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Advice::The 40-30-30 Rule: Why Risk Is Worth It :: Tips :: The 99 Percent

Many of the strategies employed in competitive and recreational sports are applicable in business and our personal lives. One lesson I learned from alpine ski racing was the “40-30-30 Rule.” During training, early on, I tried to go fast, and I also focused on not falling. On a ride up the ski lift, my coach told me I was missing the point. He explained that success in ski racing, or most sports for that matter, was only 40% physical training. The other 60% was mental. And of that, the first 30% was technical skill and experience. The second 30% was the willingness to take risks.
via The 40-30-30 Rule: Why Risk Is Worth It :: Tips :: The 99 Percent.

I’m choosing between two job offers right now, and its a choice between safe and predictable returns versus very risky (an actual startup, again ) and zero to great returns. Most friends advice going the predictable route, I’d like to go the unpredictable route. Why is it so hard?

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rePost:: 'Leonids' to light up skies for 2 days – Yahoo! Philippines News

Pagasa: 'Leonids' to light up skies for 2 days
Philstar.com – Tuesday, November 17
MANILA, Philippines – A “prolific” meteor shower is expected to light up the skies of Asia and Europe for two days – tomorrow night (Nov. 17) and Wednesday (Nov. 18), the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said.
Here in the Philippines, Pagasa administrator Prisco Nilo said Filipinos will get a glimpse of the meteorological phenomenon, known as the “Leonids” meteor shower, between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. of the following day.
“We have a very good chance that we'll see meteor showers,” Nilo said.
He, however, stressed that people in the Visayas and Mindanao will have a difficult time seeing the meteor showers because of the intertropical convergence zone, which is expected to bring scattered rain showers this week.
via Pagasa: ‘Leonids’ to light up skies for 2 days – Yahoo! Philippines News.

really looking forward to this, luckily I’m a night person. I hope the weather is fine and it is clear skies all around. Anybody want to tweet this whilst it happening, wonder what tag to use?

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New Page Announcement

I created a new page on the site. Prose page.  I’ve pasted some short stories that I’ve written three to be exact. It’s funny that the there is short story for years 2004,2005, and 2006.  Don’t know what happened 2007(I think , Ok I’m sure I got rejected  and It really took me awhile as in probably 2 years to be partially healed). These aren’t all I’ve written these past days but these were at least almost finished.  Funny but further inspecting my files I’ve written quite a few stories about a great many things , mostly (dreams,loneliness,joy,happiness,despair, etc).  I think my problems with non-romantic emotions  are that feelings of joy,loneliness, etc change to drastically and I can’t seem to muster it enough to create. Need to be more disciplined!

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Help With Activities?

Going to Camiguin-CDO-CEBU wednesday morning
I belie our outline for the trip is
Wed Noon-Fri Noon Camiguin
Fri Noon-Mon Noon CDO
Mon Noon – (I have no Idea how long the trip is) Travel to Cebu
Our flight to Manila is Saturday in the afternoon 5pm I think .
Don’t have anything/anywhere to do/go.(Yep, have an aversion against planning)
Kind souls please help with what to do? Cheap places to stay? Food to eat? Restaurants NOT to miss?
Thanks In Advance!

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rePost::Understanding The Blueberry Muffin – Ta-Nehisi Coates

I used to cook everyday. It was a great way to end the day. Of course this meant that I slept very late preparing the meal for next day, and that I was spending more on food compared to other people and compared to me when I eat out (without factoring the time spent on cooking). But I loved cooking. Sadly our stove and oven conked out and it has been over a year and a half and I’m still getting by with an electric stove. I hope (I will) I can get my stove/oven fixed and start cooking again. In a way it personalizes food. It also is a way to de-stress.

My family, like most families, generally lives on the go, and we rarely get to have a decent breakfast in the morning. So most weekends I make twelve muffins (a different flavor each week) as breakfast for the week. I’m sure that someone, somewhere is scolding me for feeding my kid a muffin for breakfast. But here’s what I know. When you make Mocha Chip Muffins, as I did this weekend, and see the ingredients going in–the copious amounts of butter, dairy and sugar–it makes you think long and hard about what you’re eating, and what you should eat the rest of the day. It’s one thing to know that a muffin is fatty. It’s another thing to actually add the fat in yourself. Moreover, it’s another thing to see the size of your muffins, and then see the gargantuan muffins that are sold in the stores.
Cooking–and really cooking from scratch–creates a consciousness about food. It creates a respect, an understanding of what, exactly, you’re putting in your body. It’s not that cooking is magically healthier. I’m not convinced that, say, my fried chicken has less calories than KFCs. But that isn’t the point. The point is doing the actual work of frying a great chicken. It’s actually having to see all the oil and eggs (depending on your recipe) used in the process. For me at least, doing that, has made it unlikely that I’ll fry chicken every day, or even every week.
via Understanding The Blueberry Muffin – Ta-Nehisi Coates.

