adds a little visual pun to the mix. More »

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Romney Aide: Ryan Will Focus on Iowa

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Mitt Romney's campaign plans to make extensive use of new running mate Paul Ryan in Iowa, a state where Romney's opposition to a federal wind energy tax credit has given Democrats hope they can prevail there.

"We have a number of states that are competitive where we believe he helps us," Romney senior advisor Kevin Madden told reporters on Sunday. "Obviously, his home state of Wisconsin and some of these other Great Lake states. But Iowa in particular, that is a state where I think his life story is important for others, something that I think helps him connect with a lot of those voters there."

Romney's opposition to the wind tax credit has created concern among Iowa Republicans. The credit costs the federal government $1.6 billion annually and is due to expire at the end of this year. About 7,000 people work in the wind-energy sector in Iowa, making it the nation's second-largest wind producing state. The state could lose up to 3,000 jobs if the tax credit is not renewed, according to the American Wind Energy Association.

Most recent Hawkeye State polls show Romney and President Obama in a dead heat.

"It's going to be close there, I believe, all the way until Election Day," Madden said. "But we think with the more they get to see of Congressman Ryan, the more they get to hear about the Romney/Ryan message on fixing the economy, that we're going to continue to do well there."

Madden also said that Ryan and Romney would campaign "on different tracks" until the GOP convention. He said Ryan would not make an initial visit to Florida, but denied it had anything to do with the House Budget Committee chairman's controversial plans for reshaping Medicare, which the Obama campaign thinks will turn off seniors in Florida and elsewhere.

"This has more to do with expanding our bandwidth," he said. "Governor Romney is going to be talking about the issues that are important to Floridians. And I think Congressman Ryan?s going to be able to be down in Florida during this campaign and will be doing the same, at some point."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/romney-aide-ryan-focus-iowa-083436831.html

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finalizing in two days - Adoption.com Forums

That is one LONG roller coaster ride. I'm so glad you in the final stretch. Congratulations!

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Jeannine
Mom by marriage to Amber (24) and Ashley Nicole (12/86 - 8/06)
Mom by birth to Katie (12), Christopher (8) and Rebecca Nicole (5 - born 8/26/06)
Mom by adoption to Angela (10) adopted from Guatemala at 2.5 yo Referral - 10/25/03 Home - 03/10/04
1/2007 - Preparing to adopt from foster care system.
9/11/07 - Homestudy completed at last!
4/24/08 - Licensed Foster Parents!
2/12 - Still waiting. Hoping we a matched soon with a group in CA.
3/1 - Not matched with CA group.
3/15 - MATCHED with CA group after all Kids are 9, 6, 5
6/17 - Still waiting on ICPC. Bring them home June 23rd for a long visit. They'll stay until July 12th. Then return to us TBD.
8/03/2012 - Home at Last!

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Trial hinges on dying man's gesture ID'ing gunman

CINCINNATI (AP) ? Paralyzed and hooked up to a ventilator, David Chandler was two weeks from death when police arrived at his hospital room to question him about the person who shot him. They wanted to know if he could identify a suspect, and they had a photo to show him.

Chandler was unable to communicate except with his eyes as he lay in bed attached to myriad tubes and with a brace around his neck. His eyes opened barely more than a slit at times; he was instructed to blink three times for yes and twice for no. One detective quizzed him, and another videotaped his responses.

Chandler didn't respond with blinks to every question in the 17-minute video, and there were solo blinks. But triple blinks came in response to repeated questions asking if he knew the shooter and whether the person in the photo was the culprit.

An upcoming murder trial hinges on the videotape of those blinks, a rare effort by a prosecution to show a defendant has been identified by gesture: the nod of a head, squeeze of a hand, blink of an eye.

Legal experts say such cases ? while not unheard of ? are unusual, and dying identifications relying on gestures rather than words are often not used in trials because of concern over reliability or differing interpretations. But some have been used in murder cases around the country that have ended in convictions.

Challenges facing jurors in such cases include determining whether victims are fully aware of what is being asked and are in control of their movements.

