People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. 

 Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. 

Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. 

Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. 

Be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. 

Create anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. 

Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, will often be forgotten. 

Do good anyway.

Give the best you have, and it will never be enough.

Give your best anyway.

In the final analysis, it is between you and God.  It was never between you and them anyway.

Mother Teresa

Yellow Ribbon : 
Meaning: We've all seen this symbol used to support our troops, but it is also a symbol for MIA/POW, suicide prevention, adoptive parents, amber alerts, bladder cancer, spina bifida, endometriosis, and a general symbol for hope. A yellow ribbon with a heart is used to represent the survivors left behind after a suicide.

Pale Yellow Ribbon : 
Meaning: This color is a symbol of spina bifida

Red Ribbon : 
Meaning: Most commonly associated with the fight against AIDS and HIV, this ribbon also is a symbol for heart disease, stroke, substance abuse, MADD, DARE, Epidermolysis Bullosa, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy 

Burgundy Ribbon : 
Meaning: This color is a symbol of brain aneurysm, Cesarean section (worn upside down), headaches, hemangioma, vascular malformation, hospice care, multiple myeloma, William's syndrome, Thrombophilia, Antiphospholid Antibody Syndrome, and adults with disabilities

Purple Ribbon : 
Meaning: This color is a symbol of pancreatic cancer, testicular cancer, thyroid cancer, domestic violence, ADD, alzheimer's, religious tolerance, animal abuse, the victims of 9/11 including the police and firefighters, Crohn's disease and colitis, cystic fibrosis, lupus, leimyosarcoma, and fibromyalgia

Lavender Ribbon : 
Meaning: This color is a symbol for general cancer awareness. It can also be a symbol for epilepsy, and rett syndrome

Periwinkle Ribbon : 
Meaning: This color is a symbol of eating disorders and pulmonary hypertension

Blue Ribbon : 
Meaning: This color is a symbol of drunk driving, child abuse, Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI), the victims of hurricane Katrina, dystonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), alopecia, Education, Epstein-Barr Virus, Save the Music, colon cancer (alternative ribbon color: brown), colorectal cancer (alternative ribbon color: brown), and anti-tobacco - particularly anti-second hand smoke (in Canada; alternative ribbon color: brown), I Love Clean Air/ILCA Campaign (Japan)

Dark Blue Ribbon : 
Meaning: This color is a symbol of arthritis, child abuse prevention, victim's rights, free speech, water quality, and water safety

Light Blue Ribbon : 
Meaning: This color is a symbol of childhood cancer (alternative color: pink), prostate cancer, Trisomy 18, and scleroderma

Teal Ribbon : 
Meaning: This color is a symbol for ovarian, cervical, and uterine cancers as well as sexual assault, polycystic ovarian syndrome, and tsunami victims

Green Ribbon : 
Meaning: This color is a symbol of childhood depression, missing children, open records for adoptees, environmental concerns, kidney cancer, tissue/organ donation, homeopathy, and worker and driving safety

Orange Ribbon : 
Meaning: This color is a symbol of leukemia, hunger, cultural diversity, humane treatment of animals, and self-injury awareness 

White Ribbon : 
Meaning: This color is a symbol of innocence, victims of terrorism, violence against women, peace, right to life, bone cancer, adoptees, and retinal blastoma

Pearl Ribbon : 
Meaning: This color is a symbol for emphysema, lung cancer, mesothelioma, and multiple sclerosis

Black Ribbon : 
Meaning: This color is a symbol of mourning, melanoma, and gang prevention

Brown Ribbon : 
Meaning: This color is an anti-tobacco symbol as well as a symbol of colon cancer (alternative ribbon color: blue), colorectal cancer (alternative ribbon color: blue)

Grey Ribbon : 
Meaning: This color is a symbol of diabetes, asthma, and brain cancer

Silver Ribbon : 
Meaning: This color is a symbol for children with disabilities, Parkinson's disease, and mental illnesses such as severe depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and anxiety disorders.

