Irena Sendler was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for her courageous acts during WWII. Knowing that there were thousands of children in the Nazi Death Camps, she got a job as a plumber for the camps and smuggled over 2500 infants and children out to safety. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Note: She lost to Al Gore.
“Administration: Rein in pay in US private sector” Since when is it DC’s job to control how pay for the private sector is determined? Our country is on a slippery slop and there doesn’t see to be anything to stop the downward spiral.
The TriCaster has become such a mainstay of the live streaming world—it’s used by a veritable media and entertainment who’s who, including Fox Sports, Fox News, MTV, and the BBC—that it’s sometimes easy to take for granted. So I’ll admit I wasn’t expecting to be bowled over by the XD300, but from the online demo, it looks like, if not a game-changer, than certainly the system that will keep NewTek in the game for a long time to come.
Half Price Books in San Antonio was having a Memorial Day 20% sale today and it was my duty to check out their stock and expand my EVER GROWING book collection. Picked up two books for my 2009 “Read a Fiction per Month Challenge” but the find of the night was a book published by Readers Digest in 1981 called “Back to the Basics: How to Learn and Enjoy Traditional American Skills”.
I’m an “info nerd”.. I love to know how things work, how things are made and how they did it in the “olden days” and this book is a exhaustive reference of how to do just about anything that doesn’t require electricity.
Here is a chapter list
1. Land: Buying It – Building It.
2. Energy From Wood, Water, Wind, and Sun
3. Raising Your Own Vegetables, Fruit, And Livestock
4. Enjoying Your Harvest The Year Round
5. Skills and Crafts for House And Homestead
6. Recreation at Home And in the Wild
Preserving food, cutting your own lumber, raising livestock, making cheese, shaping rocks for a stone wall, cooking on an open flame and MUCH more are in this amazing book.
Can’t wait to try my hand at Cheese Making.. 🙂
Note: The book is now in it’s 3rd edition and is available from Amazon.com
When Jody Richards saw a homeless man begging outside a downtown McDonald’s recently, he bought the man a cheeseburger. There’s nothing unusual about that, except that Richards is homeless, too, and the 99-cent cheeseburger was an outsized chunk of the $9.50 he’d earned that day from panhandling.
The generosity of poor people isn’t so much rare as rarely noticed, however. In fact, America’s poor donate more, in percentage terms, than higher-income groups do, surveys of charitable giving show. What’s more, their generosity declines less in hard times than the generosity of richer givers does.
Cali Lewis of GeekBrief.tv gets a behind the scenes look at how Tech Lengend, Leo Laporte produces INSANE amounts of programming each day with his Trusty TriCaster!
Family Safety, World Gone Wild | Philip June 12, 2009 | 
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