"People blink naturally anyway, so the question could be whether the blinking is really identifying someone or is automatic or the result of something going on medically," said Michael Benza, a visiting professor of law at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

Chandler, 35, was shot in the head and neck as he sat in a car early Oct. 28, 2010, in Cincinnati. He remained paralyzed from his injuries when police interviewed him Nov. 2. He eventually went into a coma, dying 10 days later.

The man authorities say he identified, 34-year-old Ricardo Woods, is charged with murder, felonious assault and weapons counts and faces up to life in prison if convicted. A hearing in the case is set for Monday, which had been the original trial date. The judge could set a new trial date at the hearing.

Prosecutors would not comment on motive, although authorities have suggested the Cincinnati men knew each through drug deals. Woods has previous convictions in Hamilton County for aggravated robbery, felonious assault and trafficking in cocaine.

The defense suggests that Chandler's condition and drugs used to treat him could have affected his ability to understand and respond. Woods' attorney, who tried unsuccessfully to block the video evidence, insists the blinks are inconsistent and unreliable.

"There are times when detectives asked questions and he didn't blink at all, and other times there are too many blinks," said attorney Kory Jackson.

Prosecutors insist Chandler clearly identified Woods as the gunman.

"While the case is unusual, we believe ? and the judge agreed ? that the victim's interview and identification of the defendant as his assailant is reliable," prosecutor's spokeswoman Julie Wilson said.

Judge Beth Myers of Hamilton County Common Pleas Court ruled that jurors could see the videotape, saying she found the blinks reliable. She said they were made by pronounced, exaggerated eye movements and not by involuntary blinking.

During the hospital interview, Chandler also was asked whether he knew the shooter's name. The detective drew a pen across an alphabet list, asking Chandler to blink three times to indicate the first letter of the name or nickname.

The detective stated that Chandler blinked three times when the pen stopped on "O," although the alphabet was turned away from the camera. Authorities allege Woods was at times known as "O," but Jackson says there is no record of that.

Jackson also contends that police erred and "were too suggestive" when they asked Chandler to identify one photo without other choices.

Jonathan Rapping, a law professor at Atlanta's John Marshall Law School, believes the use of only one photo rather than the typical array of photos may prove problematic. Using one photo violates a defendant's constitutional right to a fair trial if it is unnecessarily suggestive and increases the likelihood of misidentification, he said.

"Clearly showing one photo is suggestive that 'this is the person,'" Rapping said.

But he said that when a victim and a suspect know each other, it can be argued there is less chance for a mistaken identification.

Prosecutors said they could use one photo because they contend Chandler knew the suspect and the identification came quickly after the crime.

"The bottom line is that the judge allowed it into evidence," Wilson said.

Victims' dying declarations based on nonverbal identifications have been used in other murder cases.

In Oklahoma City, a man was convicted in 1985 of first-degree murder and arson in the burning death of his wife, who could not speak due to her injuries and survived only two days. But she was able to nod to identify her husband as the person who poured gasoline on her and set her on fire.

In Boynton Beach, Fla., two men were convicted of first-degree murder and attempted robbery in the 2007 shooting of a man who was left paralyzed and unable to speak before he died. But he was able to identify both defendants by blinking his eyes when shown photo lineups.

Assistant State Attorney Andrew Slater in Florida's Palm Beach County said he was careful to show the court that the family also had communicated with the victim through blinks and detail the steps police took to establish them as legitimate responses.

"I think I was able to show he knew what he was doing, and that is what gave the identification procedure reliability," Slater said, adding that videotape of such blinks "should be even better" for establishing reliability.

Blinks that look decisive and defined would help prosecutors, while the defense would benefit if they appear random or involuntary, said Harvard Law School professor Ronald S. Sullivan.

Sullivan said dying declarations in general can be powerful testimony, "because the imagery is that of someone speaking from the grave."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/trial-hinges-dying-mans-gesture-iding-gunman-180014667.html

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Both Sides Are Happy with Ryan as Veep

After what felt like years of relentless speculation, we finally know that Mitt picked Paul Ryan to be his vice president. Amazingly, both the Republicans and the Democrats seem to be happy with his choice.?

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The Republicans are more than happy with the decisions to choose Ryan. He's young, but he has experience, and he's tapped into the base of the party more than Romney is. As Talking Points Memo's?Evan McMorris-Santoro?writes, conservatives "have been waiting for the moderate Romney shoe to drop," and Ryan's finally done it. Ryan gives them a hardcore conservative with strong economic values who's in touch with the base of the party. As?Daily Intel's Jonathan Chait points out,?as Ryan goes, so goes the Republican party:?

If he doesn?t want something to happen, it won?t happen (say, several bipartisan deals to reduce the deficit that he squashed.) If he wants something to happen, however foolhardy (like putting the entire House GOP caucus on record for his radical budget plan despite a certain veto) it will happen. It is Ryan?s party.

Meanwhile, the Democrats are practically overcome with joy over the Ryan pick. They've campaigned against him in the past, so he's a familiar target, and his budget plan calls for "the end of Medicare as we know it." Where could they go wrong. An Obama campaign official told Buzzfeed's Michael Hastings that Ryan is "pretty smart," but still called the choice insane. "[Ryan] should be way out of his league at this water depth," he said. Two Democrats who spoke to The Hill's Niall Stanage and Amie Parnes were considerably more excited.?"I haven't been this happy waking up since I was 12 and got a BMX for Christmas," said one. "I think we're all licking our chops this morning," said another. "The president has spent the last several months attacking the Republican budget and who better to be the VP pick than Ryan? Fits into our narrative in the best possible way."

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The Obama campaign was quick to release an ad attacking the Ryan/Romney ticket, focusing mainly on their problems with Ryan's budget plan:?

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At least they could all agree on something.?

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/both-sides-happy-ryan-veep-190755527.html

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10 Things to Be Grateful For Each Day

Gratitude will lead your mind out along the ways by which things come.

Wallace D. Wattles

There is so much that I am thankful for. As I lie in bed each morning and at bed time, my mind instantly starts to run through all that I can say ?thanks? about.

I know that I could spend all day listing the many things that spark my gratitude, but instead I focus on 10 things each day.

When I open my eyes and see the sun peeping through the cracks in the window, I give thanks for a new day. As I wiggle my toes and stretch my fingers, I am grateful for having them to help me do good things for others. At bed time I reflect on my day.

Practice having an attitude of gratitude.

Random acts of kindness begins with me.? As I wait on the traffic light to turn green, I am thankful for the opportunity to say a kind word or give a kind gesture to another road user.

Although I can easily find 10 different things to be grateful for each day, I always include thanks for loved ones and the opportunity to live right with others. I recognize that people around me who show me love help to make life worth living. I also recognize that having the opportunity to show love to others is something I am meant to do.

Something to consider doing. Commit to remaining eternally grateful. I commit to being truly thankful for all the blessings that come my way, even if I fail to see it right away. I know there is much to be thankful for!

3 Self-Reflection Questions:

1. Do I ever neglect to say thanks for my abundance and prosperity?
2. Am I grateful for the people in my life?
3. Do I encourage those around me to express thanks to their Creator every day?

Source: http://www.metaphysicalteachers.com/2012/08/grateful/

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Are You Investing Your Best Resources in the Wrong People ...

It is easy to see other people making this mistake. It is more difficult to catch yourself doing it. I?ve been guilty plenty of times.

For example, a few years ago, while I was still CEO of Thomas Nelson, I met with an important author. In the course of the meeting, I learned he was unhappy with the cover design we had done for his previous book.

Being the people-pleaser I am, I thought I could fix his problem. ?I will take personal responsibility for this next cover,? I announced. ?I will work with you directly to make sure we get a cover you love.?

I then hired a designer I knew who had delivered stellar results for another one of our authors. In a few weeks, the designer delivered six superb cover comps. I made a few suggestions, the designer revised his work, then I submitted them to the author.

He didn?t like any of them.

I spent an hour on the phone with him, as he berated the designer. Undaunted, I rolled up my sleeves and spent the afternoon personally searching through a stock photo library, trying to find just the right image?not exactly the best use of my time as a CEO.