Gold Ribbon : 
Meaning: This color is a symbol for childhood cancer

Jigsaw Puzzle Ribbon: 
Meaning: This style of ribbon is a symbol for autism

Lace Ribbon: 
Meaning: This style of ribbon is a symbol for osteoporosis

Pink and Blue Ribbon: 
Meaning: This style of ribbon is a symbol for miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant death due to SIDS or other causes

Flag Ribbon: 
Meaning: This style of ribbon is a symbol for both the victims and heros of the 9/11 attacks. It is also a symbol of patriotism and support of our troops. In addition, it is a symbol of fireworks safety.

Rainbow Ribbon: 
Meaning: This style of ribbon is a symbol of gay pride and support for the GLBT community and their quest for equal rights.

Courage.
       
You're a 19 year old kid.
  
You're critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam.
 
It's November,1967. LZ (landing zone) X-ray.  
 
Your unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 yards away, that your CO (commanding officer) has ordered the MedEvac helicopters to stop coming in.
  
You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns and you know you're not getting out.
  
Your family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you'll never see them again.
  
As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.
 
Then - over the machine gun noise - you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter.
  
You look up to see a  Huey coming in. But ... It doesn't seem real because no MedEvac markings are on it.
  
Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you.
  
He's not MedEvac so it's not his job, but he heard the radio call and decided he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire anyway.

Even after the MedEvacs were ordered not to come.  He's coming anyway.
 
And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 3 of you at a time on board.
  
Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses and safety.  
  
And, he kept coming back!! 13 more times!!  
Until all the wounded were out. No one knew until the mission was over that the Captain had been hit 4 times in the legs and left arm.
 
He took 29 of you and your buddies out that day. Some would not have made it without the Captain and his Huey.  
 
Medal  of Honor Recipient, Captain  Ed Freeman, United States Air Force, died last Wednesday at the age of 70, in Boise, Idaho .
    
May God  Bless and Rest His Soul.  
  
I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we've sure seen a whole bunch about Jesse James and Tiger Woods.
 
 

In medical school, the teacher addresses a student and asks: "How many kidneys do we have?"
"Four!" Says the student.
"Four?" Replies the teacher, arrogant, those who take pleasure in trampling students' mistakes.
"Bring a bale of grass, as we have a donkey in the room," ordered the professor's assistant.
"And for me a coffee!" Replied the student to teacher assistant.
The teacher got angry and expelled the student from the room. The pupil was the humorist Aparício Torelly, known as Itararé Baron (1895-1971)
Leaving the room, the student still had the audacity to correct the angry teacher: You asked me how many kidneys 'we'.
'We have' four: I have two & you have two. Because 'we' is an expression used in the plural. Enjoy the grass!”
Life demands a lot more understanding than knowledge.

-Spanish Version-

En la facultad de Medicina, el profesor se dirige a un alumno y le pregunta: “¿Cuántos riñones tenemos?”
“¡Cuatro!”, responde el alumno.
“¿Cuatro?”, replica el profesor, arrogante, de esos que sienten placer en pisotear los errores de los alumnos.
“Traiga un fardo de pasto, pues tenemos un asno en la sala”, le ordena el profesor a su auxiliar.
“¡Y para mí un cafecito!”, replicó el alumno al auxiliar del maestro.
El profesor se enojó y expulsó al alumno de la sala. El alumno era el humorista Aparício Torelly, conocido como el Barón de Itararé (1895-1971)
Al salir de la sala, todavía el alumno tuvo la audacia de corregir al furioso maestro: Usted me preguntó cuántos riñones ‘tenemos’.
‘Tenemos’ cuatro: dos míos y dos suyos. Porque ‘tenemos’ es una expresión usada para el plural. Que tenga un buen provecho y disfrute del pasto”.

La vida exige mucho más comprensión que conocimiento.

“Buried deep within the over 1,000 pages of the massive US Health Care Bill (PDF) in a “non-discussed” section titled: Subtitle C-11 Sec. 2521— National Medical Device Registry, and which states its purpose as:

“The Secretary shall establish a national medical device registry (in this subsection referred to as the ‘registry’) to facilitate analysis of postmarket safety and outcomes data on each device that—‘‘(A) is or has been used in or on a patient; and ‘‘(B) is a class III device; or ‘‘(ii) a class II device that is implantable.”

