#Outsiders Feature of the Week: In Harm's Way

On the "Virtual Route 66" This Week

 

Happy Earth Day!  Getting a handle on your household energy consumption can save the environment and save you money. Here's a fact: the average US household spends about $200 per year (about 14% of their electric bill) powering products that are already turned off or in standby mode. Killing these energy vampires will put real green back in your pocket. And the opportunities for savings get even bigger. I have recommendations for significantly cutting your heating and cooling costs and keeping lights from burning energy when no one is there to see them. Check out my top 8 energy saving picks in my story on Techlicious. I'm willing to bet you'll find at least one that will make a significant difference for your home.

Suzanne Kantra Founder, Techlicious

Notations From the Social Grid (W-End Edition): On Ukraine

 We present one example of one of the greatest of American Universities, Purdue, stepping up to support Ukraine:

Purdue takes first steps to welcome to campus Ukrainian scholars seeking refuge from their war-torn country

Purdue has extended an invitation and matched 11 faculty members and scholars from war-torn Ukraine with campus hosts, providing refuge in the United States so they can continue their academic pursuits here. The University is working with another 15 scholars from the Eastern European country whose requests are either in review or being processed to potentially be a part of Purdue’s Ukrainian Scholars Initiative.

On This #EarthDay2022: Hot Tips to Cool the Planet with Aspiration & Pattie Gonia

Notations From the Social Grid (Weekly Edition): Wooden's Wisdom

 

Wooden's Wisdom - Volume 3	Issue 157
Craig Impelman Speaking |  Championship Coaches |  Champion's Leadership Library Login
THE TRUE ATHLETE SHOULD HAVE CHARACTER, NOT BE A CHARACTER Click here to login to the Wooden's Wisdom Champion's Leadership Library. Your email adress is your username and password. Search 400+ Wooden's Wisdom Issues by Topic, Quote or Coach     This famous quote from Coach Wooden reflected the importance he placed on character in the selection process of his team members.   When asked if he considered character in the selection process of his teams, Coach responded:   Absolutely. Character is so important in everything. Character is what you really are. You're the only one that knows your character. You don't know my character. I know my character. You know my reputation. It could be different. Reputation is what you are perceived to be by others. Your character is what you really are.   Coach expanded on this in his book Wooden, with Steve Jamison:   I like to think the players I coached, however they came to UCLA, left as men of character. But in truth if they didn't have it when they came, I couldn't give it to them. By then it was too late. That's a job for a mother and father.   Coach also felt all of us can influence good character in a positive way. How? He loved to quote this adaptation of a verse from Rudyard Kipling:   No written word or spoken plea can teach our youth what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves – it’s what the teachers are themselves.   Coach Wooden’s character was built by his parents, but greatly enhanced by the example of others. Here are a few examples Coach gave in his book a Game Plan for Life, with Don Yeager:   Mother Theresa truly lived her life for others and showed consideration to everyone she met, whether she agreed with them or not. Her example has taught me more patience and peace than I ever imagined possible.   She presented a tremendous example in how she lived her own beliefs. But there is another, very different way that she offered me important life lessons: by respecting the beliefs of others.   My high school coach, Glenn Curtis, will always have a place in my memory as an even keeled, even tempered and even minded man. The lessons he taught me were some of the most fundamental of my own professional and personal life. His was a life that taught by example, where coaching was teaching and where winning was incidental.   Coach summed up the great opportunity we all have to positively influence good character:   Everyone, regardless of their position or their job or their college degree or profession, is a teacher in some form or another.   You can't be a teacher to everyone, but there always is someone you could reach with your life.   Example is the best teacher. It's the key. It is something we all can do.     Yours in Coaching,     Craig Impelman   www.woodenswisdom.com   Twitter: @woodenswisdom	COACH'S FAVORITE POETRY AND PROSE   Each and All   Little things, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee from the hill-top looking down; The heifer that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton, tolling his bell at noon, Deems not that great Napoleon Stops his horse, and lists with delight, Whilst his files sweep round yon Alpine height; Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone. I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough; I brought him home, in his nest, at even; He sings the song, but it pleases not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky; — He sang to my ear, — they sang to my eye. The delicate shells lay on the shore; The bubbles of the latest wave Fresh pearls to their enamel gave; And the bellowing of the savage sea Greeted their safe escape to me. I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproar. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happy Easter

 

Notations From the Social Grid (Weekly Edition): On Our World

 We present a curation of thoughts and ideas as we also remember and honor the brave fighters of Ukraine as lessons are being learnt throughout the World: 

April 9, 1942: Largest US military surrender
 
Under the orders of Major General Edward P. King Jr., 78,000 troops (66,000 Filipinos and 12,000 American Soldiers) surrender to the Japanese at Bataan in the Philippines.  The 55-mile March of the prisoners to the POW camps in San Fernando became known as the “Bataan Death March. Read more.

How electric lights can impact your sleep

• A new report finds that electric light impacts the circadian rhythm in people and can disrupt sleep.
• Experts explain how people should be exposed to bright light during the day and evening to contribute to healthy body rhythms, restful sleep, and daytime alertness.
• Researchers say light affects our daily patterns of sleep and alertness through a specialized cell in the eye using a light-sensitive protein called melanopsin.  Read more.

Geography facts

Have you ever wondered what the difference was between a continent and an island, an ocean and a sea, or how do hills become mountains? Fifteen geography facts Soldiers need to know. ​Read more.

A jiffy is an actual measurement of time

Every now and then we here people say; “I’ll be there in a jiffy.  But, a “jiffy” is an actual measurement of time as determined by the physical chemist, Gilbert  Newton Lewis in the early 1900s.  Read more.

 

Notations From the Social Grid (Special Friday Edition): Why Finland And Denmark Are Happier Than The U.S.

Notations From the Social Grid (Mid-Week Edition): On Global Terrorism

 

Notations From the Social Grid (Special W-End Edition): As the New Quarter Dawns

 We hope all find this of interest: