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| Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel » Blog Archive » Random Thoughts on ... By admin In religious terms, inspiration denotes the spiritual affect that occurs spontaneously enables a person to think, speak, and act in ways that transcend beyond one's ordinary capabilities. The idea of inspiration clearly points to a ... Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel - http://rabbimichaelsamuel.com/ |
| Sonshine Thoughts: Interesting Incompletion, Inspiration ... By SonshineMusic ie Rebecca T. Ever get distracted or called away from your WIP and return to find that your train of thought has vanished and you have no clue what was happening in that sentence? Inspiration: In other news, today a group of ladies from our church ... Sonshine Thoughts - http://sonshinemusic.blogspot.com/ |
| Thoughts on this sig? - PS3 Trophies Forums By RobbyTheReaper THERE YOU GO A NON FLASH MADE SIG How i wanted to make this sig - colorful - C4D kinda style - have a little broken glass effect in it - and have a. PS3 Trophies Forums - http://www.ps3trophies.com/forums/ |
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Google serves up approximately 10 million search results every hour. How much does a web search cost? You don't pay up front, but there are non-monetary costs nevertheless. IT research firm Gartner estimates Google's data centres contain nearly a million servers, each drawing about 1 kilowatt of electricity. So every hour Google's engine burns through 1 million kilowatt-hours. Hence, it turns out that one search has the same energy cost as turning on a 100-watt light bulb for an hour. [ 
As a volunteer, Charlie Starbuck has helped to plant trees by the thousands on the streets of San Francisco, a city long on charm but short on leafy green trees. He has volunteered for a citywide tree-planting program since 1981, nearly without interruption. That's almost 30 years of weekly plantings, without pay, come rain or shine. "He's done it in such a modest way. Week after week. He's the Lou Gehrig of tree planting." [ 
The best place to see the Golden Rule in action is... at the grocery store? That's what science columnist John Tierney says. In a recent study, WalMart shoppers of Hamilton, Missouri scored higher in a test of fairness toward strangers than clan-based communities around the world. Researchers explain that developing "market norms" promotes general levels of "trust, fairness and cooperation" with strangers. "Markets don't work very efficiently if everyone acts selfishly and believes everyone else will do the same," says Dr. Joseph Henrich, the study's leading researcher. "If you develop norms to be fair and trusting with people beyond your social sphere, that provides enormous economic advantages and allows a society to grow." [ 
When the clock struck midnight on April 1, Newark reached a milestone: its first homicide-free calendar month in 44 years. Compared to the first quarter of 2009, the city has reduced crime by 13 percent! "We have made major strides in reducing crime in Newark and providing our residents with a safer, stronger, and prouder community," says Mayor Cory Booker. "This has been the result of new alliances, 21st-century technology, innovative approaches to protecting our city, the support of our residents, and the courage manifested by Newark's police officers." [ 
Born into wealth, Marion Rockefeller Weber has been a philanthropist since age 21, deciding which worthy causes to support among the many that would come her way. "The table would be like this," she says lifting both hands shoulder high to indicate the stacks of proposals piled high on her living room table. It wasn't a pleasant process for her, so she took a one-year sabbatical, a time of self-reflection, and created her own flavor of giving: flow funding. It is a philanthropy rooted in trust where she trusts other visionaries to give away her money in small ways. [ 
Narayanan Krishnan's day begins at 4 a.m. He and his team cover nearly 125 miles in a donated van, working in temperatures topping 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Once a five-star chef on his way to an elite job in Switzerland, the 29-year-old now spends his day personally preparing and delivering meals to nearly 400 homeless individuals everyday. "I saw a very old man eating his own human waste for food," Krishnan said. "It really hurt me so much. I was literally shocked for a second. After that, I started feeding that man and decided this is what I should do the rest of my lifetime." [ 
What would happen if happiness was the main focus of city planning? Enrique Penalosa asked this very question as the mayor of Botega, Colombia's capital city of 7 million. In three years, Penalosa's leadership oversaw the building and improvement of 1200 parks and playgrounds, 300 kilometers of bikeways, and 202 schools, as well as the planting of 100,000 trees and a 40% reduction in traffic. Penalosa now travels the world spreading a message of how to improve the quality-of-life in today's cities: "With our limited resources, we have to invent other ways to measure success," he says. 
