Scientists study Earth's missing crust
By JUAN MANUEL PARDELLAS, Associated Press Writer Tue Mar 6, 5:53 PM ET
British scientists have embarked on a mission to study a huge area on the Atlantic seabed where the Earth's crust is mysteriously missing and instead is covered with dark green rock from deep inside the planet.
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Finite and Infinite Games
Notes from James Carse's book 'Finite and Infinite Games'. Author unknown.
There are at least two kinds of games: finite and infinite.
A finite game is a game that has fixed rules and boundaries, that is played for the purpose of winning and thereby ending the game.
An infinite game has no fixed rules or boundaries. In an infinite game you play with the boundaries and the purpose is to continue the game. Finite players are serious; infinite games are playful.
Finite players try to control the game, predict everything that will happen, and set the outcome in advance. They are serious and determined about getting that outcome. They try to fix the future based on the past.
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A finite game is a game that has fixed rules and boundaries, that is played for the purpose of winning and thereby ending the game.
An infinite game has no fixed rules or boundaries. In an infinite game you play with the boundaries and the purpose is to continue the game. Finite players are serious; infinite games are playful.
Finite players try to control the game, predict everything that will happen, and set the outcome in advance. They are serious and determined about getting that outcome. They try to fix the future based on the past.
ODD SIGNS FROM ENGLAND - Ambiguity problems
Source: Anvari.org
1. IN A LAUNDROMAT: Automatic washing machines. Please remove all your
clothes when the light goes out.
2. IN A LONDON DEPARTMENT STORE: Bargain Basement Upstairs.
3. IN AN OFFICE: Would the person who took the step ladder yesterday
please bring it back or further steps will be taken.
4. IN ANOTHER OFFICE: After the tea break staff should empty the teapot
and stand upside down on the draining board.
5. ON A CHURCH DOOR: This is the gate of Heaven. Enter ye all by
this door. (This door is kept locked because of the draft. Please use side
entrance)
6. OUTSIDE A SECOND-HAND SHOP: We exchange anything - bicycles, washing
machines, etc. Why not bring your wife along and get a wonderful bargain?
7. QUICKSAND WARNING: Quicksand. Any person passing this point will be
drowned. By order of the District Council.
8. NOTICE IN A DRY CLEANER’S WINDOW: Anyone leaving their garments here
for more than 30 days will be disposed of.
9. IN A HEALTH FOOD SHOP WINDOW: Closed due to illness.
10. SPOTTED IN A SAFARI PARK: Elephants Please Stay in Your Car.
11. SEEN DURING A CONFERENCE: For anyone who has children and
doesn't know it, there is a day care on the first floor.
12. NOTICE IN A FIELD: The farmer allows walkers to cross the field for
free, but the bull charges.
13. MESSAGE ON A LEAFLET: If you cannot read, this leaflet will tell
you how to get lessons.
14. ON A REPAIR SHOP DOOR: We can repair anything (Please knock hard
on the door - the bell doesn't work)
15. SPOTTED IN A TOILET IN A LONDON OFFICE BLOCK: Toilet out of order.
Please use floor below.
BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO, by Daniel Shogren
By Daniel Shogren, CPA, SPHR
I heard somebody the other day tell
a group of his peers that he’s serving fewer clients these days and working far
less than he used to. But, he says, he’s much happier than he used to be, and
he’s making much more money.
His secret: he’s telling some of
his long-standing clients that he cannot serve them anymore, and he’s sending
them to somebody else – usually his competition. Mind you he’s not ridding
himself of his best clients. He’s shedding those clients that don’t pay on
time, that quibble about his fees, that drive his staff nuts with their nit
picking, who have unrealistic expectations, or who are downright abusive and
expect to get away with it because they are paying for the right to do so.
Still, it’s tough to tell someone who pays, and who keeps coming back to pay
again and again, that it’s time to hit the road.
He calls it ‘tough love’. Whatever
you call it, it is a tough prescription for many to follow.
The Paradoxical Commandments
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
DARDEN EVENT @ BA
Hoy, Jueves 1 de Febrero hay una recepcion de Darden en Buenos Aires, en la que van a estar el Dean Bob Bruner, la nueva Head de Admissions, la Head de Admissions de Latin America y un profesor que es Associate Dean y esta ligado a todo lo que sea Latin America. Tambien vamos a estar varios egresados y va a ser una buena oportunidad para cualquiera que este pensando en hacer un MBA venga a escuchar, preguntar, informarse y conocer.
