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Project Management - Time Management - Change Management. Time man·age·ment The act, manner, or practice of managing; handling, supervision, or control of time Skill in managing time; executive ability. The motivation derived from Strategy 4, however, can drive you to chop away at life in a frantic attempt to produce your desired outcomes. If your axe is dull, however, motivation alone will not produce what you're capable of when wielding a sharp axe. By combining motivation with planning, by tempering Empowerment with the tools of Strategy 5, you'll be equipped to achieve each of your goals, with less energy and effort. So, let's now look at how to create a sharper cutting edge for effective goal accomplishment.

In his classic, Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill states the number one cause for failure in life is the inability to organise details. Most people hope to succeed on an adlib basis. To join the ranks of high achievers you must also get grubby with the details. "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. " - Author unknown. Drowning Beautiful | 50 Quotes to Inspire the Dreamers of 2011. 1. "Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Louis Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein. " ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 2. "You have brains in your head and feet in your shoes You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own and you know what you know. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 11. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 45. 47. 48. 49. 50.

Popular Quotes. The Situationist. Projects | 1999 | Conversations | Kara Walker. Motivation Australia. * ARID * Articles: 2005/10/10: 12-Step Assumptions and Fallacies * ARID * Monday, October 10, 2005 - dr.bomb The core of Alcoholics Anonymous is its program known as the Twelve Steps. This is the original version from the original manuscript as published in multilithed book form in 1938(1): Admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care and direction of God as we understood Him. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. Notice that there are zero instructions within the steps regarding abstinence from recreational drugs, health, self-effacy and personal liberation.

Step One is false. Step Two is false. Step Three is, by extension of Step Two, is false and shows A.A.' And who ultimately gets to define what God is? 4. 8. And what are these sins comprised of? 10. 11. Alcoholics Anonymous : Games. Riddlenow.com - Welcome to the World of the Impossible! Riddles, Brain teasers, I.Q. Tests ... Heavens (World Treasures of the Library of Congress: Beginnings)

Views of the Universe The Emperor's Astronomy The "Emperor's Astronomy"(dedicated to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V) elegantly depicts the cosmos and heavens according to the 1400-year-old Ptolemaic system, which maintained that the sun revolved around the earth. By means of hand-colored maps and moveable paper parts (volvelles), Petrus Apianus (1495-1552) laid out the mechanics of a universe that was earth- and human-centered. Within three years of Apianus's book, this view was challenged by Copernicus's assertion that the earth revolved around the sun, making this elaborate publication outdated. Popular Sixteenth-Century Scientific Work Cosmographia (1524) by German mathematician Petrus Apianus (1492-1552) provides a layman's introduction to subjects such as astronomy, geography, cartography, surveying, navigation, and mathematical instruments.

Petrus Apianus and Gemma Frisius. A Heliocentric Cosmos Chinese Armillary Sphere Yu Tu Bei Kao Quan Shu. Ancient Chinese Concept of Change M. Photos du journal - The Clean Slate Addiction Site. Ranes Report. December 26, 2009 E.M. Jellinek's departure from Budapest in 1920, part one by Ron Roizen Jellinek as pictured in a 1943 Collier's article on the then-newYale Summer School of Alcohol Studies Part 2 of this post available here. Nan Robertons, in her book Getting Better[:] Inside Alcoholics Anonymous (1988), summarized E.M. Jellinek's life story up to 1941 (i.e., essentially before he became a well known figure in alcohol studies) as follows (pp. 190-191): He was born in New York City, the son of Rose Jacobsen and Ervin Marcell Jellinek, and from high school on, from 1908 until 1930, he traveled the world, studying at the universities of Berlin, Grenoble, and Leipzig.

In 1997 Penny Booth Page threw a little more light on Jellinek's early life in Budapest. Jellinek next became involved in currency transactions and then suddenly and inexplicably left the country. At first, Miller and I worked together on a potential coauthored article. Jellinek’s trail had disappeared. Mr. Footnotes: Photos du journal - The Clean Slate Addiction Site. Széchenyi thermal bath. The Széchenyi Medicinal Bath in Budapest (IPA: [seːtʃeːɲi], Hungarian: Széchenyi-gyógyfürdő) is the largest medicinal bath in Europe. Its water is supplied by two thermal springs, their temperature is 74 °C (165 °F) and 77 °C (171 °F), respectively. Components of the thermal water include sulphate, calcium, magnesium, bicarbonate and a significant amount of fluoride acid and metaboric acid. Medical indications are on degenerative joint illnesses, chronic and sub-acute joint inflammations, as well as orthopaedic and traumatological post-treatments.[1] History[edit] Main swimming and thermal sections are possible to visit mixed.