But finally I found a photo I loved. This is it, I thought. Perfect!

I went back to the designer and had him create several more comps based on the new photo. I submitted the new batch to the author, confident he would love one of the options. I followed up with a phone call.

He hated them all.

Again, he criticized the designer. He then came after me. ?If you would just spend the money and hire a decent designer, we could get onto more important things.? He lectured me like this was the first time I had ever done this.

Silly me. I hired another designer and went through one more round with him. We produced twenty-one cover comps in all. He didn?t like any of them.

Finally, we acquiesced and used a cover designed by his team. I wish I could show it to you, especially compared to the others.

With that, I woke up to the fact that I had invested all this time, money, and emotional energy and had not moved the needle one bit. It was a total waste. He was incorrigible.

The resources I wasted on him would have been better spent elsewhere.

We finished out our contract with him but passed on offering him another one. We had had enough. We let him go to another publisher.

Leaders often make this same mistake in various areas of their lives. For example,

• A mother invests all of her emotional energy in a difficult child to the neglect of the quiet, compliant one. The difficult child gets worse and the compliant one begins acting up to get attention.
• A corporate executive spends most of her time helping under-performing salespeople rather than provide leadership and inspiration to her top producers. She then wonders why she can?t keep her best people.
• A pastor expends so much of his time trying to fix broken people that he doesn?t have the energy to develop the leaders who could help shoulder the burden. He constantly grumbles about his workload.

What can you do if you are in this situation?

Make sure you are investing your best resources?including your time and energy?in your best people. Here?s how:

1. Acknowledge that your resources are limited. Your time, money, and energy are finite resources. It?s easy to forget this and overcommit. But it?s a zero-sum game. Every time you say ?yes? to one person, you are saying ?no? to others.
2. Become aware of where your resources are going. It?s easy to think the situation is temporary or an exception. But is it? This is the little lie that keeps us stuck if we aren?t careful. Look back over your calendar and make an honest assessment. It will reveal the truth.
3. End unproductive or unhealthy relationships. This is the hard part. If you can?t end them, then at least establish boundaries. If you need inspiration or moral support, read Henry Cloud?s excellent book, Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward.
4. Identify the people you should be investing in. This is the most important step. Change your focus. Who are the individuals you have overlooked? Who are the people who should be getting the bulk (or at least more) of your resources? Who are the ones who represent the future?
5. Schedule time on your calendar to serve these people. Good intentions are important, but they are not enough. Like the old adage says, ?What gets scheduled gets done." The opposite is also true, ?What doesn?t get scheduled doesn?t get done.?

Yes, Jesus spent time with broken people. He healed the sick. He comforted the broken-hearted. He ministered to the outcasts.

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Delivering successful change can boost your return on investment by 143% (according to McKinsey). But change isn?t easy, and in the current economic climate, it?s getting harder. Many companies think about tools and systems first, but at Afiniti, we believe it?s all about people. While 70% of change programmes fail, we help companies ?Make Change Stick? by focusing on their people. We believe you should know them, involve them, prepare them and deliver to them. Afiniti can help you make change stick by using your most important asset ? your people. After all, they are the ones who?ll transform your business successfully.
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60% of successful transformations focus on changing mind-sets.- McKinsey & Company
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Companies who engage their staff are 79% more successful.- Towers Watson
They say UK employees are notorious for asking ?why??.
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White House mum on reported Iran nukes warning

President Barack Obama steps off Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on July 25 (Pete Marovich/Getty??

The White House refused to comment Thursday on a bombshell Israeli media report that President Barack Obama recently received an updated intelligence assessment that Iran has made surprising strides towards being able to build a nuclear weapon.

The Haaretz newspaper reported that Obama had received a new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE)?the consensus assessment of the American intelligence community?that "Iran has made surprising, notable progress in the research and development of key components of its military nuclear program." The daily cited unnamed "Western diplomats and Israeli officials."

Asked about the report, White House press secretary Jay Carney replied: "I don't comment on intelligence matters or intelligence reports the president may or may not have received."