In “real world speak”, according to this report, this new law, when fully implemented, provides the framework for making the United States the first Nation in the World to require each and every one of its citizens to have implanted in them a radio-frequency identification (RFID) microchip for the purpose of controlling who is, or isn’t, allowed medical care in their country.

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Happy Birthday to My Happy Meal

Happy Birthday to You, Happy Birthday to You.

Happy Birthday, Dear Happy Meal, Happy Birthday to You!

I know it’s hard to believe. Time flies, doesn’t it? My eyes tear when I think today, March 3, is my Happy Meal’s first birthday. They grow up so fast, don’t they?

I purchased a Happy Meal, not to eat, but to observe and blog about. Yes, I bought a Happy Meal and then placed it on my office shelf, right behind me and my computer. It sat on my shelf for a year as a silent witness to our fast food industry.

It smelled delicious for a few days. I’d get a whiff of those yummy French fries every time I walked into my office. After a week or so, you could hardly smell it. My husband worried that when the food began to decompose, there would be a terrible odor in our home. He also worried the food would attract ants and mice. He questioned my sanity.

No Worries
NOPE, no worries at all. My Happy Meal is one year old today and it looks pretty good. It NEVER smelled bad. The food did NOT decompose. It did NOT get moldy, at all.

This morning, I took it off my shelf to take a birthday photo. The first year is always a milestone. I gave it one of my world famous nonna hugs as we’ve been office mates for a year now! (Okay, maybe my sanity is in question.)

What’s WRONG with this picture?
The photo above on the left is the one I took today. Because Colorado has an arid climate, over the year the moisture has been slowly pulled from the Happy Meal. The bread is crusty and if you look closely, you will see a crack across the top. The hamburger has shrunk a bit and still resembles a hockey puck. Yet, the French fries look yummy enough to eat. I never had an odor problem, after a couple of weeks, I couldn’t even smell the fries.

Now look at the photo on the right, I took it a year ago. Not much difference. The bread is plumper and the fries a tad bit perkier.

What’s not HAPPY about a Happy Meal?
Picky eaters universally love junk foods. They won’t touch veggies and sometimes refuse to eat the food their moms prepare. Out of desperation, parents give in and purchase the food their picky eaters will eat…junk food.

The next time you’re tempted to purchase a Happy Meal for your child, think about these photos. Food is SUPPOSED to decompose, go bad and smell foul…eventually.  When I was a kid, I remember our garbage pail for the left over food scraps was kept by our back door. After a couple of days, flies deposited their larvae (maggots) in the meat. When I would lift the lid, I would see the recently hatched maggots wiggling on the putrid mess. A fly never bothered to land on the tiny hamburger patty on my office shelf.

Food is broken down into it’s essential nutrients in our bodies and turned into fuel. Our children grow strong bodies, when they eat real food. Flies ignore a Happy Meal and microbes don’t decompose it, then your child’s body can’t properly metabolize it either. Now you know why it’s called “junk food.”

I think ants, mice and flies are smarter than people, because they weren’t fooled. They never touched the Happy Meal. Children shouldn’t either.

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A man in a hot air balloon at the edge of a field realized he was lost. He reduced altitude and spotted a woman below. He descended a bit more and shouted, "Excuse me, can you tell me Where I am?

The woman below replied, "Sure, You're in a hot air balloon at the edge of a field”

"You must be an IT," said the balloonist. "I am," replied the woman, "How did you know?"

"Well," answered the balloonist, "because you gave me useless information and I still don’t know the answer to my question, and the fact is I'm still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help at all. If anything, you've delayed my trip."

The woman below responded, "You must be in Management." "I am," replied the balloonist, "but how did you know?"

"Well," said the woman, "You don't know where you are or where you're going and somehow is my fault!

Consider the following…

The boss drives group members; the leader coaches them.
The boss depends upon authority; the leader on good will.
The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm.
The boss says ‘I’; the leader says ‘we.’
The boss assigns the task, the leader sets the pace.
The boss says, ‘Get there on time’; the leader gets there ahead of time.
The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown.
The boss knows how it is done; the leader shows how.
The boss makes work a drudgery; the leader makes it a game.
The boss says, ‘Go’; the leader says, ‘Let’s go’

– Author unknown

Source: The practice of Leadership Blog