So it always a marvel to me how your chest could be opened up and your heart tampered with, and you could be walking the next day. Or how they could send a tube up your thigh and into your brain and you can be fine the next day.
Needless to say the human body has been studied through the ages and we know just about everything there is to know.
I know this has nothing to do with websites, but it reminds me that in our infinite studying of all things there are still things that we haven’t come to understand and the things we do understand can always be questioned.
This is sad… why wouldn’t the formula take health care costs into account… 1 in 6 is really bad, it really points to the fact that we need better education and training for people in this country. Giving people food stamps doesn’t help, what people in poverty need is training/ eduction as the tools to get themselves out of the hole their in. People don’t need charity, they need the ability to do for themselves.
“WASHINGTON – The level of poverty in America is even worse than first believed.
A revised formula for calculating medical costs and geographic variations show that approximately 47.4 million Americans last year lived in poverty, 7 million more than the government’s official figure.
The disparity occurs because of differing formulas the Census Bureau and the National Academy of Science use for calculating the poverty rate. The NAS formula shows the poverty rate to be at 15.8 percent, or nearly 1 in 6 Americans, according to calculations released this week. That’s higher than the 13.2 percent, or 39.8 million, figure made available recently under the original government formula.
That measure, created in 1955, does not factor in rising medical care, transportation, child care or geographical variations in living costs. Nor does it consider non-cash government aid when calculating income. As a result, official figures released last month by Census may have overlooked millions of poor people, many of them 65 and older.”
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The first real challenger to the iPhone looks like it will be Droid. I haven’t read anything but great stuff coming from the people who have seen the über smart.
It has an iPhone look complete with touch screen, but it also has a slide out QWERTY keyboard (WIN)
The device is made by Motorola; powered by Google’s mobile operating system, Android; and it will be sold through Verizon, thus it will be on Verizon’s awesome network.
Droid will run the latest version of Android, which looks incredible (see The Boy Genius’s write-up).
If the hardware reports are true, then Droid will have the same processor core as the iPhone, making it far more powerful than previous Android phones (Engadget).
Verizon is also going all out with their marketing. In the lead up to the announcement of Droid, they have been bashing AT&T’s flimsy network with their cleaver, “There’s a map for that” ads.
Then their Droid announcement ad launched a flurry of attacks on the iPhone’s limitations.
“The Droid poses a different and more significant challenge to the iPhone than any other phone to date. The Palm Pre could have been that challenger, but it lacked the Verizon network, and users were unimpressed with the hardware. According to people who’ve handled the device, the Droid is the most sophisticated mobile device to hit the market to date from a hardware standpoint. When you combine that with the Verizon network, you’ve got something that is most definitely a challenger to the Jesus phone” (TechCrunch).
If Droid is everything that Motorola, Google, Verizon, and the tech writers are claiming it should be incredibly exciting (The claims are pretty much confirmed). Better still, Droid should be available within a few weeks.
Pay close attention to the oddly placed umlaut under the "r"
It’s clear to me that Droid means business because it has an unnecessary umlaut in its name.
So back in 1994 I was a senior in high school. This is when I was an honor student, football player, DJ, debate team, etc. My bedroom was also party central. Everyone came over to the 3rd floor loft in Hoboken.
I had this poster which was one totallly blank with the only words “So what chu lookin’ at, tag up!”. Soon those words weren’t the only words on the poster.
Anita Zinsmeister of the South Jersey Dale Carnegie Training left me a voicemail last week to attend a free intro class for Leadership Training for Managers (LTM). The 7 week (1 day a week) program covers: planning, decision making, time management, motivation, conflict resolution, and fostering innovation.
The group has an excellent ability to teach through games, simulations, and discussions. Derrick and I have taken the High Impact Presentation training. Well worth it.
I’ve always wanted to attend, but wanted to get the other partners involved. It’s best we are on the same page. Needless to say we went yesterday and had a great time.
If you’ve taken the LTM class, I’d like to hear from you. We’re definately takeing the course, but probably not until next year first quarter. This time of the year is our most busiest.
Here are some notable quoatables from the intro class
You can only coast when your going downhill.
If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.
Imperfect action always beats perfect inaction.
Only knowledge that gets used sticcks in the mind.
Bonus! Here’s DC’s 7 management diseases:
“We’ve never done it that way.”
“We’ve always done it this way.”
“If it’s not broken, why fix it?”
“We’ve tried that back in 1988 and it didn’t work.”
Got this originally off of digg.com Have to say, awesome pic and the rest on the Cary Conover site are great too, check them out! The economy is turning around Grover, just wait it out man, put the bottle down :)
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