Previously undisclosed e-mail messages turned over to the F.B.I. and Senate ethics investigators provide new evidence about Senator John Ensign’s (R-NV) efforts to steer lobbying work to the embittered husband of his former mistress…
Washington D.C. - center of Sodom and Gomorrah
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TWO BIG QUAKES!
A series of quakes around Eyjafjallajökull glacier in Iceland continued and scientists are monitoring it closely. It last erupted in 1821.
Magma flow seems to be at full speed inside the volcano and the series of earthquakes probably indicates a magma intrusion…
The coaches say there is no place for this kind of action in sports. Is that true? Fights break out on the hockey ice. There are some terrific hits on the football field! You almost take your life in your hands to go into the middle on the court. I am not as offended by Brittany Griner’s action as other seem to be. Sports are violent. It’s war! What do you think?
Don’t get me wrong. Dad was a good driving instructor. When I turned 15, old enough for a driving permit, parents generally taught their kids how to drive. Dad took me to Madison High’s big parking lot, we exchanged seats and I drove from one end to the other, round and round until I was proficient enough to pass the test. Dad sat shotgun, smoking one cigarette after another and never yelled at me.
Dad was a good instructor, after all he was a professional driver. He had a chauffeur’s license. He was employed by Finley’s Mortuary to drive families to and from funerals in those big, black stretch limos. He drove in all kinds of weather and as far as I know, never had an accident. He will be 90 this year and still drives. Aftr he retired from Finley’s he drove a school bus and drove buses and garbage haulers out to Oregon from Michigan.
It wasn’t until I got my CDL, some 47 years later, did I get any formal training in defensive driving. As school bus drivers, we are taught the Smith System of defensive driving. I’m writing about the Smith System because the students on my bus are high schoolers from Lincoln High, either about ready toget their permits or are already driving. Spring vacation is coming soon, they will be out on the road going skiing, going to the beach and just having fun. I want them all to come back to my bus in three weeks after vacation. I get attached to the little dudes.
So what is the Smith System? The system uses an ackronym: All Good Kids Love Milk
Drive safely by practicing defensive driving. I wished I learned these techniques when I was younger.
The one experience that wakes me up sweating, sometimes, is the time I was driving my wife, our two girls and my wife’s parents from Montana to Portland via Spokane. I was driving on this four-lane curvy U.S. highway. There was gravel on the highway. I was going too fast for the conditions and passing cars in the inside lane. I was lucky nothing happened, but I knew then as I know now that I was not driving defensively and I was not prepared. I had no out. Things happen so fast. We could have been a statistic rather than arriving home in one piece.
Have a great and safe Spring Vacation. I’ll see you in a little over three weeks.
Another Tales From The Yellow Bus.
Someone, somewhere on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn told me to go check out a free video from Core Influence. I did, and while I watched, this feeling came over me that this dude, who sometimes uses four letter words, knows me better than I know myself. He has found the answers to questions that have plagued me all my life.
Let me give you some examples. I’ve been taught that if I set goals, and use affirmations that picture the attainment of those goals that those goals will manifest themselves in my life. The goals may include a specific car, an income level, commissions for the year; stuff! It worked so many times that I urged others to use my methods to reach their goals. The problem was those things rarely made me happy for any length of time.
An office I worked in was very successful and each year the managing partner would take us out on a cruise aboard his yacht as a reward and tell us, “When you guys reach your potential, you will be awesome.” We never got to rest, because when the year ended, we were back to zero and had to beat last years numbers to get the cruise and “the speech.”
I spent many nights asking for a definition of success. About the only thing that made sense was “success is the journey, not the destination.” Today is the first time I heard something different. Just viewing the video has crystallized my thinking about success, and I’m excited to do the exercise that is suggested.
The video is free. There’s no sell job. You aren’t asked to do anything for anybody, just answer some questions for yourself in your place of privacy.
I’ve experienced an “Aha” when I took Landmark training. I’ve just experienced another “Aha” moment. I believe you will never be the same after viewing the video.
We ended 2009 with the overriding consensus that the dollar was going to be under pressure and keep moving lower against the euro. Well guess what, the euro proved to be even weaker than the US dollar as it moved to levels not seen since May of 2009.
So what happened? Was conventional thinking wrong, or did the market get it right? We may be at a tipping point where conventional thinking could well be wrong again.
In his new video Adam Hewison shares with you what he sees in the euro/dollar cross right now.
As always our videos are free to watch and there are no registration requirements. I would really like to hear back from you, with regards to your thoughts on this cross-rate. Your comments are welcome on our blog.
All the best