The bath was named after István Széchenyi. Units[edit] The bath during the day In the baths there are pools of varying temperature. Transportation[edit] Gallery[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Coordinates: 21 Pictures That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity. Drench - The World's Simplest Flash Game - Tablet Version. Brandon McConnell. Inside Sales. Széchenyi thermal bath. British have invaded nine out of ten countries - so look out Luxembourg.

The analysis is contained in a new book, All the Countries We've Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To. Stuart Laycock, the author, has worked his way around the globe, through each country alphabetically, researching its history to establish whether, at any point, they have experienced an incursion by Britain. Only a comparatively small proportion of the total in Mr Laycock's list of invaded states actually formed an official part of the empire. The remainder have been included because the British were found to have achieved some sort of military presence in the territory – however transitory – either through force, the threat of force, negotiation or payment.

Incursions by British pirates, privateers or armed explorers have also been included, provided they were operating with the approval of their government. Among some of the perhaps surprising entries on the list are: * Cuba, where in 1741, a force under Admiral Edward Vernon stormed ashore at Guantánamo Bay. Andorra Belarus. Project Management - Time Management - Change Management. Silent Circle's latest app democratizes encryption. Governments won't be happy. Courtesy of Silent Circle For the past few months, some of the world’s leading cryptographers have been keeping a closely guarded secret about a pioneering new invention. Today, they’ve decided it’s time to tell all.

Ryan Gallagher is a journalist who reports on surveillance, security, and civil liberties. Follow Back in October, the startup tech firm Silent Circle ruffled governments’ feathers with a “surveillance-proof” smartphone app to allow people to make secure phone calls and send texts easily. “This has never been done before,” boasts Mike Janke, Silent Circle’s CEO. True, he’s a businessman with a product to sell—but I think he is right. The technology uses a sophisticated peer-to-peer encryption technique that allows users to send encrypted files of up to 60 megabytes through a “Silent Text” app. By design, Silent Circle’s server infrastructure stores minimal information about its users.

The cryptographers behind this innovation may be the only ones who could have pulled it off. Motivation Australia. Prayer for Expressing Gratitude « Chi-Rho. This is the day that God has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. —Psalm 118:24 Morning Prayer: Prayer for Expressing Gratitude Gracious God, in the busy-ness of my day, I sometimes forget to stop to thank you for all that is good in my life. My blessings are many and my heart is filled with gratefulness for the gift of living, for the ability to love and be loved, for the opportunity to see the everyday wonders of creation, for sleep and water, for a mind that thinks and a body that feels. I thank you, too, for those things in my life that are less than I would hope them to be.

In the silence of my soul, I thank you most of all for your unconditional and eternal love. Amen. —from Prayers for Living Like this: Like Loading... 15 Comments. Inspirational Quotes to Live By. Good quotes are often powerful words of wisdom that inspire, educate and even motivate a person to take action. They usually share common themes such as: Positive thinking leads to positive outcomesFailure is a stepping stone to successHelp yourself by helping othersDetermination, initiative and persistence are the foundation of success And yet these lessons of life are typically condensed into 1-2 lines.

Therefore we thought it’d be a great idea to come up with the ultimate list of 100 inspiring quotes to live by. 1. “I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.” - Dudley Field Malone 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. ”An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” - M.K. 9. ”Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.” - John F. 10. ”I haven’t failed. 11. ”It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” - Aristotle 12. ”It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” - Howard Ruff.

Touchable Holograms. To Our Faithful Current.com Users: Current's run has ended after eight exciting years on air and online. The Current TV staff has appreciated your interest, support, participation and unflagging loyalty over the years. Your contributions helped make Current.com a vibrant place for discussing thousands of interesting stories, and your continued viewership motivated us to keep innovating and find new ways to reflect the voice of the people. We now welcome the on-air and digital presence of Al Jazeera America, a new news network committed to reporting on and investigating real stories affecting the lives of everyday Americans in every corner of the country.