Dr. Robert Montgomery, chief transplant surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital, said that doctors at four hospitals in four states transplanted eight kidneys over three weeks in what he called the largest chain of donations in history. He believes such intricate, multi-state exchanges can drastically reduce the number of patients waiting for eligible donors. Multiple-kidney transplants occur when several people who need transplants have friends or relatives who are willing to donate kidneys but aren't compatible. A chain of surgeries is arranged in which each donor is matched with a transplant candidate who they don't know but is compatible with their kidney. The transplant chains also involve altruistic donors who are located through a database and give kidneys to anyone. Recipients and donors were equally delighted to be part of this unique procedure. 
Last fall, before Thanksgiving, I was making my way in my car out of the shopping center parking lot. I was all alone in the car. I noticed a woman laden with bags and her two boys, one carrying a pumpkin and the other another bag. On a random impulse, I rolled down my window and asked "Would you like a ride?" "Oh yes!" was their excited reaction. This was special for me because, as a handicapped person, I'm often on the receiving end of help and now I know how good it feels to be useful. 
"Things the recession has taught me: keeping your thermostat at 63 degrees in the winter and at 85 in the summer is uncomfortable but not fatal. Lesson two? You are not using your library enough. Do you know you can take out as many books as you want? And that they have free storytimes and craft lessons for kids? And that you can check out DVDs? Thankfully, my community has well-funded, thriving libraries. And parks. Parks are free. Another lesson: you can eat cheaply without resorting to Top Ramen. You don't *need* meat. Beans and grains will take you far." From an account of a family that is forced to share due to the recession, and subsequently learned how much they received in return. 
Not many balding, middle-aged Bolivian immigrants have feature-length films produced about them. But then again, not many people have a heart attack, get a gallbladder removed, and spring back to school the next day to teach math. Jaime Escalante, subject of the 1988 film 'Stand and Deliver,' was a passionate teacher, father-figure, and "street-gang equal" who passed away at the age of 79 on Tuesday. A teacher who explained math concepts using wind-up toys and space-alien dolls, and who drilled his students before school, after school, and on Saturdays, Escalante built one of the most successful Advanced Placement programs in the nation, in a low-income high school that had been struggling to keep its accreditation. "If Kimo can do it, we can do it," one student remarks. "If he wants to teach us that bad." 
Raj Kaliya Dhanuk sits on a wooden bench, barefoot, with a tattered sari covering thin arms as rough as bark. Thick clear tears bleed from her eyes, milky saucers that stare at nothing. Dhanuk and more than 500 others - most of whom have never seen a doctor before - have traveled for days by bicycle, motorbike, bus and even on their relatives' backs to reach Dr. Sanduk Ruit's mobile eye camp. Each hopes for the miracle promised in radio ads by the Nepalese master surgeon: He is able to perform cataract surgery, without stitches, in about five minutes. Free of charge. 
With a rising awareness of religious-based conflict and violence around the world, interfaith dialogue and education is more important than ever. As a college student committed to issues of social justice, Eboo Patel noticed that religion was often left out of diversity discussions. After discovering the ways Dorothy Day used her Catholicism to inspire her social justice work, Patel began exploring his own Muslim faith as a foundation for social change. Now, he is the founder of the Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), a rapidly growing organization that serves to empower young people through interfaith awareness and engagement. Since its inception a decade ago, IFYC has worked with about 60 college campuses, sponsored 50 interfaith fellows, and hosted its sixth interfaith youth conference! 