"I can tell you that the president remains committed to preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon," he said aboard Air Force One as Obama campaigned in the swing state of Colorado.

"We are leading an international effort to impose upon Iran what even the Iranian president has identified as the most stringent sanctions ever imposed on any country," Carney said. "And that effort is designed of what we believe remains to be a window of opportunity to persuade Iran through these sanctions and through diplomatic efforts to forgo its nuclear weapons ambitions and live to its international obligations." He added that "hardly a week goes by" without the economic vise tightening further.

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told Israeli Radio that there was "apparently a report by American intelligence agencies" that was "making the rounds of high offices" and has heightened American worries about Iran's nuclear program.

"As far as we know, it comes very close to our own estimate, I would say, as opposed to earlier American estimates. It transforms the Iranian situation to an even more urgent one, and it is even less likely that we will know every development in time on the Iranian nuclear program," Barak said, according to a CBS report on the interview.

Israel, widely thought to be an undeclared nuclear power, has warned it cannot tolerate a nuclear-armed Iran and reserves the right to use military force to prevent that outcome. Obama has repeatedly said America shares Israel's concerns but has pleaded for time to let the sanctions and diplomatic efforts work. Iran has steadfastly denied that it seeks the bomb, but reports from the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency have cast doubt on those claims.

If the Haaretz report is correct, the new NIE would be yet another shift in American intelligence agencies' assessment of just what Tehran is doing. A 2007 NIE said Iran had halted its military nuclear program in 2003 and that there was no clear evidence that those efforts had resumed. Some American officials speculate that Iran wants the ability to build a nuclear weapon, not necessarily to actually acquire an atomic arsenal.

Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney has accused Obama of being soft on Israel, but has not suggested any major break with his policies if elected. And Republicans have loudly complained about national security disclosures regarding an unprecedented cyberwar effort by the Obama administration to sabotage Iran's nuclear program.

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"Avengers" helps power Disney profit in quarter

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co quarterly earnings rose 31 percent, exceeding Wall Street expectations, lifted by higher spending at theme parks and the blockbuster "The Avengers" superhero movie.

The media and theme park company reported on Tuesday earnings per share of $1.01, beating the 93 cents a share that analysts had forecast, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

Net income rose 24 percent to $1.8 billion for the three months ended in June.

Driven by "The Avengers," which has made more than $1.4 billion worldwide, studio income increased to $313 million from $49 million a year earlier. Chief Executive Bob Iger announced the company had signed a deal with "Avengers" director Joss Whedon to write and direct an "Avengers" sequel, and to help develop a Marvel-based TV series for the ABC broadcast network.

The studio results offset a decline in earnings at Disney's powerhouse ESPN sports network, which the company said was due to the timing of deferred affiliate fees. Overall its cable TV unit, the company's largest, increased by 1 percent to $1.86 billion.

Advertising at ESPN grew in the quarter, helped by NBA games. Looking ahead, Iger said he was bullish about ESPN's ad prospects "for the next number of months, maybe for the next year."

Advertising revenue at ABC "decreased modestly" from lower ratings partially offset by higher rates, Disney said.

At theme parks, earnings rose 21 percent, the result of increases at its Tokyo theme park, where the company collects management and other fees, and which was impacted last year by a temporary suspension of operations following the March 2011 earthquake.

Park results also improved due to a new cruise ship and more guests at Disneyland in California, where the company just completed a major expansion that includes "Cars Land."

Disney "showed great momentum across all their business lines," said Lazard Capital Markets analyst Barton Crockett, who rates Disney a "buy." "I thought it was a great quarter."

In after-hours trading, Disney's shares declined 0.8 percent to $49.40, down from their earlier close of $49.81 on the New York Stock Exchange.

Disney shares are near a lifetime high and the drop may have been due to profit-taking, Crockett said. "The stock had a very good improvement into the earnings report."

(Reporting By Lisa Richwine; editing by Andre Grenon, Bernard Orr)

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Nuzlocke: A Deadly Mystery

Everything we know about the world of Pokemon has changed. When pokemon start to die from battles, what will trainers resort to to keep their best friends alive?

