I love to play, I love to be active, but it is a challenge to carve out quality game time with your kids, friends and neighbors. For the kids we have the concept of play dates. The word alone makes my toes crawl. I just can’t get my act together to organize them. Alone the diplomatic mine field of which …
Support Whittemore Peterson Institute to get CFIDS Research Funding
Us as in the Whittemore Peterson Institute.They are doing the the oh so needed research to find a cure for Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS better known as CSF) the disease that is currently crushing the best wife of all. Even though Marie has may be 50% of the energy that she used to have, she is coping with …
TEDx as Indicator for a Region’s Future Prosperity
Making Savannah our new home, I got to think a lot about: What actually makes a city attractive a good place to live? Besides climate and proximity to family members, the second being our main reason for moving to Savannah, the economy and future prosperity of a region should be on top of the list for deciding where to live. …
Three Mile Island Cancer Impact Study muffled by court order!
You can’t trust what is currently officially reported about the Fukushima disaster. In 2009 at an 30 year Three Mile Island anniversary meeting Steven Wing who teaches epidemiology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill presented that a Columbia University study was court ordered not to report the evidence if the results were proofing impact of more than 0.01%. Here …
Osler’s Web the Chronic Fatique Syndrome Bible
If you want to know about the history and the current status of the research of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Hillary Johnson’s well written book: Osler’s Web is the bible. Really great insight into the history and current state of research. You can get a great overview of the content by reading her 2009 speech in London.
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One Gift great Give Idea
As my contribution to the amazing Craig Cmehil 24 hour Friday Morning Report Marathon I will introduce an idea of weaving in Microfinance into Birthday celebrations. Here are the slides that I am going to use: http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dhmvqdpp_60hmzkm9j4 Check it out at 5am PST Saturday morning April 9th 2010. Please join Craig right now as he is broadcasting: http://fridaymorningreport.tv/24-hour-marathon-2010/
Focus on Passion: 10 Tips for an Engaging Community
The other day I got interviewed by Shel Israel for his The Living Enterprise (TLE) book. He did a really nice job capturing what I have done in the last years. When we talked for 2.5 hours I thought it was all about the SAP Mentor initiative, not to create a profile of me. He did both SAP’s band of …
We are the Music Makers …
At SAP TechEd in 2008 in Las Vegas we gave all Community Day participants a harmonica. It was as a way to connect with people. I also believe in the following They Might be Giants quote: Music self-played is happiness self-made. SAP Mentor Chris Solomon took the following footage from me starting the general community day session as well as …
New Year’s Plumbing
Where did you spend your New Year’s eve? Oh well, under the sink ;-) We came home from our trip to a clogged up sink, or we clogged it up by throwing out leftover food. I tried chemicals first, which wasn’t easy to come by on New Year’s Eve close to midnight. They didn’t help, so I remembered the time …
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Health Care Reform we need to start from scratch
Study: Over 2,200 US Veterans Died in 2008 Due to Lack of Health Insurance. If that isn’t sad enough. Amy Goodman of Democracy Now does an excellent interview with Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, professor of medicine at Harvard University and co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program. Really frustrating facts about the health care reform bill: 500 Billion hand over …