luni, 18 ianuarie 2016

Damn Cool Pics

Damn Cool Pics


Let's Take A Second To Appreciate How Awesome Jennifer Lawrence Is

Posted: 18 Jan 2016 10:14 AM PST

There's a reason why we're all fascinated by Jennifer Lawrence, and that reason is, she's awesome.





















Seth's Blog : Volunteer engagement



Volunteer engagement

It's possible that there's a woman who walks around your neighborhood every day, generously straightening up, picking up trash and improving things. Possible but unlikely.

Countless hours of volunteer engagement go untapped, because it's genuinely unlikely that people will contribute what they can, unencouraged.

The key elements are:

  • An agenda
  • Peer support
  • A hierarchy of achievement

The agenda is important, because it frees the volunteer up to do what's next, instead of figuring out what's next. The agenda makes it emotionally and socially safe to contribute. And the agenda lays out the road map of how we (however 'we' is defined) get from here to there.

Peer support is critical. "People like us do things like this." It's difficult enough to find the time and energy to contribute, but harder still to do it when one feels like an outsider.

And a hierarchy of achievement kicks in to amplify and encourage the work of the 10% of people who do 90% of the work. By recognizing those people as well as giving them more authority, the hierarchy creates a self-fueling cycle of impact.

Consider the Crisis Text Line. Or the millions of hours donated to editing Wikipedia. Or the application for TFA. Or umbrella organizations like New York Cares.

Volunteering is a spark that makes society work, but it takes organizations to build the support structures that keep it going.

Better structures lead to better work. People who care can magnify their impact by building structures that bring in more people who care.

       

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duminică, 17 ianuarie 2016

Seth's Blog : Fear is easy, hope is real



Fear is easy, hope is real

Fear shows up unbidden, it almost never goes away if you will it to, and it's rarely a useful tool for your best work.

Hope, on the other hand, can be conjured. It arrives when we ask it to, it's something we can give away to others again and again, and we can use it as fuel to build something bigger than ourselves.

       

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sâmbătă, 16 ianuarie 2016

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis

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Weekend Entertainment Courtesy of Jim Cramer: "How I Knew to Buy Before the Big Rebound"

Posted: 16 Jan 2016 04:29 PM PST

The "Big" Rebound

Those looking for a laugh this weekend need look no further than this video of Jim Cramer on Thursday, January 14: "How I Knew to Buy Before the Big Rebound".

It took less than a day to wipe out his entire "big rebound".

Click on the link to play the video. How anyone could possibly watch his "Mad Money" show on a regular basis is a mystery.

Cramer's artificial melodrama, insincere hype, and pompous attitude outweigh any entertainment value on days like today.

Mike "Mish" Shedlock

EU's Farcical Plan to "Quasi-Automatically" Redistribute Refugees

Posted: 16 Jan 2016 12:52 PM PST

Last Autumn, the European Commission and Angela Merkel hatched a plan to redistribute 160,000 migrants from overloaded countries to countries less overloaded.

Results so far: 272 refugees relocated. In the meantime, another 400,000 or so refugees have poured in.

Rather than admit they are hopelessly out of touch with reality, and despite no popular backing from citizens, European leaders have decided automation of a failed plan is the way to go.

Quasi-Automatic Redistribution

The Wall Street Journal reports European Commission Plans New Try at Redistributing Migrants.
The European Commission is seeking a sort of automatic mechanism for redistributing asylum seekers across Europe, despite most governments showing little support for the idea.

A plan to reallocate migrants who have already come to Europe was the main response from the European Union's executive arm to the bloc's migration crisis last year—during which more than one million people from the Middle East and North Africa arrived, mainly via Turkey and Greece.

But the EU program to relocate 160,000 asylum seekers out of Italy and Greece to the rest of the bloc has so far managed to move only 272 people, mostly because many have gone on their own to EU states that were more welcoming and gave more generous benefits, particularly Germany and the Nordic countries.

Speaking to EU lawmakers on Thursday, migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said he envisaged a "system under which applicants will be quasi-automatically allocated to member states."

Mr. Avramopoulos gave no details as to how many people would be reallocated under such a plan, and under what circumstances. EU diplomats familiar with the talks say that if a country were faced with an influx it couldn't cope with, a certain share of the burden would be evenly redistributed to other EU states.

"We have to be realistic and honest," he said. "The situation is getting worse. This year we had no winter break: There were 3,000-4,000 arrivals a day over Christmas and New Year."
Time to be Realistic

By all means, let's be realistic. And honest.

    • Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Romania have refused to go along with relocation plans despite being obliged to do so.
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    • 2,000 to 4,000 refugees arrive every day. Assuming the lower bounds, that's 60,000 every month, 180,000 or so every three months.
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    • Assuming quasi-automatic redistribution will achieve a 100% success rate, up from zero (0.17% to be precise), within three to four months, new refugees arriving will exceed those relocated.

      And how is this quasi-automatic redistribution supposed to work?

      No one has stepped up to the plate to explain how, or what happens when various countries refuse to participate.

      It's magic.

      Mike "Mish" Shedlock