You can keep up with what's new on Al Jazeera America and see this new brand of journalism for yourself at Thank you for inspiring and challenging us. We are incredibly proud of what we have been able to accomplish together! – The Current TV Staff. Magnesium and the Sun. World's oldest and stickiest lab study ready for drop of excitement | Science | The Observer. In terms of output, Queensland University's pitch drop study – the world's oldest laboratory experiment – has been stunningly low. Only eight drops have emerged from the lump of pitch installed in the university's physics building foyer in 1927. Watching paint dry looks exhilarating by comparison. But excitement is now rising over the experiment, which was set up to calculate the viscosity of the world's stickiest substance, pitch, which has been found to be at least 230 billion times more viscous than water.

According to Professor John Mainstone, who has run the experiment since the 1960s, a ninth drop looks set to emerge from the pitch block in the very near future. "No one has actually seen a drop emerge, so it is getting quite nervy round here," said Mainstone. The fact that pitch – which is so brittle it can be smashed with a hammer – behaves like a fluid is the most surprising aspect of the experiment, added Mainstone. Researchers Identify a New Form of Carbon: Grossly Warped 'Nanographene' Chemists at Boston College and Nagoya University in Japan have synthesized the first example of a new form of carbon. The new material consists of multiple identical pieces of “grossly warped graphene,” each containing exactly 80 carbon atoms joined together in a network of 26 rings, with 30 hydrogen atoms decorating the rim. Because they measure slightly more than a nanometer across, these individual molecules are referred to generically as “nanocarbons.”

Credit: Nature Chemistry A team of researchers has identified a new form of carbon, a “grossly warped nanographene.” Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts – Chemists at Boston College and Nagoya University in Japan have synthesized the first example of a new form of carbon, the team reports in the most recent online edition of the journal Nature Chemistry. Until recently, scientists had identified only two forms of pure carbon: diamond and graphite. Graphene has been highly touted as a revolutionary material for nanoscale electronics. Why Don't You Try This?: Scientists Use Sound Waves To Levitate, Manipulate Matter. A team of researchers in Switzerland have developed a way of levitating and transporting small objects using nothing but sound.

Using ultrasonic waves – that is, sound waves whose frequency is too high for humans to hear – scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have made water droplets, instant coffee crystals, styrofoam flakes, and a toothpick, among other objects, hang in midair, move along a plane, and interact with each other. It is the first time that scientists have been able to use sound to simultaneously levitate several objects next to each other and move them around.

Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes how objects placed between two horizontal surfaces, the bottom one emitting high-pitched sound waves and the top one reflecting the waves back, can be levitated and manipulated. As anyone with a subwoofer and a teenager knows, sound waves exert pressure. Full Article Related: Underwater Photos That Mimic the Look of Baroque Paintings.

Hawaii-based photographer Christy Lee Rogers specializes in creating dreamlike photos of people underwater. Her project Reckless Unbound shows people swirling around one another while wearing colorful outfits. The photos are reminiscent of the paintings of old Baroque masters, who would often paint people floating around in heavenly realms. Rogers creates her photos in swimming pools at night. The scenes are illuminated with bright off-camera lights, and the shoots often last two to four hours each. GUP Magazine writes, Christy Lee Rogers reshapes the boundaries between contemporary photography and painting, with her series Reckless Unbound.

While provoking the audience with vivacious movements and purpose, she also stirs the viewer’s memories of baroque painter Pieter Paul Rubens and his Massacre of the Innocents. You can see more of her work over on her website. Reckless Unbound by Christy Lee Rogers (via My Modern Met) Image credits: Photographs by Christy Lee Rogers. Ching Shih. The Situationist. LOVE IS ART KIT | Couples Art Kit, Lovemaking Art Kit. Heavens (World Treasures of the Library of Congress: Beginnings) 21 Pictures That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity. Will You Marry Me? Best Quotes of All Time. Stunning Collection of Abstract Art Paintings. MAIN : Marion Bolognesi. Lifehacker, tips and downloads for getting things done.