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Impeach The Comelec ::Pleasure and subversion: Psychiatric Association of the Taliban

Impeach the Comelec

Psychiatric Association of the Taliban
Dear Editor
Is there anyway to impeach the following Comelec Comisssioners: Nicodemo T. Ferrer, Lucinito N. Tagle and Elias R. Yusoph?
They must be impeached because they have openly decided to turn the country into a religious state instead of a secular one. I am referring of course to their decision to outlaw Ladlad on the basis of upholding religious beliefs. They quote the Bible and the Koran forgetting that they should consult the Philippine Constitution instead. Only in the Philippines would we have high government officials who state that obedience to religious beliefs trumps other more cogent legal provisions as a basis for policy.
If stupidity were a basis for impeachment, the proceedings would be quite short. Their display of ignorance of current scientific knowledge on sexuality is quite appalling. They should have taken the simple expedient of asking any psychiatrist or psychologist who upholds the standards of organizations like the World Health Organization or the American Psychiatric and Psychological Associations. They would have been told that homosexuality was delisted as a psychological pathology more than 30 years ago. They either did not bother to read for themselves or consulted the psychiatric association of the Taliban when they decided that homosexuality is an abnormality.
As a Filipino citizen who is neither Christian nor Muslim; as a practitioner and teacher in psychology and sexuality; as someone who cares that we do not look like backward bigots to the world community; I urge the impeachment of these men who have violated morals, scientific truths and our laws against discrimination.
I am so upset. I'm gay starting today and until Ladlad gets accredited.
Sylvia Estrada Claudio, M.D. PhD.
Director, University Center for Women’s Studies
Professor of Women and Development Studies
University of the Philippines
Posted by Sylvia Estrada Claudio at 4:08 AM
via Pleasure and subversion: Psychiatric Association of the Taliban.

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Elink Picture: XKCD Iphone vs Droid

Creation is its own reward. I hope we can all try to gift the world with our time and creativity. Stufs/Gadgets do not a life make (channeling my inner yoda).  I loved the undertones of this xkcd. Create people! Create!
from here:
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/iphone_or_droid.png

from xkcd
from xkcd

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Charter for Compassion (post 2)

from http://charterforcompassion.org/

A call to bring the world together…
The principle of compassion lies at the heart of all religious, ethical and spiritual traditions, calling us always to treat all others as we wish to be treated ourselves. Compassion impels us to work tirelessly to alleviate the suffering of our fellow creatures, to dethrone ourselves from the centre of our world and put another there, and to honour the inviolable sanctity of every single human being, treating everybody, without exception, with absolute justice, equity and respect.
It is also necessary in both public and private life to refrain consistently and empathically from inflicting pain. To act or speak violently out of spite, chauvinism, or self-interest, to impoverish, exploit or deny basic rights to anybody, and to incite hatred by denigrating others—even our enemies—is a denial of our common humanity. We acknowledge that we have failed to live compassionately and that some have even increased the sum of human misery in the name of religion.
We therefore call upon all men and women ~ to restore compassion to the centre of morality and religion ~ to return to the ancient principle that any interpretation of scripture that breeds violence, hatred or disdain is illegitimate ~ to ensure that youth are given accurate and respectful information about other traditions, religions and cultures ~ to encourage a positive appreciation of cultural and religious diversity ~ to cultivate an informed empathy with the suffering of all human beings—even those regarded as enemies.
We urgently need to make compassion a clear, luminous and dynamic force in our polarized world. Rooted in a principled determination to transcend selfishness, compassion can break down political, dogmatic, ideological and religious boundaries. Born of our deep interdependence, compassion is essential to human relationships and to a fulfilled humanity. It is the path to enlightenment, and indispensible to the creation of a just economy and a peaceful global community.

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Site Redesign

Spent the better part of the day on this redesign.
I used a new theme (color green has grown on me).
I customized most of the settings, even the ads.
Hope you like the changes.
I was inspired by seeing this quote

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Victor Hugo
French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 – 1885)

I’ve been so absorbed in thought lately that I was questioning myself. I did this because the invisible labor was weighing me down. I wanted to do something, anything that I could see.
Once again, Hope you like the changes!
Loved listening to this: