March 6, 2013

Good morning! Had a good day yesterday, did everything except catch up on stuff & play Sims. Angela called & we talked for a while, I had a boiled egg for breakfast & then cross stitched, got the mail, went to work on eBay, checked facebook & took my game turns, checked out the Home Depot Style Guide on my iPad Mini (swapped out the main Home Depot app for the Style Guide because the main Home Depot app wasn't really made to work on the iPad), took the dogs out, did some needlepointing, showered, & then Pete got home. We did our nighttime routine & since it was earlier than normal, I stayed up for a little bit & cataloged a bunch of books that were in my inbox, but haven't put them away on the bookshelf yet. I then sorted the inbox itself & was finally tired enough to get to sleep, even though it was much earlier than normal for us. I really like getting to bed early, it means an early start for today. I tried that yesterday, but ended up on the phone until after I would have normally gotten up anyway, so it didn't count as usual. Maybe if I don't answer the phone today, I'll get caught up on some stuff AND play Sims! The FD had an early morning EMS call, when I woke up I took the dogs out, did my banking for the week, & here I am. Daniel would have been 2 today.

2 main reasons for divorce in America are a lack of communication & money! So, "Money is the root of all evil" & not talking about money is the "root of all divorces!"

By working on knowledge, skill, & desire, we can break through to new levels of personal & interpersonal effectiveness as we break w/ old paradigms that may have been a source of pseudo-security for years.

Death spiral of Napster begins (2001):

In the year 2000, a new company called Napster created something of a music-fan's utopia—a world in which nearly every song ever recorded was instantly available on your home computer—for free. Even to some at the time, it sounded too good to be true, and in the end, it was. The fantasy world that Napster created came crashing down in 2001 in the face of multiple copyright-violation lawsuits. After a string of adverse legal decisions, Napster, Inc. began its death spiral on March 6, 2001, when it began complying with a Federal court order to block the transfer of copyrighted material over its peer-to-peer network.

Oh, but people enjoyed it while it lasted. At the peak of Napster's popularity in late 2000 and early 2001, some 60 million users around the world were freely exchanging digital mp3 files with the help of the program developed by Northeastern University college student Shawn Fanning in the summer of 1999. Radiohead? Robert Johnson? The Runaways? Metallica? Nearly all of their music was right at your fingertips, and free for the taking. Which, of course, was a problem for the bands, like Metallica, which after discovering their song "I Disappear" circulating through Napster prior to its official release,  filed suit against the company, alleging "vicarious copyright infringement" under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1996. Hip-hop artist Dr. Dre soon did the same, but the case that eventually brought Napster down was the $20 billion infringement case filed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

That case—A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc—wended its way through the courts over the course of 2000 and early 2001 before being decided in favor of the RIAA on February 12, 2001. The decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejected Napster's claims of fair use, as well as its call for the court to institute a payment system that would have compensated the record labels while allowing Napster to stay in business. Then, on March 5, 2001, District Court Judge Marilyn Patel issued a preliminary injunction ordering Napster to remove, within 72 hours, any songs named by the plaintiffs in a list of their copyrighted material on the Napster network. The following day, March 6, 2001, Napster, Inc. began the process of complying with Judge Patel's order. Though the company would attempt to stay afloat, it shut down its service just three months later, having begun the process of dismantling itself on this day in 2001.

If you're physically active & sociable, you can expect to add how many years to your life span?

(a) 0.8

(b) 1.5

(c) 3.6

(d) 5.4

Answer: (d). According to a major 2012 study in the British Medical Journal, people 75 or older who "swam, walked, or did gymnastics" (meaning, in Brit speak, they attended stretching & toning classes) & who had a "rich or moderate social network" lived more than 5 years longer than people who ere isolated & sedentary. Even "the oldest old", past age 85, could expect an extra 4 years of life if they remained active & socially engaged.

I'm Johnny Carson w/ the thought for the day. The thought for the day is, I think Gaylord Hauser originally said this - remember Gaylord Hauser, the famous nutritionist - said, "You are what you eat." And under this administration, 12 million people unemployed don't know what they are.

La Marcha Real (The Royal March), the national anthem of Spain, has no official lyrics, It's hummed, not sung.

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U.S. states with the highest # of divorces top 10:

1. Florida
2. Texas
3. New York
4. Ohio
5. North Carolina
6. Pennsylvania
7. Michigan
8. Illinois
9. Virginia
10. New Jersey

When people divorce, it doesn't mean "they don't understand each other," it means they do!

When you're the only person in the elevator, stand at the front & say, "Sorry, nope" each time the door opens & someone wants to get on.