Money is the Apple That Separates the Men From the Serpents    

    You will be tested many times in your lifetime with opportunities and temptations involving money, illegal opportunities are easy to back away from because they are illegal, ethics should take a back seat in decisions about things that can put you in jail!
    Handcuffs are enough to scare me away from doing stupid things, no matter how much money is involved.

    Ethics on the other hand should be the main pivot point when it comes to advising friends or business clients. During the journey of your life, you will often be faced with decisions where you will have to advise friends or clients as to what will be in their best interest.

    Many times honest advise in these situations may cost you money, but whenever you come to a "fork in the road" such as this, You must always take the road that allows you to take your ethics with you. Because you and your self esteem will not get along too well if you don't have your ethics with you.
    Knowing you have done the right thing is always worth something no amount of money can buy.

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 An old Cherokee  Indian was speaking to his grandson:

"A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy. "It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil--he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.


The other is good -- he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person, too."


The grandson thought about it for a long minute, and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?"


The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

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Cyber-Bullying Coming To A Cell Phone Near You

Cyber bullying in the form of text messages, emails, photos, and website postings can go school-wide in minutes and global in days. Slanderous information sent out into cyberspace is difficult, if not impossible, to expunge. Cyber bullying often takes the form ... In 2005, studies of 1500 Internet-using adolescents found that over one-third had been cyber bulled and half of those admitted to cyber bullying others.


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What Would You Do About Climate Change?

Someone asked me that question on my Newsvine column the other day, and all I could answer was ....  "something" However, it did caused me to do a little research and pull my thoughts together as to why I have no answer his question. 

I think we need to get a majority of the people that are being affected by the changes (which is everybody), to agree that there are changes. Then, I think what we should do is ...... something!

The affects the changes are having on the earth are very complex, making the question of what we should do about them very complex.

The melting of the polar caps is not making the ocean levels rise (ie; an ice cube in a glass displaces more water frozen than it does when melted), but it is not just the polar caps that are melting, the ice glaciers, caps and ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica plus the Himalayas, the Rockies and the Andes that are also melting, causing sea levels to rise. It is also changing the salinity of the oceans, which in addition to having an affect on sea life, is having an affect on the oceans currents, for instance the Gulf Stream, which brings moderate temperatures to the northern hemispheres.

The Gulf Stream has already slowed down, causing colder temperatures in the north, if (when, actually) the GS stops completely, the Northern Hemisphere will get very cold, as in very, very cold. (that's where all that talk of a new ice age comes from).

Studies are indicating that main affect the melting of the Polar Caps is having, is the change the caps are having on the pressure they exert on the earths plates. As the caps melt the pressure is lessened, causing earthquakes to be more frequent, and to occur in places they have never occurred in the past (like Kansas). It is also causing the same phenomenon with volcanoes (ie; the recent Eyjafjallajokull eruption in Iceland.)

Climate change is also causing more widespread and more severe drought than in the past, like in China, Russia, Africa, South America, and the United States. Drought affects water supply and it affects food supply, which causes mass migrations, which in turn causes food and water supply shortages in other places due to increased population of those places.

So, what do I think we should do about the problem? As I said, first we have to recognize we have a problem, only then will any solutions have any meaning. And I certainly don't know what those solutions will be, those answers will have to come from folks like the boys and girls that met in the tiny atoll nation of Kiribati last week.

Desiderata

By American author Max Ehrmann .. 1927 


~<>~ Go Placidly amid the noise and haste, & remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as without surrender be on good terms with all persons, 
~<>~ Speak your truth quietly & clearly, and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud an aggressive persons; they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain & bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. 
~<>~ Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercize caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. ~~~ But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism. 
~<>~ Be yourself, Especially, do not feign affection. ~ Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of axidity & disenchantment it is perenniil as the grass. Take kindly the council of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
 ~<>~ Nuture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue & loneliness. ~ Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. 
~<>~ You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees & the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, & whatever your labors & aspirations, ~~ in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery & broken dreams it is still a beautiful world. 
~<>~Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.~<>~

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