Lugar de la recepciΓ³n: Libertador 602, piso 13 en Capital Federal, en las oficinas de Sigma Advisors.
Hora: 18.30.
Host: Gustavo Frers
Para registrarse:http://alumni.darden.virginia.edu/alumni/open/events/viewEvent.do;jsessionid=4830f214755a3d6f592f?calendar=true&eventId=1001
Lugar de la recepciΓ³n: Libertador 602, piso 13 en Capital Federal, en las oficinas de Sigma Advisors.
Hora: 18.30.
Host: Gustavo Frers
Para registrarse:http://alumni.darden.virginia.edu/alumni/open/events/viewEvent.do;jsessionid=4830f214755a3d6f592f?calendar=true&eventId=1001
GREAT QUOTES
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous
energy merely to be normal.” Albert Camus (1913-1960)
“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer
yes without having asked any clear question.” Albert Camus, La Chute (The
Fall), 1956
“What is a rebel? A man who says no.” Albert Camus,
L'Homme revolte (The Rebel), 1951
“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a
ridiculous beginning.” Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
“Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he
is.” Albert Camus
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human
stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.” Albert Einstein (1879 -
1955)
“Great spirits have always encountered opposition from
mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who
refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to
express his opinions courageously and honestly.” Albert Einstein, quoted in New
York Times, March 13, 1940
“I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.”
Albert Einstein
“The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
Albert Einstein
“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity
opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most
people are even incapable of forming such opinions.” Albert Einstein
GONE, by Ellen Terris Brenner
Source: Intertext.com
InterText Copyright ©
1991-1999 Jason Snell. This story may only be distributed as part of the
collected whole of Volume 6, Number 2 of InterText. This story Copyright © 1996 Ellen
Terris Brenner.
The adults, with their need for steadfast solids
Have to resort to vast built structures
To pull off the trick, to contain the chaos.
And that's not bad, in its own narrow way.
The trip that brought me here, with Papa,
Was on such a ship, and it was a wonder:
A star-Leviathan with a sun in its belly,
Bearing a thousand soft souls in its cells
As it swam the dimensional seas.
WHO DEFINES YOUR CHARACTER? - by Daniel Shogren
By Daniel Shogren, CPA, SPHR
Lot's of people talk about character, but the real question should be, "Where do we get character?" Or perhaps better said, "Who or what defines our character?" Before we tackle those questions, let's take a quick look at what character is. Character is about who you are when nobody is looking. Reputation is about who you are when people are watching. Reputation or image is what others think you are. But character is what you really are. Both matter, but of the two, character is far and away the most important.
Character is the basis for credibility and trust. And without credibility and trust, you can't lead anyone. Great leaders should have character, but should not be characters. A character is either a role, played by an actor, or someone who tries to attract attention to himself. When we play a role or we are showing off and trying to get noticed we are not showing our true character, and thus we won't be able to build credibility or trust.
WHAT ARE INDIGO AND CRYSTAL CHILDREN AND ADULTS? - by Celia Fenn
How do you know if you, or someone you know, is an Indigo or Crystal Child or Adult?
We will describe the main features and characteristics of these people. But we want to stress that the Indigo/Crystal phenomenon is the next step in our evolution as a human species. We are all, in some way, becoming more like the Indigo and Crystal people. They are here to show us the way, and so the information can be applied more generally to all of us as we make the transition to the next stage of our growth and evolution.
We will describe the main features and characteristics of these people. But we want to stress that the Indigo/Crystal phenomenon is the next step in our evolution as a human species. We are all, in some way, becoming more like the Indigo and Crystal people. They are here to show us the way, and so the information can be applied more generally to all of us as we make the transition to the next stage of our growth and evolution.
PARALLEL UNIVERSES
Published by BBC Two 9.00 p.m. Thursday 14 February 2002
Everything you're about to read here seems impossible and insane, beyond science fiction. Yet it's all true.
Scientists now believe there may really be a parallel universe - in fact, there may be an infinite number of parallel universes, and we just happen to live in one of them. These other universes contain space, time and strange forms of exotic matter. Some of them may even contain you, in a slightly different form. Astonishingly, scientists believe that these parallel universes exist less than one millimetre away from us. In fact, our gravity is just a weak signal leaking out of another universe into ours.
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