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FINALLY!!! Are we following the game itself? Or is it a hybrid with the Anime?

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A man had sons who were always fighting. He one day told them to get a bundle of sticks. Then, he placed the bundle into the hands of each of them and told them to break it and they were unable to do it. He then opened the bundle, took the sticks separately and again put them into his sons' hands, and they broke them easily. He said: if you are of one mind, and unite to assist each other you will be uninjured by all the attempts of your enemies but if you are divided you will be broken as easily as sticks.

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My rules were deleted >_>
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no Its all on the games. The anime is not cannon here.

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Interested, I await your character so I can start mine

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This definitely has potential. I will join depending on how your character sheet is. Can't wait! >:3

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I love the idea. I'll be submitting a character, I do believe. Age range??

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Loughner pleads guilty to Tucson shooting

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Jared Lee Loughner pleaded guilty on Tuesday, as expected, to killing six people and wounding 13 others, including then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, in the Jan. 8, 2011, shooting spree at a grocery store just outside of Tucson, Ariz.

Loughner's plea, coming after a federal judge ruled that he was competent to stand trial, means he will not get the death penalty. He now faces life in prison without the possibility of parole.

On Tuesday, Judge Larry A. Burns asked Loughner?who has been treated for schizophrenia since the shooting?if he understood the charges against him.

"Yes, I understand," Loughner replied.

According to the Associated Press, officials at a federal prison have forcibly medicated Loughner with psychotropic drugs for more than a year, leading the judge to conclude he was mentally fit to enter a plea.

In a statement, Giffords' husband, Mark Kelly, said the couple is satisfied with the plea deal.

"We don't speak for all of the victims or their families, but Gabby and I are satisfied with this plea agreement," Kelly said. "The pain and loss caused by the events of January 8, 2011 are incalculable. Avoiding a trial will allow us?and we hope the whole Southern Arizona community?to continue with our recovery and move forward with our lives."

Giffords was Loughner's intended target in the 2011 rampage. He pleaded guilty to a total of 19 charges, including the murders of U.S. District Judge John Roll and Giffords staffer Gabe Zimmerman--both federal employees--and the attempted assassination of Giffords and Ron Barber, who succeeded Giffords as the U.S. representative from Tucson.

"It is my hope that this decision will allow the Tucson community, and the nation, to continue the healing process free of what would likely be extended trial and pre-trial proceedings that would not have a certain outcome," U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement. "The prosecutors and agents assigned to this matter have done an outstanding job and have ensured that justice has been done. In making the determination not to seek the death penalty, I took into consideration the views of the victims and survivor families, the recommendations of the prosecutors assigned to the case, and the applicable law."

"Given the defendant's history of significant mental illness, this plea agreement, which requires the defendant to spend the remainder of his natural life in prison, with no possibility of parole, is a just and appropriate resolution of this case," U.S. attorney John S. Leonardo said. "I hope that today's resolution of this case will help the victims, their families, and the entire Tucson community take another step forward in the process of healing and recovering from this sad and tragic event."

More details on Tuesday's hearing from inside the courtroom (via AP):

Court-appointed psychologist Christina Pietz testified for an hour about how she believes Loughner became competent. Loughner listened calmly without expression. His arms were crossed over his stomach, lurched slightly forward and looking straight at Pietz.

At one point, he smiled and nodded when psychologist mentioned he had a special bond with one of the prison guards.

USA Today:

Pietz says medication appears to be working because Loughner has said he feels badly about what he did. She says he has cried and apologized. "He has become human," she says.

The Arizona Republic:

The courtroom was packed, and roughly 80 people watched the hearing from an overflow room. Tucson shooting victims filled up four rows, or about a third of the courtroom. Barber, who took Giffords' seat in the U.S. House, sat up straight in the front.

The New York Times:

Loughner arrived here on Monday from a psychiatric hospital in Springfield, Mo.?where he has been held for more than a year?and spent the night at a medium-security federal prison before his hearing on Tuesday.

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